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(Cape Kennedy, Florida) Apollo VII crew shown at 8:14 a.m. EDT going to launch complex. Countdown, liftoff and separation of Apollo VII shown.
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Cape Kennedy, Florida) 2 1/2 minute into flight, 1st stage discarded. Spacecraft in orbit after 10 minute 2nd stage discarded after 3 hrs. and simulated docking with it. Communications between ground and craft good. Astronauts' voices via Carnarvon, Australia, heard. Apollo VII to rendezvous for 2nd time with 2nd stage. NBC to carry pictures from Apollo VII as they are received If mission success, Apollo may be sent to orbit moon and come back.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) President Johnson interrupts meeting with French For. Min. Michel Debre to watch launch. Left to visit ex-President Harry S. Truman in Independence, Missouri.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Congress tries to adjourn.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) $71.8 billion defense bill was last appropriations bill passed by House and Senate failed to ratify nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Congress Democratic leaders exchange farewell gifts with President Senator Mike Mansfield, Representative Carl Albert and Speaker House John McCormack among those there. President says he might call Senator back after election to ratify nuclear treaty. [JOHNSON - says election pressures as much as office responsibilities. Hopes Senate will act with nation's interest in mind. Will consider special session for Senate.] [MANSFIELD - says doesn't want treaty to become political issue now. Would be difficult to get quorum. Best procedure is to delay it until first part of January. To delay it isn't to deny it.] House Democrats threaten to stall adjournment trying to force Senator to approve television President debates.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey offers to buy time if he can get Richard Nixon to debate with him. Nixon says no.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(NYC) [HUMPHREY - says won't let Nixon pick and choose debates' format. Nixon should be willing to present self to public.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) Richard Nixon says President Johnson's 10% surtax was actually war tax and he'd repeal it. Accuses Hubert Humphrey of advocating spending too much money and wanting to keep surtax and spend more.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Minneapolis', Minnesota) [NIXON - speaks of large crowd.]
REPORTER: Douglas Kiker
(Van Nuys, California) [NIXON - speaks of enthusiastic crowds.]
REPORTER: Douglas Kiker
(Santa Monica, California) [NIXON - had biggest crowd ever in Buffalo.] Nixon tells everyone to jump on bandwagon.
REPORTER: Douglas Kiker
(No Location Given) Nixon speaks 7 times in 2 unnamed locations. [NIXON - says Americans on march. Sees this all over American Cites places where people want new leadership Americans will vote for change.] He'd hold election today if he could.
REPORTER: Douglas Kiker
(Van Nuys, California) [NIXON - cites his supporters: "forgotten Americans" They'll get new leadership] Fervor and warmth missing.
REPORTER: Douglas Kiker
(Moline, Illinois) [NIXON - says election won't be like 1948. 1 thing to give `em hell; another thing to give `em Humphrey.]
REPORTER: Douglas Kiker
(Akron, Ohio) Hecklers outshouted. [NIXON - says hecklers outshouted by supporters here.] Often audiences look disinterested. Nixon works to keep tempo up.
REPORTER: Douglas Kiker
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(Studio) Guards will surround stadiums to prevent any student violence at Olympics.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) 2 weeks ago, river near Great Lakes overflowing with salmon. Fishermen grabbed many and destroyed property on river banks. Fishermen barred from another river filling up with salmon.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Thompson, Michigan) Fishermen fish for salmon in Great Lakes. In December, 1964, film, Oregon gave million salmon eggs to Michigan conservation representatives In Mar., 1966, fish that survived dumped in streams off Great Lakes. Lakes had mostly contained alewives up until that time and fishing industry nearly dead.
REPORTER: Floyd Kalber
(Hammond Bay, Michigan) Conquering sea lamprey at laboratory makes salmon boom possible.
REPORTER: Floyd Kalber
(Platte River, Michigan) Great Lakes treated with chemical to kill lamprey development by United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Salmon ate alewives, grew 150 times their size and returned from lake to spawn. Conservation workers trapped fish to get eggs for more hatchings. Fish then sold to fisheries.
REPORTER: Floyd Kalber
(Lake Michigan) 6, 142 boats counted on 1 Saturday on lake to catch salmon. Limit is 3 fish per day and no smaller than 12 in. [MAN - calls salmon fishing greatest thing they ever did to Great Lakes. Got 45 so far.] [WOMAN - says loves it. They're good eating.]
REPORTER: Floyd Kalber
(Honor, Michigan) National Coho Salmon Festival held here. Parade shown. Lakes also stkd. with King Salmon which grows to 60 pounds each King Salmon fishing run to begin in fall of 1970.
REPORTER: Floyd Kalber
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(Studio) 2 American copters collide near Da Nang, South Vietnam; 12 killed. 400 North Vietnam escape American trap near Saigon.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) FBI arrests 9 Cuban exiles in Miami for anti-Castro sabotage in US.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Czech Communist Party leader, Alexander Dubcek, says he told Soviet leaders it was impossible for Czech to return to hardline Communism Premier Oldrich Cernik to sign treaty in Moscow for withdrawal of most of troops.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Grandson of Josef Stalin's For. Min., Litvinov and Mrs. Larisa Daniel ordered to exile for illegal public protest against Czech. invasion.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Overloaded ferry boat sinks in shark-infested waters off Philippines. 100s passengers missing.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Ex-Broadway producer, George White, 74, dies of leukemia. Big musicals produced in 1930's.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Probably won't be any President television debates unless Hubert Humphrey buys air time to debate George Wallace. That's unlikely.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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