First game of season. WDVW Channel 7 presents a video-taped replay of the game between the Northern Iowa Hawkeyes and Evansville Purple Aces one-hour after it was played. A complete, accurate, and concise report of the game with the magic of video tape. Why wait to read about it tomorrow when you can see it tonight on WDVW Channel 7? An affiliate of CBS. Playing in game for Evansville is future NBA player and head coach Jerry Sloan and Evansville All-Star Buster Briley. 

Final Score: Iowa 62- Evansville 57. 
Announcers Gary Bash and Gus Dernan. Presented by Hollendary.                                     

Various radio broadcast recordings of Arturo Toscanini from WRVR radio in New York City. 

WRVR: TOSCANINI: The NBC ERA. Recordings originally made during the broadcast of February 19th, 1938. Concerto Grosso No. 12.

February 26th, 1938- The Flying Dutchman Overture-Symphony No.2
Symphony Poem: "Vitava." Wagner, Borodin, Brahms, Smetana.

WBAI: "The Seagull"- BBC production of the play by Anton Chekhov. 

These broadcasts were aired from January- June, 1962 in cooperation with Toscanini's son Walter. Short-lived series only broadcast first two seasons, 1938-1939. Abruptly canceled in September, 1962. 

October 2nd, 1960-September 3rd, 1967 (CBS) 

Half-hour human interest show created by Allen Funt. People were unknowingly caught on camera just being themselves. Arthur Godfrey was Funt's original co-host when the show debuted in 1960 but was replaced by Durward Kirby after one season. In 1966 Bess Myerson replaced Kirby and remained co-host until the final show on Sunday, September 3rd, 1967 the same day "What's My Line?" was telecast for the final time.  

Host: Allen Funt, co-host, Durward Kirby. Guest is Dorothy Collins.           

John Glenn's orbital flight with Charles Collingwood and Walter Cronkite. A recap of the flight and press interviews with the Glenn family. President Kennedy also comments on the flight.  

 
NOTE: BOX SCORE IN SPACE RACE
A COMPARISON OF THE ORBITAL FILGHTS OF American Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., and the Russian astronauts Maj. Yuri A. Gagarian and Maj. Gherman Titov: 

Date                   GLENN        TITOV          GAGARIN
 
Launch              Feb. 20, 1962  Aug. 6, 1961   April 12, 1961

Altitude (Miles)  100-160         110-159        110-187.75

Distance (Miles)  81,000          435,000          26,000

Speed (MPH)       17,350          17,750           17,400

Flight Time    4 Hrs. 56 Min.  25 Hrs. 15 Min.    1 Hr. 45 Min.

No. of Orbits     Three             17               One

Weight of Craft  4,200 lbs.       10,430           10,460

Craft Name      Friendship 7      Vostok 2        Vostok 1

Rocket Thrust   360,000 lbs.    800,000 lbs.    800,000 lbs.

Weightlessness 4 Hrs. 45 Mins. 24 Hrs. 59 Mins.   89.1 Mins.                       

A reception is held for Colonel John Glenn in Washington, DC. He will talk before Congress.            

Highlights: President De Gaulle proclaims an end to the Algerian war, the French secret army vows to fight to finish with the Algerian National extremists, (OAS) to continue shootings, assassinations, the Soviet air force harass Berlin air corridor, the US is expected to send 2,000 advisors to South Vietnam in aid against the Viet Cong, Castro's Cuba urges the US to abandon Guantanamo, food rationing in Cuba is tightened.                        

January 4th, 1959-June 16th, 1963 (CBS) 
September 22nd, 1963-June 14th, 1970 (NBC)
September 13th, 1987- December 20th, 1987 (Disney Channel)  

The College Bowl also referred to as the GE College Bowl was a competition between various colleges and universities. Each week, two teams comprised of four members would attempt to answer difficult questions on a variety of subjects. Allen Ludden hosted this quiz show from 1959-1962 followed by Robert Earle (1962-1970). Dick Cavett hosted the Disney Channel version in 1987.    

