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#199399
(Convention Hall) Main entrance to International Amphitheatre shown.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Chicago, Illinois) Police and federal agents everywhere. Barbed wire fence around building Traffic rted. around complex. Cards needed for entrance into hall. Security searches purses, briefcases, boxes and rolled-up newspapers.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Convention Hall) 26,000 local, state and federal workers protecting 5,000 Democrats
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#199400
(Studio) Spokesperson for Senator Edward Kennedy says he doesn't want his name in nomination. Kennedy speak to ex-gov. Ohio, Michael DiSalle, who agreed not to nominate him.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Chicago, Illinois) Draft Kennedy movement still alive. Leader California delegation, Jesse Unruh meets with important delegates. Robert F. Kennedy's workers at work. Movement supported by Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, New York, California and Massachusetts. Supporters say movement has too much momentum to be stopped now.
REPORTER: Mike Wallace
#199401
(Convention Hall) Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey visits with delegates. Reporter interviews him.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Chicago, Illinois) [HUMPHREY - cites extremes in Republican and Democratic conventions. Guess Americans expect Democrats to get out of hand for a while and then settle down. Feel we'll look battered and torn at 1st, but Democrats heal quickly. We come back especially if opposition attacks us.]
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid; Martin Agronsky
#199402
(Convention Hall) Report on platform committee 's proposal.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Convention Hall) Resolution supporting administration view on Vietnam passed by major Concession added for bombing halt if conditions met with regard to protection US troops in Vietnam and international supervision. Humphrey endorses concession. Doves for McCarthy - McGovern resolution for bombing halt, deescalation and action for coalition government Report goes from drafting committee to full platform committee and then to convention floor for fight.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
#199403
(Convention Hall) Credentials Committee recommends seating all members of regular and challenging Georgia delegations and dividing 43 votes between them. Credentials proposals to be taken up tonight.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#199405
(Convention Hall) Security is to head off demonstrations by protesters.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Chicago, Illinois) 20 injured and 12 arrested in clashes with police last night. 500 march on police headquarters to protest arrest of new left leader, Tom Hayden; they carry Viet Cong flag. Hayden charged with disorderly conduct. Police moved in to enforce 11 p.m. curfew in Lincoln Park where protesters want to sleep. Police clear park and strike several reporters [Yippie Stewart ALBERT - says doesn't trust Republican or Democratic parties or American government Asking for United Nations observer to come here.] [US attorney Thomas FORAN - says police were mostly well-disciplined and restrained. 1 incident involving 4 police seemed unjustified; matter being studied. No club swinging, tear gas, mace, pushing or police vilification.] Marchers more serious. Many fear few revolutionaries will provoke more serious conflict.
REPORTER: John Laurence
#199406
#199407
(Studio) Compromise between Soviets and Czech reform government reported. Government is to stay in power, but press, radio and television to be controlled. Soviet troops to be pulled out gradually. Reporter Morley Safer says told tanks already leaving. Short general strike occurs in Prague in main square today. Three Soviet soldiers eat apples on United States Embassy grounds. United States officer tells them that the US Ambassador wants them to leave; they do.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
#199408
(Studio) FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, says major crime in United States incrd. 16% last year 8% fewer crimes solved. Violent crimes with gun made up most of increase Of 12,000 who killed others, 48% used pistols. States with gun control laws had fewer gun deaths.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
#199409
(Studio) 1st intercollegiate, transcontinental car race begins between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cal. Tech.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
(Pasadena, California) Cal. Tech's entry is 10 year old VW. 20 horsepower motor and cruises at 50 m.p.h. Batteries reliable. Elec. companies set up free charging stations along way. Portable generator brought just in case. Car 1,000 pounds lighter than MIT's car. Car begins trip. Car hopes to reach Massachusetts in 3 days.
REPORTER: Richard O'Brien
(Cambridge, Massachusetts) Massachusetts Institute of Technology has 1968 Chevrolet Corvair; car can go 80-100 mile before recharging necessary. [Project Coordinator Leon LOEB - says we'll pass each other enroute& agreed to stop and have talk. We hope meeting is in Flagstaff, Arizona. Hope it'll take not less than 3 1/2 days and no more than wk.] Last week, Massachusetts Institute of Technology car blew fuse. [STUDENT - explains what went wrong and fixes it.] Both cars start at same time.
REPORTER: Richard O'Brien
#199412
(Studio) Ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower's heart beating abnormally fast. Condition critical but he's comfortable.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
#199413
(Studio) Allied cmdrs. say 6,000 enemy killed in 8 days since lull. Not an offensive. Fighting of DMZ (demilitarized zone) intense.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
#199414
(Studio) United States athletes have to learn how to breath this year
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
(Lake Tahoe, California) Torture for long distance runners in Olympics due to Mexico's altitude. Thin air troubles athletes. [ATHLETE - says ran 5 mile and thought he had run 25 mile] [2nd ATHLETE - says air slows you down.] [3rd ATHLETE - says after 6-7 weeks training, it'll be all right.] US Olympic committee fixes training grounds here at exactly same altitude as Mexico. Doctors and coaches study altitude dangers. [US Olympic Med. Adviser Bill BOWERMAN - says athlete could run self into such oxygen debt that he'd be dead in 30 minute Americans recing. training to avoid this.] [SPKR. - tests athletes' tidal volume.] Athlete breathes into tube. Test shown. [Jack DANIELS - explains testing to see what athletes do at altitudes. Can calculate how much oxygen consumed and CO2 produced.] Samples of used air bottled, tested and stored for comparison. Acclimatization takes a while.
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater
#199415
(Studio) Becky Godwin, 13, adopted child of Virginia Governor Mills Godwin Junior struck by lightning at Virginia Beach Sunday Not regained consciousness; is responding to treatment. Governor flies home from Chicago.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
#199417
(Studio) United Nations reporter, Richard C. Hottelet, says any Czech-Soviet agreement must be placed before Prague National Assembly for ratification. Reporter says if assembly says no, USSR could accept defeat or begin another Hungary.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
#199418
(Studio) CBS live coverage of Democratic Convention begins at 7:30 p.m. EST.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
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