Wayne State College will host Nebraska broadcasting legends Dick Cavett and Ron Hull in Ramsey Theatre on Monday, Feb. 20, at 6:30 p.m.

The Black and Gold Performing Arts Series at Wayne State College and the John G. Neihardt Foundation will present “A Conversation with Dick Cavett featuring Ron Hull.”

“Cavett and Hull both have connections to Neihardt, Nebraska and broadcasting,” said Amy Kucera, executive director of the John G. Neihardt State Historic Site. “They’ve been good friends and will talk about their experiences with Neihardt. Their interviews with Neihardt help preserve his legacy.”

Cavett was born in Gibbon, Neb., where he grew up before attending Yale University. Cavett is best known for hosting “The Dick Cavett Show” from 1968-1986. He has produced two PBS specials:

“Dick Cavett’s Watergate” (2014) and “Dick Cavett’s Vietnam” (2015) and is the author of Cavett (1974), Eye on Cavett (1983), Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments and Assorted Hijinks (2014).

Cavett also played a role in the 1994 film “Forrest Gump” and currently is an online columnist for the New York Times.

But interviewing is what Cavett is best known for. Over the years he has interviewed individuals such as Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Robin Williams, Muhammad Ali and others.

“(Cavett) could get someone to open up without being hardnosed about it,” said Christin Dalaviras, director of Student Activities at Wayne State. “It was like he was talking to a friend. Everyone should go and see him if they know him or not. They are going to have stories you’ll never hear again. It will be worth your time.

Hull has been a broadcast journalist with Nebraska Education Television (NET) since the 1950s and has been the master of ceremonies for Bancroft Neihardt Days for 52 years.

“Ron Hull has been a longtime friend and supporter of the Neihardt Foundation,” Kucera said. “He is a senior adviser for NET and has a very long and decorated history of journalism.”

Neihardt was born in Sharpsburg, Ill., in 1881, but he and his family moved to Wayne when he was 10. He graduated from Nebraska Normal College (now Wayne State College) at the age of 16.

Neihardt was a writer, poet and historian who was interested in the settlement of the Great Plains and the Native Americans who were displaced. Some of his more notable works include his novel Black Elk Speaks, which has been translated into more than 20 different languages and a five-volume epic poem called Cycle of the West.

Kucera said that Neihardt’s interview with Cavett on “The Dick Cavett Show” helped to increase his popularity.

The John G. Neihardt Center is located in Bancroft, Neb., and includes a museum and library of works by and about Neihardt. More information can be found on the website: neihardtcenter.org.