Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1972-01-07

This program is 28 minutes long

• Introduction Walter Cronkite (New York)

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  05:30:40 pm — 05:31:00 pm

• Bank Bombs

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  05:31:00 pm — 05:35:10 pm

  (Studio) Time bombs planted mos. ago in 9 banks in 3 major cities to secure release of political prisoners, revealed.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (New York) [New York City policeman Lieutenant Kenneth O'NEIL - describes electric calendar clock time bombs.] Banks tipped off by letters to various news media. George Jackson and Sam Melville, prisoners killed in escape, riot, mentioned. Safety deposit boxes rented under name Christopher Chas. Moore.
  REPORTER: Gary Shepard

  (Chicago) Safety deposit boxes with bombs last visited in July, 1971. Students for a Democratic Society suspected in plot. All letters mailed from Chicago.
  REPORTER: Jeff Williams (WBBM-TV Newsfilm)

  (San Francisco) One bomb exploded last September at Bank of American 2 more found at Wells Fargo and Crocker Banks.
  REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld

• (Commercial)

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  05:35:10 pm — 05:36:10 pm

• Nixon-Sato Summit / Campaign `72 / Nixon

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  05:36:10 pm — 05:39:10 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon concludes meeting with Japanese P. Min. Sato; announces candidacy for re-election in New Hampshire by letter.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Concord, New Hampshire) [New Hampshire Secretary of State, Robert STARK - reads Nixon letter.] [Nixon New Hampshire campaign manager, Lane DWINELL - cites Nixon's decision not to run actively in primaries due to President duties.]
  REPORTER: Sylvia Chase

  (San Clemente, Cal.) Nixon agrees to return Okinawa to Japanese control on May 15, to set up DC-Tokyo hot-line.
  REPORTER: Dan Rather

• Campaign `72 / Humphrey, Wallace

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  05:39:10 pm — 05:39:20 pm

  (Studio) Senator Hubert Humphrey to announce President candidacy Monday; Ala. Governor George Wallace to announce in Tallahassee, Florida, on Thursday
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (David Dick quoted)

• Campaign `72 / Muskie

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  05:39:20 pm — 05:39:40 pm

  (Studio) Senator Adlai Stevenson to endorse Senator Edmund Muskie. Muskie to fly to Springfield, Ill., Monday for announcement.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (David Schoumacher quoted)

• Supreme Court / New Justices

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  05:39:40 pm — 05:40:10 pm

  (Studio) Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist sworn in as Supreme Court justices. Both men profiled.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

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  05:40:10 pm — 05:41:10 pm

• Unemployment

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  05:41:10 pm — 05:43:40 pm

  (Studio) Unemployment up from 6% to 6.1% in December 5,200,000 unemployed in 1971.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Film of Seattle unemployed in December shown. Ten year figures on unemployment charted. [Congress Joint Econ. Committee Chairperson, Senator William PROXMIRE - disturbed at figures.] [Council Economic Advisors Chairperson Herbert STEIN - optimistic about figures of 2nd half 1971.]
  REPORTER: Daniel Schorr

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:43:40 pm — 05:43:50 pm

  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

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  05:43:50 pm — 05:44:50 pm

• Black Hijacking

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  05:44:50 pm — 05:45:30 pm

  (Studio) Pacific Southwest Airlines jet with 134 passengers, hijacked to Cuba en route from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Black couple with infant, armed with shotgun and pistol, allowed passengers to get off in Los Angeles. Refueled in Tampa, Florida, where hijackers demanded to fly to Africa but settled for Cuba. Plane and crew returned to Miami.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Spanish Jet Crash

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  05:45:30 pm — 05:45:40 pm

  (Studio) Iberian Airlines jet crashes into fog-ridden mountain killing 104 Persons aboard.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Unsafe Bridges

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  05:45:40 pm — 05:46:20 pm

  (Studio) In 1967, bridge over Ohio River in West Virginia collapsed, killing 46. Resulting Federal investigation reports 1 of 6 bridges in USA, is critically deficient. Federal Highway Admin. cites Tenn., Ohio, Mich. as worst.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Rome Traffic

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  05:46:20 pm — 05:48:50 pm

  (Studio) Rome launches program encouraging mass transit.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Rome) City Bus. Company drops 50 lire (8 1/2 cents) charge and permits free rides for 9 day trial period. 30% more people rode bus first days, then 70%, but just as many cars on street; buses used for mid-town transit only. [Car drivers interviewed show preference for car.]
  REPORTER: Bert Quint

• Gis and Drugs

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  05:48:50 pm — 05:49:20 pm

  (Studio) Pentagon reports drug addiction among United States servicemen in Vietnam has declined sharply. Ass't. Secretary Defense for Health and Env't., Dr. Richard Wilbur says drug addict patients dropped 2/3 in 5 mos.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Nuclear Test / China

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  05:49:20 pm — 05:49:40 pm

  (Studio) Atomic Energy Commission reports People's Republic of China conducts 12th known atmospheric nuclear test in Northwest China.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• India - North Vietnam

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  05:49:40 pm — 05:50:30 pm

  (Studio) India establishes diplomatic relations with North Vietnam. Reporter says India did it out of anger over United States pro-Pakistan position. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco said to have told Indian Ambassador in Washington, DC to quit talking to press during war.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (Marvin Kalb quoted)

• Analysis (Balance of Power)

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  05:50:30 pm — 05:53:00 pm

  (DC) Power balance on seas featured. As British pull out and Russians increase United States air and sea power, enter scene. Instances in Indian Ocean, Malta in Mediterranean, cited.
  REPORTER: Eric Sevareid

• Pentagon Personnel

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  05:53:00 pm — 05:53:30 pm

  (Studio) Pentagon announces large cut-back on military and civilian personnel.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial)

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  05:53:30 pm — 05:54:30 pm

• Apollo 16

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  05:54:30 pm — 05:54:40 pm

  (Studio) Apollo 16 moon shot postponed to April 16 due to technical problem.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Barryman Suicide

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  05:54:40 pm — 05:54:50 pm

  (Studio) In Minneapolis, Pulitzer Prize winning poet John Barryman committed suicide by jumping into Miss. River
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Cohen Paroled

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  05:54:50 pm — 05:55:10 pm

  (Studio) Mickey Cohen, West Coast underworld figure, released from Fed. prison hospital. Serving time for income tax evasion in Atlanta, he had been severely beaten.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Hijacking Hero

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  05:55:10 pm — 05:58:40 pm

  (Studio) West Coast folk hero, D.B. Cooper featured.

  (Woodland, Wash.) [Night club singer, Tom BRESH - sings story of D.B. Cooper, hijacker who parachuted out of sight with $200,000 last Thanksgiving eve.] [Record producer, Mary Ann BAKKER - justifies making Cooper a folk hero in record. Tee Shirts manufactured also.] [Ore. Ass't. US Attorney, Bonita NEAL - says adulation unwarranted.] [Pilot, Joe MAY - thinks Cooper is dead.]
  REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater

• Good Night

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  05:58:40 pm — 05:58:40 pm