Host: Allen Ludden.                                       

May 3,1948 - April 13,1962

Douglas Edwards with the News
Original title: CBS Television News

On May 3, 1948, Douglas Edwards began "The CBS-TV News," a regular 15-minute nightly newscast later named "Douglas Edwards with the News." It was broadcast nationally weeknights at 7:30 PM (EST).

This was the first regularly scheduled weekday television news program in American history.

It should be noted that prior to the historic premiere May 3, 1948 weekday CBS-TV News broadcast there were other CBS TV News broadcasts and anchors dating back to Larry LeSuer, doing a 15 minute newscast beginning in June 1946 on Thursday evenings and Saturday evenings with also Tom O’Connor handling the weekend newscast as well. 

On November 30, 1956, the first network news show to be videotaped for rebroadcast to the West Coast was achieved. This video tape is not known to exist today as is most of all of Douglas' news broadcasts, in any broadcast form. 

On April 16, 1962, Walter Cronkite succeeded Edwards as CBS's evening newscaster. Douglas Edwards continued to broadcast the local WCBS nightly weekly newscast. He also did a five-minute daytime newscast until April 1, 1988.

NOTE: This was the third from last CBS NEWS WITH DOUGLAS EDWARDS newscast with Douglas Edwards at the anchor desk, ending am amazing fourteen year run. Five days later Walter Cronkite would replace Edwards in that chair. 

News reported include:
President Kennedy condemns irresponsibility of steel companies 
in raising the price of steel, Byron White's appointment as a Supreme Court justice is approved, Fidel Castro to release some sick Cuban POW's, George Rockwell Nazi troopers arrive in New York, talk about their movement.                       

October 2, 1961 - August 30, 1963
10:00am to 10:30am. 

Harry Reasoner and Mary Fickett are hosts for this live half-hour weekday series which deals with a variety of subjects, including art, science, history, fashion, travel, medicine, education, marriage, and customs. Included is a daily news report by Reasoner. Many celebrities also drop by and discuss their past, present and future career with Fickett and Reasoner. 

Harry Reasoner interviews Harold Lloyd on this live morning public affairs series. Co-host is Mary Fickett.                                       

April 16th, 1962 - March 6, 1981

On April 16th, 1962, Walter Cronkite made his debut as the anchor of the CBS Evening News replacing Douglas Edwards. He was not only the anchorman for the network newscast, but also served as its "managing editor." the dual position gave him considerable latitude in the selection, timing and arrangement of the day's news stories. It was during  Cronkite's early says at anchor that the nightly broadcasts expanded from fifteen to thirty minutes. The first half-hour show aired September 2, 1963, a week ahead of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley first expanded newscast and featured a special interview with President John F. Kennedy.

Color broadcasts of the evening news began early in 1966, about two months after NBC's. During this year most Network television transitioned from Black And White to Color.  

From the late 1960's until his retirement in 1977, Eric Sevareid commentated on The CBS Evening News. 

NOTE:
Moving images of Walter Cronkite reading the news in his studio every night for six years (1962–August 2, 1968) are mostly gone and not extant in any broadcast form. Exceptions are his coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 and the November 1963 events in Dallas, Texas: the JFK assassination, the shootings of police officer J. D. Tippit and Lee Oswald and all three funerals, as well as his introduction of the Beatles and his criticism of the Vietnam War.
Douglas Edwards anchored the live five-minute segment The CBS Afternoon News five afternoons a week between 1962 and 1966. He started the segment immediately after the twenty-five minute broadcast of the Goodson-Todman game show To Tell The Truth. Not one second from four years' worth of The CBS Afternoon News was preserved in any way.
Archival Television Audio original off the air sound recordings of network and local television news broadcasts, pre-1968, are extremely rare and not preserved at The Library of Congress, Paley Center for Media or UCLA Film & TV Archive.


