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#13503: CBS NEWS: ELECTION TOMORROW
Order1960-11-07, CBS, min.
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.
1960-11-09, , min.
Election returns, other news.
1960-11-09, CBS, 30 min.
Post-election news on presidential race between Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
1960-11-17, , min.
Presidential press secretary James Hagerty may replace John Daly at ABC news. Clark Gable dead.
1960-11-21, CBS, min.
Congolese on a rampage, eat their enemies, Congo crisis debated in the UN,
#13508: NBC NEWS, THE
Order1960-11-25, NBC, min.
President Eisenhower congratulates President-elect John F. Kennedy on the birth of his son, John F. Kennedy, Jr. Nixon confers with Eisenhower, Mercury test capsule fails in flight.
1960-12-12, NBC, min.
- David Brinkley
- Chet Huntley
- Dean Rusk
- Adlai Stevenson
- John F. Kennedy
- Charles De Gaulle
- Chester Bowles
- Ike Williams
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.
1960-12-16, WINS, 23 min.
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.
1960-12-16, , 8 min.
Highlights: Air collision, TWO PLANES, KILLING ALL ABOARD continuing reports, John Kennedy appoints his brother Robert as attorney general, Laos crisis, may bring aid to the Philippines.
1960-12-19, WINS, 8 min.
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.
1961-01-03, , 12 min.
The US breaks off diplomatic relations with Cuba as a result of the expulsion of US diplomats from Cuba.
1961-01-03, NBC, 6 min.
Cuban diplomatic break commentary by Frank McGee and other NBC newsmen.
#13518A: NEWS BULLETIN
Order1961-01-19, ABC, min.
From the ABC TV Newsroom a Bulletin, interrupting THE UNTOUCHABLES television program, announcing an airplane crash at Idlewild airport. "A Mexican DC -8 jet airliner enroot from New York to Mexico City with 97 persons aboard crashed during a blinding snow storm while taking off from Idelwild airport. At least 40 of the 97 persons aboard escaped without injury. The plane burst into flames but fireman brought the blaze under control after 50 minutes. This has been a bulletin from the ABC Newsroom. We now return to our regularly scheduled program."
#13521: CBS NEWS, THE
Order1961-01-24, CBS, 2 min.
Pirate on the seized ship the "Santa Maria" announces intentions and reasons for seizing the ship. The ship cannot be found.
1961-01-24, NBC, 6 min.
NBC News special on the pirate ship in the Caribbean. The "Santa Maria" is hijacked by Portuguese rebels against the Antonio Salaza government.
1961-02-04, WINS, 3 min.
1010 WINS RADIO New York switched from top forty to the first successful all-news station April 19, 1965. Previously when WINS was one of four premiere New York Rock 'N' Roll radio stations only a few snippets of on the half hour five minute Dick Waffle "Newswatch" broadcasts are known to exist. This rare audio was recorded by Phil Gries at 10:55 AM from his Brooklyn New York home on Saturday morning, February 4, 1961. Dick Waffle reports at the "Newswatch." Waffle reports initial bulletins reporting the blizzard of '61. This third "knockout" blizzard of the winter accounted for a 17 consecutive day of temperatures below freezing, the longest in New York history. We also hear the 1010 WINS sign off as the WINS announcer reports that the next news bulletins will be heard will be at 11:25 AM. NOTE: The Blizzard of February 3 - 4, 1961 The storm, U.S. HEAVIEST SNOW STORM SINCE 1947 tied up the Northeast coast. It occurred toward the end of an extended cold snowy period that brought the temperature in New York's Central Park down to -2 (2 degrees below zero) on the morning of February 2nd. The storm reached blizzard proportions throughout much of the northeast and winds at LaGuardia airport gusted over 80 miles per hour on the 4th. Snowfall totals exceeded 20 inches over much of the region. Falling on top existing snow cover, including that left over from the "Kennedy inaugural" snowstorm on the 19-20th of January, the aftermath of the storm found near record snow cover over the region ranging from 2 to 2 1/2 feet in and around New York City up to nearly 4 feet around Newburg, New York. Snow began falling on the evening of February 3rd 1961, dumping six inches and continued through the morning of the 4th, with an additional 11.4 inches of snow piling up. The snow that fell on February 4th was heavy and wet and was driven by gale force winds. This was the third major snowstorm of the winter, following 15.4 inches on December 11th and 12th 1960, and 9.9 inches of snow recorded on January 19th and 20th. However, those storms were characterized by very cold temperatures while this storm saw temperatures rise from the upper 20's to the mid 30's during the afternoon of the 4th when the snow changed to rain. This was the second winter in a row to have two snowstorms of one foot or more.
#13523: BOB CONSIDINE AND THE NEWS
Order1961-02-12, , 7 min.
Highlights: Russians launch a rocket to Venus, Patrice Lumumba is believed to be killed in the Congo, Castro blames Kennedy for six million unemployment rates in the US, Labor secretary Arthur Goldberg inspects unemployment areas, Eichmann lawyer gets Israeli rules on legal procedures.
1961-02-13, CBS, 4 min.
Highlights: Patrice Lumumba is assassinated in the Congo, Russian rocket on the way toward Venus, electrical equipment manufacturing scandal.
