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#198082
(Studio) President Johnson says no breakthrough in ending war.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Felt Vietnam speculation out of hand. [JOHNSON - wants peace very much. Doesn't want to make news until there is news. Diplomacy more effective in private. Reporters will be informed when there's change. Hesitant to use word "lull" when 1,500 die in 1 week Not lull in some places; doesn't want to lull someone into false security.] Rptdly. Johnson made remarks to minimize potential damage to Hubert Humphrey campaign if peace negotiations fall flat.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
#198083
(Studio) Casualties reported Light ground action. 7 United States aircraft shown down over North Vietnam; 5 killed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198086
(Studio) Senator Edward Kennedy attacks George Wallace in speech.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(New Bedford, Massachusetts) [KENNEDY - says 3rd party victory would lift haters and wreckers to high office. Force of repression and suspicion could attack our insts. and restrict liberties. President John F. Kennedy defs. American against extremists; Wallace with them. President fought for legislature for all to vote; Wallace would repeal it. Robert F. Kennedy stood for race reconciliation; Wallace for division and suppression. Elected on slogan "Segregation Forever". Brothers believed in dignity of man. How can their supporters be for Wallace?]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Durham, North Carolina) [WALLACE - says they haven't done such good job at reconciliation. Says pay no attention to what pols. say about him. Kennedy wrong.]
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
(Studio) 5,000 to protest Wallace's rally in Madison Square Garden. Democratic Senator candidate, Paul O'Dwyer, organized protest. Says Wallace has no place in city or state.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198088
(Studio) Richard Nixon says 8 years Democrat rule created security gap. Spk. in speech for ntnwide. broadcast after day-broadcasting in Pennsylvania.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Pennsylvania) Nixon been to 31 states; to concentrate on 7. More aggressive now. [NIXON - says over last 4 years, had worst crime wave in American, no peace abroad and worst inflation. Americans can't afford 4 more years like last 4.]
REPORTER: Morton Dean
#198089
(Reading, Pennsylvania) Richard Nixon has new tactic of attacking Hubert Humphrey. Familiar to those who remember old Nixon. Crowds sizeable but most organization spontaneity. high school kids keep hecklers at distance. Signs mass-produced. He promises 15 million more jobs, peace at home and abroad, steady prices, high wages, easy taxes and higher social security if prices up. He must convince voters to go and vote.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
#198090
(Studio) West Germany to bolster Air Force with 88 American phantom jets at cost of $575 million.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198091
(Studio) State Department says vanguard of Czech refugees to arrive Friday from Vienna. 1,300 applied for United States admission.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198092
#198093
(Studio) 4th report on candidates and issues. What changes would you make in the draft?
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(No Location Given) All George Wallace remarks filmed October 16, 1968. [WALLACE - says hard to work out equitable draft. Must keep draft law as long as necessary. All should serve his (sic) time in defense of US.] September 30, 1968, paid political broadcast shown. [NIXON - says would move to volunteer Army after Vietnam war over. Pay would be raised. Describes system.] All Hubert Humphrey remarks filmed October 9, 1968. [HUMPHREY - says system filled with inequities. Favor lottery system by age 19 on and would be eligible until 26. Selective Service bds. need more equitable rep.] Do you favor nuclear non-proliferation treaty ratification? [WALLACE - says treaty is beginning but wouldn't be worth anything if USSR wouldn't live up to it. Hopes genuine disarmament comes about. Doesn't know if we ought to sign it or show indignation at Czech invasion.] [HUMPHREY - says in national interest to ratify treaty. Designed to stop spread of nuclear weapons and technology] September 30, 1968, paid political film shown. [NIXON - favors adoption of treaty. Doesn't believe Senator should ratify it while Soviet troops still in Czechoslovakia.] [HUMPHREY - calls it most important act for peace since World War II. Unconscionable for Nixon to say wait.] [NIXON - says it's 1 way to use moral influence with USSR .] [HUMPHREY - says irrelevant to attach treaty opposition to Czech situation. He's playing cold war pols. Communist aggression in Czechoslovakia is another reason we need treaty. What if E. Europe ntns. had nuclear weapons?]
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite Narrates
#198094
(Studio) George Wallace proposes Richard Nixon debate Hubert Humphrey for hour if he got 1/2 hour afterward to reply. CBS President Frank Stanton offers time. Humphrey accepts. Nixon spokesperson says Nixon to do nothing to give free air time to Wallace. Wallace says he'll give up free time if Nixon will debate Humphrey and buy 1/2 hour for self. Nixon to appear on "Face The Nation" Sunday at 6:30 p.m. EST.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198095
(Studio) 500 police push past flaming barricade to arrest 76 students who took over building on University California. at Berkeley. They want credit for course by Black Panther leader, Eldridge Cleaver.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198096
(Studio) John Carlos, 1 of Olympic athletes suspended for raising clenched fist, holds news conference
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) With black power leaders, H. Rap. Brown and Stokely Carmichael, Carlos recs. hero's welcome. Begins national spking. tour. Tommie Smith to join Carlos later. [CARLOS - says honored and pleased to find that everyone with us on platform at Olympics.] [BROWN - wishes 14 years leg trouble to blacks who participated in games illegally.] [CARMICHAEL - says we'll pick our own heroes.] Carlos offered bronze medal to black museum. [CARLOS - says didn't believe in national anthem but stood up anyway. Won't see him do it again. If things not changed by `72 they'll be running around flameless stadium.] Howard University students greet Carlos. United Nations African representatives to greet Carlos and Smith Friday
REPORTER: Hal Walker
#198098
(Studio) NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) releases Apollo VII film.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(From Apollo VII) Rendezvous with 2nd stage shown. Earth shown.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite Narrates
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