Communist push deepens into Laos, the Senate led by Senator Thomas Dodd investigates sex and violence in TV programs such as the CBS drama, "Route 66," stock market reversal for the sixth day in a row, future planetary vehicles discussed by space expert.


CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (1962–1981)

ANCHOR:
Walter Cronkite	 1962-1981 

EMINENT CORRESPONDENTS INCLUDE:
Roger Mudd 1963-1980 

Eric Sevareid 1963-1977 

Bill Plant 1968-1980 

Robert Pierpoint 1963-1980

Charles Kuralt  1968-1975 

Bob Schieffer 1975-1980 

Dan Rather 1963-1980 

Richard Threlkeld  1968-1977 

Bruce Morton 1968-1980 

Lesley Stahl   1974-1980
 
Harold Dow 1974-1980 

Marvin Kalb 1963-1979
 
George Herman 1963-1975 

Nelson Benton 1963-1968 

Bob Gregory 1968 

Harry Reasoner 1963-1980 

Bernard Kalb 1963-1979 

Terry Drinkwater 1974-1975

Bob McNamara 1977-1980 

Ed Bradley 1978-1980  
                                                                              

January 9th, 1961-November 16th, 1962 (ABC)
1980-Syndicated

Half-hour game show in which contestants sought to trace the outline of a described object camouflaged within a larger scene on the game board.

Don Morrow was the host of the network version while Tom Campbell hosted the syndicated series.                         

Douglas Edwards anchored the CBS EVENING NEWS from May 3, 1948 to April 13, 1962. He would continue his affiliation with CBS NEWS doing a five minute daytime weekday news broadcast until April 1, 1988.  

The stock market suffers its worst day since the crash of 1929, the paper value drops $20 billion dollars. 

A Schweppes commercial is included.                        

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.

Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel, the federal government will aid in ridding New York of juvenile delinquency. 
                                        

May 3, 1948 - April 13, 1962

Douglas Edwards with the News
Original title: CBS Television News

On May 3, 1948, Douglas Edwards began "The CBS-TV News," a regular 15-minute nightly newscast later named "Douglas Edwards with the News." It was broadcast nationally weeknights at 7:30 PM (EST).

This was the first regularly scheduled weekday television news program in American history.

It should be noted that prior to the historic premiere May 3, 1948 weekday CBS-TV News broadcast there were other CBS TV News broadcasts and anchors dating back to Larry LeSuer, doing a 15 minute newscast beginning in June 1946 on Thursday evenings and Saturday evenings with also Tom O’Connor handling the weekend newscast as well. 

On November 30, 1956, the first network news show to be videotaped for rebroadcast to the West Coast was achieved. This video tape is not known to exist today as is most of all of Douglas' news broadcasts, in any broadcast form. 

On April 16, 1962, Walter Cronkite succeeded Edwards as CBS's evening newscaster. Douglas Edwards continued to broadcast the local WCBS nightly weekly newscast. He also did a five-minute daytime newscast until April 1, 1988.


Adolf Eichmann is hung, a report from Israel.                                                                

Eric Sevareid was an American author and CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He became a fixture on CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite form 1965 to 1977 giving commentaries at the end of thousands of  broadcasts.
In July 1965, he was the last journalist to interview Adlai Stevenson at the U.S. embassy in London just days prior to his death. 
Sevareid always considered himself a writer first and often felt uneasy behind a microphone and even less comfortable on television. 
Eric Sevareid appeared in or on CBS coverage of every presidential election from 1948 to 1976, the year before his retirement. 


A plane crash kills 130 people in France, the plane contained art lovers from Atlanta, Georgia, Harold Macmillan happy after visiting French president De Gaulle, Russia accuses the US on the proposed nuclear test.                           

The US launches a communications satellite, "Telstar 1", President Kennedy attends the baseball All-Star Game in Washington. 

