Broadcast from "Peacock Alley at the Waldorf Astoria" from the NBC studios in New York City, The MAN OF THE YEAR show, which originated in 1947 by Time Magazine. 

Highlights: "Man Of The Year" search for 1956, a review of 1956 personalities featuring the voices of Imre Nagy of Hungary, Nikita Khrushchev, General Josip Tito, Gamal Nassar, Ben Gurian, Dag  Hammarskjold, Jawaharlal Nehru, General John Burns (commander of the UN police force in Egypt), Prince Rainier of Monaco, Grace Kelly, Mickey Mantle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Adlai Stevenson, John Foster Dulles, Richard Nixon. Jinx Falkenburg previews color television for 1957 and its future, and Stereophonic Sound. 
Man of the year is President Dwight D. Eisenhower. We hear excerpts from his June 12, 1945 speech in London, 1952 & 1956 acceptance speech at Republican convention, and comments he made related to Anglo-French-Israel invasion.                                                     

CBS NEWS: Top News Stories Of 1956

Highlights: PresidentEisenhower health problems, announced candidacy at Democratic Convention, Vice Presidential battle between Senator John F. Kennedy and Senator Estes Kefauver,
Republican Convention, nomination, Presidential campaign topics, 
Eisenhower and Nixon were expected to be nominated by acclamation when a lone delegate voted for a fictitious candidate named "Joe Smith." The sinking of the Andrea Doria,
700 people die in weekend automobile accidents, two airlines collide over Grand Canyon Arizona, 128 die, the problem of overcrowded skies, Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco, racial problems in the South in Clinton, Tennessee, huge school desegregation riots, interviews with negroes and whites, including John Kasper, violent segregationist and member of the Klu Klux Klan, Don Larsen's perfect World Series game, Khruschev denounces Stalin cult, Polish riots, Hungarian revolution, Cyprus revolt against British occupation, Middle East crisis, Anglo-French, Israeli-Eygptian war.

Host: Charles Collingwood.                                                                            

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: Marshall Zhukov is criticized, degraded, and stripped of political authority, he is accused of being a "butcher", Khrushchev using supreme power, comment on this Russian crisis by NBC newsmen.           

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.                                       

A look back at the year 1957. Highlights include, the Russians launch Sputnik satellite, Bigots and segregationists riot in the South, includes a report from John Secondari, labor corruption, a detailed report by ABC correspondents, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa denounced by Senator John McClellan, Senate committee excerpts
including Senator McClellan, Robert Kennedy, Senator Irving Ives, Jimmy Hoffa plays dumb, many unions are investigated for possible corruption, integration problems, riots in Little Rock, Arkansas, spurred on by Gov. Orval Faubus, Federal troops restore order, comments by Faubus, Eisenhower, and Negro students, Sputnik launched US prestige is lowered, US values need changing, Khrushchev threatens US "Sputnik Diplomacy," comments by Dr. Edward Teller, Werner Von Braun, General Jimmy Doolittle, on space crisis. Comment on Khrushchev by Cecil Brown, President Eisenhower's illnesses, Nato troubles and Nato summit meeting in Paris not much accomplished, reports from France and England, Quincy Howe comments on the potential crisis from the Middle East and Asia to be capitalized by Russia, US suffers a further setback in failure to launch a satellite. 

John Daly is the host.                                                                            

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

July 29, 1957- March 30,1962. 

Johnny Carson substitute host for Jack Paar. He attempts to  make a phone call to Soviet Union Premiere Nikita Khrushchev through an international operator. 

NOTE:
Johnny Carson substituted for Jack Paar on the Tonight Show fifteen times (May 26-30, & Oct. 6-10, & 13-17, 1958). During Paar's first 17 months of telecasts all of the broadcasts were televised live (first video taped broadcast was January 5, 1959).

*Most of TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JACK PAAR  series does not survive in any broadcast form. Kinescopes were discarded, burned, decomposed...whereabouts unknown. 2" Quadruplex Video Tape was expensive ($300 to $500 for a one hour reel), weighting 13 pounds, requiring great storage space. Video Tape could easily be erased and was used for new program recordings...retained briefly for a re-run and then erased or discarded. Legend has it that even Jack Paar himself hired a junk man to come to his home garage and paid to have JACK PAAR TONIGHT SHOW recordings discarded (reels of kinescopes and video tapes) that were now cluttering up his space. 

