WSB-TV 6pm News, December 4, 1967

[@joelm1990]

I’m in my 50’s and an Atlanta native, and watch the news on WSB to this day, and just happened to stumble across this. So fascinating. I can just imagine my mother and grandparents sitting in the living room watching this newscast.

[@jchow5966]

Thank you for preserving and posting history - even the commercials are amazing!

[@stephend5520]

I wasn't born until 1971 but I still love seeing these old broadcasts, especially the commercials, thank you for posting this video.

[@ThomasDeLello]

In those days... there were only three nationally significant stations on black an white broadcast television; NBC ABC and CBS. I was born in 1947.

[@bluesdca]

I was a 10 year-old kid living in the Atlanta suburbs on December 4, 1967 and my dad's favorite station for news was WSB-TV, Channel 2. I remember most of the Channel 2 staff in this broadcast, including Ray Moore, Hal Suit, Milo Hamilton, and Johnny Beckman. All the Rich's department store commercials bring back memories. My family did a lot of shopping at Rich's. I have memories of it all and Governor Lester Maddox too. Whenever my father would telephone his father (my grandfather) in Mississippi and say something derogatory about racist Mississippi politicians in the news, my grandfather would remind him about Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia, the high school dropout who got his start in Georgia politics by chasing Black people out of his restaurant with an ax handle. The "good old days" were never really so good.

[@KyleTaylor-to8bc]

Alfred Newman's theme for the film Captain From Castile was used as the theme for this newscast.

[@ra3406]

"Conquest". The rights to which Newton had given to the University of Southern California and played by it's marching band after victories. Kinda funny hearing it used in this manner. (In SEC territory in of all places) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZuaeoyJq8R1jKcsi=ZGn-TlejHIH7amA1

[@wkat950]

This is a heck of a find- commercials and everything! Thank you from this former GA resident.

[@b58hustler86]

I was in high school at that time, the 60's was wild and crazy, it was the best of time, and the worst of time.

[@joelm1990]

Omg I’m old enough to remember when the weather man drew on the map with a marker. 😱

[@mariekatherine5238]

Well, I am, too! I’m 73. We got our first TV set when I was three years old, 1953.

[@ThomasDeLello]

Tex Antoine...

[@Ronbo710]

Gee they didn't have 20 commercials every two F-ing minutes back then. How nice.

[@WestCoast..]

And commercial wasn’t stupid back then. Just imagine

[@handsomeX]

​@WestCoast.. Exactly. And everyone's demeanor was so chill. No screaming, yelling, insults etc. Just 100% pure class.

[@davidnorris6920]

We must be buying the goods else there wouldn't be so many.

[@HOLLYWOODABCD]

When the NEWS was real news and not all polished as they all are today, I started back to collect the original broadcasts - mainly because after rewatching them they seem SOO CLOSE to being the same as they are today after 40+ years MAKES YOU THINK....

[@NateEll]

Lived in Atlanta for several years in the 80’s- immediately remembered WSB!

[@joeykardos7602]

Newscasts were much better and lot more honest back in those days.

[@yttrailers9470]

I can’t get over the fact that the news has the best audio quality back then.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Alexander Scourby was the voiceover commercial spokesperson for Eastern Airlines.

[@hrtvfan2870]

11:13 Hal Suit (delivering the commentary on the difficulties LBJ would have been expecting to face regarding the antiwar protestors) would later run as the Republican nominee for Governor of Georgia in 1970; ultimately being defeated by Democratic former State Senator (and future President) Jimmy Carter.

[@rockylum6947]

39:25 Dr. King organizing another march on Washington that he would never live to see.

[@mirden1953]

My husband was in Vietnam at that time.

[@handsomeman-pm9vy]

When news reporters actually reported the news.

[@chrislovescoke2599]

Holy cow to be a sports fan in 1967. 1. No video from the Falcons game. The only video is from the Giants Browns game. 2. The announcer said the Browns won 24-11. 11 was a very rare score before the two-point conversion era so I was wondering how that happened. 3. The final score was actually 24-14. Good job announcer. 4. Also, at one point he said the Browns took an 18 to nothing lead. Another weird score. It was actually 17 to nothing. Good job announcer. The days before the internet and social media and timely and accurate reporting of sports were rough!

[@MattHall05]

Damn, my dad was only a month old when this aired. He was born in late October, 1967.

[@JimGrey]

What a great find.

[@byrd56]

23:17--ESSA, the Commerce agency that oversaw the US Weather Bureau, eventually became NOAA at the same time the Weather Bureau was renamed the National Weather Service, around 1970. 46:34--Milo Hamilton was also the play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Braves, whose full slate of games aired back then on co-owned WSB-750, with some road games also shown on Channel 2.

