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1957-11-26, CBS, 13 min.
Highlights: President Eisenhower's illness is a slight cerebral stroke which has affected his speech. Recap of last 36 hours of Eisenhower's activities. Heavy wave of stocks sold, dropping prices. Comment from England and France on current crisis and possible effects on Nato.
1957-12-06, CBS, 3 min.
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. Highlights: The first US attempt to launch a satellite fails, Vanguard rocket explodes at Cape Canaveral, President Eisenhower disappointed, criticism of too much publicity by Congressmen. Senator Lyndon Johnson says the disaster was a humiliating experience, Khrushchev demands the US return Sputnik fragments that were dropped in US, trouble in Indonesia, Jimmy Hoffa's teamsters are expelled from the AFL-CIO.
1957-12-06, CBS, 4 min.
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. From Washington D.C. CBS analysis with Eric Sevareid. Highlights: Comment on Vanguard satellite failure, a question on publicity given to launching.
1958-00-00, CBS, min.
From Paris, Charles DeGaulle's attempt to be President. Daniel Schorr reports on Eisenhower's opinion. France still flirting with civil war DeGaulle to perform new government with him as Premiere. Douglas Edwards reporting.
#13265: NBC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT
Order1958-01-31, NBC, 4 min.
Highlights: The US launches its first satellite, report from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Herb Kaplow reports.
#13266: WMGM RADIO NEWS
Order1958-01-31, WMGM, 7 min.
Highlights: More news on the satellite Jupiter C, a possibility it might be in orbit, includes a cosmic experiment devised by Dr. James Van Allen, Ed Stokes reports
#13267A: NBC MORNING NEWS, THE
Order1958-02-01, NBC, 4 min.
Highlights: President Eisenhower announces that the Jupiter C satellite is in orbit. Other name for satellite, "Alpha," & "Explorer." Host: Robert McCormick.
#13268: CBS NEWS THE
Order1958-02-01, CBS, 4 min.
Highlights: More on the US satellite the "Explorer 1", Eygpt and Syria to announce their union in a "United-Arab Republic."
1958-03-22, CBS, 4 min.
Highlights: Showman Mike Todd dies in a plane crash, Winston Churchill is ailing in England, Rebel forces fight in Indonesia.
1958-03-26, CBS, 5 min.
Highlights: Khrushchev rises to Prime Minister as Bulgarian falls, the US to prepare rockets for flight to the moon, Howard K. Smith reports.
#13282: CBS NEWS SPECIAL
Order1958-05-14, CBS, min.
Vice-President Richard Nixon is to receive reception in Washington, DC following a trip to Venezuela in which his life was threatened by riotous mobs, Eisenhower comments on Venezuela; OAS Algerian (French) settlers active in Algeria- protest French policies in Algeria.
#13283: CBS NEWS, THE
Order1958-05-15, CBS, min.
Highlights: Political chaos in France, General De Gaulle willing to assume power following rioting between extremist groups related to Algerian policy, Vice-President Nixon gets a heros welcome in Washington following an explosive trip to South America, comment by Nixon.
1958-05-18, NBC, min.
Highlights: Crisis in France, Frenchmen wait for comment from General De Gaulle, police prepare for the possible disorder, the crisis in the Middle East, UAR intending to stir up trouble in Lebanon, Russia's third sputnik passes over New York City, Canadian news commentator Elmer Davis has died.
1958-05-24, CBS, min.
Highlights: French crisis continues, De Gaulle followers in Corsica, right-wing civilians and paratroopers seize the government, Junta trio in Algeria pledge to seek De Gaulle into power, the trio includes Jacque Soustelle and General Jacque Massu, Paris calls it an insurrection, Lebanon claims UAR interferes with its internal affairs.
1958-05-25, CBS, min.
Highlights: French crisis, insurrection spreading under De Gaulle's symbol headed by Algerian Junta, pro-Junta demonstrations in Paris demand De Gaulle, Massu, and Soustelle look to De Gaulle to Save France, all demand that Algeria remains French.
#13289A: CBS NEWS WITH RON COCHRAN, THE
Order1958-05-25, CBS, min.
Highlights: Russia agrees to President Eisenhower's suggestion on nuclear testing detection, presidential assistant Sherman Adams queried on the acceptance of gifts from industrialist Bernard Goldfine, congressman comments on Adams affair.
1958-06-17, CBS, min.
Highlights: Sherman Adams scandal charges; says he's innocent but used poor judgment, President Eisenhower receives a vicuna coat from Bernard Goldfine, Senator John Kennedy introduces a bill to curb union money activities, Secretary Dulles says troops will be sent to Lebanon to maintain that country's independence, Hungary executes four leaders of the 1956 revolt including Premier Imre Nagy.
1958-06-30, CBS, min.
The US Senate votes to make Alaska the 49th state, comment on 49 star flag design, the Supreme Court overules a $1 million dollar fine against the NAACP, more on Sherman Adams- Bernard Goldfine scandal, CBS newsman Daniel Schorr is expelled from Russia, Nelson Rockefeller wants to run for Governor of New York against Leonard Hall.
