Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson, the Justice Department to seek a contempt citation against Governor Ross Barnett of Mississippi who is refusing to permit James Meredith, a negro, to enroll at Mississippi University, Russia may build a naval base in Cuba, secret training practices in the US, Cuban exiles are learning guerilla tactics for action in Cuba, Soviet planes buzz allied planes near Berlin, Andrei Gromyko meets Dean Rusk in Washington on Laos problems, the fraud trial of Billy Sol Estes is postponed, fascist Oswald Mosely arrives in the US, calls American negro "crackpots," the Department of Markets investigates phony weights in New York City.                                

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt dies, Billy Sol Estes is sentenced to eight years in prison.                          

Topics: Jacqueline Kennedy expecting her third child, due in August, theory on the possible cause in "Thresher" disaster, the US Navy to use "Trieste" for the underwater search of the sub, steel companies raise prices, ban-the-bomb mobs riot in London, Pearson to take over the Canadian government, Billy Sol Estes sentenced to 15 years for fraud, the Supreme Court to review the freedom-riders case, the White House is concerned about a television automobile commercial using a Jacqueline Kennedy impersonator.                         

The top news stories of 1963: The Kennedy assassination, civil rights, the nuclear test ban treaty, scandals such as Bobby Baker, Billy Sol Estes, the Joseph Valachi testimony, problems in France and England, (The John Profumo affair), Sino-Soviet rift, the Ecumenical Council, Pope Paul, Pope John died, the crisis in the Congo, a coup in South Vietnam against the Diem Government, the US and Russian space flights, US submarine "Thresher" sinks with all hands aboard, Skopje, Yugoslavia earthquake. 

Bill Scott reports.                        

Coverage of yesterday's raid in North Vietnam, third suspect arrested in death of Malcolm X, Bill Plante reports from Selma, Alabama on murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson two weeks ago, Reverand Ralph Abernathy gives eulogy.
Other news: Red China's hold on Africa getting larger
In East Berlin: underground nuclear tests, approval of disarmament bill, Roger Mudd reports on Robert Kennedy's investigation of Jimmy Hoffa which is called "unfair", Neil Strausser interview with RFK, military pay raise, study on dangers of pesticides, Dave Duggan story on antiquated Atlas missiles, Elizabeth Taylor's chauffer, Gaston Sanz, strikes and kills 78-year-old woman while driving her from Dublin airport. Taylor issues statement to police. Report on minute man missiles, latest on Billy Sol Estes, 
Walter Cronkite sign off "and that's the way it is, March 3rd, 1965." 

Host: Walter Cronkite

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