Sunday, August 31, 2008

You Are There

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From: Wikipedia.org
You Are There was a historical educational television and radio series broadcast over the CBS radio and television.

The radio program made a transition to television in 1953, with Walter Cronkite as the regular host. Reporters included Dick Joy and Harlow Wilcox. First telecast on February 1, 1953. Final telecast on October 13, 1957.

The series also featured various key events in American and world history, portrayed in dramatic recreations, with one addition -- CBS News reporters, in modern-day suits, would report on the action and interview the characters. Each episode would begin with the characters setting the scene. Cronkite, from his anchor desk in New York, would give a few words on what was about to happen. An announcer would then give the date and the event, followed by a bold, "You Are There!"

Cronkite would then return to describe the event and its characters more in detail, before throwing it to the event, saying, "Everything you see here was as it happened that day, except... You Are There."

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