Week of April 16, 1970

President Nixon announces he would pull and additional 150,000 uniformed men

out of Vietnam during the coming year.

Robert Beausoleil, an occasional member of Charles Manson’s hippie family is

sentenced to death for the torture slaying of musician Gary Hinman.

House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford formally opens a

and should be removed.” Ford sought to link Douglas with

international gamblers, pornographers and youthful violence.

“Mr. Justice Douglas does not find himself in this company

suddenly or accidentally or unknowingly. He has been

working at it for years, profiting from it for years and flaunting

it in the faces of decent Americans for years.”

Still holding up - The crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft nears earth with the

astronauts preparing for their last great effort - reentry and landing. Space

officials and mission controllers in Houston express cautious confidence as the

hours wore on that the tired crewmen in the spaceship will bring off the dramatic

race for safety and splashdown about 500 miles off Samoa.

Coming back to earth - the Apollo 13 astronauts

view their stricken service module and they were

shocked at what they saw. It was evident at the

separation of the service module when they

observed one side missing and debris on an

antenna.

The Apollo 13 astronauts are pronounced in good

health after their splashdown in the South pacific

ending a griping emergency return from space.

President Nixon celebrated their safe return by

lighting up a green cigar and terming the recovery

“”the most exciting, the most meaningful day that I

have ever experienced.” He’ll make a 5,000

journey to Hawaii to present to the three

astronauts the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s

highest civilian award.

Week of April 16, 1970

In Hawaii - President Nixon places the

Medal of Freedom on each of the Apollo

13 astronauts. “Greatness comes not

simply in triumph, but in adversity.” “It

has been said that adversity introduces a

man to himself,” said the President.

Speaking for Fred Halse and John

Swigert, Apollo 13 astronaut James A. Lovell told the crowd - “We are glad to be

home and we are glad to be part of America.”

Houston - The Apollo 13 astronauts come home to an emotional welcome of the

space community - which was with them every struggling moment.

Yippie leader Jerry Rubin calls for a “communist revolution” in the United States

to replace the capitalist system, “and we would start taxing the Catholic Church.”

Seen more and more, particularly in the West - free clinics. It’s the place where

they young population can go to get their pressing health problems addressed

and that’s usually venereal disease, drug reactions and pregnancy.

Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. says it has perfected a process to make any tire

any color - even transparent. But there’s one problem - it only lasts 2,500 miles.

Sports -

Phil Esposito scores a three-goal hat trick against Tony Esposito, his younger

brother to lead Boston to a 6-3 victory over Chicago in the opening game of their

best-of-seven Stanley Cup Eastern Division final playoff series.

Three British pop singers are picking up $9.6 million on tours

world’s highest paid male singer, is on a four-month U.S. tour.

He’ll make $4.8 million. Engelbert Humperdinck is set for a

nine-month tour and will share $4.8 million with British

songstress Lulu.

Entertainment news -

Sock-It-To-Me girl Judy Carne makes her Broadway debut in “The Boy Friend” at

the Ambassador Theater.

CBS, NBC, ABC - Apollo 13 Lunar Walk

Week of April 16, 1970

PBS - NET Playhouse

Later - Merv Griffin (CBS) - Maureen Stapleton, H. Allen Smith, Yvonne

Constant.

Dick Cavett (ABC) - George Burns, Orson Bean.

At the movies -

The Cycle Savages - Bruce Dern, Chris

Gaily, Gaily - Beau Bridges, Brian Keith, George

Kennedy, Hume Cronyn

Start the Revolution Without Me - Gene Wilder,

Donald Sutherland