Week of June 12-22, 1970

Charles Manson and four of his girls go on trial this week for the Tate-La Bianca

murders.

President Nixon apparently would welcome a volunteered resignation from

Secretary of Interior Walter Hickel and is delaying a decision on whether to fire

him. Many in the White House believe the interior secretary’s effectiveness as a

member of the Administration team has been greatly impaired.

Vice President Agnew, charging “transparent bias,” calls for the resignation of

Joseph Rhodes Jr., a 22-year-old black Harvard student from the newly named

special presidential commission to investigate campus unrest.

Investigators say a combination of mistakes and oversights by NASA, North

American Rockwell and Beech Aircraft Corp. led to the near-disaster of Apollo 13

last April.

The Supreme Court rules that men opposed to war because of deeply held moral

or ethical beliefs are as entitled to conscientious objector draft exemptions as

those opposed to war on religious grounds.

engineer, defeats Mayor Hugh Addonizio to

become Newark’s first black mayor.

President Nixon urges business and labor

to restrain their efforts to raise prices and

wages and says voluntary, rather than

forced anti-inflation controls, are the best

way.

Vietnam -

Hanoi escalates its campaign of terrorism

and assassination in South Vietnam in

retaliation to the American attack on its

sanctuaries in Cambodia.

Bowing to guerrilla demands, King Hussein

outs two military leaders and assumes

personal command of the Jordanian army in a move to quell bitter fighting

between Jordanian troops and Palestinian guerrillas. Some 200 Americans are

evacuated from the strife-torn area.

Week of June 12-22, 1970

Charles Mansion has his say in public and he tells newsmen he does not think of

the Tate-La Bianca trial because “you’ve already tried the case.” He also does

not recognize any attorney or court and feels a little nervous but has no guilt.

When asked if he ever killed anyone he replied - “I killed a chicken once.”

Communist China again will put off diplomatic talks with the U.S. at Warsaw this

week to underscore its opposition to American actions in Cambodia.

In A Gallup Poll - Campus unrest is the nation’s #1 problem followed by the

Vietnam War, other international problems, racial strife, high cost of living,

polarization of the American people, teenage problems/juvenile delinquency,

Crime and lawlessness and finally - drug addiction.

FTC to ban the sale of laundry products with enzymes

“because of the serious health danger they present to the

general public.” Nader’s petition said there was a

substance in the dust from enzyme detergents ‘similar to

pollens such as ragweed which when inhaled, sensitizes

the lungs of some people.” “Later inhalations may result

in allergic reactions in the lung which is similar to Asthma

caused by other, better known allergens.”

Vice President Agnew says The Nixon Administration does not need advice on

ending the Indochina war ‘from those who could neither end the war nor win it,”

He made the remarks in a fund raising dinner in Ohio.

Marine Pvt. Michael Schwarz of West Virginia is found guilty of the premeditated

murder of nine Vietnamese children and three women in a moonlight massacre

last February in the village of Son Thang.

In Britain - the Conservative Party wins an upset factory over the incumbent

Labor government in Britain’s parliamentary election.

The Penn Central, the nation’s largest railroad, files a bankruptcy petition for

reorganization, citing ‘a severe cash squeeze’ because of heavy losses in

passenger and freight operations.

Marry - Dr. Jonas Salk, the physician who developed the vaccine against polio

and Francoise Gilot, the mistress of Pablo Picasso for 11 years and mother of

two of the artist’s children will wed in a few weeks.

Week of June 12-22, 1970

In California - the UC Board of Regents votes not to

professor of philosophy for the 1970-71 academic

year. Ms. Davis heard the news on the steps of the

State Building in Sacramento where she was

speaking in behalf of three black prisoners accused of

murdering a guard in Soledad prison. The regents

based their action on public speeches by the militant

black teacher. Later, it’s learned Ms. Davis is suing to

keep her job - charging the action violated her

freedom of speech.

Sir Laurence Olivier is the first actor in English history to reach the House of

Lords. He was made a baron in Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday honors list.

Clothes trends - Blue jeans and sweatshirts are now inspiring one of the hottest

sports fashions going. It’s a favorite of men, women and kids. And jeans come in

more colors than you can imagine - in prints and solids. They come tapered,

straight-legged and bell-bottomed.

Also - seen more on men - Dog collars and choker necklaces. Mick Jagger

started the choker trend.

My my - Barbie will get a midi dress/skirt - yes - the fashion that’s all the rage.

It’ll be available by Christmas. Midi is a little above, to a little below the knee.

Sports -

Chicago Bears, saluted recently by teammate

Gale Sayers as “a friend who spells out the world

courage 24 hours a day, everyday of his life,” dies

of cancer at the age of 26. Piccolo and Sayers

began rooming when the Bears decided on a

policy of integrated rooming three years ago.

Sayers credited Piccolo with being one of the

people who had urged him on as he made his

comeback and asked the audience “to compare

his courage with which I am supposed to posses.”

At Madison Square Garden - Only 6 rounds -

Jerry Quarry wins by TKO in a bout with Mac

Foster.

Week of June 12-22, 1970

Playing in Las Vegas -

Carol Burnett, Jim Nabors - Caesars Palace

Paul Anka, Pat Cooper - Flamingo

Bob Newhart, Abbe Lane - Frontier

Pat Boone - Fremont

Aretha Franklin - International

Engelbert Humerdinck - Riviera

Buddy Hackett - Sahara

Don Adams - Sands

Radio news -

KRLA radio in Pasadena (Los Angeles) dismisses the Credibility Gap. The

satirical news/comedy feature has been running since May 31, 1968. It looks like

Richard Beebe, David Lander and Harry Shearer have been kept on as regular

newscasters.

Soul WWRL New York is in the midst of a “Bust a Pusher” campaign that urges

listeners to cooperate with law enforcement in an attempt to cut off drugs from

teenagers. Each hour on the hour, WWRL (1600 on the AM dial), tolls a bell and

announces the “death of another victim of drug abuse.”

Music news -

So very happy - Blood, Sweat & Tears make their first appearance in Yugoslavia

bringing more than 5,000 Yugoslav music fans at a downtown stadium to their

feet in roaring approval.

Passing - Edward Bennet Cole (59) - brother of the late Nat (King) Cole.

Television news -

West Indian character actor Frank

Silvera - a regular on “High

Chaparral” is accidentally

electrocuted in his home He was

repairing a garbage disposal unit in

his kitchen.

George Plimpton is filming his second

ABC special - “George Plimpton at

the Movies.’ In it, George is a movie

actor in the John Wayne western “Rio

Lobo.”

Week of June 12-22, 1970

The FCC rules that Alabama’s educational television system was free to drop the

black-oriented programming of the National educational television network as a

matter of “taste or judgement.”

The FCC issues an order barring the three major television networks from

owning cable television systems. It also forbade television broadcasters from

owning cable TV systems in their local broadcasting areas.

Mannix and the producer of that show wants

him on as many episodes as possible. Good

thing Paramount produces both “Mannix” and

“The Brady Bunch” - it’s not far of a walk. Also,

Reed is glad the cat is off the Brady Bunch -

now he’s waiting for the dog to go. Reed is the

only actor in TV history (so far) to star in one

TV series - and co-star in another - on two

separate networks. Far out!

Week of June 12-22, 1970

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