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First Color TV Broadcast of a US President

Eisenhower suffered a stroke while in office, but I don't know if it was before or after this address. This might have explained some of the hesitation. Overall, pretty good without a teleprompter.
 
President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in September, 1955 and a mild stroke in November, 1957 so this appearance came after both had taken place. It might be noted that in December of this same year (1958), Eisenhower recorded a message that was transmitted from an satellite orbiting the earth; thus becoming the first person to have their voice broadcast from outer space.
 
I hope people don't think that I'm making light of Eisenhower's use of the english language. In fact "Ike" was quite literate in both the written word and when giving a speech. The only time he used what is referred to as "gobbledygook" is when he wanted to avoid reporter's questions.

If anyone reads documents released about "Ike" after 1970 they will discover, despite what the historians might have thought about his eight years in office, that the man was well read and was a hands-on president. Not one American soldier died during his two terms in office in a foreign war; and our economy grew at a rapid pace. More importantly there were manufacturing jobs in the United States; unlike today.

In my life time Eisenhower was probably the best president this country had.
 
A lot of people (myself included) have come to believe that Ike could be crystal clear when it suited his purpose--and indulge in bafflegab when it served his interests. Kind of like his contemporary Casey Stengel...
 
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"Who was the first president that was broadcast on DTV."When DTV first started transmitting" not the change over."

Since DTV as we know it was first authorized in the late 1990s it had to be Bill Clinton--most likely in a late 1990s national speech.
 
Mark_Giardina said:
Not one American soldier died during his two terms in office in a foreign war...
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July 8, 1959 - Two U.S. military advisors, Maj. Dale Buis and Sgt. Chester Ovnand, are killed by Viet Minh guerrillas at Bien Hoa, South Vietnam. They are the first American deaths in the Second Indochina War which Americans will come to know simply as The Vietnam War.

This was during Ike's second term. During his first term fighting was still going on in Korea. It is more than likely that some American troops died there as well.

Source: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1945.html
 
landtuna said:
Mark_Giardina said:
Not one American soldier died during his two terms in office in a foreign war...
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July 8, 1959 - Two U.S. military advisors, Maj. Dale Buis and Sgt. Chester Ovnand, are killed by Viet Minh guerrillas at Bien Hoa, South Vietnam. They are the first American deaths in the Second Indochina War which Americans will come to know simply as The Vietnam War.

This was during Ike's second term. During his first term fighting was still going on in Korea. It is more than likely that some American troops died there as well.

Source: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1945.html
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Not to turn this into a political discussion but consider that Eisenhower ended the Korean War.
Also he refused to send in combat troops to Vietnam (advisers yes but not actual troops like LBJ did).
 
Bob1370 said:
"Who was the first president that was broadcast on DTV."When DTV first started transmitting" not the change over."

Since DTV as we know it was first authorized in the late 1990s it had to be Bill Clinton--most likely in a late 1990s national speech.
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Thank you. I wasn't sure.
 
Mark_Giardina said:
Not to turn this into a political discussion but consider that Eisenhower ended the Korean War.
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Time to hit the history books. The Korean War is still not ended. An armistice (halt in the fighting) was signed on July 27, 1953.

Mark_Giardina said:
Also he refused to send in combat troops to Vietnam (advisers yes but not actual troops like LBJ did).
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There is a very thin line between "advisor" and soldier. Both put Americans in harm's way. And Ike had been supporting the French effort in Vietnam since his election to the tune of many millions of dollars. After the French defeat in 1954 Ike continued sending military aid and political interference to the government of S. Vietnam removing and installing presidents as they saw fit.

In fairness to Ike, some of this actually started under Truman whose doctrine mandated supporting non-communist governments in S.E. Asia lest the entire region fall under communist expansion.
 