During this era in television history archiving television programming was not a primary concern or vision, and considered an arcane pursuit. 

ARCHIVAL TELEVISION AUDIO, INC. retains over 70 complete and excerpt JACK PAAR TONIGHT SHOW air checks (34 hours), including the complete Jack Paar's first anniversary telecast which was broadcast live from Havana Cuba (June 28, 1958). These originally recorded off the air pristine sound direct line 1/4" reel to reel audio tracks, recorded at the time of the original broadcasts, represent the only broadcast record of a "lost" visual telecast. ATA is the largest single repository (one collection), in the United Sates of Jack Paar Tonight Shows recordings. The combined archives of The Library of Congress, Paley Center for Media, and UCLA Film & Television retain a composite total of 13 hours of representative JACK PAAR TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts excerpts, all KINESCOPES (sound quality inferior to originally direct line 1/4" reel to reel home recordings at the time of the broadcast). No COMPLETE intact visual and audio broadcasts survive. There are no extant video taped surviving RECORDINGS of the JACK PAAR TONIGHT SHOW...not even an excerpt. 

For four years and eight months Jack Paar reigned supreme as host of the TONIGHT SHOW with a crew of regulars, but only two stayed with him for the entire run; announcer Hugh Downs and band leader Jose Melis, a former army buddy. Familiar faces who appeared many times with Jack included Dody Goodman, Betty Johnson, Elsa Maxwell, Alexander King, Genevieve, Jack Douglas; and wife Reiko, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hans Conreid, Peggy Cass, Cliff (Charley Weaver) Arquette, and Jonathan Winters.

 Hugh Downs substituted for Jack Paar 79 times, more than any other substitute host. There were 20 different substitute hosts for Paar over the period of the series run. Joey Bishop substituted for Paar 31 times. Arlene Francis, 30 times, Jonathan Winters, 26 times, Orson Bean, 21 times and Johnny Carson 15 times. All together there were 243 broadcasts which had substitute hosts filling in for Paar during Jack Paar's TONIGHT SHOW tenure. The title of the late night broadcast changed to THE JACK PAAR SHOW which took effect on February 3, 1958. The first video-taped broadcast aired on January 5, 1959. The LAST LIVE broadcast was aired July 3, 1959. "Best of Paar " Re-runs began on July 10,1959. Beginning July 20, 1959 Jack Paar began taking off Monday nights & guest hosts would substitute for him (approximately on alternate Mondays). The first color broadcast aired on September 19, 1960.
Theme music, "Everything is Coming Up Roses" was first used beginning in the Fall of 1959. 

Location broadcast telecasts of the program telecast away from the Hudson Theater in New York City occurred 14 times during this series run. 

Jan. 13-17, 1958                     Miami Beach, Florida
July 28, 1958                        Havana,Cuba           
Nov. 3-21, 1958                      Hollywood, California
March 2-20, 1959                     Hollywood, California
Nov. 10-12, 1959                  Nassau, Bahamas (Video Tape)
Nov. 30- Dec. 10, 1959               Hollywood, California
March 28-April 1, 1960            London, England (Video Tape)
Nov.9-11, 1960                    Hawaii (Video Tape) - b&w
Nov.14-24, 1960                     Hollywood, California
March 21-24, 1961                 London, England (Video Tape)
Sept. 12-14, 1961                 West Berlin (Video Tape)
Nov. 14-17, 1961                  Hollywood, California (Tape)
Nov. 21-24, 1961                  Hollywood, California (Tape)
March 13-16, 1962                 London, England (Video Tape)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Russian rocket passes within 5,000 miles of the moon and will possibly orbit the Sun, President Eisenhower congratulates Khrushchev, Havana awaits Fidel Castro, provisional government to be established.             

Highlights: Khrushchev attacks Senator Humphrey's remarks regarding his comments on the failure of Russian-Chinese communes, Humphrey detects possible Soviet-Chinese rift, President Eisenhower considers a visit to Russia, ICBM "Titan" missile is tested.                         

