Topics include the summit crisis, Khrushchev threatens to leave if unable to reconcile with Eisenhower, Eisenhower comments on current US policy on U-2, flights will not be resumed, Khrushchev wants Eisenhower to apologize and punish those involved, Eisenhower refuses, press secretary Hagerty comments on current US policy on U-2.                                     

Highlights: The summit meeting is shattered, Khrushchev hints at signing a separate peace treaty with East Germany, Vice President Nixon comments on summit fiasco, Khrushchev will boycott all summit talks until Eisenhower apologizes, in the Maryland primary, Senator Kennedy leads over Senator Morse, Mayor Wagner says Kennedy could win New York delegates.                            

Highlights: Eisenhower will still make a trip to the Far East, summit fiasco, Khrushchev says goodbye to Macmillan and De Gaulle, Tito calls for UN interview to solve the crisis, US to investigate U-2 plane's blunders of administration in handling it.                         

Highlights: Eisenhower and Khrushchev leave Paris, Eisenhower makes airport statement on summit fiasco, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Eaton see Khrushchev off, Moscow says the US sabotaged summit, Eisenhower blunders, and shamed conference, Eisenhower greeted in Lisbon, Portugal, East Berliners to greet triumphal arrival of Khrushchev, emphasis on hate America and Adenauer, Soviet spaceship ejects cabin for a landing on the earth, the US to prepare a welcome for Eisenhower,                                                                  

Highlights: Martin Luther King acquited of income tax evasion, a new government in Turkey replaces Adnan Menderes, Ambassador Lodge responds to Russian "slogans." Gromyko charges the US torpedoed the summit, Syngman Rhee seeks asylum in the USA.  

NOTE: This was the final WCBS late news  broadcast anchored, by Ron Cochran (Saturday evening 11pm) after six years on the air for CBS News.                                                                                          

Boris Pasternak has died, freak accident Indy 500 temporary scaffolding collapsed, two fans killed, at least 300 dead on nation's highways during Memorial Day holiday, theater strike is threatened, Malinovsky of Russia says Russians will annihilate rocket bases that launched the U-250 rockets. 

NOTE: This is the premiere broadcasts of Prescott Robinson replacing Ron Cochran on WCBS Television late news.                       

The United States to cut sugar purchases from Cuba because of Castro hostility, Congo prepares for independence on June 30th, comments on problems lying ahead, threats of secession by rival groups, Truman resigns as a delegate to the Democratic convention, charges of Democratic convention being rigged for Kennedy.                                      

Highlights: Khrushchev may come to New York as Russian delegation heads to UN, Russians publish an indictment on Gary Powers spying, an interview with Herbert Hoover on health issues.                         

Highlights: Francis Gary Powers trial opens in Moscow, President Eisenhower comments on the trial, Gallop poll among others gives Nixon favorable odds to a victory in the fall. Indonesia breaks off diplomatic relations with the Netherlands. 

NOTE: Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in the Soviet Union airspace, causing a1960 
U-2 incident.                                        

A description of Hurricane Donna, Congo crisis; Lumumba arrested
and released, Kennedy campaigns in Texas, a religious issue discussed.            

Highlights: Controversial leaders, including Nikita Khrushchev and Castro coming to New York, New York police take precautions, Hungarian refugees comment on their hatred for Khrushchev, OLA plans raucous greeting for Khrushchev, Khrushchev truculent against pickets and demonstrations, State Department will restrict his movements.           

Khrushchev claims the New York police manhandled Russians when Khrushchev visited Castro at Theresa.          

Khrushchev claims assassination attempt, says gun in TV camera, Khrushchev holds an unusual news conference from his balcony, Khrushchev complains of confinement, can't see America, says he's under "house arrest", John Kennedy campaigns in Tennessee, Nixon talks in Indiana.                         

Eisenhower speaks at the UN, Khrushchev at the plaza reception receives boos, nine-year-old Venezuelan girl dies after being shot by Cuban fanatics, Castro gives interview in Harlem hotel, honored by people of Harlem, hopes Khrushchev will visit him in Cuba, Togoland president Olympio comments on possible Khrushchev visit to his country.                                       

Khrushchev throws a tantrum at the UN, Khrushchev heckles Harold Macmillan UN talk and pounds on the table, Khrushchev wants allies to accept Russian disarmament terms, fifty-seven Americans harassed by Cubans in Havana, five hundred Americans leave Cuba, reporter comments on condition in police state Cuba, Nixon calls Kennedy a "monumental failure". Adolf Eichman trial to begin soon.           

