Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1970-04-22

This program is 26 minutes long

• Introduction Walter Cronkite (New York City)

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  12:00:00 am — 12:01:20 am

• Earth Day / Rallies

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  12:01:20 am — 12:10:50 am

  (Studio) Earth Day crowds smaller than expected.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (NYC) 14th Street and 5th Avenue closed to cars; all ages protest pollution. [New York City Mayor John LINDSAY - denounces pollution; says rally symbolic gesture.]
  REPORTER: Morton Dean

  (Miami, Florida) Dead Orange Parade parodies Orange Bowl Parade. [Organizer Robert KUNST - says parade held to reach man in street.] [Parade queen Sheila FRIEDMAN - reads poem.] Cost $200; aimed at average person.
  REPORTER: George Herman

  (Detroit, Michigan) People protest industry pollution and unconcern. [Reverend William BREWSTER says people protest economic system, lack of planning, control.] Canadians and United States float wreath in memory of Lake Erie.
  REPORTER: Bill Walker

  (Chicago, Illinois) 4,000 attend rally. [Illinois Attorney General William SCOTT - pledges suit against Milwaukee for water pollution.]
  REPORTER: Ike Pappas

  (DC) Music attracts small crowd; marchers young, white and cynical; rally org. rejected White House help offers; Mississippi students picket CIA. [James FARMER - says if environment not saved, will have equality of extinction, brotherhood of grave.]
  REPORTER: David Schoumacher

  (California) Small crowds; marchers end 5-wk. hike; disappointed by anticlimax; people are the problem.
  REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater

  (Studio) CBS Earth Day Special Report tonight.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Agriculture / Herbicides

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  12:10:50 am — 12:11:20 am

  (Studio) Agriculture Department says herbicide prohibition would cost Americans $1 billion per yr.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Kodak Camera; Kodel Carpet; Virginia Slims Cigarettes; NCR Computers.)

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  12:11:20 am — 12:13:20 am

• Nixon / Draft

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  12:13:20 am — 12:14:30 am

  (Studio) White House prepares draft and volunteer Army message.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Nixon expected to end most deferments; draft lottery system aided by more equal liability.
  REPORTER: Dan Rather

• Defense Department / Taxes

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  12:14:30 am — 12:15:00 am

  (Studio) Defense Department tries to close tax loophole for military in Pacific and change South Vietnam war zone tax exemption.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Cambodia / Communists

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  12:15:00 am — 12:17:10 am

  (Studio) Communist drive conts. in Cambodia; could surround Phnom Penh in 2 wks.; North Vietnam attack Takeo, hold Saang.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Bassac River, Cambodia) Vietnam civilians real victims in Cambodian fighting; Vietnam used as shield, many killed; Saang battle longest of war.
  REPORTER: Bert Quint

  (Studio) 30 Vietnam civilians killed, wounded in Saang crossfire.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Southeast Asia / United States / Fighting

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  12:17:10 am — 12:17:40 am

  (Studio) South Vietnam troops fight communists in Cambodia; United States reports 4 copters downed in South Vietnam and 4 planes lost in Laos.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Trinidad / Uprising

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  12:17:40 am — 12:18:20 am

  (Studio) Trinidad black power uprising conts.; 6 United States warships to evacuate Americans, give government small arms.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Colombia / Martial Law

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  12:18:20 am — 12:18:30 am

  (Studio) Martial law in Colombia after Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's supporters riot 2 days; Rojas under house arrest.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Jordan / Grenade

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  12:18:30 am — 12:19:00 am

  (Studio) Terrorist grenade wounds 16 in Nablus, Jordan.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: GMC Trucks; Buick Opel.)

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  12:19:00 am — 12:20:00 am

• Inflation

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  12:20:00 am — 12:20:20 am

  (Studio) Living cost up .5%; mortgages and medical cost up most.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  12:20:20 am — 12:20:30 am

  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Atlanta / Garbage Strike

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  12:20:30 am — 12:20:50 am

  (Studio) 37-day-old Atlanta, Georgia, garbage strike ends in 4.3% pay increase; strikers granted amnesty.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Yale / Black Panthers / Kennedy

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  12:20:50 am — 12:22:10 am

  (Studio) Senator Edward Kennedy in middle of Black Panther trial protest.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (New Haven, Connecticut) Yale students demand University defense of arrested panthers; ask Kennedy for comment. [KENNEDY - says won't support violence.]
  REPORTER: Ben Silver

• Anti-Draft Charges

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  12:22:10 am — 12:22:30 am

  (Studio) Yale Chaplain William Coffin cleared on anti-draft charge; Dr. Benjamin Spock and others cleared; case closed.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Army / ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) Suit

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  12:22:30 am — 12:22:50 am

  (Studio) Washington, DC judge dismisses suit to end Army spying on civilians; ACLU-led groups wanting records destroyed; judge says Army has right to spy on trouble sources.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Westinghouse / Anti-Trust Suit

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  12:22:50 am — 12:23:20 am

  (Studio) Govt. accuses Westinghouse and Japanese firms in anti-trust suit; companies agreed not to export goods but exchanged licenses and patent agreements.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• USSR / Navy

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  12:23:20 am — 12:23:50 am

  (Studio) USSR launches biggest naval exercises in history to celebrate Vladimir Lenin's birthday; NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) watches.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Head and Shoulders Shampoo; Mr. Clean.)

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  12:23:50 am — 12:24:50 am

• Commentary (Earth Day)

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  12:24:50 am — 12:27:30 am

  (Studio) Comment on Earth Day.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Longer efforts needed to end pollution; controversial issue; industry, pop. growth increase; details given.
  REPORTER: Eric Sevareid

• Good Night

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  12:27:30 am — 12:27:30 am