Ceasefire in the Middle East, Ray Sherer reports. Report from Washington, (Eisenhower headquarters) election day news, a report from Chicago and Stevenson headquarters, Anglo-French agree tp ceasefire, Egypt will accept ceasefire provided Anglo-French and Israeli troops withdraw from Egypt. Forecast on outcome of the election, a prediction that Eisenhower will be reelected, Hungarian rebels still battle Russians in Budapest, many Hungarians flee into Austria, Moscow calls for aid to Egypt, early election returns put Eisenhower in the lead.

NOTE: Seventh HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT broadcast.                                                           

    
HY GARDNER - Mon-Fri, weekdays, WRCA CH. 4 New York City 11:15-11:25pm, 11:20-11:30pm, 11:15-11:30pm September 10, 1956-January 25, 1957  

Preceding TONITE! Hy Gardner had a ten minute news/gossip series on WNBC TV. On this broadcast the news of the day included:

-Los Angeles police are expected to announce a solution to the Marie McDonald "who done it" case. Hy feels that the actress was kidnapped and that the incident was not a hoax.

-The board of directors for Lowe's Inc. include the former secretary of defense Louis Johnson, former secretary of the army Frank Pace, and former secretary of the navy, John Sullivan. Hy thinks that MGM must be getting ready to launch a new cycle of war movies.

-King Farouk is suing Elsa Maxwell for material she wrote about the former King of Egypt in her new book.

-Ironically, Ed Sullivan, publicity man, is promoting for Steve Allen Ingrid Bergman's next Sunday's appearance on The Steve Allen Show.       

John Kennedy names some cabinet members, (Dean Rusk, Chester Bowles, Adlai Stevenson), Adlai Stevenson named ambassador to the UN, seventeen-inch snowfall in New York City, Algerian riots against De Gaulle policies, boxer Ike Williams appears before the Senate committee investigating boxing, anti-integration laws are unconstitutional according to the Supreme Court, David Brinkley describes Christmas in Japan.                                                                

The US tries to find out why it lags behind Russia in the space race, Russia venerates Yuri Gagarin, plans for future space flights, Russians refuse to yield on nuclear test ban talk.                   

Highlights: Yuri Gagarin receives a hero's welcome in Moscow, he's greeted by Nikita Khrushchev, more anti-Castro sabotage in Cuba, Castro accuses President Kennedy of being an arsonist, a rebel uprising in Angola, UN sends Indian troops to Congo, planes airlift 2100 troops, Senators Alexander Wiley and Estes Kefauver Hassel over electrical price fixing,                           

Highlights: Yuri Gagarin receives a hero's welcome in Moscow, he's greeted by Nikita Khrushchev, more anti-Castro sabotage in Cuba, Castro accuses President Kennedy of being an arsonist, a rebel uprising in Angola, UN sends Indian troops to Congo, planes airlift 2100 troops, Senators Alexander Wiley and Estes Kefauver Hassel over electrical price fixing,    

Duplicate of 13539.                        

Jimmy Fidler was a Hollywood gossip columnist, journalist, and radio and television personality.           

Highlights: Berlin crisis, US and Russian tanks face each other at the Berlin border, Chinese communists warn people against fallout from Russian test, Russia explodes H-Bomb, proposes to set off fifty irrigation bombs, the US tests Saturn rocket.                          

FCC Chairman Newton Minow and others discuss "the vast wasteland of television" Robert Sarnoff, the president of NBC, testifies, president Kennedy, comments on FCC controls.          

95 killed in jet crash near Idlewild airport in New York City,
Colonel John Glenn received in New York City by four million.            

October 29th, 1956-July 31st, 1970.

The Huntley-Brinkley report replaced the Camel News Caravan with John Cameron Swayze on October 29th, 1956. Originally a fifteen-minute news broadcast it was expanded to a half-hour on September 9th, 1963, a week after the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite expanded to a half-hour. Chet Huntley was in New York City and David Brinkley was in Washington, DC. 

