Camel News Caravan - Sept 19, 1952

[@RRaquello]

Hey, it's the Timex guy!

[@weeverob]

starting at 10:26 a Camel ad begins featuring the smoking actor Dennis O'Keefe who claims he switched to Camel cigarettes because they "agree with his throat". He later died from lung cancer.

[@brigittebeltran6701]

So did John Wayne!!!

[@mkl62]

Thanks for posting. September 19, 1952. The day that my cousin made his entrance into the world.

[@gregorykayne6054]

I did it exactly 1 year later!

[@casopis25fps]

Thank you for this rare stuff! Very educational.

[@altfactor]

Roy Neal is best remembered for being "NBC's Man In Mission Control" during manned space flights from Mercury through the early Shuttle era.

[@altfactor]

I suspect that in addition to his weather spot on the network's newscast, meteorologist Clint Youle also did weather reports for NBC's local TV and radio stations in Chicago.

[@rentslave]

I'd walk a mile for a Camel-if I still had a useable lung.

[@MrUhwoody]

Weakling.

[@brandofoster6195]

I'm related to Mr. Swayze from my fathers side of the family in Indiana.

[@rtcp2020]

What an honor

[@brandofoster6195]

@@rtcp2020 thanks

[@bmasters1981]

Can you believe it's been almost 70 years since this was first broadcast on NBC way back when?

[@keeley-jasminemaxinecavend9780]

I wonder what the health freaks would think of a newsreel sponsored by a cigarette manufacturer? I hope they would be spitting with rage! 🙂

[@keithelster8858]

@@keeley-jasminemaxinecavend9780 -- Prior to cigarette advertising being banned in 1971, a majority of TV shows (and radio before that) were sponsored by tobacco companies. Including The Flintstones.

[@EdgyShooter]

"Nixon is a perfectly honest man" Aged perfectly 😂

[@johnking5174]

Well Nixon has been proved more honest than some recent presidents we have had - will mention no Clintons, Bushes, Trumps ... sorry names

[@pleiadecca]

Something terribly sad about seeing John Wayne pitching the things that killed him. I remember watching the Camel News Caravan with my grandparents - great nostalgia.

[@aleciathomas5703]

John Wayne smoked FIVE packs a day this blew my mind. Some say that John Wayne’s cancer was not from cigarettes but from filming the Ghengis Kahn movie “the conqueror “ in white sands NM on land where the trinity nuclear tests were done. Most people who worked on that film including Susan Hayward also died of cancer

[@zelmoziggy]

@@aleciathomas5703 Dennis O’Keefe, the actor in the other Camel commercial, also died from lung cancer.

[@AuldLangSyne2010]

The day I was born - does anything change!

[@brigittebeltran6701]

Nothing new under the sun!!!

[@TVonthePorch]

The tiny mic in front of JCS is an RCA KB-2, known as 'the paintbrush'. For its time it really put the 'micro' in microphone.

[@fromthesidelines]

"CAMEL NEWS CARAVAN" appeared weeknights at 7:45-8pm(et), right after a quarter-hour of music and/or variety (on Fridays, when this edition aired, following Pinky Lee's "THOSE TWO"). Except for a 1972 visit to accept an honorary Academy Award, Chaplin never returned to the United States...

[@franksantore2810]

Barry I. Graumann, and, of course. Mr. TV Trivia, the other half of those two was......Vivian Blaine, and the announcer for Toni home perm was none other than......Bill Cullen!

[@fromthesidelines]

Thank you! I figured I'd let you mention that.😏

[@allenjones3130]

I loved Swayze's sign-off, "Glad we could get together!"

[@mshroye2]

this aired on my birthday, september 19th, although that would be 35 years later

[@rtcp2020]

There are very few videos of this program.

[@altfactor]

Reuven Frank, the news editor on this program, would later go on to become President of NBC News.

[@glennso47]

The story of Nixon was interesting in that Nixon was a controversial person even then.

[@keithelster8858]

Even in 1952, he was not a crook.

[@edhalloran]

Straight news without personal commentary.

[@scifikoala]

"Straight news" trying to sell you lung cancer every 2 minutes

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

International nightly news in only fifteen minutes. This on top of fifteen minutes of local news. Left lots of time for T.V. program viewing.

