Here is the first part of the NBC Coverage, the same personalities in the Huntley Brinkley clip are in this coverage, so I need to do no introduction. There are no commercials in this set of clips, so sorry folks!
I was 11 years old when I last watched this election coverage in November 1968. I was in the 5th grade. I looked at all Network Election/Convention coverage beginning in 1968, because I was determined to have a career in television. I loved the fact that television captured history instantly.
As an Independent, you have to have a certain amount of signatures for each state. The same goes with new parties, and he did not get enough signatures to be American Independent in every state. He was in the G Wallace Party in some states and in NY he was in "The Courage Party". He just had to find a party to nominate him.
"There are no commercials in this set of clips, so sorry folks!" No need to be sorry-- this is election coverage done the right way, with (as I understand it) neither Huntley nor Brinkley advocating for the policies of any of the candidates (like FOX and MSNBC and all the networks do today).
i enjoy these election night videos, they don't make election night coverage like this anymore, but i have a question on some of the total boards for each state, some of them have george wallace's with the his party under the letters GWP, while some of them have him as AIP, now wallace i know was on the ballot as a candidate of the american independence party (i think that is what is was called) so why do some of these states have different initials for his party
If only there was one. I'm impressed by that machine. I don't know what limited features it had. I have been repeatedly told there were no actual monitors on personal pcs until 1975 with early apple. Im dying to know what that so-called monitor in front of john chancellor actually did. was that actual computer or a tape editor machine? I notice he sits there and does nothing with it.
@@bertodrago3646 There weren't ANY personal computers until 1975. And even THEN a video display was a homebrew thing! (TTY's and paper tape being the primary I/O until 1977!) However, VDUs (Video Display Units) for MAINFRAME computers came along in the mid 1960's. They were capable of "page at a time" text, but were not very "interactive" like the later ASCII terminals that came out a few years after this newscast. It's cool that the RCA VDU in this video looks like an elongated Apple ][ of a decade LATER. It probably cost as much as a two-bedroom house in 1968. LOL. (Yeah, I'm OLD!) LOL.
News was done more professionally. And it seemed more unbiased than it today at least in my opinion. It's too bad that I can't watch the news anymore, because it Soooo liberally biased, these days
People aren't always free to vote on the day because of work or other responsibilities. I think as long as votes are counted at the same time and the system is kept secure they should introduce early voting over here, as an alternative to proxy or postal voting. We should also make voting compulsory for all those without precluding conditions.
I mean early voting is making it easier to have more votes counted sooner than collecting ballots from numerous polling locations in a county or waiting for any number of reasons to count same day ballots
@@joshuanavarro160 Things have changed since 2016.Even I vote early now because I like to mock the people there,telling them that my family has voted in this county since 1895.
Could this election have been drawn out to such an extent that the Supreme Court could have ordered President Johnson to remain in office until 30 days after the election was settled (to allow for a transition to the winner)?
This clip is in black-and-white (and given the time stamp on top of the screen, it probably was recorded by the Vanderbilt News Archives), although the original broadcast was in full color.
@@anonUK It was likely recorded on an early "home" reel-to-reel VTR (half-inch tape on reels); a few companies had made them as far back as 1965. But they were too cumbersome and too difficult to use, so they sold poorly.
@@anonUKOpen reel, no doubt. The first cartridge or "cassette" video formats only became a commercial "thing" in the early 1970s (like Sony's U-Matic).
ALL HIGHLIGHTS 0:21 Wallace takes Mississippi (7 Electoral Votes) 0:55 New Hampshire, Vermont, Ohio, North Carolina, and Maryland start counting votes. 3:44 Nixon takes Vermont (3 Electoral Votes) 5:21 Nixon takes Kansas (7 Electoral Votes) 16:01 Sen. Herman Talmadge (D-GA) is re-elected with over 70% of the vote (HOLD) 20:17 Senator George Smathers retires, and a Republican takes that seat (Edward Gurney of Florida). He is the first Republican senator from the Sunshine State. 21:01 Tennessee and Arkansas start counting votes. 21:09 Wallace takes Alabama (10 Electoral Votes)
I just wanna say to you. Thanks for uploading all these historic videos. They're very interesting. Keep it up! By the way, do you have the 1980 election night coverage?
I was only three years of age on Election Night 1968-and therefore was too young to understand any of it. Many years later-I learned that my mother, father, and stepmother had voted for the Republican ticket of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew; my maternal grandparents had voted for the Democrat ticket of Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie. Having watched this You Tube video several times-I learned that the 1968 United States presidential election was one of the closest in history; the result wasn't known until late morning the next day.
About 5 minutes after 7:00 p.m. EST seems kind of early to call Kansas or any of the Central Time states. Anyone know if Kansas or Mississippi closed their polls at 7:00 Eastern (like, let's say Indiana does)?
Kentucky is an odd state, with a southern history but closer to Toronto than New Orleans. Yes, they're pretty far right but in a rural Christian fundamentalist way, rather than a Mississippi kind of way.
@@anonUK Also, possibly many Kentuckians weren't happy about their former Governor and former Major League Baseball commissioner Happy Chandler being passed over as a running mate (Chandler having been all but confirmed before one of the higher-ups in the Wallace campaign quit {likely owing to Chandler overseeing the color line being broken with Jackie Robinson} and Nelson Bunker Hunt threatening to withhold money for the Wallace campaign)
A decent man. The end of 1960's cynical madness was made for Nixon---Humphrey would have died long before the cancer killed him 10 years later-from the stress alone from a seething america.
