Frank Reynolds Remembered - ABC News Nightline - July 20, 1983
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- Report by Jeff Greenfield on the career of ABC Anchor Frank Reynolds who passed away the same day at the age of 59. Howard K. Smith, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings all discuss Reynolds style, approach and commitment to the news.
Frank Reynolds would've been 100 years old this year & it's been 40 years since his death. I've watched him Peter Jennings & Max Robinson as a kid. R.I.P 2 all
He passed away too young at 59. Today he would have turned 100.
Frank lacked the polish of Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor -- and that was by his own choice. He was straightforward and showed his human feelings. His style was a good addition to the industry of TV news.
"Frank lacked the polish of Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor -- and that was by his own choice." He was himself...not parroting anyone...that makes excellent character now some 40 years after Frank Reynolds' passing.
6:39 "Let's get it nailed down, somebody! Let's..find out!" No Frank, don't apologize for that! That's what we're missing these days! Relentless passion to get news right!
Back when it was more important to be right than to be first.
Or report the facts and not create them.
You get this passionate speech to Frank Reynolds about getting the news right and then....what happens at 7:00, they get the wrong news anchor name up on the screen.
Frank Reynolds told it like it was! He didn't sugar coat anything! Love him or hate him he was a true professional till the very end!
I completely agree can't believe it's been 40 years
Same for his namesake in Philadelphia.
Thank you for remembering a man who may have been lost to time because his death was too soon. I was saddened over his death because his on-air outburst over the Reagan attempted assassination was so powerful in his representation of his integrity and desire to report the news as honestly as possible.
He would be shocked at how some reporting is more about sensationalism over facts. Glad he missed it.
16:53 😊
"May the shadow of the moon fall on a world at peace" -Frank Reynolds
I was hypnotized by his delivery and voice.
Rest in powerful peace Frank Reynolds 🙏
29 November 1923 ~
20 July 1983⚘
Politicians don't deserve much slack. Frank went for the jugular which is the only way. What a journalist and what a man!
If he were alive now he'd be very angry at the state of the media now.
This program features virtually every Heavyweight Champion of Professional Television Journalism that existed from 1955 to the early 1990's. From Howard K. Smith and Walter Cronkite to Jeff Greenfield, from Harry Reasoner and Peter Jennings to of course Frank Reynolds himself. These people knew what actual journalism is, and it's truly sad that the art they perfected over decades got tossed aside by bean counting executives who decided it was more important for news departments to be sources of potential profit instead of rather than barometers of what goes on in the world.
I miss Frank Reynolds 😢
frank was a class act.....can't say that about them today.
Always respected Frank Reynolds. A straight shooter. We could really need his like now.
Frank Reynolds from East Chicago, Indiana, where I grew up as a young kid. 🍻
I'm glad Frank got to helm World news tonight. It's too bad he didn't have more time.
6:36 Frank Reynolds did NOT play around in any way! He was a great asset in the world of journalism. No nonsense. Report the facts and not water down stories.
One of the greatest anchormen of all time. With Cronkite Chancellor and Doug Edwards. He was the most honest and candid of his contemporaries. Rip
A great journalist, a real newscaster and a great american...resting forever with the heroes at Arlington RIP FRANK
These are my childhood days. Brings back so many memories
Aww Frank would of been 100 years old today 😢
I miss Frank Reynolds’s… Terribly!!! He was MY news correspondent,His voice and his charisma- he made the news for me!!! I miss him sooo much!!!!
Poor baby
Frank Reynolds was the consummate professional-he was far better than any of these "pretty boy" newscasters today
no.
Or gurly men
Real professional
You are 100% correct!
He was a good looking man with honestly and kindness!
I wish I could have known him !
My favorite TV Anchor of all time !!