[@johnking5174]

@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 Friday prime time NBC in September 1952 had - 8pm The RCA Victor Show. 8.30pm Gulf Playhouse. 9pm Our Miss Brooks. 9.30pm The Aldrich Family. 10pm Gillette Cavalcade of Sports and Greatest Fights of the Century

[@johnking5174]

In Britain it would take until 1955 before there was in-vision newscasters.

[@fazbell]

The newscasters were not seen on camera? Sounds like a union dispute.

[@johnking5174]

@@fazbell Nothing to do with unions. The attitude back then by management was they felt a newscaster in vision would take away their neutral stance on the news. Maybe inferring with a look their own thoughts on the day's news, so the BBC who were the only TV station in the UK until 1955 didn't allow their television newscasters in vision. The launch of commercial television in September 1955 saw this change, as the new commercial service announced they would follow the American way and have their newscasters in vision, and so the BBC, trying to spoil this, launched their newscasters in vision three weeks before the new commercial television service launched.

[@musicom67]

Imagine what modern-day news stories would be with dramatic music scores that underscore these stories (obviously a hold-over from newsreels).

[@wa5iyx]

I sure don't miss the mournful music that at least one of our local TV stations invaribly played when they showed graphic traffic accident film footage during their newscasts in the mid/late 1950s.

[@robertgraham399]

"Before swimming, fill with water." Ummm.

[@captinjackusmcjack7603]

I'm a baby boomer I was born in 52 and I can see things haven't changed a lot war bombs and hurricanes we see this in the news everyday 2013 except it's in high def thanks for the video and one more thing my dad always said Nixon was a crook ! lol :D

[@johnking5174]

US television was miles ahead with TV news than in Britain - in 1952 there was no British television news program as such, just a Television Newsreel which was non topical. Radio was where the British got their news each day in 1952. Eventually a British TV news program launched in 1954, but in vision newscasters wasn't seen until 1955.

[@CBrolley]

John Wayne died from cancer too.

[@DT00322]

I love Camels, but i dont smoke a pack a day, thats way too much 1 unfiltered camel gets me through the whole Weekend.

[@altfactor]

Imagine celebrities doing cigarette ads!

[@jimbo97]

Why not? Cigarette commercials were legal then.

[@johnking5174]

Friday prime time NBC in September 1952 had - 8pm The RCA Victor Show. 8.30pm Gulf Playhouse. 9pm Our Miss Brooks. 9.30pm The Aldrich Family. 10pm Gillette Cavalcade of Sports and Greatest Fights of the Century.

[@hfelton]

Had Eisenhower trusted his instincts and ignored GOP Nixon defenders, the country could have been spared much agita down the road.

[@mshroye2]

i think someone forgot to turn on the lights when nixon was giving his statement. you could barely see him.

[@altfactor]

+Matt Shroyer This was a kinescope recording, so film translated to live TV and again translated to film resulted in significant degrading of picture quality in much of the newsfilm footage.

[@larryhillman3813]

Wow. Tricky Dick was always getting into scandals. Even Ike didn't really like him.

[@rentslave]

After Assange's latest dump about the sale of ambassadorships,this seems to be Hyman Roth's small potatoes.

[@emmarose4234]

John Cameron Swayze was gorgeous! 💕 By the way, I read that he was fraternity brothers with the actor Frank Wilcox at KU. What fraternity?

[@CBrolley]

That year Swayze was voted “Sexiest Man Alive”...in Latvia.

[@paulbright5081]

It’s the carnation in his lapel right?

[@dannygaines1352]

They reported the "news" back then.

[@SoldiersDad]

My mother smoked Lucky Strike.

[@antony716]

Nixon just couldn't not step in shit

[@SoldiersDad]

Mild Camel !!!

[@cara4226]

Who is the "news caster"

[@benmodel2079]

+Cara Berk John Cameron Swayze. You can see his name on the nameplate on his desk.

[@cara4226]

+Ben Model sorry didn't notice that we weren't paying that close attention.

[@billsmith5985]

That's OK,Ben. I't wont mean a thing to her......

[@hatanahate]

03:03 10:15 13:58

[@karlc2869]

God, please give us back John Cameron Swayze and take that fake PR guy Howard Bragman instead. Thanks.

[@ser_ryon_vine6392]

"but some republicans are embarrassed." if only they could feel that way nowadays.

[@jamalmiller9643]

drones

[@rarefilmsandmore6863]

*cough*

[@Rebeldoug]

The liberal press