Vanderbilt Television News Archive

NBC Evening News for 1970-09-16

This program is 28 minutes long

• Introduction David Brinkley (Washington, DC); John Chancellor (New York City)

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  12:00:00 am — 12:00:10 am

• Nixon / Kansas Speech

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  12:00:10 am — 12:06:00 am

  (Studio) Nixon speaks at Kansas State University; few hecklers drowned out by crowd applause.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

  (Manhattan, Kansas) [NIXON - denounces terrorism; urges respect for law and order; government can't save education system, U's. must solve moral crisis.]
  REPORTER: Herbert Kaplow

  (Manhattan, Kansas) 25 of 13,000 heckled President; conservative campus.
  REPORTER: John Dancy

• Reserve Officers' Training Corps

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  12:06:00 am — 12:06:20 am

  (Studio) Pentagon will continue campus Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

• Agnew / Michigan Speech

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  12:06:20 am — 12:06:50 am

  (Studio) Vice President Spiro Agnew heckled while supporting Lenore Romney for Senator from Michigan.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial: Lysol Disinfectant; Champion Spark Plugs.)

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  12:06:50 am — 12:08:20 am

• Denisco / Rewards

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  12:08:20 am — 12:08:50 am

  (Studio) Nixon phones to congratulate guard who shot hijacker yesterday; Brinks gave Robert Denisco $5,000.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Louisiana / Police vs. Blacks

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  12:08:50 am — 12:11:10 am

  (Studio) Blacks and police continue fight in Desire Housing Project.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (New Orleans, Louisiana) Police shoot 4 blacks at grocery store, claim firebomb attempt; 1 lay wounded 2 hrs., died later. [Mayor Moon LANDRIEU - says revolutionaries causing trouble.]
  REPORTER: Fred Briggs

• Alabama / Police vs. Blacks

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  12:11:10 am — 12:11:20 am

  (Studio) 3 blacks wounded as police raid house of Alabama Black Liberation Front in Birmingham, Alabama.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Sound Heart

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  12:11:20 am — 12:11:50 am

  (Studio) Detroit, Michigan, man Don. Kaminsky has had transplanted heart 2 years; says he can do anything normal man can.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

• Jordan / Fighting / Hijacks

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  12:11:50 am — 12:12:10 am

  (Studio) Amman, Jordan, fighting rages; civil war feared; hostages' fate unknown; stewardess reports guerrillas stole $750,000 cash.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Meir / United States Visit / Cease-Fire Violations

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  12:12:10 am — 12:12:50 am

  (Studio) Israeli Prime Min. Golda Meir in New York City tonight; denies Israel violated cease-fire.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial: Multifilter Cigarettes; Dristan; Anacin.)

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  12:12:50 am — 12:15:00 am

• Indochina / Fighting

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  12:15:00 am — 12:16:30 am

  (Studio) United States loses 15 copters in South Vietnam; Communists surround 4,000 Cambodians; outcome doubtful.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

  (Cambodia) Govt. troops retreat; take and inflict casualties.
  REPORTER: Jim Bennett

• Paris Peace Talks

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  12:16:30 am — 12:16:50 am

  (Studio) Chief negotiators for both sides at talks tomorrow.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

• Congress / POWs

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  12:16:50 am — 12:17:00 am

  (Studio) House and Senator to hold joint meeting, discuss POWs.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

• Argentina / Fireworks

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  12:17:00 am — 12:17:20 am

  (Studio) 17 bombs set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to honor 15th anniversary Juan Peron's ouster.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Chile / Leftists

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  12:17:20 am — 12:20:50 am

  (Studio) Chile's right wing worried about Salvador Allende.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Santiago, Chile) MIR far left organization; says Allende too bourgeois; Communist camps indoctrinate youth; MIR backs Allende over other candidates; will fight if necessary.
  REPORTER: Tom Streithorst

• (Commercial: Crest Toothpaste.)

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  12:20:50 am — 12:21:40 am

• Nebraska / Fake Bomb

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  12:21:40 am — 12:22:30 am

  (Studio) Omaha, Nebraska, school janitor sees "bomb" outside school; police fire at it; didn't explode; bag contained track shoes and baseball equipment.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

• Britain / Pop Poll

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  12:22:30 am — 12:22:50 am

  (Studio) Led Zeppelin beats Beatles in British music poll.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Military Enlistment

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  12:22:50 am — 12:23:00 am

  (Studio) Pentagon reports 20% enlistees had low lottery numbers
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Ford / Price Incr.

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  12:23:00 am — 12:23:10 am

  (Studio) Ford Motor Company ups car prices average $153.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Mercury Pollution

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  12:23:10 am — 12:23:20 am

  (Studio) Interior Department reports mercury pollution down 86% since July.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  12:23:20 am — 12:23:40 am

  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Primaries

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  12:23:40 am — 12:24:20 am

  (Studio) Reverend Robert Drinan beats Representative Philip Philbin in Massachusetts primary; Hubert Humphrey wins in Minnesota, Henry Jackson in WA, Joseph Tydings in MD. Boston, Massachusetts, Mayor Kevin White wins Massachusetts Republican Governor nomination
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Oregon / Boosterism

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  12:24:20 am — 12:27:40 am

  (Studio) Boosterism American tradition; changes beginning.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

  (OR) Oregon doesn't want to lose privacy; population up 16%; people want population and pollution kept down; John G. Blaine Association wants Oregon population increase halted, tourists kept out. [Association MBR. - says rains every day in OR; spoofs.]
  REPORTER: Jack Perkins

• Good Night

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  12:27:40 am — 12:27:40 am