This program is 27 minutes long
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(Studio) Apollo X crew splashes down in South Pacific and boards USS Princeton. Colonel Thomas Stafford and Cmdrs. Eugene Cernan and John Young in excellent health. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) calls Apollo X perfect performance. Apollo XI to be decided upon in 2 weeks Film of earth as seen from descending ship shown. Pickup of men shown.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Pacific Ocean) Frogmen tie up craft and helicopter lifts men out. Naval crew greets astronauts. [STAFFORD - appreciates support.] [CERNAN - says great to be back.] Nixon invites crew and wives to White House dinner.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley (Narrates)
(Studio) Apollo XI to launch for moon Jul. 16 and land on moon Jul. 20.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) United States troops begin 2 new offensives near DMZ.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Senator Edward Kennedy and others criticized United States military strategy because it cost heavy casualties.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(South Vietnam) [Major General Melvin ZAIS - is on battlefield almost every day. Son is Captain and ARVN Adviser in A Shau Valley. Wouldn't risk lives, except to execute mission. Killed 900 since Mar. and captured huge supply of ammunition]
REPORTER: Bob Jones
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(Studio) If Paris Peace Talks don't work, Americans will train South Vietnam to take over. South Vietnam Defense Min. Nguyen Van Vy says South Vietnam army can't replace United States until 1970.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Clergymen in Massachusetts read list of Vietnam dead to call attention to war's cost.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Foxboro, Massachusetts) [CLERGYMAN - announces reading of list.] Different spkrs. read 35,000 names.
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Read names after dark by flashlight. Finished by morning.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Senator Clinton P. Anderson of Finance Committee supports bill for extra tax of inds. making money from war, to replace 10% surtax. Org. labor opposed to surtax until tax system reformed.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu to visit South Korea and Ntlst. China on way to Midway Island meeting with Nixon.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Saigon, South Vietnam) Thieu takes over leadership of new political alliance, National Socialist Democrat Front, non-Communists alliance. Calls it 1st step toward unifying South Vietnam factions against Communists
REPORTER: Chet Huntley (Narrates)
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(Studio) Judge Arthur Faquin denies new trial for James Earl Ray.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Memphis, Tennessee) Ray's new attys. say Ray misrep. by former attys. Assistant Attorney General Robert Dwyer says Ray waived right to new trial by pleading guilty and signing statement. Defense Attorney Robert Hill says constitutionally no man should be able to waive right of new trial. [Defense Attorney J.B. STONER - says attys. decided not to bring up coercion by former attys.]
REPORTER: Fred Briggs (WMC-TV) Artist: Leo Hershfield
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(Studio) Supreme Court rules last remaining son can't be drafted even if family no longer exists. Jack McKart, whose father died in WWII, and Mother died, had been sentenced to 3 years prison for refusing induction. Court postpones until fall challenge to jury's right to condemn man to death.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Cnclman. Tom Bradley runs ahead of incumbent Sam Yorty.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Los Angeles, California) Yorty claims conspiracy of black militants, white radicals, and Communists Bradley supported by prominent Democrats and Hollywood figures. Yorty and Bradley don't appear together. [YORTY - calls campaign difficult because of bloc voting districts.] [BRADLEY - says Yorty broke promises.] [YORTY - says blacks confused and scared by militants.] [BRADLEY - cites Yorty's racist appeal.] [YORTY - says people afraid of militants.]
REPORTER: Jack Perkins
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(Studio) Alliance for Labor Action (loose alliance of Teamsters and UAW) hold 1st national conference and proposes course of action conflicting with AFL-CIO.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Hearings reveal White House electric bill rose during Johnson years from $42,000 to $50,000, despite Johnson turning off lights.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Representative Donald Rumsfeld sworn in as director of anti-poverty program.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) New York City Mayor John Lindsay tells Nixon that welfare plans bankrupt American cities. System encourages people not to work. System should be taken over by federal government
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) N.E. Airlines plane hijacked by 3 to Cuba and then returns safely to Miami.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Not certain of value or net return of Apollo X success. May lead to startling discoveries, but balance sheet of moon conquest may be indefinitely delayed.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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