EYEWITNESS - September 30, 1960 - July 26, 1963

Originally titled "Eyewitness to History" title shortened to "Eyewitness" by the Fall of  1961

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EYEWITNESS
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 'CBS News' Production
US Documentary series 1960-63   30 minute Documentary program

Hosted by Charles Kuralt (1960-61)
Hosted by Walter Cronkite (1961-1962)
Hosted by Charles Collingwood (1962-1963)
  
Eyewitness to History: REMEMBER 1960?
30Dec1960 
Synopsis:
This roundup is a filmed reminder of the incidents that loomed large and small over the 1960 horizon. Everything 
from the break-up of the summit conference, Khrushchev's desk-pounding spree at the United Nations, and the election 
of Casey Stengel, Marilyn Monroe and the Chessman affair will be reviewed in the "album" of the year's pictures.                     

   
EYEWITNESS - September 30, 1960 - July 26, 1963

Originally titled "Eyewitness to History" title shortened to "Eyewitness" by the Fall of  1961

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EYEWITNESS
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 'CBS News' Production
US Documentary series 1960-63   30 minute Documentary program

Hosted by Charles Kuralt (1960-61)
Hosted by Walter Cronkite (1961-1962)
Hosted by Charles Collingwood (1962-1963)
  


Tonight's show: "Goldwater Boom." A rally for Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater running for president in 1964.

Host: Charles Collingwood.                                             

   
EYEWITNESS - September 30, 1960 - July 26, 1963

Originally titled "Eyewitness to History" title shortened to "Eyewitness" by the Fall of  1961

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EYEWITNESS
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 'CBS News' Production
US Documentary series 1960-63   30 minute Documentary program

Hosted by Charles Kuralt (1960-61)
Hosted by Walter Cronkite (1961-1962)
Hosted by Charles Collingwood (1962-1963)
  
  

Tonight's show: A report on the Soviet-Red China feud.

Host: Charles Collingwood.                                             

Harry Reasoner anchors this live evening special program of the same day coverage of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. There is a special retrospective on JFK, the Kennedy family, the 1960 Election with interviews and remembered speeches. There are live late breaking bulletins from George Herman at the White House. There is a live editorial from Eric Sevareid on the late President. Dan Rather reports live from Dallas on the latest developments concerning Lee Harvey Oswald, who at this time was accused of only killing a policeman and who was currently being questioned. Live from Dallas police headquarters, KRLD-TV newsman Bill Mercer interviews policeman Jerry Hill, who has been questioning the accused Oswald. We hear Oswald denying that he shot the President. We hear CBS news correspondent Charles Von Fremd's 1960 interview with Kennedy who reflected on his views on the possibility of his own assassination. Harry Reasoner summarizes the days events and what is to follow. Lyndon B. Johnson addresses the American people in a brief recorded transcription - his first formal statement as President. Harry Reasoner continues with a profile on Johnson... past speeches, political statements and commentary from LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson. A past interview between Walter Cronkite and Lyndon Johnson is heard. White House correspondent George Herman comments on LBJ and there is a live statement concerning the JFK assassination from Adlai Stevenson. 

 J.F.K.: A MAN OF THIS CENTURY (TV)
Summary

A special news report from the night of President John F. Kennedy's murder, this program is a review of John F. Kennedy's life, opening with scenes from his childhood, and continuing with his wedding and the Democratic National Convention of 1960. Includes excerpts from his first debate with Richard Nixon and his victory celebration in Hyannisport, followed by the inauguration. The 1961 Ottawa State visit, the Vienna Summit meeting with Khrushchev, and a Paris meeting with De Gaulle are recorded, followed by more family background, including an interview with Rose Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, and a tribute to John F. Kennedy as a father. The Cuban crisis and the Berlin crisis are also reviewed.

