Week of June 17, 1971

Victory for President Nixon - as the Senate rejects two efforts to impose a

deadline for withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Indochina. The compromise plan

that would have set June 1, 1972 as the withdrawal deadline.

The New York Times turns over a list of secret documents to the government of

which it based a series of articles dealing with U.S. involvement in the Vietnam

War.

because it was “the will of the country.”

Reaffirming the freedom of the press - U.S. Dist. Court Judge

Murray Gurfein refuses to grant the government an injunction

prohibiting the New York Times from publishing stories based on

secret Pentagon studies of the Vietnam War.

So publish they will.

Terming drug abuse “America’s public enemy No. 1,” President Nixon calls on

Congress to support a broad attack on the problem. He asks an amendment of

the 1972 budget to increase appropriations for drug control by $155 million.

government official named as the man who gave the

massive, top-secret Pentagon study of the nation’s

Vietnam involvement to the New York Times.

It’s reported that the number of kids and parents on

welfare has increased 3,441,000 or 50% since President

Nixon called on welfare reform in a nationally televised

address in August 1969.

Newsweek Magazine reports that former President

Lyndon Johnson believes the secret Pentagon papers about Vietnam present a

dishonest, distorted and blased picture of his role and that the circumstances

surrounding their leak to the New York times “come close to treason.” Time

magazine said Mr. Johnson believes the documents “do not tell the true story

because they are mostly contingency plans.”

Antiwar activist Leslie Bacon is freed on $1,00 cash bond after spending more

than a month in jail on a contempt of court charge. She was held in federal

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custody under $100,000 bond as a material witness in connection with the

bombing of the U.S. Capitol March 1.

Jackie Robinson Jr. (24), son of Jackie Robinson, is killed when his car

overturned and hit a bridge abutment on the Merritt parkway in Norwalk (CT).

A new study says President Nixon spent $35 million, more than any other

presidential candidate in history, to win the White House in 1968.

Martin Luther King Jr., makes her stage debut. She played the part of

Doris, the hot-tempered prostitute in “The Owl and the Pussycat.” In an

Atlanta Actors Workshop production. One reviewer said Miss King

“appeared calm with a great deal of composure. She didn’t hesitate

with the curse words and nothing seemed to bother her.”

Entertainment news -

Hughes. They were married in 1957 and had no children.

summer replacement show for Don Knotts, will debut July 20.

set of the program’s taping, Richard Carpenter says they just

came off five weeks of one-nighters, “and three weeks of

Vegas which was worse.” The

current nostalgia craze came

up. Karen (who just turned 21)

said - “We’re riding it. We did

‘Close to You’ just as the wave

was cresting. Funny, I had a

feeling that might be a biggie

when Herb Alpert suggested it.

But we said: ‘A ballad, you’re

kidding.’ It was a smash.

Another ballad. Another smash.

Ballad. Smash.”

Credence Clearwater Revival returns to the recording studio ending a 7-month

absence from making records and an 8-month absence from personal

appearances. They are now a trio with the departure of Tom Fogerty, who begins

a two-month concert tour next month. The group says a big reason for the layoff

was their desire to take a break. They’ve been non-stop since 1968’s “Suzie Q”

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hit the national charts. The group has been the most popular band in terms of

record sales this decade. Also being challenged - Tom Fogerty, Doug Clifford

and Stu Cook wanted a greater voice in Creedence’s activities, a voice that had

been ruled by John Fogerty for years.

Television news -

now billing herself as Lynda Day George. Her husband is

actor Christopher George.

Larry Hovis, one of the original members of Rowan and

Martin’s “Laugh-In,” will rejoin the series for the new

season.

makes about $300,000 per year with all his appearances

- key member on ABC’s “Monday Night Football,” has 15

network and six local radio segments on ABC and appears regularly on the

network’s evening news. He is a lecturer in wide demand. He appears on a

college campus once a week, discussing sociological and political

as well as sports issues. He was born Howard William Cohen and

says most of his hate mail stems from his defense of Muhammad

Ali. “What the government has done to this an is both inhuman and

illegal under the Fifth and 14 Amendments.” Nobody said a word

about football and baseball players who dodged the draft.” I’ve been

shelled, Pilloried and smothered with criticism and surfeited with

praise. I’ve been called a dirty nigger-loving Jew. But I refuse to let

it bother me. I consider the source.”

Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear’s Tandem Productions sign writer-producer Aeron

Ruben to develop two projects for TV - Steptoe and son, and Doctor, Please.

The former is a successful British series about father and son junk dealers.

Thursday night television -

CBS - Family Affair, Lancer, Movie, Merv Griffin

NBC - Flip Wilson, Ironside, Adam 12, Dean Martin, Tonight Show

ABC - Tom Jones, Bewitched, Danny Thomas, Dan August, Dick Cavett

Educational - Washington Week In Review

Family Affair - An All-Pro quarterback invites Jody to have dinner with him.

Week of June 17, 1971

Flip Wilson- Abbey Lincoln, Johnny Mathis, George Carlin, Joe Namath guest.

Tom Jones (in a show taped for Jones’ ’69-’70 season but never seen) - Guests

Liberace, Eloise, laws and Gilbert o’Sullivan

At the movies -

Le Mans - Steve McQueen

Ryan’s Daughter - Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles

Shinbone Alley - Carol Channing

Andromeda Strain -

How To Frame A Figg - Don Knotts

Vanishing Point - Barry Newman

Wild Rivers - William Holden

Bananas - Woody Allen

Support Your Local Gunfighter - James Garner