Bob Hope is the host for a 75th birthday salute plus one and career tribute to Mrs. Eleanor Rossevelt. David Susskind is the executive producer. 

This is an excerpted duplicate of #7112 which is complete
            

Phil Silvers only guest is Polly Bergen. Phil and Polly perform a variety of sketches, songs and dances together.                      

Musical variety show starring Donald O'Connor and his guests, Mitzi Gaynor, Andre Previn and Sidney Miller in song, dances and comedy skits.             

Political talk from Ohio with Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon. He is introduced by Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.         

Presented on "US STEEL HOUR." 

Musical, comedy satire about America's driving habits and love of cars.                                       

The fourth and final presidential debate between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy, held at ABC studios, in New York City. 

Moderator: Quincy Howe

Panelists: Walter Cronkite, Frank Singiser, John Edwards, John Chancellor. 

Five men, lost in the Himalayas after their plane crashes, discover a paradise on earth. Produced and directed by George Schaefer. Music by Harry Warren.                                     

Debbie Reynolds first television special.      

Senator John F. Kennedy addresses a fund raising dinner in Philadelphia for the upcoming November 8th, Presidential election.                          

Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy at the University Of Southern California regarding the upcoming November 8th, Presidential election.                          

Address by Senator John F. Kennedy at the East, Los Angeles College Stadium in East, Los Angeles, California, regarding the upcoming November 8th, Presidential election.                                    

Vice President Richard M. Nixon addresses a political rally in New York City, following a ticker tape parade up Broadway.             

Republican Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon and Vice Presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge are joined by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and New York Governor Nelson A. Rockerfeller for a political rally at Roosevelt Field in Westbury, NY.            

Republican Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon addresses a rally for the upcoming November 8th Presidential election.          

Senator John F. Kennedy addresses a political rally in Chicago, Illinois.                         

President Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses a Republican Presidential rally in Chicago, Illinois.         

Live coverage of Senator John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign speech in Chicago, Illinois. Station leaves the air before end.
Also included is a brief newscast. 

Senator John F. Kennedy in an election-eve talk from Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts.                         

Republican Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon is joined by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice Presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge in a final campaign speech before the next day's election.             

Highlights: Richard Nixon returns to California, Kennedy speaks from Springfield, Massachusetts, Mayor Robert Wagner says New York City is flooded with scare and hate literature suspects they are from Republican headquarters, New York City school teachers on strike, teachers comment on the strike.                          

Election returns, coverage from all three networks, CBS, NBC, and ABC. The Huntley-Brinkley returns on NBC sponsored by Texaco, CBS coverage with Prescott Robinson sitting in for Robert Trout, and ABC coverage with John Daly. Huntley and Brinkley turn over their broadcast to Dave Garroway and Frank Blair at the "Today" show.  
 
The NBC RCA 501 Computer says that the odds are 6.3 to 1 that John F. Kennedy will win the election. However, the ABC computer Univac predicts that Richard M. NIxon will win the election.   For the first time computers are used to predict a Presidential Election via television coverage.                                   

Live coverage of the 1960 Presidential Election Returns on WRCV-TV, an NBC affiliate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, and Tom Pettit report. 

NBC Live radio coverage of the 1960 Presidential Election returns between Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Richard M. Nixon. 

This rare archived off the air recording begins with 4% of the vote counted. Commercials during this radio broadcast are included.    

Presidential victory speech by Senator John F. Kennedy at the Hyannis Armory in Hyannis, Massachusetts. 

Host: Charles Kuralt. 

President-Elect John F. Kennedy gives his acceptance speech at the Hyannis Armory in Hyannis, Massachusetts.                         

Vice President-Elect Lyndon Baines Johnson gives his acceptance speech at the Hyannis Armory in Hyannis, Massachusetts.                         

   This video taped SPECIAL presentation centers around Manhattan's theater district. Hosted by Harry Belafonte, the program features jazz singer Gloria Lynne, John Lewis and the Modern Jazz quartet; the Contemporary String Quartet, and Herb Levy and his penny whistle.           

A one hour video taped tuneful tour of the ragtime era reliving the excitement of the horse-and-buggy days when ragtime was born. 

Hoagy Carmichael introduces us to the ragtime era (1900-1917) with over fourteen songs and instrumentals being performed by performers Dorothy Loudon, Mae Barnes, Robin Roberts, Billy B. Quartet, Eubie Blake, Ralph Sutton, Dick Wellstood, the Wilbur de Paris Band and the Clara Ward Singers. Musical score by Robert Russell Bennett. Executive producer Donald B. Hyatt. Produced and written by William Nichols. Directed by William Graham. Broadcast live, tape and film.  

