Comedian Eddie Cantor in a live one-man performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Later released as a CD.
Produced by Joe Franklin. 

CBS-TV live coverage of the 1950 election returns to elect members of the 82nd Congress of the United States.

Host: Edward R. Murrow. 

            

CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow reviews results of the 1950 elections throughout the US, including campaign  of Millard Tydings. Henry Lehman returns to Senate, Governor William Alexander of Oklahoma. Sam Rayburn returns for 20th time to House Of Representatives. Vincent Impellitteri wins the New York City Mayoral election, Thomas E. Dewey wins for New York State Governor.                

Democratic Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson and his Vice-Presidential running mate Senator John Sparkman, concede to Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower and his running mate Senator Richard Nixon. Comment from Senator Jeffrey M. Bucher and Eisenhower acceptance Speech.

Broadcast from 11:30 pm to 1:05am, pre-empling Tonight Show starring Steve Allen, The seventh annual Emmy Awards , and for the first time televised Nationally. From Hollywood Steve Allen. From New York Emcee Dave Garroway. Commercials included.                                       

In a speech, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt gives her support to Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson.

President Dwight Eisenhower makes a campaign speech from Convent Hall in Philadelphia, Pennslyvania. He is introduced by Senator James Duff of Pennslyvania. He comments on the current world crisis and hopes the Russians will withdraw from Poland and Hungary. He accuses the Democrats of trying to make political profit from the current crisis.                                      

Live pre-night coverage of the November 6th,1956 presidential election between incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower and challenger Adlai Stevenson. This is the second time in the last four years that Eisenhower and Stevenson have faced each other in the presidential election. Eisenhower defeated Stevenson in 1952 to win his first term in office. 

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.                                                    

April 19th, 1954-January 14th, 1955 (WABD) 

In the Spring of 1954, Ernie Kovacs appeared on WABD-TV Channel 5 in New York City, New York's Dumont outlet, where he hosted a late-night one-hour local show for a period of nine months. It aired from 11:15PM to 12:15AM.

Guest: The Jazz String Quartet. 

The Ninth Annual Emmy Awards for the best in television for 1956 are presented from the NBC studios in Burbank, California. Personalities include Ed Sullivan, Phil Silvers, Carl Reiner, Robert Young, Jimmy Durante, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Palance, Claire Trevor, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Danny Thomas, Sid Caesar, Nanette Fabray, Ralph Edwards, Loretta Young, and Peggy Wood, "Requiem For a Heavyweight, a presentation of "Playhouse 90," was voted the Emmy Award for best television presentation of 1956.

Desi Arnaz is the host. Dave Garroway concludes the program.                                                                

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. 

                                                            

A galaxy of stars salute their own for the 1958-1959 TV season. Raymond Burr, Robert Young, Dennis Weaver, Barbara Hale, Art Carney, Dinah Shore, Tom Poston, Ann B. Davis, Phil Silvers, Don Hewitt, David Brinkley, Elaine May and Mike Nichols, Walter Brennan, Jack Benny, Donna Reed, Fred Astaire, Louis Nye, Dayton Allen, Don Knotts, Mickey Rooney, Judith Anderson, Dick Clark, Bob Hope, Ed Sullivan, Chet Huntley, & Vice President Richard M. Nixon.             

The eleventh annual Emmy Awards broadcast from the Moulin Rouge Nightclub in Hollywood, California, honoring the best television shows of 1958.   

Raymond Burr is the host.   

NOTE: Many edits. Brief / partial acceptance speeches.  
See ATA#13345 for continuation, additional 18 minutes.                                             

A continuation from entry # 13344. Further guests include Ann Southern, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple, Dame Judith Anderson, Dick Clark, Bob Hope, Ed Sullivan, and Chet Huntley.

Host: Raymond Burr.                                      

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.                                     

A musical salute to the career of Ethel Merman on Broadway, from her 1930 debut in "Girl Crazy" to her hit performance in "Gypsy."   Bobby Sherwood's trumpet accompanies one of Merman's numbers.

HIGHLIGHTS:
"Everything's Coming Up Roses".......All
Palace Guard Sketch.......Merman, Poston 
"Anything You Can Do"..........Merman, Poston
"Eadie Was a Lady"......Merman
Cowboy Sketch..............Merman, Parker
"Girl That I Marry".........Parker
"You Can't Get A Man with a Gun"......Merman
"You're an Old Smoothie".....Merman, Parker
"Blow Gabriel, Blow".....Merman, Sherwood
Psychiatrist Sketch.........Merman, Hunter
"You're Just in Love"........Merman, Hunter
Melody of Ethel Merman Tunes.....Merman
"Friendship"..........ALL
                                 

Host: Fred Astaire                   

Bob Hope is the host for a 75th birthday salute plus one and career tribute to Mrs. Eleanor Rossevelt. David Susskind is the executive producer. 

