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

President Nixon goes to Spain meets President Francisco Franco.
Unemployment rises to 5.1% 

President Nixon gives Indochina speech. Charles DeGaulle writing memoirs.     

President Nixon gives Vietnam speech. My Lai trial begins for Sargent David Mitchell. 

Communist criticism about Nixon Indochina speech. More US casualties in Vietnam. Saigon opposes cease-fire while communists still in South Vietnam. 

Fiji gains independence from Britain. Pierre Laporte, Quebec's Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour is kidnapped.                    

CBS radio news with Daniel Schorr.       

The death of Charles DeGaulle. 

Host: Bill Ryan 

News events of the day.         

Vietnam casualties light due to holiday ceasefire. Youth music festival in Laguna Beach, California.

Campaign launched to destroy marajuina fields in Vietnam. Fight to control VD in Vietnam.     

North Vietnam protests at Paris peace talks. Senator Richard Russell in serious condition with respitory condition.

Feedback from State Of The Union address. US transport planes deliver supplies to Cambodia.

President Nixon wants 91st Congress to clean up affairs. Lt. William  Calley to undergo a mental test.

Spiro Agnew speaks about administrative programs. Arizona may lose $37 million dollars in welfare aid if Federal regulations are not complyed with.       

Charges dropped against Major General Samuel Koster in My Lai incident. 1972 budget submitted to Congress.        

Apollo 14 lands on moon despite issue with docking. President Nixon sends economy report to Congress.      

Japan news agency says 5,000 South Vietnamese in attack. Former Texas governor John Connally responds to accusations he illegally received funds while governor.

Apollo 14 in moon orbit. British send another battalion to Northern Ireland after fighting breaks out in Belfast. 

United States ground forces reported in Laos. Former Texas governor John Connally sworn in as new treasury secretary.     

AFL-CIO President George Meany rejects President Nixon's revenue sharing plan. Lt.William Calley trial resumes soon.

President Nixon holds unscheduled briefing on Vietnam. New treasury secretary John Connally asks Congress to raise the debt ceiling by $40 billion dollars.

President Nixon says US will use full air power to defend South Vietnamese troops. Mental professionals testify in William Calley trial.

Decision to proceed with Laos invasion made without major confidence. Lt. William Calley testifies at My Lai massacre trial.  

President Nixon to address the nation on Vietnam and intervenes in case of Lt. William Calley.   

Representative Hale Boggs calls for resignation of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. In William Calley case, half of the jurors struggling with giving him a life sentence.  

The latest news.

Fulton Lewis reporting.         

The latest AM news.         

Senator Muskie comments about FBI spying on American citizens.
ACNE panel will interview President Nixon on radio.    

President Nixon will address the nation on Vietnam. Lt. William Calley trained at officer training school in Fort Benning Georgia.     

Richard Nixon press conference. Calley released from stockade.

Anti-war demonstrations in Washington. Nixon makes radio speech on high cost of farming.         

Anti-war demonstrations continue in Washington. Dr. Martin Luther King assasin James Earl Ray makes escape attempt in Tennessee prison but is caught. 
    

Anti-war protesters at justice Dept. President Nixon cleared all actions by Washington DC police during demonstrations.                      

Governor Ronald Reagan pays no state taxes to California in 1970. West German Central Bank stops purchase of US dollars.   

Secretary of State William Rogers meets with Egypt leaders.     

President Nixon asks Congress for $250 million loan guarantee for Lockheed Aircraft. Weekend truce scheduled in South Vietnam in honor of Buddha birthday.  

Egypt leaders briefed by Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco about Israeli position on the reopening of the Suez Canal. Cease-fire in South Vietnam ends.      

Alabama governor George Wallace says taxes top issue for 1972. Montreal Canadians defeat Chicago Blackhawks 4-2 in game 3 of Stanley Cup final. Black Hawks lead series 2-1.    

The New York Times publishes "The Pentagon Papers." Top secret documents were stolen by Defense Department analyst Daniel Ellsberg.     

President Nixon will create new drug control and rehabilitation agency. Seven blacks killed in apparent war among drug pushers.     

Justice Department receives temporary restraining order against New York Times after third "Pentagon Papers" article is published. Former President Johnson has no comment on publishing of articles.

Senator votes to end Vietnam war.President Nixon addresses convention of the American Medical Association. 

The latest news. 

27 new drug treatment centers to be opened in US. Seventeen South  Vietnamese militia men killed in ambush in Mekong Delta. Captain Ernest Medina trial witness says case against Medina in My Lai massacre probably can't be proved.

Senate passes bill extending draft two years, bill contains Mike Mansfield amendment. President Nixon visits the midwest.    

Italian-American civil rights league founder Joseph Columbo Sr, is shot at 2nd annual unity day rally.   

Daniel Ellsberg who leaked The Pentagon Papers, turns himself in. Supreme Court renders no ruling in the case.               

A discussion on Vietnam.          

Three Cosmonauts killed in Soviet space mission.