Four Days in November: The Assassination of President Kennedy (1988) (TV)

A two-hour broadcast of the 25th anniversary acknowledgement of one of our nation's most solemn occasions from the CBS news machine, then arguably the most insightful and immediate of the big 3 networks.

From Dan Rather's opening: "On November 22nd, 1963 the President of the United States was assassinated and for four days America went into an unparalleled state of grief and shock. That's why CBS news stayed on the air for 56 hours. The broadcast that follows is made from films and tapes from those dark days. Every fact and opinion you hear comes from our coverage at the time. For our part we make no comment on the past, we only bring it back. Four days in November, the assassination of President Kennedy."

Four Days in November: The Assassination of President Kennedy (1988) (TV)

Host: Dan Rather

50 Years of Television: A Golden Celebration (1989) (TV)

A 2-hour CBS special hosted by the legend Walter Cronkite highlighting fifty years in the history of television. Includes tributes to Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope, Ed Sullivan and many more. To say clips of classic television moments are presented is an understatement, this is an excellent presentation that reaches deep into TV history.

50 Years of Television: A Golden Celebration (1989) (TV)

Host: Walter Cronkite

John Glenn Return to Space (1998) (TV)

John Glenn and the rest of the STS-95 Space Shuttle Discovery crew successfully completed their 9-day mission on Nov. 7, 1998. The mission lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B in Florida at 2:19 p.m. EST on Thursday, Oct. 29.

More than 36 years after he made history as the first American to orbit the Earth, Sen. John H. Glenn Jr. returned to space as part of a multinational crew with the launch of Discovery. STS-95 involved more than 80 scientific experiments investigating mysteries that spanned the realm from the inner universe of the human body to studies of our own sun and its solar activity.

John Glenn Return to Space (1998) (TV)
Cast: Charles Conrad, Walter Cronkite, John Glenn

We the People 200: The Constitutional Gala (1987) (TV)

Television special that salutes the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787 in comedy and song. This should be mandatory viewing in our public schools. Indescribably fantastic.


We the People 200: The Constitutional Gala (1987) (TV)
Host: Walter Cronkite