Highlights from the 1960 Winter Olympic Games are presented in the 1960 CBS broadcast ‘Olympic Medal Winners.’
The coverage from Squaw Valley, California, includes the full performance of the United States’ first gold medal of the Games, won on February 23 in figure skating by NYU student Carol Heiss. The 20-year-old was born, raised and educated in New York City.
The reel also shows the full 1960 gold-medal figure skating performance of American David Jenkins, whose brother Hayes won the same event in 1956. In 2021, Heiss and Hayes Jenkins celebrate their 61st wedding anniversary.
Walter Cronkite of New York-based CBS News serves as host of the broadcast, which covers the United States hockey team’s win versus the Soviet Union en route to the gold medal, and action in skiing, figure skating and speedskating events.
The CBS commentators include Chris Schenkel, Dick Button, Art Devlin and former New York Knicks player Bud Palmer.
Among those featured in coverage of the opening of the Games are International Olympic Committee chief Avery Brundage, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and American ski racer Andrea Mead Lawrence.
The broadcast includes its original commercials, from Rise Instant Lather shaving cream, Kent cigarettes and Amoco gasoline and Super Permalude motor oil.
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