CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1964 Presidential Campaign
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1964 Presidential Campaign
Master 11515 Tape 1 CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - Documentary on the history of Presidental Campaingns and the part that the media plays in American politics. - 1964 Presidential Campaign
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1964 Presidential Campaign
Clip of BARRY GOLDWATER in office in 1964, watching TV coverage of the campaign.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1964 Presidential Campaign
John Chancellor speaks about the Goldwater aides in 1964 were resentful of the "unfavorable" coverage of GOLDWATER.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1964 Presidential Campaign
Clip of RONALD REAGAN giving an early '60's TV Political Commercial to solicit TELEVISION FUNDS on GOLDWATER'S behalf [he even rails against a favorite 80's target, the "liberal media )
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1964 Presidential Campaign
DO NOT USE Clips of Coverage of 1964 REPUBLICAN convention.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1964 Presidential Campaign
C/S Reuven Frank, NBC News, says that Eisenhower in 1964 whipped the Republican Delegates into an anti-Media frenzy.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1964 Presidential Campaign
DO NOT USE Clips of Coverage of 1964 REPUBLICAN convention.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1964 Presidential Campaign
C/S Reuven Frank, NBC News, says that Eisenhower in 1964 whipped the Republican Delegates into an anti-Media frenzy.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1964 Presidential Campaign
C/S John Chancellor, discussing his problems at that convention.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1964 Presidential Campaign
DO NOT USE Clip of the 1964 REPUBLICAN convention showing CHANCELLOR being confronted by two COPS, delivering his commentary into a hand-held mic, makes it sound like the cops are going to arrest him for trying to report the news.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1964 Presidential Campaign
C/S Reuven Frank, says that the Chancellor situation was a dramatic potential for the broadcast.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1964 Presidential Campaign
DO NOT USE Clip of the convention, CHANCELLOR is preparing to passively force the cops to carry him out, but responds to direction in his headphones to walk out on his own, which he does, continuing to report. V.O. This was an example of the media starting to take a role as "newsmakers" rather than just reporters.