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#11043: WORLD NEWS ROUND-UP
Order1948-03-16, WCBS, min.
Topics: Wisconsin election primary, Edward Hollis reporting. The Republican choice to run for President is party nominee Harold Stassen. NOTE: Hosting CBS radio news broadcasts for Douglas Edwards (WORLD NEWS ROUND-UP), would change for him six weeks later when he would begin anchoring The CBS TELEVISION NEWS (DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS), premiering May 3, 1948 and continuing for 14 years with his last broadcast April 13th, 1962, passing the baton to Walter Cronkite.1948-03-16, WCBS, min.
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1948-03-20, WCBS, min.
World and National News. Host: Douglas Edwards. NOTE: Hosting CBS radio news broadcasts for Douglas Edwards (WORLD NEWS ROUND-UP), would change for him six weeks later when he would begin anchoring The CBS TELEVISION NEWS (DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS), premiering May 3, 1948 and continuing for 14 years with his last broadcast April 13th, 1962, passing the baton to Walter Cronkite.
1948-04-07, WCBS, min.
World and National news. Host: Douglas Edwards. NOTE: Hosting CBS radio news broadcasts for Douglas Edwards (WORLD NEWS ROUND-UP), would change for him six weeks later when he would begin anchoring The CBS TELEVISION NEWS (DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS), premiering May 3, 1948 and continuing for 14 years with his last broadcast April 13th, 1962, passing the baton to Walter Cronkite.
1948-04-08, WCBS, min.
World and National news of the day. Host: Douglas Edwards. NOTE: Hosting CBS radio news broadcasts for Douglas Edwards (WORLD NEWS ROUND-UP), would change for him six weeks later when he would begin anchoring The CBS TELEVISION NEWS (DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS), premiering May 3, 1948 and continuing for 14 years with his last broadcast April 13th, 1962, passing the baton to Walter Cronkite.
#18831: YOU ARE THERE
Order1949-06-05, CBS, 28 min.
An unusual Public Affairs series, You Are There began in 1947 as a radio show (it was originally titled CBS was There). Each week a well-known historical event was recreated, and the leading figures in each drama were interviewed by CBS news correspondents (the correspondents were always in modern-day dress, regardless of the setting of the story). The television version ran from 1953-1957 on Sunday afternoons, and was revived in 1971 as a Saturday-afternoon show, aimed principally at children. Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent on both TV versions. Paul Newman guest-starred on one program as Nathan Hale (30 August 1953) and the 1971 premiere " The Mystery of Amelia Earhart" featured Geraldine Brooks and Richard Dreyfuss. You Are There. June 05, 1949. CBS Radio Network. "The Capture Of John Wilkes Booth". The events of April 26, 1865.1954-04-26, CBS, min.
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. Jonas Salk's anti-polio vaccine begins. The first shot is administered in Fairfax County, Virginia. Douglas Edwards reporting.
1954-04-29, CBS, min.
World and National news. Host: Douglas Edwards
1954-05-03, CBS, min.
World and National news. Host: Douglas Edwards
1954-05-07, CBS, min.
The Viet Minh scored their final victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu in the war that began in 1946. Host: Douglas Edwards
1954-05-26, CBS, min.
World and National news. Host: Douglas Edwards.
#10940A: CBS NEWS WITH DOUGLAS EDWARDS
Order1954-05-31, CBS, min.
Bill Vukovich wins his second straight Indy 500. Host: Douglas Edwards
#10941A: DO UGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS
Order1954-06-02, CBS, min.
Douglas Edward reports on the news of the day related to President Dwight Eisenhower
#10940B: CBS NEWS WITH DOUGLAS EDWARDS
Order1954-08-02, CBS, min.
Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower honors Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, at the National Association Of Colored Woman's Convention. Host: Douglas Edwards
#10940C: CBS NEWS WITH DOUGLAS EDWARDS
Order1954-08-02, CBS, min.
Senators Stuart Symington and Joseph McCarthy are featured. Host: Douglas Edwards.
1956-10-30, WCBS, 10 min.
May 3,1948-April 13,1962 Douglas Edwards who replaced Newscaster Larry LeSueur as anchor of CBS television weekly news held that post for fourteen years. For most of its broadcast history the fifteen minute broadcast was officially titled DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS. 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. The Israeli capital is bombed as fighting continues. Edward R. Murrow analysis, Hungarians bury their dead in various towns, Adlai Stevenson attacks Eisenhower's foreign policy, Henry Cabot Lodge attacks British and French ultimatums.
1956-11-07, WCBS, 14 min.
News highlights: the Democrats win Congress. Eisenhower wins by nine million votes but fails to carry his party into Congress. Eisenhower confers with JohnFoster Dulles (in Walter Reed Hospital) and others regarding the Middle East. Israel rejects UN troops to Israel, the UN to replace Anglo-French troops in Egypt. Ceasefire in the Canal Zone. The Soviets still battle Hungary in Budapest, shell city ruthlessly. Anti-Russian demonstrations in Paris.
1956-11-14, WCBS, 14 min.
