Heavy fighting in Vietnam results in very high US casualties, the twenty-year-old son of ABC newscaster Howard K. Smith (Jack) is wounded, he makes a bedside comment, comment by Howard K. Smith.
France becomes the third country to launch a space rocket, George Hamilton and Lynda Bird Johnson in Acapulco, Mexico. Opposition to war in Vietnam. Mrs. Carl Ball interviewed, widow of US soldier killed in Vietnam. Commercials, including Viceroy Cigarettes.
Host: Peter Jennings.
Vietnam news; will increase troop strength, Robert McNamara comments, two former GI prisoners protest the war, IA Drang survivors comment on the battle, anti-war protest in Washington, DC, Norman Thomas gives a speech.
Peter Jennings reports.