Live coverage of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games from Mexico City, Mexico. Coverage of October 12th, 13th, and 14th, 1968. Chris Schenkel reports.                                     

Continuing live coverage of the 1968 Summer Olympic games from Mexico City, Mexico. Includes coverage of October 18th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 25th, and 26th, 1968. Chris Schenkel reports,             

Continuing live coverage and closing ceremonies of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, Mexico. Chris Schenkel reports.
Includes coverage of October 26th and 27th, 1968.                        

A TV special on Richard Nixon.             

TV special on the riots in Chicago and Mayor Richard Daly's efforts to combat them.                          

Music special starring Elvis Presley singing a mix of some of his old record hits and some new songs, plus some contemporary songs written for the show.    

Elvis Presley, all-time rock 'n' roll king, makes his first television appearance in eight years. "Singer Presents Elvis"  is the first television special of his own. Elvis stated to 60 television editors in a rehearsal hall at NBC's Burbank studios,  California Studios. conference, "I'm doing a special now because I figure the time is right and today's music is right."

Elvis rocks through a nostalgic medley of his hits: "Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog," "All Shook Up," "Can't Help Falling in Love with You," "Memories" and his seasonal hit, "Blue Christmas."

A segment has Elvis singing "Nothingsville," "Big Boss Man," "Little Egypt," and "Trouble."

Presley also sings "Baby What You Want Me (To Do)," and two new songs written especially for the show, "Memories" and the finale, "If I Can Dream."

Also, Elvis joins The Blossoms vocal group singing "Where Could I Go but to the Lord?" "Up Above My Head," and "Saved!"  

NOTE: At the beginning of the broadcast NBC announcer states,
'NBC Tuesday Night At the Movies' will not be presented so that we may bring you the Elvis Presley Special, and the Brigitte Bardot Special."                           

SPECIAL live coverage of the Apollo 8 spaceflight's tour of the moon with astronauts James Lovell, Frank Borman, and William Anders aboard.

Frank McGee and David Brinkley anchor this live broadcast as astronauts Frank Borman, William Anders and James Lovell describe the surface of the moon as they orbit the moon for the ninth time during their Apollo 8 mission, prior to preparing for their return to Earth the following morning. 

NASA space information officer, since 1958, Paul Haney, reports. 
All three astronauts give their impressions as they transmit live from the moon back to Earth aboard their space capsule. Described is a lunar vast lonely vista, a forbidding environment not one where people would want to live and work. Clouds of pumice stone are seen, craters and mountains...an environment devoid of color. James Lovell states that he only appreciates all the more what we have on planet Earth. 

Additional descriptions by the astronauts include the Lunar sunrise, and sunsets, the moon's physical features including a horizon revealing a bright moon and a black sky. 

The astronauts  pass over the "Sea of Crisis," amazingly smooth. There is a description of the curvature of the moon..."Sea of Tranquility," is observed, and a stark sunrise just coming up on the moon casting long shadows, as well as a revealing landing site that is smooth for future landings. 

This special broadcast concludes with each of the three astronauts reading from the biblical Book of Genesis.  

William Anders:

"For all the people on Earth the crew of Apollo 8 has a message we would like to send you".

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness."

Jim Lovell:

"And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day."

Frank Borman:

"And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good."

Borman then added, "And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth."
                                                   

The AFL's New York Jets meet the NFL's Baltimore Colts in the third annual Super Bowl.

THIS TELEVISION 'DIRECT LINE' AUDIO AIR CHECK, RECORDED OFF THE AIR AT THE TIME OF THE ORIGIANL BROADCAST IS A COMPLETE VERSION, RUNNING 3 HOURS & 24 MINUTES. 

NOTE: This Super Bowl 111 NBC TV broadcast football game, as far as thoroughly researched and as known, does not exist in any COMPLETE broadcast form in the Paley Center for Media, UCLA Film & TV Archive, or The Library of Congress. 

In the Miley Collection what ONLY exists of this game, complete, is the RADIO broadcast of Super Bowl III between the New York Jets and Baltimore Colts called by Pat Summerall, George Ratterman, and Charlie Jones. 

