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#197894
(Studio) Saturday, astronaut Walter Schirra testily refuses to follow flight plan or orders of ground control and turn on television camera to give Americans 1st photos of astronauts in space. Turns them on today but not without inferring NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) put him in show business Camera transmits to ground stations in Corpus Christi, Texas and Cape Kennedy, Florida.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Houston, Texas) Mission control voice Paul Haney narrates film. Film shows crew in spacecraft. Crew chats with Tom Stafford and Deke Slayton and holds up 2 cards for audience back home. View of Gulf Coast shown.
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) CBS to carry 2nd transmission live Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. EST.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197895
(Studio) Top Soviet space expert attends international space conference in New York. Claims USSR has no plans for manned flights to or around moon in next year His statement, if true, shows United States with clear lead in space program.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197897
(Studio) Ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower celebrates 78th birthday in Walter Reed Army Hospital. Recovery termed remarkable.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Army band plays and sings "Happy Birthday", "The Caissons Go Rolling Along," "Hail To The Chief", "Yellow Rose Of Texas" and songs from "Sound Of Music". Eisenhower waves or salutes with 5 star flag. Wife, Mamie, with him. Wk. proclaimed salute to Eisenhower by LBJ.
REPORTER: Bob Gregory
#197898
(Studio) December 9 set as trial date for Sirhan Sirhan, accused of killing Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197899
(Studio) 24 convicts at Arkansas prison farm wounded when guards fire at prisoners who refuse to go to work. Prison representatives say firing justified and convicts org. work stoppage to protest conditions.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197900
(Studio) New York City teachers strike again for reinstatement and protection of 80 mbrs. of experimental decentralized school district.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197901
(Studio) 80,000 striking soft coal miners and operators sign new contract with wage increase of $7 day over 3 years
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197904
(Studio) CBS news survey shows drop in Richard Nixon electoral strength and slight gain for Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. If election held now, Nixon would carry 29 states and get 289 votes; George Wallace 7 states and 66 votes and Humphrey 2 states and 29 votes. New York shifts from Nixon column to uncertain. 12 states with 154 votes as toss-ups.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197905
(Studio) Vice President candidates, Senator Edmund Muskie and Governor Spiro Agnew Campaign in New York. General Curtis LeMay in Washington, DC before going to Vietnam on fact-finding tour. Report on Agnew.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(No Location Given) Agnew makes 2 out-of-bounds golf shots, but 2nd ricochets off tree. [AGNEW - knew it was Republican year] Shown campaigning. [AGNEW - says where was Humphrey when Kennedy and McCarthy wanted to take issues to people in Democratic primary? He refused all debates and hid behind President skirts.] He called Vice President soft on Communism but apologized. He got into trouble over using phrases "Pollock" and "fat Jap".
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
(Hawaii) Agnew saw nothing wrong with kidding, perhaps due to own ethnic background. [AGNEW - says sorry if he offended anyone. To those who misread his words, they misread his heart.] Main attack is that Nixon chose Agnew to placate South [AGNEW - says that doesn't wash. My Maryland record is moderate. Try to have wide appeal.]
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
(Jacksonville, Florida) [Florida Governor Claude KIRK - intros. Agnews.] "Dixie" played. In South, Agnew says Wallace votes are wasted protests. [AGNEW - says report by J. Edgar Hoover shows serious crime increase of 57% in 7 years 2/3 violent crimes committed by young. Permissiveness tearing down American] Nixon people like Agnew to draw Democrat fire.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
(New York) [HUMPHREY - reads "New York Times" comment with regard to Agnew choice.]
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
(No Location Given) [AGNEW - feels he's qualified to be Vice President Cites qualifications.] He has rapport with middle-class whites. Critics say this is also his weakness as Vice President campaigner.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
#197907
(Studio) Congress adjourns.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Congress actions are on broad scale; can't see results now. Legis. incls.: open housing law, tax surcharge, advances in housing construction and financing education and conservation and gun law. Congress stalled non-proliferation treaty, batted at the Supreme Court, cut foreign aid and hid from President debates bill. Lyndon Johnson's authority not enhanced as lame duck President Congress to be under Democratic control next session.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
#197908
(Studio) Senator Carl Hayden, 91, retires. Tributes to him and 9 others heard.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197909
(Studio) Communists renew attacks on Quang Ngai, South Vietnam. 8 killed; 23 hurt.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197910
(Studio) Supreme Court to decide if Armed Forces may court martial men for offenses done on leave. Court decides not to decide how long schoolboy's hair should be. Court won't hear appeal of 3 Dallas, Texas, boys. Justice William O. Douglas dissents.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197912
(Studio) Czech Premier Oldrich Cernik flies to Moscow to work on treaty legalizing occupation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197913
(Studio) Czech and Soviet teams among others participating in Olympics.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Mexico City, Mexico) 80,000 stand and cheer when Czechs enter in opening ceremony. Soviet applause polite. Czech and Soviet groups cool to each other. Girls volleyball game shown. Czechs win 1st game 15-7 but Soviet girls win necessary 3 games. Dubcek chant heard.
REPORTER: Heywood Hale Broun
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