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ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS: You Are There-Julius Caesar

PERSONS MENTIONED: Caesar, Julius

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Organization chart of CBS News and Special Events

NOTES: A chart listing editorial staff, correspondents NY & foreign and

Special event staff. Douglas Edwards, New York correspondent.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Air Force Veterans Reunion; Madison Square Garden

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: N/A   

PERSONS MENTIONED: Bob Hope, Joe E. Brown, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Jack Dempsey

NOTES: Master of Ceremonies for annual Air Force Association Convention

held at Madison Square Garden. Performers that entertained WWII.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Oklahoma Dept. of Commerce and Industry

CITY/STATE: Oklahoma City, OK

DATE: N/A

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards, Guy Fraser Harrison

NOTES: Script for introduction to side No. 2 performed by the Oklahoma

City Symphony Orchestra, "The Immutable Record of Oklahoma." D. Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Radio, "Musing"

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: N/A                      

NOTES: Douglas Edwards musing on CBS Radio about his dislike for all

parades.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Edwards, Hollenbeck Show

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: N/A                      

PERSONS MENTIONED: Mayor O'Dwyer

NOTES: Report on huge snowstorm covering most of the Midwest, New York,

PA, WV, Northern MD and New England.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Miscellaneous; TV, radio scripts

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: N/A                     

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Miscellaneous scripts

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Pinnacle Book: The Cancer Conspiracy

DATE: N/A                      

NOTES: review of book; Broadcast of Cancer research; no mention of

Edwards; copy of letter from President Ronald Reagan attached;

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Fund raising; United Comm. Fund Script

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: N/A                      

PERSONS MENTIONED: G. Moore, D. Edwards, Polly Bergen, and Les Paul & M. Ford

NOTES: Radio show for CBS Network, starring Garry Moore.

 

 

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; Via Radio France

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: circa 1937-1945      

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Telegrams sent to Douglas Edwards Columbia Broadcasting Hotel

Scrip Paris.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Fact Sheet; Fund raising; Disabled American Veterans

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: Circa 1940           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Gen. J. M. Wainwright, Gen. Omar N. Bradley

NOTES: Facts sheet used as reference by General Wainwright and Douglas

Edwards, in connection with the CBS-TV show of April 21, 7:30 to 7:45

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Columbia Short-wave Broadcast/CBS News; WWII;

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: circa 1940           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Bob Trout, Douglas Edwards

NOTES: How the rest of the world received news of the Cairo conference.

"The news is going out in a Babel of tongues..." Short wave radio.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; The World Tonight

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: circa 1940           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Hubert Humphrey, Mayor Daley, and Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Evening news with Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Evening News

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1942-07-20           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Leola Brown, WSB's afternoon & nighttime hostess

NOTES: Evening news and commentary by Doug Edwards; Economy during the

War.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Fund raising, “Funds for Faith"

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1942-08-12           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards’ news commentator over WSB.

NOTES: A message over the public address system at the Peachtree

Christian Church.  The occasion of organization mtg./every-member canvass.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Fund raising; Night Club for Victory Monte Carlo Night

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1944-01-21           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Eddie Dunn, Douglas Edwards, and Ted Allurer.

NOTES: A war bond party celebrating this nation’s fourth war loan

drive.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: The World Today; Feature Stories; News of the world;

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1945-                

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: World War II and post war news

 

 

 

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: News since V-E Day; Commentator’s Speech

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1945-05-08           

PERSONS MENTIONED: President Truman, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Shirley Temple

NOTES: "Now for a quick summary of the news since VE Day."  Douglas

Edwards CBS Correspondent.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; Feature Story

CITY/STATE: Paris, France

DATE: 1945-05-29           

PERSONS MENTIONED: General de Gaulle, Fr. Min. of Finance, Monsieur Pleven

NOTES: Edwards to CBS, for broadcast at 12:45 tonight Paris time.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: News and Notes; Columbia Broadcasting System News

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1946-03-05           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Jackie Kelk, Ray Bloch, Margaret Whiting, and Doug Edwards

NOTES: Title of news reports, "What's in a name-game," & "No place like

Home," reported by CBS Paris correspondent Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: WCBS-TV Schedules, April 3-5-6

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1947-03-28           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: WCBS-TV Schedule, April 3-5-6

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Views Press

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1947-05-31           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Jack Benny, Walter Winchell, Just. James V. Mulholland

NOTES: Talk for CBS Views Press.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS; Wendy Warren's Newsman

CITY/STATE: NY, NY

DATE: 1947-06-10           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Edwards, Douglas

NOTES: Edwards has part in Wendy Warren's broadcast

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; World News Roundup

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1947-11-22           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Howard K. Smith, Ned Calmer, and Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Actual list of stations and clients & news reports for CBS News

presented on the CBS World News Roundup with Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News, "The American Scene"

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1948-08-09           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Charles Collingswood, D. Edwards, T. Hanna, J. Pfeiffer

NOTES: Correspondents reports from various parts of US.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; You Are There-Capture of John Wilkes Booth;

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1948-09-05           

PERSONS MENTIONED: John Wilkes Booth

NOTES: CBS Broadcast of "You are there", No.44: "The capture of John

Wilkes Booth." Douglas Edwards and other CBS correspondents.

