7 o'clock News/Silent Night

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-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 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,
Goodnight..

 

Sung in the background:
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.


Copyright © 1966 Paul Simon (BMI)

Recorded on the Releases:
Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme (1966)

 

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