Rumors of something big in Washington, President Kennedy's "cold" disappears, rumors of happenings in either Berlin or Cuba, Secretary of State Dean Rusk rushes back to Washington, newsman claim President Kennedy looks good, has no cold, Andrei Gromyko delays trip to Moscow, Indians pushed back five miles by Chinese Reds in the Himalayas, the US condemns the invasion, Ben Bella welcomed home in Algeria following US and Cuba visit, a tanker collision in the Mississippi River kills nine, Khrushchev says he will take Berlin to the UN, President Kennedy activity in current political campaigns, travels and speaks on behalf of the local candidates, the Seattle World's Fair closes, the Cuban exile group "Alpha 66" says it will sink British ships that are trading with Cuba.                                       

First-class mystery story developing in Washington with possible grave consequences, extreme secrecy and tension in the air possibly involving Berlin or Cuba, most speculation surrounds Cuba, emergency construction crews at Key West, servicemen pour into Florida, the Chinese Reds continue the assault on the Indians, they accuse Indians of aggression in the Himalayas, the Soviets avoid comment on this border war.           

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. 

Topics: The Soviets may avert a showdown they show a hesitancy at the UN, the Chinese Reds continue their advances. 

                                                                

At the United Nations, third UN Secretary General U-Thant appeals for peace, regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

A pre-election special on the gubernatorial contest between California Governor Pat Brown and challenger Richard Nixon.
A political advertisement for New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller is heard.          

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.                                                            

Topics: US photos show Cubans are dismantling Russian missile installations, ex-president Eisenhower backs Kennedy's Cuban moves.                         

On the day of her death, at the age of 78, a special tribute to the former first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, is presented by Charles Collingwood. Included is a recent interview with Mrs. Roosevelt conducted by Dave Dubin.

An excerpt is replayed from a January 22, 1954 Person to Person broadcast, Edward R. Murrow interviewing Eleanor Roosevelt.

 Charles Collingwood gives details on her life as this Special Report tribute continues with film of the Roosevelt family at Hyde Park, New York, during Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1932 campaign, Inauguration Day on March 4, 1933, Mrs. Roosevelt's war-time activities, the death of President Roosevelt, and her appointment as the first woman delegate to the United Nations.

Collingwood closes with a tribute to "her quality of goodness and the transparency of her motivations."                      

Radio comedy show.

Guest: Vaughn Meader.  
                                                          

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.                                                                         

Topics: A review of the puppet show in New York City, the roster of CBS-TV daytime shows.             

The US investigates racial discrimination in Rapid City, South Dakota, the Women's "Peace Front" is investigated as pro-Red, 250 US students plan to visit Cuba at Castro's expense, Pope John is ill, he predicts he won't be around next year, President Kennedy will send out picture Christmas cards, CBS to expand the news to a half-hour in the fall.             

October 27,1959-
Documentaries produced by CBS Television usually telecast as Specials.
Fred Friendly produced the series for the first several years. Most notable broadcast that put this iconic documentary series of specials on the map was Edward R. Murrow reporting HARVEST OF SHAME (NOVEMBER 25, 1960) about the plight of the American farm worker and the shocking conditions in which farm laborers live, travel and labor in American fields and orchids.  

This report shows the flight of Venus space-pro Mariner 11, scheduled to navigate our planet a distance of 21,000 miles in two days (12/12/62). Also, an overview of humankind's efforts to explore deep space and a look at the possibilities of life on other planets. 

Interviewed arr project director Robert Parks and scientists Edward Teller, Sir Bernard Lovell, and Robert Bracewell. 

A news special on the US Venus probe.  

 Walter Cronkite Reports.

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Venus probe approaches the planet will send signals within the hour, the US launches a relay satellite, President Kennedy is in New York City at groundbreaking ceremonies for proposed 1964 World's Fair.              

British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan meets President Kennedy in the Bahamas to discuss Skybolt, the Congo, the European Common Market, James Donovan is in the last stages of negotiations to free 1200 invasion prisoners from Castro's Cuba, the US will pay $62 million dollars in ransom (in form of medicines and food), Attorney General Robert Kennedy returns from Brazilian trip. 

Anchor: Walter Cronkite.                                        

October 27,1959-
Documentaries produced by CBS Television usually telecast as Specials.
Fred Friendly produced the series for the first several years. Most notable broadcast that put this iconic documentary series of specials on the map was Edward R. Murrow reporting HARVEST OF SHAME (NOVEMBER 25, 1960) about the plight of the American farm worker and the shocking conditions in which farm laborers live, travel and labor in American fields and orchids

CBS News presents a special report: "Sabotage in South Africa." 

