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1 , NCOI (Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. CBS News. CBS Reports) Billy Rose Theatre Division The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts New York, New York Contact Information The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Billy Rose Theatre Division 40 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, New York Phone: 212/ Fax: 212/ Web address: Processed by: Special Formats Processing Staff Date Completed: June 2010

2 Summary Title: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. CBS News. CBS Reports, Collection ID: Size: Access: Preferred citation: NCOI (Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. CBS News. CBS Reports) 2 linear feet (11 volumes) For permission to publish, contact the curator at the Billy Rose Theatre Division. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. CBS News. CBS Reports Transcripts, NCOI (Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. CBS News. CBS Reports). Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. ii

3 Biographical note CBS Reports is the catch phrase title used for documentaries by CBS News which aired as a constant series from 1959 to Many of the Boys, the CBS broadcast journalists most closely associated with during his years at the network, lead the CBS Reports broadcasts. Investigating current and controversial issues of their times whether it was on homosexuality, poverty, abortion, immigrant migration, divorce or birth control the CBS Reports program were designed to provide in-depth reporting on serious subjects important to the nation. Scope and content note This collection contains the transcripts for broadcasts from reporters that include Winston Burdett,, Bill Leonard,, Dan Rather,, Eric Sevareid,, Mike Wallace, and Walter Lippmann. Conversing with a wide range of individuals e.g. Yul Brynner, Everett Dirksen, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Carl Sandburg, U.N. Ambassador Arthur J. Gold and U.S. Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall CBS Reports journalists presented to the public a panel of experts on a wide range of topics dealing with. Notable episodes found within this collection include The Homosexuals, the first time homosexuality was presented on a national network broadcast and Harvest of Shame, Walter Lippmann, 1964 and Storm Over the Supreme Court episodes which won the 1961, 1964 and 1965 Peabody Awards respectively. Arrangement note Chronological iii

4 Container List Year/Vol. Date Title Reporter Producer Additional 10/27/1959 5/27/1960 6/17/ /26/ /27/59 11/11/59 Biography of a Missile The Population Explosion 12/18/59 Iran: Brittle Ally 1/6/60 The Space Leg 1/14/60 2/15/60 4/21/60 5/27/60 6/17/60 7/7/60 9/15/60 10/11/60 10/27/60 11/13/60 The Population Explosion Nigeria: The Freedom Explosion Biography of a Cancer Who Speaks for the South? Berlin: End of the Line Walter Lippmann on Leadership Trujillo: Portrait of a Dictator The Year of the Polaris Money and the Next President The Influential Americans 11/25/60 Harvest of Shame and Winston Burdett, Jack Beck and Bill Leonard, CBS News Washington Correspondent s Av Westin K. McClure and Winston Burdett and Edward M. Av Westin Albert Wasserman McClure and s Fred W. Friendly Bill Leonard George A. Vicas First program in a special CBS News series dealing with leading national and international issues Second program in a special CBS News series dealing with leading national and international issues Third program in a special CBS News series dealing with leading national and international issues Fourth program in a special CBS News series dealing with leading national and international issues Repeat of program (enlarged to 90 minutes from original one-hour broadcast 11/11/59) in a special CBS News series dealing with leading national and international issues Presented in the CBS News series dealing with leading national and international issues Sponsored by General Electric Co. as a special presentation in The General Electric Theater series 4

5 5/11/61 12/21/61 1/4/62 4/26/62 12/10/60 12/26/60 5/11/61 5/25/61 6/15/61 10/12/61 Rescue with Yul Brynner The Great Holiday Massacre Censorship and the Movies The Trials of de Gaulle Walter Lippmann, 1961 Eisenhower on the Presidency 10/19/61 The Water Famine 11/2/61 Brazil The Rude Awakening 11/9/61 In Case of War 11/23/61 11/30/61 Eisenhower on the Presidency Part II Biography of a Bookie Joint 12/14/61 Can We Disarm? 12/21/61 1/4/62 Walter Lippmann, Year End East Germany The Land Beyond the Wall 1/18/62 The Fat American 1/25/62 Death in the City Room Yul Brynner and, with Bill Leonard, Bill Downs, and Bill Stout, all of CBS NEWS and Alexander Kendrick Schoenbrun and Alexander Kendrick and Kuralt Daniel Schorr s George A. Vicas Fred W. Friendly (Middle East production); Fred W. Friendly Jay L. McMullen listed as narrator, rather than reporter. Narration written by: and 5

6 2/8/62 Carl Sandburg Lincoln s Prairie Years Herbert Mitgang and Buksbaum 5/10/62 12/19/62 2/15/62 Eisenhower on the Presidency Part III 2/22/62 Thunder on the Right 3/8/62 3/15/62 3/22/62 3/29/62 4/12/62 4/19/62 4/26/62 5/10/62 5/24/62 6/7/62 9/19/62 9/26/62 10/3/62 10/24/62 10/31/62 Barry Goldwater The View from the Right Can We Disarm Decisions at Geneva Mr. Europe and the Common Market The Beat Majority and the Supreme Court The Taxed American: Prelude to April 15 The Taxed American: Loopholes of 62 The Hot and Cold Wars of Allen Dulles Birth Control and the Law Breaking the Trade Barrier Walter Lippmann 1962 The Teen-Age Smoker Mississippi and the 15 th Amendment Showdown in the Congo The Other Face of Dixie The California Battleground: Nixon vs. Brown Winston Burdett, Marvin Kalb, Daniel Schorr and Schoenbrun Schoenbrun Richard C. Hottelet K. McClure Bill Leonard Fred W. Friendly Peters and Narration written by:, Bill Leonard and Written by: Schoenbrun Written by: Schoenbrun and Narration written by: and 6