The program continues with President Kennedy addressing the nation on the Cuban missile crisis, followed by Kennedy's interview with three networks discussing the presidency. George Herman at the White House reports on the current news. A shot of Kennedy's Berlin reception in 1963, and his reaction to the murder of Medgar Evers are included, with clips of Kennedy on South Vietnam on the significance of the White House. Harry Reasoner discusses Kennedy's presidential image, and a clip of the inaugural address is seen. Dan Rather reports from Dallas, and Bill Mercer interviews a Dallas policeman. Herman at the White House and Reasoner report on current developments. Reasoner discusses Lyndon Johnson. 

The third hour of the program continues with a clip of Lady Bird Johnson and a flashback to the 1960 Democratic National Convention, followed by background on the election, concentrating on President Lyndon B. Johnson. Included are Johnson's around the world tour, and Cronkite's campaign interview with Johnson. The program continues with George Herman commenting on Johnson, and Johnson's return to Washington. Charles Kuralt reports on a high requiem mass in honor of John F. Kennedy in Los Angeles. The program closes with Harry Reasoner summarizing the day's events.

           

Charles Kuralt reports on the release of Frank Sinatra Jr. Patrolman who found him comments.        

Host: Walter Cronkite.      

The presidential political campaign warms up and gets dirtier, comments by President Johnson, services for former President Hoover, Charles Kuralt reports.   

Host: Walter Cronkite.            

Election night returns. Lyndon Johnson wins an overwhelming victory over challenger Barry Goldwater and is re-elected President of the United States. Goldwater manages to capture only 52 of the electoral votes. Live coverage from all three networks and radio. Robert Kennedy defeats Kenneth Keating for the Senate seat from New York. Kennedy comments on the other races.                                                 

The crisis in Vietnam. Douglas Edwards subs for Harry Reasoner.
Also reporting Charles Kuralt.            

Adlai Stevenson.tribute on the day of his funeral. Introduction by Charles Kuralt. Other guests include Hubert Humphrey, Prime Minister Harold Wilson, poet and writer Archibald Macleish, and Labor Secretary Williard Wirtz.

Eric Sevareid hosts from London.           

Riots continue in the Watts area of Los Angeles, an oath to Selma, Alabama voters, on the spot reports from Watts, comments by Mayor Yorty, Police Chief Parker. Commentary by Charles Kuralt.                          

A Christmas party for children. Charles Kuralt reports from Vietnam.

Host: Walter Cronkite.            

Christmas in Vietnam with Charles Kuralt. " A Day in the Field Of Mines."            

A report on LSD. "The Spring Grove Experience."      

Host: Charles Kuralt.                 

CBS newsman Eric Sevareid interviews GOP gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan. Also appearing; California Governor Pat Brown speaking of the forthcoming California gubernatorial election. 
Charles Kuralt reports from Vietnam.                         

Report on relations between Americans and Vietnamese. In interviews with correspondents, workers and GI's, the reasons for distrust on both sides are explored. Also featured is a round table discussion of the problem of America's image and how to improve it. Participating are Morley Safer, Fobert Shaplen, of the New Yorker, and newspaper reporters Ward Just and and Keyes Beech. 
P-D: Beryl Fox.    

Final minutes missing. With commercials.                  

Report on relations between Americans and Vietnamese. In interviews with correspondents, workers and GI's, the reasons for distrust on both sides are explored. Also featured is a round table discussion of the problem of America's image and how to improve it. Participating are Morley Safer, Fobert Shaplen, of the New Yorker, and newspaper reporters Ward Just and and Keyes Beech. 
P-D: Beryl Fox.    

Final minutes missing. With commercials.    

Duplicate of #19607.                          

A CBS news special report on the fighting in the Middle East between Israel and its Arab neighbors.    

Charles Kuralt reports.                 

A CBS news special report on the fighting in the Middle East between Israel and its Arab neighbors.    

Charles Kuralt reports.      

Duplicate of #19557.                       

Harry reasoner subbing for Walter Cronkite.    

Dan Rather with Vietnam news, a 19-year-old Marine killed in Vietnam- his parents refuse to have him buried, in a military cemetery, 
Eric Sevareid with Vietnam commentary, Vietnam, "death, price to pay,"  
draft deferments are changed
a report on the George Romney for President campaign, comments from George Wallace.
"On The Road" with Charles Kuralt- Liveoak Florida, "Swanee River Country."
                     

