CBS Morning News, May 8, 1968
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- Portion of a morning newscast recorded off then-WTOP-TV (now WUSA) in Washington, DC. Commercials were included. Quality varies due to original tape conditions.
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This was when the news, (& not the anchor) was the star.
If someone implemented this format today the ratings would shoot through the roof and others would be forced to emulate it. Straight news--what a concept!
A concept that no one seems to want anymore-- outrage is the order of the day, and lots of it.
Gotta love the typewriter sounds in the background when the reporter is speaking
Yep, actually teletype machines that were used for AP and UPI news/bulletins.
You could also hear them during "THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE".
Off-camera announcer was Bill Gilliland, who joined the CBS staff in the early 1960s and retired in 1992. He was rhe voice of the morning news for much of his career and even appeared on camera in the 80s, filling in on the weather segments when Gordon Barnes took a day off
Note the polished. professional presentation of the news.
14:50 classic anti-smoking commercial! That jingle is memorable.
Eugene Mccarthy was the Bernie Sanders of the 1960s
Poor Bobby. He had only a month to live.
$1,900 a year for an education at Columbia University? My how times have changed.
GI's serving in Vietnam risked their lives for $110 a month!
Back in the days when news was news and not talking heads.
That's pretty much what color TV looked like in 68. A lot of stations were not very strong and TV's deteriorated a lot and went out of adjustment in just a couple years and ended up looking like that (even though this bad picture is due to the recorder, it is pretty accurate). A good TV with a good signal had surprisingly good pictures though, early color cameras were quite good).
still amazed at some of these newscasts still existing- yet all the 1960s episodes of Johnny Carson were erased.....
Indiana was the first primary state that Bobby Kennedy competed in he won with 42 % of the vote to 30 % for Humphrey stand - in Governor Roger Branigin and 27 % for Eugene Mccarthy on the same day May 7 1968 Bobby also won the District of Columbia primary defeating vice president Hubert Humphrey 60 -40 %
It's always nice to see this kind of TV. This was before glamorization and when television was a service not a commodity so much. The 20-something people need to watch this stuff so that they can have a clear view of what it was like before so-called reality TV. This is some excellent archival footage. When television was a service. This was well before the fairness Doctrine was removed.
Glad the TV of the '70s remained like this, this is what I miss from watching the news.
well said
Always happy to see Douglas Edwards.
Back in the mid-1980's, always enjoyed Douglas Edwards - CBS Newsbreak immediately following 'The Price Is Right' at 10:59am weekdays.
T L And the oddity being that apparently somewhere after Walter Cronkite retired CBS must have scrapped the mandatory retirement at 65 rule.
Unrelated, but I think this is the first CBS News footage I've seen of Jim Kincaid there (saw a handful of clips when he was with ABC but grew up watching him often as lead anchor at Norfolk ABC affiliate WVEC)
11:59am on the East Coast, too.
Kennedy and McCarthy were both breaths of fresh air. Kennedy would have been far preferable to Nixon, who wound up winning the election. I always remember 1968 with much sadness: it began with great hope and ended in despair. Kennedy’s death virtually guaranteed the “reign of piety and iron”, as poet Robert Lowell (a McCarthy supporter) put it.
If I only had a time machine.
Amen
RFK was one month away from his assassination after winning the California primary in June 1968. RFK also lost the Oregon primary just before the California primary to Eugene McCarthy.
Thanks. Fascinating stuff. Nixon's shade at RFK was so smooth - some light relief in tragic events to come. The little moments here and there like the Columbia sit-in/strike and the "poor people's march" with thousands on the way to DC reminds just how off kilter things were at this time and in ways more complex than what we often get on nostalgia TV snippets.
Thank you for this! I was 15 at the time this aired.
1968 was also the year Dancer's Image was disqualified in the Kentucky Derby even though it crossed the finish line first. The horse was drugged prior to the race.
Douglas Edwards -- filling in for Joseph Benti. Benti later worked at the ABC O and O station in Los Angeles, then the CBS O and O station in Los Angeles, anchoring there w/ Connie Chung.
Joseph Benti later went to KNXT (now KCBS) in Los Angeles.
A CBS promo for soccer. It is forgotten that CBS aired the North American Soccer League before it tried to be big in the mid-70s.
The North American Soccer League actually began as separate leagues in 1967-the National Professional Soccer League and
the United Soccer Association. In 1968, the two leagues became
the NASL and it didn't really take with fans until the mid-to-late
1970s when foreign stars such as Pele and Franz Beckenbauer
joined. After 1984, the NASL folded due to too many franchises
signing expensive talent.
I’m the biggest pro-Kennedy person walking the earth but that comment by Nixon was hilarious, it’s almost like the anchor was about to spit out his water
So nice to see this! Joe Benti was very good on this program --and I'd love to see one of his appearances again. But it's extra special to see Doug Edwards filling in. Even though he would remain at CBS for 26 years after being deposed as the anchor of the Evening News, rarely was he given an opportunity like this to show just how good he really was.
He was relegated to local TV in NYC and network radio. He deserved much better. I wonder if he ever subbed for Cronkite?
He also did news briefs during the day. Benti did some of those too.
