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#11328: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JACK PAAR,THE

1961-09-12, WNBC, 55 min.

On August the Communist East  Berlin command closed the gates into West Berlin and built a 20 mile long wall just inside their borders preventing the escape of East Berliners. However, since that fateful day, freedom loving people have been escaping somehow across the barrier. 

From 11:30-12:27am the following video taped segment was broadcast on this evening's broadcast, hosted by in studio confident, Hugh Downs. 

From Radio Free Berlin Studios and from on site locations, Jack Paar and Peggy Cass broadcast "The Tonight Show," 110 miles from Communist occupied Germany. There are many interviews with soldiers and with the cooperation of the United States Army, Paar tours the many facilities and shares his wit and observations with his American audience. 

Also, included in this air check is a segment from the telecast broadcast the following night, September 13, 1961 on THE TONIGHT SHOW. Jack Paar still in Berlin discusses the aftermath of yesterday's show.  Hugh Downs, form the NBC New York Studios comments and appraises yesterday's broadcast and the controversy of its showing which caused ripples in the press and with Congress in Washington D.C.     

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#881: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JACK PAAR,THE

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1961-09-12, WNBC, 55 min.

On August the Communist East  Berlin command closed the gates into West Berlin and built a 20 mile long wall just inside their borders preventing the escape of East Berliners. However, since that fateful day, freedom loving people have been escaping somehow across the barrier. 

From 11:30-12:27am the following video taped segment was broadcast on this evening's broadcast, hosted by in studio confident, Hugh Downs. 

From Radio Free Berlin Studios and from on site locations, Jack Paar and Peggy Cass broadcast "The Tonight Show," 110 miles from Communist occupied Germany. There are many interviews with soldiers and with the cooperation of the United States Army, Paar tours the many facilities and shares his wit and observations with his American audience. 

Also, included in this air check is a segment from the telecast broadcast the following night, September 13, 1961 on THE TONIGHT SHOW. Jack Paar still in Berlin discusses the aftermath of yesterday's show.  Hugh Downs, form the NBC New York Studios comments and appraises yesterday's broadcast and the controversy of its showing which caused ripples in the press and with Congress in Washington D.C.