Walter Cronkite--What's My Line

[bluebear1985]

While Walter Cronkite was doing the CBS News, John Charles Daly was doing news broadcasts over on ABC at the time.

[mgwilliams1000]

Arlene Francis... SIGH...Wow. You notice how the two women picked up on this and the men didn't? I was 8 when this was aired but wanted both of them to marry me!

[jedispaz2002]

that was good!

[CadillacL]

I recognize 2. Douglas Edwards & of course the great Walter ConKrite.:)

[MegaObserver1]

The line "do you ever work with puppets" got a laugh, because a few years before Cronkite hosted CBS' Morning Show, their competitor to NBC's Today Show. One of the regular features of the CBS show was a lion puppet! Cronkite said he liked doing that show, but had to leave when CBS made it into more of an entertainment show. He was replaced by Jack Paar.

[MegaObserver1]

In 1956, the evening news shows weren't considered a major part of network news. They were only 15 minutes on all 3 networks, Live coverage of conventions, election returns, inaugurations and documentaries were the main focus of network news in those days. Cronkite anchored/hosted all of those for CBS while Edwards anchored the evening news. He took over the evening news in 1962, a year before CBS expanded it to a half hour.

[TheStanbabe]

Dear Hildy, "Prof.Clyde Crashcup" and"Leonardo"didn't appear on"Rocky & Bullwinkle"..they appeared on"The Alvin Show".

[BigDiamondCutter]

Watch this an weep FOX news!!! You're looking at people who do their jobs and sleep well at night!

[thedougshowchannel]

Dorothy has absolutely NO CHIN.

[Mascro1977]

@thedougshowchannel and it looks like she is wearing lingerie as a blindfold!

[Hildy2E]

Besides Uncle Walter my favorite was Robert Trout. He reminded me of Clyde Krashkup from the Rocky & Bullwinkle show.

[serpentisma]

hey fox and the like, take a good look. these are called broadcasters and journalists. in other words, they are newscasters. now look in the mirror. you are what we call opinionated spin.

cronkite and the gang = news without the bullshit

fox and the tell-tale media = bullshit without the news

here ends the lesson.

[weatherboi]

Walter Kronkite should have disguised his voice a little better with him being so well known.

[rolex452]

Wow, five of the greatest news correspondence ever to work in television. Talk about a class act. What a great show!

[stuartlb]

Giants of news broadcasting--when news was believable.

[jimmysudar]

giants...the likes of which we'll never see again.



[elp6321]

Adults!



[henrygrove100]

Shame on you Ahlene

[hkfreak]

"Will you get paid for that?"

"Little."

[obdami]

Arlene Francis was hot back in the day....

[LazlosPlane]

Here's the perfect bit of history that displays just how far down the chasm of stupidity we as a country have sunk.

These men, were they alive today, would all be driving cabs, sadly.

[franklindavid]

Amazing to see these great Journalist's together. this takes you back in time.

[1sababoy]

Wow! what an incredible group of both talent and integrity that network had then...

[macarion]

john daly was always so freakin misleading

[myboylollipop09]

Douglas Edwards and Eric Sevareid were two of my very favorite journalists. These gentlemen were the best of the best! They new how to deliver news and I miss them everytime I turn on the news and am forced to look at these hacks we have today, anderson cooper, hannity, beck, maddow ,chris mathews etc. who are not qualified or worthy to carry these gentlemens piss!

[dsim200000]

@myboylollipop09 the only one i like out of the ones youve said are anderson cooper.. gloria vanderbilt is his mother

[darwincity]

@myboylollipop09 Same thing in dear old France. We had Patrick Poivre D'Arvor, the French version of Cronkite, until 2008. got sacked by Sarkozy, and now we have a busty blond, no pun intended to blondes, but still, this problem is worldwide, I do believe...

[The6000Sabre]

Walter Sickness

[oldies5161]

When these CBS newsmen appeared on What's My Line? Douglas Edwards was the anchor of the CBS Evening News. Why was Cronkite sitting at the desk with John Daly and not Douglas Edwards??? I never did like Cronkite.

