CBS Evening News July 31, 1970 Walter Cronkite Chet Huntley

Walter Cronkite says goodbye to Chet Huntley on the CBS Evening News. At the identical moment on NBC (see video) Chet Huntley was signing off for the last time. You can see the last segment of the final 'Huntley-Brinkley Report' on NBC at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYf3eyRjfYA

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[fromthesidelines]

The "In Color" tag was always used between 1965 (when the "EVENING NEWS" went to color that September) and the fall of 1970, whenever the announcer introduced or closed the program. Usually, the CBS logo was accompanied by an announcer merely stating, "This is CBS".

[thecardsaysmoops]

Thank you very much for putting a timeline on that very cool "in color" reference! Do you remember that in some of the closes, Cronkite actually lit a pipe and sat back in his chair?

[scorpdan]

No flashy graphics or screaming news flashes or exciting music, just a calm professionalism

[randando]

An end of an ERA. No one to Trust in America Anymore! We'll miss you Walter!

[spacepatrolman]

@randando the huntley brinkley report was trying to double team cronkite but they couldnt get the better of him

[thecardsaysmoops]

@Stratman78

I believe the remaining 2" machines were donated to the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Moving Image Archives, where all of WTVJ's archival images are sent after ten years. The Wolfson is located in the downtown campus of Miami Dade College.

[Stratman78]

@thecardsaysmoops By any chance, do you know what WTVJ/Miami ended up doing with the 2" machines by any chance? Did they junk them or did another television station ended up using them?

[mikeysback70]

I was just a child back then ,and HATED hearing," more Americans get their news from CBS ,than any other news station" . lol ......Time to go outside and play !

[notredamehesamighty]

No one to trust, why, gosh, haven't you ever seen the high journalistic standards of Fox News Channel? Thank you, Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch, for giving us fair, unbiased news that gives conservatives and liberals and equal hearing. Who needs the likes of Cronkite, Huntley-Brinkley, Chancellor or Frank Reynolds, Howard K. Smith or Peter Jennings?

[radiodj1520]

In This Clip, From 0:35 To 1:18, It Was CBS News' CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite Video Close From Friday Evening, July 31, 1970.

[chw59]

I remember the 'ol teletype machines pounding away in the background...

[wmbrown6]

@TomBarristerX - No . . . it was Harry Kramer, the "voice" of the "CBS Evening News" from the earliest days of Cronkite's stint in 1962, up to 1972 when Bob Hite succeeded him.

[TomBarristerX]

The announcer at the end sounds like Allan Berns.

[FrsBigeasy]

A Giant Smaller then Walter Cronkite.