Vanderbilt Television News Archive

ABC Evening News for 1970-04-30

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: Metropolitan Life Insurance.)

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  12:01:10 am — 12:01:30 am

• Cambodia / Nixon / Cong.

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  12:01:30 am — 12:05:20 am

  (Studio) Nixon's Cambodia aid explanation tonight.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (DC) Nixon preparing speech; claims Cambodian communists jeopardize South Vietnam, Americans; South Vietnam, Americans sweeping toward communist base, supply, and prisoners of war camps; short-term involvement to end when sanctuaries destroyed.
  REPORTER: Tom Jarriel

  (DC) Congress takes action against President [Senator J. William FULBRIGHT - admits President power to act; Congress must dissuade him.] [Rept. Richard OTTINGER - intros. President censure.] No chance for censure passage, symbolic gesture.
  REPORTER: Bob Clark

  (Studio) President speech live, 9:00 p.m. tonight.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• (Commercial: Metropolitan Life Insurance.)

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  12:05:20 am — 12:06:10 am

• Cambodia / South Vietnam / United States / Fighting / Politics

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  12:06:10 am — 12:10:20 am

  (Studio) Mil. operation in Cambodia successful; 10,000 South Vietnam, American advisers drive 25 mile into cntry., kill many, capture communist supplies; little organized resistance; reporters now allowed across border, weren't before.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

  (South Vietnam) South Vietnam cmd. post for Parrot's Beak operations busy; medivacs return wounded from Cambodia. [South Vietnam General Do Cao TRI - says will strike enemy in South Vietnam or Cambodia; operation going well.] Cambodia new Vietnam war phase.
  REPORTER: Steve Bell

  (Studio) Top Cambodian officials can't approve American invasion, violates neutrality; private views different.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

  (DC) Cambodian government secretly urged United States invasion to ease pressure; American leaders say move aids United States forces in South Vietnam; captured supplies may provide needed Cambodian firepower.
  REPORTER: John Scali

• Casualty Report

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  12:10:20 am — 12:10:40 am

  (Studio) Casualties reported.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• (Commercial: Lucite Paints; Rally Car Wax.)

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  12:10:40 am — 12:11:40 am

• Mideast / Fighting / USSR

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  12:11:40 am — 12:13:20 am

  (Studio) Egypt spring offensive makes deepest thrust across Suez since 1967 war; both sides claim heavy casualties; Israel retaliates with heavy air attacks. USSR denies reports of Soviet pilots flying combat raids for Egypt, Israeli For. Min. Abba Eban insists they are.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (Tel Aviv, Israel) [EBAN - claims Sovs. involved long ago; power balance shifting.]
  REPORTER: No reporter given

  (Studio) Egypt says Israel trying for world sympathy.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• (Commercial: Metropolitan Life Insurance; Unseen World.)

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  12:13:20 am — 12:15:20 am

• Violence / Ohio Teamsters / Students / Ohio / California / Connecticut

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  12:15:20 am — 12:21:00 am

  (Studio) Violent Teamsters, 4,000 national guardsmen dispute in Ohio. Columbus Ohio State students battle police.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

  (Columbus, Ohio) 1,800 national guardsmen confront militant students; administration building clash yields 300 arrests, 100 injuries; many gunshot victims; demonstrators demand protestors' release, and University dissociation with military orgs.; mayor sets curfew; more trouble expected.
  REPORTER: Earl Green (WTVN-TV newsfilm)

  (Berkeley, California) Protesters break into anti-Reserve Officers' Training Corps demonstrators' trial; campus police clear room after brief skirmish; 2 arrested; trial canceled.
  REPORTER: David McLean

  (Studio) 4,000 paratroopers fly to Yale for pro-Black Panther rally tomorrow; town fears worst.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

  (New Haven, Connecticut) City arms against potential riots when 50,000 gather tomorrow. [Unidentified PANTHER SPOKESPERSON - says if violence occurs, will defense selves.] Outside radicals threaten disruption. [Yale Chaplin William COFFIN - claims media misreping. New Haven; outsiders bringing violence.]
  REPORTER: Jim Burnes

• (Commercial: Kikkoman Soy Sauce.)

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  12:21:00 am — 12:22:00 am

• House / ABM

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  12:22:00 am — 12:22:20 am

  (Studio) House anti-ballistic missile deployment blockage fails.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• U-2 Pilot

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  12:22:20 am — 12:24:40 am

  (Studio) American U-2 pilot Francis Powers shot down over USSR 10 years ago; story published tomorrow.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (Chicago, Illinois) Powers criticized for not destroying U-2 and self when shot down; still tests U-2's for Lockheed. [POWERS - says can't explain not killing self when captured; book tells all.]
  REPORTER: Jules Bergman

• Apollo 14 / Trouble

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  12:24:40 am — 12:25:10 am

  (Studio) Apollo 14 trouble; workman drilled through cooling element; repairs extensive.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• (Commercial: Tom Jones.)

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  12:25:10 am — 12:26:10 am

• Commentary (Mideast, USSR )

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  12:26:10 am — 12:27:50 am

  (Studio) What are Sov's. up to in Mideast?
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

  (Studio) USSR -Egypt relationship Soviet policy change, usually wait for United States to get entangled, then enter; superpower confrontation may result.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• Good Night

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  12:27:50 am — 12:27:50 am