Vanderbilt Television News Archive

ABC Evening News for 1970-04-24

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Howard K. Smith (Washington, DC); Frank Reynolds (New York City)

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  12:00:00 am — 12:01:10 am

• (Commercial: Ford Auto.)

  #10105

  12:01:10 am — 12:02:10 am

• Cambodia / Communists / United States Aid / USSR

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  12:02:10 am — 12:04:50 am

  (Studio) Communists split Phnom Penh from key port Sihanoukville, attacked Takeo and Highway 1; White House calls action for invasion, not civil war; no aid decision yet.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (DC) Nixon delays Security Council meeting, ponders problems; United States gave Cambodia captured rifles, urges others to give ammunition; wants South East Asian cntrys. to help.
  REPORTER: Bill Gill

  (Studio) USSR accuses United States of undermining Cambodian neutrality and widening aggression.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• Vietnam / Fighting / Marines

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  12:04:50 am — 12:07:20 am

  (Studio) South Vietnam fight North Vietnam in Cambodia; Washington, DC reports possible United States Marine withdrawal delay; would weaken I Corps.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

  (Dung Lam, South Vietnam) 21-yr.-old Marine sergeant Kelly likes Vietnam, people; gains support of villagers, brings people together. [KELLY - tells of trying to help Vietnam people improve way of life, protect them from VC.]
  REPORTER: Frank Mariano

• Mideast / Fighting

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  12:07:20 am — 12:07:40 am

  (Studio) Israeli jets attack Egypt, Syria, Jordan.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• (Commercial: Kikkoman Seasoning.)

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  12:07:40 am — 12:08:40 am

• Birth Control Pills / FDA

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  12:08:40 am — 12:09:00 am

  (Studio) FDA (Food and Drug Administration) urges birth control pill estrogen content decrd.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• Senate / NASA / Apollo

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  12:09:00 am — 12:12:30 am

  (Studio) Senator Space Committee hears Apollo 13 problem analysis.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (DC) Senator welcomes astronauts. [NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Admin. Thomas PAINE - says trouble minor, Apollo 14 launch postponed, probably till January] [Astronaut John SWIGERT - expresses confidence in NASA.] [Astronaut James LOVELL - agrees.] Oxygen tank explosion caused trouble; short circuit blamed.
  REPORTER: Jules Bergman

• (Commercial: Geritol Tonic; Aqua Velva Lotion; Metropolitan Life Insurance.)

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  12:12:30 am — 12:14:30 am

• Pope Paul / Sardinia

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  12:14:30 am — 12:15:00 am

  (Studio) Young people stone Pope Paul motorcade in Sardinia, Italy and battle police; Pope welcomed otherwise.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Haiti / Mutiny

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  12:15:00 am — 12:15:20 am

  (Studio) Several Haitian Coast Guard crews mutiny, fire on Port au Prince.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• New York City / Formosa / Assassination Attempt

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  12:15:20 am — 12:17:10 am

  (Studio) Chiang Kai-shek's son survives assassination attempt.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

  (NYC) Protesters demand end to Taiwan Chiang rule; gunman attacks son, subdued by police; 2 arrested, no one hurt.
  REPORTER: Gregory Jackson

  (Studio) Anti-Chiang group member Peter Huang assailant.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Student Unrest / Indiana / Kansas / Oregon / California

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  12:17:10 am — 12:19:10 am

  (Studio) IN State racial disorders spill into city; University Kansas curfew violations, trouble continues; University Oregon and Stanford University hit.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (Eugene, OR) 200 radicals take Student Union Building; police, national guard drive them out.
  REPORTER: Bill Wordham

  (Stanford, California) Students attack administration building, set fires; oppose Reserve Officers' Training Corps. [Dr. John BUNZEL - can't believe students tried to burn behavioral science building]
  REPORTER: Bill Wordham (narrates)

• (Commercial: North American Van Lines.)

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  12:19:10 am — 12:20:10 am

• Mortgages

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  12:20:10 am — 12:20:40 am

  (Studio) Banks, insurance companies earmark extra $2 billion for home loans.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Puerto Rico / Housing

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  12:20:40 am — 12:22:20 am

  (Studio) Puerto Rico uses new hseing. techniques.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

  (San Juan, Puerto Rico) Low-cost apt. complex methods used; pre-formed modules quickly assembled, durable; United States may use technique soon.
  REPORTER: Charles Murphy

• White House / Mail

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  12:22:20 am — 12:25:00 am

  (Studio) Nixon call for troop withdrawal doesn't increase White House mail.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (DC) White House recs. 10,000 letters each day; sorted for topics, sample given President; answers some personally.
  REPORTER: Tom Jarriel

  (New Iberia, LA) 10-yr.-old Jeanne Dune gets President letter. [DUHE - reads letter; letter signed Your friend, Richard Nixon.]
  REPORTER: Tom Jarriel (narrates)

  (NYC) Policeman Patrick Dolan gets letter. [DOLAN - reads letter.]
  REPORTER: Tom Jarriel (narrates)

• (Commercial: Dual of The Titans.)

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  12:25:00 am — 12:26:00 am

• Commentary (Nixon Doctrine)

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  12:26:00 am — 12:28:00 am

  (Studio) Nixon Doctrine tested tomorrow.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (Studio) Doctrine tested in Cambodia; rifles supplied, no amino.; Cambodian government undependable, army inept.; shouldn't alter United States foreign policy.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Good Night

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  12:28:00 am — 12:28:00 am