Peter Jennings with the News - 4/19/1967

[@Karlketola]

Very interesting. No major stories, just a slice of history in the spring of 1967. And to me, that's priceless.

[@jchow5966]

Thank you for this fantastic slice of USA history! Even the commercials are amszing! 😊

[@reneauvray3440]

TV news has not been the same since 2005.

[@Johnnycdrums]

@@reneauvray3440 At least.

[@cellytron]

Wow wow wow wow. I was privileged to live for 20 years in a world in which we had Peter Jennings. Not nearly long enough. This helps me see what I missed. Always the classiest anchor around.

[@handsomeman-pm9vy]

When news reporters actually reported the news.

[@telcobilly]

Truth, real journalism, not like today's parrots with an agenda.

[@GalacticJourney]

Thank you for your hard work, and for uploading a clean file with the right aspect ratio and everything! And best of all, NO WATERMARKS! :)

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

Good Newscast! Peter Jennings was Young here! I grew up watching Cronkite on CBS, but after Cronkite retired and I grew up, I watched Jennings through most of the 80s and sometimes Tom Brokaw!

[@spencerkarterlive7378]

Peter Jennings was 28 (going on 29) in 1967.

[@spencerkarterlive7378]

Peter Jennings and Frank Reynolds 11-years before World News Tonight. Rest In Power Peter and Frank.

[@reneauvray3440]

Do not forget Max Robinson.

[@altfactor]

Look how young Peter Jennings was!

[@brianarbenz7206]

I was younger then, too! 😉

[@allencollins6031]

"​​Ah but I was so much older then ; I'm younger than that now."

[@brianarbenz7206]

Sadly for Peter Jennings, the viewership was so scant in those days that the industry running joke was, "The best way to protect America's national security secrets is to broadcast them on ABC News." But he and ABC had great days in the decades ahead.

[@spencerkarterlive7378]

It was Peter Jennings first stint as a news anchor from 1965-1967. He came back as an anchor from 1978 until his death in 2005.

[@74455776]

Sure- ABC had many fewer (and inferior) affiliated stations than CBS and ABC at that time, and the executives didn't provide budget equal to their competitors until they wanted to compete in news and win with the Roone Arledge appointment as head in '78 (of course, they were number one in prime time by then and had the money to do it). Interestingly, in a Dan Rather interview on KZbin, he says that Cronkite decided to retire when he did because ABC "was coming, and he wanted to retire on top." He was prescient, because within a few years of the premier of World News Tonight, ABC was number one.

[@brianarbenz7206]

@@74455776 ABC was the best at prime time entertainment during that period, no question. And I agree, Arledge was the one who boosted ABC News. Until about 1971, there were many ABC affiliates, including in my city, which did not even carry their network's evening newscast. That was an embarrassment to ABC. But when our affiliate finally picked it up, everyone watched it, our of curiosity. It was Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner in those days.

[@74455776]

Sure- with their poorly funded, little watched network newscast, it made much more sense financially for affiliates to run local/syndicated programming. However, they've carried a network newscast since prior to modern ABC (1953-) fronted by some names you know and some you don't - John Daly (1953-60, who hosted What's My Line on CBS concurrently), John Cameron Swayze (early 60s briefly, after he left NBC), Ron Cochran (1962-65, who had anchored for CBS and announced the assassination of JFK on ABC), Jennings (1965-67, in his first stint in a youth movement, Bob Young (1968 briefly- announced MLK's assassination on ABC)...

[@74455776]

Of course it was different in the big cities where for decades they've dominated with their local ABC owned and operated stations- New York, Chicago, LA.... Here in Chicago, we have always gotten everything coming down the line from the nerwork- at the proper time

[@AldenRDavis]

0:38 - “Peter Jennings with the News. A 30-minute summary of the day’s events. Brought to you Monday through Friday in color by ABC NEWS.”

[@spencerkarterlive7378]

Unfortunately, a B&W kinescope.

[@altfactor]

Many color TV programs from the 1950's and 1960's exist today only in black-and-white.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Well, black and white are colors! 👌

[@pennolsen5451]

1950able

[@mikewrasman5103]

???

