Showing posts with label walter kronkite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label walter kronkite. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Monday, January 30, 2012

Monday, January 16, 2012

CBS Reports: Biography of a Bookie Joint (1961)





One of many seminal news documentaries churned out in the early nineteen sixties, Biography of a Bookie Joint helped create a stark cousin of cinema verite, coming to prominence around the same time. 

Watch the full hour - Biography of a Bookie Joint.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Saturday, January 1, 2011

CBS News (1963)

Walter Cronkite's normal 15 minute CBS News broadcast was extended to a full half hour to include this exclusive interview with President Kennedy in September of 1963. From then on, the news broadcast conformed to a thirty minute format.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Saturday, January 26, 2008

1956 Democractic Convention on CBS sponsored by SPUD Cigarettes

Since it's election time for our friends in the USA (well, not really, it's still ten months away, but you'd never know it watching American news) I thought this would be appropriate. This CBS news special was sponsored by Westinghouse and Phillip Morris. Westinghouse eventually became the owners of CBS for a brief period before deciding their energies were best spent focusing on nuclear weapons. Enjoy the fun as we watch Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, and other CBS news legends in action as integration is the hot topic in a contentious South vs. North battle within the Democratic Party.