Bernard Shaw (born May 22, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) was a leading news anchor for the Cable News Network from 1980 to his retirement in 2001.

He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1963-1968.

Shaw is widely remembered for the question he posed to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second Presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating. Knowing that Dukakis opposed the death penalty, Shaw asked Dukakis if he would support an irrevocable death penalty for a man who raped and murdered his wife. Dukakis responded that he would not; some critics felt he framed his response too legalistically and logically, and did not address it sufficiently personally.

He is also remembered for his reporting on the 1991 Gulf War; during the initial coalition bombing of Baghdad, he hid under his desk as he reported cruise missiles flying past his window.

External links

• Biography at the Museum of Broadcast Communications
• CNN anchor Bernard Shaw leaving the network, CNN, November 11, 2000
• Bernard Shaw on CNN at 20
• Second Bush-Dukakis debate transcript