Walter Cronkite and others report from Vietnam on fighting in Wue
Race Relations with Eric Sevareid.
Anti-American protests in France
On The Road with Charles Kuralt (Arkansas, America's only diamond field).

Harry Reasoner subbing for Walter Cronkite.                           

The Gold Crisis, Charles Kuralt with a report on corn cob pipes, an editorial comment on Gold changes in the USA.  

Host: Walter Cronkite.           

Harry Reasoner subbing for Cronkite. The US will not pull out of Vietnam, Dan Rather reports, "complete the job at home," John Hart reports, Robert Kennedy in Manhattan, a preview of the April 2nd New Hampshire primary, presidential commentary on Eugene McCarthy, commercial for solarcane, 679 enemy troops killed last week, Morley Safer reports on the riots in London, protests in Indonesia, Gold Crisis eased slightly, commentary by Eric Sevareid.                       

Sargent Shriver the new Ambassador to France, General Westmoreland new Army Chief Of Staff, takes over on July 2nd, President Johnson has an overwhelming lead over Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, RFK campaign speech in Alabama on jobs, fighting crime, Vietnam war, discrimination. Eric Sevareid commentary on politics and politicians in 1968, a commercial for True Cigarettes, a report on airport traffic jams and Air Traffic Control by 1977, David Culhane reports.

Harry Reasoner subbing for Walter Cronkite.                          

President Johnson comments on the American farmer and attempts to return them to the farms, they are now leaving for the cities, Dan Rather reports, Charles Collingwood reports from Hanoi, Eric Sevareid on the Wisconsin primary, Charles Kuralt reports on the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, the discovery of a primitive hut built by Daniel Boone.                          

Live coverage and highlights from all three networks and Radio of Dr. Martin Luther King's Funeral.                                      

Today's events: A look back
Retrospect from Roger Mudd
March on Washington 8-28-63
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
Response to "Black Power" ethic and incident with James Meredith
Open housing in Milwaukee (Dr. King interview)
Mountain top speech "non-violence" stand
Walter Cronkite comments on "Free At Last" tombstone
Charles Kuralt at Moorehouse College
Excerpt of NBC News with Chet Huntley and Edwin Newman


             

Tracing the assassination of Dr. King
Charles Kuralt-On The Road in Fredricksburg, Indiana

Joined in progress.

An excerpt of NBC Nightly News with Chet Huntley.


            

The World This Week with Reed Collins.

Richard Nixon asks President Johnson for a ceasefire 
Moratorium on criticism of the USA
James Earl Ray ID, warden remembers Ray as a prisoner "not a racist" and "not a violent person."
Sanitation strike in Memphis
Charles Kuralt on the success of the North Pole ascent to the top, 90 degrees North Latitude, the first time in 59 years. 
Camel Cigarette commercials                                                                       

Eric Sevareid commentary about United Kingdom non-discrimination bill, UK has 2% negro population versus 12% for the US.
South Africa excluded from 1968 Olympics.
Charles Kuralt reports on latest fad, "space sleds."

                          

Eric Sevareid with Walter Mondale
4% of vote counted
Roger Mudd interviews Robert Kennedy (1:30 AM to 2:15 AM. 
After the shooting, David Dick and John Hart at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.
Doctors issue report that Kennedy has a "50-50 chance of survival." Kennedy spends 3 hours, 10 minutes on the operating table.Surgery from 5:30 AM Eastern Time to 8:40 AM Eastern time. Hughes Rudd reports.
Charles Kuralt replaces Joseph Benti. 
Frank Mankiewicz makes statement to Mike Wallace from Good Samaritan Hospital. 

                                                  

Walter Cronkite and Charles Kuralt report on the death of Louis Armstrong.                                       

Northern Ireland report with Charles Kuralt. James Hoffa criticizes President Nixon for freezing wages.

Charles Collingwood subs for Walter Cronkite. 

