Simon and Garfunkel - 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night

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.

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.