Harry Reasoner anchors this Special CBS News Report on the Assassination  of DR. Martin Luther King, yesterday.  We hear a speech given by the late King, Mayor Richard J. Daley, Whitney Young are heard, as well as comments from President Lyndon B. Johnson. News of rioting in the streets of Detroit, Boston, Chicago and New York are broadcast. 

Correspondents reporting include, Steve Rowan, Nelson Benton, Dan Rather, Peter Burns, Ike Pappas, Bill Plante, John Hart and Roger Mudd.   

Sunday declared a day of mourning for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. President Johnson speaks. Looting and violence in Harlem, in aftermath of the King assassination, Mayor Lindsay comments, description of death scene at the Memphis, motel. 

Jim Jensen reports.                         

    Dan Rather special report on President Johnson...meetings already in progress. Joseph Benti reports latest developments on the rioting and Dr. Kings assassination last night. Corretta King frying to Memphis.                      

ASSASSINATION OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING AND AFTERMATH
Anchor newsman Harry Reasoner examines the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King and the aftermath that has followed a day later.

Harry Reasoner reports on 40 cities across the nation where much domestic disturbance has erupted causing the National Guard to be deployed. We hear prior speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King proclaiming that he will not use violence to protest all that is evil in the country. 

President Lyndon Johnson speaks to the American people. He implores that blacks and whites must come together to fill the void of Dr. King whose voice has been stilled.

Reports of 3000 National Guardsman deployed to Detroit where one person has been killed. Major looting and fires everywhere. 2000 National Guardsman deployed to Boston. State of emergency in Washington DC where Steve Rowan reports major destruction and looting, some by children. Police officers attempt to curtail violence. 

Nelson Benton reports of 100 fires only blocks from the White House. Three deaths reported. 4000 National Guardsman deployed.  

Dan Rather reports from Washington D.C. President Johnson meets with 21 civil rights leaders at the White House this morning. Mourning in the afternoon at the National Cathedral.

In Chicago, 6000 National Guardsman have taken up position. Jeb Duvall reports. Two negroes killed by snipers. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley appeals for all people to protect the
city of Chicago. 

From Memphis Tennessee Ike Pappas reports and reconstructs the assassination. He states that Dr. King emerged from his room #306 and on the balcony leaned over to talk to others below. From a bathroom window across from the balcony, only 200 feet away the assailant fired one shot striking King in the neck, and fled. Also reporting from Memphis is Bill Plante...an extended report of Coretta King arriving at the Memphis airport, and the procession arriving at the funeral home. People line the streets. 

Reverend Ralph Abernathy states that Dr. Martin Luther King believed in non-violence. Tuesday will be his Funeral. There is a message from Jacqueline Kennedy. 

John Hart reports from Cleveland Ohio. Mayor Carl Stokes states that nobody can kill an idea or ideal which Dr. King represented, and whose message will continue to live in this city. 

Whitney Young addresses the question of who will replace Dr. Martin Luther King? He reflects to all that "The time has come for all decent people to voice their will. 

Roger Mudd reports in Washington D.C. that a Joint session of congress will be meeting on Monday with attentions of passing President's Johnson housing and jobs massive spending bill.
 
Eric Sevareid examines the effects of violence that has been seen in many cities across the nation...assessment of the consequences of a great man assassinated, a symbol of a man who has been martyred.

Harry Reasoner signs off.                                                                

Charles Collingwood reports from Tokyo, Dr. Martin Luther King memorial service on Tuesday, Memphis, Tennessee march on Monday.
Commercial for Chevrolet.            

The latest news from CBS Radio. Alan Jackson reports. A Chevrolet commercial included.           

Vietnam peace talks in Hanoi
Martin Luther King funeral on Tuesday
A memorial to Dr. King today at 1:30 PM.   

Rod MacLeish reports for CBS news.
Also, an excerpt from WABC Radio news with George Hayes.
WABC-Music, news, George Hayes on rioting reduced in Washington, Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh...King funeral to be held Tuesday...Today a memorial to King at !:30pm...WABC news, Monitor radio news...walk of understanding in New Jersey, Rally in East Harlem, Marion Anderson to speak tonight...all sports postponed tonight, museums closed, Broadway is closed, comments from mayor of New York John Lindsay, Ewin Newman Special Report "National Day of Morning"  /WCBS News Radio 88 WNEW  news...Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee read from the Bible, WINS Radio reports "...looking for the killer." WCBS news 88 WNESW news with Gene Wyman, Sam Donaldson "Martin Luther King special memorial tribute report  ABC TV "MLK: The 26 Non Violent Way"   Nelson Rockefeller, Roy Wilkins, Sammy Davis Jr....short round table discussion.                             