McGovern delivers address on foreign policy. President Nixon's first news conference in five weeks. He pledges no tax increases. 
Editorial from Eric Sevareid on the Watergate burglary. Gandy Mfg Company of Chicago, Illinois, made tools for men who laid railroad tracks. The workers were called gandy dancers. 
"On The Road" with Charles Kuralt.   

With commercials.                           

CBS report on the death of former president Harry S. Truman.

Charles Kuralt narrator. 
             

September 24th, 1968-

An hour newsmagazine with a strong emphasis on investigative reporting. 60 Minutes began in 1968 as a bi-weekly show, alternating on Tuesday evenings with CBS Reports. In the fall of 1971, it shifted to Sunday evenings. In the fall of 1975, it became a weekly series. It remains a fixture on Sunday evenings on CBS to this day.

Topic: "Conversation With A Dead Guerrilla." (PLO spokesman Kamal Nasser, filmed three days before his assassination. 

Host: Mike Wallace                                      

Turned off by commercials? Get set for a deluge of them---excerpts from 150 commercials which illustrate this film report on a $23 billion dollar a-year-industry. Lavish productions and cinematic techniques are behind the TV sales pitch. What's the psychological effect on the viewer? CBS newsman Charles Kuralt interviews experts, including psychiatrist Erich Fromm.           

September 24th, 1968-

An hour newsmagazine with a strong emphasis on investigative reporting. 60 Minutes began in 1968 as a bi-weekly show, alternating on Tuesday evenings with CBS Reports. In the fall of 1971, it shifted to Sunday evenings. In the fall of 1975, it became a weekly series. It remains a fixture on Sunday evenings on CBS to this day.

Host: Mike Wallace                         

Walter Cronkite is the anchorman for CBS's daylong bicentennial coverage "our most extensive of any single day since man landed on the moon in 1969," he says. 

Broadcast from 7:30am to 11:00pm (15 & 1/2 hours) 
including  live remotes from more than 40 locales across the US, the program interweaves special features..."Anniversary Reflections" on life in America are offered by (among others) Hank Aaron, historian Daniel Boorstin, theologian Martin Marty, Margaret Mead, Isaac Stern, and Beverly Sills; "Anniversary Almanac" has Hughes Rudd and Sylvia Chase exchanging questions and answers and some trivia...on American history; Charles Kuralt's "On The Road" pieces for the "CBS Evening News" are repeated, with stops including Alabama, Arkansas.

Bicentennial observances covered on CBS TV include:
THE PRESIDENTIAL ITINERARY:
Shortly after 9am President Gerald Ford will participate in ceremonies at Valley Forge where five Conestoga wagon trains are encamped. Between 10and 11 A.M. President Ford will deliver a speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia and sometime after 1:30 P.M., review Operation Sail in New York.

RELIGIOUS SERVICES:
From 8 to 9 A.M. there will be coverage of services throughout the Nation...included are live telecasts of interfaith ceremonies in New York City, Miami and Philadelphia, and taped coverage of a sunrise service at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

NAVAL SHOWS:
Operation Sail will be covered beginning at 11 A.M. when hundreds of U.S. and foreign vessels from the 33 foot sloop White Dolphin to the 1039 foot carrier USS Forrestal -  will make their way up New York's Hudson River. 
San Francisco Bay is the scene for the Silver Eagle Regatta, featuring some 1500 sailing craft. The event is covered intermittently thought out the day. 

PARADES:
Atlanta's 16th annual "Salute to America" parade will have a Brazilian samba group, bagpipers, Irish dancers and Big Bird from "Sesame Street."
Philadelphia's parade is big on bancs-a total of 50, one from each state. There will also be a 110 -foot float depicting scenes from early American history. 

MUSIC:
A day filled with music from country to classical, including a New Orleans jazz concert saluting Louis Armstrong, who would have been 76 this day, and a country-music concert from Nashville's Opryland. In the evening, Morton Gould will conduct the American Symphony Orchestra in his "American ballads"; and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will sing patriotic songs from the mall in Washington, D.C. 
Between 9 and 10 P.M. Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Esplanade Orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture"; and the St. Louis Symphony will offer music by John Philip Sousa and Stephen Foster. 

