Week of June 4, 1970

Maj. Robert B. Perry - a U.S. Army attaché in Amman, Jordan is gunned to death

as the U.S Embassy there is hit by snipers. Arab guerrillas threaten the lives of at

least 36 foreign hostages as open warfare continues in the Jordanian capital

between guerrillas and army troops.

President Nixon removes Robert Finch as

secretary of health, education and welfare and gives

him a White House job instead. He’ll serve as one of

three “counselors” to Mr. Nixon in which he’ll advise

the President on domestic, foreign, and political

matters. The new Chief of HEW goes go Elliot L.

Richardson who is now undersecretary of state.

Vietnam news - American troops fight off four Viet

Cong attacks in the Fishhook border area of

Cambodia after several days of ground operations.

Four Americans are killed and 36 wounded. So far,

no reports of Viet Cong losses.

Argentina’s top military commanders depose Lt Gen Juan Carols Ongania as

president and set themselves up as a junta to head the nation’s revolutionary

regime.

Roberts Farms Inc - which has more than 4000 workers - signs a contract with

Cesar Chavez’s AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Committee in

another major victory for the union. The new contract provides that the present

$1.75 an hour minimum wage will go up 10 cents an hour next year and another

15 cents the following year. Roberts will also pay 10 cents an hour per worker

into a special medical program the union uses for its members.

Quarterback Jack Kemp of the Buffalo Bills is running

for a seat in Congress in New York’s 39th district. The

area includes a portion of Buffalo

In radio news - the famed “Credibility Gap” - a daily

satirical comedy written and performed by Harry

Shearer, Richard Bebee and David L Shearer is taken

off the air by KRLA, Pasadena. The commentaries had

been running since May 31, 1968. Instead, the station

wants the trio to conduct question and answer man-on-

the-street type interviews. Says Lander “it’s like taking

Week of June 4, 1970

the on-day Broadway flop ‘Kelly’ and calling it “My

Fair Lady’ so that people will come to see it.” KRLA

played the skits between disc jockey patter and

music. “ The Credibility Gap” is a favorite in hip

Hollywood and tapes have made their way to

Vietnam. Editor’s note - Harry Shearer went on to a

successful television career - in writing and acting.

In sports - The Philadelphia Phillies - who haven’t

won a National League pennant since 1950 - hire

professional hexer Jacob Zook to bring better luck

to the team.

Package of 3 Audio Magnetic 60 Minute blank cassettes - $1.86

General Electric AM Clock Radio - solid state/instant sound - 4” dynamic speaker

- $18.87.

At the Emmy Awards this week. Bill Cosby served as MC:

Best new series - Room 222

Best comedy series - “My World And Welcome To It”

Best drama series - “Marcus Welby, MD”

Best actor in a comedy - William Windom- “My

World and Welcome To It”

Best actress in a comedy - Hope Lange - “T he

Ghost and Mrs Muir”

Best supporting actor in a comedy - Michael

Constantine - “Room 222”

Best supporting actress in a comedy - Karen

Valentine - “Room 222”

Best actor in a drama - Robert Young -

“Marcus Welby, MD

Best supporting actor in a drama - James

Brolin - “Marcus Welby, MD

Best supporting actress in a drama - Gail

Fisher - “Mannix.”

Week of June 4, 1970

Bestsellers - “Love Story” - Erich Segal, “Deliverance” - James Dickey, “Great

Lion of God” - Taylor Caldwell, “Travels With My Aunt” - Graham Greene, “The

French Lieutenant’s Woman” - John Fowles, “Everything You Always Wanted To

Know About Sex” - David R. Reuben, “Up The Organization” - Robert Townsend,

“The Sensuous Woman” - J, “Mary Queen of Scots” - Antonia Fraser, “Love and

Will” - Rollo May

Country singer Faron Young is hurt and

charged with reckless driving in connection with a

two-car crash. Young suffered a cut through the

middle of his tongue and minor facial cuts- stilling

his singing voice temporarily. Police say his car

was on the wrong side of the road, near his home

in the Nashville suburbs. Young has had a string of

hits on the country charts since 1953 - with his

biggest hit

“Hello Walls” from 1961.

Appearing on the syndicated “David Frost Show” -

folksinger Joan Baez says don’t count her in on the women’s liberation

movement: “One of these days some of those feminists will bump me off in an

alley because personally, I can’t take it seriously. “I believe that women are

oppressed, but I can’t go along with their emphasis on power ... In the process of

getting power, you will inevitably oppress some other group It’s the same hassle I

have with black power or red power.”

Singer Stevie Wonder discloses he will marry Miss Serita Wright in a few months.

She’s a secretary who works for Tamla Motown Co. The singer says they have

been composing songs together.

NBC says that James Stewart will star in his own television show in the ‘71-72

television season. It’ll be a half-hour comedy and his first television series.

