Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1972-01-18

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Walter Cronkite (New York)

  #219801

  05:30:40 pm — 05:30:50 pm

• Water Poison Plot

  #219802

  05:30:50 pm — 05:33:30 pm

  (Studio) 2 college students charged with conspiracy to commit murder in plot to poison Chicago water system.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Chicago) 19 year old Allen Schwander and 18 year old Steve Pera charged in plot. Typhoid germs found in possession. [States Attorney, Edward HANRAHAN - says group called RISE planned inoculations of select few to immunize them from germs to be dispersed to rest of population via water filtration plants.] [Mayor Richard DALEY - affirms safety of water.]
  REPORTER: Robert Bahr

• (Commercial)

  #219803

  05:33:30 pm — 05:34:40 pm

• 92nd Congress / Campaign `72

  #219804

  05:34:40 pm — 05:37:50 pm

  (Studio) 2nd session 92nd Congress convenes, with focus on politics.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Congressional vacations reviewed. [Mass. Senator Ed KENNEDY - blasts Nixon for failure to end war.] [Senator Minority leader Hugh SCOTT - attacks Kennedy statement.] [Senate Majority leader Mike MANSFIELD - admits Kennedy speech a threat to political harmony.]
  REPORTER: Roger Mudd

• Women Strike For Peace

  #219805

  05:37:50 pm — 05:38:10 pm

  (Studio) 100 women, demonstrating for end to war, evicted from House galleries.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

  #219806

  05:38:10 pm — 05:39:10 pm

• Indochina-Air War

  #219807

  05:39:10 pm — 05:39:40 pm

  (Studio) United States bombers hit Ho Chi Minh Trail to dampen expected Communist offensive. North Vietnam MiGs fire on United States Phantom jets.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• My Lai Massacre

  #219808

  05:39:40 pm — 05:41:20 pm

  (Studio) Columnist Seymour Hersh, who won Pulitzer Prize for exposing My Lai Massacre, reports in "New Yorker" that Pentagon figures show 347 civilians killed in My Lai Massacre, 100 more at My Khe.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Pentagon reports investigation of charges mentioned by Hersh. Murder charge against Captain Thomas Willingham in connection with My Khe was dropped. Hersh received transcript of Pentagon investigation into My Lai cover-up. Pentagon refuses release while William Calley case in review. Former Army Secretary Stanley Resor once promised publication, but new Army Secretary refuses.
  REPORTER: Bob Schieffer

• Paris Peace Talks

  #219809

  05:41:20 pm — 05:42:00 pm

  (Studio) Paris Peace Talks 3 years old today. French For. Min. says talks linger on verge of death.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

  #219810

  05:42:00 pm — 05:43:00 pm

• Canadian Seal Preservation

  #219811

  05:43:00 pm — 05:43:20 pm

  (Studio) Canada orders 1 year ban on seal slaughter by ships and planes in Saint Lawrence Gulf.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Longshoremen's Strike

  #219812

  05:43:20 pm — 05:43:50 pm

  (Studio) Congress pressured to legislate end to renewed West Coast dock strike. Ore. Governor Tom McCall, representative 7 West Governor, flies to Washington, DC to appeal to Nixon Admin. for action to end strike. Ship owners refuse to accept military cargo, previously exempt from strike.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• US-Russia

  #219813

  05:43:50 pm — 05:44:40 pm

  (Studio) United States Coast Guard icebreaker captures Russian fishing ships in US territorial waters of Alaska, escorts then to United States Naval base in Aleutians.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Campaign `72 / Muskie

  #219814

  05:44:40 pm — 05:46:40 pm

  (Studio) Senator Harold Hughes endorses Presidential candidate Senator Edmund Muskie.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Des Moines, Iowa) Iowa holds 2600 precinct caucuses to pick conv. delegates. [HUGHES - announces plans to back Muskie.] [MUSKIE - says Hughes automatically include with list of Vice President candidates.]
  REPORTER: Bruce Morton

• Campaign `72 / Nixon

  #219815

  05:46:40 pm — 05:52:20 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon's strategy for `72 Presidential campaign is to be aloof from battle, yet campaign organization operates in his behalf.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Central Hdqtrs. for Re-elect Nixon campaign are in Wte. House, but offices rented in 1st Ntl Bank Building carry out operational details. [GOP Fin. Director, Robert ODELL, Junior describes computer mail out.] Youth drive, with 18-21 year old workers, campaigns among young voters. [Republican college Director Karl ROVE - tells of voter registration drives.] Nixon trips to Moscow and Peking noted.
  REPORTER: Dan Rather

• Space Lab

  #219816

  05:52:20 pm — 05:52:40 pm

  (Studio) Orbiting space laboratory crews named: Pete Conrad and Alan Bean to command teams of rookie scientist-astronauts.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Pakistan, Bangladesh

  #219817

  05:52:40 pm — 05:53:00 pm

  (Studio) Sheik Mujibur Rahman refuses offer of Pakistan President Ali Bhutto to be Pakistan leader, reunite country.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

  #219818

  05:53:00 pm — 05:54:10 pm

• Detroit Bank

  #219819

  05:54:10 pm — 05:54:40 pm

  (Studio) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) loans Detroit Bank of Commonwealth $60 million to prevent financial collapse.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

  #219820

  05:54:40 pm — 05:54:50 pm

  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Housing Starts

  #219821

  05:54:50 pm — 05:55:20 pm

  (Studio) Commerce Department reports new record on housing starts for 1971, more than 2 million.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Analysis (Unemployment)

  #219822

  05:55:20 pm — 05:58:00 pm

  (DC) President State of Union Message on domestic economy projected. Unemployment cited as biggest economic problem. Unemployment situation analyzed.
  REPORTER: Eric Sevareid

• Good Night

  #665964

  05:58:00 pm — 05:58:00 pm