FIREWORKS:
Between 7 and 8 P.M., Alistair Cooke will be the host for a BBC show featuring a fireworks exhibition over the Thames River. Live coverage also from New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Washington D.C. 

VIKING LANDING:
At approximately 10 P.M., Viking 1 is scheduled to touch down on Mars and begin sending pictures back to Earth. Reports on the mission. 

OTHER EVENTS:
From St. Louis daylong series of music and dance programs, and air and water shows. Coverage will be interspersed throughout the day. Other celebrations covered intermittently will include the Festival of American Folklife in Washington D.C. ; and festivals in New York City and Miami. 

There will also be an reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg scheduled between 2 and 3 P.M. Also, celebrations, Western style...a rodeo in Greeley Colorado. 

NOTE: This entire broadcast will be transferred from the original 1/4"  master reel to reel tapes (15 & 1/2 hours) to 12 CD discs or to 3 DVD (sound track only) discs allowing for greater continuous listening continuity. 
                                                                                                                    

January 4th, 1977-June 26th, 1977

Hour-long news magazine with an emphasis on people. Dan Rather was the chief reporter and Barbara Hower and Charles Kuralt were regular contributors.  

This was the series premiere.          

January 4th, 1977-June 26th, 1977

Hour-long news magazine with an emphasis on people. Dan Rather was the chief reporter and Barbara Hower and Charles Kuralt were regular contributors.  

                       

January 4th, 1977-June 26th, 1977

Hour-long news magazine with an emphasis on people. Dan Rather was the chief reporter and Barbara Hower and Charles Kuralt were regular contributors. 

A profile of entertainer Peter Allen. 

                                    

January 4th, 1977-June 26th, 1977

Hour-long news magazine with an emphasis on people. Dan Rather was the chief reporter and Barbara Hower and Charles Kuralt were regular contributors. 

A profile of actress Margaret O'Brien. 

                                                 

January 4th, 1977-June 26th, 1977

Hour-long news magazine with an emphasis on people. Dan Rather was the chief reporter and Barbara Hower and Charles Kuralt were regular contributors. 
                                                                           

January 4th, 1977-June 26th, 1977

Hour-long news magazine with an emphasis on people. Dan Rather was the chief reporter and Barbara Hower and Charles Kuralt were regular contributors. 
                                                                                        

The history of television is examined.
Complete with original commercials.

Host: Charles Kuralt     

  The special is a retrospective of the social history of television programming, circa 1948-1960's. Host Charles Kuralt describes 
 live television and illustrates the kinescope process. Excerpts include coverage of the following topics and people: Burns and Allen; news programs with Edward P. Morgan and Douglas Edwards; newsreels and propaganda; Art Carney and Jackie Gleason; children's programs, including "Captain Video"; the growth of television; performers Milton Berle, Ernie Kovacs, Red Skelton, Alan Young, Dick Van Dyke and Lucille Ball; reporter Edward R. Murrow; the Korean War; blacklisting; Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy; Mary Martin and Noel Coward; the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings; Sid Caesar; President Harry S Truman's 1951 dismissal of General MacArthur; Bishop Fulton J. Sheen; a comedy and entertainment montage; quiz show scandals with comments by Frank Stanton of CBS and a look at how shows were rigged; Rex Harrison rehearsing for "My Fair Lady"; anthology drama with Charlton Heston, James Dean, and others; the 1952 Republican Convention; John F. Kennedy's 1956 bid for vice president; the 1960 presidential campaign; and Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. Includes commercials.                                            

January 28th, 1979- (CBS) 

CBS Sunday morning news program that has remained a fixture for four decades. Charles Kuralt served as its first host when the show debuted on January, 28th, 1979.                       

January 28th, 1979- (CBS) 

CBS Sunday morning news program that has remained a fixture for four decades. Charles Kuralt served as its first host when the show debuted on January, 28th, 1979.