Apollo 13 reenters earth's gravity, Pope Paul prays for astronauts. President Nixon's Vietnam report delayed due to Apollo 13 emergency.     

Live coverage of the Apollo 13 Splashdown after the mission was aborted.      

President Nixon to give Vietnam speech. Judge Harry Blackmun admits errors in rulings on companies he held stock in.    

President Richard Nixon at Kennedy Space Center. After Apollo 13 was aborted due to an oxygen tank failure, Nixon greets astronauts Fred Haise, Jim Lovell, and Jack Swigert. 
At a press conference the president said:
"The three astronauts didn't reach the moon but they reached the hearts of millions of Americans and people around the world."
Later that evening, President Nixon presents the three astronauts with the Medal Of Freedom.     

Frank Reynolds and Jules Bergman report for ABC news.                                           

Live coverage of the splashdown of Apollo 13 and its safe return to earth.                     

A roundup of the week's news from the CBS radio network.    

Commentary and feedback on President Nixon's Vietnam speech. 

Over 150,000 US troops pulled out of Vietnam in a year under Nixon administration. Violence at Penn State University over war and racial issues. 

Apollo 13 astronauts hold news conference.        

Live coverage of the Apollo 13 astronauts press conference.      

Live coverage of the press conference about the aborted Apollo 13 space mission        

Duplicate of #11093.              

Live coverage of the press conference about the aborted Apollo 13 space mission        

Duplicate of #7662.                

Earth Day rallies around the US. Lake Erie fishing ban lifted. Kansas governor Robert Docking invokes curfew in Lawrence following student violence.   

Apollo 14 launch postponed possibly till January, 1971. Astronauts John Swigert and James Lovell express confidence in NASA, despite Apollo 13 failure.    

This week's major news stories from CBS radio news.         

The play "Park" closes at the John Golden Theatre in New York City after five performances. Freda Payne releases "Band Of Gold."                  

President Nixon warns Congress against 18 year-old vote law, he says it requires a constitutional amendment. Kienast quintuplets home after two month hospital stay. 

Congress considering possible impeachment proceedings against Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas. Black and White Mississippi students clash.  

Boston Massachusetts Judge James Boyle said Ted Kennedy lied about taking wrong turn. Mary Jo Kopechne's court transcript made public.         

Latest news on Cambodia. American advisors hit enemy Cambodian sanctuaries. President Nixon to explain in a nationally televised speech. South Vietnam strike Viet Cong across border, Communists seize Kampot. 

Special on the Chappaquiddick incident on July 18th, 1969, involving Senator Edward Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne, in which Ms. Kopechne died.                     

President Richard Nixon speaks to the nation on Cambodia, and North Vietnam's increasing aggression against it.        

Cambodia invaded. President Nixon to give speech on Cambodian incursion, plus comments. College campus demonstrations continue.   
U-2 pilot Gary Francis Powers shot down ten years ago over USSR, to have story published. Powers criticized for not destroying U-2 and self when shot down.                          

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.                          

Anti-war activist David Dellinger with an anti- Vietnam war speech.   

Harry Reasoner reports.                                   

Labor leader and civil rights activist Walter Reuther killed in plane crash. Vietnam debate with Senator Charles Goodell.           

Construction workers news and commentary.         

September 24th, 1968-

An hour newsmagazine with a strong emphasis on investigative reporting. 60 Minutes began in 1968 as a bi-weekly show, alternating on Tuesday evenings with CBS Reports. In the fall of 1971, it shifted to Sunday evenings. In the fall of 1975, it became a weekly series. It remains a fixture on Sunday evenings on CBS to this day.

Guests: John and Martha Mitchell are interviewed at home. 

Host:Harry Reasoner                                                                                                                                      

Chief Justice Earl Warren says country is divided as never before in last 100 years. Jackson State College and police confrontation; unconfirmed sniper report leads to two police killings with fifteen students wounded as Department Of Justice investigates.               

President Nixon's address to the nation on Cambodia and the withdrawal of US troops. 

John Chancellor and Herb Kaplow report. 

A simulated newscast shows what could happen to our environment by the year 1985. To repeat, this is not a real newscast. It is a dramatization of the way newsmen might cover an ecological disaster. Several on-screen messages will interrupt the broadcast to assure viewers that they are not watching a real crisis unfold. The program is designed to inform viewers about the urgent need for antipollution measures. Its content is derived from the premise that reforms initiated in 1970 have not been carried out. By 1985, an international pollution crises (compounded by overpopulation) threatens man's survival. Newsmen report on phenomenon here and overseas, including smog, power failures, and food and water shortages that are pictured as disasters beyond control.                       

Simulated newscast about what it will be like in fifty years if no steps are taken to correct our environment and population.    

Mark Evans and Maury Povitch report. 

Walter Cronkite hosts "The Epic Journey Of Apollo 11."     
Chronicle of Apollo 11's lunar mission, presented on it's first anniversary.      

NBC radio takes a look back at Woodstock. 

NBC newsman Edwin Newman reports.       

Actor Scoey Mitchell performs.       

Charles Manson's judge refuses mistrial motion. Robert Anson, a Time Magazine reporter is reported missing in Cambodia.        

     Among many stories covered, Huey Newton released from prison, and Tex Ritter runs for political office.          

Linda Kasabian continues her testimony at the Charles Manson trial. Three San Rafael, California gunmen capture a judge. Police kill the three gunmen. The judge and prisoner are also killed.       

Spiro Agnew reports new Jet wing for Korea, William Calley's attorneys request secret My Lai files. 

