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<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In 1938 the European correspondent for CBS was in Austria when the Nazis marched in. He wanted to tell the world about it—but first he had to help invent a whole new kind of broadcasting.</span> </span></p>

<p>Stempel’s winning technique was simplicity itself: He got all the questions in advance.</p>

<p><span class="deck">In the infancy of television (but not of American royalty-worship), the networks fought their first all-out battle for supremacy over who would get to show Queen Elizabeth II being crowned.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">An Interview with Walter Cronkite</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What you <span class="typestyle"> don’t</span> remember about the day JFK was shot </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How luck, television, and a saintly lurker on the Internet combined to let the author visit 1953 for half an hour.</span></p>