David Leopold on the CBS Evening News 11/26/08 With Promos

In 1985, Charles Kuralt met David Leopold, New York City's fastest bike messenger. 25 years later is Leopold still the best in the game? Steve Hartman finds out. This segment aired on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric on Thanksgiving eve, 11/26/08. You can watch this clip without the promos in High Quality using this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKyt2PWqup8

Further reading:

More about the late, great, Charles Kuralt (who passed away in 1997) at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kuralt

Also, this article appeared recently in the New York Daily News highlighting the David Leopold clip:

Steve Hartman's 'Road' trip pays tribute to Charles Kuralt
BY RICHARD HUFF
DAILY NEWS TV EDITOR

CBS News' Steve Hartman idolizes Charles Kuralt, the network's critically praised roving reporter and storyteller who died in 1997. But when Hartman recently mentioned Kuralt's name to a young correspondent for a Los Angeles TV station, the response was: "Who was he?" "At first I was like, 'You've got to be kidding me.'" said Hartman, 45. He then realized there is a whole generation of correspondents - and viewers - who were unaware of Kuralt's work. Wednesday at 6:30, if only for a few minutes, Hartman hopes to revive the memory of Kuralt, who was best known for a series of "On the Road" reports for the "CBS Evening News." Hartman's assistant, Emily Rand, went through Kuralt's stories to find those that could be updated or still had resonance today. Hartman chose four and did fresh work on the subjects. The first one airs tonight on the "CBS Evening News." It catches up with a story Kuralt did in 1982 on Bill Hafeman, a guy who lived in the woods in Big Fork, Minn. Next Wednesday, Hartman goes back and updates a Kuralt story from 1985 about David Leopold, then dubbed the fastest New York City bike messenger. "It was great for me to go back and dissect the pieces, to go through them line by line and see how they were structured," Hartman said. "It was amazing to see how stylistically things have changed." Indeed, the kind of down-home profiles Kuralt specialized in is almost nonexistent in the go-go 24-hour news world of today. "It's hard to find correspondents and producers who can tell stories," Hartman said. "But it's easy to find a pretty face to spew some facts." Hartman is also a realist. Journalists come and go, and eventually most are forgotten. Because of that, the Kuralt updates are likely to appeal more to the audience already watching "CBS Evening News," typically an older crowd. The Kuralt material is unlikely to draw in younger viewers raised on reporters like former MTVnews star SuChin Pak. "I'm prolonging the inevitable," Hartman said. "It happens to everybody. "He's my idol," he said of Kuralt. "I want them to remember him longer than they might." You can view the article by going to this Daily News link http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2008/11/12/2008-11-12_steve_hartm... Copyright 2008 CBS News, CBS Interactive, All Rights Reserved No infringement intended

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[xosummerrainsox]

wow! Thanks for putting this up! and so fast!

that's my dad!

[Cantdanceforreal]

he's my dad too

[GarshardJeVard]

Still cool

[radiodj1520]

In This Clip, From 4:04 To 4:21, It Was CBS News' CBS Evening News With Katie Couric Video Close From Wednesday Evening, November 26, 2008.

[cottagecheese420]

he's all our dad's

[robinina4ever]

Charles Kurault is um....no longer with us.....

[abarzilai664]

He must have told you some cool stories. BTW does he still keep in touch with Charles Kuralt?