[@bluesdca]

I grew up listening to Milo Hamilton and the Atlanta Braves on WSB AM Radio. Only about 25 Braves games per year were televised on WSB TV before Ted Turner successfully bid for the local broadcast rights (and eventually bought the team), so many, many fans listened to the radio broadcasts. Since WSB AM was one of the original "clear channel" stations authorized to broadcast with 50,000 watts after dusk, people hundreds of miles away from Atlanta listened to evening Braves games due to that strong broadcasting signal. The Braves lost a lot of games in those years and Milo Hamilton was fired after scolding Atlanta fans for not supporting the team when it was losing, pointing out the losing Atlanta Falcons still got fan support by selling out for every home game. That did not go over too well and he spent the rest of his broadcasting career with the Houston Astros.

[@dougbadgley6672]

You are correct about the National Weather Service change from being the US Weather Bureau in 1970. In addition, Severe Weather and Tornado Forecasts and Alerts became Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Watch and Warnings in 1967, during in large part to the 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak here in the Midwest. There was much confusion across the country.

[@davidnorris6920]

I wish commercials today were as brief as they were then.

[@billydrucker-mn6ez]

Milo Hamilton was the legendary voice of the Atlanta Braves for many years…his epic call of Henry Aaron’s 714 th home run is a true baseball classic

[@rhondaalee8863]

12:52 "Making whoopie..." is that what I heard? 😆

[@butchjackson4428]

I'll be 63 tomorrow. I would have been 7 when this was aired. I loved when News was simple like this. A guy sitting behind a desk. The language was simple, honest, straightforward in a way unimaginable today. Watch Ray Moore here. Calm, professional, & no happy talk. Political correctness was unknown. And they did not talk down to us. Today local news is strictly about the lowest common denominator & local "culture". Hal Suit's thinly disguised editorial about Communist Party activity in Atlanta would be appropriate today considering the activity around the new police training center, (Cop City). Man, I miss this!

[@michaelv3340]

I was born on December 9th, in Alabama. Interesting to see news from the time. School desegregation in Alabama, war in Vietnam.

[@VelmaTheID]

Hal Suit spoke at my high school graduation. I wish the local news was still like this. Local news now days is unwatchable.

[@bluesdca]

I remember when Hal Suit got the Republican nomination for governor. He was defeated by a Democrat named Jimmy Carter! At the time no Republican had been elected Governor of Georgia since Reconstruction. Jimmy Carter won really big and Ray Moore ended up moving from WSB TV to WAGA TV after his sealed prediction was opened up after the election was called. Ray Moore's prediction, read on air, said "Hal Suit will be elected."

[@bradwooldidge6979]

Whoa! This was on my 9th birthday!

[@cosmokramer1987]

43:49 Dabney Colman is in the Viceroy ad.

[@pacesweatt]

Who is the second anchor reporting main news segments with Ray Moore? At 3:50.

[@xxxxxx-tq4mw]

I was drafted into the u.s.army exactly 3 months later on March 04, 1968

[@chrislovescoke2599]

Professor was right re: urban renewal!

[@msquaretheoriginal]

That "Insight" segment could have run on Fox News today. It's rather tiring reading all these comments about the news being unwatchable today, and the educated guess is because it's seen as too liberal and it was just right back then. Sure, whatever. Wait till the Tet Offensive makes everyone think twice. And that was a win for us. Problem was the VC should not have been capable of it if the military was to be believed.

[@apenation8100]

"Only place we can lose this war is Washington." How true.

[@newstarcadefan]

You know...this really is a capsule. However,, you know this is old because Eastern was bankrupt by the time the 80s/90s came to be.

[@byrd56]

But not before Eastern spent money trying to compete with Atlanta-based Delta.

[@tedpeterson1156]

Yes, but aren’t all airlines bankrupt? I think it’s a requirement

[@charlesdowell4505]

I was in Vietnam with 2 months to go. Soon to find out that I am being stationed in Valdosta Moody AFB

[@rocsaltjohn]

Love how there is a close-up of a drawn map of Saigon with a pointer and remember when the weather was hand drawn as they were forecasted. How about a heart transplant making the news? How about "insight", this idea that they separate "opinion" from "news"?

[@andythunders1049]

Lipton complete with meat omg lol the 60s/70s musta been wild. Between this and my old creem magazines I must say I envy this era

[@georgiagirl2329]

How do you get all this stuff

[@far7310]

Wait he questioned that the shaving cream was "crazy" but not...delicious?

[@George_Tropicana]

Wow, it’s incredible to see a news cast reporting on segregation as if it’s current. Very cool.

[@franksantore2810]

I am surprised that Milo the Egomaniac would share his sportscast with anyone!

[@steveprestegard5151]

Maybe not by his choice.

[@crikker9447]

I was 4 months old

[@ront769]

I was twice your age; 8 months. Always captivated by footage of life in the late 60's.

[@falkz.5234]

"The war is going better." Oh Boy, they are in for a surprise in less than two months time.