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; You Are There-The Dreyfus Case

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1948-09-12           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Col. Schwartzkoppen

NOTES: CBS reenactment of "The Dreyfus Case", with John Daly and Douglas

Edwards as correspondences; #45

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; People's Platform;

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1948-10-26           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Dwight Cooke, Douglas Edwards

NOTES: "Let's go out to the street and Douglas Edwards."

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: News Lineup; CBS News report

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1949-03-02           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Script of the news given by Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS; Speaking of Television

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1949-04-01           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Observations by and about Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; You Are There-Reenactment Fort Sumter

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1949-05-22           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Major Robert Anderson, Commander of Fort Sumter.

NOTES: CBS, "You are there" reenactment on Fort Sumter-1861; #81

Interviews w/a. Lincoln, Maj. Anderson, Col. James Chestnut. Narration/D

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Headliner Club annual awards program KTBC

CITY/STATE: Phoenix, Arizona

DATE: circa 1950           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Ed Murrow, Eric Sevareid, Walter Cronkite, and Doug Edwards

NOTES: Broadcast held at the Crystal Ballroom of the Driskill Hotel.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Radio Division, "Years of Crisis"

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1956-01-01           

PERSONS MENTIONED: E. Murrow, B. Pierpoint, D. Schoenbrun, and E. Sevareid

NOTES: CBS Radio presenting the seventh annual year-end report with

Edwards R. Murrow and several correspondents.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Evening Lineup

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1956 April            

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards with the News

NOTES: Pamphlet with ratings

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; FYI

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1959-12-24           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards, Bill Kobin

NOTES: Script for FYI #1; Cab driver interview.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Fund raising-Elmira College

CITY/STATE: Elmira, NY

DATE: circa 1960           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Donna Douglas

NOTES: Correspondence from Pres. of College and etc.  Douglas Edwards

volunteering to help line up workers for telethon on Nov. 29, 1967.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Ratings WCBS, "The Late News"

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1961-07-18           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Ratings for "The Late News" for week of July 10-14

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Douglas Edwards with the News; Stanton Test

DATE: 1961-08-04           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Acardo, Tony

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News, "Behind the headlines", v.1, side B

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1962 January         

PERSONS MENTIONED: J.F. Kennedy, Dean Rusk, and Gen. Dag Hammarskjold

NOTES: CBS Report on the State of the Union Address by John Fitzgerald

Kennedy, 35th president of the US, by Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News script/1963-12-05, 63 B.C. Rome

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

PERSONS MENTIONED: Julius Caesar, Cicero

NOTES: Reenactment of trial commentated by Douglas Edwards. The senate

condemns the Catalina Conspirators & the Great Republic.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; you are There-The Siege of the Alamo

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1971-06-21           

PERSONS MENTIONED: W. Cronkite, B. Schieffer, D. Townsend, and Doug Edwards

NOTES: CBS script of "The siege of the Alamo, March 5, 1836. Presented

in studio 45 with correspondents listed above.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; You Are There-Underground Railroad

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1971-09-11           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Harriet Tubman

NOTES: CBS episode w/correspondents, W. Cronkite, B. Kalb, D.

Schoumacher, M. Safter, D. Culhane and Douglas Edwards

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Mid-Day News

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1971-11-30           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Mark Twain, Gov. Lurleen Wallace, Pvt. Ray Jones

NOTES: News and analysis by Doug Edwards, A portrait of Mark Twain,

[Samuel Langhorne Clemens], known to others as "the divine amateur."

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News, `Douglas Edwards' journal

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: circa 1980           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Murrow, Daly, Trout, Shirer, Smith & Collingwood, etc.

NOTES: Share a fortieth anniversary with me...after this.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News - Radio scripts

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: circa 1980           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Paul White, J. Daly, G. Steinem, D. Rather, and Cronkite

NOTES: Scripts by Douglas Edwards; "The Original TV Anchor”: Douglas

Edwards by Fred Rothenberg, AP television writer.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS, "For our times."