Highlights: Khrushchev creates a wild scene at the UN, attacks the Philippine delegate, and calls him a jerk, a stooge of American Imperialism, accompanied by his shoe banging, A sailor from Khrushchev ship "Baltica" seeks asylum, a bomb explodes in the Times Square shuttle station.               

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.                          

Post-election news on presidential race between Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. 

Congolese on a rampage, eat their enemies, Congo crisis debated in the UN,              

Pirate on the seized ship the "Santa Maria" announces intentions and reasons for seizing the ship. The ship cannot be found.            

Highlights: Patrice Lumumba is assassinated in the Congo, Russian rocket on the way toward Venus, electrical equipment manufacturing scandal.                          

Adolf Eichmann trial enters the second day in Israel, Russians hail the success of Major Yuri Gagarin, the first Russian Cosmonaut to journey into space.                                                                                         

Highlights: More on Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in space, Kennedy evaluates the position of the US in space, Soviets deny that an earlier attempt failed, Israeli prosecutor defends Israel's right to try Eichmann for crimes against Jews.                                     

Highlights: More news on US space lag, Eichmann trial off for one day, a hotel is damaged by a bomb in Havana, General Edwin Walker reported to be indoctrinating his troops on extremist John Birch Society ideas. John Welsch in a row with a newsman on the question of calling Eisenhower a communist, New York Senator Jacob Javits comments on the society, suggests an investigation, Adam Clayton Powell freed on an income tax charge.                                      

Highlights: Moscow prepares to receive Yuri Gagarin, Krelim boasts of superiority, challenges US in the space race, US Congressman says US lags in space, President Kennedy says the US will not directly overthrow Castro but will aid others to achieve that end.           

Highlights: Deputy Director on the proposed "crash program" to put a man on the moon, Eichmann trial, Eichmann's personality described, General Edwin Walker, denies John Birch Society indoctrination of troops, Elijah Muhammad denies Black Muslims preach black supremacy.                          

Highlights: News on the Cuban invasion, Cuba accuses the US of directly aiding Cuban invasion in an "international crime of aggression," the US denies direct aid, a mass uprising on the island of Cuba is predicted, Adolf Eichmann pleads not guilty, General Edwin Walker relieved of army command because of John Birch Society views.                         

Highlights: The US will not permit outside intervention in Cuba, in answer to Khrushchev threat, Cuban invaders under MIG attack, Castro claims victory over the invaders at the Bay Of Pigs, Israeli prosecutor details Nazi horrors in Eichmann trial,                           

Highlights: Gary Cooper is critically ill with Cancer, new beachheads established in Cuba, rebels scale down the scope of the invasion suffer some reverses, anti-Castro demonstrations before Russian embassy on Park Ave in New York City,             

Highlights: Pro Castro supporters demonstrate in New York City against President Kennedy and the CIA.            

CBS newsman Howard K. Smith comments on the Cuban invasion fiasco, he also comments on recent Russian supremacy over US in space and on other matters.                          

The Sunday Night Evening News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York. The Premiere broadcast was the only time   during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast that would be telecast in COLOR.
Premiere- April 17, 1955.

Highlights: France faces paratroop invasion by French army insurgents from Algeria, a civil war is threatened, Castro UN speech threatens US with fearful consequences if interference continues, Castro likes remedy to Hitler, Laos fighting continues.  

Sponsored by Aero Wax.  Commercial included.                                                                                                                                                                  

Insurgent generals revolt collapses, De Gaulle victorious vs. fanatics from Algeria, $500 million dollars in aid approved for Latin America,             

Highlights: Fidel Castro awarded the Vladimir Lenin peace prize, the crisis in Laos, and possible action by the US, favored by Senator James William Fullbright, and also in South Viet Nam, Bill Downs reports. The US to launch its first astronaut, a report on the carnival atmosphere in Cape Canaveral, Florida, condemns public spectacle of the occasion.                                                    

Highlights: The Shepard space flight, New York City Mayor Robert Wagner suggests a ticker-tape parade, Russians claim the space flight is inferior to theirs, street interviews with the public regarding space flight.            

Riots in Montgomery, Alabama against negro freedom riders, ten captured Cuban rebels come to the US to negotiate tractors for prisoners, Eleanor Roosevelt comments on trade, French-Algerian peace talks open.            

Highlights: Berlin crisis brewing, a possible attempt by East Berlin to seal escape route to West Berlin, a report from West Berlin on refugee escapes, Castro wants to reopen tractors for prisoners exchange, President Kennedy's peace corp is taking shape, recruits arrive for training, World War 1 pilot reunion in Dayton, Ohio.             

SPECIAL REPORT of Highlights: Space flight by Virgil "Guss" Grissom.