7 11/28/62 An Hour with the Secretary of State Schoenbrun 12/12/ Days to Venus 1/9/63 5/29/63 12/19/62 1/9/63 Sabotage in South Africa The War at the Top of the World Bernard Kalb 1/23/63 Eisenhower, /6/63 2/20/63 3/13/63 3/20/63 4/3/63 4/17/63 5/1/63 5/15/63 Germany Since Hitler: Adenauer Sums Up Storm Over the Supreme Court Part I Storm Over the Supreme Court Part II Biography of a Bookie Joint The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson The Man Who Built New York Walter Lippmann, 1963 The Great Farm Vote of 63 and The Verdict on the Silent Spring of Rachel Carson Daniel Schorr and Jay L. McMullen, reporter for The Great Farm Vote of 63 and, reporter for The Verdict on the Silent Spring of Rachel Carson Fred W. Friendly McClure Peters Jay L. McMullen Jay L. McMullen Bill Leonard Jay L. McMullen The original broadcast of this program on November 30 th, 1961, was not shown in Massachusetts, because the program contains material relating to criminal trials then pending in that state. Last month, those trials ended and tonight, this program will be broadcast in Massachusetts for the first time. Robert Moses is subject of News Report 7

8 6/12/63 12/18/63 5/22/63 5/29/63 6/12/63 6/19/63 9/18/63 9/25/63 10/23/63 11/13/63 11/27/63 Reflections of a Soviet Scientist Birth Control and the Law Deadlock: The Railroad Dispute Storm Over the Supreme Court Part III The Priest and the Politician McNamara and the Pentagon The Great American Funeral Case History of a Rumor Three Presidents on the Presidency Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy 12/11/63 The Harlem Temper 12/18/ /8/64 1/22/64 2/5/64 2/19/64 John F. Kennedy: The View from the Cabinet The Crisis of Presidential Succession The Business of Heroin The Catholics and the Schools The Flight from Hollywood Marvin Kalb Dan Rather Robert Trout Roger Mudd Marvin Kalb and Eric Sevareid, and Roger Mudd s Peters Peters and Buksbaum By the Staff of CBS Reports Jay McMullen Jay McMullen Birth Control and the Law, originally broadcast on CBS reports a year ago this May, is repeated and updated tonight to reflect the dramatic changes in the Chicago controversy and throughout the world. 3/4/64 The Legacy of the Thresher Dan Rather Buksbaum 8

9 1/ /1965 3/18/64 4/8/64 4/15/64 4/29/64 5/6/64 6/5/64 6/10/64 6/24/64 10/7/64 10/21/64 11/11/64 12/9/64 1/4/65 1/18/65 2/8/65 2/22/65 Filibuster Birth Struggle of Law Walter Lippmann, 1964 Cigarettes: A Collision of Interests De Gaulle: Roots of Power De Gaulle: The Challenge D-Day Plus 20 Years: Eisenhower Returns to Normandy Murder and the Right to Bear Arms The Education of George Waruhiu Gideon s Trumpet: The Poor Man and the Law New York Battleground: The Race for the Senate The U.S. and the Two Chinas Segregation: Northern-Style The Hidden Face of Poverty and Death of a Navy Yard The Press and the Law East Europe: Satellites Out of Orbit Walter Lippmann, 1965 and George Herman Robert Trout Martin Agronsky Marvin Kalb Mike Wallace, for both segments Daniel Schorr 4/5/65 Abortion and the Law 4/19/65 U.N.: Beleaguered Fortress Richard C. Hottelet Peters K. McClure K. McClure s Wershba and Bill Leondard (producerswriters) Wershba Peters for The Hidden Face of Poverty and Wershba for Death of a Navy Yard Wershba McClure 9

10 6/6/65 Everett Dirksen: A Self-Portrait Roger Mudd 7/12/65 The Rating Game Robert Trout 9/14/65 Bulldozed America Kuralt Philip Scheffler Wershba Robert Richter 10/26/65 Town Meeting of the World (moderator) Don Hewitt Participants: Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.N. Ambassador Arthur J. Gold and U. S. Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall 1/1966 5/1966 8/ /1967 1/4/66 The Volga Marvin Kalb 2/15/66 The Divorce Dilemma 3/15/66 I.O.U. $315,000,000, and Warren Wallace Alexander Kendrick 3/29/66 The Policeman s Lot Mike Wallace 4/12/66 4/26/66 5/17/66 8/7/66 Vietnam: The Other War Mexico: A Lesson in Latin LSD: The Spring Grove Experiment Murder and the Right to Bear Arms Kuralt Kuralt 9/20/66 The Poisoned Air Daniel Schorr 10/18/66 Men in Cages 11/15/66 The State of the Unions 12/20/66 Harvest of Mercy Roger Mudd and Warren Wallace Kuralt Winston Burdett and Kuralt 1/31/67 The Farthest Frontier Kuralt Burton Benjamin and Isaac Kleinerman Philip Scheffler Wershba Bernard Birnbaum Morgan and John Sharnik s Wershba Isaac Kleinerman John Sharnik and Morgan Written by: Warren Wallace Written by: John Sharnik Repeat broadcast Written by: John Sharnik 10

11 3/7/67 The Homosexuals Mike Wallace Morgan 6/20/67 Robert F. Kennedy Roger Mudd Philip Scheffler Written by: Mike Wallace and Morgan 9/12/67 The New Left Bill Stout 9/26/67 The Germans Hughes Rudd John Sharnik 12/12/67 What About Ronald Reagan? and Bill Stout Written by: John Sharnik and Hughes Rudd 11