First radio and television news accounts (different stations) from approximately 9:45pm EST to 10:18pm EST related to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, in Memphis, Tennessee.

These reports include first radio reports...information including an account by Rev. Jesse Jackson that shots were fired from a building across the street  just prior to Dr. King and his party were getting ready to have dinner. 

Tom Jarriel reports to ABC's Bob Young...reaction of the assassination which took place around 7:10pm...rioting in Tennessee...death of King around 8pm...President Johnson's response to the public...VP Hubert  Humphrey comments, Steve Young reports from Carnegie Hall...Duke Ellington turns concert into a memorial, Ed Bradley Man on the Street reactions in Harlem  to the assassination,  comments from Dr. Sterling Brown, Senator Charles Percy comments...Don Hickman reports from Memphis Tennessee.

NOTE: All of the above air checks audio taped  were recorded off the air (television and radio) in real time, switching from  one station to another...radio to TV to radio to TV, back and forth from approximately 9:45pm EST to !0:18pm EST. 
                                                                 

ABC News events of the day.

Highlights:
Election odds
Hubert Humphrey campaign- Humphrey answers questions on the Vietnam war and the Middle East crisis. 
Senator Edmund Muskie comments on birth control and legalized abortion, Eugene McCarthy calls and talks to both Muskie and Humphrey, on the draft and socialism.Nixon campaign-Ted Koppel, Frank Reynolds report.
George Wallace campaign- Sam Jaffe, Frank Reynolds
Election coverage-Tom Jarriel, Frank Reynolds, Howard K. Smith
Vietnam peace talks-John Rolfson, Frank Reynolds.

Host: Frank Reynolds.                                                

An informal gathering of ABC newsmen to review 1969 and preview the 70s. Joining Howard K. Smith at his Maryland home are Frank Reynolds, Edward Morgan, science editor Jules Bergman, Tom Jarriel, 
(White House correspondent) Bill Lawrence, (national affairs editor) John Scali, (State Department correspondent) and bureau chiefs Barrie-Dunsmore (Rome) Russell Jones (Middle East) and Ted Koppel (Hong Kong).