Simon & Garfunkel 7 O'clock News-silent Night
This is the early evening edition of the news.
The recent fight in the House of Representatives was
over the open housing
section of the Civil Rights Bill.
Brought traditional enemies together but it left the
defenders of the
measure without the votes of their strongest
supporters.
President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban
covering discrimination
by everyone for every type of housing but it had no
chance from the start
and everyone in Congress knew it.
A compromise was painfully worked out in the House
Judiciary Committee.
In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what
was believed to be an
overdoes of narcotics.
Bruce was 42 years old.
Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to
cancel plans for an open
housing march Sunday into the Chicago suburb of Cicero.
Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call
off the march and the
police in Cicero said they would ask the National Guard
to be called out
if it is held.
King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to
Chicago Tuesday.
In Chicago Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine
student nurses, was brought
before a grand jury today for indictment.
The nurses were found stabbed an strangled in their
Chicago apartment.
In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a
special subcommittee of the
House Committee on Un-American activities continued
it's probe into anti-
Viet nam war protests.
Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings
when they began chanting
anti-war slogans.
Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless
there is a substantial
increase in the present war effort in Viet nam, the
U.S. should look forward
to five more years of war.
In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars in New York,
Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country
is the greatest single
weapon working against the U.S.
That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news,
Goodnight.
Silent night
Holy night
All is calm
All is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace.