If only we had someone like Frank Reynolds today
Frank passed away very early in life. I don't think all journalists are dishonest today, though. For example, I have heard several say that Lester Holt seems to be honest and at least doing his best to get it right. I also think Nicolle Wallace seems to be honest and forthright. As a former newspaper editor at two small town newspapers that no one here would recognize, I felt that drive to do my very best to make sure we got it right as well. I damn well better have got it right considering my primary job was as a tax professor and my students were entering an industry requiring them to be scrupulously honest and uphold the highest standard of integrity -- it wouldn't be right to expect that of my students and at another job bend my reporter's articles to a certain political ideology or allow/require (I don't know which) outright lies from them unlike some media outlets like Fox News, Newsmax, OANN and Sinclair's television stations which all bend the news to fit an ultra conservative viewpoint. In the case of Fox News it is a shame where it ended up, when they first went on the air in the mid 1990's they usually got it right with hard news although even then non-hard news shows had a conservative bent to them.
I can't believe he has been gone 40 years, and he would have been 100 this year. Where did the time go?
I sometimes think of my (thankfully) still living 102 year old father and wonder how it feels to see society decay so much in a lifetime. I am 77 and am shaking my head in wonderment about this right now just with what I have seen. I would never have thought that we would have a former President facing four criminal prosecutions mainly regarding a coup attempt and attempting to steal an election with mandatory prison time if convicted of some of the charges.
Thanks for keeping the old school commercials.
You're very welcome, bigroy.
From across the miles in Baltimore MD.RIP!! FRANK REYNOLDS MAX ROBINSON & PETER JENNINGS!!
1983 both lost Frank Reynolds and Fahey Flynn on ABC and WLS-TV Channel 7 . Frank Reynolds took the news seriously and cared about life.
I have heard of Fahey Flynn but don't recall seeing any of his broadcasts during any of my visits to Chicago (WLS is a Chicago area television station). Was he good at his job and was he (apparently) honest?
I remember when Frank Reynolds and Howard K. Smith co-anchored the ABC evening news back in the 1970s. They really were a great pair of veteran journalists who were somewhat a study in contrast: Reynolds more openly passionate and Smith more laid-back and professorial ... but they each got the job done and complemented each other well.
You'd never see this type of memorial today...then again he and his mourners were TV pioneers.
I always liked him. Met him when he was covering the campaign trail of senator Ed Muskie He was a true gentleman. And very good looking
This was incredibly interesting and entertaining.
I MISS HIM
Frank was the best.
Great tribute to a great journalist: Frank Reynolds. Best summary is provided by host Ted Koppel at the end, starting at 27:22
For a time, ABC Evening News was broadcast on WPTA in Fort Wayne, Indiana at 7 p.m., which meant I could watch CBS Evening News and then watch ABC Evening News.
Why couldn't anyone on FOX "News" be as humble and honest about mistakes as Frank Reynolds then on ABC?!
Ben Masters. Because Frank Reynolds, Peter Jennings and the old reporters grew up in a time where we respect mattered and honesty mattered. Not today's news reporters especially the young ones.
@@johndolejsch5102 yup..only big money matters today..
CNN could learn many lessons from Mr. Reynolds as well. Journalism integrity is gone to the sadness of us all.
Why bring up Fox? I mean seriously lol. Also, there is a difference between commentators and actual news. Lol
Hey, brainless, if Fox News is so bad, why is Fox News first in the ratings?
Fox News is out rating CNN and MSNBC combined.
They don't make newscasts like this any more, either. America pays the price.
Frank died on the 14th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. He covered it with Jules Bergman.
He did indeed. Here are Frank and Jules Bergman's report on the day of the Apollo 11 launch on July 16, 1969: ua-cam.com/video/U7HVyZoWAFU/v-deo.html
No males today are ever named "Jules".
@@trwent I know one man named "Jules". However, he is in his 60's so that might explain it.
They sure don't make 'em like Frank Reynolds anymore.
I believe this man had integrity. If he were around now...I believe he'd be downright angry at the lack of professionalism displayed today. He wouldn't recognize the news field.
I'M WATCHING THIS BECAUSE I SAW THIS GUY ON CNNS 70S SPECIAL AND THOUGHT HE HAD A COOL LOOKING FACE AND WANTED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM
First rate journalist and anchor he felt the news
Both Frank Reynolds & Peter Jennings died way too soon. There isn't real newsmen like them anymore.
Frank Reynolds was always on top of issues.
He was like William Shatner in look and style.All he needed to say was"Mr.Scott,I need those warp engines NOW" and he'd sound exactly like Captain Kirk.
