President John F. Kennedy holds a news conference.                         

A special on New York's new National League baseball team the New York Mets. Interviews with Mets Charlie Neal, Gil Hodges, manager Casey Stengal, others.                           

Topics for discussion: Canadian election between John Diefenbaker and Lester B. Pearson which involves accepting US nuclear arms, also-Cuba-Castro, Russian influence, and anti-Castro exiles.

Moderator: John Wingate.            

A special NBC report on negro protest demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.    
Frank McGee reports.                      

The crisis in Hollywood (Part 2)

Howard K. Smith reports.             

Frank Sinatra is host for the 35th Annual Academy Awards presentation, telecast live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.                                               

Frank Sinatra is the host for the 35th Annual Academy Awards presentation, telecast live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. 

Ed Begley wins best-supporting actor award, Patty Duke wins for the best-supporting actress, Henry Mancini, and Johnny Mercer win for best song ("Days Of Wine and Roses") David Lean wins for best director ("Lawrence of Arabia") Gregory Peck wins the best actor ("To Kill a Mocking Bird") Anne Bancroft wins best actress award ("The Miracle Worker") "Lawrence Of Arabia wins best picture award for 1962. Sam Spiegel wins producer award for "Lawrence Of Arabia." 

Host: Frank Sinatra 


Duplicate of # 7502.                                                                                                               

A documentary on the Soviet-Red Chinese split.
A look at current Communist concepts and conflicts, focusing on the discord be tween the USSR and Red China. Interviewed are Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.

Narrator: Chet Huntley.                           

The US Navy nuclear submarine "Thresher" is lost. It is the nation's third submarine peacetime loss since World War ll. In all, 129 officers aboard ship, including crewmen and civilian technicians were lost.

The US nuclear submarine "Thresher" is missing.                         

THE LOSS OF THE TRESHER
An NBC special report on the loss of the US polaris nuclear submarine "Thresher."                         

Comedians on NBC RADIO.                          

Documentary on how a Sargent trains marine recruits.             

Survivors relate battles against the Nazis 20 years ago.                        

A variety show presented as monthly specials on NBC.

Bob's guests are Martha Ray and Dean Martin. Also included are the 4th Annual TV Guide Awards for best TV shows and performances for 1962.

NOTE: The annual TV Guide Awards Special was broadcast only four consecutive years. 
March 25, 1960, June 13, 1961, June 24, 1962, April 13, 1963, and finally April 17, 1964. 

                                                                                       

The show concludes with the presentation of the 4th annual TV Guide awards.                        

A documentary on guerilla warfare in South Vietnam, narrated by Dane Clark.  Filmed on location by M. Fujita Associates, a Japanese company.

Cameras cover the biggest war in the world today. Yet, as confirmed, it is not a war at all, but a succession of lightning thrusts and sudden deadly strikes that is slowly bleeding a nation to death. It pits against each other the two titans of world power. It is a conflict that the U.S. must win. 
                     

Radio news special. A right-wing forum attacks President Kennedy's administration.                         

The 17th Annual Tony Awards for excellence in theatrical performances for 1962 are awarded from the Hotel Americana Imperial Ballroom in New York City. The Master of Ceremonies is Abe Burrows and Robert Morse. Broadcast locally on WOR-TV Channel 9 in New York. WOR radio host Jean Shepherd opens and introduces the show. George Abbott wins the Best Direction of a 
Musical award for "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum."  

Produced by David Yarnell.

NOTE: This rare television audio air check broadcast was recognized by The Guinness Book of World Records, June 19, 2002 (Claim #5364), for the most money paid for a television soundtrack, sold to The American Theatre Wing, Inc., by Archival Television Audio, Inc., transacted on June 20, 2001.



 

NOTE: The first 42 minutes of the one hour broadcast. 
                                                                                                                                                                   

September 27, 1960 - June 4, 1963

BELL AND HOWELL CLOSE-UP! a series of reports produced in the main by ABC News' newly formed CLOSE-UP! unit headed by John Secondari, but often by Robert Drew and his team at Drew Associates in association with Time, Inc. Of particular  interest is the fact that John Daly, ABC's vice-president of News and Public Affairs, resigned in protest following the broadcast of Drew's "YANKI NO!" Daly, who in 1953 had become that network's first nightly TV nightly news anchor quit his ABC post in disagreement with the network's  new practice of farming out documentay assignments to independent producers.
 
Unfortunately for Robert Drew Associates, which were creating a new way of making documentaries ('DIRECT CINEMA'), only five different documentaries from his company, three of them filmed by documentary cinematographer Richard Leacock, were broadcast in total (one a two parter) from December 7, 1960 to May 16, 1961.

