Fred Allen seven-minute excerpt.                       

This "Salute To Jack Benny" testimonial dinner aired on CBS radio on November 9th, 1951.
Celebrating Jack's twenty years in radio are New York City Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, Milton Berle, President of CBS William S. Paley, Bernard Baruch, George Burns, George Jessel, Adlai Stevenson, and Fred Allen. Jack Benny remarks at the end of the roast. The program originates from the Friar's Club.

                

The New York City Friars Club honors Ed Sullivan for his ten years on television.

An excerpt audio air check of Friars Club members honoring Sullivan include Joe E. Lewis, Jack E. Leonard, Jack Carter, Morey Amsterdam, Walter Cronkite, and Wayne and Shuster.

NOTE: This broadcast was aired in the time slot normally seen as  The Ed Sullivan Show,  8-9pm Sunday evenings. 

This program is a video tape of a recent Friar's Club Testimonial Dinner staged by Nat Hiken. It was to be the first of many Friar's Club dinners to be televised under the over-all title "Man of the Hour.' In actuality it was the only one that was produced and broadcasts. 

                                                   

Dean Martin, Mitzi Gaynor and, Bing Crosby join Frank Sinatra in this one-hour musical special.
                                  

    An ABC Television Video Taped Special.
Tonight Frank Sinatra surrounds himself with FIVE celebrated admired women...Lena Horne, Mary Costa, Juliet Prowse, Barbara Heller and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. 

Sinatra offers a valentine to all of his female special guests. 
Over fifteen musical numbers are staged. 

John Cameron Swayze is the spokesman for sponsor Timex.

                                                                                           

The first 1960 presidential debate between Republican Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy.Telecast from WBBM-TV in Chicago. 

Howard K. Smith is moderator. Panelists: Sander Vanocur, Charles Warren, Stuart Novins, Robert Fleming. 

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. 

Live coverage of the Freedom 7 space flight with Commander Alan B. Shepard aboard. Complete flight from countdown to post-flight report.            

Loosely based on a Nathaniel Hawthorne story about a socially ambitious witch who is miffed about her eviction from the Governor's ball. Music by Mary Rodgers, wife of Richard Rodgers. This would be her one and only television musical score.             

CBS radio coverage of the Frair's Roast for director Mervyn Leroy. 

Roastmaster: George Jessel.     

The ABC television network is examined for its "sex and violence" program line-ups in order to boost ratings.           

Film covering Lt. Col. John Glenn's space flight, prepared by the General Dynamics Corporation for NASA. The program will have voice over narration by CBS News correspondent Walter Cronkite. 

Happy ending of the flight of "Aurora 7. A  CBS Special half-hour report on the successful three-orbit space flight of Scott Carpenter, completed earlier in the day.                      

Live coverage of the first TV transmissions from "Telstar 1."
All three networks show scenes from various parts of the US. Also, scenes from London, Paris, Rome, and the artic are beamed to the US. 

CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow is interviewed.            

Cuban President Fidel Castro gives a speech in Havana, Cuba.           

Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba gives a speech.             

Live coverage of the funeral of President John F. Kennedy. 

Live CBS coverage of Winston Churchill's funeral. Walter Cronkite reports. Comments on Churchill from Dwight Eisenhower.            

Comments by Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid on the funeral of Winston Churchill.              

Adlai Stevenson.tribute on the day of his funeral. Introduction by Charles Kuralt. Other guests include Hubert Humphrey, Prime Minister Harold Wilson, poet and writer Archibald Macleish, and Labor Secretary Williard Wirtz.

Eric Sevareid hosts from London.           

President Johnson in Hawaii to meet with South Vietnamese leader General Nguyen Cao Ky in Honolulu summit.              

The first space docking of the Gemini spacecraft.              

Frank Sinatra performs in his first ever television special. He performs his many hits.

 First broadcast on NBC on November 24th, 1965, marking the occasion of Sinatra's 50th birthday. 

Winner of Prime time Emmy as Outstanding Musical Program.                      

Coverage of the Gemini 9A spaceflight. Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan aboard.         

CBS Newsman Eric Sevareid reports on the flight of the Gemini 9 spacecraft.  Includes NBC live coverage with Chet Huntley and Frank McGee.           

WNBC radio news launch coverage of the Gemini 9 space flight with astronauts Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford aboard, interrupting the Joe Pyne Show.       

A report on the Gemini 9 spaceflight.             

An hour of music and song as Frank Sinatra welcomes Ella Fitzgerald and guitarist-composer Antonio Carlos Jobim on his third musical special.
Frank mixes old and new: "Day In, Day Out," "Get Me To The Church On Time," "What Now My Love?" "Old Man River," and his theme: "Put Your Dreams Away."  
Ella Fitzgerald solos on "Body And Soul," "It's All Right With Me," and "Don't Be That Way" and joins Frank for "The Lady Is A Tramp,"
"They Can't Take That Away From Me," and "Stompin At The Savoy."
Jobim provides bossa nova backing for Frank's renditions of "Quiet Nights," "Change Partners," "I Concentrate On You," and "The Girl From Ipanema." 
Frank and Ella team up to contrast song lyrics, then (Don't Cry Joe," "How High The Moon,") and now ("Going Out Of My Head.")
                                   

Live TV and radio coverage of the funeral services for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Radio coverage provided by WGY, Schenectady.                      

Live coverage of the Apollo 8 moon flight with astronauts Jim Lovell, William Anders, and Frank Borman aboard.              

Musical hour starring guitarist-singer Jose Feliciano and guest stars. 

Duplicate of # 5240.             

Musical hour starring guitarist-singer Jose Feliciano and guest stars. 

Duplicate Of #5240.  

Note: In 2015, Jose Feliciano was given TV audio representing his first TV appearance in 1965 ("FanFare" with Al Hirt.) His appreciation and reaction seen and heard on the ATA website.          

Frank Sinatra Jr. in his first television special, filmed in and around Las Vegas.
The 25-year-old tours the strip (singing "Downtown") views the awesome sandstone formations at Valley Of Fire State Park ("The World Is Full Of Beautiful Things"), performs with his band ("Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You") ("Quiet Nights") and is joined on stage by his father for ("All Or Nothing At All") one of Frank Sr's early hits. 
In guest appearances: Jack Benny, Sammy Davis Jr. with an energetic song and dance at Hoover Dam; Nancy Sinatra  ("Light My Fire"); The Doodletown Pipers ("Cool Water") ("The Happening"):Arte Johnson doing his zany Laugh-In characterizations, comic Jack E. Leonard, and The flying Thunderbirds, precision Air Force aerobatic team.