ABC newscaster Peter Jennings does a thirty-second promo spot announcing to viewers he will be ABC's new primetime anchor beginning on February 1st, 1965.             

February 1, 1965 - December 29, 1967

Twenty six year old Peter Jennings begins anchoring the ABC Evening News, broadcast in black and white.

Selina crisis; negroes arrested during voter registration drive, Martin Luther King is arrested, 700 arrested in jail protest, fighting in Laos, forty killed in South Vietnam, McGeorge Bundy to confer with Maxwell Taylor, LBJ may visit, Beirut, a report from Marina.  

NOTE: It was during Peter Jennings tenure that ABC's evening newscast expanded to thirty minutes on January 9, 1967, at which time the broadcast also reverted to color. Correspondent Howard K. Smith would appear daily contributing news analysis.

ABC was the third network to lengthen its early evening newscast. 
nearly three and half years after both CBS and NBC had expanded their evening news programs to a half - hour.

                      

US airstrike in North Vietnam, Kosygin pledges North Vietnamese support, comments from President Johnson, McGeorge Bundy, update on space news with ABC science editor, Jules Bergman who reports on the fate of the original Mercury spaceflight, time has fragmented Voyager 7 spacecraft.                          

Singer Nat King Cole has died.   

Joseph Cotton does a commercial for Bufferin.     

Host: Peter Jennings.       

A report on the Saturn 1 lift-off. ABC science editor Jules Bergman reports.            

Host: Peter Jennings.             

South Vietnamese General Khanh is overthrown by General Warner Farr. John Scali comments.                       

A Vietnam report.  The United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3500 marines arrived to defend the US airbase at Da Nang.                        

The Ranger 9 spacecraft impacts the moon after taking photos, Astronauts Young and Grissom back on the carrier "Intrepid," ABC science editor Jules Bergman comments on future US space flights, the US defends the use of non-lethal gas in Vietnam, comment by Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara and the possible opening of a pandora's box, comment to exploit the use of it, Selina march is in progress, Senator Robert Kennedy climbs Mt. Kennedy (13,500ft) to the top and arrives at 8,000 ft level by helicopter,                           

Peter Jennings reports.

Commercials included.            

The failed USSR moon landing. ABC science editor Jules Bergman reports.             

The Queen dedicates an acre of land to a JFK Memorial in London.         

A progress report of the Gemini spacecraft with astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White aboard.

Peter Jennings and Jules Bergman report.            

The latest Vietnam war news. Includes an excerpt of the ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings.                        

A report on the church and birth control, New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces he will not seek another term after 12 years in office.            

Topic: The coup in the Saigon government.           

A review of the day's news with Peter Jennings.              

News events of the day with Peter Jennings.             

News events of the day with Peter Jennings. Commentary by Howard K. Smith.                                      

Vietnam war escalation is possible.   

Bob Young substitutes for Peter Jennings.       

News events of the day.

Bob Young subbing for Peter Jennings.             

A report on Casey Stengel's 75th birthday.

Bob Young subbing for Peter Jennings.            

Angry congressmen comment about anti-war protests.            

John Lindsay elected Mayor of New York City, comments by Lindsay and newsman Howard K. Smith, in Washington, DC, a man (Norman Morrison) dies when he sets himself on fire in protest against the Vietnam war, voter registration hits a snag in the south.                            

Report from Vietnam. Viet Cong go on Offensive. The second anniversary of death of President John F. Kennedy. Edward P. Morgan reports.           

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.                          

The latest news. Bob Young subbing for Peter Jennings.              

Bob Young subbing for Peter Jennings.                        

Bob Young subbing for Peter Jennings.              

The 8th Annual Emmy Awards are presented live from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California. 

Chet Huntley presents a special award to Edward R. Murrow
Outstanding Dramatic Series: The Fugitive
Best Variety Special: Bob Hope Christmas Special, Carol Baker accepting




Hosts: Danny Kaye and Bill Cosby.                                                                                           

Gemini X mission promo with Jules Bergman and Peter Jennings            

A report on President Johnson's return from the Far East.

Peter Jennings, host.                          

The latest news. Peter Jennings reports.             

May 18, 1967- August 31, 1967,  June 2, 1969-August 15, 1969

The 1967 edition of SUMMER FOCUS presented reports on a variety of subjects both current and historical in nature. A number of the programs were rebroadcasts of previously aired ABC documentaries drawn in part from THE SAGA OF WESTERN MAN. 
In 1969, SUMMER FOCUS returned as the title of an irregularly offered group of five reports on topical issues, hosted by Frank Reynolds.     

Peter Jennings, Anchors this examination of political protest, in America. Historian John Blum traces the origin of political protest, and analyzes the current unrest over antiwar demonstrations. 
We revisit recent peace demonstrations in major cities, and pro and con reactions from (among others) civil-rights leader Martin Luther King; Gen. William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam; Sen. Mark Hatfield (R. Oregon); and GIs in Vietnam. 
                                

Includes commercials.          

The latest news on Vietnam. Peter Jennings with a report on cowboy rodeo star Larry Mahan.

Bob Young reports.                         

Excerpts of TV News from both CBS and ABC News on February 19th, 1968.              

115 brokerage firms merged, liquidated, or dissolved. Brokers in panic. Vietnam commentary. Includes commercials. 
      

A report from ABC news on the successful docking of the Apollo-Soyuz-US- Russian space mission.             

Live coverage of Queen Elizabeth's the second 25th Silver Jubilee, from London, England. Rona Barrett is substitute host for the vacationing David Hartman. Sandy Hill is co-host. 
          

Live coverage on the crisis in Poland. Treasury secretary G. William Miller comments on increase in prime lending rate.