An interview with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir who comments on the Middle East Crises and offers volunteers to go to Egypt. Newsman Daniel Schorr comments. Egypt asks for Soviet volunteers. Southeast Asian countries urge for withdrawal of Russian troops from Hungary. A general strike in Hungary, Eisenhower comments on the World problems, the UN bars Red China membership, Negro boycott problems on a bus in Montgomery Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King comments on recent Supreme Court decision making it illegal to practice bus segregation. NOTE: Twelve days after this Wednesday, November 14, 1956 broadcast aired, CBS Television transmitted the first video tape-delay technology to the West Coast, re-broadcasting CBS News with Douglas Edwards on Friday, Nov. 30, 1956. Thus a three hour difference time delay for presentation could be done without the use of kinescope technology or the necessitation of transmitting live, three hours earlier than in New York.
1956-12-30, WCBS, 24 min.
CBS Special: The New Frontiers Of Science. Highlights include electron computers, new drugs to curtail diseases, new heart surgery techniques, (heart-lung machine), radioisotopes used in the study of photosynthesis, Dr. Jonas Salk polio vaccine in full production, new live virus vaccine related by Dr. Sabin, drugs for the treatment of mental illness, Dr.Lawrence Snyder President of AAS, speaks on behalf of science. Also commentary from Robert Trout, Ned Calmer, and Douglas Edwards. Will Rogers is the host.1957-01-01, WCBS, 6 min.
Highlights: President Eisenhower meeting in the White House, He wants the authority to use military might against communism or "Ike Doctrine," Nixon urges more Hungarian refugees to enter the USA, Hungarian refugees arrive in the United States, a report on the day's Bowl games, a report on the latest segregation issues.
1957-09-02, KNXT, 15 min.
World and National News. Host: Douglas Edwards. NOTE: Hosting CBS radio news broadcasts for Douglas Edwards (WORLD NEWS ROUND-UP), would change for him six weeks later when he would begin anchoring The CBS TELEVISION NEWS (DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS), premiering May 3, 1948 and continuing for 14 years with his last broadcast April 13th, 1962, passing the baton to Walter Cronkite. SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957. These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes). These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before. The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occurred beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact. The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch. NOTE: To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page. GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976) History: The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, Sound Scriber and Voice Writer formats. Audograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time. The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device. Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The 8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side. ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS. THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.1957-09-03, KNXT, 15 min.
World and National News. Host: Douglas Edwards. NOTE: Hosting CBS radio news broadcasts for Douglas Edwards (WORLD NEWS ROUND-UP), would change for him six weeks later when he would begin anchoring The CBS TELEVISION NEWS (DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS), premiering May 3, 1948 and continuing for 14 years with his last broadcast April 13th, 1962, passing the baton to Walter Cronkite. SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957. These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes). These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before. The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occurred beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact. The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch. NOTE: To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page. GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976) History: The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, Sound Scriber and Voice Writer formats. Audograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time. The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device. Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The 8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side. ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS. THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.1957-09-04, KNXT, 15 min.
World and National News. Host: Douglas Edwards. NOTE: Hosting CBS radio news broadcasts for Douglas Edwards (WORLD NEWS ROUND-UP), would change for him six weeks later when he would begin anchoring The CBS TELEVISION NEWS (DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS), premiering May 3, 1948 and continuing for 14 years with his last broadcast April 13th, 1962, passing the baton to Walter Cronkite. SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957. These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes). These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before. The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occurred beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact. The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch. NOTE: To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page. GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976) History: The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, Sound Scriber and Voice Writer formats. Audograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time. The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device. Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The 8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side. ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS. THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.1957-09-05, KNXT, 15 min.
World and National News. Host: Douglas Edwards. NOTE: Hosting CBS radio news broadcasts for Douglas Edwards (WORLD NEWS ROUND-UP), would change for him six weeks later when he would begin anchoring The CBS TELEVISION NEWS (DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS), premiering May 3, 1948 and continuing for 14 years with his last broadcast April 13th, 1962, passing the baton to Walter Cronkite. SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957. These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes). These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before. The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occurred beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact. The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch. NOTE: To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page. GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976) History: The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, Sound Scriber and Voice Writer formats. Audograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time. The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device. Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The 8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side. ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS. THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.1957-09-05, CBS, 9 min.
Highlights: Racial crisis brewing in Little Rock, Arkansas Central High School, President Eisenhower to confront Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas, the National Guard surrounding Faubus's executive mansion to prevent arrest by US officials called a hoax by Little Rock Mayor, integration problems in other Southern areas, Middle East crisis worsening, open revolt against Cuban dictator Batista in Cuba directed by future leader Fidel Castro, skirmishes in various areas, but the government claims victory, Jimmy Hoffa and David Beck deny union corruption
1957-09-07, CBS, 17 min.
The 31st Annual Miss America Pageant is telecast live from the Atlantic City Boardwalk Hotel. Miss Colorado, Marilyn Van Derbur wins the Miss America crown for 1958. The complete opening is heard. Bert Parks, Douglas Edwards, and Bess Myerson are the hosts.
1957-09-07, CBS, 18 min.
