Commentary on the firing of General MacArthur, Representative Joseph Martin calls on General MacArthur to come to the US to tell story, also calls for possible impeachment of President Truman, Senator James Nolan calls situation "Far East Munich." Senator Robert Kerr supports Truman, supports all out war with Red China.
Secretary Dean Acheson accused of dominating US policy and defense, Senator John Sparkman says General MacArthur lacks understanding of situation, Senator William Jenner claims firing gives Russians a great victory, President Truman chooses General Matthew Ridgeway to replace MacArthur. General ran Fleet to replace Ridgeway in 8th Army Command.                 

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.


Jonas Salk's anti-polio vaccine begins. The first shot is administered in Fairfax County, Virginia.     

Douglas Edwards reporting.                                

World and National news.

Host: Douglas Edwards                             

World and National news.

Host: Douglas Edwards           

The Viet Minh scored their final victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu in the war that began in 1946.    

Host: Douglas Edwards                      

World and National news.

Host: Douglas Edwards.             

Bill Vukovich wins his second straight Indy 500.

Host: Douglas Edwards                        

Senators Stuart Symington and Joseph  McCarthy are featured.

Host: Douglas Edwards.          

Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower honors Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, at the National Association Of Colored Woman's Convention. 

Host: Douglas Edwards                                                  

NEWS ANCHOR 

-WCBS TV local News- November 1, 1954- May 27,1960,
replacing Robert Trout, and replaced by Prescott Robinson.

ABC TV World News - June 4, 1962-January 29, 1965, replaced by Peter Jennings.   

A report on the Adlai Stevenson presidential campaign. Also, the United Nations debate on the Suez Canal crisis. 
 

Ron Cochran, a former television and radio newsman worked with
CBS and ABC as a television anchor news journalist.
In the early 1960's, Cochran was an early evening news anchor for the ABC network, most remembered for covering the ABC TV network news related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963.

Previously, he was the host of ten minute evening news programs, Monday thru Saturday on WCBS-TV in New York from 1954 to 1960.

NOTE: Almost all of Ron Cochran's newscasts are NON extant in any broadcast form. 

                                                                                                                                                                                  

A report on game 6 of the 1956 World Series in which the Dodgers tied the fall classic at three games apiece. Jackie Robinson's final base hit of his Major League career wins the game 1-0, in the 10th inning, for Brooklyn. President Eisenhower attacks presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson for discussion of the hydrogen bomb halt and his plan to end the draft.                                       

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.

Hungary announces victory over Russian troops as fighting continues, in New York City, Hungarians march before UN Plaza.
Russia denounces Hungarian and US governments, Polish conclave in Warsaw cheers their new premier. Isreal undergoes mobilization, a report on the Olympic trials. 

NOTE: The October 28, 1956 telecast is the earliest Walter Cronkite Sunday Evening News television broadcast known to exist in any broadcast form.
 
Walter Cronkite reads the CBS News (1956-1968)

 If one remembers any of Cronkite’s NEWS broadcasts prior to August 5 1968, one must have an excellent memory. Though he was “the most trusted man in America” for decades, most of his bulletins and live TV CBS NEWS studio broadcasts from the 1950's &1960's no longer survive. Until 1968, only a handful of air checks have been extant. The most known, reporting the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Sadly, thousands of his his reports televised on CBS television were erased or discarded, prior to 1968 and not mindfully archived by CBS until 1974...previously thought not worthy of saving.                                                                                                              

Israel invades Egypt to attack suicide commando bases. Attempt to destroy Egyptian suicide squads. Eisenhower and Dulles confer on the crisis as the world reacts.                                       

Israelis advance into Egypt within eighteen miles of the Suez Canal. Tension in Washington as Eisenhower conducts an emergency meeting with top chiefs, press secretary Hagerty says the United States will assist in reconciling Middle East problems, Elvis Presley receives a polio shot, Maria Callas appears in Metropolitan Opera House season opener, Former New Jersey Govenor Walter Edge dies, Hungary says Russia will begin withdrawing troops from Budapest but fighting continues. There is a Piels Beer commercial featuring the voices of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding.                                                                                                       

May 3,1948-April 13,1962

Douglas Edwards who replaced Newscaster Larry LeSueur as anchor of CBS television weekly news held that post for fourteen years. For most of its broadcast  history the fifteen minute broadcast was officially titled DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS.

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. 


