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Background:

&n<a href="/biography/steve-kroft">bsp;&</a>nbsp;  Kroft was born on August 22, 1945, in Kokomo, Indiana, the son of Margaret and Fred Kroft.

<p<a href="/biography/steve-kroft">>Childhood:</a>

Steve Kroft completed schooling in Indiana

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Educ</a>ation:

Kroft attended Syracuse University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1967.

Career:

After his graduation, he was drafted into the United States Army and served in the Vietnam War.Kroft joined CBS News in 1980 as a reporter in its Northeast bureau, based out of New York City. The next year, he was named a correspondent and the network soon moved him to its Southwest Bureau in Dallas, where he stayed u<a href="/biography/steve-kroft">ntil </a>1983. That year, Kroft returned to Florida after CBS reassigned him to its Miami bureau. He was soon making frequent visits to the Caribbean and Latin America, covering the civil war in El Salvador and the U.S. invasion of Grenada.<a href="/biography/steve-kroft"> </a>;That Sept<a href="/biography/meredith-vieira">ember, Kroft an</a>d Meredith Vieira, <a href="/biography/meredith-vieira">a We</a>st 57th colleague, joined 60 Minutes. In 1990, he became the first American journalist to be given extensive access to the contaminated grounds of the Chernobyl nuclear facility, and his story won an Emmy. After allegations of infidelity surfaced in the 1992 presid<a href="/biography/bill-clinton">ential e</a>lectio<a href="/biography/bill-clinton">n, then-Gove</a>rnor Bill<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton"> Cli</a>nton&nb<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton">sp;and </a>his wife, Hillary, gave an e<a href="/biography/steve-kroft">xclus</a>ive interview to Kroft. The interview was one of the defining moments in the<a href="/biography/steve-kroft"> elec</a>tion. &<a href="/biography/clint-eastwood">nbsp;Kroft ask</a>ed Clint Eastwood how many children he has while interviewing the highly secretive actor in 1997. When Eastwood responded &quo<a href="/biography/steve-kroft">t;I h</a>ave a few," Kroft broached the subject with a declarative question: "Seven kids with five women, right?"—actually a conservative estimate, but at the time an unprecedented statement. Eastwood did not<a href="/biography/steve-kroft"> answ</a>er and stared at Kroft in silence for 30 seconds

Awards:

11-time Emmy Award winner including a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2003

5-time Peabody Award winner

2-time Columbia University DuPont Award winner<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Arents">

1992:&nb</a>sp;George Arents Medal, the highest honor given to a Syracuse University alumnus

Honorary Doctoral degrees from Indiana University; Binghamton University; and Long Island University.

2007: Medallion of the University, the highest honor given by the University at Albany.

2009: List of George Polk Award Winners

2009: Gerald Loeb Award

2010: Paul White Award, Radio Television Digital News Association

Per<a href="/biography/steve-kroft">sonal</a> Life:

Kroft lives in New Yo<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennet_Conant">rk C</a>ity&nbs<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennet_Conant">p;with his wi</a>fe, Je<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennet_Conant">nnet Conan</a>t, who is a journalist and author. They have one son, John Conant Kroft who, as of 2012, attends the Juilliard School. Accordin<a href="/biography/steve-kroft">g to </a>several reports, Kroft has admitted to an affair with Lisan Goines, a married Manhattan lawyer, who is a graduate of Columbia Law School

Social Media:<a href="/biography/steve-kroft">

face</a>book name: Steve Croft, number of followers: 1,731

<a href="/biography/steve-kroft">Twitter </a>name: Steve Kroft

Number of Twitter followers: 590

Instagram name: kroftsteve

Number of Instagram followers: 4

<a href="/biography/steve-kroft">Inter</a>views:

Kroft has been corrected by Gallup.com about the statistics that he used w<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">hen inter</a>v<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">iewing U.S. </a>President Barack Obama on December 13, 2009. He specifically stated in the interview that "Most Americans right now don't believe this war's worth fighting". He then proceeded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">to qu</a>estion President Obama, about why he was proceeding forward with the war without public support. Gallup Editor in Chief Frank Newportchallenged his statement and presented data, that indicated that Americans were split on the War in Afghanistan<a href="/biography/steve-kroft">.&nbs</a>p;In Ma<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">rch 2</a>009, Kroft asked Obama, who was laughing while discussing the recession.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kroft

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0471901/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevekroft?lang=en

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