Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1970-04-01

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Walter Cronkite (New York City)

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  12:00:00 am — 12:00:20 am

• Vietnam / Communist Attacks / Casualties

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  12:00:20 am — 12:01:00 am

  (Studio) Most damaging communist South Vietnam attacks in 5 mos.; shell over 100 bases, towns; 40 Americans killed incling. Brigadier General William Bond; 5th United States General killed in Vietnam.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• My Lai / Medina

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  12:01:00 am — 12:03:00 am

  (Studio) Army charges Captain Ernest Medina with 175 My Lai murders.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Columbus, Georgia) [MEDINA - surprised at new charges; claims loyalty, faith in truth.]
  REPORTER: Steve Rowan

• Cambodia / Communists / Demonstrators

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  12:03:00 am — 12:03:20 am

  (Studio) New Cambodian government claims North Vietnam overran Kratie military outpost; government troops kill 30 civilians suppressing pro-Norodom Sihanouk demonstrations.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Laos / Peace Talk Proposal

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  12:03:20 am — 12:03:50 am

  (Studio) Laos rejects communist peace talk proposal; government doesn't want US bombing halted before talks begin.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Savings and Loan Assns.)

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  12:03:50 am — 12:04:50 am

• Teamsters / Strikes / Negotiations

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  12:04:50 am — 12:07:30 am

  (Studio) Teamster locals strike 30 cities; no national walkout expected.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Negotiations center on pay raise demands; no agreement reached, no walkout planned.
  REPORTER: Bob Schieffer

  (Saint Louis, Missouri) Only emergency trucks moving; truckers protest contract expiration. [Unidentified truck DRIVER - says pay raise main concern.]
  REPORTER: Bruce Dunning

• Air Controllers / Slowdown

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  12:07:30 am — 12:08:50 am

  (Studio) Airline flights still canceled, delayed; Pro. Airtraffic Control Org., government officials urge work return.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Chicago, Illinois) Air controllers' wives picket control center; 1/2 controllers out; snow complicates situation; O'Hare Airport closed; officials claim weather only cause.
  REPORTER: Bill Plante

• Grape Strike / Contracts

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  12:08:50 am — 12:09:10 am

  (Studio) 3 Coachella Valley, California, grape growers sign union picker contracts providing more money, and benefits; big growers still haven't signed.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Atlanta / Garbage Strike

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  12:09:10 am — 12:10:40 am

  (Studio) Atlanta 16 day old garbage strike conts.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Atlanta, Georgia) Strikers attempt to stop scabs' cars; city offers bonus to strikebreakers; blacks consider offer demeaning to race; Mayor Massell and union leader argue. [Union leader Jerry WORTH - tells Massell he can't be both strikebreaker, champion of strikers.] 2 sides further apart.
  REPORTER: Bob Jones (WAGA-TV newsfilm)

• Japan / Korea / Hijack

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  12:10:40 am — 12:11:10 am

  (Studio) Hijacked Japanese airliner still on ground in Seoul, South Korea; North Korea offers safe landing, passenger return; hostages hungry, tired after 40 hrs. on plane.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Morocco / Plane Crash

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  12:11:10 am — 12:11:30 am

  (Studio) 21 survive Moroccan airliner crash.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• USSR / Hero Dies

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  12:11:30 am — 12:11:50 am

  (Studio) Major Soviet military hero Semyon K. Timoshenko dies at age 75.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Marlboro Cigarettes; Playtex Bra.)

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  12:11:50 am — 12:12:40 am

• Senate / Desegregation

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  12:12:40 am — 12:13:10 am

  (Studio) Senator passes $24.6 billion education bill for equal enforcement of desegregation where segregation exists by law.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Carswell / Senate / Nixon

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  12:13:10 am — 12:15:20 am

  (Studio) G. Harrold Carswell debate conts.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) CBS poll shows 39 for, 41 against recommittal; 10 Senators undecided. [Senator William SAXBE - reads Nixon letter stressing President right of appointed] [Senator William SPONG - supports recommittal.] Carswell supporters incring.
  REPORTER: Bruce Morton

• Commentary (Nixon, Carswell, Const.)

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  12:15:20 am — 12:17:40 am

  (Studio) Comment on G. Harrold Carswell fight.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Nixon intervention in Carswell debate increases; makes Carswell vote Const. matter; President letter vague, oxymoronic.
  REPORTER: Eric Sevareid

• (Commercial: Anacin; Dristan Cold Capsules.)

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  12:17:40 am — 12:18:40 am

• Nixon / Housing

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  12:18:40 am — 12:19:10 am

  (Studio) Nixon administration reports new hses. overpriced; mobile homes may be solution.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• McIntire / Anti-War March / White House

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  12:19:10 am — 12:19:50 am

  (Studio) Reverend Carl McIntire to lead Washington, DC anti-war march; claims White House subversion to stop march.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• New York Democratic Party / Goldberg / Chisholm

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  12:19:50 am — 12:22:30 am

  (Studio) New York Democratic Party debates putting Negro on Lieutenant Governor ticket.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Liberty, New York) Arthur Goldberg favored to oppose Governor Rockefeller; blacks boycott Goldberg speech. [Representative Shirley CHISHOLM - announces black walkout.] [GOLDBERG - may back black Lieutenant Governor] [CHISHOLM - accuses party of prejudice.]
  REPORTER: Morton Dean

  (Studio) Goldberg won Governor nomination; no Lieutenant Governor chosen.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Massachusetts / Vietnam Legality

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  12:22:30 am — 12:22:50 am

  (Studio) Massachusetts Legis. passes bill questioning Vietnam war legality.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Baseball / Gambling / McLain

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  12:22:50 am — 12:23:20 am

  (Studio) Detroit baseball pitcher Denny McLain suspended till Jul. 1 for taking book on basketball games.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Agriculture / Price Drop

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  12:23:20 am — 12:23:40 am

  (Studio) Agriculture Department reports food price drop.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  12:23:40 am — 12:23:50 am

  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Nytol; Poli-Grip Denture Adhesive.)

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  12:23:50 am — 12:24:50 am

• Evolution / Ed. / Scopes

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  12:24:50 am — 12:27:30 am

  (Studio) Key figure in Tennessee monkey trial back in classroom.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (No location given) John Scopes tried for teaching evolution in Tennessee HS; found guilty; later cleared; William Jennings Bryan against teaching evolution, Clarence Darrow defense attorney
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (narrates 1925 newsfilm)

  (Nashville, Tennessee) [SCOPES - asserted teachers', not govt's. business; resents state interference.]
  REPORTER: Del Vaughn

• Good Night

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  12:27:30 am — 12:27:30 am