The Israeli capital is bombed as fighting continues. Edward R. Murrow analysis, Hungarians bury their dead in various towns, Adlai Stevenson attacks Eisenhower's foreign policy, Henry Cabot Lodge attacks British and French ultimatums.                                                

Highlights include an ultimatum to Israel and Egypt to stop fighting, developments in the UN, Russians willing to discuss withdrawal and evacuation of its forces from Budapest. England and France decided to move troops and naval forces into Suez. Premier Nagy discusses political freedom, presidential campaigns continue.  
A waiter working at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City is indited for income tax evasion.                                                               

Israel plans to shoot down nine Egyptian planes, Great Britain sinks an Egyptian frigate, British and French bomb Egyptian airbases, the UN secretary votes to call the General Assembly into session, Adlai Stevenson declares Eisenhower's foreign policy bears heavy blame for Middle East crises, most Russian forces have left Budapest.                                                                

The Sunday Night Evening News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15 pm) 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.

The arrest of rebel leaders by treachery, Hungarian rebels fight the Russian army but they are no match for them, Hungarian rebels flee into Austria, UN votes to condemn Russian aggression in Hungary, urge withdrawal of Russian troops, Anglo-French fleet on way to Egypt. Fighting on Israel front almost ended, Dulles has intestinal cancer it was removed, presidential campaign report from various areas of the country. Eisenhower leads in the east. 

NOTE: The October 28, 1956 telecast, archived in the ATA library is the earliest Walter Cronkite Sunday Evening News broadcast known to exist in any broadcast form.                                                                                                                                                            

A report on the day's developments in the UN, the UN condemns Russian aggression in Hungary and demands the withdrawal of Russian troops. Journalist Larry Lesueur reports from the UN.                                      

Israel accepts UN ceasefire terms as fighting ceases, fierce fighting in Budapest as Russians pour into the city, Stevenson speaks of Ike's health issues, claims Nixon will be President if Ike wins.                                                   

An interview with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir who comments on the Middle East Crises and offers volunteers to go to Egypt. Newsman Daniel Schorr comments. Egypt asks for Soviet volunteers. Southeast Asian countries urge for withdrawal of Russian troops from Hungary. A general strike in Hungary, Eisenhower comments on the World problems, the UN bars Red China membership, Negro boycott problems on a bus in Montgomery Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King comments on recent Supreme Court decision making it illegal to practice bus segregation. 

NOTE: Twelve days after this Wednesday, November 14, 1956 broadcast aired, CBS Television transmitted  the first video tape-delay technology to the West Coast, re-broadcasting  CBS News  with Douglas Edwards on Friday, Nov. 30, 1956. 
Thus a three hour difference time delay for presentation could be done without the use of kinescope technology or the necessitation of  transmitting  live, three hours earlier than in New York.                               

Highlights: A shakeup is promised in the United States diplomatic service, John Foster Dulles angry at US diplomat about the Middle East crises, UN troops stationed in Suez Canal Zone, Egypt demands Israel bring back captured Egypt war material, the strike in Hungary continues until Russians leave, Hungarians want free elections.                          

Highlights: The death of bandleader Tommy Dorsey, The UN votes $10 million dollars to support the Suez operation, Russia says it will decline payment, Kadar may bring Nagy into government as a minister, Hungarian refugees arrive in the United States meet with President Eisenhower in Washington, newsman indicted for contempt of Congress regarding Communist background.                                      

The UN condemns Russia on Hungary, the Security Council votes to admit Japan to UN General Assembly, sporadic fighting in Budapest, Hungarian refugees brought to the USA, 9500 Hungarians to come to the United States, Vice-President Nixon to fly to Austria to seek aid for Hungarian refugees. 
Includes opening Piels Beer Commercial.                                     

Highlights: President Eisenhower meeting in the White House, He wants the authority to use military might against communism or "Ike Doctrine," Nixon urges more Hungarian refugees to enter the USA, Hungarian refugees arrive in the United States, a report on the day's Bowl games, a report on the latest segregation issues.                                                    

Highlights: "Eisenhower Doctrine" to curb Middle East aggression, the US to give military aid to countries if so desired, Russians denounce Eisenhower speech and policy, actress Marie McDonald relates kidnapping incident, Elvis Presley gets a pre-induction exam                         

Highlights: Admiral Richard Byrd, explorer, dies, Egypt defies the UN on the Gaza Strip, a new aviation speed record by a 707 jet across the United States is set at three hours and 45 minutes, David Beck will appear as a witness in the Senate Labor Rackets Committee, news of the first outdoor phone booth.                         

