Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev addresses the United Nations. 

War in Vietnam is sharply stepped up as Viet Cong bomb the American Embassy building in Saigon, the US marines want to go into action and whip the Viet Cong.   

Frank McGee reports.          

Celebrities test their trivia knowledge.

WNEW-TV Channel 5 in New York City. 

Host Henry Morgan.                       

Comments from Hubert Humphrey and Robert Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller, Eugene McCarthy, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, where we stand in Vietnam and events this week, Marines under siegeKaesan, GI comments, McCarthy, Humphrey, and RFK comment on the war, President Johnson defends his stand on the war, in a few hours, Johnson will speak to the American people, Dean Bayless reports for NBC News, a commercial for "The Bonnie Prudden Show," premiering Monday at 9 AM with the women in mind.
Observations from leftist students on McCarthy's Viet-wise politics, LBJ in trouble.                                        

Everett Dirksen criticizes Senator Ted Kennedy's stance on Vietnam war, while Mike Mansfield defends Kennedy's position, calling the war senseless.          

 N.E.T. FESTIVAL- December 6, 1967 - September 29, 1970  

A Public Broadcasting Series of American and Foreign produced programming devoted to the exploration of the arts. 


On May 19, 1969 Coleman Hawkins "The Hawk" died of bronchial pneumonia at age 64. This memorial tribute includes a  session taped at Chicago (WTTW-TV), shortly before Hawkins died. Performing with him are old rivals  Roy  Eldridge on  trumpet, Barry  Harris on piano, drummer Bob Cousins and Truck Partha on bass.

Some of Hawkins signatures are played: "Yesterdays," "I Can't Get Started," "Disorder at the Border," and "Like Someone in Love."

Hawkins' friends reassemble for this broadcast to play "Blue's for Hawk," 

Also appearing is jazz singer Eddie Jefferson, vocalizing in the style of Hawkins' immortal "Body and Soul" solo. Chicagoan Franz Jackson backs Jefferson on tenor sax.

Dan Morgenstern, editor-in-chief of Down Beat magazine, offers a biography of his longtime friend. 

  NOTE: Joined in progress, missing the opening.                                    

Nixon and Agnew meet. President may cancel trips to Europe and Japan.            

      SPECIAL Primetime Nationally televised baseball game, Opening Night between the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles at Atlanta Stadium where 53,000 fans have come to see Hank Aaron break Babe Ruth's record for most home runs by a player in a career.  
Curt Gowdy and Joe Garagiola are in the booth. 
Special pre-game ceremonies.   
Gowdy calls home run number 715. He exclaims, "He did it! Aaron now the all time home run leader." 

The game is stopped for almost 10 minutes as Hank Aaron is given a diamond ring on the field commemorating what he had just accomplished.  Aaron at the microphone thanks all of his fans. Monte Irvin presents Hank with a gold watch with the engraving on it, "Greatest Home Run Hitter Of All Time." 

Included in this air check is the News recapping this momentous day in sports. We hear Hank Aaron talking with reporters after the 7 to 4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. He states that he is relieved that it is over.                             

House Judiciary Committee hearings on Nelson Rockefeller's vice-presidential nomination.