NBC News Producer Dusts Off Huntley-Brinkley Beatles Report

NBC Nightly News producer Andy Franklin writes that there is no known videotape copy of the Beatles’ first appearance on American TV. An appearance logged several months before the band’s arrival in New York on February 7, 1964, which is being celebrated today and into this weekend in all manner of different media ways.

However, there is audio. On this historic NYC Beatlemania anniversary, Franklin publicly shares that audio for what he says is the first time in a half-century.

Franklin does a good job of summarizing the U.S.

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