News topics: United States support of Cambodian government, Marvin Kalb reports. After seven months of trial, the Charles Manson jury is still deliberating, Bill Curtis reports, comments from supporters of Manson. Morton Dean reports from South Vietnam on the "Dust Off Crews" rescuing the wounded.      

Host: Walter Cronkite.       

CBS news special on the widening war in Laos and Cambodia. 

First of two parts.            

April 16, 1962-March 6, 1981. On April 16, 1962, Walter Cronkite replaced Douglas Edwards and became the anchor on "The CBS Evening News" which ran 15 minutes Monday thru Friday in primetime. The broadcast expanded to 30 minutes on September 2, 1963.                                       

April 16, 1962-March 6, 1981. On April 16, 1962, Walter Cronkite replaced Douglas Edwards and became the anchor on "The CBS Evening News" which ran 15 minutes Monday thru Friday in primetime. The broadcast expanded to 30 minutes on September 2, 1963.   

                                                                                                                                                                                                

West Germany and France blame US for international monetary crisis. Rev. Carl McIntyre leads "Victory in Vietnam" March. 

Roger Mudd subbing for Walter Cronkite.
   

Walter Cronkite and Charles Kuralt report on the death of Louis Armstrong.                                       

CBS special on the leak of "The Pentagon Papers" and what they mean.     

A report on the Attica prison riot. Coverage of Governor Rockefeller's press conference. 

Host: Walter Cronkite.

Attica news.

Host: Jim Jensen          

A report on the day's news.

Host: Dan Rather.                       

Vietnam war events. Senator  Edmund Muskie campaigning in South Carolina.    


Host: Walter Cronkite. 

Walter Cronkite interviews Attica prison warden Russell G. Oswald. Dan Rather reports on the death rumors of Communist Party chairperson Mao Tse-tung.    

Captain Ernest Medina found innocent in My Lai massacre. A report on sports and the building of character.
Excerpt of NBC news with John Chancellor, My Lai massacre. Attica inmate relates what he saw. 
ABC news excerpt with Howard K. Smith- Mao Tse-tung death rumors.               

Supreme Court justice John M. Harlan resigns due to failing health.  
President Nixon considering successor to justice Hugo Black. Dan Rather reports. 

News events of the day.

Radio and television pioneer David Sarnoff dies at 80. Northern Ireland Senator Jack Barnhill is assassinated.   

Morton Dean reports.   

Jimmy Hoffa returns to Detroit after parole. Hubert Humphrey appears at American Association For Advancement of Science conference.  

Host: Charles Collingwood. 

Group leaves Washington for Peking ahead of Nixon. Group is led by Defense Secretary Ron Ziegler.        

Defense Secretary Melvin Laird speaks of North Vietnam raids. 
Laird sees no draft calls for first three months of 1972.

Host: Charles Collingwood    

Northern Ireland report with Charles Kuralt. James Hoffa criticizes President Nixon for freezing wages.

Charles Collingwood subs for Walter Cronkite. 

Major Floyd Kushner sends his family a Christmas letter. New York  City  Mayor John Lindsay campaigns in Wisconsin and calls bombings sheer madness. 

Charles Collingwood subbing for Walter Cronkite. 

President Nixon's Vietnam peace proposal.       

President Nixon addresses the nation about the ceasefire in North Vietnam.

More small scale enemy attacks in South Vietnam, might be beginning of the Tet offensive, International group of physicians complain to President Nixon and American Medical Association.  

A report on President Nixon's trip to China.

Host: Morton Dean.      

President Nixon's China trip. Senator Vance Hartke campaigns in New Hampshire.  

Angela Davis trial to begin. Pioneer Ten headed for planet Jupiter.           

US troop strength in South Vietnam decreases by 8500. Democratic Primaries in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. 

Host: Walter Cronkite    

Apollo 16 continues journey back to earth as astronaut Ken Mattingly takes spacewalk to retrieve film taken during moon orbit. A National Guard plane destroys a house in Iowa.  

United States and South Vietnam suspend Paris peace talks as they break down again. Funeral services for J. Edgar Hoover as President Nixon gives final eulogy.      

A preview of the 1972 Democratic National Convention at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida.                         

An inside look at the presidential campaign of Senator George McGovern, the week McGovern won the nomination. Walter Cronkite reports. Also reporting John Hart.   

