Awards
Agronsky received the George Foster Peabody Award in 1952 for his coverage of the Army-McCarthy hearings for ABC. In 1961 he received the Alfred I. DuPont Award for his reporting on the trial of Adolph Eichmann, also while at NBC. He received the Emmy Award while at CBS in 1968 for his first-ever interview by anyone with Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. He also won an award at the Venice Film Festival Award for his one hour documentary (the first such award granted to a news documentary) titled, Polaris, Journal of an Undersea Voyage about a three-week undersea voyage aboard the SS Geaorge Washington, one of the first U.S. nuclear submarine's based out of Holy Loch, Scotland. Agronsky was also the recipient of many other journalism awards throughout his over fifty-year journalism career
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