                                     

December 8, 1957-June 18, 1961. 
Programs not hosted by Dinah Shore (every 4th week during the season of 1957-58 and 1958-59, more often thereafter until June 1961) were known as "The Chevy Show." 

Presented on "THE CHEVY SHOW." The story of two brothers, Kasim & Ali and Marjiana the slave girl, in this musical comedy highlighting Aladdin's lamp, a 15 foot genie and Ali Baba.             

Host: Bob Hope.           

On December 16th, 1960, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collided in mid-air with a TWA-Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending toward La Guardia Airport. The Constellation crashes on Miller Field in Staten Island while DC-8 goes down in Park Slope, Brooklyn. All 128 people aboard the two aircraft were killed, including six people on the ground. 

Additional CBS-TV coverage of mid-air plane crash begins twelve hours after accident with Walter Cronkite and Harry Reasoner. 

WINS newsman Brad Phillips reports of a collision between two airliners (TWA and United) over Staten Island. News of plane disaster that killed 136 people. On-the-spot accounts given by eyewitnesses.    

Fires commissioner Edward Cavanagh Jr. states that today's air disaster is the greatest tragedy in American Aviation History. Comments from New York City Mayor Robert Wagner.

On Friday, December 16, 1960 at 10:36 am a plane collided with another plane a mile high in the New York sky. It was the first commercial air disaster o the jet age, killing all 127 passengers, and crew members and five more people on the ground, when one of the airliners crashed in Brooklyn, setting off a seven-alarm fire. It was the worst aviation disaster in American history. 

The TWA constellation out of Dayton, Ohio, and bound for La Guardia Airport, broke apart in midair and plummeted into an open field in Staten Island. A United Airlines DC-8 jet out of Chicago, bound for Idlewild Airport, now Kennedy Airport, caught fire and hurtled into Brooklyn at an initial rate of 733 feet per second. The plane sliced through a church, an funeral home and 10 brownstones before sliding to a stop on Seventh Avenue and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn.

Investigators ultimately determined United 826 had gone too late into its holding pattern and neither its crew or air traffic control knew exactly where it was. The only survivor was an 11-year old boy on the United jet  who was thrown clear of the wreck and landed in a snowbank. The TWA jet crashed 11 miles to the southeast, on Staten Island. It missed several houses by a few hundred feet. 

A brief summary of today's crash follows with a report from radio station WMGM. 

Aircraft and crews1960 New York mid-air collision:

United Airlines Flight 826 · Trans World Airlines Flight 266
Date	December 16, 1960
Summary	Mid-air collision
Site	About a mile west of Miller Field
40°34′07″N 74°07′19″W
Total fatalities	134
Total injuries	0
Total survivors	0
First aircraft
A jetliner on the apron
The tail assembly of N8013U, the Douglas DC-8-11 involved in the collision
Type	Douglas DC-8-11
Name	Mainliner Will Rogers
Operator	United Airlines
IATA flight No.	UA826
ICAO flight No.	UAL826
Call sign	UNITED 826
Registration	N8013U
Flight origin	Chicago-O'Hare International Airport (ORD/KORD), IL
Destination	Idlewild Airport (IDL/KIDL)(Now John F. Kennedy International Airport), New York City
Occupants	84
Passengers	77
Crew	7
Fatalities	84 (83 initially)
Injuries	0 (1 initially)
Survivors	0 (1 initially)
Second aircraft
A large piston engined airliner taxiing past some large bomber aircraft
N6907C, the Lockheed L-1049A Super Constellation involved.
Type	Lockheed L-1049A Super Constellation
Name	Star of Sicily
Operator	Trans World Airlines
IATA flight No.	TW266
ICAO flight No.	TWA266
Call sign	TWA 266
Registration	N6907C
Flight origin	Dayton International Airport (DAY/KDAY), Dayton, Ohio
Stopover	Port Columbus International Airport (CMH/KCMH), Ohio
Destination	LaGuardia Airport KLGA New York
Occupants	44
Passengers	39
Crew	5
Fatalities	44
Survivors	0
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities	6

On December 16, 1960, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 bound for Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City collided in midair with a TWA Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending toward LaGuardia Airport.[1] The Constellation crashed on Miller Field in Staten Island and the DC-8 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, killing all 128 aboard the two aircraft and six people on the ground. The accident was the world's deadliest aviation disaster at the time, and remains the deadliest accident in the history of United Airlines.

The accident became known as the Park Slope plane crash or the Miller Field crash after the two crash sites. The accident was also the first hull loss and first fatal accident involving a Douglas DC-8.

