Why Did CBS Tamper with JFK Speech Video?

[SuperBandstand]

if you check out this properley you will see it isnt live and figures and caractures have been added a lot of the speeches are suspect to say the least...

[njf0]

You have no sense of humor. Alan Kalter is hilarious.

[oronopolo]

it's me

[wmalcom]

WTF I guess I dont understand this vid. I think the editor left out some explanation.

[packr72]

there is also one with Biff, great moments in presidential speeches

[planetery]

That man is the assasin CBS sent to kill you because you're on to them.

[SDChargersForever]

The guy in the seat was clearly Roger Staubach. What's scary is that it's Roger Staubach from TODAY.

He must have traveled back in time because he was trying to warn JFK so that the city of Dallas would eventually be remembered more for the Cowboys than for what happened there in Nov '63.

[dragon246135]

time travel yes?

[StrongHeartSoldier]

dude its Alan Kalter, hes the Anouncer

[nike6357]

ALAN kalter

[Thrive7]

Well, maybe it needed an Irish-looking concerned-looking man to nod at anything John said...

[SprawlX]

Thanks for posting, but... Ya could easily have found out what if any significance was attached to this. This is the sort of thing that closes eyes and minds... besides.. any magoo could see that the guy was pasted in, and that it was deliberately unreal looking.

[totallytoobuler]

DEAR ALL CONCERNED,

As there is much validity to many "conspiracies" and the media has definitely corrupted much content thisone is simply a clip from David Letterman spoofs. They put someone different from Letterman staff in the chair every night! That was JFK's chair HE THOUGHT IT WAS APPROPRIATE TO STAND FOR HIS SPEECH :) **LETTERMAN FOR PRESIDENT** p.s. Alan Kalter and BIFF started the SKULL & BONES! - It's true!!!!!!

[snorby22]

Damn Europeans.....

[SheVibe]

You sir are a moron.

[maviulke12]

so what?

[rbtrocino]

the seat was empty because it was Kennedy's seat and he was standing giving a speech...dumb ass.

[thetuberio]

stupid and mindless

[Alcervic]

JFK would have loved it.

[CaptainOT]

In the early days of "Great Moments In Presidential Speeches", the original unedited footage showed occupied that outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower.

Either the folks at "The Late Show" removed Ike to insert Alan Kalter (more fun for everyone) or the Eisenhower family didn't allow them to use the image of Ike to skewer George W. night after night.

That's my guess. LBJ's image has always been on the right listening and clapping... go figure!

[brn8]

lolol you think you should at least watch letterman once to see they pretty much have this segment on every night!!!!!! and someone walways diff in the chair

[mraw1000]

ya i can understand if someone does not get this one. Actually this is series, where similar clips have one guy (biff) drinking cola on that chair, in another one a lady is cleaning JFK's suit while he speaks. Those are funny and obvious but this one is not clear unless u know alan kalter. If you want to know kalter then search alan kalter in youtube and his funny announcements will give a general idea of this guy.

[Jackstepher01]

They edited in someone having a pizza delivered to them in the chair once

[sniper479]

I can see why some people wouldn't get the joke if they aren't familiar with the late show. Yes, that is Alan Kalter. Other jokes were made about it in other bits of the show.

[bamsworld]

Yes. The man is Alan Kalter.

He work for David Letterman on The LateShow.

[fromthesidelines]

Whenever "THE LATE SHOW" presents Kennedy's 1961 inaugural statement during "Great Moments In Presidential Speeches", the current gag is for one of Letterman's staff to be "matted in" that empty chair {announcer Alan Kalter was the first}. Who knows WHOM you'll see next in that chair? And what they're doing?? As several have commented, it's "comedy".

[mogo1972]

The most recent one had a woman on the side of the podium grabbing a glass of water from JFK's right side of the podium and then placing it back. It was hilarious....it's comedy people...relax.

[blakkycarbon]

Every time the do this segment on Letterman they punch in a different person. Seriously folks, there's no need to call Oliver Stone; it's a comedic bit!

[donboyer]

Somebody should have volunteered to give Teddy K. driving lessons----he apparently already knew how to swim.

[ATHEISTsonny87]

oooh... the good ole chappaquiddick ditch-a-roo

[eebzilla]

I think it's funny. They pasted Alan Kalter into an empty chair, not like they covered someone else up. It's NOT disrespectful to JFK in any form. Some people always have something to complain about.

[upford]

I'm watch david letterman every day and he told about that, it's just a joke man!

[bonenum125]

Seriosuly, it's Alan Kulter, He's the shit, it's just a joke people.

[asmasm1]

its Big Red. more Big Red

[bj373]

its the dude from letterman knobs

[TheRedOct]

lame

[rmannion]

Just to clarify, there's a recurring segment on the Late Show with David Letterman called "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches" in which three clips are played: FDR's "only thing we have to fear is fear itself" line, the aforementioned JFK line, and one of GWB's gaffes. In the past week, Late Show announcer Alan Kalter has been superimposed in the JFK clip as a joke, with Letterman sometimes pointing him out.

[CleanBlackRaiser]

CBS bends over backwards to explain to non-U.S. YouTube users that Alan Kalter with JFK was just a joke! It is perhaps typical that most Americans will recognize a late-night show TV announcer, but cannot point out the president of Pakistan or the leader of China.

[FantasyMan]

It's really not a big deal like you're making it out to be.

[CleanBlackRaiser]

But I made it out as a joke to begin with. I knew it was someone the Late Show was making fun of. I think others (mostly bored kids) made it a big deal.

[FantasyMan]

BTW CBS had nothing to do with it. It was "The Late Show's" people.

[FantasyMan]

"It is perhaps typical that most Americans will recognize a late-night show TV announcer"

Nothing to do with Americans, anyone who watches the show which is broadcast around the world. The announcer is a regular part of the show with skits and such.

[marcian0]

Say what?

[reesnixon]

The context in which this clip was shown was not a joking context. It was part of a serious segment on American Presidents asking for sacrifice from the country. It looks like some idiot PA grabbed David Letterman's altered footage and it made it into a serious newscast.

[davidnc76]

The man is the Late Show with David Letterman's announcer Alan Kalter. You idiot.

[skrudrvr]

I don't know if this is real or not, but I quit watching CBS News a while back. Over the last 20 years they have repeatedly been caught faking evidence.

[drgnk]

that is the allan the announcer and it was supposed to be joke and people ought to take it that spirit

[CleanBlackRaiser]

Why Did CBS Tamper with a JFK Speech Video? Obviously, they did it to make fun. If you really want something to cry about, see the last part of those two videos!

[reesnixon]

This is not a joke.  I saw this live when it aired and immediately pointed it out to a friend. It was really noticeable and I can't figure out why they would do this.

[wockenfuss]

You're joking, right?

It's Alan Kalter. Their announcer.

[CleanBlackRaiser]

I figured the video was a joke, yet if so I didn't know Kalter, because The CBS Night Show isn't broadcast where I am. But it was fun noticing the spoof...

[besnugg]

Sorry, but I don't believe you. If CBS had done like you say, they would have done a much more credible job of it. What you showed was so poorly done I cannot believe any network would allow such crap to be shown.

[CleanBlackRaiser]

I agree. But go to my comments to the right of the video and click on "more." There you will find the links to the original CBS videos. Decide for yourself.

[fkapnist]

Maybe that man is the "onion grower" or... a Grassy Knoll tramp.

[CleanBlackRaiser]

E. Howard Hunt, the Watergate burglar? It looks a bit like Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on trial for perjury related to the outting of a covert CIA agent. It's not Forrest Gump.