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wa2ise 10-04-2021 09:03 PM

Portable TV in JFK White House
 
They were watching the first Mercury manned mission. https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...e5&oe=617FEA59
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 10-04-2021 09:07 PM

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It's an RCA, 1958 or so.

Electronic M 10-04-2021 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by wa2ise (Post 3236785)
They were watching the first Mercury manned mission. https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...e5&oe=617FEA59
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 10-06-2021 06:34 AM

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

zenith2134 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.(!)


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