For this TV version, Curt Gowdy, Kyle Rote, Jim Simpson and Al De Rogatis report live from the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. There is a pre-game program show with players being interviewed and projections being made. There is a pre-game show on the field. The Apollo 8 astronauts pledge allegiance to the flag and the beginning of Super Bowl III is underway. 
The game was broadcast in the United States by NBC. Curt Gowdy handled the play-by-play duties and was joined by color commentators Al DeRogatis and Kyle Rote in the broadcast booth. Also helping with NBC's coverage were Jim Simpson (reporting from the sidelines) and Pat Summerall, on loan from CBS (helping conduct player interviews for the pregame show, along with Rote). In an interview later done with NFL Films, Gowdy called it the most memorable game he ever called because of its historical significance

Baltimore is shut down by the Jets in the first half 7 to 0. Halftime ceremonies praise the "spirit" of America with colorful floats and words of tribute. Bob Hope is interviewed by Jim Simpson on the playing field, as the second half begins. Joe Namath is named Most Valuable Player as the Jets upset the Colts 16 to 7. 

To date, Television's broadcast of Super Bowl I and II are "lost" video presentations that the public can presently view or listen to in its entirety. 

NOTE: Super Bowl 3 is currently uploaded and viewable on You Tube. It runs for 130 minutes. The ATA version recorded off the air, at the time of the original broadcast runs for 203 minutes (33 more minutes of broadcast time). It includes the opening NBC Peacock. 

NOTE:
   Most of the first Super Bowl in 1967 was lost to history - until a dusty copy of the broadcast was found in a Pennsylvania attic IN 2005. Now it's in legal limbo.

Jack Whitaker was a play-by-play announcer for the very first Super Bowl, back before the "Super" name even stuck. Yet he never had  a copy of his own broadcast. He passed away at the age of 95 in August, 2019. 



Once he stated, "All I have is what's in my memory," 

Neither CBS, where Whitaker worked during the 1967 game, or the other network that televised it that year, NBC, have recordings of the match up between the Packers and the Chiefs.

There are snippets of tape available, mostly from the sidelines, but most of the game has been lost to history until a man found a copy in an attic in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and came forward with it in 2005.

For the past 18 years the man's incredible discovery is in a sort of legal limbo, and the tape is yet to be seen by the public.

Slide show: The latest Super Bowl ads

The Paley Center for Media, a cultural organization, restored the recording -- originally on two-inch quadruplex tapes -- but "we keep it locked up in a vault," said Ron Simon, Paley's curator.
Simon has seen the whole game -- complete with an interview of Packers coach Vince Lombardi at the end. He called it "a remarkable document."

"It's really a history of what the game is," he said.

But he needs the permission of the man who found the recording, and "maybe the NFL's permission too," to screen it for anyone else. Steven Harwood is an attorney for the man, who wishes to remain anonymous. 

Harwood said he'd like to strike a deal with the NFL, which has a copyright on the game. But he suggested that the two sides don't see eye to eye about the tape's worth.

"We feel being compensated for preserving it for all these years is certainly a reasonable thing to do," he said in a 2015 interview.

Harwood cited what Sports Illustrated wrote in 2005 when it listed the tape as one of the sports world's 25 "lost treasures" -- an estimated value of "more than $1 million."

"To put that in perspective, the going price for a 30 second commercial in the 2023 Super Bowl cost 7 million dollars.      

Super Bowl II has recently partially been found related to the live television broadcast, January 14, 1968.

In recent years, it has been alleged that a copy was found in the vault of NFL Films and that said copy was being restored for re-release, although this claim has not been confirmed and has apparently been directly denied by an NFL Films employee.

Despite this, a reconstructed copy showed up on YouTube in March 2013, using still photographs, video snippets and the entire, unedited audio track of the radio broadcast, although it has since been removed due to a copyright claim by the NFL. It is currently unclear as to how said audio was obtained by the uploader, "LambeauPackerBacker", in the first place.                     

A musical special starring Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. 
Sponsored by Singer.   

Original broadcast April 22nd, 1968.                       

Musical-comedy star Jack Cassidy hosts this song-and-dance salute to St. Patrick's Day. 
Other title used for this special broadcast is 
JACK CASSIDY'S St. PATRICK'S DAY SPECIAL. 

Note: Occasional static heard during the song
"Sweet Molly Malone" sung by The Back Porch Majority singers.                         

June 1, 1969-September 28, 1969. A series of cultural events showcased every week. Steve Allen hosts.



Jazz from the city of its birth - highlight of New Orleans' second annual International Jazz Festival (taped June 1-7). Sessions with Sarah Vaughan and Count Basie are included. Other performers include Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, saxophonists Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond, pianist Willie "The Lion" Smith, and four traditional New Orleans marching bands.  

