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#11342: YOU ARE THERE
Order1954-09-05, CBS, 27 min.
- Walter Cronkite
- Mike Wallace
- Louis Armstrong
- Ned Calmer
- Lou Cioffi
- Cozy Cole
- Harry Marble
- Bobby Hackett
- Billy Taylor
October 1st, 1953-October 13th, 1957. September 11th, 1971-September 2nd, 1972. (CBS) Tonight's episode: Louis Armstrong stars as the Jazz great King Oliver in "The Emergence Of Jazz." The date is November 20th, 1917 when the Storyville section of New Orleans was closed. Walter Cronkite and the CBS newsmen trace the evolution of the American jazz form as it found a home in the dance halls of California and the bistros of Paris. An unusual Public Affairs series, You Are There began in 1947 as a radio show (it was originally titled CBS was There). Each week a well-known historical event was recreated, and the leading figures in each drama were interviewed by CBS news correspondents (the correspondents were always in modern-day dress, regardless of the setting of the story). The television version ran from 1953-1957 on Sunday afternoons, and was revived in 1971 as a Saturday-afternoon show, aimed principally at children. Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent on both TV versions. Paul Newman guest-starred on one program as Nathan Hale (30 August 1953) and the 1971 premiere " The Mystery of Amelia Earhart" featured Geraldine Brooks and Richard Dreyfuss.#11343: YOU ARE THERE
Order1954-09-12, CBS, 27 min.
October 1st, 1953-October 13th, 1957. September 11th, 1971-September 2nd, 1972. (CBS) Tonight's episode: William Pitt's last speech to Parliament is recreated for viewers. The cameras travel back in time to cover the famous Englishman's final effort to change England's policy toward its American colonies. Lorne Greene, Wesley Addy. An unusual Public Affairs series, You Are There began in 1947 as a radio show (it was originally titled CBS was There). Each week a well-known historical event was recreated, and the leading figures in each drama were interviewed by CBS news correspondents (the correspondents were always in modern-day dress, regardless of the setting of the story). The television version ran from 1953-1957 on Sunday afternoons, and was revived in 1971 as a Saturday-afternoon show, aimed principally at children. Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent on both TV versions. Paul Newman guest-starred on one program as Nathan Hale (30 August 1953) and the 1971 premiere " The Mystery of Amelia Earhart" featured Geraldine Brooks and Richard Dreyfuss.1956-10-28, WCBS, 8 min.
The Sunday Night News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday Night News "UP TO THE MINUTE" from 1951 to 1955, at which time the title was changed to simply CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. The Premiere broadcast on April 17, 1955 during this transition was the only occasion that this newscast was broadcast in color during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast concluding its final broadcast with Walter Cronkite anchoring on April 22, 1962. The following Sunday, April 29, 1962 Eric Sevareid would replace Cronkite as anchor. NOTE: After extensive research there appears to be no surviving broadcasts of this Sunday night News broadcast, with the exception of eleven episodes archived (AUDIO ONLY) in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc., including the archives at The Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, other prominent national news repositories, and non- extant in any private collection or posted on media platforms. 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.
1956-11-04, CBS, min.
The Sunday Night News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday Night News "UP TO THE MINUTE" from 1951 to 1955, at which time the title was changed to simply CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. The Premiere broadcast on April 17, 1955 during this transition was the only occasion that this newscast was broadcast in color during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast concluding its final broadcast with Walter Cronkite anchoring on April 22, 1962. The following Sunday, April 29, 1962 Eric Sevareid would replace Cronkite as anchor. NOTE: After extensive research there appears to be no surviving broadcasts of this Sunday night News broadcast, with the exception of eleven episodes archived (AUDIO ONLY) in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc., including the archives at The Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, other prominent national news repositories, and non- extant in any private collection or posted on media platforms. United States Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge calls for the immediate withdrawal of all Russian troops from Hungary.
1956-11-04, WCBS, 10 min.
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.
#13080: ELECTION RETURNS, THE
Order1956-11-06, WCBS, 48 min.
Election returns from all three networks. Bob Wilson with late return reports, CBS coverage from Walter Cronkite, Richard C.Hottelet, Leonard Hall predicts Eisenhower victory, H.V. Kaltenborn editorial on Eisenhower's victory, a report on the Jacob Javits Senate race, Stevenson concession speech.
1957-07-07, CBS, 4 min.
