Highlights: Us Admiral warns of potential danger at sea, Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina.                                                   

Khrushchev throws a tantrum at the UN, Khrushchev heckles Harold Macmillan UN talk and pounds on the table, Khrushchev wants allies to accept Russian disarmament terms, fifty-seven Americans harassed by Cubans in Havana, five hundred Americans leave Cuba, reporter comments on condition in police state Cuba, Nixon calls Kennedy a "monumental failure". Adolf Eichman trial to begin soon.           

Highlights: Russians launch a rocket to Venus, Patrice Lumumba is believed to be killed in the Congo, Castro blames Kennedy for six million unemployment rates in the US, Labor secretary Arthur Goldberg inspects unemployment areas, Eichmann lawyer gets Israeli rules on legal procedures.                                                   

Adolf Eichmann trial enters the second day in Israel, Russians hail the success of Major Yuri Gagarin, the first Russian Cosmonaut to journey into space.                                                                                         

Highlights: More on Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in space, Kennedy evaluates the position of the US in space, Soviets deny that an earlier attempt failed, Israeli prosecutor defends Israel's right to try Eichmann for crimes against Jews.                                     

Highlights: More news on US space lag, Eichmann trial off for one day, a hotel is damaged by a bomb in Havana, General Edwin Walker reported to be indoctrinating his troops on extremist John Birch Society ideas. John Welsch in a row with a newsman on the question of calling Eisenhower a communist, New York Senator Jacob Javits comments on the society, suggests an investigation, Adam Clayton Powell freed on an income tax charge.                                      

Highlights: Deputy Director on the proposed "crash program" to put a man on the moon, Eichmann trial, Eichmann's personality described, General Edwin Walker, denies John Birch Society indoctrination of troops, Elijah Muhammad denies Black Muslims preach black supremacy.                          

Highlights: Cuba is invaded by anti-Castro rebels, sea-borne invasion force to be coordinated with uprising within the island, Senator Jacob Javits says the US will not invade Cuba, Castro accuses the US of an air attack in Cuba, Eichmann pleads not guilty to charges against him for crimes against the Jews, Laotian prince Souvanna Phouma in Moscow for talks on the Laotian crisis.                          

Highlights: News on the Cuban invasion, Cuba accuses the US of directly aiding Cuban invasion in an "international crime of aggression," the US denies direct aid, a mass uprising on the island of Cuba is predicted, Adolf Eichmann pleads not guilty, General Edwin Walker relieved of army command because of John Birch Society views.                         

Highlights: The US will not permit outside intervention in Cuba, in answer to Khrushchev threat, Cuban invaders under MIG attack, Castro claims victory over the invaders at the Bay Of Pigs, Israeli prosecutor details Nazi horrors in Eichmann trial,                           

Highlights: Czech president Antonin Novotny sends congratulations to Fidel Castro for his victory over the invaders. Czechs will aid "heroic" Cuban people with equipment. Eichmann's trial continues.                                       

May 3,1948-April 13,1962

Douglas Edwards who replaced Newscaster Larry LeSueur as anchor of CBS television weekly news held that post for fourteen years. For most of its broadcast  history the fifteen minute broadcast was officially titled DOUGLAS EDWARDS WITH THE NEWS.

On November 30, 1956, the first network news show to be videotaped for rebroadcast to the West Coast was achieved. This video tape is not known to exist today as is most of all of Douglas' news broadcasts, in any broadcast form. 

On April 16, 1962 Walter Cronkite succeeded Edwards as CBS's evening newscaster. Douglas Edwards continued to broadcast the local WCBS nightly weekly newscast. He also did a five-minute daytime newscast until April 1, 1988. 

Adolf Eichmann is hung, a report from Israel.                                      

News commentary on the Adolf Eichmann execution.                        

World Today is a radio news program broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System and hosted by Tony Marvin. 

The top news stories of 1962. Space: John Glenn orbits the earth three times, Scott Carpenter also orbits the Earth three times, the Russians orbit two spacemen Nikolayev and Popovich, the US's Walter Schirra orbits the earth six times, the Mariner 11 spacecraft passes near Venus. a comment by Dr. Willy Ley, the US to resume nuclear testing, the Soviets propose a nuclear test ban, "Der Spiegel affair" in West Germany, German politics, British politics, Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton affair, comment by Fisher, he denies rumors of a breakup, comments by man-in-the-street, racial crisis in Oxford, Mississippi, Governor Barnett denies the registration of James Meredith, President Kennedy says he will send troops, two die in suceeding riots, a hospital error results in several baby deaths, doctors strike in Canada, thialiminide deformities in newborn babies, Adolf Eichmann, Robert Soblen, Fritz Kreisler, Charles Laughton, Thomas Mitchell, Marilyn Monroe, and Eleanor Roosevelt all died in 1962, comments by Isaac Stern on Kreisler, Marilyn Monroe talks about acting, Boxing deaths Benny (Kid) Paret dies from injuries he suffered in his fight against Emile Griffith in Madison Square Garden in New York City, Sonny Liston wins the heavyweight boxing crown defeating Floyd Patterson in a first round knockout, John Steinbeck wins the Nobel Prize, a comment on Hollywood films.

Host: Tony Marvin.