John Glenn's orbital flight with Charles Collingwood and Walter Cronkite. A recap of the flight and press interviews with the Glenn family. President Kennedy also comments on the flight.  

 
NOTE: BOX SCORE IN SPACE RACE
A COMPARISON OF THE ORBITAL FILGHTS OF American Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., and the Russian astronauts Maj. Yuri A. Gagarian and Maj. Gherman Titov: 

Date                   GLENN        TITOV          GAGARIN
 
Launch              Feb. 20, 1962  Aug. 6, 1961   April 12, 1961

Altitude (Miles)  100-160         110-159        110-187.75

Distance (Miles)  81,000          435,000          26,000

Speed (MPH)       17,350          17,750           17,400

Flight Time    4 Hrs. 56 Min.  25 Hrs. 15 Min.    1 Hr. 45 Min.

No. of Orbits     Three             17               One

Weight of Craft  4,200 lbs.       10,430           10,460

Craft Name      Friendship 7      Vostok 2        Vostok 1

Rocket Thrust   360,000 lbs.    800,000 lbs.    800,000 lbs.

Weightlessness 4 Hrs. 45 Mins. 24 Hrs. 59 Mins.   89.1 Mins.                       

A reception is held for Colonel John Glenn in Washington, DC. He will talk before Congress.            

Highlights: President De Gaulle proclaims an end to the Algerian war, the French secret army vows to fight to finish with the Algerian National extremists, (OAS) to continue shootings, assassinations, the Soviet air force harass Berlin air corridor, the US is expected to send 2,000 advisors to South Vietnam in aid against the Viet Cong, Castro's Cuba urges the US to abandon Guantanamo, food rationing in Cuba is tightened.                        

May 3,1948 - April 13,1962

Douglas Edwards with the News
Original title: CBS Television News

On May 3, 1948, Douglas Edwards began "The CBS-TV News," a regular 15-minute nightly newscast later named "Douglas Edwards with the News." It was broadcast nationally weeknights at 7:30 PM (EST).

This was the first regularly scheduled weekday television news program in American history.

It should be noted that prior to the historic premiere May 3, 1948 weekday CBS-TV News broadcast there were other CBS TV News broadcasts and anchors dating back to Larry LeSuer, doing a 15 minute newscast beginning in June 1946 on Thursday evenings and Saturday evenings with also Tom O’Connor handling the weekend newscast as well. 

On November 30, 1956, the first network news show to be videotaped for rebroadcast to the West Coast was achieved. This video tape is not known to exist today as is most of all of Douglas' news broadcasts, in any broadcast form. 

On April 16, 1962, Walter Cronkite succeeded Edwards as CBS's evening newscaster. Douglas Edwards continued to broadcast the local WCBS nightly weekly newscast. He also did a five-minute daytime newscast until April 1, 1988.

NOTE: This was the third from last CBS NEWS WITH DOUGLAS EDWARDS newscast with Douglas Edwards at the anchor desk, ending am amazing fourteen year run. Five days later Walter Cronkite would replace Edwards in that chair. 

News reported include:
President Kennedy condemns irresponsibility of steel companies 
in raising the price of steel, Byron White's appointment as a Supreme Court justice is approved, Fidel Castro to release some sick Cuban POW's, George Rockwell Nazi troopers arrive in New York, talk about their movement.                       

April 16th, 1962 - March 6, 1981

On April 16th, 1962, Walter Cronkite made his debut as the anchor of the CBS Evening News replacing Douglas Edwards. He was not only the anchorman for the network newscast, but also served as its "managing editor." the dual position gave him considerable latitude in the selection, timing and arrangement of the day's news stories. It was during  Cronkite's early says at anchor that the nightly broadcasts expanded from fifteen to thirty minutes. The first half-hour show aired September 2, 1963, a week ahead of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley first expanded newscast and featured a special interview with President John F. Kennedy.

Color broadcasts of the evening news began early in 1966, about two months after NBC's. During this year most Network television transitioned from Black And White to Color.  

From the late 1960's until his retirement in 1977, Eric Sevareid commentated on The CBS Evening News. 

NOTE:
Moving images of Walter Cronkite reading the news in his studio every night for six years (1962–August 2, 1968) are mostly gone and not extant in any broadcast form. Exceptions are his coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 and the November 1963 events in Dallas, Texas: the JFK assassination, the shootings of police officer J. D. Tippit and Lee Oswald and all three funerals, as well as his introduction of the Beatles and his criticism of the Vietnam War.
Douglas Edwards anchored the live five-minute segment The CBS Afternoon News five afternoons a week between 1962 and 1966. He started the segment immediately after the twenty-five minute broadcast of the Goodson-Todman game show To Tell The Truth. Not one second from four years' worth of The CBS Afternoon News was preserved in any way.
Archival Television Audio original off the air sound recordings of network and local television news broadcasts, pre-1968, are extremely rare and not preserved at The Library of Congress, Paley Center for Media or UCLA Film & TV Archive.


