Don Hewitt, who launched and executive-produced the newsmagazine colossus 60 Minutes, died today. His own news organization remembers him here.

It’s been a sad summer for CBS News, and yet one that’s reminded the world of that network’s huge role in reporting the news of the 20th century. Like Walter Cronkite, Hewitt was of a generation of newsman who was in TV news for nearly its entire existence as a popular medium. (Even more so than Cronkite, actually, since Hewitt’s went back to the late ’40s with CBS.)