[soulierinvestments]

Cronkite anchored the convention new coverage.

[ocir1320]

most trusted man in america

[Teflon65]

It's funny, but the guy who played Douglas Edwards, in the movie "Good Night and Good Luck" looks like Charlie Collingwood, but not as much like Douglas Edwards.

[TheEvolvedMind]

Is it just me, or does Walter Cronkite look a lot like Walt Disney? :)

[jfels81]

and he sounds a lot like mickey mouse trying to mask his voice.....

[zevsiberiano]

@TheEvolvedMind When I was little I often mistook one for the other.

[lamccaugh]

Uncle Walter, You were always there when the world turned dark You reached out your strong hand To a troubled land Including Vietnam overseas Everybody prayed and landed on their knees To stop this disgusting turmoil That made our skin crawl and our blood boil You even lassoed and threw over your shiny anchor as a symbol of a sacrificial light To cease a painful battle sight RIP

[dsim200000]

@lamccaugh he shouldve gotten the applause ed sullivan got!

[wkyken]

@lamccaugh And through it all, Walter Cronkite showed integrity and was a total professional. Compare that with what passes for TV journalists today.

[TheSunnyStar]

Loved Uncle Walter's fake voice. That was too cute!

[executivematchmaker]

There was an excerpt on tonight's 60 Minutes Walter Cronkite Tribute "That's the way it was."

The whole 9 minute outtake is fun to watch. I shared it with friends on Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn. Seems kind of silly to mention a news icon in the same breath as social media. However, the Cronkite School of Journalism at ASU here in Phoenix is all over new media. News is changing.

Walter Cronkite drew the roadmap and drove us down the highway called the evening news.

Thank you, Walter.

[Hildy2E]

These were true newsmen and now they all are gone. There is no current newscaster to fill their shoes. It was fun watching this video.

God rest your soul "Uncle" Walter.

[FriedGames]

This is seriously a classic moment on the lighter side of Walter Cronkite. Even though he was a professional in his field of work, he also had his comedic side as demonstrated in this clip. May you say one last time, "That's the way it is, America." for you will be missed. RIP.

[zevsiberiano]

@truenotion Extremely doubtful. The point goes to Uncle Walter.

[Chromatype]

one of those girls was hot...great shoulders

[soulierinvestments]

We hear tonight a lot of tripe that ancient TV network news was superior to modern TV news because modern TV news mixes news and entertainment with entertainment values ruling the ratings.

Bah. As this clip show, CBS News and entertainment went hand in hand from the early days.

Cronkite hosted entertainment programs Hear it and See it now when he worked as a reporter. He appeared twice on WML, hosted by another CBS newsman. He appeared as himself on Mary Tyler Moore and Murphy Brown.

[soulierinvestments]

oops I need an editor -- You are There not See it Now.

[bellylaughing]

I do believe that as a reporter Cronkite reported, as a host, he hosted, etc. Unlike today's news "reporters" he was not there to give opinions of what he was reporting - that way the individual could draw their own conclusions...much more fun that way.

[markbyrn]

RIP Uncle Walter

[garrisonskunk]

"Do you work with puppets? :)"

I like John's reaction to Uncle Walter at 1:33

[ciroalb3]

CBS was really the big star in tv news then. 56 was the year Huntley and Brinkley started on NBC

[soulierinvestments]

Back when I studied British Literature at University, the Milton professor noted that if you want to know Beelzebub's personality, think Eric Severied.

[44032]

And that means what?

One of my favorite quotes is from Sevaried: "The purpose of journalism is not to advocate but to elucidate". It's a point we've lost in the age of Fox news.

[Spudskie]

The same can be said about CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, etc.

[44032]

Yeah. They're all lying so rather than search for the turth, we can just pick our favorite liar.

