Martha Teichner Revisits History with 37-Year-Old Report

By Brian Flood 

Martha Teichner’s first report for CBS News was back on Nov. 8, 1977 with legendary newser Walter Cronkite sitting at the anchor desk. Teichner interviewed survivors of a collapsed damn which killed 38 people at a religious college in Georgia.

It all came full circle 37 years later when Teichner visited The Library of Congress’ National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, the world’s largest collection of moving images, while reporting a piece for this week’s “CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood.” Check out what she found…

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