Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1972-01-14

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Walter Cronkite (New York)

  #219751

  05:30:40 pm — 05:31:00 pm

• Economy-US / Indicators

  #219752

  05:31:00 pm — 05:32:20 pm

  (Studio) Economic, political indicators watched closely. Favorable signs: Commerce Department predicts plant expansions; car sales up; retail sales up; prime rate cut. Discouraging news: gross national product drops; Labor Department reports wholesale price Index rises. Consumer price rise predicted.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Pay Board / Aerospace

  #219753

  05:32:20 pm — 05:33:40 pm

  (Studio) 8.3% increase accepted by Pay Bd.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Long Beach, Cal.) Reaction of industry reported Most workers unhappy, but strike unlikely. McDonald-Douglas analyzed. Workers express disappointment. Blame Nixon. Space-shuttle program as factor considered.
  REPORTER: Bill Kurtis

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

  #219754

  05:33:40 pm — 05:34:00 pm

  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

  #219755

  05:34:00 pm — 05:35:00 pm

• Long Cheng, Laos / Vietnam War

  #219756

  05:35:00 pm — 05:41:00 pm

  (Studio) Communist victory claims at Long Cheng CIA base in Laos premature. North Vietnam missile bases near DMZ (demilitarized zone) noted. Quang Tri Province said cncnd.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam) United States withdrawal of troops felt in Quang Tri. South Vietnam control firebases; some United States Marine advisors. [Corporation Danny MATTHEWS - speaks of concern about anticipated attack.] Vietnamization considered. Pathetic humor said characteristic. "Junk" United States equipment chrg. made. Tank squad featured. Low morale of South Vietnam troops noted. [Brigadier General VU VAN GIAI - irritated by term "Vietnamization."] Villagers, refugees fear future; volunteer resettlement near Saigon. Guitar love song ends sequence.
  REPORTER: Phil Jones

• Gen. Creighton Abrams

  #219757

  05:41:00 pm — 05:41:20 pm

  (Studio) Return of General Abrams reported.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• United States / Israel

  #219758

  05:41:20 pm — 05:41:50 pm

  (Studio) US-Israel aid agreement feared to cause break in Mideast Peace Talks, interruption of cease-fire.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• USSR / Jews

  #219759

  05:41:50 pm — 05:42:30 pm

  (Studio) United States Educational study group ends tour. Representative James Sheuer expelled for tampering with Jewish emigration problem.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

  #219760

  05:42:30 pm — 05:43:40 pm

• Lumber Industry / Envtlists.

  #219761

  05:43:40 pm — 05:46:40 pm

  (Studio) Lumber dispute noted. Timbering methods questioned. Gov't sides with lumber men.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Film of Six Rivers Forest, Cal. shown, exemplifying "clear cutting". Reforestation claimed by Forest Service. Council on Envtl. Quality drafts executive order. Harm to scenic beauty at issue, along with building costs. [Oregon Governor Tom MCCALL - says economy of state would have been harmed by order.] [Chmn. Envtl. Council Russell TRAIN - says draft tentative.] (Bitterroot Forest, Mont., film shown.)
  REPORTER: Daniel Schorr

• Nuclear Power

  #219762

  05:46:40 pm — 05:47:20 pm

  (Studio) Atomic Energy Commission announces new nuclear generating plant for Rogersville, Tenn. First fast-breeder plant, which produces fuel.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Department of Health, Education And Welfare / Women

  #219763

  05:47:20 pm — 05:47:50 pm

  (Studio) Welfare Secretary Elliot Richardson endorses report for pymnt. of Social Security benefits to housewives. Department of Health, Education and Welfare to grant maternity leaves of 2,3 years. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Women's Action staff drafted hill.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

  #219764

  05:47:50 pm — 05:48:50 pm

• Campaign `72 / Wallace

  #219765

  05:48:50 pm — 05:49:40 pm

  (Studio) Democrat Natl. Chmn. Lawrence O'Brien repudiates Ala. Governor George Wallace. Wallace campaign said favorable to President Nixon. 3rd party race feared.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Mitchell / Campaign `72

  #219766

  05:49:40 pm — 05:50:00 pm

  (Studio) Roles of Attorney General John Mitchell, Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans in Nixon campaign predicted. Peter G. Peterson viewed as Stans' successor.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Super Bowl

  #219767

  05:50:00 pm — 05:52:10 pm

  (Studio) New Orleans business to be boosted by Super Bowl.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (New Orleans, Louisiana) Airplanes, hotels filled. No regular television coverage of game. Bourbon Street tones down for crowd; price-gouging discouraged.
  REPORTER: Jed Duvall

• King Frederik Dies

  #219768

  05:52:10 pm — 05:52:40 pm

  (Studio) King Frederik IX of Denmark dies; Princess Margarethe succeeds as queen.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Col. Edwin Aldrin

  #219769

  05:52:40 pm — 05:53:00 pm

  (Studio) Colonel Aldrin resigns from Air Force.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Robert Gilruth Resigns

  #219770

  05:53:00 pm — 05:53:20 pm

  (Studio) Robert Gilruth leaves post at Houston Manned Spacecraft Center. Chris Kraft to succeed Gilruth.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

  #219771

  05:53:20 pm — 05:54:30 pm

• Air Traffic

  #219772

  05:54:30 pm — 05:55:00 pm

  (Studio) Air Traffic Control spokesman chgs. tragedy with West Ger. Chancellor Willy Brandt's plane narrowly averted. Almost crashed with Eastern Airlines jet.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Analysis (F. Scott Fitzgerald Luncheon)

  #219773

  05:55:00 pm — 05:57:40 pm

  (Studio) F. Scott Fitzgerald type of luncheon noted.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) David Frost sky-borne luncheon in Bermuda. News-publicity, fame-celebrities merge.
  REPORTER: Eric Sevareid

• Runaway Children

  #219774

  05:57:40 pm — 05:58:20 pm

  (Studio) Senate holds hearing on runaway children. Reverend Fred Eckhardt blames movies, television for part of problem, glamorizing hippie communes. Terrible life said in prospect for teen-age runaways.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Good Night

  #665958

  05:58:20 pm — 05:58:20 pm