Vanderbilt Television News Archive

NBC Evening News for 1970-04-22

This program is 23 minutes long

• Introduction Chet Huntley (New York City)

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  12:00:00 am — 12:00:10 am

• Earth Day Rallies

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  12:00:10 am — 12:05:30 am

  (Studio) Earth Day rallies against pollution; Congress takes day off; members speak around country
  REPORTER: Chet Huntley

  (Madison, WI) Genesis parody traces environmental destruction.
  REPORTER: No reporter given

  (NYC) Few pickets, band entertains watchers.
  REPORTER: No reporter given

  (Cleveland, Ohio) Parade, trash pick-up, taps played for river.
  REPORTER: No reporter given

  (Chicago, Illinois) Large crowd at Civic Center
  REPORTER: No reporter given

  (DC) Crowd shouts for Walter Hickel at Interior Department; rock bands play at Washington Monument.
  REPORTER: No reporter given

  (Chevy Chase, MD) Grade school class sings "Oil Drops Are Fallin' On My Head".
  REPORTER: No reporter given

• (Commercial: Alka-Seltzer; Kellogg's Cereal.)

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  12:05:30 am — 12:07:10 am

• Cambodia / United States / Vietnam / Fighting

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  12:07:10 am — 12:13:30 am

  (Studio) Cambodian General Lon Nol writes Nixon, asking arms and return of mercenaries fighting with Green Berets in South Vietnam; North Vietnam and Viet Cong taking much of E. Cambodia; in battle to recapture Saang, Cambodian general used Vietnam civilians as shield and decoy; up to 30 civilians killed, wounded in crossfire.
  REPORTER: Chet Huntley

  (Saang, Cambodia) Buddhist monks reported enemy positions Monday; air strike draws Viet Cong fire from town; siege bogs down; Cambodians take few risks.
  REPORTER: Richard Hunt

  (Saang, Cambodia) Vietnam civilians march down road toward enemy; Viet Cong fire 3 shots, Cambodians return heavy fire.
  REPORTER: Richard Lindley

  (Saang, Cambodia) Cambodians won't let reporters question Vietnam; civilians trucked to Phnom Penh, uncertain future.
  REPORTER: Richard Hunt

• (Commercial: TWA: Geritol Tonic.)

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  12:13:30 am — 12:15:10 am

• Trinidad / Revolt

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  12:15:10 am — 12:15:30 am

  (Studio) Trinidad asks United States weapons and ammunition to put down black power revolt; 6 ships sent to provide supplies and evacuate Americans; 1/3 government soldiers desert.
  REPORTER: Chet Huntley

• Racial Trouble / Kansas / Connecticut

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  12:15:30 am — 12:18:00 am

  (Studio) Governor Robert Docking curfews Lawrence, Kansas, after 3rd day racial trouble. Yale students strike, demand fair trial for Black Panther Bobby Seale accused of ordering informer's murder.
  REPORTER: Chet Huntley

  (New Haven, Connecticut) Black students boycott classes, most whites attend, night rally to close Yale and incite students. [Robert SAMS - says blacks deal with situation daily.] [Black Panther leader David HILLIARD - believes University must be closed.] [Senator Edward KENNEDY - denounces violence, leads to repression.]
  REPORTER: Edwin Newman

• ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) / Army

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  12:18:00 am — 12:18:10 am

  (Studio) Federal court dismisses ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) suit against Army spying on civilians; judge says Army activities const.
  REPORTER: Chet Huntley

• Inflation

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  12:18:10 am — 12:18:20 am

  (Studio) Living cost rises .5% last month
  REPORTER: Chet Huntley

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  12:18:20 am — 12:18:50 am

  REPORTER: Chet Huntley

• (Commercial: RCA Television.)

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  12:18:50 am — 12:19:40 am

• Ecology / United States / Britain

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  12:19:40 am — 12:23:30 am

  (Studio) President ecology committee delays report, wants more time; trying to coordinate all government agencies fighting pollution; British Cotswolds' land kept clean.
  REPORTER: Chet Huntley

  (Cotswolds, England) British very ecology conscious; wait for new trees to grow before cutting old ones to widen road; beauty dominates progress.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

• Good Night

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  12:23:30 am — 12:23:30 am