ABC - NBC News - Apollo 11 - 3/12

Network News coverage, which I combined from two sources, July 1969

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[remyworldpeace]

"what can you say about a sight like that?"

I LOVE this quote - it just sums up the feeling so well. What is the name of the man who says it?

[MSTS1]

@remyworldpeace - That's David Brinkley, NBC News.

[ndpcineaste]

This video is the A&E "As it Happened" footage, which was a rebroadcast of the NBC original tapes, transmitted on July 16, 1989. Edwin Newman introduced this footage. What you don't see, is Brinkley's sign-off, He was reflecting on the fact that 40 years after Lindberg flew the Atlantic, 20,000 people, including kids and grandmothers, were making the flight daily. He wondered where we'd be in forty years from Apollo 11. Sadly, we regressed.

[MSTS1]

Yes, that would be the NBC part of this series, but not the ABC coverage which I intercut along the way.

[joebradio]

Starting around 4:30, possibly the first time somebody tried to make the point "If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we (insert problem here)."

[EnoAmbient4]

Aw lay off on the Chet bashing.

If he DIDN'T point out the contrasts, he'd get labelled as a mindless drone of the Military/Industrial Complex.

When the camera cuts back to Frank McGee, McGee is smiling as if he is in on the joke.

So McGee played Good Cop, Chet played Bad Cop, Jules Bergman played Nerd Cop and Brinkley played Stoned Cop.

[brithgob]

Isn't this when CBS began to surpass NBC in the news ratings? I read somewhere that the turning point was when viewers saw Cronkite so excited by all this space stuff, while Huntley and Brinkley were bored stiff.

[remyworldpeace]

@MSTS1 Thanks!

[wiedep]

the reason that the apollo program worked so well, chet, was that trained disciplined professionals made it work. not the half-assed politicians who can't figure out common sense solutions...

[paratrooper629]

Failing at others????...... the greatest moment and achievement in mankind and Chet???? Original angry Lib asshole!!!- folks like this held us back. Mankind is destined to explore and expand beyond Earth. I hope the USA and other nations as well return to the moon, onto to Mars and beyond. I'm 51 and still hope to see Humans on Mars in my lifetime.

[Polybun]

played??? that guy was stoned. He had a heroin habit that even keith richards would struggle to keep up with.

[fifiragdoll]

Who's the killjoy at 4:05? He's got a couple of fair points, but he could have left it a week or two, man.

[spogoa]

Jules Bergman and Frank Reynolds were quite good. Not to put down their coverage of the JFK assassination (not bad for a distant-third network), ABC had come a long way since 1963. Reynolds was great, but Bergman gave them volumes of credibility here. No, it's not quite as good as CBS, but it's still a strong effort.