Live NBC TELEVISION coverage (APPROXIMATELY NINE HOURS), November 5th and 6th of the 1968 Presidential election returns.
Local returns are aired at different intervals.
The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, and continues into the am hours November 6, 1968. The Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated both the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the American Independent Party nominee, former Alabama governor George Wallace.
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YOU TUBE has posted 216 minutes of NBC TV coverage in 11 parts.
Some of the video and audio is excellent but continuity is missing, reducing the Deja Vu experience of reliving a time when television would carry live Presidential Election Returns in prime time all through the night and continuing the following morning until final tallies were totaled.
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The three major entertainment repository museums, The Library of Congress, UCLA Film & Television Museum, and The Paley Center for Media, all have no footage (Kinescopes, Video Tapes, Audio Tracks) of this broadcast in their archives.