I ALMOST FORGOT!! RIP!! CHARLES KURALT & CHARLES OSGOOD!!
I never missed WNT in the late 70's. I was a teenager and Frank Reynolds was my favorite anchor. I thought Roone Arledge was right - that TV news could be both visually interesting and good journalism. He was right to put Frank in the anchor chair where he served so well for years. It wasn't always easy and there was apparently infighting amongst the three anchors over air time. (Reynolds, Robinson, and Jennings). Arledge settled some of that when he declared Reynolds 'first among equals' and decreed that he would always lead the show no matter where the big story was. Sad that he died so young.
Very well said. We must be about the same age. Frank Reynolds was my favorite anchor as well.
😢😮😔 SADLY ALOT OF THE OLD TIME NEWS REPORTERS FOR ALL 3 NETWORKS ARE IN THE GREAT BEYOND!!--AT 51 GOING ON 52 YEARS OLD!!--I KNOW I.M AN OLD MAN NOW!!--I was 11 years old in 1983 & living at 319 W.Lorraine Ave Balto Md & My mother Lois Ann Routhier 10-28-1934-5-6-1984 & father Phillip Anthony Routhier 9-17-1924-8-6-2001 were still living long before my stepmother Marie F Routhier 6-14-1913-3-24-2001 & step-brother Eugene B.Montz Jr.aka GENE 4-25-1939-3-25-1997 even came into my life.
When newsmen were news reporters and cared about the veracity of their product.
7:02 That’s not Dan Rather. It’s Tom Brokaw.
Happy 81st birthday Ted Koppel
RIP!! FRANK REYNOLDS MAX ROBINSON PETER JENNINGS(ABC) JOHN CHANCELLOR DAVID BRINKLEY(NBC & ABC)WALTER CRONKITE(CBS) MIKE WALLACE MORLEY SAFER ED BRADLEY HARRY REASONER(CBS & ABC)& JESSICA SAVITCH & DAVE GALLOREY.
"Dan Rath---uh...uh....Tom Brokaw" 😂
I remember this
7:01 I had no idea Tom Brokaw worked for CBS, and changed his name to Dan Rather.
Kinda ironic that happens on a segment about getting your reporting correct. 🤣
7:01 Let's get that graphic nailed down. Let's get it right.
When this was aired on ABC, school lunch menu courtesy of the Glendora, CA Unified School District: ROLL HIS OR HER OWN Burrito (flavor: ground beef, bean & cheese), Tossed Salad, Cornbread w/Butter, Peach Cup.
Huh? What are you talking about?
@@TempeSoldier123 That was a random comment. I don't know where he would have obtained that information.
40 years in 3 weeks
Did Peter Jennings become the sole anchor of World News Tonight after Reynolds death right away?
No. Reynolds died in July 1983 and Jennings officially became the sole anchor that September.
1983 was a sad year for ABC NEWS Frank Reynolds died than a few weeks later Fehy Flynn died RIP Men
Rediscovering the fact that Reynolds had been a sportscaster during his early days back in Indianapolis reminded my younger brother whenever Wld. News Tnght. concluded with a maj. lea. baseball-related news feature, almost always either when baseball would open up its season or when ABC was carrying the All-Star Gm. or lea. championships to decide who reached the Wld. Series later on the same night in 1980 & 1982 or the 1979 or 1981 Wld. Series, Reynolds would often sign off with the words, "And from Washington, where there is still not a major league team, I'm Frank Reynolds saying goodnight for ABC News". His colleague Charles Gibson, who was in attendance when the final Amer. Lea. gm. of 1971 was played in Washington, would be the reg. co-host for Good Morn. Amer. when D.C. saw the return of a big lea. team in 2005. Gibson I'm certain, returned to see the team play it's home gms. in D.C.
40 years ago today.
26:51 The name Howard would not utter was John Cameron Swayze.
Does the "Let's get it nailed down" segment appear here?
Yes, at 6:39
Thank you.
