Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from CBS Evening News for Sunday, Sep 08, 1974


Title: Nixon: A Full, Free, and Absolute Pardon

Abstract:

  • CBS coverage of Richard Nixon's pardon by Gerald Ford, with reports by Dan Rather, Richard Wagner, Bob Schieffer, Fred Graham, Phil Jones, Bruce Morton and Eric Sevareid.
  • Taped speech by Gerald Ford.
  • Taped statements by Egil Krogh, Donald Segretti, Bernard Barker, Albert Jenner, H.R. Haldeman, Edmund Muskie, Henry Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, Bill Brock, Daniel Inouye, John Rhodes, John Anderson, Jerome Waldie and Don Edwards.
  • Picture errors throughout due to early method of taping.
  • Begin Time:05:02:00 pm
    End Time:05:58:50 pm
    TVN Record Number:834490
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1974-2009 Vanderbilt University
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