# Id these newscasters? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-newscasters/575395 "2011-03-20T21:35:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-newscasters/575395/1 "2011-03-20T21:35:23Z")
[ABC News, Nov. 1963](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=IMG_4301.jpg) [Possibly Dallas area or national network, Nov. 1963](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=IMG_4303.jpg) [Possibly Dallas area or national network, Nov. 1963](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=IMG_4304.jpg) [National network, 1963](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=MVI_5181.mp4) [National network, 1980s?](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=IMG_5183.jpg) [Today Show ,1980s?](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=IMG_5180.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-newscasters/575395/2 "2011-03-20T21:49:51Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > [National network, 1980s?](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=IMG_5183.jpg) That one’s [John Seigenthaler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seigenthaler_(anchorman)) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-newscasters/575395/3 "2011-03-20T22:09:13Z")
Unknown 5 (national network 1963) is Frank McGee of NBC. McGee later went on to be a rotating anchor of NBC Nightly News and hosted the Today Show until his death from cancer. look for footage of NBC’s coverage on the afternoon of 11/22/63 (a lot of it is on YouTube) and you’ll see that McGee was handling a lot more of the coverage in those first hours than either Chet Huntley or David Brinkley. Unknown 3 looks familiar, but I can’t come up with a name. I want to say he worked for CBS. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-newscasters/575395/4 "2011-03-20T22:24:22Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > [ABC News, Nov. 1963](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=IMG_4301.jpg) > [Possibly Dallas area or national network, Nov. 1963](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=IMG_4303.jpg) > [Possibly Dallas area or national network, Nov. 1963](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=IMG_4304.jpg) > [National network, 1963](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=MVI_5181.mp4) > [National network, 1980s?](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=IMG_5183.jpg) > [Today Show ,1980s?](http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=IMG_5180.jpg) I think the third one is John Cameron Swayze. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-newscasters/575395/5 "2011-03-21T01:36:55Z")
[del]Unknown #2 sure looks like Tom Brokaw. [/del] [http://consumerist.com/images/resources/2007/03/tombrokaw.jpg](http://consumerist.com/images/resources/2007/03/tombrokaw.jpg) [![](https://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=IMG_4304.jpg) ](https://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm119/badger60/news/?action=view¤t=IMG_4304.jpg) Correction: your numbers are out of sync with the photos. Very confusing. #6 looks like Tom Brokaw. Picture #2. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-newscasters/575395/6 "2011-03-21T01:39:27Z")
Nope, [this is Swayze](http://pdxretro.com/tag/john-cameron-swayze/). Note the even more receeding hairline. I’m pretty sure the man on the right in unknown 1 (ABC news) is [James Hagerty](http://turtledove.wikia.com/wiki/James_Hagerty). Hagerty had been Dwight Eisenhower’s press secretary, and then became head of ABC’s news operation (which in the early 1960’s, wasn’t a great honor.) I believe the man on the left is Don Goddard, who was the only person on duty at ABC News headquarters when Kennedy was shot, and had to stay on the air until the network could track down and get their real anchors back to the studios. Goddard is not wearing a terrible toupee. He had a gray streak on the left side of his head, and parted his hair on the right, which accounts for the black mass in the middle. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-newscasters/575395/7 "2011-03-21T02:04:28Z")
Unknown #2(pic #3/6) is possibly Joe Theismann, former Wash. Redskins QB. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-these-newscasters/575395/8 "2011-03-21T02:52:10Z")
I think the third one is John Daly. I’ll see if I can find another photo. I remember him mostly from What’s My Line though – didn’t know he was ever a newscaster. ETA: Nope. Not him. Sorry.