NBC SPECIAL. Highlights of today's Joseph Valchi congressional hearings.       

Baseball legend Stan (The Man) Musial retires as he plays his final game for the St. Louis Cardinals. He's honored at Busch Stadium before the game, a short interview with Musial, Robert McNamara is in South Vietnam and meets with Ngo Dinh Diem, the crisis in Algeria, Joseph Valachi continues to testify, Harry Reasoner comments.                                                                  

Live coverage of the Joseph Valachi crime hearings run by Arkansas Senator John McClellan. Valachi testifies.   

Host: Bill Ryan reports.                                     

Live NBC coverage of Joseph Valachi testifying before the Senate investigating sub-committee on organized crime in America. Robert McNeil reports.           

ABC coverage of the Joseph Valachi testimony on organized crime before a Senate investigating Sub-Committee.             

Comments on the effect of the Joseph Valachi hearings. 

The final ten minutes of this ABC radio news special, written and produced by Ted Koppel.                        

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.                        

Comments on minority sensitivity of Italians to gangsters. Read by Elliott Levine