Walter Cronkite reports the news. Vietnam commentary by Eric Sevareid. Includes commercials.

Joined in progress.                          

The latest world and national news. 

Eric Sevaeeid with a report on Senator Eugene McCarthy. Charles Kuralt "On The Road," reports on a corn mill built-in 1681, about to be torn down.                          

Report Richard Nixon is trailing Lyndon Johnson by 3% in the polls, Eric Sevareid reports. Also included is an excerpt of The Huntley-Brinley Report from NBC-TV. Otis Redding has died, an NBC report on Senator Eugene McCarthy                          

Eric Sevareid with a report on New York City. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon declared an end to silver certificates. 
A promo is heard for the Woody Allen 1967 special.                                   

Dr, Christian Bernard performs his second heart transplant, the ninth anniversary of Fidel Castro as the Cuban leader, Eric Sevareid reports on the American economy.

Walter Cronkite hosts.              

The year-end correspondent's report. Topics are Vietnam, Israel, and the Middle East.    

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Eric Sevareid's report on the Vietnam war. Also included an excerpt from the NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report.                      

Eric Sevareid reports on Vietnam, Richard Nixon to run for president, a movie promo for "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner." Also reports from Dan Rather and Mike Wallace.              

Harry Reasoner subbing for Walter Cronkite. Eric Sevareid with commentary on travel taxes. More mopping up operations in Saigon, comment by GI's.                                                    

Harry reasoner subbing for Walter Cronkite.    

Dan Rather with Vietnam news, a 19-year-old Marine killed in Vietnam- his parents refuse to have him buried, in a military cemetery, 
Eric Sevareid with Vietnam commentary, Vietnam, "death, price to pay,"  
draft deferments are changed
a report on the George Romney for President campaign, comments from George Wallace.
"On The Road" with Charles Kuralt- Liveoak Florida, "Swanee River Country."
                     

Walter Cronkite and others report from Vietnam on fighting in Wue
Race Relations with Eric Sevareid.
Anti-American protests in France
On The Road with Charles Kuralt (Arkansas, America's only diamond field).

Harry Reasoner subbing for Walter Cronkite.                           

Eric Sevareid commentary, 543 GI's killed in Vietnam last week, 18,200 since 1960. 
Marines stressed at Wue.
William Fulbright comments on war.
Gulf Of Tomkin incident.
Channel change-George Wallace
Mike Wallace report on the Nelson Rockefeller campaign
Includes commercials  

Harry Reasoner subbing for Walter Cronkite.                                      

The CIA's Vietnam policy vs. President Johnson's, Dan Rather reports, a profile on Carl Stokes and his first 100 days in office as Cleveland's first black mayor, a profile of H. Rap Brown, commentary by Eric Sevareid regarding the tax on American tourists.  

Harry Reasoner subbing for Walter Cronkite.                                    

Michigan Governor George Romney quits presidential race, comments by Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater, Eric Sevareid commentary, a tribute to former defense secretary Robert McNamara, Dan Rather reports, Charles Evers comments on the upcoming election,            

Eric Sevareid with a report on civil disorders.           

Eric Sevareid reports on Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential nomination.           

Robert Kennedy vs. William Fulbright Senate debate on Vietnam, a report by Eric Sevareid on Eugene McCarthy.              

A comment on the Senate hearing on Vietnam by Eric Sevareid.                         

More than 2,000 GI's killed in the past four weeks, 20,000 killed in war, report from Fred Darwin, Eric Sevareid comments on Robert Kennedy.           

Walter Cronkite interviews Eugene McCarthy
Morley Safer reports from London on the Gold Crisis
An excerpt of NBC News with Chet Huntley is heard
A report on the Robert F. Kennedy campaign from his campaign headquarters,
20,000 US troops killed in Vietnam thus far
Eric Sevareid looks at the presidential candidates
                         

Senator Robert F. Kennedy announces his candidacy for President of the United States. Heard on WCBS-AM New York City.

David Schumaker interviews Eugene McCarthy in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Dan Rather and Eric Sevareid with commentary.

Host: Roger Mudd.             

Harry Reasoner subbing for Cronkite. The US will not pull out of Vietnam, Dan Rather reports, "complete the job at home," John Hart reports, Robert Kennedy in Manhattan, a preview of the April 2nd New Hampshire primary, presidential commentary on Eugene McCarthy, commercial for solarcane, 679 enemy troops killed last week, Morley Safer reports on the riots in London, protests in Indonesia, Gold Crisis eased slightly, commentary by Eric Sevareid.                       

Eric Sevareid comments on the political campaign,Jack Benny donates his personal memorabilia to the University Of Southern California.            

Sargent Shriver is announced as the Ambassador to France by President Johnson, General William Westmoreland will leave Vietnam to become the Army Chief Of Staff on July 2nd, Kennedy attacks LBJ in speech, political promo on "peace in Vietnam," Eric Sevareid commentary, "forthcoming events will affect presidential election."                         

Sargent Shriver the new Ambassador to France, General Westmoreland new Army Chief Of Staff, takes over on July 2nd, President Johnson has an overwhelming lead over Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, RFK campaign speech in Alabama on jobs, fighting crime, Vietnam war, discrimination. Eric Sevareid commentary on politics and politicians in 1968, a commercial for True Cigarettes, a report on airport traffic jams and Air Traffic Control by 1977, David Culhane reports.

Harry Reasoner subbing for Walter Cronkite.                          

World Council Of Churches meeting. Bob Evans reports from Moscow. The 42-year-old son of Charlie Chaplin dies of a pulmonary embolism, President Johnson imposes a 100% tax surcharge, Eric Sevareid reports on present economic circumstances and economic austerity.              