Mike Rich reports on the rally for Dr. King in Memphis, Tennessee
NBC News Monitor- Comment from NBC Newsman Elie Abel (Radio)
WNBC-TV Commentary- The World in Washington with Herb Kaplow
Bill Fitzgerald-WNBC (Radio) Monitor News-Curfews in Pittsburgh and Baltimore
Frank Reynolds-ABC News-Vietnam report
Charles Collingwood (CBS) on Vietnam-Roger Mudd on Dr. King
Dr. King's Memphis march, Coretta King in attendence, Nelson Benton (CBS) on curfews
Hunt for Dr. King's assassin
Eric Sevareid (CBS) on the Vietnam war
Cronkite sign-off on CBS-TV.
An announcement that CBS will telecast Dr. King's funeral tomorrow. 


                                     

Highlights from the late Ernie Kovacs' specials broadcast in 1961.

Dupe Of # 765.                          

Live coverage and highlights from all three networks and Radio of Dr. Martin Luther King's Funeral.                                      

Today's events: A look back
Retrospect from Roger Mudd
March on Washington 8-28-63
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
Response to "Black Power" ethic and incident with James Meredith
Open housing in Milwaukee (Dr. King interview)
Mountain top speech "non-violence" stand
Walter Cronkite comments on "Free At Last" tombstone
Charles Kuralt at Moorehouse College
Excerpt of NBC News with Chet Huntley and Edwin Newman


             

Dr. Martin Luther King's memorial and final rites. In Mexico, the search for DR. King's assassin, Charles Evers appeals for calm, Dan Rather reports on peace talks with Hanoi.            

The civil rights bill is passed. Eric Sevareid reports.

Host: Walter Cronkite.                          

National news and news from Saigon with Charles Osgood. 

Dallas Townsend host.             

Alan King is the host for a satiric revue of contemporary fads and foolishness.             

The poor people's march planned for second week in May. 

Joined in progress. Sponsored by Chevrolet.             

Charles Collingwood on Hanoi peace talks.
White Mustang found in Alabama- possibly owned by Dr. King Assassin?
Review of Dr. King's funeral. 

Host: Reed Collins                                

Tracing the assassination of Dr. King
Charles Kuralt-On The Road in Fredricksburg, Indiana

Joined in progress.

An excerpt of NBC Nightly News with Chet Huntley.


            

Hanoi report with Robert Pierpoint reporting from Hawaii
Johnson meets with South Korean leaders
Kennedy honors Bay Of Pigs fighters, Bob Gregory reports.
Sports with Harry Reasoner.

Host: Harry Reasoner. 

            

President Johnson in Hawaii
Vietnam report with Charles Collingwood
West Berlin demonstrations succeed
Soviet Union nuclear weapons increase
Dick Gregory against demonstrating at Chicago convention
Robert Kennedy spending more TV ad money
USSR space report
Eric Sevareid on UN talks.

Walter Cronkite host: Some commercials
                          

Disorder and rioting continues in Chicago, shoot-to-kill order by Mayor Richard J. Daly- Bill Plante reports
Eric Sevareid-commentary on Mayor Daly
Jackie Kennedy to campaign for Robert Kennedy
Charles Collingwood reports from North Vietnam
Novelist, playwright, Edna Ferber (Showboat) has died at 80
GNP soars to new record-Booming economy
Children go hungry-Daniel Schorr reports from Alabama
Kent Cigarette and Miller Beer commercials.

Host: Walter Cronkite. 


                                                                

Produced and reported by Charles Collingwood. Collingwood gives personal observations about the current US status in Vietnam
including a Hanoi report. This special is an Emmy-nominated personal view of the North Vietnamese Capital (Hanoi).
              

Secretary of State Dean Rusk- attempt to produce peace with Hanoi
Mayor Daly of Chicago explains his views in detail about the deadly use of force in Chicago by the police
Eric Sevareid reports on the presidential campaign
Includes commercials. 

Host: Walter Cronkite.             

Governor Rockefeller to achieve and plan for the next decade to create the best future society
Senate sub-committee hearings on progress needed for proprietary owners
Rebellions this summer: How to control them
Report from Vietnam by Hughes Rudd. 

Joined in progress.

Host: Walter Cronkite.             

40-year-old James Earl Ray is identified as the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Eric Sevareid reports. An extensive report on the details regarding the shooting by Mike Wallace and Bill Stout.
Nixon predicts Robert Kennedy will run against him
Communist nations seek their own communist ID's not relegated to duplicating the USSR.
Robert Kennedy campaigns in California, Roger Mudd reports. 
Also, an excerpt of NBC News: Report on the North Korean crisis and "Pueblo." Report from the American crewmembers disparaging the US.

            

The Indiana primary, editorial by Eric Sevareid
A tornado in Arkansas
The North Pole is reached for the first time in fifty years  
Airline movies-Drinks remain cost-free. 
Washington, DC returns to normal after violence when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. Neil Strauser reports. 
Walter Cronkite signoff. 

Walter Cronkite hosting.        

The World This Week with Reed Collins.

