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Early in his career, Hackes worked for radio stations in Iowa, New York, Ohio and Kentucky.<ref name="WP Obit" /> He then began a three-year stint working at [[CBS]] in 1952.<ref name="NYT Obit">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/22/obituaries/peter-hackes-broadcaster-69.html | title=Obituaries: Peter Hackes; Broadcaster, 69 | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=April 22, 1994 | accessdate=February 1, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Variety Obit">{{cite news | url=https://variety.com/1994/scene/people-news/peter-hackes-120428/ | title=Obituaries: Peter Hackes | work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | date=April 22, 1994 | accessdate=February 1, 2019}}</ref> Starting in 1955, Hackes spent 30 years based in [[Washington, D.C.]], working for [[NBC]], both as a TV correspondent and as a radio correspondent.<ref name="NYT Obit" />

In his years at NBC, Hackes covered Capitol Hill, the State Department and [[NASA]], and worked every national political convention from 1956 to 1986.<ref name="Variety Obit" /> Hackes won an [[News & Documentary Emmy Award|Emmy award]] for his coverage of the [[Apollo program|Apollo space flights]] in 1969 and 1970, and he also won a [[Peabody Award]] for his work on NBC’s ''Second Sunday'' program.<ref name="U of Iowa SJMC" /> Other stories that Hackes covered included the [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy|assassination of [[Robert F. Kennedy]], the [[State funeral of John F. Kennedy|funeral of President [[John F. Kennedy]], the [[Watergate scandal]] and the attempted assassination of President [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref name="WP Obit" /> Hackes also helped to write, edit and produce stories each day on NBC’s syndicated “A-News” television program, which provided Washington stories to NBC’s 200 affiliated TV stations.<ref name="WP Obit" />

After voluntarily taking an early retirement from NBC in April 1986,<ref name="LA Times">{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-13-ca-10841-story.html | title=Peter Hackes' Life After NBC | first=Jay | last=Sharbutt | work=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=February 13, 1988 | access-date=February 1, 2019}}</ref> Hackes became the radio voice of the [[AARP]].<ref name="NYT Obit" /> He hosted a daily radio program for retired Americans called ''Mature Focus'', which aired on 600 radio stations nationwide.<ref name="NYT Obit" /><ref name="WP Obit" /> Hackes also consulted to the [[National Weather Service]] and to the [[United States Department of the Army|U.S. Department of the Army]] regarding various information programs.<ref name="WP Obit" /> He also did voice-overs for corporate videotapes and moderated teleconferences for organizations like the [[Internal Revenue Service]].<ref name="LA Times" />