Johns Hopkins Science Review A Must See For NASA Fans

The core of the Dumont Network was really a series of TV stations owned by Allan B Dumont, the network's owner. Stations were located in New York, Pittsburgh, and Washington. To save costs while garnering programming for the network, Dumont looked to these stations to create shows that could be used on the network. One such show was the Johns Hopkins Science Review, made by Dumont's Washington station. On TVS History.Com you can watch an episode of this series from the early 1950's that had the legendary Dr. Werner Von Braun predicting how our space program would develop. Be prepared to be amazed as his concepts are incredibly close to what we actually did more than a decade later. Great TV history, and another reason why TV4U.Com is quickly becoming more of a cultural event than just an entertainment video portal.

John Cameron Swayze and the Plymouth Caravan of News

With the loss of Walter Cronkite, we now have lost our first generation of TV newscasters. Robert Trout, John Cameron Swayze, David Brinkley, Edward R Murrow, Chet Huntley, John Charles Daly, Alex Drier, and Howard K Smith were the stalwarts of that group. All gone now but not forgotten. The TVS Television Network, through its TVS History.Com IPTV channel, is presenting these newscasters just as they were way back then. Just go to TV4U.Com and click on the History Icon. The go to Playmouth Caravan News and watch John Cameron Swayze bring you the national news of the day----in 1953! Lot's of fascinating parts to this, including a review of the baseball scores at the end of the 15 minute telecast. Imagine that!

Walter Cronkite, Live TV, and the Kennedy Assasination

Here on TVS History.Com, there is a slice of electronic history that is almost surreal to revisit. You can go back in time to 2pm November 22, 1963 in New York, on CBS-TV to relive the hour in which President Kennedy was assasinated. The entire hour is depected without interruption, starting with a long forgotten soap opera (complete with commercials) to the initial news bulletins to the initial bursts of information, to the eerie retranslation of the events, to the eventual molded 'official story' that has endured "offically' to this day. We heard about the grassy knoll, then it was dropped. We were told immediately that Kennedy was dead, then he became injured, even though it was reported that he wasn't even moved to a hospital operating room. It is raw unfiltered information that we first get, followed by the work of the government and its effect on the network. It's compelling, and a must watch, especially for those of us that lived throiugh the era. TV was never the same after this hour of infamy.