Highlights: Hawaii to become the 50th State, Hawaii and Washington jubilant, comment by its Governor William Quinn, Correspondent John Edwards reports. 
Prime Minister McMillan and President Eisenhower to have a meeting at Camp David, Secretary of State Dulles is ill, Khrushchev flies back to Russia after East Germany visit, more on labor racketeering in government work investigated by Senate racket investigative committee. Senator John McClellan and Robert Kennedy accuse witness Joey Glimco of being "yellow." He takes the 5th multiple times. 

Host: John Daly                                                   

Gabriel Heatter was an American newscaster and journalist. During World War 11 he would begin his news broadcasts with the catchphrase "There's Good News Tonight." 

On this newscast, Gabriel Heatter comments on Khrushchev's personality.              

Highlights: Nixon and Khrushchev in "kitchen debate", hash out foreign policy and merits of communism and capitalism. At Us exhibit in Moscow.                                        

Gabriel Heatter was an American newscaster and journalist. During World War 11 he would begin his news broadcasts with the catchphrase "There's Good News Tonight." 

Highlights: More on Khrushchev and communism. Henry Gladstone subbing for Lester Smith on WOR radio.                          

Highlights: More on Nixon-Khrushchev debate at US exhibition in Moscow, Russians remove 30 books from US exhibition.           

Highlights: Nixon-Khrushchev debate in Moscow, discussion concerns communism and capitalism, color television, rockets, and satellites.   
Announcer states that this program was recorded on Ampex Video Tape and is not discernible compared to viewing live television. 

This Apmex Video tape was flown to television station WNTA Channel 13 in New York City by Jet plane for broadcast to the American  television public.   

 Final portion of the broadcast is recorded.

 NOTE: This  television audio air check archived in the collection of Archival Television Audio  was solicited by and sent to The Library of Congress in 2009.                                   

Topics: President Eisenhower trip to Europe, Eisenhower visits Adenauer in Bonn comment on Khrushchev's proposed visit to the US in September, the future of Berlin, Eisenhower's trip to England.
NBC correspondent, Frank McGee hosts.                                       

Topics: India braces itself against Chinese communist incursions on India's borders, China communists furious at Khrushchev's visit to the US, and at UN, Eisenhower flies to Scotland.                                  

Topics: Russians fire a rocket to the moon, due to reach the moon before Khrushchev's arrival in the US, Prime Minister Nehru of India accused of appeasing Chinese communists on the border dispute             

Highlights: Soviet rocket the Lunic 11 reaches the moon, British and Americans both send congratulations, Khrushchev to arrive in the US, Miss America would like to visit Khrushchev and Eisenhower.                        

Khrushchev flying to the US, actor Wayne Morris dies.   
 
NOTE: Cornelius  Westbrook Van Voorhis  was a narrator for television programs. He is best remembered for his  work on  THE MARCH OF TIME  radio and newsreel series were he became known as the "VOICE OF DOOM."         

Highlights: Khrushchev in Washington will come to New York City via train, extreme security precautions taken, Khrushchev tours Washington, Red China denied admission to the UN.                        

Khrushchev calls Eisenhower "a great man", a man of vision, Eisenhower hopes Khrushchev is sincere, Khrushchev thinks war is sheer madness, Khrushchev in New York City, family tours city.

Quincy Howe reports.                        

Highlights: Khrushchev in New York City, talks of the economic club, the city gives cool reception to arrival of Khrushchev, Khrushchev again praises President Eisenhower for inviting him to America, Mrs. Khrushchev sees the play "Music Man", anti-Khrushchev demonstration at Carnegie Hall.             

Highlights: Khrushchev threatens to go home after biting remarks by Mayor Poulson of Los Angeles at a dinner.           

Topics: A further report of Khrushchev's visit to Hollywood, Khrushchev upset because he's not allowed to visit Disneyland due to a security problem, (Khrushchev press conference), comment by Sheila Graham on Khrushchev's visit to Hollywood and the stars, Shirley McLaine with Khrushchev. She speaks to Khrushchev in Russian at movie set.                                                  

Khrushchev's visit to California, includes a trip to San Francisco, Khrushchev's verbal duel with Spyros Skouras of 20th Century Fox, comment by Marilyn Monroe, Mayor Poulson remarks in Los Angeles and Khrushchev's retort. 
Walter Cronkite anchors.    

