It's so classy to see Walter Cronkite give him a send-off.

Classy message by Walter Cronkite

My father watched Huntley-Brinkley every night. I watched Cronkite. All were journalists from the mold of Edward R Murrow. They don't make broadcast journalists like Murrow, Huntley, Brinkley or Cronkite anymore.

My family always watched Walter Cronkite, my grandparents Huntley/Brinkley. These were real journalists.

I LOVE that Chet Huntley did a cameo on the "other" network.

When journalism used to be great.

Amazing the sound of all the news wire teletypes just chugging away.

And Chet rides off into the sunset. Hard competitors indeed, but honest and honorable ones. The men I grew up with, along with Peter Jennings, Howard K. Smith and Frank Reynolds at ABC.

Although both anchors initially disliked it, the sign-off became famous. Huntley and Brinkley gained great celebrity themselves, with surveys showing them better known than John Wayne, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart or the Beatles.

My father worked with Walter Cronkite, his name is in the credits on here...Later on, he went to work for the Today show in NYC..

I definitely remember the music from H-B news at the end of the newscast as a little kid, & years later I found it on a CD that had music from other commercials & the minute I saw it I bought it & still have it & love listening to the entire 12 minutes of that song, so powerful and so classic

And that's the way it was. Too bad it isn't like that anymore.

I remember seeing Huntley-Brinkley as a child. I could tell, even then, that they were something special. Brings back memories.

back when broadcast journalism contained an element of class.....

Watched it with dinner. As a kid, I knew about Viet Nam, and other important things. Huntley and Brinkley were awesome.

0:36 - ...but that's the way it was: Friday, July 31, 1970. Goodbye, Chet.

Wow..when news dealt in facts and truth...what a concept!!!

I love the typewriter sound in the background after Walter said goodbye & signed out.

absolute class from Walter

Love seeing those newsroom teletypes! I worked on those in the US Navy.

I remember the signoff music very well.

The Huntley-Brinkley Report, October 29,1956-July 31,1970. On August 3, 1970, "NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor" premiered.

Such class and dignity; and may I add, a gorgeous credit roll.

The original concept of the two city newscast (New York and DC) originated from a West Virginia television station with the call letters WSAZ….WSAZ had studios in the cities of Huntington and Charleston and the newscast came from the studios in both cities (it still retains that format today)….NBC (WSAZ's network) studied the concept and came up with the Huntley-Brinkley report in 1956.

Legendaries.

4:59 Chet was in such a rush to get out of there that he decided to cut through the control room

This was exactly 52 years ago today (Friday, July 31, 1970)

Well American Journalism used to be the best. Now it has been co-opted by mega-corps and that era is long past.

Pure class

Good Night Chet...Good Night David...Good Night, John-Boy...

Respectful. Kind. Sincere. Honest. This wouldn’t happen today. What happened to us?

Classy.

Bob Mead in Washington..he was a producer.

@ 4:40 ooops, somebody walked in front of the rp credit roll...

Is there a reason why David Brinkley always sat in the chair diagonally instead of straight forward?

Wonder what they would think of the media and political life today. What music was NBC using for Huntley-Brinkley?

5:00 just watch the dude walk in front of the screen