Governor George Wallace campaign related to rights of whites to control their own destiny. Infomercial for contributions to his campaign to run for president. Political telecast paid by the George Wallace campaign.             

Two TV News broadcasts: WNBC News with Gabe Pressman
Columbia University demonstrations and revolt-Five buildings taken over
From ABC News: Jim Burns reports on the Columbia University revolt, H.Rap Brown present
George Wallace rejected in Texas, Tom Jerrold reports for ABC News
Jimmy Ellis vs. Jerry Quarry for heavyweight championship tomorrow night.

                        

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.             

"Opinion" with Walter Kiernan.             

1200 guests attend a dinner for Vice President Hubert Humphrey who announces his candidacy for president of the United States.
Humphrey speaks to the guests. Also, CBS news coverage with George Herman and an analysis of Humphrey's speech by Eric Sevareid.             

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:  
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Columbia University investigation of police engagement
Mayor Lindsay press conference
North Vietnam attacks-four-day battle, 1200 enemy dead

Host: Tom Dunn. 

           

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. 
  
                     

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.

                                       

As of this date, 700 draft resistors are in US prisons. Another 4,000 to 6,000 avoid the draft by fleeing to Canada. 
George Page reports for this NBC Documentary special.           

Paul McElroy reporting.

Additional News: CBS Radio News with Alan Jackson, sponsored by Chevrolet.
Robert Pierpoint reports on inflation in the US
A 10% tax surcharge is proposed by President Johnson
Dancer's Image wins the Kentucky Derby,  his jockey (Robert Ussery) captures his second straight Derby.
Note: Dancer's Image was later disqualified for a drug found in his system.
Columbia University update- demonstrators speak. 
                        

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. 
             

NBC-TV coverage of the Indiana primary returns. 
Herb Kaplow reports on Richard Nixon's Nebraska campaign
Robert Kennedy has 45% of the Indiana vote, NBC News declares him the winner
Senator Eugene McCarthy is interviewed by Liz Trotter.

Anchors: Frank McGee and David Brinkley,             

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

      The news of the day.       

The latest news.                         

An NBC News political special.            

  News of the day.            

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

Reed Collins: Host.                                                            

Procedural Paris peace talks begin, comment by President Johnson, possible difficulties ahead, bloody Saigon fighting continues, Kentucky Derby winner Dancer's Image disqualified because of drug.             

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

Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy. 

A review of the week's top news stories: Paris talks, Soviets move toward Czech border, Indiana primary gives Robert Kennedy the victory, comment by Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Hubert Humphrey. The Vietcong execute four newsmen in Saigon.
Dancer's Image drugged at Kentucky Derby, disqualified. 

Narrator: Fred Foy.   

NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award-winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25-minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.                                                                                                                                                       

News commentary with Walter Kiernan on Vietnam peace talks.                        

   News of the day.         

    The news of the day.

The Nebraska primary returns.             

News of the day's events.                         

News of the day's events. 599 US GI's killed in Vietnam last week.                                     

News of the day's events.                         

The news events of the day.                          

News of the week with Reed Collins.                                                

A report on unproductive and propaganda-laden peace talks, comment by Ambassador Averill Harriman. Columnist James Kilpatrick  with commentary on student revolutions.          

Robert Kennedy campaigns in California.             

Commentary by Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy on their campaigns.            

Poor People's March in Washington, DC, student demonstrations in France, ask DeGaulle to resign, California election primary tomorrow, report on Robert Kennedy's campaign climax, primary is critical for Kennedy and McCarthy.            

CBS News predicts Robert Kennedy is the winner over Eugene McCarthy in the California primary. Euphoria at Kennedy headquarters.                          

Special about Vietnam. Walter Cronkite reports.                        

The late news and sports report with Tom Dunn.          

Eric Sevareid with Walter Mondale
4% of vote counted
Roger Mudd interviews Robert Kennedy (1:30 AM to 2:15 AM. 
After the shooting, David Dick and John Hart at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.
Doctors issue report that Kennedy has a "50-50 chance of survival." Kennedy spends 3 hours, 10 minutes on the operating table.Surgery from 5:30 AM Eastern Time to 8:40 AM Eastern time. Hughes Rudd reports.
Charles Kuralt replaces Joseph Benti. 
Frank Mankiewicz makes statement to Mike Wallace from Good Samaritan Hospital. 

                                                  

Live coverage of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's victory in the California Democratic Primary. Minutes after his victory speech, Senator Kennedy would be assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan. 

NOTE: NBC STOPPED RECORDING TAPE (2" QUAD) AFTER SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY CONCLUDED HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AT THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL IN LOS ANGELES. NBC TV CONTINUED TO BROADCAST WITH ANCHORS FRANK MC GEE, DAVID BRINKLEY AND CHET HUNTLEY. HOWEVER, NBC TV STOPPED ROLLING TAPE OF THE BROADCAST EXPECTING ALL SALIENT REPORTING WAS OVER AND THAT THE STATION WOULD LEAVE THE AIR MOMENTARILY. FROM 3:16 AM EASTERN STANDARD TIME TO 3:26 AM HUNTLEY, MC GEE AND BRINKLEY WERE TOLD IN THEIR EAR PIECES THAT KENNEDY WAS SHOT AND TO STALL FOR TIME UNTIL FURTHER DETAILS COULD BE CONFIRMED. WHEN NBC TV RESUMED RECORDING TAPE AT 3:26 AM COVERAGE OF THE ASSASSINATION WAS DISSEMINTAED, AND FOLLOW UP COVERAGE CONTINUED. 

THE TEN MISSING MINUTES OF NBC TV BROADCAST WAS RECORDED ON AUDIO TAPE AND RESIDES ONLY IN THE COLLECTION OF ARCHIVAL TELEVISION AUDIO, INC. 

ONLY FOUR AND HALF YEARS EARLIER A SIMILAR SCENARIO OCCURRED WHEN DEVELOPER AND OWNER OF THE ATA COLLECTION, PHIL GRIES, RECORDED OFF THE AIR THE "LOST" BROADCAST MOMENTS OF DON PARDO ANNOUNCING THE FIRST TWO BULLETINS AND SUBSEQUENT NEVER RECORDED BY NBC TV 11 MINUTES OF STUDIO COVERAGE RELATED TO THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY.  

Live coverage of the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.          

On the spot report on the shooting of Robert Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Various stations. Eyewitness accounts, comments by Walter Kiernan (WOR News), Barbara Walters (NBC), and Adam "Batman" West. Additional comments from Senator Eugene McCarthy. More on RFK shooting plus man-in-the-street comments. Early reports are that Kennedy will recover. Sirhan Sirhan is identified as the assassin. Commentary from Howard K. Smith (ABC News) and David Susskind.
                          

Recap on Robert Kennedy, earlier comments by Kennedy on the availability of guns to criminals, comment by Eric Sevareid, President Johnson comments on shooting.             

Senator Robert F. Kennedy has died of his wounds from an assassin's bullet. The world reacts.             

Live continuing TV and radio coverage of the assassination of President Robert F. Kennedy.