April 29, 1962 - February 10, 1963
After Walter Cronkite ended anchoring this CBS Sunday Night weekly 15 minute News broadcast, which he had been doing since 1955, Eric Sevareid replaced him for a run of 38 weeks. This one extant broadcast example is one of only two known surviving broadcast (video or audio) that represents this series, archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc.
Boeing 737 disaster crash in Paris considered the worst airline disaster in commercial airline history. 130 passengers and crew dead. CBS correspondent Robert Kleiman reports from Paris.
The plane contained art lovers from Atlanta, Georgia. Harold Macmillan happy after visiting French president De Gaulle. A report on Algiers war cease fire. John Connally campaigning for governor of Texas. Russia accuses the US on the proposed nuclear test.
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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.