CBS News With Douglas Edwards on Thursday (May 15, 1952), Remastered by SabuCat

Original kinescope of the 1/4 hour news broadcast. Brought to you by Oldsmobile.
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[@GiozRockin]

This is as close as weee gonna get to time traveling. So interesting to see what what they were seeing 70 years life was completely different back then. Would love to explore that world

[@theresagallagher9161]

Lived that world.... some days were good... some bad. All in all life is what you make it no matter what generation you are born in. But it was when rock & roll and doo wop began. And you could walk down the street without having eyes in the back of your head. Lol

[@gcfifthgear]

"Rocket Ride Time...time to get aboard an Oldsmobile." Can you imagine one of today's newscasters cutting to a commercial like that? Oh, and did you notice the pack of Pall Mall cigarettes directly in front of the microphone?

[@0tt0z]

It kinda blows my mind on how they had television figured out so early on after it first started being broadcast. Alot of brilliant minds at work.

[@Flirri]

A lot of early TV was just what they were already doing with radio.

[@dgrant7291]

That's why it was only 15 minutes. Many radio programs were 15 minutes and so..@@Flirri

[@mshroye2]

I enjoy seeing old network newscasts. It’s always nice to see how newscasts were then compared to the garbage now.

[@johngraves6878]

Oh I dunno, this one kind of looked like garbage to me. Giving a full 2 minutes lecture time to a corrupt billionaire power broker like Baruch? Yeech!

[@ARichardP]

Interesting to watch. I used to listen to Douglas Edwards report the evening news on CBS Radio in the 70s. Seeing this it makes me think how much a corporation like General Motors would have held sway over how things were reported. He even said the name Oldsmobile almost seamlessly with the news. Paul Harvey used to do that. That music. All I can say is I’m glad rock n roll came along a few years later.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

This is GREAT! Love Douglas Edwards. I hope you have more. The best anchor ever!

[@MattD-pi8pc]

Besides the fact he sits there fumbling around with his pen the whole time

[@MrMenefrego1]

Just wonderful! Sure brings back some good, and not so good memories. Thank you!

[@johnking5174]

US television was miles ahead with TV news than in Britain - in 1950 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

[@fromthesidelines]

As seen weeknights at 7:30pm(et). At the time, Oldsmobile sponsored Doug on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; Tuesdays and Thursdays, CBS' Columbia Records division was the alternate sponsor.

[@richardpeterson1398]

14:20, “This Is The CBS Television Network”, it’s a classic, and has been recorded many times.

[@maxb4074]

The commercials are great

[@alicewolfson4423]

I want to go cruising in that Oldsmobile.

[@johnc.bojemski1757]

Except for the film of the General deboarding the plane and the references to him you'd NEVER know this NEWSCAST was reporting at the height of the KOREAN WAR, where hostilities wouldn't cease until a year later in 1953.

[@mkl62]

Thanks for posting.

[@504nlb]

This is the CBS Television Network.

[@davidhess6593]

That was hilarious, especially the Olds ads!

[@robertsnell3937]

TV news before the mainstream screwed it all up...where have you gone Walter Cronkite???

[@Juliaflo]

I say Edward R. Murrow.

[@jjeessz]

If only we could go back to the good old days, where they actually report news. Instead of arguing about politics

[@msquaretheoriginal]

They still do, but the news reports only take up a small portion of every hour, so they have to fill the rest with opinion. The network newscasts don't have enough time to do that, and this broadcast has even less. It's only 15 minutes.

[@Voucher765]

Yeah right, This was my Uncle's era the son of a WW2 navy veteran

[@el.blanco552]

They are literally talking about communists

[@Phillyfan45]

I see we had idiot Generals back then too

[@frankebell2383]

The news two days after I was born!

[@jchow5966]

Wow!!!! Amazing

[@mikewrasman5103]

I like the CBS News logo.

[@raconteur5195]

Our military were held to a high standard.

[@mikewrasman5103]

Wow! Reporting baseball on the evening news!

[@JJJBRICE]

The CBS map directional off the shoulder of Mr. Edwards .

[@paulmicelli5819]

Had a olds 98, 1972.

[@michaelbarnhart2593]

8:35 Wow! In the 1950's, a 50% down payment was often required on a home purchase, and the remaining 50% needed to be paid off in 5 years. Then again the spending power of most middle-class Americans apparently made it possible to do that.