The 1972 presidential campaign.

McGovern has not picked a running mate yet. President Nixon instructs staff to cooperate with investigations into bugging of Democratic National headquarters. Henry Kissinger reports to the President on Paris peace talks.      

Roger Mudd subbing for Cronkite.      

George McGovern's sixth choice for Vice President, Sargent Shriver, is confirmed by the Democratic National Committee.
             

George McGovern talks about the Vietnam war. Secretary of State William Rogers holds a press briefing on Vietnam.  

Morton Dean subs for Roger Mudd. 

Henry Kissinger undertaking general review of Vietnam problem. In Republican primaries, Rep. Paul McCloskey wins one delegate from New Mexico. 
Walter Cronkite reports from the Republican National Convention in Miami. Charles Collingwood reports from New York City.     

155th session of Paris peace talks. Heavy American bombing raids against North Vietnam.

Walter Cronkite and Charles Collingwood report.  

Walter Cronkite reports from the Miami Beach Convention Center. Charles Collingwood from New York City. 

Communist gunners shell United States Air Force base at Danang, South Vietnam. Hijacking to British Columbia, demands end to Vietnam war.                           

Live CBS-TV coverage of the 1972 Republican National Convention. Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather report.
John Wayne is interviewed by Daniel Schorr. Wayne thinks Richard Nixon is a "good guy." Schorr asks Wayne if he ever entertained going into politics.     

A look at the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon and George McGovern.          

  CBS news correspondent Leslie Stahl reports on the latest Watergate proceedings. "FACTS OF POLITICAL ESPIONAGE MUST BE REVEALED."

NOTE:
Leslie Stahl was a recent fledging "affirmative action" female hire at CBS in 1972. She contributed to three on camera assignments on CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE related to the Watergate break-in, discovered on Saturday, June 17, 1972. Her three reports were transmitted June 22, 1972, second, October 3, 1972 and third, January 22, 1973. 

From the first report by Barry Serafin, June 19, 1972, related to the Watergate break-in, televised on CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE, to the forty second report, January 30, 1973 (guilty pleas and convictions by Judge John Sirica), the following CBS News Correspondents provided Watergate reports:

Barry Serafin, George Herman, Leslie Stahl, Mel Walker, Dan Rather, Daniel Schorr, Robert Schakne, and Bruce Morton.  

June - 19, 20, 22.
July - none
August - 2, 3, 21, 29, 30, 31.
September - 1, 5, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 19, 21, 29.
October - 3, 6, 13, 16, 20, 23.
November - 29.
December - 14, 19.
January 1973 - 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 29, 30.                                            

The Senate shelves welform reform another seven years. Includes NBC News segment with John Chancellor.          

McGovern delivers address on foreign policy. President Nixon's first news conference in five weeks. He pledges no tax increases. 
Editorial from Eric Sevareid on the Watergate burglary. Gandy Mfg Company of Chicago, Illinois, made tools for men who laid railroad tracks. The workers were called gandy dancers. 
"On The Road" with Charles Kuralt.   

With commercials.                           

     CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE 
1972-10-05, 3 min.
Walter Cronkite, Leslie Stahl, Herbert Rapp, Dr. William Terry

From Bethesda, Maryland, Leslie Stahl reports on the first collective 
conference of doctors gathered from 10 nations, sponsored by The 
National Cancer Institute opinionating on BCG, a Tuberculosis and 
Leprosy drug that has now been linked effectively to stopping tumors 
from growing in guinea pigs. Still not perfected in humans.   
                                

Peace in Vietnam may not be far off. Heavy fighting on highway 13. Most serious threat to Saigon since 1969.  All volunteer army may be close. Watergate case. Amnesty campaign approaches McGovern.  
Bob Schieffer on part 111 of US-Soviet report.           

Bruce Morton reports on the Columbus Day Parade, a report on George McGovern, Pat Nixon campaigns at Columbus Day Parade, Bill Curtis reports on welfare fraud, report on multi-millionaire Glenn Turner, "dare to be great" a report that the Eiffel Tower might have to be torn down, report on the dispute between national forest purists and those who want more roads built so that more people can enjoy national parks. 

Host: Walter Cronkite.                  

A report on the Columbus Day Parade, many politicians attend.

Roger Grimsby reports.