Communist push deepens into Laos, the Senate led by Senator Thomas Dodd investigates sex and violence in TV programs such as the CBS drama, "Route 66," stock market reversal for the sixth day in a row, future planetary vehicles discussed by space expert.


CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (1962–1981)

ANCHOR:
Walter Cronkite	 1962-1981 

EMINENT CORRESPONDENTS INCLUDE:
Roger Mudd 1963-1980 

Eric Sevareid 1963-1977 

Bill Plant 1968-1980 

Robert Pierpoint 1963-1980

Charles Kuralt  1968-1975 

Bob Schieffer 1975-1980 

Dan Rather 1963-1980 

Richard Threlkeld  1968-1977 

Bruce Morton 1968-1980 

Lesley Stahl   1974-1980
 
Harold Dow 1974-1980 

Marvin Kalb 1963-1979
 
George Herman 1963-1975 

Nelson Benton 1963-1968 

Bob Gregory 1968 

Harry Reasoner 1963-1980 

Bernard Kalb 1963-1979 

Terry Drinkwater 1974-1975

Bob McNamara 1977-1980 

Ed Bradley 1978-1980  
                                                                              

Douglas Edwards anchored the CBS EVENING NEWS from May 3, 1948 to April 13, 1962. He would continue his affiliation with CBS NEWS doing a five minute daytime weekday news broadcast until April 1, 1988.  

The stock market suffers its worst day since the crash of 1929, the paper value drops $20 billion dollars. 

A Schweppes commercial is included.                        

After leaving CBS (1948 to 1951) to NBC, News Correspondent / Reporter / Announcer since 1931, Robert Trout returned to CBS in 1952. He doubled as a network correspondent and as main anchor of local evening news at CBS' New York City television flagship, 
WCBS-TV until June 17, 1965.

Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel, the federal government will aid in ridding New York of juvenile delinquency. 
                                        

May 3, 1948 - April 13, 1962

Douglas Edwards with the News
Original title: CBS Television News

On May 3, 1948, Douglas Edwards began "The CBS-TV News," a regular 15-minute nightly newscast later named "Douglas Edwards with the News." It was broadcast nationally weeknights at 7:30 PM (EST).

This was the first regularly scheduled weekday television news program in American history.

It should be noted that prior to the historic premiere May 3, 1948 weekday CBS-TV News broadcast there were other CBS TV News broadcasts and anchors dating back to Larry LeSuer, doing a 15 minute newscast beginning in June 1946 on Thursday evenings and Saturday evenings with also Tom O’Connor handling the weekend newscast as well. 

On November 30, 1956, the first network news show to be videotaped for rebroadcast to the West Coast was achieved. This video tape is not known to exist today as is most of all of Douglas' news broadcasts, in any broadcast form. 

On April 16, 1962, Walter Cronkite succeeded Edwards as CBS's evening newscaster. Douglas Edwards continued to broadcast the local WCBS nightly weekly newscast. He also did a five-minute daytime newscast until April 1, 1988.


Adolf Eichmann is hung, a report from Israel.                                                                

Eric Sevareid was an American author and CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He became a fixture on CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite form 1965 to 1977 giving commentaries at the end of thousands of  broadcasts.
In July 1965, he was the last journalist to interview Adlai Stevenson at the U.S. embassy in London just days prior to his death. 
Sevareid always considered himself a writer first and often felt uneasy behind a microphone and even less comfortable on television. 
Eric Sevareid appeared in or on CBS coverage of every presidential election from 1948 to 1976, the year before his retirement. 


A plane crash kills 130 people in France, the plane contained art lovers from Atlanta, Georgia, Harold Macmillan happy after visiting French president De Gaulle, Russia accuses the US on the proposed nuclear test.                           

The US launches a communications satellite, "Telstar 1", President Kennedy attends the baseball All-Star Game in Washington. 

Host: Charles Collingwood subbing for Walter Cronkite.             

The first television transmissions from the "Telstar 1" satellite are described, as the new communications satellite Telstar made its sixth orbit after successfully launching earlier in the day form Cape Canaveral. 

Anchor: Douglas Edwards.                           

Live television between Europe and the USA, the US prepares a high-altitude nuclear test, striking doctors in Canada come to terms,