"YANKI NO!" broadcast  December 7, 1960

"X-PILOT" broadcast February 6, 1961

"THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING" broadcast 
February 16, 1961

"ADVENTURES ON THE NEW FRONTIER broadcast 
March 28, 1961

"KENYA: LAND OF THE WHITE GHOST, part  1" broadcast
May 9, 1961

"KENYA: LAND OF THE WHITE GHOST, part 2" broadcast
May 16, 1961 


"MONEY FOR BURNING," A documentary about the Secret Service (protecting the president from harm and protection of US money from counterfeiters). 

Deputy Chief Paul Paterney and agent Richard Roth describe and then raid a counterfeiting distribution center. Undercover agents explain their roles and methods. Tips on spotting bad bills are also offered. Interestingly, in 1962 five hundred thousand dollars' worth of bogus bills was passed in the USA. Three and a half million was intercepted before it went into circulation and 737 do-it-yourself currency producers were arrested. 

Narrated by Oscar Rose.  

Sponsored by Bell and Howell.                                                  

A satire on current news and events. A group of young iconoclasts takes over for a half-hour of far-out satire. 
Their targets are anything that needs to be deflated, poked at, pulled apart, or stripped of pretension. 
The show is based on a current BBC program "That Was The Week That Was" (or TWTWTW") which has created quite a stir in England. Like "TWTWTW" 'WGOH" searches the current scene for its material.
The show is the product of the whimsically named South Sea Trading Company, which is composed of Clay Felker and Jean Vanden  Heuvel, co-producers, Jonathan Miller director  (Beyond The Fringe") and performers Peter Cook, ("Beyond The Fringe") John Bird, (The Establishment") Roger W. Bowen and MacIntyre Dixon, (Second City"), and Pat McCormick, (comedy writer and actor. The group is hopeful that a series will develop from Tonight's program.   

An experimental special program that takes an audacious comic-satirical look at the news and current happenings.                                                                             

A special advance report on the space flight of Major Gordon Cooper.            

Negro comedian Dick Gregory, released from jail, talks to followers in Birmingham, Alabama.             

Presented on ERN (Educational Radio Network)
News on the strife in Birmingham, Alabama, Governor George Wallace charges US interference, negroes charge "police brutality," an interview with CORE director James Farmer.                         

From the educational news network a report related to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and other negroes celebrate their partial victory over segregation policies in Birmingham, Alabama.                          

The space race between the United States and Russia. 

This sequel to "THE RACE FOR SPACE," David L. Wolper's first entry into producing independent documentaries for television, provides the first complete look behind the US and USSR manned space efforts and includes exclusive films of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's epic space flight, the development of American's Mercury astronaut program and a look into the future of space exploration.

Originally aired in 1959. 

Narrated by Mike Wallace.                                       

Continuing coverage of astronaut Gordon Cooper's spaceflight while in its 11th orbit.                          

The last American astronaut to fly alone to date on May 15th and 16th, 1963. Cooper piloted "Faith 7" solo across twenty two orbits. The mission lasted nearly 34.5 hours and focused on making sure that astronauts could work stably in the spacecraft when it was in different modes of operation. 

The third and final manned space mission of the United States Mercury Program launched on May 15th, 1963 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, Faith 7, carried United States astronaut Gordon Cooper and completed 22 earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.               

A series of monthly NBC variety specials of music, song, and comedy.

Host: Bob Hope.                         

Coverage of Major Gordon Cooper's orbital space flight. A sixth attempt to man in space. 
All networks. The countdown begins at T-27 minutes.  
Includes coverage from Walter Cronkite and Douglas Edwards (CBS) and Frank McGee (NBC) news.                                                   

An NBC special report on the spaceflight of astronaut Gordon Cooper. Also features President John F. Kennedy.             

Extended coverage of Major Gordon Cooper's 22 orbital flights. Jay Barbaree and others join the broadcast of "Faith 7" Flight in progress at 14:24 into orbit.             

The final orbit, descent, and pickup of astronaut Gordon Cooper's spaceflight.             

A SPECIFICA RADIO documentary on the Birmingham racial integration crisis. Produced in Birmingham by Dale Miner.
                       

Topic: Latest news on the racial crisis in Birmingham, Alabama. 

Host: Robert Potts.                         

A satire on President Kennedy and associates.                       

A repeat of a rare July 15, 1962 broadcast for its time. A round table discussion by eight male homosexuals discussing their lives and loves.     