Richard Nixon asks President Johnson for a ceasefire 
Moratorium on criticism of the USA
James Earl Ray ID, warden remembers Ray as a prisoner "not a racist" and "not a violent person."
Sanitation strike in Memphis
Charles Kuralt on the success of the North Pole ascent to the top, 90 degrees North Latitude, the first time in 59 years. 
Camel Cigarette commercials                                                                       

Don Webster reports from Vietnam
Campaigning in Indiana for the primary with Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy. David Schoumaker and John Hart report.
The court has the right to restrict youngsters from viewing certain adult motion pictures.
Morley Safer reporting from Athens, Greece regarding Spanish influence in the country.
An editorial on Clark Clifford's speech today by Eric Sevareid
South Vietnamese army will soon be able to take over for themselves. 

Host: Walter Cronkite.

                        

London's first anti-discrimination bill, George Wallace and Eugene McCarthy are profiled. Commentary on the "integrity of today's press."

Fred Darwin: Host             

Don Webster reports from Vietnam
Bob Gregory reports on 1400 man battleship crew
A report on the United Methodist Church
George Wallace presidential campaign commercial
Morley Safer reports on man buried alive in coffin for 61 days.

Walter Cronkite Host. Includes commercials.                                       

Eric Sevareid commentary about United Kingdom non-discrimination bill, UK has 2% negro population versus 12% for the US.
South Africa excluded from 1968 Olympics.
Charles Kuralt reports on latest fad, "space sleds."

                          

New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay, continued search for James Earl Ray
Convict who knew him interviewed about a million dollar bounty.                         

Don Webster reports from Vietnam for CBS News
Morton Dean reports from Columbia University
Morley Safer reports from London regarding anti-black activists
The 50th anniversary of 12-man team who reached the North Pole
Hubert Humphrey campaigns in the south (George Herman reports)
Commentary by Eric Sevareid

Host: Walter Cronkite.             

Reports from Vietnam
Gamal Nasser says war with Israel is inevitable
Dan Rather reports on draft laws
Robert Schenke on the Columbia University strike.
David Schumacher reports on the Eugene McCarthy campaign
Status on French Heart patient
Dr. Ralph Abernathy: "Save America." Daniel Schorr reports
Report on a better food system.
March to Mississippi-Ed Rabel reports.

Walter Cronkite: Host

                                       

Governor Nelson Rockefeller speech-seeks presidential nomination at a press conference. Reporters ask questions. 
Reactions from Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan on Columbia University riots
Columbia University police break barricades
Eisenhower suffering chest pains
Heart transplant recipient dies (Daniel Schorr reports)
Paper Gold System, contraceptive labeling
Eric Sevareid editorial on presidential candidates

Host: Walter Cronkite. 

                          

President Johnson proposes Vietnam peace talks aboard an Indonesian ship, Dan Rather reports.  
South Vietnamese President Thieu is interviewed-Bernard Kalb reports
700 enemy troops killed, 43 US troops killed this week.
Rockefeller's position on Vietnam policy, Morton Dean reports
Former President Eisenhower is recuperating
More protests and clashes at Columbia University, students claim police brutality
Dr. Ralph Abernathy leads the "Poor People's March" against the war in Vietnam. The march will begin in the next two weeks
David Schumacher reports on the Eugene McCarthy campaign spending
James Reston is the new Executive Director of the New York Times
Eric Sevareid editorial on Nelson Rockefeller, the man, his issues and policies.


Host: Walter Cronkite.

Commercials:  
-Sherwin-Williams White House Paints.
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Peace talks in Paris-tax increases
President Johnson visits former president Harry Truman in Missouri-to be 84 next week, Dan Rather reports
Eric Sevareid on peace talks, New Stock Exchange up
Two more heart transplants, the 9th and 10th performed and the first in the United Kingdom
Mike Wallace reports on Richard Nixon's speech in Indiana before the Indiana primary 
In his first day of campaigning, Governor Nelson Rockefeller visits the University of Iowa, Morton Dean reports
In Alabama, the negro image of today. 

Walter Cronkite is the host.

                                       

President Johnson press conference regarding Vietnam peace talks, to take place May 10th, Dan Rather reports  
Paris, France in need of a tax increase
Eric Sevareid states Johnson was remarkable in his tone, attacking Congressional leaders and addressing to US citizens. 
  
                     

Coretta Scott King returns to the place (Memphis, Tennessee) where her husband (Dr. Martin Luther King) was assassinated and dedicates a plague in his honor.
Czech Government to Moscow conference.
Bill Harris with a sports update.

Reed Collins is the host.                                               

Walter Cronkite on location reports on the Indiana primaries
On NBC, interviews by Wilson Hall
Report on Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy (CBS)
Demonstrations in Paris
Report on upcoming peace talks
North Vietnamese assaults near Saigon, George Severnson reports
Newsmen killed by South Vietnamese
Conviction of Muhammad Ali upheld-faces five-year prison term
90-year-old Senator Carl Hayden, Democrat, is retiring and will not run again.

Host: Walter Cronkite. 
             

Indiana election returns
Special report on the disqualification of Kentucky Derby winner Dancer's Image.                           

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Soviet-Czech crisis as Soviets as Soviet troops move westward toward the Czech border.