I'll never forget that. I was a 29-year-old kid working for a small afternoon newspaper, and we had just gone to press with the false reports from the Associated Press that Jim Brady was dead. Part of my job was to check the paper as it came off the press, and I had just come back upstairs to the newsroom from the press room when I heard Frank Reynolds on TV, barking, "Let's get it nailed down!" So Frank's the reason why I tore back downstairs and yelled those immortal words, "Stop the presses!" Frank was one of my journalistic heroes, and when I heard him growl "Let's get it right!" I knew I had to get it right too -- because if I didn't, I felt like somehow Frank would know, and I didn't want to disappoint him.
@@dallasheltzell That is awesome !!!
@@dallasheltzell Oh, the days where each newspaper had its own printing press on-site. Nowadays there are a few large printing facilities that do most of the printing of newspapers for the entire country. For example, Booth Newspapers Michigan (the GR Press and the Muskegon Chronicle along with a few others) newspapers are all (as of a year or so ago) printed in Ohio. The Chronicle hasn't had a printing press on-site in years.
When I think about the "old days," when reporting was honest and straightforward, I "always" think about Frank Reynolds first. I liked his style and rhythm. He was his own person, back in the day when a journalist/reporter could be his own person. Damn, how I miss those days. Today, I literally don't know "who or what" to believe about anything. It's a shameful industry now. I don't even listen in anymore (or try not to, as it's now a "24/7" bombardment of crap reported by ignorant amateurs and illiterates).
He would be 100 years old today.
I had heard that the three-anchor format of "World News Tonight" was going to be scuttled anyway in the fall of 1983 and replaced by a sole anchor, but had he lived, Frank Reynolds and not Peter Jennings would have been that sole anchor.
David Muir isn't a quarter of Frank Reynolds.
I loved Frank Reynolds. Bernard Shaw had a similar cadence, and seriousness. We don’t have guys like that on air anymore. Everybody is trying to be your drinking buddy these days.
Remember him during the coverage of plane crash in Washington DC
I was a year old when he died.
In retrospect, he blamed himself, but I wonder who he was glaring at off to his right during the "let's get it nailed down" moment.
The problem with the American news media is that the broadcasters themselves have become celebrities. Their job is just to transmit the news, not project their own opinions nor their persona.
7:02 Let’s get it nailed down somebody. Is it Dan Rather or Tom Brokaw?
Before Fox came along. An amazing man along with Ted.
We interupt this program to bring you a special news bulletan: "The steel freigter Edmund Fitzgerald with 29 men on board has gone down in the freezing waters of Lake Michigan" November 9 1975
Lake Superior, not Michigan.
Super cuts yeah
Frank was good!
News reporters nowadays are too influenced and too manipulated by the extreme radical sides not to be objective or neutral on news stories anymore. I grew up watching Frank Reynolds, Tom Brokaw, Howard K. Smith and especially, Walter Cronkite. Those caliber of journalists don't exist anymore, unfortunately. The only one that comes anywhere close to these past journalists is, perhaps, Lester Holt of NBC News.
My extremely elderly father would say the same and he was one of the first to buy a television when the first television station went on the air here in 1949 (he spent $800 in 1949 dollars on it).
Harry took Frank's job,and then Frank took Harry's job back.
Yep Harry went to CBS which also enabled him to be on 60 Minutes.
7:02 look at the name, do you see anything wrong?
Haaa! And the other Dan Rather appears 30 seconds later.
@@ShatnerMethod lol!
"...Dan's the other fellow" - Ted Koppel
Let's get it nailed down!!!
Yeah, Dan's hair is the color of Tom Brokaw!
2:30...6:18...11:35...23:41...25:50...26:29
Dan rather…..ooooops……Tom browkah
What the hell has happened to the US??????????????????????????????????
ALSO RIP!! WALTER CRONKITE HARRY REASONER MIKE WALLACE ED BRADLEY JOHN CHANCELLOR DAVID BRINKLEY ROGER MUDD CHET HUNTLEY!! ETC..
Harry Reasoner was a dick to Barbara Walters but he was right on the money and great in his assessment of Frank Reynolds and television news.
I remember him on the news,if only we had responsible people like him again, instead of the propagandist now.
Now look at the garbage we get.
Consummate propagandist, Frank Reynolds, RIP in Heaven, or wherever the Hell he is.