   We are an Eyewitness as U.S.S.R. Premiere Khrushchev visits in Washington and tours Pittsburgh, Chicago,  Des Moines, San Francisco, Los Angeles, plus a visit to the Roswell Garst farm in Coon Rapids, Iowa. Highlights broadcast of Khrushchev's headline making address before the U.N. General Assembly.                                     

      Don Goddard reports on Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Disneyland.        

Russians launch a rocket to the moon considers it a "space station" will orbit the moon and return to earth, comment by Willy Ley Khrushchev winds up visit to Red China.                          

March 9, 1959-March 18, 1960
A daily news broadcast anchored by  Mike Wallace, on WNTA-TV Channel 13,  New York City.

Mike Wallace, TV interviewer and author of the recent book "Mike Wallace Asks," is the commentator for a half hour news program televised Monday through Friday. Wallace comments on national and international news stories. He is assisted by guest columnists and reporters who probe the important news in their fields. 

It was challenging to know exactly when Mike Wallace would be on the air with this daily early evening newscast for during the one year run of the show these broadcasts would change seven times related to beginning and ending times.
-March 9, 1959....... 7:30-8:00pm
-May 4, 1959 6:30.......6:30pm-7:00pm
-Sept. 14, 1959..............7:30-8:00pm
-Oct. 26, 1959.....................7:30-7:55pm
-Dec. 21, 1959.........................7:25-7:55pm
-Dec. 28, 1959...............................7:30-7:55pm
Jan. 25, 1960.......................................7:00-7:25pm

News show starring Mike Wallace, broadcast on WNTA-TV New York City.
Substituting for Wallace is Jim Sling (?)

Topics: U-2 story continued, Khrushchev warns the US and others spy base countries will take retaliatory action, Russians say U-2 pilot (Gary Powers) would be tried for espionage, Eisenhower says the incident will have no effect on the summit, he will go to Russia, U-2 flight allegedly known by Eisenhower, West Virginia Democratic primary between Hubert Humphrey and John F. Kennedy for presidential nomination, commentator belittles their value, claims Johnson and Stevenson will be nominated, atomic sub-Triton completes an underwater trip around the world (84 days), ideas on moon base construction ten years hence, newsreel, Kennedy ahead in West Virginia primary, Nixon leads over Kennedy in Nebraska primary.                                                                                                                                

Highlights: Khrushchev attacks Eisenhower'doubts, Eisenhower visits Russia, claims it would be mad to greet him in Russia due to U-2 incident, Eisenhower defends U-2 missions over Russia to avoid new Pearl Harbors, the swiss order two Russian diplomats to leave Switzerland due to spying, Senator Kennedy presidential chances increase due to West Virginia primary win, Senator Kennedy talks about the opposition and primary success, says he will be nominated by the Democratic party as their presidential candidate. John David Rockefeller Jr. dies at 86.                                                     

Highlights: Eisenhower comments on his proposed trip to Russia as a result of the U-2 incident, still expects to go, comments on Russian diatribe against the US, Khrushchev not sure he wants Eisenhower to come to Moscow, has doubts over the summit.                         

A RARE air check of Murray the K Kaufman anchoring the news on WINS NEWS CENTER ON THE AIR with Kaufman standing news watch. 

Highlights: Russians launched unmanned space ship, Governor Rockefeller will stay away from the 1960 Republican convention, has his eye on 1964, Eisenhower on route to Paris for summit talks with Khrushchev, Cuba accuses the US of aggression against Cuba. 

Live from 1010 WINS radio in New York City.    

