When I was growing up and our family would all watch it together on Friday nights and in my little kid mind always thought Rukeyser was one of the founding fathers that they never talked about because he kind of looked to me like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin mixed into one person.
This is back when if you wanted to know what the markets closed at, The Nightly Business Report, was all you had... unless you waited the next day for The Journal.