Archival Television Audio: Sampler 2

Rare & Lost Content Sampler from the 1960's:
Brief eye opening teasers representing early and rare television broadcasts. Including "lost" documentaries, talk shows, public affairs, special events coverage, interviews, and news broadcasts.

Running Time: 15:53 minutes

Table of Contents: (Topic and location in min:sec)

John F. Kennedy Assassination
The "Lost" first few minutes of NBC's coverage of the JFK assassination from November 22, 1963.
   • Introduction by Phil Gries for T.V. Audio Archive - 0:00
   • Preview of JFK news flash - 0:30
   • Background of this "Lost" news broadcast of JFK assassination - 0:47
   • Don Pardo - First news flash of John F. Kennedy being shot - 1:22
   • He was rushed to the hospital - 2:02
   • Chet Huntley relaying information from Dallas - 3:12
   • AP photographer saw blood on the president's head - 3:50
   • Phil Gries summary of the news broadcast - 4:28

"Annie Get Your Gun" broadcast
This rare one-time NBC broadcast from March 19, 1967 starring Ethel Merman.
   • Introduction by Phil Gries for T.V. Audio Archive - 5:03
   • Preview of "Annie Get Your Gun" - 5:32
   • Phil Gries gives background information
     about this one time broadcast - 5:51
   • Annie Get Your Gun broadcast - 7:00
   • Musical number from "Annie Get Your Gun" - 8:46
   • Phil Gries gives summary of this rare one-time broadcast - 9:45

Roger Maris hitting his record breaking 61st homerun
"Lost" WPIX TELEVISION coverage call by announcer
Red Barber and Mel Allen's comments on WPIX TELEVISION
of baseball history being made by Roger Maris on October 1, 1961.
   • Introduction by Phil Gries for T.V. Audio Archive - 10:20
   • Preview of Roger Maris hitting his record breaking 61st homerun - 10:51
   • Phil Gries gives background information on this historic event - 11:10
   • Broadcast of Roger Maris hitting his 61st homerun - 11:25
   • Phil Gries gives final thoughts from Roger Maris - 15:21

November 22, 1963 (the "Lost" early NBC coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination)

John F. Kennedy in motercade

Phil Gries: On XM Satellite Radio this is Phil Gries for T.V. Audio Archive.

Welcome again to another edition of T.V. Audio Archive where the sounds of the golden and silver age of television from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s are nostalgically remembered.

Bill Ryan: There is no reason to believe the president is dead. There is no word on his condition, neither is there any word on who made the attack. That is all we have from Dallas, Texas at the present time. There has been a gun attack on the president of the United States ...
(Fade Out)

Phil Gries: On November 22, 1963 at 1:46:42 p.m. Eastern Standard Time NBC televised a national bulletin informing viewers that there had been an assassination attempt on the life of President John F. Kennedy.

Technically unable to immediately broadcast a live picture from their NBC studios in New York a bulletin card flashed on all NBC T.V. screens across the country interrupting programming as millions of viewers listened to the voice of Don Pardo announcing.

Don Pardo: NBC Newsroom in New York - President Kennedy and Governor John Connelly of Texas have been cut down by assassin's bullets in downtown Dallas. Will repeat that. President Kennedy and Governor John Connolly of Texas have been cut down by assassin's bullets in downtown Dallas.

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  1:39

They were riding in an open automobile when the shots were fired. The
  1:50
president, his limp body cradled in the arms of his wife Jacqueline, has been rushed to Parkland Hospital. Clint Hill, a secret service agent assigned to Mrs. Kennedy, said "he's dead" as the president was lifted from the rear of a White House touring car, the famous bubbletop from Washington.

  2:02

He was rushed to an emergency room in the hospital. Other White House officials were in doubt as the corridors of the
  2:17
hospital erupted in pandemonium. The incident occurred just east of the triple underpass facing a park in downtown Dallas. Reporters about five car lengths behind the chief executive were behind the autocade. Stay tuned to your NBC station for the later news.

  2:29

Bill Ryan: (Fade In) ...His car, his wife holding him. Again we have no word on the president's condition. One AP man on the scene said that blood was visible on the president's head. He was taken to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas. The motorcade took about five minutes to get to the hospital.

  2:47

It was during that trip that reporters saw the president lying flat on the face of his car. One
  3:00
reporter asked one of the presidential assistants, uh, Kenneth O'Donnell if the president were dead. The man gave no answer. There is no reason to believe the president is dead. There is no word on his condition, neither is there any word on who made the attack.

  3:12

Chet Huntley : (Fade In) ...Was scrambled communications in this country are at this moment. Uh, we will relay to
  3:33
you all the information that we have. We shall establish circuits, uh, between New York and Dallas, uh, at any moment. But in the interim we shall relay to you from here the information that we have. It goes like this: President Kennedy has been shot in Dallas, Texas. He was shot as his motorcade left the downtown part of the city. Mrs. Kennedy leaped up and grabbed the president and cried, "Oh no!" And the motorcade sped off.

  3:50

An Associated Press photographer reports that he saw blood on the president's head. The, uh,
  4:05
Associated Press photographer heard two shots but thought someone was shooting fireworks until he saw the blood on the president. Here is more information. Kennedy apparently has been shot in the head. He fell face down in the backseat of his car. Blood was on his head. Mrs. Kennedy cried, "Oh no!" And tried to hold up his head. Uh, Governor Connolly remained half-seated, slumped to the left, there was blood on his face ...
(Fade Out)

Phil Gries: For 35 years the Don Pardo national bulletin and the Bill Ryan and Chet Huntley first 3 minutes and 53 seconds of coverage on NBC television, a portion of which you just heard, was considered lost by NBC and all known archival world tv resources.

Today it is now preserved and resides with the Library of Congress and the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. For TV Audio Archive this is Phil Gries on the XM Satellite Radio network

March 19, 1967 (NBC's one time broadcast of "Annie Get Your Gun" )

Annie Get Your Gun

Phil Gries: On XM Satellite Radio this is Phil Gries for T.V. audio archive.

Welcome again to another addition of T.V. Audio Archive where the sounds of the golden and silver age of television from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s are nostalgically remembered.

Mr. Wilson: (Fade In) ...Don't any of you read or write?

Jessie Oakley: We don't read as good as everybody.

Annie Oakley: We don't read as good as anybody.

Annie: (Music) ...Doin' what comes natur'lly folks are dumb where I come from, they ain't had any learnin'. Still they're happy as can be. Doin' what comes natur'lly.

Kids: Doin' what comes natur'lly.

Phil Gries:In 1946 Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun" debuted on Broadway. It starred Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley. Twenty

years later in 1966 Merman reprised her role at Lincoln Center to critical acclaim. It was destined that television would also be interested in producing its own version of "Annie Get Your Gun", starring Ethel Merman. And so a 90 minute color video tape was produced and broadcast one time only on NBC television March 19, 1967.

Announcer: Ethel Merman in Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun".

Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Sung by Herbert and Dorothy Field. Also starring Bruce Yarnell as Frank Butler. Harry Gulliver as Sitting Bull. Benay Venuta as Dolly. And Joey Belefont as Charlie. Based on the stage production of the music theatre of Lincoln Center.

Charlie Davenport: Alright, folks, let's hurry on down to the box office!

Anonymous woman: Right this way, everybody!

Charlie: Well, the lawn is a little small for a shooting match. The folks can set up around the veranda.

Mac: Where do you want Butler's gun?

Charlie: Leave'em them for awhile. Oh, and, George, put Mr. Butler's luggage in the hotel.

Mr. Wilson: What are you doing to my hotel? What are all these cases for? Who in Sam hill are you?

Charlie: I'm Charlie Davenport, Buffalo Bill's manager. We're here to arrange a shooting match. Uh, put those up on the porch.

Mr. Wilson: This is my hotel and my lawn. You're not holding no match on it! Now take your stuff and get out of here.

Frank Butler: Hi folks!

Charlie: Hi, Frank.

Frank: Wow, looks a little small for a shootin' contest, don't it?

Charlie: Don't like it, huh?

Frank: Not much.

Charlie: That's fine because you haven't got it.

Frank: Who said so?

Charlie: Mr. Wilson here, the proprietor. Mr. Wilson, meet Frank Butler.

Frank: Look, Mr. Wilson, we're going to give you the chance to win a hundred dollars.

Mr. Wilson: You are?

Frank: You see every time we play -

Dolly Tate: Mr. Butler challenges the local champion to a shootin' match.

Mr. Wilson: Who are you?

Dolly: I am Mr. Butler's assistant. I hand him his gun and he shoots things out of my mouth.

Charlie: They don't shoot enough out of your mouth.

Frank: Here's the idea, Mr. Wilson. You get your local man. You get your local man, let us meet here, and I'll give you a side bet of a hundred dollars.

Charlie: Against one small room for my sister Dolly.

Mr. Wilson: What do you take me for? There ain't nobody around this county as good as you think you are.

Frank: But what have you got to lose?

Mr. Wilson: Spoons, towels, soap, bath mats, salt cellars - I've had show people here before. Nope, no, no, no, no! Now clear those crates off the porch.

Charlie: Alright.

Mr. Wilson: Now!

Charlie: Alright! Hey, Mac.

Mac: Yo.

Charlie: You see those crates?

Mac: Yeah.

Charlie: Leave'em there.

Mac: Come'on, Frank. Let's tackle'em again.

Dolly: Don't forget my room with the private bath which I can sure use right now.

Mr. Wilson: Leave the bill with him.

Dolly: Bill?

Mr. Wilson: A bill's a voucher. Don't you keep books? Don't any of you read or write?

Jessie Oakley: We don't read as good as everybody.

Annie Oakley: We don't read as good as anybody.

Annie: (Music.) Doin' what comes natur'lly folks are dumb where I come from, they ain't had any learnin'. Still they're happy as can be. Doin' what comes natur'lly.

Kids: Doin' what comes natur'lly.

Annie: Folks like us could never fuss with schools and books and learnin'. Still, we've gone from A to Z doin' what comes natur'lly.

Kids: Doin' what comes natur'lly.

Annie: You don't have to know how to read or write when you're out with a feller in the pale moonlight. You don't have to look in a book to find out what he thinks of the moon and what is on his mind. That comes natur'lly.

Kids: That comes natur'lly.

Annie: My uncle down in Texas can't even write his name. He signs his checks with X's. But they cash'em just the same. If you saw my paw and maw, you know they had no learnin', still they raised a family doin' what comes natur'lly... (Fade Out)

Phil Gries: The March 19, 1967 NBC television production of "Annie Get Your Gun", starring Ethel Merman remains a much sought after video by The Museum of Television and Radio and by the heirs of Irving Berlin, Ethel Merman, and Rogers and Hammerstein.

The original videotape of this magnificent Ethel Merman rendition remains lost by NBC and only the complete 90 minute T.V. audio aircheck survives. For TV Audio Archive this is Phil Gries on the XM Satellite Radio network.

October 1, 1961 (Roger Maris hitting record breaking 61st homerun)

Phil Gries: On XM Satellite Radio this is Phil Gries for T.V. Audio Archive.

Welcome again to another edition of T.V. Audio Archive where the sounds of the golden and silver age of television from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s are nostalgically remembered.

Roger Maris hitting the record breaking 61st homerun

Roger Maris hitting the record breaking 61st homerun

Red Barber: Well, it is one ball and one strike to Yogi as the game goes on. Friends, you have seen something that has never happened before in baseball. A ball player hitting 61 home runs in a regular season and he really hit it.

Phil Gries: On October 1, 1961 Roger Maris hit a record breaking 61st homerun in the final, and 163rd , game of the season. It occurred at Yankee Stadium off of Boston Red Sox pitcher Tracy Stallard in a 1-0 Yankee victory.

A five thousand dollar reward was given to Sal Durante, who caught the ball. Mel Allans T.V. commentary and play by play follows New York Yankees announcer Red Barber's call of this historic homerun, which was televised by local station WPIX channel 11 in New York.

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Red Barber: There it is. Sixty-one.

Red Barber: Five thousand dollars - somebody. He got his pitch. Look! Five thousand dollars! And here is, uh, the fellow with 61 you've seen a lot today. Well, you haven't seen anything like this have you?

Mel Allen: Nobody ever has, Red. Nobody ever seen anything like this. Not much to say. Just look and listen - and watch.

Red: I said two figures, sixty-one and five thousand dollars.

Mel: Did you see that boy going up the runway? He had the ball.

Red: We had it on camera. (Applause)

Well, it is one ball and one strike, Yogi, as the game goes on. Friends, you have seen something that has never happened before in baseball. A ballplayer hitting sixty-one homeruns in a regular season. And he really hit it. Well, when that ball went in the stands I know three people that , uh, got off the hook.

I thought they were off. That was, uh, Dan Topping and, uh, Roy Hamey, and the old red head because the pre-game show we all said we thought he'd do it today. High foul ball. Pete Ronald moving under . . . there's Nixon to catch it. First baseman for the out.

One run, one hit, and that's history. (Background noise.) More (Unintelligible) for Roger Maris as he goes to center field.

As Jim Hornacek congratulating him. And, now, friends I want to congratulate, ahh, my good friend, Mel Allen, ahh, who not only turned in a fine year's work at the stadium but is all tuned up to be on the television of the World Series which starts Wednesday. Ahh, Mel, all the luck in the world, and on you it looks good.

Mel: Thank you very much, Red. God bless you , and it's been a great thrill, uhh, working with you all year.

Red: Now to get the -

Mel: And these past several years the time has gone.

Red: And to get the technicalities straightened out now, the score at the end of four innings is Maris 1 and Boston 0. ...
(Fade out)

Mel: Bob Shepard , our public address announcer, who is, uh, schoolmaster, and likes to dabble in, uh, a little poetry just handed us over a, uh, poem. I'm gonna read it to you. No balls, two strikes. One out in the sixth inning. 1-0, New York. Low and inside.

They've been pitching me low, and wide and tight. I've been tense and nervous, drawn and pallid. But my prayers are full of joy tonight. Thank you Lord for Tracy Stallard.

Phil Gries: Shortly before his death from lymph

gland cancer in 1985, at the age of 51, Roger Maris said, " I always came across as being bitter. I'm not bitter. People were reluctant to give me any credit. I thought hitting 61 homeruns was something, but everyone shied off. Why? I don't know. Maybe I wasn't the chosen one, but I was the one who got the record."

For T.V. Audio Archive this is Phil Gries on the XM Satellite network.

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