[@ericsamuelson5656]

In color, the map of the globe was gold with brown print. The color version is seen with Jules Bergman reporting on Apollo 1 on Jan 27, 1967.

[@brianarbenz7206]

What a painful date that is, still.

[@altfactor]

The set of Peter Jennings' newscast in 1967 would still look modern today.

[@MJBYouTubeNetwork]

Except we don't have black and white television today like we did back then..

[@calvinguile1315]

We should

[@smadaf]

@@MJBKZbinNetwork , this was a color broadcast. The kinescope record of it is in black and white. I'd like to see a color tape of it.

[@Bill.G]

Networks did not save videotape of many broadcasts in those days because tape was very expensive (and thus generally erased and reused numerous times). Kinescopes were retained for verification purposes.

[@bobfitzpatrick8952]

These are so interesting to me - I was 4 years old when this came out.

[@AldenRDavis]

28:09 - “Peter Jennings with the News. A 30 minute summary of the day’s events. Brought to you each weeknight in color.”

[@altfactor]

Even with studio segments in color, some of the newsfilm reports, especially from.overseas, may have been in black-and-white.

[@timstamps5281]

Also, this was originally broadcast in color, but the only surviving copy is a black&white 16mm kinescope film.

[@timburr4453]

Peter Jennings was always my favorite and most trusted

[@ScoopNemeth]

Peter Jennings would come back to the anchor desk in 1978, along with Frank Reynolds. Not to mention a newly-minted network anchor fresh out of a local station in Washington named Max Robinson. You know what I'm getting at? WORLD NEWS TONIGHT from the then-new look of ABC News under the direction of Roone Arledge!

[@spencerkarterlive7378]

Frank Reynolds died from cancer in 1983, Max Robinson died from AIDS in 1988, and Peter Jennings died from lung cancer in 2005. Roone passed away in 2002.

[@brianarbenz7206]

@@spencerkarterlive7378 I was just about to post those exact facts (except for Roone Arledge). So sad that such fine people passed so young.

[@perrybarton]

That was my network newscast of choice from the beginning of the ‘80s on. I still miss Peter Jennings.

[@maynardsmoreland]

7:30 Man, that Glo-Coat was a great ride!

[@megamanj2004X]

28:09 is it me or does the closing theme sounds like it has a few minor elements of the music from the later ABC World News Tonight? The heavy drums, the loud horns and a bit of the melody for one.

[@byrd56]

Back then, while ABC was third behind CBS and NBC, and was the last evening newscast to go color and 30 minutes in Jan. 1967, I would guess their targeting of younger audiences must have been an inspiration for the theme music used in this newscast.

[@HAL9000S3]

@4:26 "Abstemious"? Wow! TV was smarter back then. So were people. Now, the "smart" TV makes people stupid.

[@catherineerwin8269]

This newscast features the Boston marathon where the first woman participated. Katherine Spitzer (sp?). She faced a lot of harassment during the run. And the man who intervened from a bully was her boyfriend. I thought they said that there was three women but Katherine is the only one mentioned today.

[@fromthesidelines]

The actual airdate of this newscast was April 19, 1967. James Stewart's "War in the Skies" documentary special {promoted at 0:50} was telecast on Tuesday, April 21st at 8:30pm(et).

[@SirMixALotRareMusic]

Someone else noticed this and it's now fixed. The original date was taken from the tape.

[@fromthesidelines]

I see. Thank you!

[@spencerkarterlive7378]

The day after the late Jonathan Frid made his first appearance as Barnabas Collins on Dark Shadows. ABC News was the last to go 30-mintues, and switch to color in January 1967. Dark Shadows didn't went in color until August 1967.

[@jchow5966]

Thank you.

[@KuwaharaBMXRider]

The 1st Cav Footage was amazing

[@Nmax]

Peter Jennings was always so comforting to watch

[@reneauvray3440]

Great to see real commercials unlike todays.

[@SmithMrCorona]

That is the most American boomer sentence I have ever read.

[@jchow5966]

It really showed in frpth military conflicts. No wonder most people were against the Vietnam war. Good lord- TV news was incredible.

[@AldenRDavis]

28:26 - “This has been a presentation of ABC News.”

[@fromthesidelines]

20:12- Yes, that's McLean Stevenson in one of his early commercials.........

