Category Archives: @news

Walter Cronkite on Nixon Era Attempt to Intimidate TV News

Posted on July 17, 2009 by lmharnisch

Nov. 26, 1969: "It's not reaction to a charge made against us that is the question that is at stake here. It's the reaction to an implied threat to freedom of speech in this country." –Walter Cronkite, on Vice President … Continue reading →

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Walter Cronkite — Covering Vietnam

Posted on July 17, 2009 by lmharnisch

Walter Cronkite, April 28, 1966: "I am annoyed though, when I see reviews of our specials on Vietnam criticizing us because, as they put it, we didn't clarify the issues. How can we clarify the issues? Washington itself hasn't, so … Continue reading →

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Walter Cronkite — JFK Dead

Posted on July 17, 2009 by lmharnisch

Nov. 23, 1963: "[Walter] Cronkite's voice broke when he said that the official word had come that the president was dead. Chet Huntley's eyes brimmed. David Brinkley in Washington wore sorrow in his face. [ABC Vice President James] Hagerty held … Continue reading →

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Walter Cronkite on the Suicide of Rommel

Posted on July 17, 2009 by lmharnisch

By Walter Cronkite, March 24, 1946 on the death of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel: "As soon as he had taken his seat in the back one of the generals immediately handed him the cyanide capsule. He put it in his … Continue reading →

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Walter Cronkite in a Flying Fortress Over Germany, 1943

Posted on July 17, 2009 by lmharnisch

"Bombs away." Walter Cronkite describes a bombing raid on Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Feb. 27, 1943.   "This is a lot of fun but sometimes I think it ain't healthy," a flier says.

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Apollo’s Unseen Titan

Posted on July 17, 2009 by lmharnisch

       July 17, 1969: Apollo Speeds on Its Incredible Quest. COLUMN ONE Apollo's Unseen Titan Without Gene Kranz to guide him, Neil Armstrong might never have landed on the moon. The obscure but fiery flight director made the crisis … Continue reading →

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Policewoman Admits Perjury in Brenda Allen Case; Jive-Talking Sports Scribe!

Posted on July 7, 2009 by lmharnisch

July 7, 1949: Charles Stoker surrenders his police badge to defense attorney S.S. Hahn after being accused of burglary by Policewoman Audre Davis. In this story, Davis admitted lying to win the conviction of Hollywood madam Brenda Allen. She accused … Continue reading →

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Robert S. McNamara — 1916 – 2009

Posted on July 6, 2009 by lmharnisch

Hoang Dinh Nam / AFP/Getty Images Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara meets with Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese communist army commander during the war. Note: Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has died at the age of 93. The … Continue reading →

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept: Your Mideast Conflict

Posted on June 30, 2009 by lmharnisch

June 30, 1985: A stipulation that the U.S. not retaliate ends an agreement that would have freed 39 hostages taken during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847.

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept: Your Mideast Conflict

Posted on June 29, 2009 by lmharnisch

June 29, 1983: In Lebanon, rebels trying to displace Yasser Arafat as head of the PLO attack positions held by loyalists in fighting along the Beirut-Damascus highway. Note the byline: J. Michael Kennedy, now of NPR.

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Michael Jackson in Victory Tour

Posted on June 25, 2009 by lmharnisch

July 9, 1984: Michael Jackson's Victory Tour: "Michael Jackson is passively aggressive, childishly macho, asexually passionate, dreamily realistic … The 25-year-old pop sensation is the living, dancing embodiment of an oxymoron … a figure of speech in which opposite or … Continue reading →

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept: Bombing a Japanese Air Base in China

Posted on June 15, 2009 by lmharnisch

  June 15, 1943: Times reporter Tom Treanor goes on a bombing raid of a Japanese base in China. Treanor, the author of "One Damn Thing After Another," died in a jeep crash Aug. 18, 1944, during the liberation of … Continue reading →

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Nixon Urges Whittier Grads to Avoid Prejudice — and He Likes the Dodgers

Posted on June 14, 2009 by lmharnisch

Gus Arriola is one of my favorite comic strip artists. His drawings are so clean and he's a marvelous draftsman. Vice President Richard Nixon and his family visit Disneyland and stay at the Disneyland Hotel. He also says he shaves … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay — Los Angeles Examiner

Posted on June 10, 2009 by lmharnisch

A weathered and bedraggled copy of the Los Angeles Examiner has been listed on EBay. This March 1, 1949, copy is the Sunrise Edition, which came out at 9 a.m. I am assuming this was similar to The Times' 9 … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Missile Sub Launched, All-Star Game Set for Los Angeles

Posted on June 10, 2009 by lmharnisch

"It's a Police Patrol Car!" The George Washington submarine, designed to carry Polaris missiles, is commissioned. Liberace sues the Daily Mirror of London for saying he is gay. The Edsel is now an economy car.   Hey look! It's Dick … Continue reading →

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: War in the Falklands

Posted on May 29, 2009 by lmharnisch

May 29, 1982

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Union Station Preview, May 2, 1939

Posted on May 2, 2009 by lmharnisch

"That I love peace is perhaps best shown by my work." –Adolf Hitler Tim Turner covers Al Smith's arrival in Los Angeles, featuring quotes from a Negro porter and a Mexican bootblack … in dialect: "Ahl Esmeeth."  The Times runs … Continue reading →

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Oklahoman Builds Flying Saucer! Dodgers Beat Giants, April 21, 1959

Posted on April 21, 2009 by lmharnisch

The Times failed to follow up on testing of what was evidently a home-made device. Update: Talk about stereotyping! The caption says nothing about the gender of the flying saucer's inventor. I merely leaped to the conclusion that it was … Continue reading →

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Teens Rescued From Ledge, Dodgers Beat Cubs, April 13, 1959

Posted on April 13, 2009 by lmharnisch

The Coliseum's improvised arrangement for the Dodgers is changed for the opening of the 1959 season. The right field fence is brought in to 333 feet from 390 feet and right center is cut to 375 feet from 440 feet. … Continue reading →

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Soviets Face Up to the Gulag, 1990

Posted on April 12, 2009 by lmharnisch

    Note: The Daily Mirror is pleased to present a nondupe by the late Charles Hillinger, written in 1990.   COLUMN ONE Soviets Face Up to the Gulag Millions died in prison camps in harshest Siberia. The once-taboo topic is … Continue reading →

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