Moderator: WBAI Public Affairs Director, Dick Elman. 

To humanize homosexuality, Randolfe Wicker brought together a panel of eight homosexuals to speak as they would speak to each other. WBAI public affairs director, Dick Elman moderates a discussion recorded at a Brownstone home in NYC on the West Side. 

NOTE:

In early 1962, WBAI New York’s listener-supported “progressive" radio station aired an hour-long special, “The Homosexual In America.” It featured a panel of psychiatrists who described gay people as sick and in need of a cure — a cure that they could provide with just a few hours of therapy.

Gay Activist and founder of the “Homosexual League of New York” Randy Wicker was livid, not only at the ignorance of these so-called “experts,” but also because, once again, there was a panel of straight people talking about gay people they didn’t even know.

Wicker went to the WBAI studios and confronted Dick Elman, the station’s public affairs director. “Why do you have these people on that don’t know a damn thing about homosexuality? They don’t live it and breathe it the way I do. … I spend my whole life in gay society.”  Wicker demanded equal time and Elman agreed, provided Wicker find other gay people willing to go on the air as part of a panel.  When plans for the program were announced, the New York Journal-American went ballistic. Jack O’Brian, the paper’s radio-TV columnist, wrote that the station should change its callsign to WSICK for agreeing to air an “arrogant card-carrying swish.”

The broadcast titled “Live and Let Live,” featured Wicker and seven other gay men, identified only as Harry, Jack, Bill, Peter, Marty, and two others, talking for ninety minutes about what it was like to be gay.  They talked about their difficulties in maintaining careers, the problems of police harassment, and the social responsibility of gays and straights alike. The program’s host guided the programs with questions to the panel. “Is there harassment?” he asked. One panelist described some of the police harassment he had experienced, when one officer “roared up, jumped out of the car, grabbed me, and started giving me this big thing about ‘What are you doing here, you know there are a lot of queers around this neighborhood.’ He said, ‘You know, there’s only one thing worse than a queer, and that’s a nigger’.” (Remember this was 1962.)

The New York Times’s  called the program “the most extensive consideration of the subject to be heard on American radio” —  
   
A week before the broadcast, Jack O'Brian, a "right-wing" columnist for the New York Journal American, attacked it as an attempt to present "the ease of living the gay life." Wicker made the rounds to Variety, Newsweek, and The New York Times informing them of the broadcast and the attack on it by O'Brian. The 90-minute program, believed to be the first such in the United States, aired on July 15, 1962. Several mainstream media outlets, alerted by Wicker, covered the broadcast, which received favorable treatment in The New York Times, The Realist, Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune, and Variety.

As a result of the publicity, from 1962 through 1964 Wicker was one of the most visible gay people in New York. He spoke to countless church groups and college classes and, in 1964, became the first openly gay person to appear on East Coast television with a January 31st appearance on The Les Crane Show which was recorded at the time of the original broadcast by Phil Gries founder and owner of Archival Television Audio.

 Wicker is credited with organizing the first known gay rights demonstration in the United States. 
                                                                       

A debate on the segregation crisis in Birmingham, Alabama.
Broadcast on WHN 1050 radio in New York City.           

A documentary on Nazis and extreme right-wing groups operating in the US today. Included are interviews with George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party who claims he will gas the Jews after he becomes the President of the US in 1972. 

Broadcast on WBAI radio in New York City.           

The reception and press conference for astronaut Gordon Cooper.

Host: Walter Cronkite.               

Astronaut Gordon Cooper gets a hero's welcome in Washington, DC.            

1963 TV movie. 

Once the heart of Soviet Russia and the center of the communist world, The Kremlin embodies the rich and fascinating cultural heritage of Moscow. This was the first time ever that an American film crew was granted permission to enter and discover the rich treasures and history of the government and system whose ideology swept through half the modern world in the 20th Century.

Edwin Newman narrates.                      

Astronaut Gordon Cooper receives a ticker-tape reception in New York City.            

The 15th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are presented from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California. 

Hosts: Annette Funicello and Don Knotts.                        

      The Edie Adams Show, an Emmy Award winning SPECIAL, was a pilot for future Edie Adam's monthly SPECIALS...a total of eight half hour broadcasts were televised on ABC television, premiering October 23, 1962, followed by broadcasts on December 13, 1962, January 20, 1963, February 26, 1963, March 17, 1963, April 19, 1963, May 28, 1963, June 18, 1963 and called "Here's Edie." 

7TH SPECIAL of the season.      

Recollections and music of World War 1.  

BBC Production.