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: circa 1980           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission

NOTES: One of a series of 40th Ann.: The Harvest of Decades:

Faith and Science.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1980-07-15           

PERSONS MENTIONED: W. Cronkite, D. Sawyer, J. Bowen, R. Reagan, and G. Bush

NOTES: Republican National Convention in Detroit and New York.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: WWII D-day Plus 40 re-enactment of orig.

DATE: 1984-06-06           

NOTES: periodicals, press releases, scripts, etc.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Victory in Europe; The Allied Advance to Berlin

DATE: 1985-03-01            

NOTES: prepared by Errol Hazlewood CBS News Broadcast Research

Department

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Morning News reunion w/Ed Murrow's Boys

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1985-05-05           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Edwards R. Murrow, Sen. Joe McCarthy, Sen. Jesse Helms

NOTES: `CBS Morning News' holds reunion with Ed Murrow's Boys by Fred

Rothenberg.  Douglas Edwards’s commentary.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center Auditorium; Then and Now

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1985-11-13           

PERSONS MENTIONED: E. Diamond, R. MacNeil, W. Henry, III, and Douglas Edwards

NOTES: A discussion of the evolution of broadcast journalism. Panelists:

Robert MacNeil, Wm. A. Henry, III, and Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: People in the News

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1986-04-23           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger, Caroline Kennedy.

NOTES: Veteran CBS News correspondent Douglas Edwards on Wednesday

received the Lowell Thomas Award.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; Reporting by Douglas Edwards

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1987-06-10           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, Bobby Baker, and Mayor Lindsay

NOTES: News given by Douglas Edwards for CBS and sitting in and

reporting for Dan Rather with News and Commentary.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1988-4-31            

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Douglas Edwards retires after 46 years on the air at CBS.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS 50th Anniv. Production; War Of The Worlds;

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1988-08-06           

NOTES: Reenactment with TV anchor, Steve Allen and senior commentator,

Douglas Edwards. Complete script.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Public Service Announcement 1989

CITY/STATE: Tallahassee, FL

DATE: 1989-07-21             

PERSONS MENTIONED: Florida Department of Insurance

NOTES: Script, correspondence and model & talent release forms for

narrating for a public service announcement. FL consumer alert.

BROADCASTS

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS: You Are There-Julius Caesar

PERSONS MENTIONED: Caesar, Julius

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Organization chart of CBS News and Special Events

NOTES: A chart listing editorial staff, correspondents NY & foreign and

Special event staff. Douglas Edwards, New York correspondent.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Air Force Veterans Reunion; Madison Square Garden

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: N/A   

PERSONS MENTIONED: Bob Hope, Joe E. Brown, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Jack Dempsey

NOTES: Master of Ceremonies for annual Air Force Association Convention

held at Madison Square Garden. Performers that entertained WWII.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Oklahoma Dept. of Commerce and Industry

CITY/STATE: Oklahoma City, OK

DATE: N/A

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards, Guy Fraser Harrison

NOTES: Script for introduction to side No. 2 performed by the Oklahoma

City Symphony Orchestra, "The Immutable Record of Oklahoma." D. Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Radio, "Musing"

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: N/A                      

NOTES: Douglas Edwards musing on CBS Radio about his dislike for all

parades.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Edwards, Hollenbeck Show

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: N/A                      

PERSONS MENTIONED: Mayor O'Dwyer

NOTES: Report on huge snowstorm covering most of the Midwest, New York,

PA, WV, Northern MD and New England.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Miscellaneous; TV, radio scripts

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: N/A                     

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Miscellaneous scripts

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Pinnacle Book: The Cancer Conspiracy

DATE: N/A                      

NOTES: review of book; Broadcast of Cancer research; no mention of

Edwards; copy of letter from President Ronald Reagan attached;

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Fund raising; United Comm. Fund Script

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: N/A                      

PERSONS MENTIONED: G. Moore, D. Edwards, Polly Bergen, and Les Paul & M. Ford

NOTES: Radio show for CBS Network, starring Garry Moore.

 

 

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; Via Radio France

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: circa 1937-1945      

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Telegrams sent to Douglas Edwards Columbia Broadcasting Hotel

Scrip Paris.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Fact Sheet; Fund raising; Disabled American Veterans

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: Circa 1940           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Gen. J. M. Wainwright, Gen. Omar N. Bradley

NOTES: Facts sheet used as reference by General Wainwright and Douglas

Edwards, in connection with the CBS-TV show of April 21, 7:30 to 7:45

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Columbia Short-wave Broadcast/CBS News; WWII;

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: circa 1940           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Bob Trout, Douglas Edwards

NOTES: How the rest of the world received news of the Cairo conference.