World reaction on the US resumption of nuclear testing, M.S. Ranger rocket lands on the moon, the US indicts two steel companies.  Five members of negro organization congregate in New Orleans.                                             

Hollywood comment on "Dimension" with Ralph Story.            

February 14, 1962-June 16, 1963

In his first regular television assignment for ABC, after serving as a news correspondent for CBS for 20 years, Howard K. Smith presented this weekly news and commentary program. It featured a summary of the week's major news events, commentary and analysis by Mr. Smith and interviews with prominent people in the news.


The Mississippi crisis, interviews with anti-Castro leaders, Cuban crisis brewing, and US position in light of the Soviet buildup, Secretary of State Dean Rusk urges direct US action in removing Castro. 

Howard K. Smith reports.                                                                

February 14, 1962-June 16, 1963
Half-hour news analysis show, hosted by Howard K. Smith, the former CBS correspondent who joined ABC NEWS in 1961.

US automobiles-their current status and future development, comments on foreign cars.                         

February 14, 1962-June 16, 1963

In his first regular television assignment for ABC, after serving as a news correspondent for CBS for 20 years, Howard K. Smith presented this weekly news and commentary program. It featured a summary of the week's major news events, commentary and analysis by Mr. Smith and interviews with prominent people in the news. 

Comments by Howard K. Smith and guest Alger Hiss on the political obituary of Richard M. Nixon.  

NOTE: Rare appearance by Alger Hiss who only appeared one other time on a television commentary or talk show (MIke Douglas Show - 1976).            

February 14, 1962-June 16, 1963

In his first regular television assignment for ABC, after serving as a news correspondent for CBS for 20 years, Howard K. Smith presented this weekly news and commentary program. It featured a summary of the week's major news events, commentary and analysis by Mr. Smith and interviews with prominent people in the news.

Politics, domestic problems, space, integration, and personalities are discussed. 

Howard K. Smith Reports.                          

February 14, 1962-June 16, 1963

In his first regular television assignment for ABC, after serving as a news correspondent for CBS for 20 years, Howard K. Smith presented this weekly news and commentary program. It featured a summary of the week's major news events, commentary and analysis by Mr. Smith and interviews with prominent people in the news.

Topics: The lighter side of President Kennedy and family, comments about life on the "new frontier," newsman such as Albert Merriman Smith also comment on the Kennedy influence.                         

February 14, 1962-June 16, 1963.
Half-hour weekly Sunday night news analysis show hosted by Howard K. Smith, former CBS correspondent who joined ABC News in 1961.

Topic: Crime in the United States today. Howard K. Smith reports.                         

What's wrong with Hollywood? 

Comments on this two part series related to the star system and its pressures, the impact of television, the influx of foreign films and  independent producers vs. the big studios. 
Comments from Jack Lemmon, Gloria Swanson, Lee Remick, Stanley Kramer, Sheilah Graham and Joseph E. Levine.

Host: Howard K. Smith.                                       

The crisis in Hollywood (Part 2)

Howard K. Smith reports.             

Khrushchev hails the nuclear test ban treaty, President Kennedy to give a talk on the treaty, earthquake report from Skopje, Yugoslavia, Senate hearings on civil rights, a sharp exchange between Senators such as Strom Thurmond, negroes sing protest in Phoenix, Arizona, a report on Charles De Gaulle news conference,                           

October 29th, 1956-July 31st, 1970.

The Huntley-Brinkley report replaced the Camel News Caravan with John Cameron Swayze on October 29th, 1956. Originally a fifteen-minute news broadcast it was expanded to a half-hour on September 9th, 1963, a week after the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite expanded to a half-hour. Chet Huntley was in New York City and David Brinkley was in Washington, DC.

Topics: An interview with President Kennedy (first 12 minutes), a report on the presidential campaign of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, (Goldwater is interviewed), David Brinkley receives a telegram from CBS evening news anchor Walter Cronkite congratulating Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on the premiere of their first thirty-minute newscast.

The first thirty-minute Huntley-Brinkley newscast.  

                                                                                                                    

October 29th, 1956-July 31st, 1970.

