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(Studio) Apollo XI returns to earth's gravitational field. President Nixon predicts man to visit other planets with life by 2000 to group of foreign exchange students.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) [NIXON - hopes we can go to new worlds together. If we could solve world's problems, what a world we could create.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) British astronomer, Sir Bernard Lovell says Apollo XI shows American superiority in space and incrd. chances of American-Soviet space cooperation. Soviet scientists applaud Apollo XI, but offer no explanation for Luna XV, which hit moon last night. Most think Luna XV failure.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Studio) Dr. Wernher von Braun says in future moon landing to be compared to when aquatic creatures 1st began to adapt to land living. Plans for parades for crew in Chicago, NYC, and Los Angeles.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) President Nixon calls on Congress leaders to push for surtax extension. 4 present and former Treasury Secys. agree. Public wants reform.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Defense Secretary Melvin Laird speaks to American Legion Boys Nation and defends spending on military hardware.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) [LAIRD - tells of Senator list of weapons systems that fell through. Money wasted because we didn't have war. Hope it's all wasted in that respect.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) Pentagon admits to storing nerve gas on Okinawa and that it will be removed. Gas stored inside US.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Communists stage hit and run near Saigon and Danang. Chairperson Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Earle Wheeler, returns to Washington, DC after 4 days studying Vietnam lull.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) [WHEELER - says enemy works in cyclic fashion. Next high may come within 2 weeks Probably preparing for attack series.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) Senator Edward Kennedy attends funeral for Mary Jo Kopechne. 1st public appearance since wkend. when car went off bridge near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Has been in seclusion in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Police say Ted Kennedy waited 8 hrs. to report accident. Charged with leaving scene of accident.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Plymouth, Pennsylvania) MJK's parents, friends, and outsiders present at church. [Joseph KOPECHNE - satisfied death accidental. Ted Kennedy said he wished it had been him.]
REPORTER: Dean Brelis
(Plymouth, Pennsylvania) Ted Kennedy at funeral with wife Joan, and sister-in-law Ethel. He wears neck brace.
REPORTER: Charles Quinn
(Hyannis Port, Massachusetts) Ted Kennedy flies home. [KENNEDY - says not appropriate time for statement.] Edgartown Police Officer Dominick Arena has witness who can explain Ted Kennedy's movements during missing hrs.
REPORTER: Liz Trotta
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(Studio) Cigarette industry offers to stop all advertising over broadcasting media by late next year if Congress allows it to advertise freely without warnings in other places.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) [Philip-Morris spokesperson Joseph CULLMAN - speaks for cigarette industry We'll discontinue advertising by September if Congress agrees not to deem such actions as violations of anti-trust laws.] [President NAB Vincent WASILEWSKI - says should phase out advertising. Make preclusion of advertising in all media.] [Senator Frank MOSS - says print media should use current ratio of cigarette ads.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Broadcasting industry agrees to stop advertising by 1973, Moss wonders why it should take so long.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Riots follow slaying of Negro by white shop owner in Columbus, Ohio, 40 fires set; 26 hurt. 1 white man shot by sniper. National Guard called, After 5 nights' violence, National Guard called to York, Pennsylvania. 1 killed; 45 wounded.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Nixon leaves to see Apollo XI splashdown and goodwill tour of S.E. Asia and Romania. He leaves with confidence, thinking United States supports him and grows conservative.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Justice Department, attorney Kevin Phillips' "Emerging Republican Majority" says Mason-Dixon Line is no longer political boundary. In midst of country and sunbelt is Nixon country [PHILLIPS - says interior no longer split North and S. 21 of 25 heartland states supported Nixon. Heartland is pro-Nixon bloc. Sunbelt is South half of United States from coast to coast. National future centered here. Group lacks roots and is semi-frontier Anglo-Saxon middle-class culture. It dislikes welfare. Thinks American socially viable.] Nixon must be conservative enough to take away George Wallace voters. Phillips sees Republican future in smaller towns and Negroes may use Democratic party to pull selves up. Sees place for lower middle-class whites in Republican Party; enough to keep Republicans in office for while.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Nixon awards American Airlines the trans-Pacific route from United States to South Pacific, New Zealand, and Australia. American to fly to these points from Midwest and E.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Nixon asks Congress to overhaul Interstate Commerce Commission and give him authority to appointed chairperson Chairperson now rotated among members
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Prince Juan Carlos of Bourbon named Francisco Franco's successor. Franco to stay on and advise Prince.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Commercial moon flights speculated upon. But won't be considered because of people saying, "Here they are talking about moon when they can't even fly to Hawaii."
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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