Harry Reasoner subbing for Cronkite.

Nelson Rockefeller speaks about his position on the "68 elections
President Johnson press conference and statement
Nixon's reaction
Roger Mudd interviews Thurston Morton
Israel attacks Jordon, losses on both sides
New offensives in Saigon, 336 US killed during the Tet offensive
South Vietnam increases Army numbers
President Johnson persists with "Peace with honor" in Vietnam, Dan Rather reports
Fugitive captured talks candidly to reporters
Joan Baez marries a draft resistor, David Harris.
Eric Sevareid with commentary on Rockefeller
                          

Report from Vietnam with Bert Quinn, Eric Sevareid reports on "Economics Of The South." A report on Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign.

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Commentary on Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Barry Goldwater, George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey, and Ronald Reagan. Eric Sevareid's commentary on Johnson giving up on bombings of North Vietnam, ramifications on Johnson's decision not to run for another term. Cronkite interviews Nixon. Martin Luther King will return to Memphis tomorrow to resume his civil rights march, Eric Sevareid reports.  

Includes commercials.                                                                   

President Johnson comments on the American farmer and attempts to return them to the farms, they are now leaving for the cities, Dan Rather reports, Charles Collingwood reports from Hanoi, Eric Sevareid on the Wisconsin primary, Charles Kuralt reports on the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, the discovery of a primitive hut built by Daniel Boone.                          

Live coverage of the Wisconsin primary. Walter Cronkite anchors.
John Hart, Dan Rather, David Schoumacher and Martin Agronsky report. Comments from Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, and Eric Sevareid.                                                    

Steve Rowan from Washington, DC-Looting and rioting
Dan Rather-Report on the president
Ike Pappas- In Memphis, Tennessee- Details before Dr. King was shot.
Bill Plante- Reporting from Memphis
Peter Burns- With Dr. Ralph Abernathy
John Hart- With Robert F. Kennedy- mindless violence.
Also comments from Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes plus world reaction from Pope Paul VI, Britain's Parliament, The Soviet Union and Stokely Carmichael.
Comments from Robert Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Carl Stokes, plus world reaction.
Civil Rights Bill not passed, 
Bert Quint reports from Hanoi, 
Eric Sevareid with commentary on Dr. King.


Host: Walter Cronkite. With commercials. 
                                                                             

News report of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from WTOP-TV(CBS) Washington D.C. by Julian Barber. There is an NBC News bulletin and special report with further details including news of King's death. An ABC bulletin is heard interrupting regular broadcasting, announcing the tragic death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Joined in progress, late reports from Dan Rather on a CBS News Special Report. In a previous speech King is heard, reminding his followers that to put one's life on the line for what is just and righteous is to place oneself in danger, but the risks must be taken. 

Another extensive CBS TV NEWS SPECIAL REPORT from Washington DC is telecast preempting regular programming the evening of April 4, 1968.

 Walter Cronkite relays the latest news from Memphis, Tennessee where King was pronounced dead one hour after he was shot. Cronkite recounts a brief biographic report on King; his early life, his rise to fame, and the influences he has had promoting non-violent activates. Wires are read from shocked dignitaries. President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks live to the American people requesting all Americans to work together for peace and solidarity. Via video tape, Vice President Hubert Humphrey reflects on this tragedy and gives praise to the work which King has done and to his non-violent philosophy for acquiring freedom and civil rights for all people. 

On the following day, April 5, CBS EVENING NEWS with WALTER CRONKIITE.  

Dan Rather reports concerning the racial looting which has occurred. Ike Pappas reports from Memphis Tennessee. He states that at 2:06pm Dr. King walked on to his hotel balcony. 200 hundred feet away across the balcony one shot rang out and the assassin disappeared.  Steve Rowan from Memphis reports of looting and chaos during the day. Officers in gas masks. Fires everywhere. A number of Negroes taken into custody. National Guard requested and called in near the White House. Incidents of looting in Detroit, Boston, and in the states of  Tennessee, Colorado and North Carolina. A national day of mourning is reported by Dan Rather. President Johnson again talks to the American people requesting unity. Additional reports from Memphis come from Ike Pappas who states that King walked to railing at his hotel at 3:06pm. 200 feet away a single shot rang out, and the shooter disappeared. Bill Plante reports from Memphis related to  the emotions felt.. Prayers from Dr. Ralph Abernathy are heard. From Atlanta, a report detailing the return of King's body to Georgia. Peter Burns reports on funeral arrangements. From Cleveland, John Hart reports; we hear statements from Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Carl Stokes.

 From the HUNTLEY BRINKLEY REPORT(NBC), Chet Huntley and David Brinkley inform on the latest development regarding looting and violence in many states including Detroit, Greensboro, and Chicago. Federal troops ordered into the streets. All schools closed. Four deaths reported. Hundreds arrested in Detroit. Guard troops deployed in Nashville, Tennessee and in Chicago.

On CBS EVENING NEWS, Eric Sevareid comments on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.   
He states, "never before has this nation gone into a proclaimed mourning, its flag everywhere at half staffed over the death of  a private citizen. And this man was a descendent of slaves."      

Walter Cronkite concludes with his signature sign off,
"And that's the way it is, April 5th, 1968. This is Walter Cronkinte. Good Night."                           

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. 


                                     

The opening of this CBS documentary special. Eric Sevareid narrates. 

Opening only.            

The civil rights bill is passed. Eric Sevareid reports.

Host: Walter Cronkite.                          

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. 


                                                                

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.             

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.        

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.

                        

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."

                          

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.             

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.             

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. Some commercials.
                                     

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.

                                       

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.