Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1970-04-28

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Walter Cronkite (New York City)

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  12:00:00 am — 12:00:20 am

• Nixon / Economy / Stock Market

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  12:00:20 am — 12:06:00 am

  (Studio) Nixon to give national economy speech within 2 weeks; President confident; speech not linked to stock market decline. [STK. MKT. REPORT]
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (NYC) Wall Street angry at Nixon's economy restraints. [Charles ROLLO - doesn't blame Nixon administration entirely; he inherited problem.] [Monte GORDON - says 1st quarter profit reports caused recent slump.] Trading volume slack, may plunge.
  REPORTER: Mike Stanley

  (Studio) President reaction follows.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Nixon hears campaign contributors' economy complaints; still wants inflation slowed.
  REPORTER: George Herman

  (Dallas, Texas) [Chairperson Council Econ. Advisers Paul McCRACKEN - reports trouble causes inflation expectations, profit margin squeeze, market money demands and readjustments.
  REPORTER: Tom Wilson (KRLD-TV newsfilm)

  (DC) Democrats see campaign issue.
  REPORTER: George Herman

  (DC) [Democratic Party Chairperson Lawrence O'BRIEN - claims situation demands President power in public interest.]
  REPORTER: David Dick

  (DC) Admin. claims present course right, will continue
  REPORTER: George Herman

• Steel Industry / Profits

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  12:06:00 am — 12:06:20 am

  (Studio) United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel profits down.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Presidential Yachts

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  12:06:20 am — 12:06:40 am

  (Studio) Nixon to sell 2 of 3 Presidential yachts to aid economy
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Geritol; Sominex.)

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  12:06:40 am — 12:07:40 am

• China / United States / Indochina

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  12:07:40 am — 12:08:00 am

  (Studio) China warns United States it will support all Indochina communists against American aggression, blames Nixon administration for war; no direct intervention threatened.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Cambodia / United States Aid

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  12:08:00 am — 12:08:10 am

  (Studio) United States plans new captured weapons shipment to Cambodia.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Cambodia / Highway 1 / Communists

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  12:08:10 am — 12:10:30 am

  (Studio) Communists repulse government Angtassom attack, seize other outpost
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Highway 1, Cambodia) Vietnam communists hold highway between Phnom Penh, South Vietnam border; much West, little E. traffic; Cambodian troops avoid battle, wait for US, South Vietnam aid.
  REPORTER: Bert Quint

• South Vietnam / American Losses

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  12:10:30 am — 12:10:50 am

  (Studio) United States Saigon cmd. reports 5 planes lost over South Vietnam; Marine pilot error kills 10 government troops near Danang.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Draft Call

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  12:10:50 am — 12:11:10 am

  (Studio) Defense Secretary Melvin Laird says Vietnam withdrawals may cut draft call by 100,000.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Mideast / Israel / Jordan / Egypt

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  12:11:10 am — 12:13:00 am

  (Studio) Mideast trouble over Israeli plans to settle Jews in occupied Jordan.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Hebron, Jordan) Arabs meet to thwart Israeli plan; Israeli plan military post, farm land opposed by Arabs, some Jews; Israeli intellectuals and students support Arab claims.
  REPORTER: Gerald Miller

  (Studio) Israel claims downing 2 Egyptian planes over Suez.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Big 4 / Berlin

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  12:13:00 am — 12:13:20 am

  (Studio) Big 4 representatives meet in Berlin to ease tension; E. Germans boost toll on rds. to West Berlin.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Haiti / Revolt

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  12:13:20 am — 12:13:50 am

  (Studio) 9 Haiti revolutionaries executed; ships to be returned from Puerto Rico, leaking badly; crews should receive American asylum.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Kent Cigarettes; Tums Antacid.)

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  12:13:50 am — 12:14:50 am

• Douglas / Impeachment

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  12:14:50 am — 12:15:00 am

  (Studio) Justice William O. Douglas opens files, records to Senator investigators, hires lawyer for impeachment defense
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Supreme Court Nom. / Blackmun

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  12:15:00 am — 12:17:50 am

  (Studio) American Bar Association endorses Supreme Court nomination Harry Blackmun.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Blackmun nervous. [BLACKMUN - won't comment.] Judge non-pol.; meets with Senators; courtesy call. [Senator Marlow West COOK - expects Blackmun will visit all judiciary committee mbrs before hearings tomorrow.] Financial, civil rights records clean. [Senator Eugene McCARTHY - expresses confidence Blackmun will be approved.]
  REPORTER: David Schoumacher

• South Carolina / Civil Rights

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  12:17:50 am — 12:18:10 am

  (Studio) Justice Department Civil Rights Chief tells South Carolina freedom of choice plans unacceptable.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Democratic Party

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  12:18:10 am — 12:18:40 am

  (Studio) Democratic Party Reform Commission wants youth, blacks and women representatives at 1972 convention; urges more democrat procedures to increase members
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Bayer Aspirin.)

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  12:18:40 am — 12:19:40 am

• Ohio / Supreme Court / Erie

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  12:19:40 am — 12:20:30 am

  (Studio) Ohio asks Supreme Court to end chemical companies' pollution of Lake Erie, force retribution.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Demonstrations / Gulf / Honeywell

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  12:20:30 am — 12:23:10 am

  (Studio) Anti-war demonstrators disrupt Gulf Oil, Honeywell stockholders' mtgs.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Minneapolis, Minnesota) 1,500 march to company office; some hold proxies, enter mtg. [Executive J. H. BINGER - can't set weapons policy.] Protesters attempt forced entry, shatter windows; police push them back; standoff in street; Bd. Dirs. re-elected and adjourn meeting
  REPORTER: Ike Pappas

• F-111 / Contract

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  12:23:10 am — 12:23:40 am

  (Studio) F-111 contract full of holes; government loses $3.8 billion overrun; contract made before development set.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• American Ambassador / Sweden

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  12:23:40 am — 12:24:00 am

  (Studio) State Department angry at protest of American ambassador to Sweden Jerome Holland; black ambassador egged, insulted; United States may take diplomatic action.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Polident Denture Soak.)

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  12:24:00 am — 12:25:30 am

• Commentary (Domestic Crises)

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  12:25:30 am — 12:27:30 am

  (Studio) Comment on domestic crises.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Impatience with war, economy causes trouble; schools torn; may be Yale May Day violence; Black Panther trial protested; rough spring ahead.
  REPORTER: Eric Sevareid

• Good Night

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  12:27:30 am — 12:27:30 am