 NOTE: 
      Kaufman's big break came in 1958 after he moved to WINS/1010 to do the all-night show, which he titled The Swingin' Soiree. Shortly after his arrival, WINS's high energy star disk jockey, Alan Freed, was indicted for tax evasion and forced off the air. Though Freed's spot was briefly occupied by Bruce Morrow, who later became known as Cousin Brucie on WABC, Murray was soon moved into the 7–11 pm time period and remained there for the next seven years,                                         

Highlights: Summit stage set, Eisenhower in Paris, the Russians launch a 4 1/2 ton satellite with a dummy astronaut aboard, big four in Paris, Khrushchev honored in Paris sees Charles De Gaulle, Khrushchev wants the French and the British to mediate in U-2 incident, Nixon suggests a Gary Powers trade for Rudolph Abel, Nixon says Senator Kennedy will probably be his rival, more bodies of World War 11 plane is found, Pro-Castro parade up fifth avenue in New York City.                          

Topics: Crisis at the summit, Khrushchev may torpedo talks, Khrushchev withdraws the Eisenhower invitation to visit Russia, demands punishment for U-2, suggests a six-month postponement till after the US elections in November, a report on the Oregon Democratic primary, Morse vs. Kennedy.                         

Highlights: The collapse of the Big 4 summit conference, a report from Paris, Khrushchev will not attend summit unless the US denounces the U-2 flights and punish those involved, Eisenhower replies that air espionage will cease, the significance of pressures on Khrushchev are discussed.             

Topics include the summit crisis, Khrushchev threatens to leave if unable to reconcile with Eisenhower, Eisenhower comments on current US policy on U-2, flights will not be resumed, Khrushchev wants Eisenhower to apologize and punish those involved, Eisenhower refuses, press secretary Hagerty comments on current US policy on U-2.                                     

Paul Harvey gives commentary on Nikita Khrushchev and the summit conference.

Paul Harvey reports.                                     

Highlights: The summit meeting is shattered, Khrushchev hints at signing a separate peace treaty with East Germany, Vice President Nixon comments on summit fiasco, Khrushchev will boycott all summit talks until Eisenhower apologizes, in the Maryland primary, Senator Kennedy leads over Senator Morse, Mayor Wagner says Kennedy could win New York delegates.                            

Highlights: Eisenhower will still make a trip to the Far East, summit fiasco, Khrushchev says goodbye to Macmillan and De Gaulle, Tito calls for UN interview to solve the crisis, US to investigate U-2 plane's blunders of administration in handling it.                         

Highlights: Khrushchev is annoyed by booing in the room, blames West Germans "rift raft" who ran away from beating in Stahngrad, Khrushchev discusses nuclear disarmament, summit conference with Eisenhower says something is "fishy" about him, comments on editorials from various US newspapers, CBS commentators comment on Khrushchev's press conferenceSenators Keating and Jackson comment on the press conference. 

A film trailer for the movie "Giant Of Marathon" starring Steve Reeves is heard.                                      

Highlights: Khrushchev may come to New York as Russian delegation heads to UN, Russians publish an indictment on Gary Powers spying, an interview with Herbert Hoover on health issues.                         

Highlights: Controversial leaders, including Nikita Khrushchev and Castro coming to New York, New York police take precautions, Hungarian refugees comment on their hatred for Khrushchev, OLA plans raucous greeting for Khrushchev, Khrushchev truculent against pickets and demonstrations, State Department will restrict his movements.           

Khrushchev arrives in New York City to an unfriendly reception, other communist leaders including Fidel Castro are restricted to Manhattan, Communist leader Janos Kadar and USSR's Nikita Khrushchev make  short dockside speeches, heavy police escort guides Khrushchev motorcade to the Russian embassy,                          

New York City Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy slur on Jewish cops, Rabbi comments on insult, Pierre Salinger comments on Kennedy's campaign, Captain William Bradley of ILA comments on demonstrations by dockworkers against Khrushchev.                                      

Highlights: Castro claims he might sleep in Central Park, Hungarian demonstrations against Khrushchev at the UN, the presidential campaign.

From WINS radio in New York City.                          

More news on the Castro hotel incident, Cubans claim the New York police is rude to them, Khrushchev booed and heckled by spectators, the downfall of the Lumumba government in Congo.            

Highlights: Castro now settled in Theresa, US calls it a propaganda stunt, Cubans claim suffering negroes in Harlem open their doors to Castro, commissioner Kennedy will not allow Jewish officers off during the holiday, Marshall Tito arrives in New York for UN session.                          

Khrushchev claims the New York police manhandled Russians when Khrushchev visited Castro at Theresa.