Mary Mapes

For twenty-five years, Mary Mapes has been an award-winning
television news producer and reporter—the last fifteen of
them for CBS News, primarily for The CBS Evening News with
Dan Rather and 60 Minutes II. In 2004, her last year at
CBS, in addition to the George W. Bush National Guard
story, she broke the stories of the existence of Strom
Thurmond’s unacknowledged bi-racial daughter, Essie Mae
Washington, and the Abu Ghraib prison tortures, for which
she won a Peabody Award in 2005. She began her career at
KIRO-TV in Seattle, Washington in 1979. She lives in
Dallas, Texas.