Rare Photos Of The Television Coverage…June 4, 1968
Final Rare Photos Of The Television Coverage…June 4, 1968
Thanks for all the descriptive comments on the first two sets of photos. Hopefully these will answer some questions raised there, and thanks to Martin Perry for finding these Los Angeles Fire Department photos. More detail on the photos so click though them. Enjoy and share.
Given what you are about to read, it makes what you are about to see all the more amazing! Did you know that long before the Muppets were created, Paul Winchell had come up with moving arms on Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff? It’s true, and became necessary when he came to NBC television in […]
Soon, We’ll ALL Be Obsolete! When videotape came to television in the late 50s, about 40% of network employees were let go because now, a set could be erected once and a weeks worth of shows could be shot in one day. Back then, that was called “time shifting” and the daily routine of erecting […]
One of the leaders of Bell Labs had an idea of how to show the black and white movies of those days in color. This idea seems to be a lot like what we finally got in electronic color TV, with the use of mirrors and color filters. [wp-booklet id=39871]
Grenoble Winter Olympics: 1968…One Of The Few Bright Spots 1968 was a hard year in America. Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated. Riots were everywhere after the King killing, there were riots over the war in Vietnam and riots in Chicago at the Democratic Convention. Bras and draft cards were burned, but, the […]
I remember that night. I had a camera position in the room and when RFK left the podium we thought we were hearing a balloon pop but in reality it was a gun shot. The control room in the mobile unit called B.O.C in NY and told them what happened. The next day we flew back to NY so that we could prep for the funeral mass at St. Pat’s Cathedral. Some things a person never forgets……most times it’s the “bad things”. Interestingly enough, I had the pleasure of shaking hands with RFK at the Portland, Oregon primary prior to L.A.
As I was only 3 at the time, what was the significance of the California primary that all 3 networks were there? Was he going to clinch the nomination?
I can’t even think about it.
Here’s another example, from 48-years-ago tonight, of what we lost two months later at the Ambassador Hotel.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/rfk-speech-mlk-riot-kick-kennedy-213790