David Brinkley on the challenge of covering the 1956 political conventions for television

On the challenges of covering the 1956 presidential conventions in the relatively early days of television news coverage, anchor/correspondent David Brinkley says this:

"There was only one video cable to the West Coast...and so we had to share it, all the networks had to use one cable. We had our own audio line, but the video line was the one cable. So the only picture we could send to the West Coast was the pool picture."

Watch David Brinkley's full interview, which spans the entirety of his career from his early days in radio to The Huntley-Brinkley Report and beyond.

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