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.                          

Khrushchev in angry outburst Chinese Red "fanatics," attacks those trying to unseat him, President Diem tries to can conciliate Buddhists in South Vietnam, Syria executes coup conspirators, Nelson Rockefeller asks Barry Goldwater to disavow "right-wing lunatic fringe," Republicans in a squabble over conservative movements.          

John D. Griffin presents news and commentary from the world of Hollywood, TV, politics, and society. 

Guests are Tony Marvin and Sonny King who talks about working with Jimmy Durante.

Host: John D. Griffin          

The cast of the original off-Broadway hit presents two hours of improvisations and sketches based on life in general and current events. The players Theodore J. Flicker, Thomas Aldredge, Joan Darling, and James J. Frawley, hardly leave a stone untouched, as they satirize everything from movies ("West Side Story" and "David and Lisa") to Caroline Kennedy. Skits include a southern tourist in Germany, love on the subway, and astronauts discussing old radio shows, David Susskind hosts.                                                   

Topics: The eclipse of the Sun, a possible nuclear test ban treaty.             

Earliest known complete television interview with a young 21 year old  heavyweight boxing contender Cassius Clay (before his name was change to Muhammad Ali) and his slightly older brother Rudolph Clay, who would also turn professional boxer (after his name was changed to Rahman Ali. 

NOTE: The only known formal TV broadcast interview with both Muhammad and Rahman Ali, together.
 
NOTE: See incomplete re-run of this broadcast, ATA#14449.
DIALOGUE: CASSIUS CLAY, RUDOLPH CLAY
1964-02-23, WNBC, 13 min.
Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali, Rudolph Clay, Rahman Ali, Brian ODoherty
                                           "DIALOGUE"

December 1, 1961-April 27, 1962 (Friday 7pm-7:30pm)
June 18, July 16, 1962 (Monday 7pm-7:30pm) 
October 14, 1962-December 9, 1962 (Sunday 4:00pm-4:30pm)
April 21, 1963-September 29, 1963 (Sunday 4:30pm-5:00pm) 
December 1, 1963-August 30, 1964 (Sunday 12:30pm-1:00pm)

DIALOGUE had five program slots in two and a-half years, with many preemption programming along the way. Approximately 75 video taped half hour broadcasts were telecast as Dr. Brian  O'Doherty hosted various topics, ideas, and people from poetry readings to interviews. 

Among the more notable interviews: Muhammad Ali (July 21, 1963), Woody Allen (April 28, 1963), Man Ray (June 16, 1963), Geraldine Page (July 14, 1963), Richard Leacock (June 18, 1962), Gordon Parks (July 16, 1962), Salvatore Dali (May 19, 1963), Peter Ustinov (June 2, 1963), James Baldwin (August 2, 1964), Mort Sahl (June 28, 1964), Olivia DeHavilland (June 14, 1964) and Odetta (May 23, 1964).                                                                                         

Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy. 

A review of the week's news: The top news stories of the week. 

Narrator: Fred Foy.   

NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25 minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.                                                                                                                                                       

Segregated construction projects, a report on the "World of Henry Barnes," the New York City traffic commissioner. 

George Redding reporting for WNEW radio news in New York City.                                                                 

WABC RADIO lead in by Bruce Morrow prior to coverage of 
a first round KO of Floyd Patterson by Sonny Liston broadcast live from the convention center in Las Vegas over WABC Radio in New York. Heard is a 15 minute Special Preview boxing pre-fight show with Howard Cosell who interviews Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston and Challenger, Floyd Patterson. They give their views on how the fight will turn out.  Predictions of who will win this rematch World Heavyweight Championship fight by sports columnists at ringside, Arthur Daley, Shirley Povich, Al Abrams, Bill Hines, Dick Peebles, Nat Fleischer, Jack Hand, George Whiting, Angelo Dundee, and Jim Bishop, the only one who predicts a Patterson victory. Howard Cosell is at ringside along with Les Keiter who does the blow-by-blow reporting with commentary from Rocky Marciano. Jack McCarthy announces the fighters. Mickey Allen sings the National Anthem. Number 2 contender Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) mocks Sonny Liston at ringside and in the ring. The three knockdown first round is broadcast. Extensive interviews with Joe Louis, and Rocky Marciano. Additional comments from Billy Conn and Lou Nova. Howard Cosell interviews Patterson, Cus D'amato and Liston after the fight, who discusses a possible upcoming fight with Cassius Clay in September. Les Keiter summarizes the fight. Replay of the first round. Keiter interviews Joe Louis who feels that Clay will give Liston a better fight, but cannot beat him. From the Gold Room, Sonny Liston meets the Press and answers questions.
Additional commentary by Howard Cosell and Rocky Marciano who states that Patterson should retire from the ring. Les Keiter interviews former Heavyweight Lou Nova. Sign off.                                                                                          

The Las Vegas Convention Center is the host for the second Sonny Liston vs. Floyd Patterson world heavyweight championship fight. Pre-fight comments by Howard Cosell, predictions by newspapermen and former fighters Lou Nova, Joe Louis, and Billy Conn, comments by Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson. As in their first fight, Liston knocks out Patterson in the first round to retain his world heavyweight crown.                                     