- Walter Cronkite
- Harry S. Truman
- Eric Sevareid
- John F. Kennedy
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Hubert Humphrey
- Juan Peron
The Sunday Night News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday Night News "UP TO THE MINUTE" from 1951 to 1955, at which time the title was changed to simply CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. The Premiere broadcast on April 17, 1955 during this transition was the only occasion that this newscast was broadcast in color during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast concluding its final broadcast with Walter Cronkite anchoring on April 22, 1962. The following Sunday, April 29, 1962 Eric Sevareid would replace Cronkite as anchor. NOTE: After extensive research there appears to be no surviving broadcasts of this Sunday night News broadcast, with the exception of eleven episodes archived (AUDIO ONLY) in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc., including the archives at The Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, other prominent national news repositories, and non- extant in any private collection or posted on media platforms. Highlights: Holiday crowds visit the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, Truman claims the presidency is a "tough and terrible job, CBS News Correspondent Eric Sevareid interviews former President Harry Truman, Venezuela and Argentina break off diplomatic relations over failure of Venezuela to expel former Argentina President Juan Peron, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, and Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota oppose President Dwight Eisenhower's foreign policy with Russia related to satellites. NOTE: One of the earliest archived CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONITE extant broadcasts, in any media format. At this time Cronkite would do one fifteen TV newscast a week on Sunday nights from 11:00pm to 11:15pm...almost five years before he would anchor the prime-time CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE five evenings a week.
#11396: YOU ARE THERE
Order1957-09-01, CBS, 30 min.
An unusual Public Affairs series, You Are There began in 1947 as a radio show (it was originally titled CBS was There). Each week a well-known historical event was recreated, and the leading figures in each drama were interviewed by CBS news correspondents (the correspondents were always in modern-day dress, regardless of the setting of the story). The television version ran from 1953-1957 on Sunday afternoons, and was revived in 1971 as a Saturday-afternoon show, aimed principally at children. Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent on both TV versions. Paul Newman guest-starred on one program as Nathan Hale (30 August 1953) and the 1971 premiere " The Mystery of Amelia Earhart" featured Geraldine Brooks and Richard Dreyfuss. This episode: "Hitler Invades Poland." A dramatic re-enactment of events on September 1st, 1939 when the thunder of massive German armies moved into Poland. Walter Cronkite and staff cover the story. SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957. These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes). These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before. The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occured beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact. The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch. NOTE: To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page. GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976) History: The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, SoundScriber and VoiceWriter formats. Audiograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audiograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time. The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device. Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The 8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side. ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS. THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.
1957-09-02, CBS, 10 min.
The latest news with Walter Cronkite. SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957. These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes). These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before. The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occured beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact. The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch. NOTE: To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page. GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976) History: The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, SoundScriber and VoiceWriter formats. Audiograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audiograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time. The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device. Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The 8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side. ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS. THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.
1957-09-03, KNXT, 30 min.
The latest news with Walter Cronkite. SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957. These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes). These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before. The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occured beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact. The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch. NOTE: To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page. GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976) History: The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, SoundScriber and VoiceWriter formats. Audiograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audiograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time. The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device. Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The 8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side. ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS. THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.
1957-09-04, CBS, 30 min.
The latest news with Walter Cronkite. SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957. These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes). These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before. The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occured beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact. The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch. NOTE: To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page. GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976) History: The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, SoundScriber and VoiceWriter formats. Audiograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audiograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time. The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device. Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The 8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side. ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS. THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.
1957-09-05, CBS, 10 min.
The latest news with Walter Cronkite. SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957. These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes). These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before. The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occured beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact. The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch. NOTE: To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page. GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976) History: The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, SoundScriber and VoiceWriter formats. Audiograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audiograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time. The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device. Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The 8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side. ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS. THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.
1957-09-06, KNXT, 10 min.
The latest news with Walter Cronkite. This is the final ten-minute newscast. SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957. These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes). These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before. The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occured beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact. The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch. NOTE: To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page. GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976) History: The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, SoundScriber and VoiceWriter formats. Audiograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audiograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time. The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device. Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The 8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side. ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS. THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.
1957-10-17, CBS, 21 min.
