Vanderbilt Television News Archive

NBC Evening News for 1974-06-27

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction John Chancellor (Moscow); Edwin Newman (New York City)

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  05:30:00 pm — 05:30:20 pm

• President / Moscow Summit

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  05:30:20 pm — 05:35:40 pm

  (Moscow, USSR ) President arrives in Moscow for 3rd summit. Welcome ceremony shown. Soviet Premier Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny greet Nixons along with Soviet party leader Leonid Brezhnev.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Moscow, USSR ) 1st Nixon, Brezhnev meeting held shortly after Nixon's arrival. Topics for discussion outlined. Multiple warhead missile very sensitive topic.
  REPORTER: Tom Brokaw

  (Moscow, USSR ) Neither side has grand expectations for summit. President gives Brezhnev a Chevrolet as gift.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial: Geritol; Carrier Air Conditioning.)

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  05:35:40 pm — 05:36:40 pm

• House Judiciary Committee / Impeachment Hearings

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  05:36:40 pm — 05:39:40 pm

  (Studio) President' attorney James Saint Clair begins presenting President' defense before House Judiciary Committee
  REPORTER: Edwin Newman

  (DC) [President' cnsl. Dean BURCH - criticizes committee 's decision re: witnesses; says action partisan.] [ST. CLAIR - regrets committee 's decision but he isn't angry.] Behind closed doors, committee discusses March 21, `73, mtg. between President, John Dean and H.R. Haldeman; hush money and E. Howard Hunt subject of conversation. [Representative Edward MEZVINSKY - questions Saint Clair's ability to know about exact events under probe.] [ST. CLAIR - admits he hasn't beard all White House tapes.] [Representative David DENNIS - says committee members nitpick Saint Clair during his presentation.]
  REPORTER: Robert Goralski

• Ellsberg Break-In Trial

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  05:39:40 pm — 05:41:00 pm

  (Studio) Jury chosen in perjury trial of John Ehrlichman, G. Gordon Liddy, Bernard Barker and Eugenio Martinez in Ellsberg break-in case.
  REPORTER: Edwin Newman

  (DC) Jurors examined closely.
  REPORTER: Carl Stern No artist given

• Senate Watergate Committee / Staff Report

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  05:41:00 pm — 05:41:20 pm

  (Studio) More staff reports from Senate Watergate committee reach press. Reports involve `72 campaign fund raising and possible bought ambassadorships.
  REPORTER: Edwin Newman

• Haldeman / Watergate Cover-up

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  05:41:20 pm — 05:41:40 pm

  (Studio) Former chief of staff H.R. Haldeman asks Judge John Sirica to let him put reporters and government officials on stand in Watergate cover-up trial.
  REPORTER: Edwin Newman

• (Commercial: Mobil Oil Company; Lanacane Ointment.)

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  05:41:40 pm — 05:43:10 pm

• Atlanta / Racial Tension

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  05:43:10 pm — 05:46:10 pm

  (Studio) After black teenager killed by Atlanta police, blacks demonstrate.
  REPORTER: Edwin Newman

  (Atlanta, Georgia) Civil rights leader Hosea Williams led yesterday's demonstration. Police and demonstrators clash. Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson under pressure to fire police chief John Inman for a long time. [INMAN - refuses to resign.] Inman takes case to court [JACKSON - thinks no one is above law.]
  REPORTER: Kenley Jones

• Busing / Education Bill

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  05:46:10 pm — 05:46:30 pm

  (Studio) House votes to keep strong antibusing amendment in education bill. Senator version of bill weaker.
  REPORTER: Edwin Newman

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:46:30 pm — 05:46:40 pm

  REPORTER: Edwin Newman

• (Commercial: Breakfast Squares; Nestea Iced Tea.)

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  05:46:40 pm — 05:47:40 pm

• Lebanon Threat / Israel

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  05:47:40 pm — 05:48:10 pm

  (Studio) Lebanon to ask Arab cntrys. to reduce oil production if Israel conts. to attack Palestinians established in Lebanon. Artillery fire occurs across Israeli, Lebanese border.
  REPORTER: Edwin Newman

• Quneitra / Syrian Refugees

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  05:48:10 pm — 05:50:20 pm

  (Studio) Syrian refugees return to Quneitra after 7 years of Israeli occupation.
  REPORTER: Edwin Newman

  (Quneitra, Syria) Few refugees prepared to see 80% of city demolished. Syrian flag raised. Mrs. Wadad Nassif remained in Quneitra when town deserted 7 Yrs. ago. [Mrs. NASSIF - says she cried when refugees returned.]
  REPORTER: John Palmer

• Cigarette Smoking

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  05:50:20 pm — 05:50:30 pm

  (Studio) Former United States Surgeon General Luther Terry says cigarette smoking by young girls on increase
  REPORTER: Edwin Newman

• Hookers' Convention

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  05:50:30 pm — 05:52:50 pm

  (Studio) Prostitutes hold 1st national convention in San Francisco, California.
  REPORTER: Edwin Newman

  (San Francisco, California) Militancy increases among some prostitutes; reasons given. [Prostitution Organization of New York Jean POWELL - thinks prostitutes shouldn't be deprived of help other organizations receive] [Margo ST. JAMES - thinks prostitution should be decriminalized.] [San Francisco sheriff's attorney Carol SILVER - believes money saved by decriminalizing prostitution could be used to help stop high crimes.]
  REPORTER: Jack Perkins

• (Commercial: Efferdent Denture Cleaner; Rolaids Antacid.)

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  05:52:50 pm — 05:53:50 pm

• USSR / Inflation

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  05:53:50 pm — 05:56:10 pm

  (Moscow, USSR ) Russia not bothered by inflation as West cntrys. are.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Moscow, USSR ) Inflation unheard of because prices and wages controlled by government Almost all luxury items Russian-made. Thriving free market exists in USSR . Shortage of goods more pressing than shortage of money.
  REPORTER: John Dancy

• Dissidents / USSR

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  05:56:10 pm — 05:57:10 pm

  (Moscow, USSR ) Because of better relations between United States and USSR , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn exiled rather than jailed; Valery Panov allowed to emigrate to Israel and widely known dissident Pyotr Grigorenko set free from mental hosp.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Good Night

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  05:57:10 pm — 05:57:10 pm