For those who might be confused by the mention of the Tonight Show being preempted for this, NBC aired reruns on Saturdays until '75--when they were replaced by Saturday Night (Live).
Yes. NBC couldn't use the "SNL" title because ABC reserved the rights to it until late 1976, when they finally "gave up" their claim on it, and NBC started used it, beginning in January 1977.
From a historic point of view, it almost sounds like Nixon launched a self-coup before self-coups became a thing under Fujimori in Peru 1992. Fascinating in a sense how Nixon tried to defend himself by resorting to obstruction of justice so overtly. Constitutional crisis is an understatement.
Indeed a different era. The KNBC clip was just at the beginning, but local news was more interested in national than local back then. As an aside, this was a non-traditional KNBC set, kind of anti KABC, after KNBC had gone through the "living room" set earlier, with chairs around a coffee table. Eventually they would ditch both and resort to the traditional anchor desk.
In Washington during the month of Oct, 1973 it was smoldering bad. Just 10 days earlier Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned over income tax evasion. As for Nixon the brakes were off after this and they were out to get him. Plainly put, the defendant fired the prosecutor.
Elliot Richardson and William Ruckelshaus have gone down in history as two principled, honorable men, while Robert Bork is a punchline. May that bring some solace and comfort to today's Richardsons and Ruckelshauses.
Damn! An original off-air recording of this very moment! Of course, I know that all the networks have master copies, but it's so awesome to see original broadcast footage! (As a small side note, we might be seeing something like this very soon from our current President...)
Gone are the days when news reporting was much more in-depth and serious. And focused on events instead of driving home a biased view. Things are happening now that are every bit as serious and unprecedented as the events described in this video, yet it doesn't seem important enough to really dissect and report actual fact.
That NBC News Special pre-empted both the tonight show with Johnny Carson and maybe the midnight special too or did it show up after that special report?
"...November 14, 1973, federal district judge Gerhard Gesell ruled firing Cox was illegal absent a finding of extraordinary impropriety as specified in the regulation establishing the special prosecutor's office...Congress was infuriated by what it saw as a gross abuse of presidential power-as were many Americans, who sent an unusually large number of telegrams to the White House and Congress in protest. Less than a week after the Saturday Night Massacre, an Oliver Quayle poll for NBC News showed that, for the first time, a plurality of U.S. citizens supported impeaching Nixon, with 44% in favor, 43% opposed, and 13% undecided, with a sampling error of 2 to 3 per cent. In the days that followed, numerous resolutions of impeachment against the president were introduced in Congress. However, the House Judiciary Committee did not approve its first article of impeachment until July 27 the following year - more than nine months after the Saturday Night Massacre - when it charged Nixon with obstruction of justice. Two more articles of impeachment quickly followed. Nixon resigned less than two weeks later, on August 8, 1974." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
The person that recorded these programs off the air recorded very little programs on daytime TV. (He was at his job!) The only daytime he recorded was on Saturday or Sunday, but only once in a while!
Don Harris, seen in the opening moments, was later a victim of the Jonestown ambush.
For those who might be confused by the mention of the Tonight Show being preempted for this, NBC aired reruns on Saturdays until '75--when they were replaced by Saturday Night (Live).
Which was not called "Saturday Night Live" because that was Howard Cosells show name.
Yes. NBC couldn't use the "SNL" title because ABC reserved the rights to it until late 1976, when they finally "gave up" their claim on it, and NBC started used it, beginning in January 1977.
From a historic point of view, it almost sounds like Nixon launched a self-coup before self-coups became a thing under Fujimori in Peru 1992. Fascinating in a sense how Nixon tried to defend himself by resorting to obstruction of justice so overtly. Constitutional crisis is an understatement.
Classy use of the Nytimes font in the chyron...
Indeed a different era. The KNBC clip was just at the beginning, but local news was more interested in national than local back then. As an aside, this was a non-traditional KNBC set, kind of anti KABC, after KNBC had gone through the "living room" set earlier, with chairs around a coffee table. Eventually they would ditch both and resort to the traditional anchor desk.
Thank you for posting this!
"Impeach The Coxsacker".
The Saturday Night Massacre.
Those first 30 seconds were depressing.
In Washington during the month of Oct, 1973 it was smoldering bad. Just 10 days earlier Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned over income tax evasion. As for Nixon the brakes were off after this and they were out to get him. Plainly put, the defendant fired the prosecutor.
Elliot Richardson and William Ruckelshaus have gone down in history as two principled, honorable men, while Robert Bork is a punchline. May that bring some solace and comfort to today's Richardsons and Ruckelshauses.
Bork was hardly a "punchline." He was a great constitutionalist who was railroaded by the seamy, shabby likes of Ted Kennedy and people of that ilk.
Only in your pathetic little mind is Robert Bork a punchline.
Hugely fascinating and such a different era in reporting, though one cannot help but watch this and get a sense of history repeating itself.
LMAO
Clinton Myers - I know right. Nixon is rolling in his grave knowing an utter buffoon like trump could ever get elected President in the first place.
Damn! An original off-air recording of this very moment! Of course, I know that all the networks have master copies, but it's so awesome to see original broadcast footage! (As a small side note, we might be seeing something like this very soon from our current President...)
Another gem! Thanks so much!
35:13 Jack Elem for Ray-O-Vac
Gone are the days when news reporting was much more in-depth and serious. And focused on events instead of driving home a biased view. Things are happening now that are every bit as serious and unprecedented as the events described in this video, yet it doesn't seem important enough to really dissect and report actual fact.
It's infotainment these days, not journalism.
I believe Don Harris' co-anchor was Mary Anne Maskery
That NBC News Special pre-empted both the tonight show with Johnny Carson and maybe the midnight special too or did it show up after that special report?
38:53 That must be Mrs. Cox; did she ever look angry!
"...November 14, 1973, federal district judge Gerhard Gesell ruled firing Cox was illegal absent a finding of extraordinary impropriety as specified in the regulation establishing the special prosecutor's office...Congress was infuriated by what it saw as a gross abuse of presidential power-as were many Americans, who sent an unusually large number of telegrams to the White House and Congress in protest.
Less than a week after the Saturday Night Massacre, an Oliver Quayle poll for NBC News showed that, for the first time, a plurality of U.S. citizens supported impeaching Nixon, with 44% in favor, 43% opposed, and 13% undecided, with a sampling error of 2 to 3 per cent. In the days that followed, numerous resolutions of impeachment against the president were introduced in Congress.
However, the House Judiciary Committee did not approve its first article of impeachment until July 27 the following year - more than nine months after the Saturday Night Massacre - when it charged Nixon with obstruction of justice. Two more articles of impeachment quickly followed.
Nixon resigned less than two weeks later, on August 8, 1974."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
That was a Wednesday
34:38 Network throws the commercial break to local affiliates.
Can you upload kabc tv 5 password episodes from 1973 with Elizabeth Montgomery and Robert Foxworth?
The person that recorded these programs off the air recorded very little programs on daytime TV. (He was at his job!) The only daytime he recorded was on Saturday or Sunday, but only once in a while!
@Executive Decision Actually, he does, on occasion. OVS uploaded (from KNXT) an episode of "The New Treasure Hunt".