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What was Don Hewitt’s role in the first televised presidential debate?

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Don Hewitt was the producer of the first televised presidential debate in 1960 between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. He also had a key role in introducing a number of innovations to television news, including the now-ubiquitous captions that appear on television news shows and the forerunner to the teleprompter.