United Airlines Flight 826, Mainliner Will Rogers, registration N8013U, was a DC-8-11 carrying 77 passengers and seven crewmembers from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in Queens. The crew consisted of Captain Robert Sawyer (age 46), First Officer Robert Fiebing (40), Flight Engineer Richard Pruitt (30) and four stewardesses: Mary Mahoney, Augustine Ferrar, Anne Bouthen, and Patricia Keller. Captain Sawyer was a highly experienced pilot, having accumulated 19,100 flight hours, of which 344 were in the DC-8. First Officer Fiebing had accumulated 8,400 flight hours, of which 416 were in the DC-8. Flight Engineer Pruitt had accumulated 8,500 flight hours, of which 379 were in the DC-8.

Trans World Airlines Flight 266, Star of Sicily, registration N6907C,[7] was a Super Constellation carrying 39 passengers and five crew members from Dayton and Columbus, Ohio, to LaGuardia Airport in Queens. The crew consisted of Captain David Wollam (age 39), First Officer Dean Bowen (32), Flight Engineer LeRoy "Lee" Rosenthal (30) and two stewardesses, Margaret Gernat and Patricia Post. Captain Wollam had accumulated 14,583 flight hours, 267 of which were in the Constellation. First Officer Bowen had accumulated 6,411 flight hours, of which 268 were on the Constellation. Flight Engineer Rosenthal had accumulated 3,561 flight hours, of which 204 were in the Constellation. Star of Sicily's sister ship N6902C, Star of the Seine, was destroyed in another mid-air collision with a United Airlines flight in 1956.

Background

Flight paths of the two aircraft
At 10:21 a.m. Eastern Time, United 826 advised ARINC radio that one of its VOR receivers was inoperative, and the message was relayed to United Airlines maintenance. However, air-traffic control (ATC) was not informed that the aircraft had only one operational receiver, which presented difficulty for the pilots of flight 826 to identify the Preston intersection, beyond which it had not received clearance.

At 10:25 a.m., ATC issued a revised clearance for the flight to shorten its route to the Preston holding point (near Laurence Harbor, New Jersey) by 12 miles (19 km). That clearance included holding instructions (a standard "racetrack" holding pattern) for Flight 826 when it arrived at the Preston intersection. Flight 826 was expected to reduce its speed before reaching Preston to a standard holding speed of 210 knots (240 mph; 390 km/h) or lower. However, the aircraft was estimated to be traveling at 301 knots (346 mph; 557 km/h) when it collided with the TWA plane, several miles beyond the Preston clearance limit.

During the investigation, United Airlines claimed that the Colts Neck VOR was unreliable. Preston was the point where airway V123—the 050-radial off the Robbinsville VOR—crossed the Solberg 120-degree radial and the Colts Neck 346-degree radial. However, the Civil Aeronautics Board's final report found no problem with the Colts Neck VOR.

The prevailing conditions were light rain and fog, which had been preceded by snowfall.

The crash site of the United Airlines DC-8, United 826, in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

The crash site of the TWA Super Constellation, TWA 266, in Miller Field, Staten Island.
According to the DC-8's flight data recorder, the aircraft was 12 miles (19 km) off course, and for 81 seconds it descended at 3,600 feet per minute (18 m/s) while slowing from more than 400 knots (460 mph; 740 km/h) to 301 knots (346 mph; 557 km/h) at the time of the collision.

One of the DC-8's starboard engines struck the Constellation just ahead of its wings, tearing apart a portion of the fuselage. The Constellation entered a dive, with debris continuing to fall as it disintegrated during its spiral to the ground.

The initial impact tore the DC-8's engine from its pylon. Having lost one engine and a large part of the right wing, the DC-8 remained airborne for another 90 seconds.

The DC-8 crashed into the Park Slope section of Brooklyn at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Sterling Place (40°40′38″N 73°58′25″W), scattering wreckage and setting fire to ten brownstone apartment buildings, the Pillar of Fire Church, the McCaddin Funeral Home, a Chinese laundry and a delicatessen. Six people on the ground were killed.[12][1]

The crash left the remains of the DC-8 pointing southeast toward a large open field at Prospect Park, blocks from its crash site. An occupant in one of the affected apartment buildings said that his family survived because they were in the only room of their apartment that was not destroyed. The crash left a trench covering most of the length of the middle of Sterling Place. Witnesses thought that a bomb had detonated or that a building's boiler had exploded.

The TWA plane crashed onto the northwest corner of Miller Field at 40.57°N 74.103°W, with some sections of the aircraft landing in New York Harbor. At least one passenger fell into a tree before the wreckage hit the ground.

