7 O'clock News/Silent Night
Composer(s): Paul Simon
Performer(s): Simon & Garfunkel
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-Viet nam 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 Vietnam
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
Goodnight
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
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