Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1972-01-26

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Walter Cronkite (Washington, DC)

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  05:30:40 pm — 05:31:00 pm

• Nixon Peace Proposal / Paris Peace Talks

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  05:31:00 pm — 05:33:30 pm

  (Studio) Communists dismiss Nixon plan as propaganda, chide President for revealing secret talks, but do not actually reject proposal.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) President Aide Henry Kissinger describes 12 secret mtgs. with Communists on Paris outskirts, over 30 month period.
  REPORTER: Dan Rather

• (Commercial)

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  05:33:30 pm — 05:34:30 pm

• Nixon Peace Proposal / South Vietnam

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  05:34:30 pm — 05:36:20 pm

  (Studio) United States Ambassador to Paris Peace Talks, William Porter, leaves Washington, DC for Paris to make formal proposal of Nixon peace plan. South Vietnam President Thieu endorses plan, which include international supervised election in South Vietnam, with Thieu stepping down from President 1 month prior.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Saigon, South Vietnam) United States Army Chief of Staff, General William Westmoreland, visits Saigon during peace plan announcement. Questions surrounding why South Vietnam President Thieu agreed to election answered in part by fact he must cooperate with United States for economic aid.
  REPORTER: Phil Jones

• Nixon Peace Proposal / Analysis

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  05:36:20 pm — 05:38:00 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon's new Vietnam peace proposals weighed against other plans.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Peace plan analyzed.
  REPORTER: Marvin Kalb

• Vietnam / Arriving Gis

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  05:38:00 pm — 05:42:30 pm

  (Studio) As peace talks continue, United States soldiers continue to arrive in Vietnam.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (South Vietnam) [PFC. Jerry AHRENS - profiled as new soldier in Vietnam.]
  REPORTER: Bob Simon

• Vietnam

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  05:42:30 pm — 05:43:10 pm

  (Studio) South Vietnam Air Force destroys 4 North Vietnam tanks in central highlands. 2 more North Vietnam anti-aircraft missile sites destroyed by United States jets. United States helicopter downed in Mekong Delta, killing 1 GI.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:43:10 pm — 05:43:30 pm

  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

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  05:43:30 pm — 05:44:30 pm

• Bomb Protest / USSR Jew Treatment

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  05:44:30 pm — 05:45:20 pm

  (Studio) Offices of 2 organization sponsoring USSR entertainers in US, fire bombed. Receptionist at Sol Hurok office killed; 5 injured. Anonymous caller says bombs protest treatment of Soviet Jews. Militant Jewish Defense League denies responsibility.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Nursing Home Fire

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  05:45:20 pm — 05:45:40 pm

  (Studio) Cincinnati Nursing home destroyed by fire. 9 elderly women killed; 4 escape.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Price Control / Tuition

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  05:45:40 pm — 05:46:00 pm

  (Studio) Cost of Living Council exempts non-profit private school and college tuition fees from price control.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Howard Hughes

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  05:46:00 pm — 05:48:20 pm

  (Studio) Clifford Irving, author of alleged biography of Howard Hughes, insists book authentic.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Ibiza, Spain) [IRVING - says Hughes verbally gave him autobiography.]
  REPORTER: Bill McLaughlin

  (NYC) [IRVING - arriving in NYC, says he gave McGraw-Hill check to Hughes personally.] Denies wife is "Helga River Hughes".
  REPORTER: David Culhane

• Noise Pollution

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  05:48:20 pm — 05:48:50 pm

  (Studio) Environmental Protection Agency urges Govt. to set limits for noise pollution.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Campaign `72 / Iowa Caucus

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  05:48:50 pm — 05:49:20 pm

  (Studio) Democrat caucuses in Iowa indicate Muskie will get 35% state's delegates; McGovern 25%; uncommitted 35%, other 7%.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

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  05:49:20 pm — 05:50:30 pm

• D. Berrigan Parole

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  05:50:30 pm — 05:50:40 pm

  (Studio) Reverend Daniel Berrigan to be paroled in February Serving time for destroying draft records.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Equal Employment

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  05:50:40 pm — 05:51:10 pm

  (Studio) Senator debates enforcement authority for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to ensure against discrimination by race, creed, or sex, in hiring.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Drug Traffic

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  05:51:10 pm — 05:51:30 pm

  (Studio) Govt. reports seizure of more than $900 million in drugs last year
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Japanese Westw.II Veteran Found

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  05:51:30 pm — 05:52:40 pm

  (Studio) Japanese Army sergeant found by hunters on Guam; in hiding there since W.W. II.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Guam) W.W. II veteran's health remarkable after 28 years in jungles. Looks forward to going home.
  REPORTER: Bill Kurtis (narrates)

• Basketball Fight

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  05:52:40 pm — 05:53:50 pm

  (Studio) Basketball game between University of Minn. and Ohio State gets out of hand.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Minneapolis, Minn.) Rumble featured. Big 10 Commissioner Wayne Duke may suspend some.
  REPORTER: Ralph Jon Fritz (WCCO-TV)

  (Studio) 3 players treated at hospital for facial lacerations.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

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  05:53:50 pm — 05:55:00 pm

• EPA and Politics

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  05:55:00 pm — 05:55:30 pm

  (Studio) Environmental Protection Agency Admin. William Ruckleshaus demands resignation of Howard Cohen, who according to N.Y. "Times", distributed memo to Environmental Protection Agency officials that envtl. legislation be compromised to help Nixon re-election. Cohen denies charge.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Analysis (Nixon Peace Proposal)

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  05:55:30 pm — 05:57:50 pm

  (DC) Nixon's technique and timing of announcing plan cited. Political effects analyzed.
  REPORTER: Eric Sevareid

• Good Night

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  05:57:50 pm — 05:57:50 pm