CBS On the Air - Walter Cronkite Speech and Credits

From the final episode of "CBS On the Air," here's Walter Cronkite's poetic final words, wrapping up the week's retrospective on CBS' first 50 years. This clip directly follows the countdown of the years I posted earlier. The credits feature many of the celebrities assembled from the beginning of the series lining the hallways of CBS Television City. Unfortunately, the tape cuts out before the very end, but I think most of the full credits are shown.

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[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.....

[michaelwright999]

@damron13 Get down there BOY, Think of England.

[damron13]

WOw ! Mary Tyler Moore looked great in 1978

[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.