Vanderbilt Television News Archive

ABC Evening News for 1968-12-24

This program is 26 minutes long

• Introduction Frank Reynolds

  #1039

  12:00:00 am — 12:00:10 am

• Apollo 8

  #1040

  12:00:10 am — 12:00:20 am

  (Studio) Astronauts orbit moon.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Pueblo Crew Home

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  12:00:20 am — 12:04:30 am

  (Studio) Pueblo crew home.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

  (San Diego, California) Homecoming filmed. Cmdr Lloyd Bucher reunited with family. 11 mos. anxiety ended. Captured by North Korea. [Commander Lloyd BUCHER - hopes effort worthwhile. Thanks God for Duane Hodges, who was killed.] Hodges' body brought from plane.
  REPORTER: John Davenport

  (Studio) Homecoming noted. Investigation to follow. Rear Admiral Edwin M. Rosenberg says in Seoul, Korea, statement Lloyd Bucher a hero.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Upcoming

  #1042

  12:04:30 am — 12:04:40 am

  (Studio) Apollo 8 story.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• (Commercial: Pepto-Bismol.)

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  12:04:40 am — 12:05:40 am

• Apollo 8

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  12:05:40 am — 12:10:50 am

  (Studio) Astronauts orbit moon. television broadcast from space tonight.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

  (Studio) Animation shown. television picture of moon shown. [Captain James LOVELL, Junior - describes moon.] Flight described. Future landing site identified. Rocketing out of lunar orbit to take place as Christmas Day begins.
  REPORTER: Jules Bergman

  (Studio) Another live broadcast at 9:30 EST tonight.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Upcoming

  #1045

  12:10:50 am — 12:11:00 am

  (Studio) Gunfire ushers in Christmas in Vietnam.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• (Commercial: Glade Air Freshener; Lemon Pledge; Pine Sol Cleaner.)

  #1046

  12:11:00 am — 12:13:00 am

• Vietnam War

  #1047

  12:13:00 am — 12:14:10 am

  (Studio) Christmas truce officially in effect in Vietnam. 5 Americans to meet 5 Viet Cong for release of United States POWs held by VC: James Brigham, Thomas Jones; Donald Smith. Ceasefire violated near Saigon. Pres L. B. Johnson salutes servicemen in message of peace hopes.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Comment (1968)

  #1048

  12:14:10 am — 12:16:20 am

  (DC) 1968 ends. Pueblo crew return and Apollo 8 noted. Nguyen Cao Ky agrees to talk in Paris and Viet Cong offer of prisoners of war release. Andrei Gromyko visits Egypt. Red China proposes United States talks. USSR eager to limit nuclear weapons. Richard Nixon entry to office noted. Christmas greetings extended. United States characterized as nation
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• (Commercial: Johnson's Foot Soap; Lanacane.)

  #1049

  12:16:20 am — 12:17:20 am

• Truman Gift

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  12:17:20 am — 12:18:40 am

  (Studio) Harry S. Truman honored by 4 H Club members [In Springfield, Missouri, YOUTH - sing carols.] [TRUMAN - wishes group Merry Christmas.]
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Catholic Mass

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  12:18:40 am — 12:18:50 am

  (Studio) Pope Paul celebrates Mass at Taranto, Italy. Pope desires ordinary people know of church's concern.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Bethlehem

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  12:18:50 am — 12:19:10 am

  (Studio) Pilgrims crowd Bethlehem for Christmas. Israeli troops, police have to guard visitors against guerrilla attacks. Israeli aircraft bomb Jordan targets.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• President Johnson / Christmas

  #1053

  12:19:10 am — 12:19:30 am

  (Studio) Quiet Christmas planned by President L. B. Johnson. News spokesman notes Pueblo crew return.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Biafra

  #1054

  12:19:30 am — 12:19:40 am

  (Studio) American Red Cross resumes mercy flights to Biafra. Civil war with Nigeria noted.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Kidney Transplant

  #1055

  12:19:40 am — 12:19:50 am

  (Studio) Woman gets kidney transplant from Boy Scout who died last Saturday.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  12:19:50 am — 12:20:20 am

  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• (Commercial: NyQuil.)

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  12:20:20 am — 12:21:20 am

• Christmas At Williamsburg, Virginia

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  12:21:20 am — 12:26:30 am

  (Studio) Complexity, commerciality of Christmas noted.
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

  (Williamsburg, Virginia) Christmas of by-gone era featured. Fife and Drum Corps plays. Christmas guns fired. Yule log brought in. No Christmas trees. Old customs explained. "Silent Night" sung. Econonomic conditions of 18th century recalled. Planning of simple Christmas customs noted.
  REPORTER: Sam Donaldson

  (Studio) Passing of time noted. Astronaut Frank Borman sends prayer from space to Saint Christopher's Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas and world. [From space, BORMAN - prays.]
  REPORTER: Frank Reynolds

• Good Night

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  12:26:30 am — 12:26:30 am