THE 10 O'CLOCK NEWS 

March 13, 1967 - July 5, 1968 (Half Hour)
July 8, 1968 - February 23, 1979 (One Hour)

HISTORY:

On March 13, 1967 Channel 5 launched the first prime time newscast in the tri-state area, just a few months after sister station WTTG in Washington D.C. became the first station in the United States with one. Since then, a lot has changed but there are still a few constants like the seemingly eternal question, “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?”

In 1967, channel 5, then called WNEW-TV, had been an independent television station for eleven years since the disbanding of the DuMont Network where it was the flagship station. The station was owned by Metromedia, which obtained the majority of the network’s assets, including the DuMont Tele-centre on East 67th Street that served as the home for channel 5.

Metromedia tapped Bill Jorgensen, a reporter for WEWS in Cleveland to anchor the newscast in either Washington or New York. Jorgensen decided on New York after he had heard some in the industry say that the news couldn’t compete against entertainment programming. In the newscast’s first year, it was competing against programs from the networks such as The Big Valley, The Carol Burnett Show, The Dean Martin Show and I Spy. The neigh sayers were proven wrong and the plucky little newscast without all the resources of a big network behind it did quite well against the entertainment competition and quickly expanded from a half hour to an hour.

In December of 1969 John Roland joined the station and a little less than ten years later became Jorgensen’s successor after he moved over to WPIX in 1979. When Roland took over the anchor chair, WPIX’s Action News (later Independent Network News) offered the only 10 p.m. competition for news in the city. In other parts of the country 10 p.m. newscasts were popping up on independent stations after seeing the success in New York.

Bill Jorgensen was the founding and longtime anchor of New York City's FIRST PRIME TIME ONE HOUR WEEKLY NEWS BROADCAST premiering  format on July 8, 1968. It began as a half hour News Broadcast anchored by Bill Jorgensen on March 13, 1967.

 When WNEW-TV began producing 10 O'CLOCK NEWS with Bill Jorgensen at the helm, no other commercial television stations had a prime time newscast. The New York Times television critic Jack Gould described the newscast as "a thoroughly professional news summary" due in part to "Mr. Jorgensen's durably pleasing style and demeanor. He suggests authority without affectation." 

The 10 O'CLOCK NEWS on WNEW TV  followed a talk show hosted by Merv Griffin and was followed by a local talk show hosted by Alan Burke, and then followed with The Les Crane Show when The 10'Oclock News was a half hour broadcast. This line-up rapidly built a substantial audience. 

After a twelve year successful run Bill Jorgensen left WNEW and The 10'OClock News and was succeeded at by John Roland, who anchored his first broadcast on March 14, 1979. Jorgensen who quit after his Feb. 23, broadcast left the newscast without an official anchor replacement for two and half weeks. Roland who had previously been a featured reporter and co-anchor became the new anchor. 

Bill Jorgensen's signature signoff was "I'm Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time 'till next time."

NOTE: Bill Jorgensen had it written into his contract at WNEW that he was the only one who could use a TelePrompTer, and this meant that when he was debriefing a reporter on set, the reporter would have to constantly look at his notes. By contract, Jorgensen would always look steadily into the camera, projecting an air of power and confidence. He warred bitterly with station management, including Ted Kavanau, then news director, who says Jorgensen "was a difficult guy, very moody, hardly talked to anybody, but when you turned on that camera, he performed brilliantly. He had a voice that was like fate reaching out to you."

ON THIS BROADCAST:

Women commemorate the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th amendment, which granted suffrage to women.
 
An in depth ten minute report leads off this news broadcast.

Women march and demonstrate all over New York City  advocating equality. They picket a multitude of sights. Women's power are on display representing 100 million females in the USA.

In an on location report, women take over radio station WBAB, demanding their voice be heard. Interviews and comments are heard. 

Also, demonstrations are covered in Times Square, Bryant Park,  Washington D.C. and Boston Massachusetts. 

In other news, Palestine crisis, Israeli crisis addressed at UN,
Vice President Spiro Agnew's trip in the East, latest Viet Nam statistics, American marine John Sweeney asks for asylum in Sweden. His family is interviewed, NYC hippies battle police, Nigerian execution of three enemies of the country, Narcotic raids in NYC, Manson case horrors of killings described in court, Black Panther trial, search for wanted criminal Angela Davis, British Airways fire at Kennedy Airport, increasing amount of guns being stored by college students. 

Rona Barrett reviews new TV programs scheduled to debut and return to television in the Fall 1970 season. 

NOTE: 

      NO KNOWN BROADCASTS OR EVEN EXCERPTS OF "10 O'CLOCK NEWS 
      WITH BILL JORGENSEN" EXISTS OR IS ARCHIVED AT THE LIBRARY 
      OF CONGRESS, UCLA FILM & TV ARCHIVE, PALEY CENTER FOR 
      MEDIA, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY NEWS ARCHIVE, OR THE ARCHIVES 
      OF WNEW METROMEDIA. ONE ENDING OF THE PROGRAM AND CREDITS 
      CAN BE FOUND ON YOU TUBE (62 SECONDS).                                                                                                                                                 

King Hussein escapes an assassination attempt in Amman. Census reports American population at 205 million. 

    AUGUST 3, 1970 - OCTOBER 1979

 Main story, The Palestinian Hijackings of three Jets to Jordan. Palestinian Guerrilla hijackers blow up a 747 in retaliation for U.S. support of Israel. 
Reporting from Jordan is Wilson Hall. 
Israel prime minister Yitzhak Rabin comments.                                 

Three jets hijacked to Amman. 10 PM deadline set to meet hijackers demands.        

Walter Cronkite host.