"The news is going out in a Babel of tongues..." Short wave radio.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; The World Tonight

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: circa 1940           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Hubert Humphrey, Mayor Daley, and Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Evening news with Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Evening News

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1942-07-20           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Leola Brown, WSB's afternoon & nighttime hostess

NOTES: Evening news and commentary by Doug Edwards; Economy during the

War.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Fund raising, “Funds for Faith"

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1942-08-12           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards’ news commentator over WSB.

NOTES: A message over the public address system at the Peachtree

Christian Church.  The occasion of organization mtg./every-member canvass.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Fund raising; Night Club for Victory Monte Carlo Night

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1944-01-21           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Eddie Dunn, Douglas Edwards, and Ted Allurer.

NOTES: A war bond party celebrating this nation’s fourth war loan

drive.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: The World Today; Feature Stories; News of the world;

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1945-                

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: World War II and post war news

 

 

 

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: News since V-E Day; Commentator’s Speech

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1945-05-08           

PERSONS MENTIONED: President Truman, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Shirley Temple

NOTES: "Now for a quick summary of the news since VE Day."  Douglas

Edwards CBS Correspondent.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; Feature Story

CITY/STATE: Paris, France

DATE: 1945-05-29           

PERSONS MENTIONED: General de Gaulle, Fr. Min. of Finance, Monsieur Pleven

NOTES: Edwards to CBS, for broadcast at 12:45 tonight Paris time.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: News and Notes; Columbia Broadcasting System News

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1946-03-05           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Jackie Kelk, Ray Bloch, Margaret Whiting, and Doug Edwards

NOTES: Title of news reports, "What's in a name-game," & "No place like

Home," reported by CBS Paris correspondent Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: WCBS-TV Schedules, April 3-5-6

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1947-03-28           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: WCBS-TV Schedule, April 3-5-6

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Views Press

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1947-05-31           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Jack Benny, Walter Winchell, Just. James V. Mulholland

NOTES: Talk for CBS Views Press.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS; Wendy Warren's Newsman

CITY/STATE: NY, NY

DATE: 1947-06-10           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Edwards, Douglas

NOTES: Edwards has part in Wendy Warren's broadcast

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; World News Roundup

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1947-11-22           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Howard K. Smith, Ned Calmer, and Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Actual list of stations and clients & news reports for CBS News

presented on the CBS World News Roundup with Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News, "The American Scene"

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1948-08-09           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Charles Collingswood, D. Edwards, T. Hanna, J. Pfeiffer

NOTES: Correspondents reports from various parts of US.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; You Are There-Capture of John Wilkes Booth;

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1948-09-05           

PERSONS MENTIONED: John Wilkes Booth

NOTES: CBS Broadcast of "You are there", No.44: "The capture of John

Wilkes Booth." Douglas Edwards and other CBS correspondents.

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; You Are There-The Dreyfus Case

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1948-09-12           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Col. Schwartzkoppen

NOTES: CBS reenactment of "The Dreyfus Case", with John Daly and Douglas

Edwards as correspondences; #45

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; People's Platform;

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1948-10-26           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Dwight Cooke, Douglas Edwards

NOTES: "Let's go out to the street and Douglas Edwards."

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: News Lineup; CBS News report

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1949-03-02           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Script of the news given by Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS; Speaking of Television

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1949-04-01           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Observations by and about Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; You Are There-Reenactment Fort Sumter

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1949-05-22           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Major Robert Anderson, Commander of Fort Sumter.

NOTES: CBS, "You are there" reenactment on Fort Sumter-1861; #81

Interviews w/a. Lincoln, Maj. Anderson, Col. James Chestnut. Narration/D

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Headliner Club annual awards program KTBC

CITY/STATE: Phoenix, Arizona

DATE: circa 1950           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Ed Murrow, Eric Sevareid, Walter Cronkite, and Doug Edwards

NOTES: Broadcast held at the Crystal Ballroom of the Driskill Hotel.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Radio Division, "Years of Crisis"

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1956-01-01           

PERSONS MENTIONED: E. Murrow, B. Pierpoint, D. Schoenbrun, and E. Sevareid

NOTES: CBS Radio presenting the seventh annual year-end report with

Edwards R. Murrow and several correspondents.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Evening Lineup

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1956 April            

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards with the News

NOTES: Pamphlet with ratings

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; FYI

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1959-12-24           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards, Bill Kobin

NOTES: Script for FYI #1; Cab driver interview.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Fund raising-Elmira College

CITY/STATE: Elmira, NY

DATE: circa 1960           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Donna Douglas

