“CUT SOUND ON TV PROGRAM”,
23 January 1958 (Gettysburg Times, Pennsylvania)
CBS cut off the sound during a UFO TV debate on 22 January 1958:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=C08mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=df8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4974,2225261
Quote from the article:
“The sound was cut off on a CBS television program last night when author Donald E. Keyhoe, a former Marine Corps major, began to digress from the script in speaking of flying saucers.
A network employe explained that nobody knew what he was going to say.
Keyhoe was silenced for about 15 seconds during ‘The Armstrong Circle Theater’ presentation of a documentary on flying objects.
He had just said: ‘We are meeting in secret with a congressional committee. If these meetings were public it would be proved,’ when the sound was cut.”
Other U.S. newspapers also reported on this TV incident:
“AUTHOR DIGRESSES ON TV, SOUND IS CUT”, 23 January 1958 (The New York Times)
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70717FB395D1A7B93C1AB178AD85F4C8585F9
“KEYHOE AIRS REMARKS; Author Completes Statement Cut Off on TV Show” 24 January (The New York Times)
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B14FF345E107B93C6AB178AD85F4C8585F9
“Flying Saucer Comment Cut Off TV Show”, 23 January 1958
(Los Angeles Times, California)
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/441266992.html?dids=441266992:441266992&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+23%2C+1958&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Flying+Saucer+Comment+Cut+Off+TV+Show&pqatl=google
“Saucer Fans Left Up In Air”, 23 January 1958
(The Miami News, Florida)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5bwyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JewFAAAAIBAJ&pg=612,3201035
“Sound Is Cut From Program On Saucers”, 22 January 1958
(Park City Daily News, Bowling Green, Kentucky)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IwwdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-ZYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2975,1453538
The late Major Donald Edward Keyhoe, U.S. Marine Corps,
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