TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

TVC 628.3: From November 2013: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio shares some final thoughts on how network TV news covered the assassination of President Kennedy on 11/22/63, as well as how the 8mm color motion sequence shot by clothing manufacturer Abraham Zapruder became one of the most scrutinized pieces of film ever.

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TVC 628.4: Ed welcomes back John Barbour, five-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host, comedian, critic at large, and co-creator of Real People; author of Your Mother's Not a Virgin, the story of his life and career in show business; and the only man who has produced three films on the JFK assassination, including John Barbour's and William Shakespeare's Last Word on the Murder of JFK, a 90-minute docu-presentation that will have its world premiere the Laemmle Town Center 5 in Encino, CA on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the sixtieth anniversary of the JFK assassination. For tickets and more information, call (818) 981-9847 or go to laemmle.com/film/john-barbours-and-wm-shakespeares-last-word-murder-jfk

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TVC 628.5: Five-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host John Barbour talks to Ed about some of his heroes and mentors, including Redd Foxx, Dick Gregory, Earl "Fatha" Hines, and Jim Garrison, the Louisiana district attorney known for his investigation into the JFK assassination. John's latest film, John Barbour's and William Shakespeare's Last Word on the Murder of JFK, is a 90-minute docu-presentation that is essentially a one-man show in three acts, with Act I recounting John's efforts to allow Garrison to tell his story, in his own words, and John's efforts to start a scholarship at Tulane University in Garrison's memory; Act II revealing the one great disappointment in John's life; and Act III telling the poignant story of John's trip to Scotland in 1960, where, following a bittersweet reunion with his estranged father, John wins a residency with the Castle Theatre group in London and discovers the true meaning of Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be." John Barbour's and William Shakespeare's Last Word on the Murder of JFK will have its world premiere at the Laemmle Town Center 5 in Encino, CA from Wednesday, Nov. 22 through Tuesday, Nov. 28. For tickets and more information, call (818) 981-9847 or go to laemmle.com/film/john-barbours-and-wm-shakespeares-last-word-murder-jfk.

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TVC 628.6: Five-time Emmy Award-winning talk show host John Barbour talks to Ed about he came to be Frank Sinatra's personal writer for many years, and the circumstances that led to John's appearance in what turned out to be the most-watched episode of Breaking Bad. John's latest film, John Barbour's and William Shakespeare's Last Word on the Murder of JFK, will have its world premiere at the Laemmle Town Center 5 in Encino, CA from Wednesday, Nov. 22 through Tuesday, Nov. 28. For tickets and more information, call (818) 981-9847 or go to laemmle.com/film/john-barbours-and-wm-shakespeares-last-word-murder-jfk.

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TVC 627.1: From November 2013: A special joint edition of The Sounds of Lost Television and This Week in TV History featuring Phil Gries, Tony Figueroa, and Donna Allen that looks back at how network television news covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 and the events that followed over the next three days—a seminal moment in U.S. history and in the life of Phil Gries and many other Baby Boomers; a seminal moment in the history of network TV news; and, in many respects, a seminal moment in the history of Phil's company, Archival Television Audio. Phil happened to be home on the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, watching the NBC daytime documentary program Tell Us More on local NBC affiliate WNBC, when a news bulletin read by announcer Don Pardo interrupted regular programming at approximately 1:45pm ET and announced that President Kennedy had been "cut down by an assassin's bullet." However, due to the technical limitations of TV broadcasting at the time, NBC had no tape of either the Pardo bulletin or the opening minutes of its own news coverage. For more than twenty years, those moments were considered lost, until it was discovered circa 1988 that only Phil had the presence of mind to make an audio recording on his own that day while watching television at home.

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TVC 627.2: From November 2013: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio recalls the moment, circa 1988, when he realized that he had something that NBC did not have—the audio of the first four minutes of the network's national news coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963—and his decision to go public with that discovery, first to NBC News, then to the Library of Congress. Audio highlights this segment include the first news bulletin, read by Don Pardo (then-booth announcer for WNBC, the NBC affiliate in New York) at approximately 1:45pm ET on Nov. 22, 1963, announcing the shooting of President Kennedy.

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TVC 627.3: From November 2013: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays audio of the first national news bulletin for NBC News, read by booth announcer Don Pardo at approximately 1:47pm ET on Nov. 22, 1963, announcing that President Kennedy had been "cut down by an assassin's bullet." Due to the technical limitations of TV broadcasting at the time, NBC had no tape of this bulletin or the first four minutes of its own news coverage. Those first four minutes were considered lost for more than twenty years, until it was discovered circa 1988 that only Phil had the presence of mind to make an audio recording on his own while watching television at home that day.

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TVC 627.4: Ed welcomes back legendary singer, actress, and philanthropist Ruta Lee (High Rollers, Witness for the Prosecution, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Consider Your Ass Kissed). Earlier this year, the former president of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, presented Ruta with Lithuania's highest honor at a magnificent ceremony in the Vilnius Presidential Palace in Lithuania, while the current president of Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, presented Ruta with another high honor during a visit to Ruta's home in Hollywood—a legendary estate that was previously owned by Rita Hayworth and, later, Orson Welles. Both honors were bestowed upon Ruta in recognition for her lifelong advocacy for the advancement of Lithuania and its people.

The Thalians, the charitable organization to which Ruta Lee has dedicated much of her life over the past sixty years, will honor actor Gary Sinise with its highest honor, the "Mr. Wonderful" Award (originally designed by Walt Disney) at its annual Winter Gala, which will take place Saturday, Dec. 2 at the Brentwood Country Club in Los Angeles, California. See TheThalians.org here for tickets and more information.

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TVC 627.5: Entertainment legend Ruta Lee shares a few memories from her life and career, including the epic story of how she helped her grandmother emigrate from Lithuania in 1963, and how Darren McGavin put down a deposit in Ruta's name for a home in Palm Springs, early in Ruta's career.

Ruta's memoir, Consider Your Ass Kissed, not only is the story of how a young girl—the daughter of Lithuanian immigrants—became one of the most legendary entertainers in Hollywood history through hard work and determination, but includes a treasure trove of authentic memories about the Golden Age of Entertainment, including her work opposite such leading men as Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Charles Bronson, James Garner, Fred Astaire, Robin Williams, Howard Keel, Bob Crane, and Frank Sinatra. Consider Your Ass Kissed is available right now at Amazon.com. Autographed editions are available exclusively at LarryEdmunds.com. For more about The Thalians, see Thalians.org

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TVC 627.6: From November 2013: Phil Gries of Archival Television Audio plays excerpts from his May 1998 interview with longtime NBC announcer Don Pardo in which Pardo recalls the chaos that permeated the NBC newsroom on Nov. 22, 1963, in the moments immediately following the news that President John F. Kennedy had been shot, and how he was pressed into becoming an interim news anchor, reading AP news bulletins hot off the wire, until the usual network news team of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley was in place.

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