NOTES: Correspondence from Pres. of College and etc.  Douglas Edwards

volunteering to help line up workers for telethon on Nov. 29, 1967.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Ratings WCBS, "The Late News"

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1961-07-18           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Ratings for "The Late News" for week of July 10-14

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Douglas Edwards with the News; Stanton Test

DATE: 1961-08-04           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Acardo, Tony

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News, "Behind the headlines", v.1, side B

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1962 January         

PERSONS MENTIONED: J.F. Kennedy, Dean Rusk, and Gen. Dag Hammarskjold

NOTES: CBS Report on the State of the Union Address by John Fitzgerald

Kennedy, 35th president of the US, by Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News script/1963-12-05, 63 B.C. Rome

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

PERSONS MENTIONED: Julius Caesar, Cicero

NOTES: Reenactment of trial commentated by Douglas Edwards. The senate

condemns the Catalina Conspirators & the Great Republic.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; you are There-The Siege of the Alamo

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1971-06-21           

PERSONS MENTIONED: W. Cronkite, B. Schieffer, D. Townsend, and Doug Edwards

NOTES: CBS script of "The siege of the Alamo, March 5, 1836. Presented

in studio 45 with correspondents listed above.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; You Are There-Underground Railroad

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1971-09-11           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Harriet Tubman

NOTES: CBS episode w/correspondents, W. Cronkite, B. Kalb, D.

Schoumacher, M. Safter, D. Culhane and Douglas Edwards

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Mid-Day News

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1971-11-30           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Mark Twain, Gov. Lurleen Wallace, Pvt. Ray Jones

NOTES: News and analysis by Doug Edwards, A portrait of Mark Twain,

[Samuel Langhorne Clemens], known to others as "the divine amateur."

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News, `Douglas Edwards' journal

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: circa 1980           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Murrow, Daly, Trout, Shirer, Smith & Collingwood, etc.

NOTES: Share a fortieth anniversary with me...after this.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News - Radio scripts

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: circa 1980           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Paul White, J. Daly, G. Steinem, D. Rather, and Cronkite

NOTES: Scripts by Douglas Edwards; "The Original TV Anchor”: Douglas

Edwards by Fred Rothenberg, AP television writer.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS, "For our times."

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: circa 1980           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission

NOTES: One of a series of 40th Ann.: The Harvest of Decades:

Faith and Science.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1980-07-15           

PERSONS MENTIONED: W. Cronkite, D. Sawyer, J. Bowen, R. Reagan, and G. Bush

NOTES: Republican National Convention in Detroit and New York.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: WWII D-day Plus 40 re-enactment of orig.

DATE: 1984-06-06           

NOTES: periodicals, press releases, scripts, etc.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Victory in Europe; The Allied Advance to Berlin

DATE: 1985-03-01            

NOTES: prepared by Errol Hazlewood CBS News Broadcast Research

Department

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Morning News reunion w/Ed Murrow's Boys

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1985-05-05           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Edwards R. Murrow, Sen. Joe McCarthy, Sen. Jesse Helms

NOTES: `CBS Morning News' holds reunion with Ed Murrow's Boys by Fred

Rothenberg.  Douglas Edwards’s commentary.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center Auditorium; Then and Now

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1985-11-13           

PERSONS MENTIONED: E. Diamond, R. MacNeil, W. Henry, III, and Douglas Edwards

NOTES: A discussion of the evolution of broadcast journalism. Panelists:

Robert MacNeil, Wm. A. Henry, III, and Douglas Edwards.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: People in the News

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1986-04-23           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger, Caroline Kennedy.

NOTES: Veteran CBS News correspondent Douglas Edwards on Wednesday

received the Lowell Thomas Award.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS News; Reporting by Douglas Edwards

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1987-06-10           

PERSONS MENTIONED: Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, Bobby Baker, and Mayor Lindsay

NOTES: News given by Douglas Edwards for CBS and sitting in and

reporting for Dan Rather with News and Commentary.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1988-03-31            

PERSONS MENTIONED: Douglas Edwards

NOTES: Douglas Edwards retires after 46 years on the air at CBS.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: CBS 50th Anniv. Production; War Of The Worlds;

CITY/STATE: New York, NY

DATE: 1988-08-06           

NOTES: Reenactment with TV anchor, Steve Allen and senior commentator,

Douglas Edwards. Complete script.

 

ORGANIZATION/EVENT: Public Service Announcement 1989

CITY/STATE: Tallahassee, FL

DATE: 1989-07-21             

PERSONS MENTIONED: Florida Department of Insurance

NOTES: Script, correspondence and model & talent release forms for

narrating for a public service announcement. FL consumer alert.

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