Another color TV presidential first was JFK;'s inauguration fifty years ago in 1961. It was the first inaugural to be telecast in color, at least once the inaugural parade began. The oath taking and address were in black and white. Unfortunately, by its own admission, NBC's videotapes of its inaugural coverage were used over. So even on the day of his assassination, when the inaugural address was replayed in its entirety, NBC had to use a grainy kinescope for its source material. What a shame. NBC had hoped in later years that one of its affiliates had recorded the coverage for its own purposes, but no such luck. Ironic that there is color videotape of Dwight Eisenhower dating back to 1958, but none that I've ever seen of John F. Kennedy. Anyone here ever seen color video of JFK?
 
davalvideo said:
Another color TV presidential first was JFK;'s inauguration fifty years ago in 1961. It was the first inaugural to be telecast in color, at least once the inaugural parade began. The oath taking and address were in black and white. Unfortunately, by its own admission, NBC's videotapes of its inaugural coverage were used over. So even on the day of his assassination, when the inaugural address was replayed in its entirety, NBC had to use a grainy kinescope for its source material. What a shame. NBC had hoped in later years that one of its affiliates had recorded the coverage for its own purposes, but no such luck. Ironic that there is color videotape of Dwight Eisenhower dating back to 1958, but none that I've ever seen of John F. Kennedy. Anyone here ever seen color video of JFK?
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NBC was infamous for dumping old videotapes to clear shelf space. As I remember, Johnny Carson was royally pissed-off that NBC dumped thousands of hours of his early years on The Tonight Show. I recall that in the 80s, when Carson did anniversary shows or retrospectives, the little video he could find of his early years - were grainy black and white kinescopes, while the show was originally recorded in color.

Not as historically significant as JFK, I realize, but some indication of NBC's careless treatment of historical video.
 
In Reuven Frank's 1991 book, Out of Thin Air : The Brief Wonderful Life Of Network News, he said that during the NBC coverage of JFk's assassination, someone went to the vault in New Jersey, and found a clip of JFK's speech that was used on Chet Huntley Reporting and NBC News got it in before evening to use during the evening's coverage
 
BobbyNBC10 said:
In Reuven Frank's 1991 book, Out of Thin Air : The Brief Wonderful Life Of Network News, he said that during the NBC coverage of JFk's assassination, someone went to the vault in New Jersey, and found a clip of JFK's speech that was used on Chet Huntley Reporting and NBC News got it in before evening to use during the evening's coverage
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That may not be correct.

Kennedy recorded a welcome announcement to Japan a few days before his trip to Texas. He referred to the new Relay 1 satellite and Friday, November 22, 1963, was supposed to be the inaugural broadcast. Instead, Relay 1 fed periodic NBC reports to Japan about the Kennedy assassination and funeral. At some point, I think it was the next day, NBC aired that Kennedy tape, but it was a b&w recording made outside the front of the White House.

A friend at the Kennedy Library told me several years ago that they have never found color video of Kennedy at any time during his lifetime.

GM
 
The videotape of JFK's remarks outside the White House was made in fact, the day before he left for Texas, on Wednesday, November 20, 1963. The president appeared uncharacteristically ill at ease and just stood there with his hands by his side as he spoke. The tape was shown on the NBC Network on Friday night, November 22nd as part of the evening's coverage. The correspondent was talking about JFK's commitment to the manned space program and tied in this first Relay broadcast to Japan as part of that commitment. (I have all 72 hours of NBC's coverage on betacam SP videotape). Living as close to Boston as I do, I followed Gary Mack's action and asked the then head of audio-visual at the JFK Library, Alan Goodrich, if there was any color videotape of JFK, and he said not in their collection. He added that this doesn't mean that some local station somewhere may not have some in their archives, it just hasn't been discovered yet.
 
Bob1370 said:
A lot of people (myself included) have come to believe that Ike could be crystal clear when it suited his purpose--and indulge in bafflegab when it served his interests. Kind of like his contemporary Casey Stengel...
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Can you imagine Yogi Berra holding a news conference as president? ;D
 
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