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Here are my DVDs which have nothing to do with sports... 1960 Election Night................Six hours of original CBS coverage with live commercials JFK Assassination.................I have the first six hours of CBS coverage, the first six hours of NBC coverage, and the first eight hours of ABC coverage. Cigarette Commercials............Vintage ads from the 1960s (two hours - hilarious) Smothers Brothers................................Both 1968 shows with The Beatles (two hours) Cronkite Reports From Vietnam.........Pivotal broadcast on 2/27/68 (30 minutes) Martin Luther King Assassination.......CBS bulletin & news reports 4/4/68 (two hours)
1967 Reagan-Kennedy Debate.......Robert Kennedy and Ronald Reagan debated Vietnam on a CBS show called "Town Meeting of The World." On the same DVD I've added a 1967 edition of Firing Line in which William F. Buckley interviews Ronald Reagan (2 hours) Robert Kennedy Assassination........First 3 hours of CBS coverage; first 8 hours of ABC coverage RFK Funeral and Motorcade..............CBS coverage w/ Walter Cronkite (four 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.......Four hours of NBC coverage of the riots in Chicago + Two hours of ABC coverage (On ABC William F. Buckley threatens to punch Gore Vidal) 1968 Election Night............Ten hours of coverage from CBS & NBC (color/black+white) Apollo 11.............................ABC coverage of the first moon landing in 1969 (six hours) Apollo 17.............................CBS Coverage from 12/24/72 + Skylab coverage from 1975 (2 hours)
NBC Today Show.................................Death of Charles DeGaulle (1 hour; 11/10/1970) Firing Line.............................................."The Hess Story" guest: Rudolf Hess, Jr. (May, 1970) & "The News Twisters" Guest: Andy Rooney (Sept 1971) Two hours John Lennon & Yoko Ono..................On the David Frost Show (2.5 hours) Billie Jean King vs Bobby Riggs........1973 Battle of the Sexes tennis match Evel Knievel..........................................Snake River Canyon Jump + "Touch of Evel" (2 hours)
Mike Douglas Show.........................1974 w/ Richard Pryor, Freddie Prinze 1976 Election Night........................Nine hours of ABC coverage with Harry Reasoner & Barbara Walters 1977, 1978 Academy Awards.......Full broadcasts on two DVDs; I also have the 1955 Academy Awards show in black and white 1978 Election Night........................Six hours of NBC coverage with Jessica Savitch Letterman Game Shows...............Dave on the Gong Show, $20,000 Pyramid, and a horrible pilot called The Riddlers Letterman Morning Show............Last two episodes before cancellation in 1980
John Lennon Murder................CNN coverage and ABC Nightline on the night of the murder. From the following day: the NBC Today Show, British ITN coverage, the CBS and NBC evening newscasts, and the half hour specials CBS and NBC broadcast at 11:30 about John Lennon (this is four hours on two DVDs) First Shuttle Launch................NBC Coverage from April, 1981 (two hours) Phil Donohue Show................1983 show with Seka & Veronica Hart 1986 Challenger Explosion...........News coverage of the shuttle tragedy: CBS, NBC & CNN coverage, plus the memorial service. (2 hours, 40 minutes)
The 2000 Election...............I recorded eight hours of ABC coverage. By editing out local news and commercials, I reduced it to one three hour DVD 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...............First shows after heart surgery and after September 11th (2 hours) 2008 Election Night......................Four hours of NBC coverage Obama Inauguration....................Six hours of NBC coverage Obama on The Tonight Show......First appearance as a Senator (12/1/06) and first appearance as President (3/19/09) two hours | ||||||||||||||||||||
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