Today's Headlines: Final playoff game between the Giants and Dodgers for the National League pennant. Giants win 5-4 on Bobby Thomson's dramatic three-run home run into the left field stands off of Dodger reliever Ralph Branca. Hysterical Giants announcer Russ Hodges, broadcasting the game on WMCA radio in New York City, screams "The Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant" over and over again.
Dressing room interviews with Bobby Thomson, Eddie Stankey, Ralph Branca, Leo Durocher, and Roy Campanella.
Gamal Abdel Nasser's days are about over, John Foster Dulles is operated on for colon cancer, UN observers sent to Hungary, presidential campaign nears an end, discussion of Hungarian and Egyptian wars.
CBS NEWS: Top News Stories Of 1956
Highlights: PresidentEisenhower health problems, announced candidacy at Democratic Convention, Vice Presidential battle between Senator John F. Kennedy and Senator Estes Kefauver,
Republican Convention, nomination, Presidential campaign topics,
Eisenhower and Nixon were expected to be nominated by acclamation when a lone delegate voted for a fictitious candidate named "Joe Smith." The sinking of the Andrea Doria,
700 people die in weekend automobile accidents, two airlines collide over Grand Canyon Arizona, 128 die, the problem of overcrowded skies, Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco, racial problems in the South in Clinton, Tennessee, huge school desegregation riots, interviews with negroes and whites, including John Kasper, violent segregationist and member of the Klu Klux Klan, Don Larsen's perfect World Series game, Khruschev denounces Stalin cult, Polish riots, Hungarian revolution, Cyprus revolt against British occupation, Middle East crisis, Anglo-French, Israeli-Eygptian war.
Host: Charles Collingwood.
A BBC interview with Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery who announces his retirement from the British Army. Montgomery recalls past experiences and speculates about the future.
Highlights: CBS reviews the top news stories of 1958 which include De Gaulle to power, Quemoy shelled, the Berlin Crisis, the voyage of Nautilus, missiles, and space, approaches to the summit, Sherman Adams-Bernard Goldfine scandal, integration problems, the 1958 elections, Vice-President Nixon in Latin America, Alaska becomes the 49th State, the Papacy, Boris Pasternak receives the Nobel Prize, the Middle East crisis.
Topics: Sickening Harlem slums, description of some of the slums, viewed by Borough President, Hulan Jack, how special companies handle tons of TV merchandise giveaway shows, show large profits as a result of swindling.
Highlights: Russians launch a rocket to Venus, Patrice Lumumba is believed to be killed in the Congo, Castro blames Kennedy for six million unemployment rates in the US, Labor secretary Arthur Goldberg inspects unemployment areas, Eichmann lawyer gets Israeli rules on legal procedures.
Humorous excerpts from the speeches of Barry Goldwater, Sargent Shriver, John F. Kennedy, Charles Halleck, Adlai Stevenson, and Kenneth Keating.
Narrated by Chet Huntley.
Topic: Mayor Arthur J. Haines speaks out on the racial crisis.
Special: WRVR radio broadcast from Riverside Church in New York. White southerners of Birmingham, Alabama speak out against integration with Negroes.
This is the fifth of six reports, "Birmingham, Alabama: A Testament in Non-Violence."
BBC report on the British spy William Vassall who spied for the Soviet Union under the pressure of blackmail and lack of security, conservatives face a crisis in the coming election.
Bobby Baker was an American political adviser to President Lyndon Johnson and organizer for the Democratic party. He became the Senate's secretary to the majority leader. In 1963, he resigned during an investigation by the Democratic-controlled Senate into Baker's political and business activities.
Republican presidential nominee Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona gives a political talk to the nation.
Actor Clint Walker (Cheyenne) speaks on behalf of Goldwater.
Los Angeles news broadcast includes stories include the 30th Birthday celebration for animated character Woody Woodpecker. Gracie Lang, voice of Woody, is interviewed.
Other stories: abortion, controversy related to President Richard Nixon's trip to China, GI's death in Vietnam, monk running for president of South Vietnam, helicopter disaster in S. Vietnam, Sudan has a new government, Ronald Raegan appoints first black warden in California, other.
A CBS News Special tribute to Bing Crosby on this day of his death with hostess Pat Collins. There are excerpts from a past Crosby interview & live comments from Sammy Cahn and Victor Borge.
November 14, 1972 - April 16, 1976,
February 5, 1979 - June 21, 1981
Views on the Presidential campaign include interviews with Washington Monthly editor Charlie Peters, author Godfrey Hodgson and voters in Los Angeles' Watts section.
Wide-ranging interview series with writers, philosophers, historians, scientists, and other intellectuals, hosted by Bill Moyers.
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