This is an excerpted duplicate of #7112 which is complete
            

SPECIAL BROADCAST SALUTE
Mrs. FDR was 75 a year ago and as a plus one year follow up, a tribute to her (and the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Research Foundation located in Denver Colorado) by admirers in and out of show business.  Many perform during this one-hour 76th birthday celebration special broadcast. A brief distinguished appearance by Mrs. Roosevelt and a simple spiritualization of "You'll Never Walk Alone" by Mahalia Jackson rounds out an excellent broadcast. 

Bob Hope hosts this program which presents show business personalities and other prominent people.
Executive Producer, David Susskind.
Written for Television by  Reginald Rose.

HIGHLIGHTS:

"You Gotta Start Off Each Day With A Song," "I Believe, "Treat A Piano Nice".....Jimmy Durante

"Do Re Mi"....................Mary Martin accompanied by Richard Rodgers on the piano.

"If"..................................Carol Channing

"The Continental".....................Nat King Cole

"The Bee"......................................Jack Benny

NOTE:
This follow up broadcast to last years ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: DIAMOND JUBILEE (October 7, 1959) is different which had Arthur Godfrey hosting and including guests Eddie Cantor, Ralph Bellamy Gertrude Berg, Art Carney, Henry Fonda and Cedric Hardwicke among others. 

NOTE: Occasional original slight broadcast audio static and hum.                                                                                              

Election returns, coverage from all three networks, CBS, NBC, and ABC. The Huntley-Brinkley returns on NBC sponsored by Texaco, CBS coverage with Prescott Robinson sitting in for Robert Trout, and ABC coverage with John Daly. Huntley and Brinkley turn over their broadcast to Dave Garroway and Frank Blair at the "Today" show.  
 
The NBC RCA 501 Computer says that the odds are 6.3 to 1 that John F. Kennedy will win the election. However, the ABC computer Univac predicts that Richard M. NIxon will win the election.   For the first time computers are used to predict a Presidential Election via television coverage.                                   

Radio broadcast of an exhibition game between the New York Yankees and Minnesota Twins. The top of the fifth inning is heard with the Twins leading 1-0. Batters include Mickey Mantle, who singles, Yogi Berra grounds out, Elston Howard fouls out, and Moose Skowron grounds out. Phil Rizzuto calls the play by play. 

5 minute excerpt

          

EYEWITNESS - September 30, 1960 - July 26, 1963

Originally titled "Eyewitness to History" title shortened to "Eyewitness" by the Fall of  1961

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EYEWITNESS
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 '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.                                     

Dick Powell and Joey Bishop are the hosts for the 13th Primetime Emmy Awards held in the Moulin Rogue Nightclub in Los Angeles, California.   

NOTE: Not Complete. Some abrupt continuity at times.                                                  

The 14th primetime Emmy Awards are held at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angelos, California. Among the personalities present are Leroy Collins, who served as the 33rd Governor of the state of Florida, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. 

Host: Bob Newhart                                                    

"Refuge in Brazil" concerns US fugitives such as financier E. Gilbert seeking refuge in Brazil. Attorney General Robert Kennedy comments.

Host: Charles Collingwood                        

EYEWITNESS - September 30, 1960 - July 26, 1963

Originally titled "Eyewitness to History" title shortened to "Eyewitness" by the Fall of  1961

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EYEWITNESS
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 '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)

Communist squeeze in Cuba, much concern in the US about ever-increasing Soviet build-up of arms and technical equipment in Cuba, New York Senator Kenneth Keating wants a strong US policy against Soviet infiltration in Cuba, London reporter back from Cuba tells of Russian workers battalions building something in Cuba, Senator Thomas Dodd suggests embargo or even a blockade against Castro's Cuba. Dodd urges the US turn back Soviet ships en route to Cuba, Senator Keating thinks Russians will back down in Cuba if the US shows firmness.                                                                                            

Election day returns with coverage by ABC, NBC, CBS, WOR TV...William Scranton, George Romney, Pat Brown,  Nelson Rockefeller, and Jacob Javits all win elections in their respective states. 

                                              

Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, and William Scranton run for Governor in their respective states of California, New York, Michigan, and Pennslyvania.

Highlights: Walter Cronkite talks to Governor-Elect Pat Brown, Harry Reasoner, CBS News, local NYC returns with Robert Trout (WCBS-TV), Howard K. Smith, and Lisa Howard reporting for ABC News. 
Edwin Newman, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, and John Chancellor reporting for NBC News.
Governor William Scranton of Pennsylvania gives a victory speech.

                                                   

Live coverage of tribute to former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt who died on November 7th in her New York City home. 

Edward Kennedy wins Massachusetts  Senate seat. 
He makes a victory statement.                        

Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower converses with Civil War scholar, Pulitzer Prize historian Bruce Catton on the Lincoln Civil War years. Music by Robert Russell Bennett. 

