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8 records found for ABC EVENING NEWS WITH PETER JENNINGS, THE
1965-02-04, ABC, 7 min.
February 1, 1965 - December 29, 1967 Twenty six year old Peter Jennings begins anchoring the ABC Evening News, broadcast in black and white. Selina crisis; negroes arrested during voter registration drive, Martin Luther King is arrested, 700 arrested in jail protest, fighting in Laos, forty killed in South Vietnam, McGeorge Bundy to confer with Maxwell Taylor, LBJ may visit, Beirut, a report from Marina. NOTE: It was during Peter Jennings tenure that ABC's evening newscast expanded to thirty minutes on January 9, 1967, at which time the broadcast also reverted to color. Correspondent Howard K. Smith would appear daily contributing news analysis. ABC was the third network to lengthen its early evening newscast. nearly three and half years after both CBS and NBC had expanded their evening news programs to a half - hour.
1965-02-16, ABC, 9 min.
A report on the Saturn 1 lift-off. ABC science editor Jules Bergman reports.
1965-02-19, ABC, 4 min.
South Vietnamese General Khanh is overthrown by General Warner Farr. John Scali comments.
1965-03-23, ABC, 11 min.
The Ranger 9 spacecraft impacts the moon after taking photos, Astronauts Young and Grissom back on the carrier "Intrepid," ABC science editor Jules Bergman comments on future US space flights, the US defends the use of non-lethal gas in Vietnam, comment by Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara and the possible opening of a pandora's box, comment to exploit the use of it, Selina march is in progress, Senator Robert Kennedy climbs Mt. Kennedy (13,500ft) to the top and arrives at 8,000 ft level by helicopter,
1966-03-07, ABC, 13 min.
Bob Young subbing for Peter Jennings.
1966-03-11, ABC, min.
Bob Young subbing for Peter Jennings.
1966-11-03, ABC, 13 min.
The latest news. Peter Jennings reports.
1967-11-24, ABC, 10 min.
Includes commercials.