Family
daughter:Elizabeth Earls (survived her)
daughter:Jane Dickerson (survived her)
daughter:Ann Pullion (survived her)
husband:C Wyatt Dickerson (first husband; married 1962, divorced 1983)
husband:John C Whitehead (survived her; married 1989)
sister:Mary Ellen Phillip (survived her)
son:Michael Dickerson (suvived her)
son:John Dickerson (survived her)
Education
Clark College
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin BA English, Spanish and Portuguese 1948
1963 - 1970 Worked in the Washington bureau of NBC
1961 Received own CBS weekday radio show "One Women's Washington"
1960 First woman hired as a network correspondent by CBS News
1951 Moved to New York
Taught school in Milwaukee, WI
Moved to Washington
Registrar at the Institute of Languages at Georgetown University
Did research for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Talked her way into being allowed to produce CBS radio show "The Leading Question"
Named associate producer of CBS 's "Face the Nation"
Formed own company that produced and allowed her to appear in syndicated tv productions
Served as a commentator for FOX News