A look at life in South Africa under the controversial apartheid policy and on the activities and opinions of proponents and opponents of the segregationist  policy and of recent decrees that make the act of speaking out against apartheid one of sabotage and punishable by death.

Walter Cronkite reports.                        

Topics: Relations are strained between the US and Canada regarding joint nuclear arms, Canadians accuse the US of unwarranted intrusion, Jimmy Hoffa cites US pressure against him
on granting bail bonds, James Meredith registers at Mississippi University for the second semester, President Kennedy appoints Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. as the undersecretary of commerce, New York State Senator Kenneth Keating charges a Soviet buildup in Cuba, a recap of the first satellite launching five years ago today.                           

Topics: The Canadian government falls on nuclear commitments to the US, Russian arms buildup still continues according to Congressmen. 

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Premiere April 1, 1956...beginning Prime Time Jan. 12, 1962 - June 18, 1963. Half Hour Weekly Report hosted by Chet Huntley. 

An NBC half hour documentary series which premiered at 2:30pm on April 1, 1956 under the title OUTLOOK. The program initially featured news headlines, and multiple stories at greater length, including filmed reports. Narration and Commentary by Chet Huntley. Beginning December 22, 1957 the format was changed to provide in-depth exploration of a single subject. From 1959 to 1961 the program was aired on Sunday afternoon at 5:30pm. On January 12, 1962 the series moved to prime-time, Friday nights 10:30pm with the same format, Huntley interviewing news personalities and exploring topical issues in depth. During its seven year run the series had the following titles:
OUTLOOK, CHET HUNTLEY...REPORTING, TIME:PRESENT...CHET HUNTLEY REPORTING, and beginning September 25, 1960, CHET HUNTLEY REPORTING.

Broadcast title: "The Fringe Men...Anglo Saxon Attitudes."

Chet Huntley interviews Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan
Bennett, stars of the Broadway hit, "Beyond The Fringe."  

                        

Carol Burnett's very first special concludes with the routine "Just Can't Say Goodbye" with solo guest star Robert Preston.

Duplicate of #405.

Topics: Floods in the Midwest, Governor Rockefeller criticizes President Kennedy's civil rights program, Pam-Am building to open, Brooklyn dock boss Tony Anastasio is dead, Congress to approve a bill permitting Winston Churchill to become an honorary US citizen, Herbert Hoover receives an award from Stanford University, SINA group wants animals clothed.                          

CBS newsman Walter Cronkite narrates this special on illegal bookmaking in a Boston Store. 

Narrator: Walter Cronkite.  
NOTE:
The original broadcast was telecast on November 30, 1961. It was banned in Boston Massachusetts until this rebroadcast, shown for the first time.                                  

Topics: Woman wins slander lawsuit against Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (he called her a "bag woman") Cubans undergo military training in Florida, hope to go back to Cuba, slumlord order to repair apartment building and get rid of rats, whipping post to be used again in Delaware.  

Host: Douglas Edwards.                       

The weather report with Carol Reed, the local weather girl on WCBS-TV Channel 2 in New York City. She would always end her weather reports by saying "Have a Happy,"  most appropriately signing off on each December 31st. 

Archival Television Audio, Inc. has only one brief archived example of Carol Reed wheatear forecasting  on WCBS television. This rare 35 second opening is all that exists in any known archive in the country. The broadcast opens with the announcer introducing the program:

" Greyhound presents Carol Reed with the Late Weather."
 After Carol Reed says "good evening to her television viewers, she states that currently there is a rapid decline in temperature in the New York area. 

Carol Reed had a long run on WCBS TV News as the "weather girl" form 1952 to her final regularly scheduled early evening report (7:10-7:15 PM, and briefly 7:25-7:30 PM) and late evening report (11:15 - 11:20 PM) September 20, 1963. 

NOTE:

  Carol Reed (1925 or 1926 – June 4, 1970), always introduced as "Carol Reed, the weather girl", presented the weather portion of the evening newscasts on WCBS-TV in New York City from 1952 to 1963/1964. Not trained in meteorology, she nevertheless proved popular with viewers because of her cheerful demeanor and her characteristic signoff, "Good night and have a happy!" In 1958, she gained national recognition, as the commercial spokesperson for Nabisco.

After her run on channel 2 ended, she hosted a radio show on WCBS (AM) prior to its changeover to a current all-news format.

