CBS On the Air - Walter Cronkite Speech and Credits

[ElectricPirates]

Norman Corwin's "Network at Fifty," commissioned by executive producer Alexander H. Cohen for his and Hildy Parks' "CBS on the Air: A Celebration of 50 Years." Wise and delightful words.....

[damron13]

WOw ! Mary Tyler Moore looked great in 1978

[michaelwright999]

@damron13 Get down there BOY, Think of England.

[rjvonbokern]

I'll vote for the DVD. I remember when this actually air & it was the best network anniversary show. At the end I tried to count how many of those "stars" that are still alive today, and including the Walton children, I came up with 49. Not too bad for a show that aired 1/3 century ago.

[ElizabethRobertsWENN]

Cronkite's closing speech was written by the great Norman Corwin, the "poet laureate" of the Golden Age of Radio. Wish CBS would release this to DVD! I recorded all these to cassette tape and still have them.

[newscaster13]

What a closing scene! It's like a KCBS news helicopter took off from the landing pad at the CBS Television City building.

I see the late-CBS News greats: Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Eric Severied, Ed Bradley and Charles Kuralt.

The CBS News greats are still living: Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, Bob Schieffer (looking awfully young).

Also, was that Hughes Rudd (anchor of the CBS Morning News in the early 70s)?

[lugnuts6]

GoodBye Uncle Walter ...you will be missed

[PDS1990]

over 80 years later too!

[LordlyJeremy]

It is a testament to the sheer authoritativeness of Walter Cronkite that he could make a string of platitudinous sentence fragments sound like the most important thing ever said.

[Attmay]

Wow, I can't believe they got Jerry Herman, Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn and especially Leonard Bernstein to write the music for this show.