WTVT Channel 13 - Pulse Featuring Jim Ruddle (Part 8, 1964)

Here's Part 8 (the last part) of Pulse, the evening newscast of WTVT Channel 13 in Tampa / St. Petersburg, Florida, which featured Jim Ruddle as St. Petersburg anchor and Hugh Smith as Tampa anchor. This part features longtime Channel 13 weatherman Roy Leep, anchor / news director Ray Dantzler, and the opening moments of the CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite. Includes:

Roy Leep giving report on national weather, with huge emphasis on clouds and snow throughout the eastern part of the country, before going on to local forecast with cloudy weather with chance of rain for the Keys and southeast. Radar readings and wind measuring systems are shown in the course of this report. He ends his forecast by previewing an update on the 11pm newscast.

Ray Dantzler previewing the upcoming CBS Evening News with a report on a NATO meeting in Paris, a steel meeting in Pittsburgh, a new Canadian flag unveiled in Toronto, and a shortage of Santa Claus

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Opening of CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite (voiceover by Harry Kramer), with preview of reports from Marvin Kalb in Washington, Roger Mudd in Washington, Stanley Levey in Pittsburgh, Eric Sevareid in Washington, Charles Von Fremd in Washington, and Robert Trout in New York (it was in this month that CBS News' main newsroom-studio moved from Grand Central Station on Manhattan's East Side to the then-new CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street where they remain to this day)

Walter opens the newscast with the U.S. holding a NATO meeting over the situation in Vietnam before the recording cuts out

This aired on local Tampa / St. Petersburg TV on Tuesday, December 15th 1964 during the 6pm to 6:30pm timeframe.

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