This kinda ties in with my earlier rant. Because of television, anyone under the age of around seventy-five has the opportunity to experience past news events pretty much the way most of the nation did — on TV. The video clip below is from Thursday, August 8, 1974 and it's almost three and a half hours long so I don't expect anyone will sit through it now. But perhaps some day, whether you were glued to the set that night or not, you'll want to watch the night that Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency.
You can experience it close to the way we did that evening. You'll lack some of the historical and emotional context we had that night but it can otherwise be sort of a "real time" experience for you, albeit tape-delayed about 45 years. This is the CBS coverage with Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather reporting, both super-cautious, especially early in the telecast, because though a jillion sources said Nixon was going to resign in the speech they were covering, they couldn't be 100% certain. Not with Nixon, anyway.
It's also an interesting bit of video because of all the newsfolks trying to be super-gracious so as not to be accused of glee or of saying "Told ya so!," though of course they were so accused. I'm not posting this because I think we'll soon have a rerun with Trump but it is an interesting artifact of television news back then…and chance to get into the WABAC machine and witness history for yourself…