Vanderbilt Television News Archive

NBC Evening News for 1973-04-01

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Garrick Utley (New York City)

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  05:30:00 pm — 05:30:20 pm

• Vietnam / POW's

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  05:30:20 pm — 05:33:00 pm

  (Studio) Last group American POW's arrive US. Captain Robert White last known prisoners of war to be freed.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

  (Clark AFB, Philippines) [WHITE - thanks crowd at Clark Air Force Base for welcoming him home.]
  REPORTER: John Rich

  (Studio) North Vietnam denies having mistreated POW's.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

• Cambodia / Offensive

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  05:33:00 pm — 05:33:10 pm

  (Studio) Heavy fighting continues in Cambodia.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

• Sweden / Vietnam Deserters

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  05:33:10 pm — 05:33:20 pm

  (Studio) Sweden announces now Vietnam war over it will no longer automatically accept American deserters.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

• (Commercial: Exxon.)

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  05:33:20 pm — 05:34:50 pm

• Meat Boycott

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  05:34:50 pm — 05:40:10 pm

  (Studio) National meat boycott begins today.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

  (Los Angeles, California) [Butcher Harry HOFFMAN - says is selling about same amounts beef as usual.] [SHOPPERS - express mixed feelings about meat boycott.]
  REPORTER: Bill Windsor

  (DC) Experts generally doubtful boycott will have lasting effects.

  (Studio) Mrs. Dolly Cole, whose husband is president G.M., will not participate in meat boycott. Farmers will be boycotting the boycott.
  REPORTER: Gordon Graham Garrick Utley

  (LeMars, Iowa) LeMars is farming area. People here not sympathetic to boycott; feel farmers generally don't make enough. Farmers wives will hold anti-boycott demonstration in Sioux City, Monday
  REPORTER: Dick Kay

  (Studio) Meat prices not only prices that have risen. Cost of living rising rapidly.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

• (Commercial: Exxon.)

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  05:40:10 pm — 05:41:10 pm

• Cost of Living, Middletown, USA

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  05:41:10 pm — 05:47:40 pm

  (Pearl River, New York) Bill and Mary Clark have average income for American family. [Bill CLARK - says all his friends either have more than 1 job or wife works because cost of living so high.] [Mary CLARK - says husband's salary doesn't pay for all family has to have.] Bill Clark is full-time guard and drives bus as second job. Makes about $12,000/yr. [Mary CLARK - says has part time typing job to make extra money.] [Bill CLARK - says can't afford to go out for dinner or to a movie except once in a great while.] [Mary CLARK - says shops carefully for groceries sews many of family's clothes.] Family has small camper to use for vacations.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

• (Commercial: Exxon.)

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  05:47:40 pm — 05:48:40 pm

• Tornadoes / South

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  05:48:40 pm — 05:51:00 pm

  (Studio) Tornadoes hit Georgia, SC. At least 8 killed.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

  (Columbia, SC) 6 dead and at least 40 injured by tornadoes in SC. Calhoun Falls and Abbeville hardest hit. 400 left homeless by storm. Governor John West surveys damage from helicopter.
  REPORTER: Jan Lovell (WIS-TV)

  (Conyers, Georgia) Governor Jimmy Carter estimates damage from tornado could go as high as $100 million. 250 injured and 2 killed by storm.
  REPORTER: Kenley Jones

• Phone Rates

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  05:51:00 pm — 05:51:20 pm

  (Studio) American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) chairperson says telephone rates will increase.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

• Watergate Case

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  05:51:20 pm — 05:51:30 pm

  (Studio) Republican Senator Lowell Weicker says H.R. Haldeman, White House chief of staff, knows much about Watergate bugging and that it is absolutely necessary he testify before Senate committee investigating case.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

• American Indian Movement / Wounded Knee

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  05:51:30 pm — 05:51:40 pm

  (Studio) Leaders AIM and government representatives hold talks at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

• Week Ahead

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  05:51:40 pm — 05:53:40 pm

  (Studio) South Vietnam President Thieu meets with Nixon in California.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

  (Saigon, South Vietnam) Only South Vietnam and Viet Cong now remain on Joint Mil. Commission responsible for keeping peace.
  REPORTER: Steve Delaney

  (Paris, France) New cabinet will be named in France this week Faces many difficult problems.
  REPORTER: Bernard Kaplan

  (Copenhagen, Denmark) Workers and employers continue negotiations to end worst strike in Denmark since 1936.
  REPORTER: Lloyd Dobyns

  (DC) Senator investigation Watergate case continues. James McCord gives further testimony this week
  REPORTER: Gordon Graham

  (Studio) Plane fares increase slightly to pay for antihijacking measures taken by airports.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

• (Commercial: Exxon.)

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  05:53:40 pm — 05:54:40 pm

• USSR / Air Conditioners and Ambulances

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  05:54:40 pm — 05:57:40 pm

  (Studio) Due to bureaucratic red tape, production new air conditioners by government comes to halt in USSR . Ambulance service in Moscow more successful endeavor.
  REPORTER: Garrick Utley

  (Moscow, USSR ) Dialing 03 in Moscow connects caller with doctors and nurses who decide what emergency service required by case. Doctors ride in all ambulances in Moscow and make on the spot diagnosis of cases and often give emergency treatment.
  REPORTER: Robert Hager

• Good Night

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  05:57:40 pm — 05:57:40 pm