- Walter Cronkite
- George Jessel
- Garry Moore
- Jim McKay
- Ginger Rogers
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Hubert Humphrey
- Arthur Fiedler
- Charles Boyer
- Boston Pops Orchestra
- Elsa Maxwell
- Mike Todd
- Hedda Hooper
- Sir Cedrick Hardwicke
Film producer Mike Todd and his wife, Elizabeth Taylor, on the first anniversary of Todd's film, "Around The World In Eighty Days," invited 18,000 of their close friends to a Madison Square Garden extravaganza. Personalities on hand include George Jessel, Elizabeth Taylor (Mike Todd's wife), Elsa Maxwell, Walter Cronkite, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Hedda Hooper, Charles Boyer, Ginger Rogers, Joe E. Lewis, Bill Leon. and Garry Moore. It was estimated that a crowd of 18,000 filled the arena to witness the event. Jim McKay is the host. NOTE: Mike Todd conned the CBS program PLAYHOUSE 90 into covering the spectacle, live. But when the crowd got out of control, a bland publicity stunt turned into a giant food fight. News Anchor Walter Cronkite covers the event. NOTE: Five months later, on March 22, 1958, Mike Todd died in an airplane crash.
1957-11-03, CBS, 7 min.
The Sunday Night News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday Night News "UP TO THE MINUTE" from 1951 to 1955, at which time the title was changed to simply CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. The Premiere broadcast on April 17, 1955 during this transition was the only occasion that this newscast was broadcast in color during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast concluding its final broadcast with Walter Cronkite anchoring on April 22, 1962. The following Sunday, April 29, 1962 Eric Sevareid would replace Cronkite as anchor. NOTE: After extensive research there appears to be no surviving broadcasts of this Sunday night News broadcast, with the exception of eleven episodes archived (AUDIO ONLY) in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc., including the archives at The Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, other prominent national news repositories, and non- extant in any private collection or posted on media platforms. Highlights: Reports on new Russian "Dog" satellite, Sputnik 11 or "Muttnick", US prepares a sophisticated rocket "Vanguard" to launch its satellite, comments by US scientists on latest Russian feats, dog lovers around the world protest use of a dog in the satellite, Marshall Zhukov degraded in Russia, accused of Russia's World War 11 defeats, Russians put into service the world's largest plane, the TU 114.
1958-04-20, CBS, 30 min.
- Walter Cronkite
- James Van Allen
- Wernher Von Braun
- Krafft Ehricke
- James Dempsey
- John Medaris
- Iven Kincheloe
October 20th,1957-September 7th, 1969 {CBS} Walter Cronkite hosted this Sunday-evening documentary series, which presented filmed reports on a wide variety of historical and scientific subjects. In January of 1967, the show's title was changed to The Twenty-First Century. Walter Cronkite presents an hour-long report on satellites, space and space travel, to learn where we stand in our efforts to solve the mysteries of space and conquer it. Cronkite has been traveling around the country, visiting scientific and military installations and talking with space authorities. Today he presents his findings. there are filmed interviews with rocket experts Dr. Wernher Von Braun, Dr. Krafft Ehricke, James Dempsey, and General John Medaris; Dr. James Van Allen, designer of earth satellites; and Captain Iven Kincheloe, who plans to take a plane beyond the earth's atmosphere next year. The scientific controversies about space are outlined. A Soviet film previews man's conquest of space.1958-05-25, CBS, min.
The Sunday Night News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday Night News "UP TO THE MINUTE" from 1951 to 1955, at which time the title was changed to simply CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. The Premiere broadcast on April 17, 1955 during this transition was the only occasion that this newscast was broadcast in color during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast concluding its final broadcast with Walter Cronkite anchoring on April 22, 1962. The following Sunday, April 29, 1962 Eric Sevareid would replace Cronkite as anchor. NOTE: After extensive research there appears to be no surviving broadcasts of this Sunday night News broadcast, with the exception of eleven episodes archived (AUDIO ONLY) in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc., including the archives at The Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, other prominent national news repositories, and non- extant in any private collection or posted on media platforms. 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.
1958-09-21, CBS, 10 min.
The Sunday Night News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday Night News "UP TO THE MINUTE" from 1951 to 1955, at which time the title was changed to simply CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. The Premiere broadcast on April 17, 1955 during this transition was the only occasion that this newscast was broadcast in color during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast concluding its final broadcast with Walter Cronkite anchoring on April 22, 1962. The following Sunday, April 29, 1962 Eric Sevareid would replace Cronkite as anchor. NOTE: After extensive research there appears to be no surviving broadcasts of this Sunday night News broadcast, with the exception of eleven episodes archived (AUDIO ONLY) in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc., including the archives at The Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, other prominent national news repositories, and non- extant in any private collection or posted on media platforms. Highlights: The Russians criticize the US on Quemoy and Matsu, an interview with a US serviceman who was wounded in the bombardment, in Little Rock, school teachers will offer television courses, students want the high school to reopen regardless of integration, Dr. Martin Luther King survives a stab wound in New York City, Paul Robeson will make his home in Great Britain, the Milwaukee Braves clinch their second straight National League pennant, hot-tempered Ted Williams hurls a bat at a spectator.
