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#13190: MIKE WALLACE INTERVIEW, THE
Order1957-05-19, ABC, 25 min.
April 28th, 1957-September 14th, 1958 (ABC) A half-hour interview series with host Mike Wallace. Mike Wallace interviews gangster Mickey Cohen. Cohen discusses the rackets and calls the Los Angeles police chief William H. Parker "a sadistic degenerate." NOTE: The vast majority of the 72 episodes of ABC’s The Mike Wallace Interview are collected (and have been digitized) at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. Several of those episodes exist solely on audio. However, one of the most controversial episodes–in which Wallace interviewed Mickey Cohen–is not part of the Ransom collection. Nor can it be found at any of the other big four television archives. It can, however, be found at Archival Television Audio, Inc. ATA has the complete Mickey Cohen episode (originally broadcast May 19th, 1957). It also has the retraction read by ABC’s Oliver Treyz the following week, October 26, 1957; Ransom has this episode (with Senator Wayne Morse) but the retraction by Treyz is not included nor is a brief retraction by Wallace himself.
#13190A: MIKE WALLACE INTERVIEW, THE
Order1957-05-19, ABC, 28 min.
April 28th, 1957-September 14th, 1958 (ABC) A half-hour interview series with host Mike Wallace. Mike Wallace interviews gangster Mickey Cohen. Cohen discusses the rackets and calls the Los Angeles police chief William H. Parker "a sadistic degenerate." Also included, the opening of the "lost" Mike Wallace Interview, broadcast, the following week, May 26, 1958: Host Mike Wallace issues an apology and retracts the statements made by Mickey Cohen, the week before, that adversely reflected the character of Los Angeles police chief William H.Parker and others. Vice President of ABC TV Oliver Treyz appears and retracts all statements Mickey Cohen made adversely reflecting the character of the Los Angeles Police Chief William H. Parker, and others. NOTE: The vast majority of the 72 episodes of ABC’s The Mike Wallace Interview are collected (and have been digitized) at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. Several of those episodes exist solely on audio. However, one of the most controversial episodes–in which Wallace interviewed Mickey Cohen–is not part of the Ransom collection. Nor can it be found at any of the other big four television archives. It can, however, be found at Archival Television Audio, Inc. ATA has the complete Mickey Cohen episode (originally broadcast May 19th, 1957). It also has the retraction read by ABC’s Oliver Treyz the following week, October 26, 1957; Ransom has this episode (with Senator Wayne Morse) but the retraction by Treyz is not included nor is a brief retraction by Wallace himself.
#13193: MIKE WALLACE INTERVIEW, THE
Order1957-05-26, ABC, 19 min.
April 28th, 1957-September 14th, 1958-ABC A half-hour interview series with host Mike Wallace. Host Mike Wallace issues an apology and retracts the statements made by Mickey Cohen, the week before, that adversely reflected the character of Los Angeles police chief William H.Parker and others. Vice President of ABC TV Oliver Treys appears and retracts all statements Mickey Cohen made adversely reflecting the character of the Los Angeles Police Chief William H. Parker, and others. Wallace interviews Wayne Morse, Democratic Senator from Oregon.
1965-08-15, ABC, 15 min.
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 top news stories: Watts looting and rioting continues for the third straight night, comment by Los Angeles police chief William Parker, twenty-five dead, comment by California Governor Pat Brown, Anti-Vietnam protests at the University of Berkeley, LBJ tries to halt troop train, comments by Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge. Herbert Hoover is honored. 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.