[@TanyaKatherine]

Wow! That's the way it should be.

[@JackF99]

To all the folks for whom KZbin has painted an idyllic picture of the past - I'm sure there were people in 1950 claiming that 1880 was the good old days and there will be people in 2090 claiming 2020 was the good old days.

[@rentslave]

All may be correct as we've been held hostage ever since 1913.

[@TanyaKatherine]

The years really have become degraded as the Bible stated it would. It is the way the world was planned to be including food prices now and to come (the breaking of the seal and the horse of famine.)

[@JackF99]

@@TanyaKatherine go to any concrete examples? Quoting a 2000 year old book of fables does not count.

[@TanyaKatherine]

@@JackF99 Oh no I don't want to fight. I hope you're having a good evening. I didn't mean it in a nasty way at all.Having a fun night here. Love to all! Chickee-yeah! 🌊🌻🙈😭

[@MaseraSteve]

As for 1800's No.. I've been digging history both in real life and through recorded statements from 5 country and I never heard of anyone in interview those who experienced 1800s never wanted to relieve the same era with pisspoor science and technology we have in 1920's and up

[@mikewrasman5103]

That was still under Harry Truman's administration.

[@hozonkai9967]

70 years ago today

[@johnc.bojemski1757]

"Cou-pee"? LOL!

[@smadaf]

It's French for "cut" (as in "This car has been cut short; it is missing the back doors"), and in English it used to be properly spelled ("coupé") and pronounced. Then American typographers got lazy and turned "é" into "e", and pronunciation followed.

[@TanyaKatherine]

@@smadaf So well described! That's exactly it! I know roughly why but wouldn't be able to describe like that.

[@airdriver]

You could tell he got his start in radio.

[@KenHenderson-n1c]

Yes he did at WSB in Atlanta.

[@Dana_inc]

Where are the mirrors?

[@fromthesidelines]

Actually, the date of this newscast was Wednesday, May 14, 1952, as the Republican primary in West Virginia [10:53] was held on Tuesday, May 13th.

[@smadaf]

I think you're right. The United States Conference of Mayors (9:12) met in New York on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday-but they arrived at the Waldorf Astoria on Wednesday.

[@Ms.HistoryBuff433]

The year I was born.

[@dgrant7291]

$12000 homes but you needed 50% down! GI Bill covered 30% of mortgage so you might need about $2400 to get into a house (about 1/2 a yr avg income then.) I was born in 1952 and later as an adult my first home cost $110,000 in 1990. To keep up with that inflation homes today would have to cost around 1.2 million avg! so dont complain too much please!

[@TanyaKatherine]

@dgrant7291 Thank you for sharing.

[@johngraves6878]

Well, 12K and up was the upper price range of homes in that era. He said that more expensive homes 12K and up required a 50% deposit.

[@JoeyLutes]

How does the news then open the exact same way it does now

[@Artix902]

Back when CBS was credible :(

[@luisreyes1963]

"Stand For Stassen..." 😆

[@fun012345]

EDWARDS 1948-1962 THE CBS NEWS ACROSS THE WAY NYC PENN STATION TRAIN STATION CBS HAD ITS NATIONAL NEWS ON FOR15 MINS UNTILL 1962 THE CBS EVEING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE RIGHT FROM THE CBS NEWS ROOM.

[@christopherdunne7848]

Was that Mary Kay & Johnny?

[@chrisburleigh8429]

A lot of American kids were being converted into hamburger on Hamburger Hill in Korea at the time. There's no way it was worth it.

[@Dana_inc]

Damn, commercial were always annoying!

[@hf6150]

@11:13 How wrong he was about Senator Taft. Even then, newscasters went out on dangerous political limbs.

[@fazbell]

Cou-pay????? wtf???

[@plaroswulatylebotufraoay4407]

REQUEST: I'd like to see close-ups of the women's feet in red tap shoes, please! Thanks ever so much!

[@maarten1115]

Are you sure this is the right video you commented under?

[@0tt0z]

Uh what??

[@plaroswulatylebotufraoay4407]

@@0tt0z I wasn’t asking or requesting you. I was talking to @SabuCat about what I wanted to see.