Continuing live coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the shooting of alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. 

Continuing live coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the shooting of alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. 

Duplicate of 11145. 

President Johnson bestows the Presidential Medal Of Freedom upon 31 recipients.             

The year 1963 in review from ABC-TV, interspersed with year-end discussions in movies and TV from WNEW-TV.             

Former President Harry S. Truman hospitalized, Senator Richard Russell of Georgia dead at 73.          

"Vietnam."  Also, a commercial for the movie "Night Of The Blood Beast."                        

Jack Ruby is found guilty and sentenced to death, comments from defense attorney Melvin Belli and prosecuting attorney Henry Wade. Live coverage from ABC News.                                     

An ABC  News special on the opening of the New York City World's Fair. Also covered, a history of World Fairs.             

Report on today's news.   

          

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed in Jerusalem by the Palestine National Congress.           

ABC newsman Harry Reasoner hosts this special review of the Cuban missile crisis and the involvement of reporter John Scali. 
Also, a special feature: "Politics is a Funny Business." A review of humor in politics-jokes by politicians. Hosted by Harry Reasoner.            

A report on the 1964 California Democratic primary.          

First Navy US aircraft and first American fixed-wing aircraft lost over Indochina in Vietnam war era.

ABC news special on D-Day June 6th, 1944.                 

The national and international news from ABC radio news.

Host: Don McNeil.     

More news of the plane crash involving Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, his back might be broken, he might be hospitalized for one year, Charles De Gaulle cautions Peking on South Vietnam.     

Baylor Langton? reports.        

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and how one of ABC's reporters, John Scali, was intimately involved.   

Host: Howard K. Smith.                                    

Comments on the ouster of former Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev. 

Host: Alex Drier reports for ABC radio news.           

A simulated radio debate between President Johnson and Barry Goldwater(actual speeches edited in debate format).                          

A 90th birthday salute to Sir Winston Churchill.  

A presentation of WABC radio.

Host: Fred Foy.             

February 1, 1965 - December 29, 1967

Twenty six year old Peter Jennings begins anchoring the ABC Evening News, broadcast in black and white.

Selina crisis; negroes arrested during voter registration drive, Martin Luther King is arrested, 700 arrested in jail protest, fighting in Laos, forty killed in South Vietnam, McGeorge Bundy to confer with Maxwell Taylor, LBJ may visit, Beirut, a report from Marina.  

NOTE: It was during Peter Jennings tenure that ABC's evening newscast expanded to thirty minutes on January 9, 1967, at which time the broadcast also reverted to color. Correspondent Howard K. Smith would appear daily contributing news analysis.

ABC was the third network to lengthen its early evening newscast. 
nearly three and half years after both CBS and NBC had expanded their evening news programs to a half - hour.

                      

Grave news from Vietnam as the war escalates following an attack by the Viet Cong, on a US base, McNamara comments, more US troops being sent to Vietnam, comments by Senator Frank Church.

            

Commentary with Alex Drier reporting.             

US airstrike in North Vietnam, Kosygin pledges North Vietnamese support, comments from President Johnson, McGeorge Bundy, update on space news with ABC science editor, Jules Bergman who reports on the fate of the original Mercury spaceflight, time has fragmented Voyager 7 spacecraft.                          

ABC radio news.

Alex Drier reporting.             

New Vietnam crisis, Viet Cong in a second terror attack at US Army base, thirty killed, comments by Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen on US failures in Vietnam.            

thirty-one GI's are killed in a second Viet Cong terrorist attack, Government troops are badly beaten by Viet Cong, Howard K. Smith commentary on the Vietnam crisis.             

The US stages a huge air raid in North Vietnam in retaliation for Viet Cong attack billet, an interview with a wounded US GI.                          

The home of Malcolm X is firebombed, comment by Malcolm X on Martin Luther King,           

An anti-American riot in London, the home of Malcolm X is firebombed.             

Singer Nat King Cole has died.   

Joseph Cotton does a commercial for Bufferin.     

Host: Peter Jennings.       

News from Vietnam, anti-war riots in London, a molotov cocktail is tossed at the home of Malcolm X.             

A report on the Saturn 1 lift-off. ABC science editor Jules Bergman reports.            

South Vietnamese General Khanh is overthrown by General Warner Farr. John Scali comments.                       

Dock strike over, white March in Selma. Swedish Queen Louise Mountbatten is critically Ill.         

Red China commentary, a closed society, little known about this communist nation.            

The morning headlines with Murphy Martin.            

Racial violence in Selmaa, Alabama, writer Somerset Maughan recovering after falling ill.                          

A Vietnam report.  The United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3500 marines arrived to defend the US airbase at Da Nang.                        

United States officially enters the Vietnam war following the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August, 1964. In March, 1965, the US began a sustained aerial bombardment against North Vietnam.         

Report on the Russian Cosmonaut's spacewalk.

Alex Drier reports.            

The Soviet spacewalk. The US prepares for space trip in the Gemini space capsule, astronauts John Young and Virgil Grissom will be aboard, civil rights march to begin on Sunday, George Wallace in protest, a report from Vietnam and US prisoners of war,             

The US launches Ranger 9 to the moon, Selma march to Montgomery begins, Sheriff Clark comments on "outsiders."                         

The Ranger 9 spacecraft impacts the moon after taking photos, Astronauts Young and Grissom back on the carrier "Intrepid," ABC science editor Jules Bergman comments on future US space flights, the US defends the use of non-lethal gas in Vietnam, comment by Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara and the possible opening of a pandora's box, comment to exploit the use of it, Selina march is in progress, Senator Robert Kennedy climbs Mt. Kennedy (13,500ft) to the top and arrives at 8,000 ft level by helicopter,                           

Coverage of the civil rights March in Alabama.             

Coverage of the civil rights March in Alabama.          

Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young hold a press conference following their Gemini 111 spaceflight.           

Martin Luther King urges boycott of goods sold in Alabama, for the first time on US television, Green Beret Barry Saddler sings the new song "Ballad Of The Green Berets."            

VF Day in Russia, $10,000 offer for a letter of Lee Harvey Oswald, 42nd year as FBI Director for J. Edgar Hoover. rocket to the moon.              

Peter Jennings reports.

Commercials included.