Host: Charles Collingwood subbing for Walter Cronkite.             

The first television transmissions from the "Telstar 1" satellite are described, as the new communications satellite Telstar made its sixth orbit after successfully launching earlier in the day form Cape Canaveral. 

Anchor: Douglas Edwards.                           

A summer replacement series hosted by
Sam Levenson in 1960,
August 1- September 26,

Jim Backus in 1962,
February 3, - September 11,

Merv Griffin in 1963,
July 2, - September 17, 

Art Linkletter in 1965, (ONE HOUR series)
June 22, - September 7.

Art Linkletter later hosted the program as a mid-season replacement for the Steve Lawrence Show, again in a one-hour format, titled Art Linkletter's Hollywood Talent Scouts from December 20, 1965 - September 5, 1966.   

Scouts include Jerry Lewis.

Host: Jim Backus                                                            

Live television between Europe and the USA, the US prepares a high-altitude nuclear test, striking doctors in Canada come to terms,              

Walter Cronkite, who began anchoring the CBS Evening News only three and a half months prior to this newscast, reports on the death of Marilyn Monroe. By closed circuit television, he also discusses the tragic death with Kim Novak and signs off the air with his familiar "And That's The Way It Is Aug. 6th 1962."    

Partial Transcript:

 Walter Cronkite: "Good Evening from the CBS News Headquarters in New York."  

Announcer: "This is the Evening News Edition of CBS News with Walter Cronkite. Brought to you by Dristan.

WC: " Capturing the world attention caused by her death. Even the Russians today sat in judgement calling her a victim of Hollywood. In Hollywood today a team of doctors and psychiatrists were still trying to determine exactly what she was a victim of. Her own hand or an accident? But the coroners inquest can only tell us how Marilyn Monroe died, and not why? Why with everything to live for with fame and fortune in their grasp are so many of our movie queens desperately unhappy. 

By closed circuit television  I asked that question  to Miss Kim Novak in Hollywood this afternoon.

Kim Novak responds and discusses her insight with Walter Cronkite in a four minute segment. 






    

More on the spaceship "Vostok 111," the possibility of a three-day flight, the Russians urge the US to refrain from nuclear testing which might endanger the safety of the flight. 

Alan Jackson reporting.                                         

Major Andriyan Nikolayevis now 24 hours in orbit, the possibility of a second spacecraft to be launched, the anniversary of the Berlin Wall, West Berlin and East Germany cautious as tension increases, the Russians reinforce the wall with troops and police, return of Dr. Robert Soblen is delayed.                         

Allies to have ambulances at the Berlin Wall to aid the refugees if shot by the East Germans, this follows the killing of a young German refugee by border guards, West Berliners angry at US and Reds. Russian spacemen give interviews on recent flights, earthquakes in Italy, Churchill greeted by Britons following convalescing, police seeking smallpox boy, another assassination attempt on French President Charles De Gaulle, ruling on deportation tomorrow on Dr. Robert Soblen, the FDA warns the public on thalidomide drug, they urge removal from medicine shelves, a report on the racial situation in London, Hoot Gibson dies, Vice-President Lyndon Johnson arrives in Lebanon on part of a goodwill tour.                                                               

October 2, 1961 - August 30, 1963

Harry Reasoner and Mary Fickett are hosts for this live half-hour weekday series which deals with a variety of subjects, including art, science, history, fashion, travel, medicine, education, marriage, and customs. Included is a daily news report by Reasoner. Many celebrities also drop by and discuss their past, present and future career with Fickett and Reasoner. 

Host Harry Reasoner and his wife Kay Reasoner profile Jackie Gleason and his touring cross country train ride, plugging the new Fall premiere series of The American Scene Magazine, starring Jackie Gleason.                          

A summer replacement series hosted by
Sam Levenson in 1960,
August 1- September 26,

Jim Backus in 1962,
February 3, - September 11,

Merv Griffin in 1963,
July 2, - September 17, 

Art Linkletter in 1965, (ONE HOUR series)
June 22, - September 7.