#13308: ELECTION RETURNS
Order1958-11-04, CBS, 10 min.
Nelson Rockefeller defeats Averell Harriman for Governor of New York, Kenneth Keating wins a New York State Senate seat, Governor-Elect Nelson Rockefeller makes a statement on his victory over Harriman. Heard both CBS and NBC TV coverage.1958-11-09, CBS, min.
- Walter Cronkite
- Ed Sullivan
- Jack Carter
- Morey Amsterdam
- Jack E. Leonard
- Joe E. Lewis
- Johnny Wayne
- Frank Shuster
- Nat Hiken
The New York City Friars Club honors Ed Sullivan for his ten years on television. An excerpt audio air check of Friars Club members honoring Sullivan include Joe E. Lewis, Jack E. Leonard, Jack Carter, Morey Amsterdam, Walter Cronkite, and Wayne and Shuster. NOTE: This broadcast was aired in the time slot normally seen as The Ed Sullivan Show, 8-9pm Sunday evenings. This program is a video tape of a recent Friar's Club Testimonial Dinner staged by Nat Hiken. It was to be the first of many Friar's Club dinners to be televised under the over-all title "Man of the Hour.' In actuality it was the only one that was produced and broadcasts.1959-01-04, CBS, min.
Walter Cronkite reports on where the US stands in space, Nasa chief describes future US space plans. Anchor: Walter Cronkite
1959-04-12, CBS, min.
The Sunday Night News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday Night News "UP TO THE MINUTE" from 1951 to 1955, at which time the title was changed to simply CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. The Premiere broadcast on April 17, 1955 during this transition was the only occasion that this newscast was broadcast in color during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast concluding its final broadcast with Walter Cronkite anchoring on April 22, 1962. The following Sunday, April 29, 1962 Eric Sevareid would replace Cronkite as anchor. NOTE: After extensive research there appears to be no surviving broadcasts of this Sunday night News broadcast, with the exception of eleven episodes archived (AUDIO ONLY) in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc., including the archives at The Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, other prominent national news repositories, and non- extant in any private collection or posted on media platforms. Highlights: John Foster Dulles is dying of cancer, not responding to treatment, American ordered out of Cuba following arrest trial and conviction of trying to kill Castro, Russia trains spies for work in USA Americanizes them, the US to launch a discover satellite, Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India, interview with a representative of the Dalai Lama, nuclear talks to resume.
1959-05-24, CBS, 5 min.
The Sunday Night News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday Night News "UP TO THE MINUTE" from 1951 to 1955, at which time the title was changed to simply CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. The Premiere broadcast on April 17, 1955 during this transition was the only occasion that this newscast was broadcast in color during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast concluding its final broadcast with Walter Cronkite anchoring on April 22, 1962. The following Sunday, April 29, 1962 Eric Sevareid would replace Cronkite as anchor. NOTE: After extensive research there appears to be no surviving broadcasts of this Sunday night News broadcast, with the exception of eleven episodes archived (AUDIO ONLY) in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc., including the archives at The Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, other prominent national news repositories, and non- extant in any private collection or posted on media platforms. Highlights: John Foster Dulles has died of cancer, Eisenhower expresses his sympathy, three officials of the Cuban government and Congressman John Porter deny that Cuba is going communist as reported by a CBS newsman, Parker Lynch case is investigated by the FBI.
1959-09-13, CBS, 6 min.
The Sunday Night News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday Night News "UP TO THE MINUTE" from 1951 to 1955, at which time the title was changed to simply CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. The Premiere broadcast on April 17, 1955 during this transition was the only occasion that this newscast was broadcast in color during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast concluding its final broadcast with Walter Cronkite anchoring on April 22, 1962. The following Sunday, April 29, 1962 Eric Sevareid would replace Cronkite as anchor. NOTE: After extensive research there appears to be no surviving broadcasts of this Sunday night News broadcast, with the exception of eleven episodes archived (AUDIO ONLY) in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc., including the archives at The Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, other prominent national news repositories, and non- extant in any private collection or posted on media platforms. 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.
1959-09-21, , 25 min.
- Walter Cronkite
- Marilyn Monroe
- Robert Pierpoint
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Robert Trout
- David Schoenbrun
- Howard K. Smith
- Norris Poulson
- Spyros Skouras
- Alex Kendrick
- Ernest Leiser,
- Charles Collilngwood
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.
1959-10-25, WCBS, 26 min.
Walter Cronkite narrates a history of the talking motion pictures.#13401: TWENTIETH CENTURY, THE
Order1959-11-22, CBS, min.
October 20th, 1957-September, 1969 Walter Cronkite hosted this Sunday-evening documentary series, that presented filmed reports on a wide variety of historical and scientific subjects. In January of 1967, the show's title was changed to The Twenty-First Century. General Montgomery Clark reminisces about WW 11. with Edward R. Murrow. Host: Walter Cronkite.
1959-12-27, CBS, min.
Walter Cronkite tales a look at the big news stories of 1959.
1960-02-28, WCBS, 25 min.
Walter Cronkite narrates.1960-04-17, WCBS, 26 min.
Walter Cronkite narrates. A retrospective of Paris, a spawning ground for a revolution in the arts, sparked by a host of American expatriates from the world of literature, painting and the theater. Among those players include authors Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Colette, E.E.Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Thornton Wilder, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Hart Crane and Stephen Vincent Benet. Performers include Charlie Chaplin, Josephine Baker, Marilyn Miller, Beatrice Lillie, Judith Anderson, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford; artists Pablo Picasso, Jo Davidson and Alexander Calder. Janet Flanner, who as "Genet" is the New Yorker's Paris correspondent, and artist-photographer Man Ray contribute their reminiscences.1960-04-24, WCBS, 26 min.
Walter Cronkite narrates.1960-05-10, WCBS, min.
A SPECIAL CBS NEWS REPORT at 11:15pm Highlight: Senator John F. Kennedy is leading in the West Virginia primary over Senator Hubert Humphrey. Walter Cronkite reports. From Charleston, West Virginia, reporting on today's contest between Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts in the West Virginia Democratic Presidential primary race.1960-05-15, CBS, min.
- Walter Cronkite
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Fidel Castro
- John F. Kennedy
- Richard Nixon
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Gary Powers
- Rudolph Abel
The Sunday Night News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday Night News "UP TO THE MINUTE" from 1951 to 1955, at which time the title was changed to simply CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. The Premiere broadcast on April 17, 1955 during this transition was the only occasion that this newscast was broadcast in color during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast concluding its final broadcast with Walter Cronkite anchoring on April 22, 1962. The following Sunday, April 29, 1962 Eric Sevareid would replace Cronkite as anchor. NOTE: After extensive research there appears to be no surviving broadcasts of this Sunday night News broadcast, with the exception of eleven episodes archived (AUDIO ONLY) in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc., including the archives at The Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, other prominent national news repositories, and non- extant in any private collection or posted on media platforms. 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.
1960-05-15, WCBS, 27 min.
Walter Cronkite narrates.1960-05-16, CBS, min.
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.
1960-07-13, CBS, min.
Live coverage of the 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, California. Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow report. This is the first complete televised coverage of a presidential convention.
1960-07-13, WCBS, 163 min.
- Walter Cronkite
- Edward R. Murrow
- Howard K. Smith
- John F. Kennedy
- Neil Strawser
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Adlai E. Stevenson
- Paul Butler
- Orville L. Freeman
- Bernie Eismann
- Nancy Hanschman
- Betty Furness
- Lowell Thomas
- Alexander Kendrick
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow anchor convention coverage spanning JULY 13, 14, 15, 1960. A retrospective declaration of candidacy for President of the United States is announced by Senator John F. Kennedy. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, the majority leader of the senate, speaks. Back live on the convention floor, Bernie Eismann talks to Minnesota Governor Orville L. Freeman; it was he who put Kennedy's name into nomination. Edward R. Murrow talks to Lowell Thomas. Adlai Stevenson introduces Eleanor Roosevelt who speaks before the convention. Neil Strawser talks to the Democratic National Committee chairman Paul Butler. 3000 delegates are represented as roll call begins the 1500 vote procedure. It takes 761 votes to nominate the choice for president. We hear each state cast their votes. John Kennedy, 43, becomes the third youngest nominee in history. Nancy Hanschman reports from Johnson headquarters. Adlai Stevenson is interviewed. Kennedy speaks to the convention, thanking them for his nomination. Benedition and the National Anthem end the evening for July 13th. Cronkite and Murrow rap it up with final thoughts. Betty Furness does a Westinghouse Total Elective Home Commercial. July 14th & 15th coverage present the nomination for Vice President. Earlier coverage by Kennedy at a press conference confirms Lyndon B. Johnson as his choice for the Vice President running mate. Nancy Hanschman interviews Johnson. There is coverage of the LBJ press conference. John F. Kennedy gives a 22 minute acceptance speech to the convention. Alexander Kendrick, Howard K. Smith, Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite evaluate the JFK speech. Spokeswoman for Westinghouse, Betty Furness, gives praise to Cronkite for his coverage of the National Democratic Convention.
1960-07-28, WCBS, 121 min.
- David Brinkley
- Walter Cronkite
- Chet Huntley
- Richard M. Nixon
- Edward R. Murrow
- John Daly
- Martin Agronsky
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- Nelson Rockefeller
- Leon Thompson
- Edwin Newman
- Tricia Nixon
Highlights, including Richard M. Nixon's entire 52 min. acceptance speech are covered by newsmen Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, John Daly and Martin Agronsky from all three networks. Additional speeches are heard from Henry Cabot Lodge and from Nelson Rockefeller. In a memorable moment of television, we listen to Richard M. Nixon, who chats with shoe shine boy Leon Thompson. They talk about baseball and politics. Nixon introduces his daughter Tricia Nixon to Leon. Back in the NBC studios, Edwin Newman comments with a chuckle and signs off.1960-10-21, ABC/NBC/CBS, 60 min.
Televised on all three networks. Quincy Howe moderates this final fourth debate between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy. The subject is Foreign Policy and the topics include Latin America, Fidel Castro, the space race, the Soviet Union, nuclear testing, future Summit conferences and Communism as a threat. The panelists asking questions are John Edwards, Frank Singiser, John Chancellor and Walter Cronkite.1960-10-21, ABC, min.
The fourth and final presidential debate between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy, held at ABC studios, in New York City. Moderator: Quincy Howe Panelists: Walter Cronkite, Frank Singiser, John Edwards, John Chancellor.
#11118A: PLANE CRASH IN NEW YORK CITY
Order1960-12-16, CBS, min.
On December 16th, 1960, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collided in mid-air with a TWA-Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending toward La Guardia Airport. The Constellation crashes on Miller Field in Staten Island while DC-8 goes down in Park Slope, Brooklyn. All 128 people aboard the two aircraft were killed, including six people on the ground. Additional CBS-TV coverage of mid-air plane crash begins twelve hours after accident with Walter Cronkite and Harry Reasoner.
1961-01-15, WCBS, min.
Walter Cronkite narrates. In 1944 the Allies waged a series of battles around the monastery of Monte Cassino in an attempt to penetrate the German lines. The two opposing generals, Mark Clarke, commander of the United States Fifth Army, and Gen. Fridolin von Senger of the German forces, give their views of the strategic encounter.
1961-01-20, NBC, 46 min.
- David Brinkley
- Walter Cronkite
- Chet Huntley
- Nancy Hodgeman
- Ray Shearer
- Edwin Newman
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon Johnson
- Robert Frost
John F. Kennedy is sworn in as the 35th president of the United States. Live coverage from CBS and NBC news. Vice-President Lyndon Johnson is also sworn in. Poet Robert Frost recites a poem. NBC coverage from Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Edwin Newman, and Ray Shearer. CBS coverage by Walter Cronkite and Nancy Hodgeman. JFK inaugural, Benediction,, Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in, Poem by Robert Frost, President elect John F. Kennedy is sworn in who states that this is not a victory party but a celebration." Note: President John F. Kennedy held the first presidential news conference to be carried live on radio and television.
1961-01-20, WCBS, 57 min.
- Walter Cronkite
- Charles Collingwood
- Harry S. Truman
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Edward R. Murrow
- Howard K. Smith
- John F. Kennedy
- Nancy Hodgeman
- Lynda Bird Johnson
- Lucy Johnson
- Averell W. Harriman
- Herbert Hoover
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Robert F. Kennedy
CBS coverage with Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Charles Collingwood, Howard K. Smith and others provide commentary on this eventful day. We hear the last 14 minutes of President John F. Kennedy's 15 minute inauguration speech. In addition, Nancy Hodgeman interviews Lynda Bird Johnson and Lucy Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and Gov. Averell Harriman. Charles Collingwood reports from the Mayflower Hotel where the inaugural luncheon is covered. There are retrospective original audios heard of Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower being sworn into office plus the oath of office taken today by President John F. Kennedy. Howard K. Smith commentary and analysis follows.1961-04-21, CBS, min.
EYEWITNESS - September 30, 1960 - July 26, 1963 Originally titled "Eyewitness to History" title shortened to "Eyewitness" by the Fall of 1961 ------------------ EYEWITNESS ----------------- '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) A CBS special report and analysis on the failure of the Cuban invasion. Host: Walter Cronkite.
1961-04-23, CBS, min.
The Sunday Night News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday Night News "UP TO THE MINUTE" from 1951 to 1955, at which time the title was changed to simply CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. The Premiere broadcast on April 17, 1955 during this transition was the only occasion that this newscast was broadcast in color during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast concluding its final broadcast with Walter Cronkite anchoring on April 22, 1962. The following Sunday, April 29, 1962 Eric Sevareid would replace Cronkite as anchor. NOTE: After extensive research there appears to be no surviving broadcasts of this Sunday night News broadcast, with the exception of eleven episodes archived (AUDIO ONLY) in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc., including the archives at The Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, other prominent national news repositories, and non- extant in any private collection or posted on media platforms. Highlights: France faces paratroop invasion by French army insurgents from Algeria, a civil war is threatened, Castro UN speech threatens US with fearful consequences if interference continues, Castro likes remedy to Hitler, Laos fighting continues. Sponsored by Aero Wax. Commercial included.
1961-06-25, CBS, min.
The Sunday Night News (15 minutes from 11:00 - 11:15pm) provided a weekly anchoring role for Walter Cronkite at WCBS in New York. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late Sunday Night News "UP TO THE MINUTE" from 1951 to 1955, at which time the title was changed to simply CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE. The Premiere broadcast on April 17, 1955 during this transition was the only occasion that this newscast was broadcast in color during the run of this weekend Sunday newscast concluding its final broadcast with Walter Cronkite anchoring on April 22, 1962. The following Sunday, April 29, 1962 Eric Sevareid would replace Cronkite as anchor. NOTE: After extensive research there appears to be no surviving broadcasts of this Sunday night News broadcast, with the exception of eleven episodes archived (AUDIO ONLY) in the collection of Archival Television Audio, Inc., including the archives at The Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, other prominent national news repositories, and non- extant in any private collection or posted on media platforms. Highlights: Berlin crisis brewing, a possible attempt by East Berlin to seal escape route to West Berlin, a report from West Berlin on refugee escapes, Castro wants to reopen tractors for prisoners exchange, President Kennedy's peace core is taking shape, recruits arrive for training, World War 1 pilot reunion in Dayton, Ohio.
1961-07-21, WCBS, 5 min.
The opening of the telecast is heard and a report on Gus Grissom's return from space. Walter Cronkite reports in the field.1961-12-03, WCBS, 25 min.
Walter Cronkite narrates the story of Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy, who relayed information from his post in Honolulu to his Navy about Pearl Harbor.1962-02-18, WCBS, 26 min.
Frank Lloyd Wright's life is remembered by his wife and former associates. Wright, the architect, is represented in this tribute, narrated by Walter Cronkite. Frank Lloyd Wright was not only a real architect, but also an accomplished teacher and a noted iconoclast. These facets of the designer's identity, and the course of his career, are surveyed on this half-hour broadcast, narrated by Walter Cronkite. Wright, the architect, is represented highlighting some of his buildings: the Winslow House in River Forest, Illinois; the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo; the S.C. Johnson building in Racine, Wisconsin; the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma; the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Wright, the teacher, is shown working with students and associates at Taliesin, his studio and residence in Wisconsin. Wright, the iconoclast, is seen giving his thoughts on the Lincoln Memorial to Robert Richman of the National Culture Center. And we hear Frank Lloyd Wright's views on a man he holds in high esteem - himself. Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright (Olgivanna Lloyd Wright) and one of her husband's former associates, Henry Klumb, recall some of Wright's ideas. NOTE: This television audio air check was recorded, direct line for pristine sound quality, at the time of its original broadcast by Phil Gries, owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc.