Walter Cronkite announces President Nixon's resignation1974

[johnwayne743]

No colors... I dont watch....

[ciccone39]

0:00-0:09 is shown at the Gerald Ford Museum in one of the displays.

[hamartolos1]

Wow, Dan Rather is incredibly annoying with that robotic like voice of his.

[andrelebaron]

and he was the only President who treated the White House cooks and servants with respect.

[andrelebaron]

Nixon really won the Cold War by going to China, reduced Russian influence in the Middle East, and reversed a bad policy in Asia. He'd have won the Vietnam War too if Congress hadn't vindictively cut funding to South Vietnam.

[ghanick]

It was a joyous day for most of us. There was dancing in the streets.

[ScooterpupReljac]

@ghanick

You are an sick person to take joy in this sad occasion.

[TheTubePortal]

It cannot be coincidence that some of the most evil men in America and American politics were associated with the Nixon administration. The first being Nixon of course, but also Gerald Ford who was partly responsible for the coverup of JFKs assassination in the Warren Commission, Donald Rumsfeld who was part of Nixon's cabinet, and perhaps worst of all Dick Cheney who worked closely with both Rumsfeld and Nixon.

[snoops71]

I remember this all very vaguely. I was only 3 at the time. I didn't quite understand it all, but I knew it was very serious. What I remember most was watching Nixon's farewell speech the next day. We only watched CBS, so this was the coverage we tuned into that day.

[morgan8757]

I did'nt know connie chung went that far back

[altfactor]

This newscast aired at 6:30 P.M. EDT, 3:30 PDT. That was the only "feed" of the "Evening News" CBS offered to affiliates that day since CBS (and the other networks) began live coverage at 7 EDT, two hours before President Nixon officially announced his resignation.

If my memory serves me correct, the three networks stayed on the air continuously for 22 hours, until 5 P.M. EDT the next day, until after the now-former President had arrived at San Clemente.

[MrThrillgil]

china nixon kissenger .no brainer

[amusementparks]

I was there when Dan Rather was making this report. It was in Lafayette Park and Annie Lebovitz took a picture of Dan Rather that was published in Rolling Stone Magazine.

[gotch09]

I just now remember: Mr. Ziegler has pie plate jug ears.

[daved1974]

hard to believe that was thirty-seven years ago tonight 

[blanchelincoln]

This footage is from the Vanderbilt University television news archives in Nashville. The date and time stamps are the giveaway. They first started archiving the network newscasts in 1968 but didn't start recording in color until 1978 I believe.

[marcostar57]

I remember watching this as a teen .. it was a sad day.

[Gowalum]

George HW Bush would have made a good choice except he may not have been able to rise to the presidency.

[jukechst]

did they not have colour tele then? or is this a bad recording?

[robatsea2009]

@jukechst have a read through the comments - you'll find discussion of this several times

[observer9670]

@jukechst I believe this from Vanderbilt University's archives. They have recorded all network news broadcasts since the late 60's. They recorded them on non-broadcast b&w tape for archive purposes. That's why the time stamp is "5:30" since Vanderbilt is in Nashville, which is in the Central Time Zone.

[nuts4clara]

@jukechst Just a bad recording, that's all.

[lee1000ify]

In the year of 1974, President Nixon resigned in disgrace. Now, thirty years later, in 2004 Governor McGreevey and Rowland all resigned in scandal, including Governor Spitizer. If Walter Cronkite had been reported these stories of politicans, he would have reported the same way.

[radiodj1520]

I Believe This Was A Video Clip Of CBS News' CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite's Report On President Nixon's Resignation On Thursday Evening, August 8, 1974.

[1958Antimatter]

Dan Blather could barely contain himself. Bastard.

[teddbear52]

didnt this video tape in color ?? 1974 this was something here.. a working president resigns there .. gee before my time.hope it never happens again the u.s.a

[efan2011]

@teddbear52

The Vanderbilt News Archive did not record in color until the late 70's, it was expensive to record in color

[wkat950]

@efan2011 too bad CBS doesn't release its videotape footage of these and other stories. They'd make some serious cash from the proceeds. I don't know if they kept footage because the track record of network archives is mixed. FOXNews is said to have the best archive but they came along in the earlier days of digital preservation.

[efan2011]

@wkat950

CBS Has an archive, but it's not for the public. You have to know someone who works there.

I agree, News fans will go crazy if any of the networks stop being idiots and let the fans buy copies off the news archives. All channels will make a fortune. Most of them now only let businesses buy copies for 1000$ a pop. Vanderbuilt charges $100 per hour, while that's better than $1000, it's still not good.

[ObserveAccurately]

@efan2011

What about the network archives? Would they have the recorded in color the original broadcasts? Or are they in black and white too?

[efan2011]

@ObserveAccurately

Yeah, they are in color. I have seen footage of RFK's assassination from 1968 from the CBS archive on YT, and the whole thing was in color, the quality is just alright because most of the footage was transferred from film. The only bad part was that the public can't use it

[kellyberry]

when was color tv invented? od like to see this in color

[Sqnutkins]

I enjoy stuff like this. It is part of history. Also an era of news i would never see as i wasnt even born. Thank You so much for sharing

[radiodj1520]

In This Clip, From 0:00 To 0:42, It Was CBS News' CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite Video Open From Thursday Evening, August 8, 1974.

[rayjr62]

When the GOP leadership sent Barry Goldwater up to the WH to tell Nixon that he had no more support, it was basically over.

[gotch09]

Here in Austin, TX we still have Richard Nixon resignation day parties. So he may be gone, but he's by no means forgotten.

[swami1]

Cronkite was a far-left as any MSM-ite ever was. But he rarely, if ever, let it slip into his reporting. So different from today.

[neilzep]

This man is a reporter,my parents held him to such high esteem through the years.

[noaanhc]

robatsea2009

Would be greatly appreciated if the complete August 8,1974 CBS Evening News broadcast could be posted on here.

[frc1968]

I remember growing up watching Walter Cronkite and saw his last broadcast as anchor of CBS news. One could always count on him to give the news unlike many today who parrot talking points from teleprompters.

[HoneySiegalSurvivor]

@frc1968 Who is behind muzzling the truth? Who is writing what goes on the teleprompters?

[frc1968]

@HoneySiegalSurvivor Ummmm....... the corporate media conglomerates. News in the US has become entertainment and a ratings game. When news sources become concentrated in too few hands as is the case now the news becomes only what the powerful few want it to be.

[noahf67]

This is likely how it looked in our Queens living room, on the b&w Zenith.

[HoneySiegalSurvivor]

@noahf67 I cannot remember if our Zenith TV we were watching in 1980 was color or not. I do remember it was one of our first purchases with a coupon I found in the Montreal Gazette newspaper for the Bay (formerly Morgans-le Baie en francais) and his attorney brother tagged along. Dialex conglomerate of my former Toronto employer as a teenager at Thrifty's , a unisex jean store. My husband decided on Zenadev while watching that Zenith TV with me. Little did I know the clandestine deals using me.H

[wiedep]

nice opening shot of someone's back!

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

Wow! This is interesting to watch in my opinion. This is the part of youtube I like. Thanks for the post! :)

[HoneySiegalSurvivor]

@bubblinbrownsugar616 yes, this is where honesty and the American dream were at it's height. Dan Rather was fired because of being honest about Bush. NBC has been moneylaundered into Obama. ABC has the truth behind the lies of the current president because I hand delivered the propaganda of DHS Janet to them personally in Phoenix. Fox Murdoch impostor. Soros. Red Silverstone. So many colorful characters in the real story linked to the Barack Hussein Obama indoctrination of many magnitudes.Ganufs

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

@HoneySiegalSurvivor GOSH! I did not know that!!! Thanks for telling me!! Now you can go back to shoving your head back up your ass just like, apparently, you did between January 20, 2001 and January 20, 2009!

:)

[HoneySiegalSurvivor]

@bubblinbrownsugar616 Apparently I was dead according to the department of the treasury between January 20,2001 and January 20,2009.

In point of fact Obama is just a crooked attorney engaged in banking fraud of Bank One and Megabank Mobster Janet Napolitano.

How can a dead woman on paper of course do the manipulation of shoving her "head up her ass".....Really 911 hubby used to say americans are dumb but this is too much. Day 85 in the We Are the People Against Corruption Campaign to Resign O

[swami1]

@HoneySiegalSurvivor "Honest about Bush"??? He used FAKE documents. "Honest." Rrrrrright.

[DJRakow]

Thank You very much for posting August 8th 1974 edition of CBS Evening News on the Resignation of President Richard M. Nixon with Gerald R. Ford suceeding Nixon.

I really enjoy watching Walter Cronkite in Times like theses.

[gary24fan]

@DJRakow Cronkite was nothing but a true professional.  Today's "reporters" could take a lesson from him. 'Nuff said.

[mindspring57]

@gary24fan Walter Cronkrite was the male version of Jane Fonda. He was one the traitor press that undermined us in Vietnam. We won the Tet offensive, and effectively destroyed the VietCong ability to continue, but defeatist Walter did everything he could to destroy morale on the home front. If Walter had been a reporter during the Battle of Bulge in the Second World War, he probably would have said that Hitler was too powerful to be resisted and that we should retreat back to London.

[gary24fan]

@mindspring57 Ummm, ok. You REALLY should consider switching to decaf dude.

[skeilak]

@mindspring57

Actually, you fool, Walter Cronkite was a reporter during World War 2, famously standing on a London rooftop, next to Edward R. Murrow, reporting the London Blitz, as nazi bombs fell around him, and then after D-Day, from the front, as the Allied Armies moved across Europe.

Cronkite was "the most trusted man in America", for a reason. He never bullshitted the American People.

Such was the case, when he was the first of the Establishment, to admit, that Vietnam was unwinnable.

[altfactor]

@skeilak During World War II, Cronkite was a reporter for the United Press wire service, and was sometimes next to Murrow on the rooftop of the BBC Broadcasting House, watching the bombings.

Murrow tried to convince CBS to hire Cronkite, but Cronkite turned down an offer to join CBS fulltime. Cronkite did agree to work as a part-time stringer for CBS, and filed a handful of reports for the network during the final months of the war in Europe.

Cronkite didn't join CBS fulltime until 1950.

[brnsimpson]

The lead up to Carter, How awful!

[wmbrown6]

Every so often per year, Cronkite would report out of Washington, DC rather than New York - sort of similar to 1962-72 when Johnny Carson made a few trips per year to Burbank, CA when "The Tonight Show" was based in New York. (And, within its first twelve months - May 1972-May 1973 - after moving its home base to Burbank, made two return visits to New York.) Cronkite was in Washington when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968.

[ASKconard]

What an awful time.

[joebradio]

very unususal at the time for there be a true "tease" before the open.. of course, all newscasts have such teases now in a more slicly produced way...

[wmbrown6]

Especially since the "CBS Evening News" largely didn't do that gambit.

[fishhead06]

His daughters begged him to stay on? Why? So he could be impeached and convicted? Stupidity.

[dgendvil]

Rest in peace, Uncle Walter!

[heine71]

What a fateful Summer day on August 8, 1974!