Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1972-01-05

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Walter Cronkite (New York)

  #220092

  05:30:40 pm — 05:31:00 pm

• Pay Board / Aerospace Workers

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  05:31:00 pm — 05:34:20 pm

  (Studio) Pay Bd. refuses 12% pay raise in aerospace worker's union contract. Former practice of breaking own guidelines contradicted. Labor leaders angered by decision.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Business and public members Pay Bd. vote against raise; labor mbrs. threaten court action. [U.A.W. President Leonard WOODCOCK - shocked by Bd. action.]
  REPORTER: Bernard Shaw

  (Burbank, Cal.) Lockheed Aircraft corporation aerospace workers affected by Bd. action. [President IAM, Lodge 727, James QUILLEN - disappointed.] Workers interviewed express satisfaction with more moderate raises; glad to have jobs.
  REPORTER: Bill Kurtis

• Space Shuttle

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  05:34:20 pm — 05:36:10 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon authorizes space shuttle.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Cal.) NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) administration, Dr. James Fletcher, explains new space shuttle system to President Nixon. [NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) film simulates shuttle.] Reusability said a major cost-saving factor in orbital missions.
  REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint

• Apollo 16

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  05:36:10 pm — 05:36:20 pm

  (Studio) Apollo 16 moon flight may he postponed due to technical difficulties.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

  #220096

  05:36:20 pm — 05:37:30 pm

• Hexachlorophene

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  05:37:30 pm — 05:41:50 pm

  (Studio) FDA (Food and Drug Administration) moves to restrict use of hexachlorophene.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (New York) Hexachlorophene kills skin bacteria. Found to cause brain lesions. [American Academy Pediatrics, Dr. L. Stanley JAMES - views chemical as dangerous.] Mfrs. "Physohex" say product being damned too soon. [Winthrop Labs., Dr. Monroe TROUT - says risk doesn't outweigh risk of staph epidemics in newborn nurseries.] [JAMES - advocates plain soap and water.]
  REPORTER: Robert Schakne

• Burns To Quit

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  05:41:50 pm — 05:42:10 pm

  (Studio) Representative John Burns, of Ways and Means Committee, won't seek re-election.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:42:10 pm — 05:42:30 pm

  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Car Sales

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  05:42:30 pm — 05:42:40 pm

  (Studio) Auto sales top 10 million in United States of America in 1970; 1st time.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Steel Prices

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  05:42:40 pm — 05:43:00 pm

  (Studio) US Steel announces price cuts.

• (Commercial)

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  05:43:00 pm — 05:44:00 pm

• Plane Turbulence

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  05:44:00 pm — 05:44:30 pm

  (Studio) 25 injured when plane hits turbulence over Houston. Federal Aviation Administration blames thunderstorm systems.

• Air Pollution / Garage

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  05:44:30 pm — 05:47:50 pm

  (Studio) Miami International Airport suffers pollution problems.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Miami) Automobile exhaust at underground parking facilities traps air pollution. [Anti-pollution official, Peter BALJET - reports carbon monoxide levels exceed Department of Health, Education and Welfare standards.] [Deputy Ralph HAMILTON - experienced sickness from fumes.]
  REPORTER: Jed Duvall

• Heroin

  #220105

  05:47:50 pm — 05:48:00 pm

  (Studio) Federal agents report seizure of 248 pounds heroin in Miami.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (WTUJ-TV Newsfilm)

• Teacher Slain

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  05:48:00 pm — 05:48:30 pm

  (Studio) D.C. Park View Elementary School teacher, Mrs. Margaret Brooks shot by estranged husband James in front of students. Homicide chrgd.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

  #220107

  05:48:30 pm — 05:49:40 pm

• United States Bombs North Vietnam

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  05:49:40 pm — 05:53:00 pm

  (Studio) United States jet fighter, over North Vietnam on protective reaction strike, destroys Communist missile site. Air Force chopper "Jolly Green Giant," rescues another rescue team, shot down in South Vietnam.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Da Nang) [Defense Department film of rescue mission shown.] [Pfc. Dennis TRIMBLE; Sp/4 George COBB - describe experience.]
  REPORTER: Bruce Dunning

• Universitys.S. Enterprise / India-Pakistan

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  05:53:00 pm — 05:53:30 pm

  (Studio) USS Enterprise sent to Indian Ocean during India-Pakistan War. Syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, citing classified documents, says task force sent to make India divert ships and planes from E. Pakistan. Task force still there.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Soviet Censorship

  #220110

  05:53:30 pm — 05:54:10 pm

  (Studio) Vladimir Bukovsky, tried for slandering USSR system, draws heavy sentence. Ownership of printing press significant.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

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  05:54:10 pm — 05:55:10 pm

• Analysis (Credibility Gap)

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  05:55:10 pm — 05:57:50 pm

  (DC) Credibility gap due to government and press clashes exemplified: Pentagon Papers; United States stand on India-Pakistan War--reported by Jack Anderson. Govt. right of privacy; Public's right to truth, in conflict.
  REPORTER: Eric Sevareid

• Good Night

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  05:57:50 pm — 05:57:50 pm