Vanderbilt Television News Archive

NBC Evening News for 1974-02-05

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction John Chancellor (New York City)

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  05:30:00 pm — 05:30:10 pm

• Truckers' Strike / Effects

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  05:30:10 pm — 05:36:40 pm

  (Studio) President orders freeze on diesel fuel prices in effort to end truckers' strike.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (DC) Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp and House labor adviser William Usery meet with General Alexander Haig and energy czar William Simon to discuss truckers' strike. [SIMON - explains President' proposal to freeze prices.] Truckers to consider plan.
  REPORTER: Gordon Graham

  (Studio) Strike causes some violence. Attorney General William Saxbe orders FBI to probe possible strike violations. Strike causes unemployment and widespread shortages.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Atlanta, Georgia) Chicken industry suffers; drivers won't carry products out of state. Many layoffs expected; supermkts. to feel shortages by wkend.
  REPORTER: Kenley Jones

  (Chicago, Illinois) In Sioux City, Iowa, stock mkts. are empty because packing hses. unable to ship meat out. [American Meat Institute Richard LYNG - believes all packing companies to close soon unless strike ends.]
  REPORTER: Bob Jamieson

  (Studio) Jamestown, Tennessee, virtually dependent on truckers.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Jamestown, Tennessee) Jamestown's food and fuel supply cut off by truckers' setting up blockade outside city. [Grocer Hutzell TAUBERT - says store nearly empty of some items.] 1 truck reaches town today; grocery partially restocked.
  REPORTER: Steve Delaney

• Crude Oil / Rollbacks / Energy Crisis

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  05:36:40 pm — 05:37:20 pm

  (Studio) House Ways and Means Committee hears witnesses on crude oil price rollbacks. Oil company representatives against such a move.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial: Savings and Loan Association; Sominex Sleeping Pills.)

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  05:37:20 pm — 05:38:20 pm

• Exxon, Gulf / Price Incrs.

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  05:38:20 pm — 05:38:50 pm

  (Studio) Exxon and Gulf increase gasoline and heating oil prices.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Gasoline Rationing / Simon

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  05:38:50 pm — 05:41:30 pm

  (Studio) Energy head William Simon warns energy crisis to become catastrophe unless people believe crisis exists. Simon speaks to National Press Club.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (No location given) [SIMON - says severe shortages aren't widespread. Praises Oregon for taking initiative to solve energy problems within state.]
  REPORTER: No reporter given

  (Studio) New Jersey legislature votes to give Governor Brendan Byrne authority to ration gasoline. Bridgeport, Connecticut, mayor orders rationing. Massachusetts begins own rationing plan.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Boston, Massachusetts) N.E. feels severe gasoline shortage. [Governor Francis SARGENT - outlines rationing plan.] Unless tank holds at least $3.00 worth, no gas to be sold.
  REPORTER: Betty Rollin

• January / Auto Sales

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  05:41:30 pm — 05:41:50 pm

  (Studio) General Motors, Ford, Chrysler report January new car sales drop; American Motors gain.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Stein / Wage Price Controls

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  05:41:50 pm — 05:42:10 pm

  (Studio) Chief economy adviser Herbert Stein believes Americans ready to scrap wage price controls.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial: Morton Lite Salt; Scott's Anti-Gray Hair Tone; Geritol.)

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  05:42:10 pm — 05:43:40 pm

• House Judiciary Committee / Impeachment Probe

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  05:43:40 pm — 05:45:10 pm

  (Studio) House Judiciary Committee, investigating President' impeachment, releases outline of investigation.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (DC) Areas of investigation outlined. Major cnsl. John Doar insists areas under probe aren't specific charges.
  REPORTER: Ray Scherer

• Kissinger / Intagovt. Spying

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  05:45:10 pm — 05:45:40 pm

  (Studio) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger appears before Senate Foreign Relations Committee and reveals Pentagon may have been spying on White House Any reports from White House given to chairperson joint chiefs of staff Admiral Thomas Moorer.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Schlesinger / Defense Budget

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  05:45:40 pm — 05:47:30 pm

  (Studio) Secretary Defense James Schlesinger appears before Senator Armed Services Committee to discuss defense costs.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Capitol Hill) Schlesinger defends new budget. [SCHLESINGER - insists defense budget must be incrd. to stop Russians from becoming superior in defense building.] Congress probably to approve `75 defense budget without much argument.
  REPORTER: John Cochran

• Nixon / USSR Visit

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  05:47:30 pm — 05:48:00 pm

  (Studio) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to make arrangements for Nixon to visit USSR later in year Kissinger leaves for USSR in March. SALT II talks begin February 19.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial: Mazda RX-4; Blue Bonnet Margarine.)

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  05:48:00 pm — 05:49:00 pm

• President / National Health Insurance Plan

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  05:49:00 pm — 05:51:00 pm

  (Studio) President' national health insurance plan goes to Congress tomorrow.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (DC) President speaks to American Hospital Association [NIXON - fully describes benefits of plan.] Premium costs outlined.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

• British Coal Miners / Strike

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  05:51:00 pm — 05:51:20 pm

  (Studio) British coal miners union calls strike, beginning Sunday
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Jerusalem / Vatican

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  05:51:20 pm — 05:52:40 pm

  (Studio) Vatican no longer objects to Israeli control of Holy City, Jerusalem.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Mrs. Alioto Returns Home

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  05:52:40 pm — 05:54:30 pm

  (Studio) Wife of San Francisco, California mayor, Joseph Alioto, returns home after 18 days.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (San Francisco, California) Details of Mrs. Alioto's disappearance reviewed. [Alioto press secretary William O'BRIEN - says Mrs. Alioto's action was attempt to find privacy.] [Mrs. ALIOTO - explains her disappearance act.]
  REPORTER: Frank Bourgholtzer

• Patricia Hearst / Kidnapping

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  05:54:30 pm — 05:57:20 pm

  (Studio) Granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, Patricia, abducted by 2 men and girl. Patricia's fiance, Stephen Weed, beaten along with neighbor attempting to help Miss Hearst.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (San Francisco, Georgia) No concrete leads in case exist. Sketchy details of kidnapping outlined. Neighbor recalls events. Parents refuse comment; no ransom demand received [Neighbor Norman WAT - describes Patricia's personality.]
  REPORTER: Tom Pettit

• Good Night

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  05:57:20 pm — 05:57:20 pm