World Today is a radio news program broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System and hosted by Tony Marvin. 

In England, a report on the Dr. Stephen Ward trial in the John Profumo sex-scandal case, African bloc in the UN wants action against racist politics of Portugal and South Africa, civil rights leader Roy Wilkens testifies for civil rights before the Senate.

Host: Tony Marvin. 

                                                                                                                                                           

World Today is a radio news program broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System and hosted by Tony Marvin. 

Topics: A Dr, Stephen Ward trial report, prostitutes testify about intimacies, Anglo-American-Soviet nuclear test ban treaty is completed, report from Vietnam, Buddhists continue protests against Saigon Government, Attorney General Robert Kennedy testifies before the Senate on civil rights.

Host: Tony Marvin. 

                                                                                                                                                                        

June 25, 1963-September 17, 1963. Keefe Brasselle hosted this variety hour, a summer replacement for "The Garry Moore Show." Regulars included Ann B. Davis, French singer Noelle Adam and former boxing champ Rocky Graziano.             

July 26, 1962-September 13, 1962; July 25, 1963-September 12, 1963. 

his was the first broadcast of the second season. 
Hosted by Vic Damone, this half-hour musical variety show was a summer replacement for "Hazel" for two seasons.             

World Today is a radio news program broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System and hosted by Tony Marvin. 

The nuclear test ban treaty is signed in Moscow, comments by US Senators, London, and West Germany are jubilant, France is cold to the treaty, Dr. Stephen Ward trial continues in London.



Host: Tony Marvin. 

                                                                                                                                                           

An earthquake in Yugoslavia kills 1,000, Atlanta, Georgia makes some progress in desegregation, test ban treaty item, Dr. Stephen Ward admits immorality in John Profumo sex-scandal case.              

Khrushchev hails the nuclear test ban treaty, President Kennedy to give a talk on the treaty, earthquake report from Skopje, Yugoslavia, Senate hearings on civil rights, a sharp exchange between Senators such as Strom Thurmond, negroes sing protest in Phoenix, Arizona, a report on Charles De Gaulle news conference,                           

President John F. Kennedy addresses the nation on the signing of the nuclear test ban treaty.             

World Today is a radio news program broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System and hosted by Tony Marvin. 

Topics: The nuclear test ban treaty, earthquake in Yugoslavia, Dr. Stephen Ward trial, civil rights, Senators in a squabble. 

Host: Tony Marvin. 

                                                                                                                                              

September 21st, 1962- September 10th, 1965 (NBC)

A Friday night variety series starring Jack Paar. Jonathan Winters was a frequent guest on the show.


Guests are Oscar Levant and Jackie Mason. 

                                      

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.                                       

Jack Paar's guests are Oscar Levant, Jackie Mason and The Smothers Brothers.

Re-run of program originally broadcast February 8, 1963.             

Topic: The meaning of the nuclear test ban treaty.            

World Today is a radio news program broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System and hosted by Tony Marvin. 

Charles De Gaulle holds a news conference regarding disarmament, and the nuclear test ban treaty comments, US Senators comment on the treaty, earthquake in Yugoslavia, the jury tries to decide on the fate of Dr. Stephen Ward in the John Profumo sex-scandal in England, Senate comments on the proposed civil rights bill, President Kennedy attacked.



Host: Tony Marvin. 

                                                                                                                                              

Dr. Stephen Ward, convicted in the John Profumo sex-scandal, lies dying in the hospital, leaders getting ready to sign the nuclear test ban treaty, comments on the treaty.         

President John F. Kennedy holds a news conference.             

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.                                                                                                               

News commentary on the A-Bomb anniversary.             

Featured are commercials for Freedomland with a Marty Glickman voiceover and a brief excerpt of the Bruce Morrow rock 'n' roll show on WABC radio in New York City.             