The Huntley-Brinkley report replaced the Camel News Caravan with John Cameron Swayze on October 29th, 1956. Originally a fifteen-minute news broadcast it was expanded to a half-hour on September 9th, 1963, a week after the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite expanded to a half-hour. Chet Huntley was in New York City and David Brinkley was in Washington, DC. 

A rowdy scene at House hearing-boycotting by bearded leftists "concerning travel to Cuba," student rioters in Birmingham, George Wallace will enter the 1964 presidential primaries, the goal is to defeat President Kennedy, the Arab League is concerned over the Israelis interest in Black African and Asian countries, Jimmy Hoffa attacks Robert Kennedy-says the US is run by his "police force," Britain vetoes in UN on white Rhodesian Government.                                                               

British Prime Minister Harold Mcmillan chooses Alec-Douglas Home as the new Prime Minister, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller is expected to enter the presidential race, he campaigns in New Hampshire, Barry Goldwater and his Republican running mate William Miller attack Kennedy, Sheriff Theophilus "Bull" Connor comments on negro policemen.                                     

A report on the election in Venezuela, Herbert Kaplow reports.             

"Hizzoner The Mayor" of New York City has a tough job. This show illustrates the point by documenting the careers of two colorful
New York mayors- James J. Walker and Fiorello LaGuardia. Walker was in office from 1925 to 1932, LaGuardia from 1934 to 1945. 

Host: Harry Golden.     

      Following The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Howard Reed and the late news. First five minutes is heard.       

Racial disturbances at a beach in Florida, in Mississippi a civil rights group train northern whites to aid negroes in the south-trainees learn to protect themselves from hostile mobs, three civil rights workers (two from the north) are missing in Mississippi, Senator Edward Kennedy is doing OK in the hospital following plane crash, President Johnson greets Turkish Premier Ismet Inonu-they discuss the Turkish-Cyprus problem.                        

Former US President Herbert Hoover dies in his suite at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City at age 91. 

Howard K. Smith comments on the forthcoming civil rights bill.             

An excerpt from The Huntley-Brinkley Report,  NBC-TV. 

Chet Huntley reports:

"Otis Redding, 26-year-old blues singer, is missing and presumed dead in Madison Wisconsin.
 Redding was one of seven people aboard a private plane which crashed in a Madison Lake last night. 
One man survived. 
Good night for NBC News."
                                                                                                     

The debut of the new Madison Square Garden in New York City.
A report on the Emile Griffith fight and the heavyweight championship fight between Buster Mathis and Zora Foley. 
Muhammad Ali comments.
A report on the arrest of Jackie Robinson Jr. for narcotics possession.                         

Chet Huntley and David Brinkley report on yesterday's Presidential election in which Richard Nixon was elected the 37th President of the United States.                        

Special 1-20-69 and 1-21-69 live radio coverage of the inaugural parade and ball for President-Elect Richard M. Nixon from Washington, DC.          

A special report on the death of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the day of his death.                       

NBC nightly news report with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley.      

Telecast of a final pre-launch news conference with Apollo 11 astronauts, civilian Neil A. Armstrong, command pilot, Air Force Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin Jr, lunar module pilot and Air Force Lt. Michael Collins. Armstrong and Aldrin will make the moon landing. 
The news conference, for all media, is at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida.                    

Coverage of the Apollo 11 space mission.            

A report on the failure of Apollo 13 due to the explosion of an oxygen tank, crippling the service module.             

Henry Kissinger holds a press conference about the Vietnam peace agreement.          

Radio broadcast of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's report on his talks with leaders concerning the war in the Middle East.             

Henry Kissinger holds a noon news conference on the crisis in the Middle East.                    

House of Representatives proposes impeachment inquiry against President Nixon.         

House impeachment hearings to impeach President Nixon continues.                       

House impeachment hearings continue.                        

Continuing live coverage of the House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings.     

Special radio broadcast regarding impeachment proceedings against President Richard M Nixon.         

Continuing special radio coverage of house impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon.