Nathan Leopold measures his thirty three years in prison for the "thrill" murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks and seeks mercy in a release. Leopold along with Richard Loeb kidnapped and murdered young Franks in May 1924 in Chicago. They called the murder a demonstration of their intellectual superiority. Both men were sentenced to life plus 99 years in prison, with Loeb being murdered by a fellow prisoner in 1936. Leopold was released on parole in 1958.                     

Live radio coverage of the Inaugural Ball for President-Elect John F. Kennedy is broadcast from the DC Armory In Washington, DC.           

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.                                                  

The second in a series of programs presented by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union on behalf of Democrats.

Comments by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Henry Fonda, Janet Leigh, and former President Harry S. Truman.                        

Program #3 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union campaign for the Democratic party. A commercial on behalf of President Johnson, Senator Hubert Humphrey, and US Senate candidate, Robert Kennedy. Also speakers Dinah Shore and Steve Lawrence.                          

A report on homosexuality in England and Holland.   
British reporter Bryan Magee investigates. 
Produced by Rediffusion of London. 
                                   

An NBC Television SPECIAL:

 A look into German death concentration camps during World War 11. The play is set in a courtroom where witnesses confront the accused who represent real people. Alexander Scourby introduces the play. The cast is comprised of those actors who performed in this play on Broadway (1966).  
Commercials deleted. 


THE INVESTIGATION dramatizes testimonies by Nazi death-camp inmates. Adapted from the Peter Weiss Broadway play.

For years, the machinery of Auschwitz consumed them, millions upon millions. Statistics cannot communicate the horror; adjectives cannot describe the nightmare. It is only through the testimonies of the survivors that we can understand what took place, and that it COULD HAPPEN AGAIN!

The play is set in a courtroom where witnesses confront the accused (represented by real people). The atrocities which occurred less than an quarter of a century ago are related calmly and quietly. With equal reserve, the accused reply, "WE ONLY OBEYED ORDERS." 

NOTE:
This color taped 90 minute SPECIAL PRIME TIME NBC TV broadcast is not extant IN ANY FORM, VIDEO, AUDIO (with the exception of the master 1/4" reel to reel recording archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc.), or TRNASCRIPT. It was not archived by NBC or  archived by the major museums in the USA (Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, Museum of Broadcasting). 

Even more sadly noted and unexplained is that there is NO REFERENCE to this broadcast title on the internet, or listed as an IMDb entry.

The one listing of this title can be found in The Library of Congress as a rare theater program Playbill, ONLY (found in the Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection).

It is interesting to note some of the following review excerpts from Variety Television Reviews:

“The NBC presentation deserves all the recognition it may get as one of the outstanding programs of the season.”

“If to forget history is to be compelled to relive it, this dramatized presentation could not be aired often enough.”

"THE INVESTIGATION" WAS REPEATED AND AIRED ON SUNDAY APRIL 16, 1967 FROM 3:30 TO 5:00 PM EST. 

“If it were not known to be history, playwright Peter Weiss’ play could be mistaken for the sickest kind of theatre of the Absurd.”

                                                                                    

An NBC Television SPECIAL:

 A look into German death concentration camps during World War 11. The play is set in a courtroom where witnesses confront the accused who represent real people. Alexander Scourby introduces the play. The cast is comprised of those actors who performed in this play on Broadway (1966).  
Commercials deleted. 

Duplicate of #8334.


THE INVESTIGATION dramatizes testimonies by Nazi death-camp inmates. Adapted from the Peter Weiss Broadway play.

For years, the machinery of Auschwitz consumed them, millions upon millions. Statistics cannot communicate the horror; adjectives cannot describe the nightmare. It is only through the testimonies of the survivors that we can understand what took place, and that it COULD HAPPEN AGAIN!

The play is set in a courtroom where witnesses confront the accused (represented by real people). The atrocities which occurred less than an quarter of a century ago are related calmly and quietly. With equal reserve, the accused reply, "WE ONLY OBEYED ORDERS." 

NOTE:
This color taped 90 minute SPECIAL PRIME TIME NBC TV broadcast is not extant IN ANY FORM, VIDEO, AUDIO (with the exception of the master 1/4" reel to reel recording archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc.), or TRNASCRIPT. It was not archived by NBC or  archived by the major museums in the USA (Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, Library of Congress, Museum of Broadcasting). 

Even more sadly noted and unexplained is that there is NO REFERENCE to this broadcast title on the internet, or listed as an IMDb entry.

The one listing of this title can be found in The Library of Congress as a rare theater program Playbill, ONLY (found in the Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection).

It is interesting to note some of the following review excerpts from Variety Television Reviews:

“The NBC presentation deserves all the recognition it may get as one of the outstanding programs of the season.”

“If to forget history is to be compelled to relive it, this dramatized presentation could not be aired often enough.”

"THE INVESTIGATION" WAS REPEATED AND AIRED ON SUNDAY APRIL 16, 1967 FROM 3:30 TO 5:00 PM EST. 

“If it were not known to be history, playwright Peter Weiss’ play could be mistaken for the sickest kind of theatre of the Absurd.”

                                                                                                 

This year is Illinois 150th year of statehood. This nostalgic sesquicentennial tribute presents some of the Prairie State's leading citizens, as well as show-business personalities who have been associated with the state.
Among the stars are Jack Benny, Dave Garroway, Bob Hope, Mahalia Jackson, Mercedes McCambridge, Burr Tillstrom (with puppets Kukla and Ollie) and the original Benny Goodman Trio (Goodman, Gene Krupa and Teddy Wilson). The host is Steve Allen, who composed the program's score. 
Also appearing are Senator Everett Dirksen (who offers a dramatic recitation) and Charles Percy, former Senator Paul Douglas, Gov Otto Kerner, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, writer Mark Van Doren, architect R.Buckminster Fuller, balladeer Win Stracke, writer-broadcaster Studs Terkel, former FCC head Newton Minow and Adlai Stevenson III. Heard via recordings: the late Adlai Stevenson and poet Carl Sandburg. 
Filmed almost entirely on location, the program covers Illinois from end to end, visiting the pulse points of the present and historic sites sacred to its heritage,                                              

JACK JONES hosts highlights of the 1969 Ice Capades...with others appearing, Nancy Sinatra and Louis Nye.
 
Sketches include a maharaja (Louis Nye) who tells the tale of a young prince (Jack Jones) who tries to rescue an imprisoned princess. Also, a sketch with Louis Nye who portrays secret agent B 12. 

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

"With A Little Help from My Friends,"
"All Because You're Free".........................Jack Jones

"Do I Hear a Waltz?" "Good-Time Girl".............Nancy Sinatra

Includes Commercials.
           

Shelley Berman hosts this variety special.

An interview with NBC newsman Chet Huntley after his last broadcast on NBC.            

Live coverage of the Richard Nixon presidential inaugural.         

The second inauguration of Richard M. Nixon from Washington DC.           

Live coverage of the 724 and 7/25/74 impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon begin.                       

Continuing live radio coverage on the final day of impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon          

A jazz double-header with Sarah Vaughan and Buddy Rich. After Sara Vaughn is interviewed by the producer of the show, Sarah sings a melody of her favorites backed by her trio. Songs include,
"Misty," " Round Midnight," " Watch what Happens," "Body and Soul<" "It's Magic," "Everything I Have is Yours," "Come back to Me," and other classics.

Buddy Rich & his 17-member band opens the broadcast playing an original medley from "West Side Story" capped by an incredible extended solo drum virtuoso performance by Buddy Rich (14:24).  

Duplicate of # 5139.                         

Democratic Presidential candidate Governor Jimmy Carter captures the Illinois primary by winning 48.09 percent of the vote.            

It's The Easter Beagle Charlie Brown is the 12th prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schultz. It originally debuted on April 9th, 1974 at 8 PM. CBS originally aired it annually from 1974 to 2000 and since 2001, it continues to air in some years on ABC.            

The 20th annual pre-race special from the Indianapolis Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana. Contains original commercials.

VIDEO TAPED earlier coverage, presented on New York local station WPIX Channel 11 (11:30pm - 1:30am) from the streets of downtown Indianapolis. Bob Hope and Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony Hulman are the co-marshals. 

Host: Bob Barker.                        

Celebrating 200 years of American inventions. Produced by the BBC in association with NBC.

Hosts: James Burke and Raymond Burr            

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. 
                                                                                                                    

The Inaugural Ball for President-Elect Jimmy Carter who will be sworn in as the nation's 39th President the next day. 

Duplicate of # 8325.                          

The Inaugural Ball for President-Elect Jimmy Carter who will be sworn in as the nation's 39th President the next day.      

This entertainment extravaganza program is telecast live from the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and it has array of hosts, including Hank Aaron, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Freddie Prinze Jean Stapleton, John Wayne Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Jack Albertson, 

NOTE: The first time such Gala Salute, the night before a president is sworn into office, has been televised in its entirety.         

Highlights of the inauguration of President-Elect Jimmy Carter
are shown.                            

Live coverage of the inauguration parties for President-Elect Jimmy Carter.                         

A special report on the day's events concerning the inauguration of President-Elect Jimmy Carter.        

Live coverage of the inauguration of Jimmy Carter, sworn in as the 39th President of the United States.           

Inauguration highlights of President-Elect Jimmy Carter are shown.          

It's The Easter Beagle Charlie Brown is based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schultz. It originally debuted on April 9th, 1974 at 8 PM. CBS originally aired it annually from 1974 to 2000 and since 2001, it continues to air in some years on ABC.   

The continuing adventures of Charlie Brown and the gang at Eastertime.                       

It's The Easter Beagle Charlie Brown is based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schultz. It originally debuted on April 9th, 1974 at 8 PM. CBS originally aired it annually from 1974 to 2000 and since 2001, it continues to air in some years on ABC.   

The continuing adventures of Charlie Brown and the gang at Eastertime.   

Dupe of # 8346.