The nuclear treaty to be signed, big power talks, the Soviet-China feud continues on nuclear bombs, incidents on North and South Korea truce lines, Dr. Stephen Ward convicted in the John Profumo sex-scandal case, has died, he leaves a suicide note, In South Vietnam, Madame Nhu of South Vietnam accuses Buddhists, the US fears religious strife might affect the war against the Viet Cong, the Kennedys await the birth of their new baby.           

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.            

The Kennedy baby is buried following death from respiratory ailments, Ex-Senator Estes Kefauver has died, the English police are looking for clues in the great mail robbery in which $7 million dollars was stolen, White Castle diners to employ more negroes, Catholics to support August 28th march to Washington, 
volunteer teachers to go to Virginia to instruct schooling negroes on Prince Edward Island.                                                

WNEW Disc jockey William B. Williams is the host of this special news report broadcast from the SALUTE TO FREEDOM FLIGHT in the air headed with celebrities toward, the first integrated LIVE entertainment show in segregated  Birmingham, Alabama.

Joey Adams, president of AGVA addresses those on the plane relating the logistics that all will be involved, including the many adversities and challenges putting this show on...including redress from the KKK. The primary purpose of this event is to allow the country to believe in Freedom For All. 

WNEW's Billy Taylor and William B. Williams interview celebrities on the plane as it heads for The Miles University Stadium where the concert will be held later that night. 
Those expressing why they have decided to join this historical protest, only two weeks prior to Dr. Martin Luther King's March on Washington rally in Washington D.C. are Al Birney, Johnny Mathis and Joe Louis. 

Reporting live from The Miles University Stadium just prior to the beginning of the show is WNEW's  Richard Marcin. 

Guests are Joe Louis, Joey Adams, Johnny Mathis, others.                         

Anti-US Kennedy propaganda program from Cuba, Robert Williams viciously attacks the Kennedy administration in the South for "racist policies."  

Note: Robert Williams was a civil rights leader who promoted armed black self-defense. He served as the president of the Monroe, North Carolina NAACP from the 1950s until 1961.                                                  

An ABC special report on the "Civil Rights Crisis."  
Ron Cochran reports. The first of five programs. 

The Negro drive to turn rights into realities is the subject of five half-hour weekly reports. Ron Cochran is the anchor man in New York City. Other newsmen reporting: John Rolfson, Richard Bate, Roger Sharp. 

In tonight's program, "CHRONOLOGY OF CRISIS," a brief history of Negro life in the US.is followed by an outline of civil rights developments since World War 2 that led up to the present. situation. 

From his home in Atlanta Martin Luther King is interviewed by correspondent Roger Sharp. Others interviewed on this program  include Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, Atlanta publisher Ralph McGill, and Dr. Kenneth Clark, New York psychologist. 

Also included: An ad for "Hootenanny."                                                               

Nikita Khrushchev shows off his villa to reporters, Caroline Kennedy visits her mother in the hospital, the negro university student head talks to reporters and withdraws from the University of Alabama, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller gives his views on foreign policy.        

Nicholas Luard co-founder of the iconic comet night club, THE ESTABLISHMENT, is interviewed. 

David Frost, performer, contributes commentary and skits related to the topic of "Class Society" in the UK.
One of the earliest radio/television appearances in the United States by David Frost contributing a special filming for a specific broadcast.

 The Establishment was a London nightclub which opened in October 1961, at 18 Greek Street, Soho and which became known in retrospect for satire although at the time was a venue more commonly booking jazz acts and used for other events. It was founded by Peter Cook and Nicholas Luard, both of whom were also important in the history of the magazine Private Eye. The name "The Establishment" is a play on the meaning of "establishment" as in "institution," i.e. the club itself, and the broader definition meaning the prevailing social order of the time, which the satirists who founded, funded and performed at the club typically undermined.

The venue allowed the opportunity for budding comedians and satirists to perform new material in a nightclub setting, outside the jurisdiction of the Lord Chamberlain, whose censorship of language and content was a problem for many performers. Some who appeared included Lenny Bruce in 1962 (subsequently banned from entering the UK a year later), Barry Humphries (as Edna Everage), and musically, The Dudley Moore Trio. The Establishment, a tie-in album of comedy routines and sketches featuring John Bird, John Fortune, Eleanor Bron and Jeremy Geidt, was released on the Parlophone label in 1963.

The Establishment in London closed in 1964.                                                  

June 25th, 1962-1964 (Syndicated)

A daily ninety-minute talk show hosted by Steve Allen and sponsored by Westinghouse. 

Steve Allen's guest is Burt Lancaster. They discuss civil rights. 

Host: Steve Allen.