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.
Sonny Bono supporting Hubert Humphrey complains that kids are vegetables who only care about sex and drugs.
Tony Randall defines who is not funny and who is.
Paul Newman strikes blows against apathy and political machines.
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

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