Dan Rather's Emmy Fetches $2,500 On eBay

Someone has paid more than $2,500 on eBay for one of Dan Rather's Emmy awards.

The statue that Rather took home for his 1972 "Coverage of the Shooting of Governor [George] Wallace" on the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" recently popped up on eBay.

Selling old Emmy awards is frowned upon by the industry and the sale of awards bestowed after 1977 is banned, according to the regulations of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the organization that gives them out.

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[rwe]

another footnote to add to the Ted Baxter of CBS. The guy who bought it found out it was a fake

[citizenofmars]

he wuz robbed

[Anastasia]

That's sad. The person to whom Rather gave the Emmy to, should have given him first right of refusal. Because they didn't do so, an act of generosity, on Rather's part is being turned on it's head.

[Arielman]

Gee, that would be 8 or 9 years after the IBM Selectric typewriter appeared at the NY World's Fair (1963-1964) and like eight people or more could type "The quick brown fox..." "Or now is the time..." or "My big crystal..." something (somebody want to repeat the last one I've seen it in Windows fonts somewhere) and the interchangeable "ball" would type out in Russian or another language. I wonder if the CIA had them then?

[johnnyjust]

That's twice what he paid for it.

[eastearll]

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

[atlantajoe]

He would be able to get more money out of those documents from the national gaurd story. Someone could by those documents and proove they were real!