Art Linkletter later hosted the program as a mid-season replacement for the Steve Lawrence Show, again in a one-hour format, titled Art Linkletter's Hollywood Talent Scouts from December 20, 1965 - September 5, 1966.   

Scouts include Allen and Rossi, Jack E. Leonard, and Harry Belafonte. 

Host: Jim Backus                                                                                      

Iranian earthquake report from Mongolia, the Soviets agree to supply Cuba with arms and technicians, the Klu Klux Klan is reactivated in Louisana opposed to integration and communism, 
Russian military convoy is delayed at Checkpoint Charlie on way to memorial in West Berlin, US rocket on the way to Venus, scientists attempt to shift course and speed of the "Mariner 11" to insure Venus probe, 350 die in traffic accidents.                        

1961, 1964, 1972, (syndicated)

Psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers became known for her appearance on the "The $64,000 Question" where she became the first woman contestant to win the top prize.
Starting in 1961, she had three different series. The first was "Consult Dr. Brothers" followed by "Tell Me Dr. Brothers in 1964 and the third in 1972 was entitled "Living Easy With Dr. Joyce Brothers." The first two series focused on human relationships while the third was a talk show featuring celebrity guests.

Topic: soothsayers and astrologers.                                        

September 5th, 1960- September 28th, 1962 (NBC)

Charge Account also referred to as The Jan Murray Show was a daytime game show in which players competed for the right to purchase prizes by forming words out of a group of sixteen letters.    

NOTE: Only known surviving broadcast representation of Charge Account (The Jan Murray Show). 
 During the first nine minutes an intermittent minimal "buzz" sound is heard on the recording. Otherwise, most discernible, historic and nostalgic. 

NOTE:
 Almost all daytime game shows from the 1970's and before have been destroyed. CBS's archives begin in 1972, ABC's in 1978, and NBC's in 1980. A handful of producers (most notably Goodson-Todman) did arrange for the preservation of their shows even during the tape-recycling period.     

                            

Originally premiered Oct 29th, 1956 as a fifteen minute program on KRCA, Los Angeles.

American composer and singer Curt Massey and singer Martha Tilton team up on this musical series.                     

A summer replacement series hosted by
Sam Levenson in 1960,
August 1- September 26,

Jim Backus in 1962,
February 3, - September 11,

Merv Griffin in 1963,
July 2, - September 17, 

Art Linkletter in 1965, (ONE HOUR series)
June 22, - September 7.

Art Linkletter later hosted the program as a mid-season replacement for the Steve Lawrence Show, again in a one hour format, titled Art Linkletter's Hollywood Talent Scouts from December 20, 1965 - September 5, 1966.   

                                                     

Originally premiered Oct 29th, 1956 as a fifteen minute program on KRCA, Los Angeles.

American composer and singer Curt Massey and singer Martha Tilton team up on this musical series.        

This one hour documentary special  follows Cuba's political history from the take-over of the government by Fulgencio Batista in 1952, through its overthrow by Fidel Castro's forces in 1959. i
Introduced by John Tillman. Narrated by Westbrook Van Voorhis.                       

October 2, 1961 - August 30, 1963

Harry Reasoner and Mary Fickett are hosts for this live half-hour weekday series which deals with a variety of subjects, including art, science, history, fashion, travel, medicine, education, marriage, and customs. Included is a daily news report by Reasoner. Many celebrities also drop by and discuss their past, present and future career with Fickett and Reasoner. 
Hosts: Harry Reasoner and Mary Fickett. 

Today's guests are Walter Cronkite, Bob Considine, and war correspondent Hal Boyle.

                                                   

Comedy by Jonathan Winters and Jackson Payne.             

