someone is posting full episodes of 1968 and 1988 evening news broadcasts, commercials and all

[Demovictory9]

someone must have dusted off their VCR tapes. warning... mentions of bush #1 and Reagan


gun control bill in 1968

Bill Moyer commentary about 17:00. Ted Koppel about 9:00

[dmr]

1. Interesting. Where, or how did you find these?

I'm listening to the first video from 1968 and the police violence during the Democratic Convention. It's nice to go back and watch these old broadcasts. A lot happened that hot summer.

I was in high school back then, I remember some of this, but at the time I was far more concerned with the Detroit Tigers' pennant race, then their World Series win over St Louis. This race and win helped a bit to pull Detroit back together after the summer riots.
Sock it to 'em, Tigers!

[Demovictory9]

3. youtube... googling evening news.

the 1968 episodes take me back to when everyone sat down to watch the evening news. There was no VCR or opportunity to watch later. My parents were very much into Cronkite

[hlthe2b]

9. We were better off then when everyone watch one of three networks and they were news-based

rather than entertainment. No punditry. Commentary only on more rare occasions and these coming from long- term journalists with impeccable reputations. In this respect, we were immensely better off.

[dmr]

10. My dad watched Huntley-Brinkley.

But I watched plenty of Cronkite at our next door neighbors.

[DemInBuckhead]

7. I'd assume the source is the Vanderbilt Univ. archive

They've recorded the evening news since 1968. Obviously an awesome thing they've done.

https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/

[dmr]

8. Thank you, DB! This is awesome!

Truly awesome! What a golden nugget they've provided us. I haven't reviewed their website yet, but am hoping to find the history behind this endeavor. The why and how, etc.

I think I'll be spending quite a bit of time casting these videos onto my TV to watch. Isn't technology great?

Thank you, again!

[Kablooie]

2. There is a woman who recorded years of them every single day.

They have been donated to archive.org

[Demovictory9]

4. good to know. SOmeone donated piles of VRC tapes to a nonprofit org I worked with

they were hours and hours of new york television, commercials and all. Mostly the movie that come on that day. I'm sure they ended in the dump.

[Kablooie]

5. I don't think archive.org has put them up yet...

It's probably expensive to digitize them all, but they intend to in the future.

[ZZenith]

6. These are priceless!

Thanks for pointing me towards them. Subscribed.

Man, what a different world we lived in then.