Geraldo Rivera has covered conflicts at home and abroad, met movers and shakers from every aspect of American life. Here we see everything from migrants crossing the border, to boxing for charity, to foreign conflict.
1974 Ben Vereen, at the time in the musical Pippin and a star on Broadway, performs “Corner of the Sky” on Geraldo Rivera’s Good Night America news program. This amazing, original performance continues to enrapture and capture the...Read More
1974 Geraldo Rivera Good Night America, as part of the conversation about the Watergate scandal surrounding President Nixon’s presidency, we see a re-enactment originally produced by British Granada television. In it are interspersed public statements by Mr. Nixon,...Read More
1974 Geraldo Rivera on Good Night America hosts the Monday Night Football trio of the time; Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford and Fred Williamson. This clip starts with a portfolio of Fred ‘The Hammer’ Willliamson, we then meet Frank...Read More
1974 Giorgio di Sant’Angelo about his latest creation, the string bikini. Also on set we have some of the international models representing this swimwear. At fashion shows not long before some had defined the outfits as vulgar, but...Read More
1974 1974, New York City. We discover the big apple’s largest “welfare hotel” where over 700 are housed in 500 rooms, almost a third with public assistance funding. In the 50 years since this expose, which resulted in...Read More
1974 Sexist, hedonist, or just a good guy? Geraldo Rivera for his Good Night America program visits the Playboy Mansion, for a personalized tour of that estate by its owner Hugh Hefner. The mansion, situated in Los Angeles,...Read More
1973 After an introduction by Don Imus, this segment shows Judy Collins and her guitar singing two songs. First we have ‘Someday Soon’, before going into a song “Arlo Guthrie made famous..”, ‘City of New Orleans’. The venue...Read More
1973 This segment begins with a clip from Edward R. Murrow in CBS’s ‘Harvest of Shame’, from 1960. 13 years later for Good Night America, Geraldo Rivera investigates migrant worker conditions in California, and across the nation. We...Read More
1972 The original report into conditions at the Willowbrook State School. This Peabody Award winning expose gripped the nation’s attention and helped lead to the closure of “warehouses for the mentally disabled”. Human beings living in their own...Read More
