Portable TV in JFK White House - Videokarma.org TV - Video

wa2ise · #1 10-04-2021, 09:03 PM

They were watching the first Mercury manned mission.

I would have thought that they'd have regular console TVs in the White House back then. Looks like a staffer brought in their personal portable to watch the space mission.

***Eric H*** · #2 10-04-2021, 09:07 PM

It's an RCA, 1958 or so.

Electronic M · #3 10-04-2021, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by wa2ise

They were watching the first Mercury manned mission.

I would have thought that they'd have regular console TVs in the White House back then. Looks like a staffer brought in their personal portable to watch the space mission.

As I understand it the oval office had a CTC-9 or CTC-10 from Eisenhower to LBJ (who replaced it with that custom tri-screen console).
I've got a CTC-9 in the same cabinet as the oval office set.

kf4rca · #4 10-06-2021, 06:34 AM

Sort of reminds me of the Setchell-Carlson of the same vintage.

zenith2134 · #5 11-27-2021, 08:42 PM

Ah, the days when American ingenuity was viewed
on a USA-made set. We really need to revisit some of these principles today.(!)