At that time, he did the daily five minute "CBS AFTERNOON NEWS" at 3:25pm(et), right after "TO TELL THE TRUTH".
RayHoffmanOnAir this is rare .
Roger Mudd subbed for Walter Cronkite.
Douglas Edwards Did it all. What a professional.
The _world's first_ television news anchorperson.
You mean Anchorman.
Wow...nice to see the news reported without bias..just strait forward news reporting. I do know there was some bias in those days, but it was nothing compared to what we have today. Plus no debates with a "Roundtable" of people hollering and screaming at one another. Strange to think with all of our modern futuristic technology, we are now more uncivilized than we once were.
As seen at 7:05am(et).
Local affiliates had the option of scheduling it during the 7-8am hour, either during the first or second half-hour, with a local newscast either preceding or following it.
The longtime announcer introducing the "CBS Morning News" is the late Bill Gilliand. Nice job reporting by Douglas Edwards.
Bill Gilliand's voice was a constant on the "CBS Morning News" right up until the mid-1980's, as the broadcast itself went through several anchor changes, along with a title change or two during that stretch.
In addition to the "Morning News", Gilliand also announced on "60 Minutes", as well as election night coverage in 1976, '80 and '84.
Thank you for mentioning this. Gilliand was a very prominent staff announcer.
thanks for posting this
1968 a toxic year and 55 years later we still live in a time of danger and uncertainty and we need another Robert Kennedy and his ideals and leadership his legacy will be here always R IP Bobby Kennedy 😭😄 A true Hero
1:03 RIP Sean Connery.
I'd forgotten about Robert Schakne for decades until just now. He was mentioned at 0:19.
Richard Nixon was always good for a backhanded compliment, especially if it could be directed at a Kennedy.
well like them or not the kennedys did have money. just like the rockefellers and bush's
I don't remember seeing the CBS Morning News in the '70s.
But then again, I was watching cartoons anyway..
Some probably had local shows like the CBS station in Lincoln Nebraska.
This was before Gayle King and CBS this Morning.
I enjoyed seeing the classic ad for the American Heart Association, which was very popular during that time, as well as Frank Gifford's commercial for Westinghouse. Both of them were classics that year.
9:06 With advertising like that it's no wonder Soccer became America's favorite sport!.....
Soccer has helped get to sleep many a time
Wow one month before RFK was killed.
I thought the same thing had rfk lived i would never served in vietnam(71-72) bobby would have ended the war. God i wish he had not been shot rip bobby.
OOH NICE!!! 1960s in color!
Is it me or the technology or perhaps faded video?
All that aside the strange "not appearing in nature colors" were kind of popular back then.
My Dad, who had a PhD in the Classics from Harvard somehow managed to buy some Turquoise color Wellington boots. I don't ever remember seeing him wear them but they might be collectable now.
He was a University President so maybe that was his "rebellion"
He actually tuned out to be pretty cool, especially as I got older LOL.
Wow, what a nice upload. There is very little Douglas Edwards on TH-cam and this is only one of a very few that is longform. I have been looking for any Edwards from his days on the evening news, but to no avail. Does anyone know if DE ever substituted for Walter Cronkite?
Thanks for this great addition! I hope you have more Douglas Edwards!
The short answer is no. Harry Reasoner was Cronkite's regular substitute in the 60s. When Harry left for ABC, Roger Mudd became Cronkite's substitute.
When Huntley-Brinkley parachuted to the top of the evening news ratings in the late 50s, Douglas Edwards was forced to take a lesser role within the network (you know, show biz), mainly anchoring radio newscasts and the afternoon news breaks for the remainder of his career. He seemed content with that and spent 45 years at CBS when it was all said and done.
In Color.....WOW
I think this is when split screen debate shots began.
I don't know if I could vote a candidate with the name of Gilligan.
A shame the tape isn't in better condition. It looks like an Andy Warhol painting.
Ray Greenberg agreed but I will take it even audio only. What history !!! Great comment
ntsc = never the same color
Ray Greenberg A 50 year old tape, I'll take what I can get
9:08 that soccer commercial sounds like the 2nd set of a Grateful Dead show
What a great anchorman wasted by CBS. But they also wasted the talents of Walter Cronkite after he left the news in 1981 (AT THE AGE OF 65!), so I wonder how much they know up there at Black Rock.
The year I was born.
The anchor's mic looks like a crucifix.
The fact that Democratic delegates were selected in Indiana without regard for the primary results was what led to Humphrey's nomination and Nixon's win in November.
The Ex-Lax spot is v/o'ed by the late Scott Muni.
He would become a legend in the tri state area as a rock and roll DJ. up into the 2000s I think he was on Q104.3
1244 heard Harriman's name before criminal
Gene McCarthy was the Bernie Sanders of his time.
I was in Vietnam at time, don’t remember having the opportunity to vote by mail
Things got more advanced ?
Times were living in is like the 1960s.
I love shit like this!
Bobby Kennedy annoyed the hell outta me, but it was a sad thing what happened to him.
It's Frank Reynolds.
7:28
7:20 😂 proud supporter of the kennedy’s but that was funny
Is it me or does evert announcer sound the same