October 2, 1967 - July 31, 1970

Nancy Dickerson presents this Monday thru Friday live five minute capsulated news broadcast telecast from !0:25am to 10:30am EST.

The telecast begins with the announcer stating:
"From Washington NBC NEWS with Nancy Dickerson brought to you in color by Dr. Scholl's, maker of fine footcare products."

On this rare extant broadcast the following news Nancy Dickerson reports on:

-Middle East, Israel, Jordan latest developments...

-Pope Paul...

-Eleven dead in Yugoslavia earthquake...

-Daughter of former heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney, missing for two months found in a hospital with complete loss of memory...

-Latest Saigon release of U.S. GI's and other updates in Saigon. An infantryman on the front is interviewed about conditions... 

-Strike against General Electric Company...

-Vice President Spiro Agnew defends United States strength...

-President Richard Nixon working on two speeches...

-Discovery cure for the common cold, extract from Olive Oil...

Commercial: Scholl's Inner Pads.

NOTE: Nancy Dickerson replaced Sandor Vanocur, anchoring this five minute NBC NEWS MORNING NEWS report. None of these broadcasts were archived. No exiting complete reports are known to exist. After Dickerson did these broadcasts she left NBC NEWS in 1971.

Nancy Dickerson reported for NBC News from 1963 to 1970, covering all the pivotal stories of that time: political conventions, election campaigns, inaugurations, Capitol Hill, and the White House. She is noted as being the first woman correspondent on the floor of a political convention. In 1963, she covered the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. She was also part of NBC's coverage of President Kennedy's assassination and funeral.

NOTE:
When her son John Dickerson was preparing a book on his mother he contacted Phil Gries at ATA regarding acquisition of rare audio air checks pertaining to Nancy Dickerson  dating back to 1963.
SEE ATA#14337 and 14362.