1958-07-14, CBS, min.
Highlights: Middle East crisis, a coup in Iraq, King Faisal was overthrown, situation to be discussed at the UN, US may send troops to Lebanon and Jordan under the Eisenhower doctrine, Cuban rebels under Fidel Castro hold US servicemen in mountains.
1958-07-15, NBC, min.
Highlights: the US sends troops to Lebanon to protect its independence to stop indirect outside aggression, attempt to curb Nasser of Egypt, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge at UN talks about Iraqi murders and US commitment, comments from London, Chicago, Jordan, Sergei Sobolev of Russia speaks at UN.
1958-09-15, CBS, min.
Highlights: A Jersey Central train falls off a bridge into the water killing 40, interviews with survivors, Formosan crisis concerning offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu.
1958-09-19, CBS, min.
Highlights: The Russians criticize the US on Quemoy and Matsu, an interview with a US serviceman who was wounded in the bombardment, in Little Rock, school teachers will offer television courses, students want the high school to reopen regardless of integration, Dr. Martin Luther King survives a stab wound in New York City, Paul Robeson will make his home in Great Britain, the Milwaukee Braves clinch their second straight National League pennant, hot-tempered Ted Williams hurls a bat at a spectator.
#13303: CBS NEWS, THE
Order1958-10-08, CBS, min.
Highlights: The New York Yankees defeat the Milwaukee Braves in game 7 of the 1958 World Series, 6-2 taking back the title from the same Braves who defeated them a year earlier. There is a brief description of the final game, many mourn the death of Pope Pius X11, conclave to elect the new Pope.
#13305: WCBS WORLD NEWS, THE
Order1958-10-11, WCBS, 3 min.
Saturday WCBS TV broadcast with Ned Calmer reporting the World news from 6:45pm to 6:50pm each Saturday evening. US Pioneer rocket is launched and on its way to the moon. It may be off course. The launching is described from Cape Canaveral by CBS TV correspondent, Richard Bate. College Of Cardinals to meet on October 12th for the election of the new Pope.
#13306: PAUL HARVEY NEWS & COMMENT
Order1958-10-12, WABC, min.
Broadcast Sunday evenings on ABC. Highlights: Jewish temple dynamited in Atlanta George, Mourners for Pope Pius press at Saint Peters, Alcatraz fugitive found drowned, Communists extend cease- fire for two weeks at Quenioy, Marshal Josip Broz Tito thinks rift with Moscow will not last long, Moon rocket fails and will renter earth's atmosphere here and blow up.
#13309: CBS NEWS WITH RON COCHRAN
Order1958-11-05, CBS, min.
The Democrats win heavily but Republicans win the Governorship of New York, President Eisenhower, and Governor-Elect Rockefeller comment on the election.
1958-11-06, CBS, min.
Highlights: the US prepares to fire another rocket to the moon, Rudolf Bing fires singer Maria Callas from the Metropolitan Opera House because of her temperament, Governor Averell Harriman agrees with New York City Mayor Robert Wagner on"bossism" in New York City.
1958-11-29, , min.
Highlights: The US puts a monkey 600 miles up in space but is lost at sea, the first time a high order of animal is in space, Nato chiefs to meet in Paris concerning Berlin, four Britains sail in a balloon from the Canary Islands to the West Indies, Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo to get Lenin prize.
1958-12-19, , min.
Topics: Newspaper strike, US launches four-ton satellite into space. One hour, 40 minute orbit around earth. President Eisenhower's voice can be heard coming from satellite via a tape recorder. Hear voice transmission "America's wish for peace on earth, and goodwill toward men everywhere."
#13314: BIG NEWS OF 1958, THE
Order1958-12-28, CBS, min.
Highlights: CBS reviews the top news stories of 1958 which include De Gaulle to power, Quemoy shelled, the Berlin Crisis, the voyage of Nautilus, missiles, and space, approaches to the summit, Sherman Adams-Bernard Goldfine scandal, integration problems, the 1958 elections, Vice-President Nixon in Latin America, Alaska becomes the 49th State, the Papacy, Boris Pasternak receives the Nobel Prize, the Middle East crisis.
#13315: WQXR RADIO NEWS
Order1959-01-03, WQXR, min.
Highlights: The Russians send a rocket near the moon, it will orbit the Sun, Fidel Castro supporters in victory celebration over Batista, Batista in exile, Castro will be the new president of Cuba, President Eisenhower signs a bill making Alaska the 49th State.
1959-01-03, NBC, min.
A statement from President Eisenhower on Alaska becoming the 49th State, a description of the 49-star flag.
1959-01-03, CBS, min.
Russian rocket passes within 5,000 miles of the moon and will possibly orbit the Sun, President Eisenhower congratulates Khrushchev, Havana awaits Fidel Castro, provisional government to be established.
1959-01-04, CBS, min.
