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JFK Assassination.................First six hours of CBS coverage, first six hours of NBC coverage, and first eight hours of ABC coverage. Cigarette Commercials............Vintage ads from the 1960s (two hours) Smothers Brothers...............Both 1968 shows with The Beatles (two hours) Cronkite Reports From Vietnam.........Pivotal broadcast on 2/27/68 (30 minutes) MLK Assassination.................CBS bulletin & special broadcasts on 4/4/68 (two hours) The Today Show....................On April 1, 1968 and June 4, 1968 (two hours) RFK Assassination................First three hours of CBS coverage; first eight hours of ABC coverage RFK Funeral Motorcade.......CBS coverage w/ Walter Cronkite (two hours) RFK Biographies .............Shortly after Robert Kennedy was murdered CBS assembled a program about his life. On the same tape I've added the 1990 HBO film "Bobby Kennedy In His Own Words." (2 hours) The Journey of Robert Kennedy........This beautiful 1971 film was narrated by John Huston and was broadcast on ABC (1.5 hours) 1968 Democratic Convention.......Two hours of ABC coverage of the riots in Chicago (William F. Buckley threatens to punch Gore Vidal) + Three hours of NBC coverage 1968 Election Night...........10 hours of coverage from CBS + NBC Apollo 11.............................ABC coverage of first moon landing (six hours) Apollo 17.............................CBS coverage from 12/24/72 + Skylab coverage from 1975 (1.5 hours)
60 Minutes..............................The first edition of the show from 10/22/68 John Lennon & Yoko Ono.............On the David Frost Show (2.5 hours) Billie Jean King v Bobby Riggs....1973 Battle of the Sexes tennis match Evel Knievel...................................Snake River Canyon jump (2 hours) Mike Douglas Show...................1974, w/ Richard Pryor, Freddie Prinze
CBS Reports........................"TV and Politics" + "The Selling of the F-16" (two hours) 1976 Election Night..................Four hours of ABC coverage Letterman Game Shows........Dave on the Gong Show, $20,000 Pyramid, and a horrible pilot called The Riddlers Letterman Morning Show..........Last episode before cancellation in 1980 John Lennon Murder............. CNN coverage and ABC Nightline on the night of the murder. From the following day: the network morning shows, British ITN coverage, the network evening newscasts and the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder (five hours.)
First Shuttle Launch...........NBC Coverage from April, 1981 John Belushi Dies..............1982 news coverage + Nightline special Phil Donohue Show...........1983 show with Seka & Veronica Hart
Challenger Explosion.............News coverage of the 1986 shuttle tragedy CBS, NBC & CNN coverage, plus the memorial service. (2 hours, 40 minutes) Princess Diana Funeral...........Four Hours of CBS coverage from 1997 The 2000 Election...............I recorded eight hours of ABC coverage. By editing out local news and commercials, I reduced it to one three hour tape that includes the following: 1. Network coverage begins (8:00 pm) 2. Jennings explains how eastern half of country has voted 3. News that Al Gore wins Florida and other states 4. ABC analysts discuss why Gore won Florida 5. Bush representative says "we can win without Florida" 6. Coverage of the vote count in more states 7. ABC analysts discuss the electoral college 8. "ABC now believes Florida is too close to call" 9. Bush campaign is upset networks called Florida too early 10. More discussion of the electoral college 11. First mention of ballot confusion in Palm Beach county 12. Voter News Service explains why they got Florida wrong 13. Live interview with Ralph Nader 14. Jennings: "there's a real donnybrook right now in Florida" 15. Analysts discuss possible legal challenges to Florida vote 16. Interview with Director of Florida State Dept. of Elections 17. "Florida now goes to Bush...Bush is the President-elect" 18. Jubilation in Austin; despair in Nashville 19. ABC analysts discuss the coming Bush presidency 20. Jennings says Gore's concession speech is minutes away 21. "Hold on...we're getting new results from Florida" 22. "The margin in Florida is now 600 votes" 23. Gore's second call to Bush retracting his concession 24. Jennings shows 3 different Washington Post headlines 25. Why does Buchanan have so many votes in Palm Beach? 26. Gore campaign manager Bill Daley addresses crowd 27. ABC puts Florida back in the "too close to call" category 28. Analysts discuss what a recount in Florida might be like 29. Bush campaign manager Don Evans addresses crowd 30. Talk of reasons Nixon did not ask for recount in 1960 31. Small fire above Jennings' desk 32. Jennings shows NY Post headline: Bush Wins! 33. ABC signs off for the evening (nearly 5:00 am) David Letterman............... His first shows after heart surgery and after September 11th. (on the same tape.) | ||||||||||||||
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