Highlights: Three Americans join Cuban revolutionaries and want to fight for freedom against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, Vice-President Nixon is ill, the Senate investigation committee claims teamster president David Beck misused union funds, two New York City newspapers The Daily Mirror and The New York Daily News raise their prices to five cents.            

Highlights: The United States investigates teamster union boss David Beck on misappropriation of union funds, Arkansas Senator John McClellan questions a former teamster officer on violent union activity in Scranton, Pa,              

Highlights: Scientists find that heavy cigarette smokers have a higher death rate than non-smokers, investigators find a high relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, doctors renounce H-tests because of fallout, City Hall meeting with New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner on the question of Dodgers move to the West Coast.                       

Highlights: Holiday crowds visit the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, Truman claims the presidency is a "tough and terrible" job, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, opposes the Eisenhower foreign policy. Eric Sevareid interviews former President Truman.                        

Highlights: Racial crisis brewing in Little Rock, Arkansas Central High School, President Eisenhower to confront Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas, the National Guard surrounding Faubus's executive mansion to prevent arrest by US officials called a hoax by Little Rock Mayor, integration problems in other Southern areas, Middle East crisis worsening, open revolt against Cuban dictator Batista in Cuba directed by future leader Fidel Castro, skirmishes in various areas, but the government claims victory, Jimmy Hoffa and David Beck deny union corruption                        

Highlights: The government will legally try to remove National Guardsmen from blocking integration in Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, a new school is dynamited in Nashville, Tennessee, Klu Klux Klan member John Kasper is arrested, racial violence in other areas, minister Fred Shuttlesworth is beaten while leading an integration rally in Birmingham, Alabama, Govenor Nelson Rockefeller will try to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn,                                                                

Highlights: President Eisenhower federalizes Arkansas National Guard and orders troops to Little Rock as racial crisis continues, the troops are under the command of General Edwin Walker.            

Highlights: Worldwide reaction to Sputnik 1- Russian satellite, Press Secretary James Hagerty says US is not in the satellite race, US expects to launch satellite next Spring, criticism of US research programs demanded, Secretary of State Dulles meets with Andrei Gromyko on international topics, riots continue in Warsaw, Poland.             

Scientists comment on Russian feat and other rocketry, US rocket programs assured in view of triumphal Sputnik Russian achievement.
Douglas Edwards hosts this CBS TV NEWS SPECIAL REPORT.                                       

Highlights: Senators urge congressional investigation on US position in satellite program, Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson calls Red Satellite a "neat scientific trick", Khrushchev says manned planes are obsolete due to the development of missiles, Sputnik radio signals go dead, Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to seven years in prison, Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles. 

NOTE:  On August 19, 1957 Horace Stoneham and the Board of Directors voted 9-1 to move the New York Giants to San Francisco.

On October 8, 1957, The Walter O'Malley and Brooklyn Dodgers would follow the lead, moving from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, California. END OF AN ERA.                                                   

Highlights: A description of Russian film "Trip To The Moon", details of rocket flight, President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Macmillan to meet next week in Washington concerning the Middle East crisis, Queen Elizabeth is welcomed in Washington D.C by President Eisenhower, Howard K. Smith comments on Anglo-American relationships                          

Highlights: more news about Russian satellites Sputnik 1 and 11,
Russians hope to bring dog safely back to Earth, Russians may send a rocket to the moon, six dogs picket before the UN in protest.             

Highlights: President Eisenhower in a speech before the US to calm fears on Russian Sputnik, US plans to accelerate research and space program appoints Dr. James Killian as special assistant on science to avoid research waste, Russians celebrate their 40th anniversary, display military might, Secretary of State Dulles rejects Khrushchev's high-level talks.                        

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.                                       

Highlights: More on the US satellite the "Explorer 1", Eygpt and Syria to announce their union in a "United-Arab Republic."            

Highlights: Showman Mike Todd dies in a plane crash, Winston Churchill is ailing in England, Rebel forces fight in Indonesia.                         

Highlights: Khrushchev rises to Prime Minister as Bulgarian falls, the US to prepare rockets for flight to the moon, Howard K. Smith reports.                                       

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.            

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.                          

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.                          

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.                          

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.
            

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.