[@kevinschifino1064]

Also at 7:27 we hear a voiceover by Dick Tufeld for a floor wax commercial. If you don't know who he was, he is famous for doing the voice of the robot on Lost in Space.

[@fromthesidelines]

​@@kevinschifino1064 He was also the announcer for "THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE".

[@brianarbenz7206]

@@fromthesidelines And The Time Tunnel.

[@perrybarton]

@@kevinschifino1064ight, and he was also the announcer for LOST IN SPACE on things like the bumpers at the end of part 1 and beginning of part 2 of a two-parter.

[@MrWolfTickets]

7:40 AND it's a dessert topping!

[@brianarbenz7206]

20:10 The future commander of the 4077th in a Planters commercial. McLean Stevenson is getting an early start at working with "nuts" like Klinger, Hawkeye and Trapper.

[@perrybarton]

Thank you! I was just about to point that out. 😎

[@theamazingDrBob]

I really enjoyed that story about the teacher of the year from Minnesota and his choir. That was amazing!

[@brianarbenz7206]

I agree. And it was fascinating to see a cheerful Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy smiling along with LBJ, one year before his insurgent run for the nomination forced Johnson from the White House. That's politics. Sometimes you like somebody, other times you're enemies.

[@kabiam]

Wicked studio. Studio of the future with the giant tube screen built into the wall.

[@joeykardos7602]

Peter Jennings was a class act.

[@kevinschifino1064]

At 8:40 Reporter Don North reports from Vietnam in the midst of a battle without having on any protective equipment. Imagine reporters doing that today? When I see Richard Engel, he has full PPE on while making his reports.

[@SKa-tt9nm]

You are right. People in the 60s sure were stupid!

[@larryb982]

This was great

[@fromthesidelines]

26:57- David Wayne speaks for Bufferin.

[@ericsamuelson5656]

He will be Digger Barnes on Dallas by 1978

[@fromthesidelines]

20:06- "Now, another fine product from Standard Brands......."

[@MrJoeybabe25]

When did ABC News go to 30 minutes. I think it was sometime in 1967.

[@fromthesidelines]

@@MrJoeybabe25 The change took place on January 2, 1967.

[@mikewrasman5103]

That was four years,after CBS and NBC expanded their nightly newscasts in late 1963.

[@fromthesidelines]

ABC didn't have the resources to expand their evening newscasts (or colorcast them) until the beginning of 1967.

[@fromthesidelines]

Correction- Peter Jennings' first half-hour newscast was January 9, 1967.

[@Crackerjack-toy]

I remember very well that commercial on Johnson wax. Hilarious. And who thought that scotch tape invented rap! lol but those were the days

[@reneauvray3440]

Just like World News Tonight many years later.

[@fromthesidelines]

27:25- James Coco.

[@erikanderson5204]

The last newsman that could be trusted

[@pdxtal7468]

20:06 -- A Planters Nuts commercial w/ McLean Stevenson.

[@brianarbenz1329]

It should have started with Gary Burghoff shouting, "Incoming peanuts!"

[@jtgd]

What? He’s young too?!?

[@glennschwartz3435]

Notice Senator Eugene McCarthy with LBJ during the White House ceremony. Just a few months later he would challenge him for the 1968 nomination.

[@SmithMrCorona]

Glo-Coat: spread chemicals all over your house instead of, um, taking off your shoes.

[@RosieBee463]

Sooner or later your favorite tobacco.

[@fromthesidelines]

Today, Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco is made by Scandinavian Tobacco Group (they acquired it from the former Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. several years ago).

[@tomservo56954]

The date is wrong...this newscast aired April 19th. The Boston Marathon is always run on Patriot's Day, the third Monday in April (although this year it will be on Columbus Day)

[@RC4MAG]

Correct - also even more definite proof of the date, Adenauer died on April 19, 1967

[@SirMixALotRareMusic]

I'm going by what the tape has written on it, but ok.

[@MJBYouTubeNetwork]

Prototype World News Tonight. That's all I see here.

[@mikestevenson576]

Agree completely. It seems like this utter ratings failure is essentially the same broadcast that would later dominate for 20 years. Only thing missing was Oprah's lead-in.