There was no radio contact with traffic controllers from either plane after the collision, although LaGuardia had begun tracking an incoming, fast-moving, unidentified plane from Preston toward the LaGuardia "Flatbush" outer marker.

Investigation

Front page of Syracuse Post-Standard on 17 December 1960.
The likely cause of the accident was identified in a report by the US Civil Aeronautics Board:
United Flight 826 proceeded beyond its clearance limit and the confines of the airspace allocated to the flight by Air Traffic Control. A contributing factor was the high speed of the United DC-8 as it approached the Preston intersection, coupled with the change of clearance which reduced the en-route distance along Victor 123 by approximately 11 miles (9.6 nmi; 18 km)

Initial survivor
The only person to initially survive the crash was Stephen Baltz, an 11-year-old boy from Wilmette, Illinois. He was traveling unaccompanied on Flight 826 to spend Christmas in Yonkers with relatives. He was thrown from the plane into a snowbank, where his burning clothing was extinguished. Although alive and conscious, he was severely burned and had inhaled burning fuel. Baltz died of pneumonia the next day.

NOTE: A RARE EXTANT 1960 WINS 1010 RADIO AIR CHECK. 

                                                                          

The USS Constellation aircraft carrier catches fire. The fire was started by a forklift truck accident. Over 3200 workmen were on the carrier with 50 people killed. The fire took place at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 

Running reports of a spectacular fire on an aircraft carrier, the USS Constellation at the Brooklyn Navy Yard fifty die, eyewitness reports of the disaster from WINS radio and CBS-TV.            

Presented on "SHIRLEY TEMPLE THEATRE." Toyland's the scene. Young Michael Petit and Angela Cartwright arrive there after running away from miserly Uncle Barnaby, played by Jonathan Winters, whom with three bumbling cutthroats try to do the babes in. Hosts Shirley Temple and her youngsters, Linda Susan, Charles Jr. and Lori. 

Songs:

"Toyland," "Floretta".......................Shirley Temple

"Piper's Song"...................Jonathan Winters, Angela Cartwright, Michel Petit

"Gonzales, Rodrigo and Gonzorgo," "Sailor's Life".....Jerry Colona, Joe Besser, Carl Ballentine

"Meantown"...............................Chorus

"Go to Sleep"..............Angela Cartwright, Michel Petit

"Can't Do the Sum"......Hanley Stafford, Angela Cartwright, Michel Petit

"Doll Dance," "Wooden Soldiers"...........Dancers


NOTE: When Shirley Temple's Storybook children's anthology series originally broadcast as a series 16 specials airing on ABC TV on various nights (Jan. - Dec. 1958). In January of 1959 the program began to run regularly every third Monday night on ABC TV. 
When it moved to NBC in 1960 it became a weekly series and was renamed "The Shirley Temple Show" or "The Shirley Temple Theatre."

                         

The gift of song. Singers June Valli, Susan Reed, Bill Hayes, and Lois Hunt participate in this musical show for the holiday season.  

Narrator and Announcer is Scott Vincent.           

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians usher in the year 1961 along with Vincent Lopez and his orchestra. Robert Trout reports the festivities from Times Square.             

Alexander Scourby narrates this documentary showing the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler.  Produced by Henry Salomon and Richard Hanser.  Musical score by Robert Russell Bennett.  NBC news bulletins with Wilson Hall interrupts programming, stating that "President Eisenhower has broken off U.S. relations with Castro's Cuba."  This program originally aired on March 14, 1956.

NOTE:
This was the second of over 30 different NBC PROJECT XX documentaries made for television (1954-1970). This broadcast depicts a chronicle of the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany. The story begins with scenes of Hitler as a shabby  street-corner orator in Munich Germany. It shows his rise to a position of supreme power in his homeland and eventually in much of Europe. 

High Nazi officials are seen strutting about at the height of their success. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler and Hess are among the figures seen in addition to Adolph Hitler. Aside from newsreel shots of concentration camps there are reconstructed scenes of Nazi victims being prepared for extermination. 
There are scenes of mass Nazi rallies. 

As Nazi power begins to fail, there are scenes of Germans fleeing for shelter from "Allied bomb s. From a recent German movie comes re-enacted details of the abortive bomb lot against Hitler's life  on July 20, 1944. Newsreels show Der Fuhrer being congratulated on his escape from death. But in fact his health is broken. While he broods in his bunker, Berlin falls in ruins above him. As the Russians advance on the doomed capitol Hitler takes his own life.

An exceptional original music score is composed by Robert Russell Bennett to compliment and give impact to the visuals, and the narrative by Alexander Scourby is superb. He would continue to narrate over half of all Project XX events during its 16 year television cycle.