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7 O'clock News / Silent Night - Simon & Garfunkel

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 Vietnam 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 Vietnam

The US 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 US

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