Lead guitarist Paul Kantner of The Jefferson

Airplane is convicted of possession of marijuana in

Honolulu. He is fined $150.

Former Monkee Mike Nesmith appears solo at the

Troubadour in Hollywood. Nesmith has a new

album out on RCA records.

Week of June 4, 1970

Monday Night Television - CBS - Gunsmoke, Here’s Lucy, Mayberry R.F.D.,

The Doris Day Show, The Carol Burnette Show ... NBC - My World and Welcome

To It, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, Movie ... ABC - Special-The Undersea

World of Jacques Cousteau, Movie, Now

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In - Carol Channing and Tiny Tim guest.

Pop music this week in 1970 -

Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel

The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles

Which Way You Goin' Billy? - The Poppy

Family featuring Susan Jacks

Everything Is Beautiful - Ray Stevens

The Love You Save - The Jackson 5

Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is

Today) - The Temptations

Love On a Two-Way Street - The Moments

Get Ready - Rare Earth (Rare Earth)

American Woman - The Guess Who

Up Around the Bend - Creedence

Clearwater Revival

The Letter - Joe Cocker

Lay Down (Candles In the Rain) - Melanie

with the Edwin Hawkins Singers

Band of Gold - Freda Payne

Hitchin' a Ride - Vanity Fare

Daughter of Darkness - Tom Jones

Turn Back the Hands of Time - Tyrone Davis

United We Stand - The Brotherhood of Man

Reflections of My Life - Marmalade

O-o-h Child - The Five Stairsteps

Gimme Dat Ding - The Pipkins

Come Saturday Morning - The Sandpipers

Ride Captain Ride - The Blues Image

The Wonder of You - Elvis Presley

Love Land - Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Rhythm Band

Mama Told Me Not To Come - Three Dog Night

Week of June 4, 1970

Top albums -

Let It Be - The Beatles

McCartney- Paul McCartney

Tom - Tom Jones

Chicago - Chicago

Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Santana - Santana

Woodstock - original sound track

Steppenwolf Live - Steppenwolf

Hey Jude - The Beatles

Band Of Gypsys - Jimi Hendrix

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel

American Woman - The Guess Who

Here Comes Bobby - Bobby Sherman

Other albums -

Company - original Broadway cast

I’ll Never Fall In Love Again - Dionne Warwick

Live At Leeds - The Who

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears

Joe Cocker - Joe Cocker

Band of Gypsys - Jimi Hendrix

American Woman - Guess Who

Abbey Road - The Beatles

Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

5th Dimension’s Greatest Hits - 5th

Dimension

Candles In The Rain - Melanie

It Ain’t Easy - Three Dog Night

Sweet Baby James - James Taylor

Something’s Burning - Kenny

Rogers & The First Edition

Spirit In The Sky - Norman

Greenbaum

Ladies Of The Canyon - Joni

Mitchell

Benefit - Jethro Tull

The Best Of Peter, Paul & Mary -

Peter, Paul & Mary

Moondance - Van Morrison

John B. Sebastian - John B.

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Sebastian

Sentimental Journey - Ringo Starr

Don’t It Make You Want To Home - Joe South

Magic Christian - Badfinger

Live Peace In Toronto 1969 - The Plastic Ono Band

On Time - Grand Funk Railroad

12 Songs - Randy Newman

At the movies -

Getting Straight - Elliot Gould,

Candice Bergen

Blow-Up - Vanessa Redgrave, David

Hemmings, Sarah Miles

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Natalie

Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan

Cannon

The Grasshopper - Jacqueline Bisset,

Joseph Cotten, Jim Brown

Patton - George C. Scott

Airport - Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin,

George Kennedy, Jacqueline Bisset, Helen Hays, Van Heflin, Maureen

Stapleton, Barry Nelson, Lloyd Nolan, Dana Wynter, Barbara Hale

The Losers - William Smith, Bernie Hamilton, Adam Roarke

Paint Your Wagon - Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg

Let It Be - The Beatles (Produced by Neil Aspinall)

The Landlord - Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey

MASH - Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert

Duvall, Joanne Pflug

Walt Disney’s “King of the Grizzlies”

Beneath The Planet Of The Apes - James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice

Evans, Linda Harrison, Paul Richards, Victor Buono, James Gregory, Charlton

Heston

Allen Funt’s “What Do You Say To A Naked Lady?”

Too Late The Hero - Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Ian Bannen, Harry

Andrews, Henry Fonda

The Magic Christian - Peter Sellers,

Ringo Starr

Woodstock - Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Country

Joe & The Fish, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Arlo

Guthrie, Richie Havens, Jimi Hendrix,

Santana, John Sebastian, Sha-Na-Na, Sly &

The Family Stone, Ten Years After, The Who