From The Vault: "CBS Reports: Marijuana"
This week's installment of "From The Vault" is a doozy: A Mike Wallace-hosted "CBS Reports" from Sept. 17, 1968. The topic? Marijuana. Click on the video box to watch.
From the Vault: "What About Ronald Reagan?"
In this week's installment of "From The Vault," we bring you the "CBS Reports" look at Ronald Reagan's first run for president -- the perfect complement if you're reading "The Reagan Diaries."
This report "What About Ronald Reagan" aired on December 12, 1967. Click on the video box to watch.
This report "What About Ronald Reagan" aired on December 12, 1967. Click on the video box to watch.
From The Vault: "Robert F. Kennedy: 1925-1968."
In this week's installment of "From The Vault," we bring you the Walter Cronkite-hosted special "Robert F. Kennedy: 1925-1968." It aired on June 6, 1968. Click on the video box to watch.
From The Vault: UFO: Friend, Foe Or Fantasy?
In this week's edition of "From The Vault," CBS Reports (and IBM!) investigates the question, "UFO: Friend, Foe Or Fantasy?" Walter Cronkite is your host, and the original air date is May 10, 1966. Click on the video box to watch.
From The Vault: "Black Power, White Backlash"
In this week's edition of "From The Vault," we bring you "Black Power, White Backlash," an episode of CBS Reports hosted by a young Mike Wallace that aired on September 27, 1966.
It's pretty fascinating stuff -- click on the video box to watch.
Video: From The Vault: "1962: A Television Album"
In this week's edition of "From The Vault," Eric Sevareid offers up a look back at the year 1962. Click on the video box to watch.
From The Vault: "Biography Of A Bookie Joint"
In this week's edition of "From The Vault," we bring you "Biography Of A Bookie Joint," originally shown on Nov 30, 1961.
This is actually a rebroadcast from 1963 – the first time the "controversial" broadcast aired it was not shown in Massachusetts, as Walter Cronkite explains in the introduction. Click on the video box to see Cronkite tell the story of organized gambling – with the aid of a hidden camera.
From The Vault: "Let's Go To The Fair"
This week's installment of "From The Vault" features Walter Cronkite's visit to the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle. Unfortunately, there is some audio interference in the second half of the recording, but on the plus side, a talking, smoking robot makes an appearance around the 14:20 mark. Click on the video box to watch. And if that's not enough Cronkite for you, be sure to check out tonight's primetime special.
From The Vault: "See It Now," Berlin
Check out this "See It Now" report in which Edward R. Murrow and a host of CBS News correspondents take viewers "on a rather grim tour" of bombed-out Berlin after the airlift. Click on the video box to watch.
From The Vault: Christmas In Korea
In this week's edition of "From The Vault," Edward R. Murrow reports on the experiences of U.S. servicemen in Korea at Christmas.
The year is 1953, and the broadcast opens with soldiers singing "The Rotation Blues." Click on the video box to watch -- this is pretty amazing stuff.
From The Vault: Yeltsin Talks To "60 Minutes." Sort Of.
In this special edition of "From The Vault," we bring you Lesley Stahl and Rome Hartman's June 14, 1992 "60 Minutes" profile of Boris Yeltsin and his family. (The one I mentioned earlier today.)
Try to watch the whole thing: At one point, Yeltsin accuses CBS News of working with Mikhail Gorbachev to doctor a videotape to make him look drunk. Later, he angrily storms away and refuses to answer any more of Stahl's questions. Click on the video box to watch.
Try to watch the whole thing: At one point, Yeltsin accuses CBS News of working with Mikhail Gorbachev to doctor a videotape to make him look drunk. Later, he angrily storms away and refuses to answer any more of Stahl's questions. Click on the video box to watch.
From The Vault: "Person To Person," Jan. 22, 1954
This week's installment of "From The Vault" features the Jan. 22, 1954 broadcast of "Person To Person."
It's an interview of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt by Edward R. Murrow. Cigarette in hand, Murrow chats with Roosevelt as she sits in her apartment in New York City. You can watch the interview by clicking on the video box.
From The Vault: "The Other Face Of Dixie"
In the comments section of last week's "From The Vault," RonMwanga wrote this: "This is Tiffany Network Old School. Can we get some Harry Reasoner up in this hizzy?"
For you, Ron, we've invited Harry into the hizzy: Check out "The Other Face Of Dixie," a "CBS Reports" feature hosted by Mr. Reasoner himself. The piece, which aired on October 24, 1962, looks at race relations in the south, using school integration as a jumping off point. Click on the video box to watch.
For you, Ron, we've invited Harry into the hizzy: Check out "The Other Face Of Dixie," a "CBS Reports" feature hosted by Mr. Reasoner himself. The piece, which aired on October 24, 1962, looks at race relations in the south, using school integration as a jumping off point. Click on the video box to watch.
From The Vault: "The Press And The Candidates," Oct. 16, 1964
Think media bias is a new issue? Think again: Here's a 1964 special hosted by CBS News correspondent Eric Sevareid, who speaks of "an ugly boil of hostility towards the press."
His guests are Clare Boothe Luce, a former member of Congress and "active supporter of Senator Goldwater," and Ralph McGill, publisher and columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Click on the video box to watch.
From The Vault: The January 17, 1975 "Evening News"
Here's the latest installment in our "From The Vault" series, in which we provide video from CBS News broadcasts past to give a sense of how the show has changed. Click on the video box to watch an episode of the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" from January 17, 1975.