In an era where we can no longer afford violent conflict, impartial news sources are more vital than ever. Those who exist only to demonize the opposition do us a dangerous miservice.

[otakutai]

god bless these men

[genecorrado]

You can easily see the difference between then and now...these men told you the news....today they sell you the news.

[cheyenne86]

these are newsmen. what we have today are clowns and wanna be actors.

[cochranexyz]

Or failed actors....

[auntbecky]

@cheyenne86 Walter did his share of acting and cartoon work.

[Juliaflo]

@cheyenne86 You could never have said it more accurately. I grew up watching these intellectuals on television. (Uh-uh, don't figure out my age, LOLOLOLOL).

[einsamste]

@cheyenne86 naw. what we have now are puppets, not newsmen

[OliviaErrol]

How wonderful what a treasure the days of the REAL newmen!! No bias like today no being out for themselves instead of the story!

Thanks for posting this great video, with Uncle Walter and crew!

[dmacmurray]

Oh, there was bias, just not BLATANT, like we see today on MSNBC.

[viridianstar]

"I am going to pose it as a specific question. ...Later."

Ohhh, Arlene.

[henrygrove100]

@viridianstar Shame on you Ahlene

[tcbluecollarguy]

Wow, so much CBS News talent together all in one place, that hasn't happened since Walter retired...how sad for us news junkies!

[davemock]

A great family portrait, considering that until the first part of the 1950s, John Charles Daly was their CBS colleague.

[tcbluecollarguy]

I've never read or found out an exact answer for why John Daly left CBS? I am assuming that there were just too many bodies and only so many positions available there that even an offer from ABC, considering their weak position at that time, might have been considered a step up and offered him increased visibility. I read that he was a Goodson-Todman employee and therefore not subject to removal by CBS as host of WML as he was not a network employee....a good move on Mark Goodson's part!

[davemock]

In the broadcast-journalism history "Now the News," by newswriter and Daly's former CBS colleague Ed Bliss, the author says the fact that such wide-ranging careers as Daly's (doing both news and entertainment) was frowned upon by the network was one of the reasons Daly left. I wonder about that, though, since Daly and Bliss's friend Edward R. Murrow did the celebrity interview show "Person to Person" and the hard-news "See It Now" concurrently in the years after Daly's departure.

[tcbluecollarguy]

Thanks for the background. I can see CBS being much more strict than NBC or ABC might have been at that time. Daly left in 1953, so he only spent 3 years doing double duty on CBS. I'm sure ABC felt this was good exposure to have Daly on WML for their news department since they were very much an afterthought in the 1950's.

[ClassicShowbiz]

First time i've ever seen someone say no when Daly asks if they know how they score the game.

[bigred997]

Good for Dorothy- John was deliberately trying to mislead the panel.

[soulierinvestments]

7 years later, Crokite, Trout, Collingwood, Severeid, reported during the the first 2 hours of live CBS TV news coverage of the Kennedy assassination.

18 years later, CBS News refused to authorize Gil Fates' use of this clip in "What's My Line at 25." It ruled that their newscasters could not appear in entertainment programs. This was a year before Walter Cronkite appeared on Mary Tyler Moore.

Fates noted coolly that CBS got their plug in 56, so why be helpful in 75?

[soulierinvestments]

This is one of two Sunday night WML broadcast from somewhere other than Manhattan -- in this case live TV from Chicago.

CBS seem to be using better TV cameras in Chicago than typically used in New York. Or is the different lighting that makes this kinescope look different than the others??

Not often nowadays that we see Ph.Ds of English featured on game shows, but there is Dr. Bergen Evans not quite having the last word.

[wmbrown6]

It's probably the way the kinescope was recorded, on top of the different lighting, etc. WBBM-TV (the Chicago CBS O&O from whose studios this edition originated) was only a few months into its 52-year run at 630 North McClurg Court at the time, and doubtless RCA TK-11 cameras would've been used (probably the same ones used for the first Nixon/Kennedy debate in 1960).