Walter Cronkite reports on where the US stands in space, Nasa chief describes future US space plans. Anchor: Walter Cronkite
1959-01-19, NBC, min.
Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi to visit Washington, Castro has pneumonia, he will not attend rally which triggers off new military tribunals, more trials to continue. Castro invites US Congressmen to witness trials, Premier Anastas Mikoyanin Washington, doubts US friendship.
#13325: CBS NEWS, THE
Order1959-02-06, CBS, min.
Highlights: Khrushchev attacks Senator Humphrey's remarks regarding his comments on the failure of Russian-Chinese communes, Humphrey detects possible Soviet-Chinese rift, President Eisenhower considers a visit to Russia, ICBM "Titan" missile is tested.
#13329: NBC NEWS BULLETIN
Order1959-03-02, NBC, min.
The US launches the Pioneer rocket which will eventually orbit the Sun.
1959-03-12, ABC, 7 min.
- John Daly
- John Edwards
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Dwight Eisenhower
- John Foster Dulles
- John McClellan
- Robert Kennedy
- William Francis Quinn
- Harold McMillan
- Joey Glimco
Highlights: Hawaii to become the 50th State, Hawaii and Washington jubilant, comment by its Governor William Quinn, Correspondent John Edwards reports. Prime Minister McMillan and President Eisenhower to have a meeting at Camp David, Secretary of State Dulles is ill, Khrushchev flies back to Russia after East Germany visit, more on labor racketeering in government work investigated by Senate racket investigative committee. Senator John McClellan and Robert Kennedy accuse witness Joey Glimco of being "yellow." He takes the 5th multiple times. Host: John Daly
1959-04-12, CBS, min.
Highlights: John Foster Dulles is dying of cancer, not responding to treatment, American ordered out of Cuba following arrest trial and conviction of trying to kill Castro, Russia trains spies for work in USA Americanizes them, the US to launch a discover satellite, Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India, interview with a representative of the Dalai Lama, nuclear talks to resume.
1959-04-15, WINS, min.
A documentary on Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as he resigns from office suffering from cancer. Tom O'Brien reports.
1959-04-25, CBS, min.
Highlights: Claire Booth Luce's appointment as ambassador to Brazil under fire due to her sharp criticism of Senators, she claims Senator Morse was kicked in the head by a hose, Eisenhower defends her appointment, ex-President Truman visits New York City and comments on future presidents, Senate passes Senator Kennedy's labor bill to possibly replace the Taft-Hartley act.
1959-05-24, CBS, 5 min.
Highlights: John Foster Dulles has died of cancer, Eisenhower expresses his sympathy, three officials of the Cuban government and Congressman John Porter deny that Cuba is going communist as reported by a CBS newsman, Parker Lynch case is investigated by the FBI.
#11079: NBC NEWS BULLETIN
Order1959-06-00, NBC, min.
Jet plane makes an emergency landing, with two of eight wheels down. Gabe Pressman reports from Idlewild Airport.
1959-06-11, CBS, 2 min.
Highlights: Report of television quiz show fixing investigation under question, US protests Castro possible seizure of land without compensation to US owners.
#13353: CBS NEWS WITH RON COCHRAN
Order1959-06-18, WCBS, 4 min.
Governor Earl Long sent dragging and screaming to a mental hospital in Texas, possibility of a new baseball club in New York City, even a third league, free William Shakespeare plays to be allowed in New York City, actress Ethel Barrymore has died at age 80, Bridget Bardot marries for the second time, human body chemicals now worth $1.17. Host: Ron Cochran
1959-07-23, Mutual, 3 min.
Gabriel Heatter was an American newscaster and journalist. During World War 11 he would begin his news broadcasts with the catchphrase "There's Good News Tonight." On this newscast, Gabriel Heatter comments on Khrushchev's personality.
1959-07-24, CBS, 4 min.
Highlights: Nixon and Khrushchev in "kitchen debate", hash out foreign policy and merits of communism and capitalism. At Us exhibit in Moscow.
1959-07-24, WOR, 3 min.
Gabriel Heatter was an American newscaster and journalist. During World War 11 he would begin his news broadcasts with the catchphrase "There's Good News Tonight." Highlights: More on Khrushchev and communism. Henry Gladstone subbing for Lester Smith on WOR radio.
1959-07-24, WOR, 2 min.
Highlights: More on Nixon-Khrushchev debate at US exhibition in Moscow, Russians remove 30 books from US exhibition.
1959-07-24, WNTA, 10 min.
Highlights: Nixon-Khrushchev debate in Moscow, discussion concerns communism and capitalism, color television, rockets, and satellites. Announcer states that this program was recorded on Ampex Video Tape and is not discernible compared to viewing live television. This Apmex Video tape was flown to television station WNTA Channel 13 in New York City by Jet plane for broadcast to the American television public. Final portion of the broadcast is recorded. NOTE: This television audio air check archived in the collection of Archival Television Audio was solicited by and sent to The Library of Congress in 2009.