As stated, the careers of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Abraham Lincoln present an interesting contrast. Ike had been a military man all his adult life when he found the Presidency all but thrust upon him. Abe, on the other hand, a man of very little military experience, found the Civil War thrust upon him only a month after his inauguration. 

Eisenhower offers a professional soldier's view of how Lincoln handled his role of Commander in Chief. He analyzes Mead's action against Lee in the Battle of Gettysburg, and the generalship of McClellan and Grant. Also covered in conversation are the changes in the functions of the Commander in Chief over the past 100 years, and Ike's admiration for General Robert R. Lee. 


This Special NBC half hour broadcast was produced at the library of the Eisenhower residence in Gettysburg Pennsylvania. 





                          

Topics for discussion: Canadian election between John Diefenbaker and Lester B. Pearson which involves accepting US nuclear arms, also-Cuba-Castro, Russian influence, and anti-Castro exiles.

Moderator: John Wingate.            

The 15th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are presented from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California. 

Hosts: Annette Funicello and Don Knotts.                        

An editorial on negro discrimination.              

Topics for discussion: Canadian election between John Diefenbaker and Lester B. Pearson which involves accepting US nuclear arms, also-Cuba-Castro, Russian influence, and anti-Castro exiles.

The guest is war correspondent and photojournalist Dickey Chapelle. 

Moderator: John Wingate.                         

Hosts for the sixteenth annual Emmy Awards are Joey Bishop in Hollywood and E.G. Marshall in New York. Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore introduce this special telecast. Humorous excerpts from past Emmy Award telecasts are played. A galaxy of celebrities appear including Danny Kaye, Hugh Downs, Chet Huntley, Rod
Serling, Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt, Carl Reiner, David Janssen, Jerry Paris, James Franciscus, Dean Jagger, David Frost, John Daly, Don Defore, Shirley Booth, Tom Gries, James Drury, Roberta Shore, Polly Bergen, and Mel Brooks who with Reiner does a "2000 Year Old Man" skit. Other personalities appearing include Inger Stevens, Richard Deacon, Gene Barry, Ruth White, Zina Bethune, Shirl Conway, Garry Moore, Jack Klugman, Vince Edwards, Shelley Winters, Nat King Cole, Johnny Carson, Milton Berle, Lorne Greene. The cast from "That Was The Week That Was," Elliot Reid, Nancy Ames, Pat Englund, and David Frost satirize the 1963-64 television season. Jack Benny presents the Emmy Award for Program of the Year, "The Making of the President." Mel Stuart and David L. Wolper accept the award.             

Joey Bishop and E.G. Marshall host the 16th annual primetime Emmy Awards from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angelos, California.  


Hosts: Joey Bishop and E.G. Marshall.                        

Joey Bishop and E.G. Marshall host the 16th annual primetime Emmy Awards from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angelos, California.  


Hosts: Joey Bishop and E.G. Marshall.    

Duplicate of #14550                                

          On the eve of D-Day's 20th anniversary, "CBS Reports" presents former President of the United States, & General, Dwight D. Eisenhower's remembering on-the-spot recollections of the invasion, its planning and its execution. News films of the actual fighting at the various locations are interwoven into each segment. The former President is accompanied on his tour of the battle sites by Walter Cronkite.  

The tour starts at his former head-quarters at Southwick House, near Portsmouth, England, where the General stands before the original war map and explains the strategy of the invasion. Then, recreating his D-Day-plus-one cross-channel voyage of June 7, 1944, Eisenhower boards the HMS Ghurka. 

During stops a Pointe du Hoc, where U.S Rangers knocked out German gun emplacements, and Omaha Beach, Eisenhower pays tribute to the courage and ingenuity of the men in the Allied command. He also vists the area of the Ste. Mere Eglise air drop...the artificial ports created at Arromanches and the interminable hedgrows. The tour also includes a visit to St. Laurent Cemetery, where many of the participants are buried.                

September 25th 1964- March 27th 1965 (CBS)

Unsuccessful variety series. The original idea was to have three rotating hosts; Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart, and Caterina Valente. However, after the first few weeks, the three co-hosts began appearing together. Other regulars included Ruth Buzzi, Don Crichton, Dom DeLuise, John Davidson, and columnist Art Buchwald. 

This episode features Dom DeLuise, Caterina Valente, Carol Burnett, John Davidson, and Tessie O'Shea.

Election night returns. Lyndon Johnson wins an overwhelming victory over challenger Barry Goldwater and is re-elected President of the United States. Goldwater manages to capture only 52 of the electoral votes. Live coverage from all three networks and radio. Robert Kennedy defeats Kenneth Keating for the Senate seat from New York. Kennedy comments on the other races.                                                 

Betty Furness hosts a special on the eve of the 1965 New York City Mayoral election. Guests are Republican candidate for Mayor John Lindsay and his two running mates, Timothy Costello, who is running for deputy mayor, and Milton Mollen, running for comptroller. Famed playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky announces why he is voting for John Lindsay.