CBS NEWS Coverage of the Launch of Apollo 11 Part 1

From July 16th 1969 Walter Cronkite reports live from the Kennedy Space Center

Apollo 11 crew


Commander : Neil Armstrong

Command Module Pilot : Michael Collins

Lunar Module Pilot: Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.

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Science & Technology

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• 1969
• CBS
• News
• Walter
• Cronkite
• Apollo
• 11

[lcs1956]

Zellco I assume you got these tapes from the collection of Aaron Mintz. I wonder where he got them. The noise modulation sounds like they were taped from an over the air broadcast, rather than direct from CBS sources. I agree we would like to see the CBS intros.

[zellco321]

@lcs1956 dint get this coverage from Aaron Mintz, but from someone else on Ebay.

you can watch the CBS intros at lunarmodule5's channel. he has them up

[foxtype1973]

Hey, that would be great!

The funny thing is that I can still vaguely remember the CBS News intros to the post Apollo 11 Missions from 12-17. The one from Apollo 14 that started with animation of the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, or Apollo 15 that started with a animated pan past the pillars of Stonehenge before panning up at the moon....

It's weird I know, but those intros are about as memorable as the coverage itself--or at least I think so. ;)

Keep the search/good work going!

[zellco321]

Great! I will tell you when I have the Apollo 11 intro up here on You Tube.

Thank you very much.

[foxtype1973]

'Mgosh! How and the heck did you manage to find all of the CBS Apollo 11 video footage? Not to mention the rest of the networks?

My only regret is that you didn't have the CBS News introduction of the coverage, I myself have always remembered the ones that CBS News did during the Apollo Program (I even have some of the openings on audio cassette and open reel), but never on video.

I don't know why-but back then, they really had some neat intros! Well, someday someone will post them here....

[zellco321]

I do have the CBS News inroduction of there Apollo 11 coverage.

now thinking about it I will upload the inro here when I get to it hopefully soon.

[flashfast2000]

Still the coolest thing this country has ever done.

[antimatterXXXIII]

I was probably watching NBC because the discussion was more technical and less chatty. My 10 year old -then- prepubescent brain also remembers a commercial featuring a girl in a skimpy paper bikini. Like to see that again - 40 years later!

[clintonearlwalker]

I remember these rocket launches from when I was a kid, I kind of miss them. We'd sit around all day, the countdown would get to about T minus 5 minutes, there's a hold :(

[tek1001]

How could someone dislike this video? That's really dumb!

[marcostar57]

I remember getting up real early (on the West coast) to watch this as a little kid. I followed the space program and moon landing very closely. I still have a great LP cronically Apollo 11.

[alfredroberthogan]

CBS News (TV) Apollo 11 launch day coverage did begin at 0600 EDT aand lasted one hour. Ten most of the "CBS Morning News with Josph Benti"--just expanded to an hour in late March 1969--took over, with most devoted to Apollo 11. CBS News Special Events took over again at 0800 EDT on Wed. 16 July 1969, when this coverage starts (including the opening).

[NYCKIDJOEL]

I was 7 years old when this event took place i was in school and my whole class and i watched this in our classroom. We could not have imagined what this event would lead too, the triumphs and the tragedys but this was a great triumph at this tiome.

[scyoung121]

Yes the moon landings were faked and the Soviet Union, America's arch enemy was complicit in the conspiracy.

You believe we can split the atom or create amazing supercomputers but we can't put a man on the moon? What nonsense!

[dave46563]

i have raw NASA video of the launch which is about an hour but this is something else! its the only thing that makes me wish i was born much earlier than 1983

[altfactor]

@antimatterXXXIII Once Apollo 13's service module exploded, Roy Neal became a "pool correspondent", with his reports being broadcast not just on NBC, but also on all three U.S. television networks, and probably also TV networks across the entire English-spaking world.

[airdriver]

In 2000, Time magazine had a special issue devoted to the "Person Of The Millenium".  They should have chosen Neil Armstrong. He wasn't even mentioned. Instead they chose Albert Einstein.