Pressman was co-anchor ( with Bill Ryan ) of New York 's first early-evening half-hour newscast , the '' Pressman-Ryan Report , '' born out of a devastating 1963 New York City-area newspaper strike . He covered the New York region for NBC News , WNBC-TV and WNBC-AM radio . He was sent by the network to report on many historic events , including the 1956 sinking of the '' Andrea Doria '' , Elvis Presley 's Army stint which went through Brooklyn , one-on-one interviews with Marilyn Monroe , Harry S. Truman and Fidel Castro , the 1964 arrival of the Beatles at Kennedy Airport , the assassination of Malcolm X , chasing after newly inaugurated New York mayor John Lindsay in the streets during the 1966 transit strike , the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where he reported on the clashes between demonstrators and police , and the aftermath of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy , Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr . Pressman was a reporter for NBC News at the Woodstock festival in upstate New York in 1969
1968 Democratic National Convention
1968 Democratic National Convention
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