Ted Yates Scripts, 1961-1967


Summary Information
Title: Ted Yates Scripts
Inclusive Dates: 1961-1967

Creator:
  • Yates, Ted, 1930-1967
Call Number: U.S. Mss 148AF

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

Repository:
Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
Scripts of an NBC-TV producer-director, consisting chiefly of files on David Brinkley's Journal, 1961-1964. The remainder of the collection is composed of scripts for documentaries which Yates produced and directed, 1964-1967, on a variety of subjects such as American politics, conservation, and events in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Language: English

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Biography/History

Chronology

1930, October 1 Ted Yates born in Sheridan, Wyoming, to Frederick L. and Haydie (Eames) Yates.
1948-1949 Attended University of Virginia.
1949-1950 Writer for NBC radio and television shows of Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg.
1950-1952 United States Marine Corps: combat correspondent, Korea.
1952 NBC-TV: White House correspondent and producer of Your President's Week.
1953-1954 News and special events director for the Dumont television network.
1954, July 16 Married to Mary Olberg of La Crosse, Wisconsin. They had three children: Eames, Frederick, and Angus.
1955-1957 Produced Night Beat and Mike Wallace Interviews with Mike Wallace at CBS. Won Emmy Award and Robert E. Sherwood Memorial Award.
1957 Director of creative programming with Channel 13, New York.
1958 Producer of The Ben Hecht Show, ABC-TV.
1959-1960 News director for Metromedia Television; also produced The John Crosby Show and A Way of Thinking.
1961-1964 Produced David Brinkley's Journal, a half-hour weekly news program, NBC-TV. Won two Emmy Awards and the George Foster Peabody Award.
1963 Selected by the United State Chamber of Commerce as one of the ten outstanding young men of the year.
1964-1967 Producer-director of his own documentary news specials for NBC, covering such topics as American politics, conservation of natural resources, and events in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
1965 Won George Polk Award for his documentary Vietnam: It's A Mad War, December, 1964.
1966 Given Overseas Press Club's Ed Stout Award for reporting on United States intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965: Santo Domingo: War Among Friends, May, 1965.
1967, June 5 Fatally shot while covering Middle East fighting.
Scope and Content Note

The Ted Yates scripts, 1961-1967, cover quite comprehensively his activity with NBC-TV as a producer of David Brinkley's Journal, 1961-1964, and as a producer-director of documentaries, 1964-1967. The collection is arranged chronologically.

Administrative/Restriction Information
Acquisition Information

Presented by the National Broadcasting Company, New York City, and Ted Yates, Washington. D.C. April 11, 1963 and March 20, 1967. Accession Number: MCHC63-33 and MCHC67-30


Processing Information

Processed by R.H. Tryon, August 1978.


Contents List
Series: David Brinkley's Journal
Box   1
Folder   1
1961, October-November
Cocoa Beach and British Journalism
Homes of criminals and Crime
British Guiana
Espionage and Toys
High cost of prosperity and Foreign commercials
Rock and roll, Music synthesizer, and Slums
Box   1
Folder   2
1961, December-1962, February
Normandy
Avant garde and Children's art
Food for Peace and Christmas
Broadway musical
Rocca (Puerto Rican wrestler)
Jazz
Campus conservatism
Southern Europe
Lindbergh kidnapping
Box   1
Folder   3
1962, February-March
Dogs and Sutatenza (Catholic radio station in Colombia)
Donavan (lawyer who negotiated release of U2 pilot, Francis G. Powers)
Cuban refugees
Four hour workday
Indian elections
Interview with General Jimenez (former Venezuelan dictator)
Trawlers and Hermit interview
Nevis (Caribbean island)
Box   1
Folder   4
1962, April-May
Jean Tinguely (Swiss Sculptor)
Monuments, Baird puppets, and Cuban filmmakers
West Virginia and Motels
Seattle World's Fair
Reservists and Millionaires
Interview with Emile Griffith (boxer) and Ironhorse (steam locomotive)
Biography of a skirt and Old Theaters
Hong Kong refugees and Honor Guard
Box   1
Folder   5
1962, June
Miss America
Manhatten madness and Nigeria
Guantanamo
Emigres
Box   1
Folder   6
1962, October-December
Great highway robbery (federal highway system)
Mound Bayou, Mississippi (race relations)
Pacifists
Algerians and Bus tours
British race problems
Movie magazines, Berlin television, and Cesar (sculptor)
Hiroshima
Cuban exiles
Expense accounts and Indian Maharajas
How to start a speech and Paraguay
Box   1
Folder   7
1963, February-April
Bolivian tin
British gambling
Interview with John Glenn
Ellis Island and Watts Tower
St. Tropaz and South American middle class
Bush league baseball
Land scandals and Tombstone, Arizona
Brighton (England) and Foreign commercials
Devil's Island and Bolivian train
Box   1
Folder   8
1963, May-June 3
Haiti, parts I and II
Great decisions (foreign policy)
Interview with Newton Minnow (FCC chairman)
Typewriters and Battle of Gettysburg
Box   1
Folder   9
, 1964 January-September (Specials)
Birth control
Our man on the Mississippi
Our man in Washington
Boxing's last round
Election year in averagetown
Quebec
Box   1
Folder   10
Undated
Indian caste
Munitions
Peace Corps
Series: NBC Documentaries
Box   2
Folder   1
1964, December-1965, April
Vietnam: It's a mad war
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Our man in Washington
Box   2
Folder   2
1965, May-October
Science of spying
Santo Domingo: War among friends
America the beautiful
Box   2
Folder   3
1965, November-1966, April and June
Congress needs help
Congo: victims of independence
The Undeclared War (Latin America)
Box   2
Folder   4
1966, December-1967, February
Battle for Asia
Part I, Thailand: the new front
Part II, Laos: the forgotten war
Part III, Indonesia: the troubled victory