The 31st Annual Miss America Pageant is telecast live from the Atlantic City Boardwalk Hotel. Miss Colorado, Marilyn Van Derbur wins the Miss America crown for 1958. In the talent contest, Bert Parks introduces Miss Georgia who sings "You Deserve a Girl That's Namely You." Miss North Carolina sings "When Yo Say Cheese." Miss Colorado plays the organ, and Miss California plays the accordian. Five judges pick the finalists. Miss California is interviewed by Bert Parks who asks the question "Do you believe in love at first sight?" Miss Colorado is asked "Is it proper for a lady to propose to a man?" As winner, Miss Colorado, Marilyn Van Derbur, walks the runway, Bert Parks sings, "Miss America." as the broadcast concludes. Bert Parks, Douglas Edwards, and Bess Myerson are the hosts.
1957-10-06, CBS, 28 min.
Scientists comment on Russian feat and other rocketry, US rocket programs assured in view of triumphal Sputnik Russian achievement. Douglas Edwards hosts this CBS TV NEWS SPECIAL REPORT.
1957-10-17, CBS, 10 min.
Highlights: A description of Russian film "Trip To The Moon", details of rocket flight, President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Macmillan to meet next week in Washington concerning the Middle East crisis, Queen Elizabeth is welcomed in Washington D.C by President Eisenhower, Howard K. Smith comments on Anglo-American relationships
1957-11-04, CBS, 5 min.
Highlights: more news about Russian satellites Sputnik 1 and 11, Russians hope to bring dog safely back to Earth, Russians may send a rocket to the moon, six dogs picket before the UN in protest.
1958-00-00, CBS, min.
From Paris, Charles DeGaulle's attempt to be President. Daniel Schorr reports on Eisenhower's opinion. France still flirting with civil war DeGaulle to perform new government with him as Premiere. Douglas Edwards reporting.
1958-03-26, CBS, 5 min.
Highlights: Khrushchev rises to Prime Minister as Bulgarian falls, the US to prepare rockets for flight to the moon, Howard K. Smith reports.
1959-07-24, CBS, 4 min.
Highlights: Nixon and Khrushchev in "kitchen debate", hash out foreign policy and merits of communism and capitalism. At Us exhibit in Moscow.
1960-09-11, CBS, min.
A description of Hurricane Donna, Congo crisis; Lumumba arrested and released, Kennedy campaigns in Texas, a religious issue discussed.
1960-09-21, CBS, min.
Khrushchev claims assassination attempt, says gun in TV camera, Khrushchev holds an unusual news conference from his balcony, Khrushchev complains of confinement, can't see America, says he's under "house arrest", John Kennedy campaigns in Tennessee, Nixon talks in Indiana.
1960-09-25, CBS, min.
- Richard M. Nixon
- Jawaharial Nehru
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Fidel Castro
- Douglas Edwards
- Harold Macmillan
- John F. Kennedy
- Gamal Nasser
- Emily Post
Senator John F. Kennedy to meet with Vice President Richard M.Nixon in a television debate, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan arrives in New York, Khrushchev hopes for a man in orbit, Prime Minister Nehru of India arrives in New York, Egyptian president Nasser visits Castro in Harlem, Khrushchev wants three Russian secretaries in the UN instead of one, Emily Post dies at 86.
1960-11-21, CBS, min.
Congolese on a rampage, eat their enemies, Congo crisis debated in the UN,
1961-04-28, CBS, min.
Highlights: Fidel Castro awarded the Vladimir Lenin peace prize, the crisis in Laos, and possible action by the US, favored by Senator James William Fullbright, and also in South Viet Nam, Bill Downs reports. The US to launch its first astronaut, a report on the carnival atmosphere in Cape Canaveral, Florida, condemns public spectacle of the occasion.
1961-07-21, CBS, min.
SPECIAL REPORT of Highlights: Space flight by Virgil "Guss" Grissom.
1961-07-21, WCBS, 5 min.
The opening of the telecast is heard and a report on Gus Grissom's return from space. Walter Cronkite reports in the field.1962-04-11, CBS, min.
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.
1962-05-28, CBS, min.
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.
1962-05-31, CBS, min.
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.
1962-07-10, CBS, min.
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.
1962-07-23, NBC, min.
A recap of today's events. Also, a review of the original "Telstar 1" launching on July 13th and TV transmissions. The Future of satellite TV is discussed. Host: Chet Huntley. Highlights: From all three networks. "America To Europe." London To the USA, Walter Cronkite (CBS) 3 PM Eastern time talks to and views England, Niagara Falls, the Rio Grande River, Philadelphia Phillies vs. Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, Chicago, John F. Kennedy press conference. Chet Huntley views Mount Rushmore and the Morman Tabernacle Choir in Utah. CBS newsman Douglas Edwards mentions Walter Cronkite is receiving the first picture today.
1962-07-23, CBS, min.
Live television between Europe and the USA, the US prepares a high-altitude nuclear test, striking doctors in Canada come to terms,
1962-08-21, CBS, 10 min.
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.
1962-09-17, CBS, min.
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.
1962-09-18, CBS, min.
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.
1962-09-25, CBS, min.
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.