This program is 28 minutes long
#203722
(Pacific Ocean) Film of splashdown.
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Splashdown described.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#203724
(Studio) Astronauts safe aboard USS Princeton. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) director, Thomas O. Paine, calls day historic. Apollo XI set for July.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Pacific Ocean) Copters bring Eugene Cernan, Thomas Stafford, and John Young to USS Princeton. Crew cheers. [STAFFORD - appreciates support.] [CERNAN - says great to come back to greatest country in world.] [YOUNG - says almost hit 3rd wire.] Houston Mission Control waves flags. Frogmen secure capsule.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (Narrates)
(Studio) President Nixon sends congratulations. Calls mission proud moment for US.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#203726
(Studio) Students at 9 California colleges begin 2-day general strike to support Berkeley protest of "People's Park" closing.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Berkeley, California) Tensions subside. ["People's Park" Movement Spokesperson Art GOLDBERG - says having day of solidarity about our park] New park on vacant lot dedicated to James Rector, killed during protests. Marchers to Sacramento aim to give list of demands to Governor Ronald Reagan. Want troops withdrawn and barriers removed from park
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
#203727
(Studio) 2 new search-and-clear operations open up in North provinces of South Vietnam. Casualties reported "Hamburger Hill" criticized. Admin. knocks down charges of stepping up war.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) White House spokesperson fires back at Senator Edward Kennedy and other critics. Number battalion-size operations not increased, but enemy operations have. Casualties up because of increased enemy offenses. "Hamburger Hill" prevented Hue and Danang attacks. United States hasn't escalated and Hanoi won't answer mutual withdrawal proposal.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
#203728
(Studio) Saigon says it now controls 15 of 17.5 million South Vietnam people. Viet Cong claims they have effective govts. in 1000 villages.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#203729
(Studio) At Central Treaty Org. meeting in Tehran, Iran, Secretary of State William Rogers says hopeful signs E.-W. moving from confrontation to negotiation, but W. still can't relax against Communist threat. (Defense Secretary Melvin Laird pictorially noted.)
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#203732
(Studio) James Earl Ray loses bid for new trial.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Memphis, Tennessee) Ray lost right to jury trial when he pleaded guilty to killing Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior Death of Judge Preston Battle results in replacement by Arthur Faquin. Court clerk J.A. Blackwell read from Ray's guilty plea transcript. Assistant Attorney General Robert Dwyer says Ray waived rights to appeal. Defense Attorney Robert Hill argues plea was unconst. Defense Attorney J.B. Stoner asks that accusation that Ray had been duped by former attys. be dropped. Accusation said Arthur Hanes and Percy Foreman used case for own financial benefit by peddling information to author, William Bradford Huie. Ray has several options.
REPORTER: Ed Rabel Artist: Howard Brodie
#203733
(Studio) Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat, RA, on Transatlantic voyage from Morocco to Central American encountered trouble with broken oars and seasick crew.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Atlantic Ocean) Experts say RA won't make it across ocean. [HEYERDAHL - says RA didn't sink in salt water like experts said it would.] RA tugged out to sea. No one knows how craft will sail.
REPORTER: Frank Kearns
#203734
(Studio) Small Bus. Admin. turns up more cases of federal loans to persons linked with organized crime. Loans total $440,000. 3 receive disaster relief from hurricane in New Orleans area in 1964. Applicants to be screened more carefully.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#203735
(Studio) Supreme Court overturns case of Chicago man who lost his sole's surviving draft status when his mother died. Justice Thurgood Marshall said exemption was to comfort family and preserve male line of family.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#203736
(Studio) Senator Clinton Anderson of Finance Committee proposes replacing 10% surtax with war profits tax on corps. Anderson says industry profit incrd. 30% over last 4 years, so industry should bear larger tax burden. Senator George McGovern to sponsor bill to tax war-induced profits.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#203737
(Studio) House agrees to limit on farm subsidy payments to 1 farmer.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#203740
(Studio) Final color pictures taken by Apollo X shown. Filmed from 41,000 mile out and narrated by crew.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#203741
(Studio) Reporter analyzes what lies behind Apollo X mission.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Success now normal. Moonwalk to humanize program. Encore seems distant. Must unravel nature of man.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
#203742
(Studio) N.E. Airlines jet hijacked by 3 to Cuba. Returns to Miami.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#203744
(Studio) Charles Kuralt won Emmy from National Academy of television Arts and Sciences for his On-the-Road broadcasts. John Lawrence won 1 for report on Chicago police. CBS won 10 of 14 awards.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#203745
(Sarasota, Florida) Hotel contest brings out dreamers: sand-castle builders. Different creations shown. Cinderella's slipper wins. Edna Saint Vincent Millay quoted. Tide washes all away.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
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