Democrats to nominate Robert Morganthau as a candidate for Governor, Republicans to nominate Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Nasa's Kenneth Gilbreath names nine new astronauts who will be trained for a trip to the moon, four white men confess to burning a negro church.                                      

Harry Hershfield. 

Radio comedy.                       

President Kennedy's brother (Ted Kennedy) wins the Democratic primary in Massachusetts for Senator, comment by Ted Kennedy, Robert Morganthau is nominated for Governor of New York, Senator Jacob Javits is renominated, the UN opens fall session, integration news.                          

Radio show.                                  

October 2, 1961 - August 30, 1963

Harry Reasoner and Mary Fickett are hosts for this live half-hour weekday series which deals with a variety of subjects, including art, science, history, fashion, travel, medicine, education, marriage, and customs. Included is a daily news report by Reasoner. Many celebrities also drop by and discuss their past, present and future career with Fickett and Reasoner. 

Guests with Harry Reasoner who discuss boxing are Rocky Marciano, Emile Griffith, and Ezzard Charles.                          

Pat Buttram is the guest.

Radio comedy.                                    

A Fall preview of CBS programs.     

Five stars of TV comedy, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny , Andy Griffith, Garry Moore and Danny Thomas blend their talents for an hour to poke fun at the new 1962-1963 TV season and themselves. 
Written by Larry Gelbart. 
Announcer: Don Wilson.

NOTE: Some variations in sound quality, but most of the audio is excellent.                                              

Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson, the Justice Department to seek a contempt citation against Governor Ross Barnett of Mississippi who is refusing to permit James Meredith, a negro, to enroll at Mississippi University, Russia may build a naval base in Cuba, secret training practices in the US, Cuban exiles are learning guerilla tactics for action in Cuba, Soviet planes buzz allied planes near Berlin, Andrei Gromyko meets Dean Rusk in Washington on Laos problems, the fraud trial of Billy Sol Estes is postponed, fascist Oswald Mosely arrives in the US, calls American negro "crackpots," the Department of Markets investigates phony weights in New York City.                                

Originally premiered Oct 29th, 1956 as a fifteen minute program on KRCA, Los Angeles.

American composer and singer Curt Massey and singer Martha Tilton team up on this musical series.                                  

Originally premiered Oct 29th, 1956 as a fifteen minute program on KRCA, Los Angeles.

American composer and singer Curt Massey and singer Martha Tilton team up on this musical series.                                               

Special Report Update.
Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett will back down in face of Federal marshalls and troops, a report from Oxford Mississippi, the latest report: violence at the campus, marshals using tear gas.  

Host: Charles Collingwood                         

US Marshals invade University Of Mississippi college campus in Oxford as student James Meredith attempts to integrate the all-white school. 

Vice-President Lyndon Johnson snubs Robert Morgenthau in New York City visit, Nelson Rockefeller comments on Morganthau comment about "tax rise."             

A storm threatens the moon-shot from Cape Canaveral, three more US personnel die in South Vietnam, President Kennedy to meet Andrei Gromyko in Washington to discuss problems, Wally Schirra receives astronaut wings, the US to test a nuclear bomb, Ahmed Ben Bella is greeted in Cuba, Mayor Wagner greets Peace Corp trainees, an interview with Henry Morganthau (candidate for governor of New York State), the New York Yankees defeat the San Francisco Giants in game 7 of the 1962 World Series.                                        

President Kennedy catches "cold" while on tour in Chicago, has a fever and on doctor's advice heads back to Washington, a statement by Pierre Salinger on doctor's examination, fighting continues at Indian-Chinese border, Indians retreat before Chinese assault, Krishon Menon says the Indians will fight on, Cuba charges "Yankee provocation" at Guantanamo, the US says heavy fleet activity and troops maneuvers in the Caribbean area, anti-US activity in Japan against bases, Vice-President Johnson also has a cold and heads back to Washington, Harry Truman chides the Eisenhower administration, Richardson Dilworth and William Scranton have an angry debate in a TV studio.