Huntley, Brinkley, Garroway & Blair Cover Kennedy-Nixon Election
On October 24, 2013
- TV History
Huntley, Brinkley, Garroway & Blair Cover Kennedy-Nixon Election
Something that got my attention right away was the two Nifty Notebooks (remember those) on the desk. Also, it’s still odd to me to see the NBC snake logo on black and white cameras like these two RCA TK10s. Left to right, Chet Huntley, Dave Garroway, Frank Blair and David Brinkley in 1960. Don’t know who’s behind the camera on the left but it could be Edwin Newman. Thanks to Ken Johannessen for the photo.
Love the pics & comments. Was always NBC for me when I was “little” ….
The clip from A&E has Jack Lescoulie, Frank Blair and Dave Garroway all sitting on the ledge behind Chet Huntley. I’m assuming as coverage continued and it was obvious Today wasn’t going to make air that day they periodically let them come back in to join Huntley and Brinkley on set. If you can find the whole coverage on YouTube, worth the view.
My mother bought me an NBC News Guide to the 1960 Election which might have been my first exposure to news other than sports. The rest is history.
I find it surprising that NBC was still using TK-10’s in 1960, they had plenty of newer TK-11’s. Maybe the local WNBC had to live with the Network hand downs. When new tubes were in the TK-10’s and in the hands of experienced engineers, they made good looking pictures.
Sander VanOcur, Frank McGee, and Merrill Mueller worked the boards behind Chet Huntley et al. This was the 1950 Presidential Election.
Wow you are right! Those are Nifty notebooks! I bugged the hell out of my mom for one! The paper had 2 holes in the top. If I recall correctly, you could put a pencil/pen in the space at the top. It clicked to close and was trés cool. Mine was aqua.
I loved Dave Garroway…probably because he wore bow ties. He looked like a cartoon character I think…of course Chet and David were in our living room every evening …
Great photo!