Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1970-04-02

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Walter Cronkite (New York City)

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  12:00:00 am — 12:00:20 am

  [AUDIO-VISUAL BEGINS :00:20]

• Strike Negotiations / Teamsters / P. O. / Air Controllers

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  12:00:20 am — 12:02:40 am

  (Studio) Teamsters, truckers agree on $1 per hour pay increase over 3 years, urge work return. P. O. and air controllers reach agreement with government
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) P. O. and AFL-CIO President George Meany meet; 6% pay raise for all fed. employees; 8% more for P. O. workers when reform bill passes. (Postmaster General Winton BLOUNT - hopes P. O. reorg. successful.] Union leaders must prevent new strikes.
  REPORTER: David Dick

  (DC) Federal Judge Ceo. Hart stops contempt proceedings against professional Airtraffic Control Org., works out agreement; PATCO leaders to urge work return in news conference within 24 hrs.; walkout may be ending.
  REPORTER: Nelson Benton

• Shultz / Railroad

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  12:02:40 am — 12:03:00 am

  (Studio) Labor Secretary George Shultz says no progress on railroad strike prevention; urges Congress imposed settlement.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Benson and Hedges Cigarettes; At and T.)

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  12:03:00 am — 12:04:00 am

• Massachusetts / Vietnam Legality

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  12:04:00 am — 12:06:00 am

  (Studio) Massachusetts Governor Francis Sargent signs bill preventing government from forcing Massachusetts men to fight undeclared war.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Boston, Massachusetts) [Governor SARGENT - says bill sincere, effect doubtful; bill aimed to prove Vietnam war legality.]
  REPORTER: No reporter given

  (Studio) Defense Secretary Melvin Laird claims all military action Const.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Chicago / Students For A Democratic Society / Indictments

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  12:06:00 am — 12:07:00 am

  (Studio) 12 Students for a Democratic Society Weathermen indicted in Chicago for riot conspiracy; Judge Julius Hoffman presides.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Southeast Asia / Fulbright / Rogers

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  12:07:00 am — 12:08:10 am

  (Studio) Senator J. William Fulbright says United States should let North Vietnam dominate Indochina; says American South East Asia policy doesn't face reality; North Vietnam greatest Indochina power Secretary of State William Rogers assures no United States Cambodian intervention.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Cambodia / US

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  12:08:10 am — 12:08:30 am

  (Studio) Cambodia denies United States right to pursue communists across border; violates Cambodian neutrality.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Phillips Antacid; Bayer Aspirin.)

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  12:08:30 am — 12:09:30 am

• South Vietnam / Fighting / Copters

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  12:09:30 am — 12:14:00 am

  (Studio) Communists shell 65 South Vietnam towns and bases; down 3 United States copters.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (South Vietnam) Americans do much fighting by copter; 1 helicopter downed each day; enemy firepower improving; pilot risk incring.; United States insists helicopter loses insignificant. [W. O. Mike REARDON - says expects enemy to start shooting at copters more; tells of new enemy anti-aircraft gun.]
  REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld

  (Studio) 1,525 copters downed since January 1961.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Casualty Report

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  12:14:00 am — 12:14:30 am

  (Studio) Casualties reported.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Paris Peace Talks

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  12:14:30 am — 12:14:40 am

  (Studio) No progress in 61st Paris Peace Talk session.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Mideast / Fighting

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  12:14:40 am — 12:15:10 am

  (Studio) 8 hour Israeli-Egyptian battle; conflicting loss claims cited.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• USSR / Freedom

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  12:15:10 am — 12:15:30 am

  (Studio) 3 Soviet scientists issue letter claiming inadequate freedom in USSR ; warn of social upheaval if rights not expanded.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Japan / Korea / Hijack

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  12:15:30 am — 12:15:50 am

  (Studio) Japan airlines plane still grounded in Seoul, South Korea.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: New York Life Insurance.)

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  12:15:50 am — 12:16:50 am

• Midwest / Snow

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  12:16:50 am — 12:17:20 am

  (Studio) New snowstorms set Midwest records.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Florida / Thermal Pollution

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  12:17:20 am — 12:21:50 am

  (Studio) Thermal pollution problem; fed., state govts. attack Florida Power and Light Company for polluting Carel Sound.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Dade Cnty., Florida) Power plant heats water, kills marine life. [U. Miami Prof. Gilbert VOSS - reports danger to young marine life.] Company building canal to divert water to new nuclear plant. [Florida Power and Light Company spokesperson F. E. AUTREY - says canal necessary in order to supply electricity, protect environmental [Florida Power and Light Consultant Biologist James LACKEY - denies danger of 95 degree water.] [VOSS - says 90 degrees upper limit according to many scientists.] Electricity and environmental at odds.
  REPORTER: Foster Davis

• Meat Prices / Cong.

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  12:21:50 am — 12:22:20 am

  (Studio) Eggs and pork prices decline, beef prices rise; Congress report says commission should watch beef industry and allow more importation when American beef scarce.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Administration / Textile Import

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  12:22:20 am — 12:22:40 am

  (Studio) Admin dropping opposition to textile import limitation legislature to protect United States textile industry
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  12:22:40 am — 12:23:10 am

  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: At and T; Parliament Cigarettes.)

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  12:23:10 am — 12:24:10 am

• Nixon / VA

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  12:24:10 am — 12:24:40 am

  (Studio) Nixon asks $65 million for wounded Vietnam vets.' medical needs and drug problems.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Commentary (Nixon, Vietnam, France)

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  12:24:40 am — 12:27:00 am

  (Studio) Nixon to send envoy to Paris to discuss French international South East Asia peace conference proposal.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) French President George Pompidou says all Indochina 1 war; United States doubts talks success; Nixon learned of French proposal through public media; chief South East Asia cultural ties with France; if American withdrawal fails, French help may be needed.
  REPORTER: Eric Sevareid

• Good Night

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  12:27:00 am — 12:27:00 am