Dupe Of Number 6250.            

Art Linkletter hosts the third annual Sportman's World Awards honoring former outstanding athletes (Victor Award).
Those appearing include: Rocky Marciano, Clint Walker, Peter De Paolo, Bob Feller, Cameron Mitchell, Sammy Baugh, Ruta Lee, and Don Budge. Performers: Della Reese, Rip Taylor, and Frankie Randall, 

With commercials.      

Art Linkletter host.                 

Four newsman panel ask questions at news conference. Walter Cronkite, Frank Reynolds, others.     

With commercials.    

Live radio coverage of Senator Edward Kennedy's statement about the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne who was a member of the 1968 Presidential campaign for Robert F. Kennedy. She was in an automobile driven by Senator Kennedy the night she died.            

Special report on Senator Edward Kennedy.            

Jazz special hosted by Stan Getz.         

Songs: "Midday's Theme" Eddie Sauter
       "I Remember Clifford"   
       "Con Alma" Stan Getz 
       "Vapor Mist" 
       "Concerto For Two" Chamber Symphony Orchestra with 
        Alec Wilder.              

A music & comedy special which includes 14 performers, wild visual interpretations of perfectly normal tunes and the producing talents of Mel Torme.  

Starring are Jack Jones, Michele Lee, Cliff Robertson and Frankie Laine, with cameo spots by Phyllis Diller, James Farentino, Dick Martin, Ricardo Montalban, Edward G. Robinson and Jonathan Winters. 

Performing hosts are John Byner, Gerri Granger, Lynn Lipton, Marilyn Michaels, Louisa Moritz, Harve Presnell, Charles Nelson Reilly and Bobby Van. Also on hand: the Sapphire Thinkers.
Billy May orchestra. 

HIGHLIGHTS:

"Spinning Wheel"..............................................Jack Jones
"They Can't Take That Away from Me,"............Michele Lee
"That's My Desire,"...........................................Frankie Laine

""If This Isn't Love," "Love Makes the World Go Round," "Love is Just Around the Corner"...........................Cliff Robertson

"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails".........................Bobby Van
"The Right to Love"........................Harve Presnell, Gerri Granger
"Melancholy Baby"..........................................Sapphire Thinkers

"The singers Theme," "I Believe," "Who?" "Let's Do It".........Hosts

"How the West Was Sung," "She Touched Me"...................All
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Story of singer Bing Crosby.       

Part 2.                                     

The story of the Marx Brothers. 

Story of singer Bing Crosby.       

Part 1.                           

The conclusion of Spiro Agnew's speech in which he accused the TV networks of bias in their news broadcasts. There is also a network response to Agnew's address.         

Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew addresses the nation about bias in the medium of television news reporting. He discusses the importance of television news while criticizing bias on the part of television newscasters and analysts, following President Nixon's recent 32 minute address to the nation on Vietnam.                                             

Singer Rod McKuen live in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.        

Live coverage of the total solar eclipse of March 7th, 1970, visible across all of North and Central America.            

Rock and classical musicians share the stage with Zubin Mehta, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The Philharmonic pieces include an excerpt from "Also Sprach Zarathustra," the Richard Strauss composition that found new popularity after it became part of the film score for "2001: A Space Odyssey."    

Duplicate of 5463.          

A galaxy of entertainers and 39 NFL stars in a spectacular salute to pro football. 
The heady line-up includes Lucille Ball, Judy Carne, Charleton Heston, Jack Lemmon, Pat O'Brien, Charles Nelson Reilly, Alan Sues, Leslie Uggams, John Wayne, and the NFL's, Mike Garrett, Kermit Alexander, Ben Davidson, Roman Gabriel, Deacon Jones, Daryle Lamonica, Dick Le Beau, Joe Namath, O.J. Simpson, and Gene Washington. 
In comedy segments, John Wayne presents a campy football fashion show; Detroit Lion Alex Karras plays a badgered husband explaining a hard day on the gridiron, and former pro Rosey Grier interviews Chicago Bear linebacker Dick Butkus, and his half pint roommate Arte Johnson. 
Songs include two "Damn Yankees" numbers and a piano etude composed and performed by Cincinnati Bengal Mike Reid.                                          

President Nixon gives the annual State Of The Union address.     

Discussion on President Nixon's State Of The Union Address.   

Special about J. Edgar Hoover.