1968 TV Highlights

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CBS Evening News April 4, 1968

Martin Luther King :"A man dies when he refuses to stand up for what is right." Martin Luther King's Last Speech: "Somewhere I read: the greatness of America is the righ/public_html/1968/Budweiserad.mpgt to protest for rights!"
Walter Cronkite reports on Martin Luther King's Assassination. LBJ postpones his trip to Hawaii.
Budweiser Commercial aired on CBS News April 4, 1968 after MLK Assassination Report. Starring Frank Sinatra and Ed MacMahon "Be a Good Little Maxwell House wife" Commercial aired at end of news.
Meanwhile, back in Vietnam...Hanoi reports US planes bomb N. Vietnam near Chinese and Laotian borders; US has another theory. S. Vietnam worries that with LBJ's retirement speech (prev. week) the war might end...
Second Saturn V Moon rocket test Khe Sanh ceasefire
P.S. More rioting in negro neighborhoods reported, especially around liquor stores. And that's the way it is.

ABC News

Democratic National Convention, Chicago August 28, 1968

Howard K. Smith summarizes this day's events. Mayor Daley quashes a "Draft Ted Kennedy" movement, in Political Boss style.
Senator Ed Muskie introduces the Vietnam Policy (Majority Plank) Senator Al Gore Sr. states the awful truth -- In 1964, LBJ lied about going to war; 25000 Americans dead to prop up a corrupt political regime.
Senator Wayne Hayes denounces the Protesters Senator Wayne Morse condemns the Majority Plank and prophesizes the ruin the Vietnam War will bring on the U.S.
Other party leaders say "support our troops"... "..Bobby Kennedy was against the war and it cost him his life." New York and California delegation stage a protest against the Vietnam War Plank.
Meanwhile, police beat up demonstrators and newsmen outside the Hilton Hotel. Gore Vidal compares Chicago to the Soviet Union and Mayor Daley to fascism.
William Buckley sees the police as the only way to deal with demonstrators Gore Vidal cites the U.S. Constitution's right for the people to protest government policies.
Vidal calls Buckley a 'crypto-Nazi'. Buckley calls Vidal a 'queer' and threatens to punch him. Vidal questions why we should fight wars for freedom if we aren't allowed to have freedom in Chicago.
Tony Randall defines who is not funny and who is.
Shirley MacLaine answers questions about how actors like Ronald Reagan have changed politics.
Eugene McCarthy fights the good fight against the Vietnam War. McCarthy supporters rally

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." - Mark Twain