Afternoon Matinee: Protest - 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night

Performed by Simon and Garfunkel

Silent night

Holy night

All is calm

All is bright

Round yon virgin mother and child

Holy infant so tender and mild

Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace

Spoken:

This is the early evening edition of the news.

The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the open housing

section of the Civil Rights Bill.

Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of the

measure without the votes of their strongest supporters.

President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering discrimination

by everyone for every type of housing but it had no chance from the start

and everyone in Congress knew it.

A compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary Committee.

In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was believed to be an overdoes of narcotics.

Bruce was 42 years old.

Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to cancel plans for an open

housing march Sunday into the Chicago suburb of Cicero.

Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call off the march and the

police in Cicero said they would ask the National Guard to be called out

if it is held.

King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago Tuesday.

In Chicago Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses, was brought

before a grand jury today for indictment.

The nurses were found stabbed an strangled in their Chicago apartment.

In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee of the

House Committee on Un-American activities continued its probe into anti-Vietnam war protests.

Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they began chanting

anti-war slogans.

Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there is a substantial

increase in the present war effort in Viet nam, the U.S. should look forward

to five more years of war.

In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York,

Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single

weapon working against the U.S.

That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news,

Good night.

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