#13527: NEWS, THE (RADIO)
Order1961-03-13, , 4 min.
- Ingemar Johansson
- Floyd Patterson
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- John F. Kennedy
- Richard Nixon
- Willy Brandt
- Belinda Lee
- Robert Fasic
Highlights: Floyd Patterson knocks out Ingemar Johansson, space failure, Kennedy meets with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Eleanor Roosevelt encourages President Kennedy to put more women in government, spy trial in England, Richard Nixon has a new job, joining law firm, Brenda Lee, 26, killed in automobile accident, and from the campus at Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio, 65 students have already applied to join the Peace Corp. Chairman of the group is Junior student Robert Fasic who comments on President Kennedy's Peace Corp Program.
#13527A: NEWS, THE (RADIO)
Order1961-03-13, , 2 min.
From Columbus Ohio on the campus of Ohio State University a Radio News Broadcast report covering the first of eventually 1,576 Buckeye alumni serving the Peace Corps' founded by President John F. Kennedy and established as a new agency within the Department of State on March 1, 1961. Ohio State University junior student Robert Fasic comments.
1961-04-12, , min.
Russians launch astronaut into orbit. On this day Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human being to travel into space aboard spacecraft Vostok, which orbited the Earth at a maximum altitude of 187 miles. During the flight the 27 year old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes. In total Gagarin was in space for one hour and 48 minutes.
1961-04-12, CBS, min.
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.
#13531: NBC NEWS, THE
Order1961-04-12, , min.
A report on the first Russiam Cosmonaut in space Major Yuri Gagarin. See ATA# 13529 for more details.
1961-04-12, , min.
Highlights: Reports on Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, comments by visitors in Moscow, details of launching and orbit, emphasize "the triumph of socialism" in this scientific feat.
1961-04-12, CBS, min.
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.
#13534: CHANNEL 13 NEWS TRAILER
Order1961-04-12, WNTA, min.
A news trailer shown on WNTA-TV Channel 13 in New York City.
#13535: CBS NEWS, THE
Order1961-04-13, CBS, min.
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.
1961-04-13, NBC, min.
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.
1961-04-13, CBS, min.
- Jacob Javits
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Adam Clayton Powell
- Edwin Walker
- Prescott Robinson
- Yuri Gagarin
- Adolf Eichmann
- John Welch
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.
#13540: NEWS SPECIAL
Order1961-04-14, , min.
Moscow's reception for Yuri Gagarin.
1961-04-14, CBS, min.
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.
1961-04-17, , min.
Cuban invasion attempt- 1400 Cuban exiles launched a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
#13543: NBC NEWS, THE
Order1961-04-17, NBC, min.
Highlights: Cuba is invaded by anti-Castro rebels, sea-borne invasion force to be coordinated with uprising within the island, Senator Jacob Javits says the US will not invade Cuba, Castro accuses the US of an air attack in Cuba, Eichmann pleads not guilty to charges against him for crimes against the Jews, Laotian prince Souvanna Phouma in Moscow for talks on the Laotian crisis.
1961-04-17, CBS, min.
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.
1961-04-18, , min.
Highlights: Russians whip up anti-US sentiment, urge the US to interfere in Cuba, students stone the US embassy in Moscow, Khrushchev asks President Kennedy to put an end to its aggression in Cuba, Russians will aid Cubans US sympathies with anti-Castro rebels, the US claims no aid for invasion, fighting continues in Cuba, rebels reported 90 miles from Havana.
1961-04-18, CBS, min.
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,
1961-04-19, CBS, min.
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,
1961-04-20, , min.
Jimmy Fidler was a Hollywood gossip columnist, journalist, and radio and television personality.
1961-04-20, WINS, min.
Highlights: Castro's severe repression on the island cause an anti-Castro invasion to fail.
1961-04-21, CBS, min.
Highlights: Pro Castro supporters demonstrate in New York City against President Kennedy and the CIA.
#13556: NBC NEWS, THE
Order1961-04-23, NBC, min.
Highlights: Insurgents in Algeria against De Gaulle granting independence to Algeria, "revolt of the army generals" post-mortems of Cuban adventure-comments from Britain.
#13557: CBS NEWS, THE
Order1961-04-23, CBS, min.
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.
1961-04-23, WCBS, min.
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.
#13561: CBS NEWS, THE
Order1961-04-25, CBS, min.
Insurgent generals revolt collapses, De Gaulle victorious vs. fanatics from Algeria, $500 million dollars in aid approved for Latin America,
1961-04-28, CBS, min.
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.
1961-05-05, , min.
The US to launch space flight with Commander Alan B. Shepard aboard a 21-mile high balloon flight, the crisis in South Vietnam, US to aid the country against the communist rebels infiltration.
1961-05-05, CBS, min.
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.
1961-05-08, , 00 min.
Live press conference with Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard, the first United States astronaut in space, three days after his historic flight. Duplicate of 6956A.
1961-05-08, KTLA, 00 min.
Live press conference with Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard, the first United States astronaut in space, three days after his historic flight.
1961-05-20, , min.
Montgomery racial crisis, comment on today's news the US supported the invasion of Cuba, comments by Castro on trading prisoners for tractors, comments on "mercenaries for "imperialist invasion."