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1962-03-25, WNEW, min.
Boxer Benny (Kid) Paret may not recover from a serious brain injury suffered during his middleweight boxing bout vs. Emile Griffith, French troops occupy downtown Oman to curb the OAS, Mrs. Kennedy rides a camel in Pakistan.
#13643: NEWS FROM WPIX-TV
Order1962-04-03, WPIX, min.
Jockey Eddie Arcaro to retire, boxer Benny (Kid) Paret dies of a brain injury he suffered in his middleweight boxing fight vs. Emile Griffith in Madison Square Garden in New York City ten days ago, OAS terrorists keep up the violence in Algeria, Elizabeth Taylor to divorce Eddie Fisher, she is romancing with Richard Burton. NOTE: Emile Griffith's career was overshadowed by the fatal beating he gave Benny "The Kid" Paret in their 1962 title bout. The outcome darkened the world of boxing even prompting some network television stations to stop showing live fights. It also cast Griffith as a pariah to many inside and outside the sport. Emile Griffith went on to have a successful career after that fatal fight, but Griffith acknowledged later in life that he was never the same boxer. He would fight merely to win, piing up the kind of decisions that praised by purists but usually jeered by fans hoping for a knockout.
#13935: WORLD TODAY
Order1962-12-27, WOR, min.
- Floyd Patterson
- Thomas Mitchell
- Charles Laughton
- Eddie Fisher
- Marilyn Monroe
- John Glenn
- Emile Griffith
- Sonny Liston
- James Meredith
- Walter Schirra
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Isaac Stern
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Richard Burton
- John F. Kennedy
- Tony Marvin
- Willy Ley
- Adolf Eichmann
- Benny Paret
- Scott Carpenter
- Robert Soblen
- Andriyan Nikolayev
- Ross Barnett
- John Steinbeck
- Fritz Kreisler
- Pavel Romanovich Popovich
World Today is a radio news program broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System and hosted by Tony Marvin. The top news stories of 1962. Space: John Glenn orbits the earth three times, Scott Carpenter also orbits the Earth three times, the Russians orbit two spacemen Nikolayev and Popovich, the US's Walter Schirra orbits the earth six times, the Mariner 11 spacecraft passes near Venus. a comment by Dr. Willy Ley, the US to resume nuclear testing, the Soviets propose a nuclear test ban, "Der Spiegel affair" in West Germany, German politics, British politics, Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton affair, comment by Fisher, he denies rumors of a breakup, comments by man-in-the-street, racial crisis in Oxford, Mississippi, Governor Barnett denies the registration of James Meredith, President Kennedy says he will send troops, two die in suceeding riots, a hospital error results in several baby deaths, doctors strike in Canada, thialiminide deformities in newborn babies, Adolf Eichmann, Robert Soblen, Fritz Kreisler, Charles Laughton, Thomas Mitchell, Marilyn Monroe, and Eleanor Roosevelt all died in 1962, comments by Isaac Stern on Kreisler, Marilyn Monroe talks about acting, Boxing deaths Benny (Kid) Paret dies from injuries he suffered in his fight against Emile Griffith in Madison Square Garden in New York City, Sonny Liston wins the heavyweight boxing crown defeating Floyd Patterson in a first round knockout, John Steinbeck wins the Nobel Prize, a comment on Hollywood films. Host: Tony Marvin.