She died of cancer on June 4, 1970, in Mamaroneck, New York at age 44.

For decades WCBS‐TV News was aired as a 15 minute broadcast. The first 10 minutes dealt with the local news and the final 5 minutes focused strictly on the weather, as a weather program. 

It was the end of a television era soon to be realized by all local NYC channels, in 1963 & 1964, when a specific five minute weather broadcast entity of its own would be telecast. News would take priority, and the weather would be incorporated within the news, it getting as little or as much time as it merited.

12 years of Carol Reed broadcasting the weather is almost not extant in any form, kinescope or videotape. 
                                                                              

Topics: Negro demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, negroes march to City Hall, police dogs force negroes to disperse, Canadian election items-Lester Pearson favored to win, the Russian moonshot is a failure, Jack Nicklaus wins golf match, police narcotics squad '7-Ups' raid rock'n'roll singers apartment.   

 Charles Collingwood substitutes for Harry Reasoner.                                 

The US nuclear submarine "Thresher" is lost with 129 aboard, US combat troops man guns in South Vietnam war, Algerian minister is shot, miscellaneous from the radio.           

July 28th, 1958-March 23rd, 1973 NBC
1973-1979- Syndicated

One of the longest-running and successful daytime game shows with various hosts, including Hugh Downs from 1958-1965. Bob Clayton succeeded Downs as the daytime host, while the syndicated version was hosted by Jack Narz. 

Host: Hugh Downs
                      

Topics: Report on dictator Francois Duvalier of Haiti,- threatened with invasion by the Dominican Republic, Hughes Rudd reporting from Port-au-Prince Haiti, President Kennedy favors Samuel Stratton for New York Senator, Nixon will live in New York City, comment by Rockefeller (pleased), the police arrest 450 children in Birmingham, Alabama for race demonstrations, Senator Thomas Kuchel says right-wing groups try to scare US with hoaxes, (Chinese Red troops are poised to invade the US from Mexico) President Kennedy talks to the wives of Congressmen).                                                             

Topics: Further racial strife in Birmingham, Alabama, comment by Jackie Robinson, the crisis in Haiti, the 74th American GI dies in the Vietnam war, ship crash in New York Harbor.             

Topics: 3,000 Federal troops sent by President Kennedy to Birmingham to quell riots and bombings in racial crisis, Governor Wallace protests US interference, Attorney General Robert Kennedy comments, astronaut Gordon Cooper prepares for orbital space flight tomorrow.              

The reception and press conference for astronaut Gordon Cooper.

Host: Walter Cronkite.               

Pope John the 23rd is dying of cancer, President Kennedy will send Congress his civil rights pact, negroes plan demonstrations in Florida, violence in Philadelphia over job discrimination, nuclear fallout to increase in the US, Kennedy, and Macmillan sends a note to Khrushchev on the nuclear test ban treaty, 1000 Japanese protest visit of US nuclear submarine to Japan.                          

  CBS anchor Douglas Edwards reports the news of the day.     

President Kennedy to meet British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in England, a big scandal is brewing in England concerning the "John Profumo Affair,"  laborites demand investigations of the cabinet minister and party girls, a conference on proposed Malaysia Federation in the Philippines, 
an objection by Indonesia, Alabama prepares for possible enrollment of a negro at Alabama, University, a gangland killing in Chicago.                                    

Topics: Senators reject President Kennedy's distress bill, NAACP leader Medgar Evers is assassinated in Mississippi, comment by Martin Luther King, picketing in NYC over racial labor discrimination, Governor Rockefeller comments on criticism of Arthur Levitt, Project Gemini to begin in 1965, John Profumo sex scandal revelations continue in England, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson sees Nikita Khrushchev, the film "Cleopatra" premieres on Broadway, various reviews of the film.                                      

Topics: Senators reject President Kennedy's distress bill, NAACP leader Medgar Evers is assassinated in Mississippi, comment by Martin Luther King, picketing in NYC over racial labor discrimination, Governor Rockefeller comments on criticism of Arthur Levitt, Project Gemini to begin in 1965, John Profumo sex scandal revelations continue in England, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson sees Nikita Khrushchev, the film "Cleopatra" premieres on Broadway, various reviews of the film.                                      

A CBS News special on the racial crisis in Harlem.            

Topic: The moon race is it worth it?             

A report from CBS radio news.             

Topics: Nikita Khrushchev calls for peace will visit East Germany, President Kennedy talks to West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Kennedy comments on the multi-lateral nuclear force, a New York State official is accused with racial discrimination, Malcolm X says whites want to corrupt Harlem, 
Louisville makes progress in integration, Douglas Edwards fluff, says "ass" for oxen.                                     

Casper Citron was a long-time radio host and interviewer at WQXR And WOR radio in New York City, conducting his interviews from Manhattan hotel lobbies.

Today, Casper Citron talks with film critics Judith Crist, John Simon, and Hollis Alpert about the current state of films.                                                  

A CBS News special, the coronation of Pope Paul VI.             

Viet Cong raids the hills, more Americans in South Vietnam, violent demonstrations by Buddhists against the Government of Diem, Attorney General Robert Kennedy testifies for his brother's civil rights bill before Senator James Eastland's legislative hearing, President Kennedy entertains 2,000 foreign students at a White House lawn party.                          

Topics: President Kennedy talks about the nuclear test ban treaty, the Chinese Reds will probably set up a crash program to test the nuclear bomb, Fidel Castro accuses the US as "swindlers" and Kennedy as a"ruffian" in ransom deal, discussion of the earthquake in Yugoslavia, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson comments on Portuguese colonies, the Senate Commerce Committee is in another squabble on civil rights legislation, Senators John Pastore and Strom Thurmond in a row, a hot primary campaign for Governor of Mississippi, candidates viciously attack President Kennedy.                                       

On HY GARDNER SHOW, an excerpt replay of Heavyweight boxing contender Cassius Clay's (Muhammad Ali)  interview with WOR-TV sports reporter Clure Mosher, originally broadcast the middle of May 1963 prior to Clay flying to London to fight reigning British Heavyweight Champion, Henry Cooper. 

Cassius Clay tells Clure Mosher that he wants to fight "the bear" Sonny Liston. He states, "I want him three months after Patterson. I'm going to get this man out of the way. He is nothing."

Mosher replies, "Liston is a big, stern and mean-looking man, Cassius. I fear he would just scare you to death getting in the ring with him."

Cassius Clay: "I'm just too crazy to be scared."

Clure Mosher: "I think you're going to do very well and make a lot of money. And, as a matter of fact, you and Patterson may go down in history, as far as I am concerned, as being two of the boxers around having made more money with less talent than anybody."

Cassius Clay: "You are just getting off the subject. You just talk too much. I'm sorry I have to go to bed. I have a fight coming up and I don't want to see you unless I'm in the ring. I'm through."

 Clay walks out on the interview.

Returning back to the Hy Gardner Show,  Hy Gardner comments on this moment as does Hy's guest, Bobby Rydell, a friend of Cassius Clay. Gardner
 
Hy Gardner states to Rydell, "Did you ever see anything like that?" Now, this was Cassius Clay. I don't know if he just got mad and walked out or this was just showmanship?"   

Hy's guest, Bobby Rydell remarks that he thinks it was showmanship. Gardner remembers only one time that a guest on his show quit on him on the air, naming Charles Laughton.  

Gardner:"I think it is great when someone does walk out on you. Is this the real  Cassius Clay or Cassius Clay the image?"  
Rydell  mentions that he recently spent three days in Miami with Clay and thinks he is great for boxing predicting nine out of ten times the round he will beat his opponents. 

Hy comments that during the Clure Mosher interview Clay amazingly called the exact round he would defeat his next opponent. 

NOTE: One month after the May 1963 Clure Mosure interview, Cassius Clay predictably KO'd Henry Cooper in five rounds on June 18, 1963). 

NOTE: The Cassius Clay May 1963 television interview by Clure Mosher is the earliest known extant one on one studio interview of Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) known at this time.  

NOTE: See ATA#14145K aircheck audio of the broadcast of the Henry Cooper vs Cassius Clay fight.                                                                                                               

The nuclear test ban treaty is signed by the big three in Moscow, festive occasion, Dean Rusk, Nikita Khrushchev, U-Thant, and Averill Harriman are all on hand, comment by Rusk, Robert McNamara in Germany also comments, Governor Nelson Rockefeller is questioned on 1964 convention choices, civil rights demonstrators block trucks in a racially disputed area, in South Vietnam, Buddhists demonstrate against the Government, Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali makes a record entitled "I Am The Greatest." 

Mike Wallace reports.                                                   

Son born prematurely to President Kennedy, the child has difficulty breathing, Congress will remain in session until the civil rights bill is passed, A. Philip Randolph denies subversives will infiltrate the proposed march on Washington, "anti-Kennedyism" in South discussed by Mississippi leader.            

Comedy from Carl Reiner and Jonathan Winters.