Week of January 8, 1970
North Vietnam commanders move surface-to-air missiles into Laos for the first
time in an attempt to protect Communist war supply depots from raiding U.S.
planes.
Nigerian civil war - Biafra surrenders ending a 30-
month war of seccession that wiped out nearly a
generation of Ibo tribe children and shattered black
Africa’s most promising nation
Charles Manson seeks unsuccessfully to form a
corporation with six other Los Angeles County Jail
inmates to be known as The Family of Infinate Soul,
Inc. to fight for his freedom. A judge abided Manson’s
rambling discourses on law and philosophy for 40
minutes, dealing patiently and politely with legal
moves the like of which he admitted he had never
seen before.
The body of Dr. Martin Luther King is removed from Southview Cemetery and
reinterred under two arching pecan trees next to the church where he used to
preach in Atlanta. The removal was accomplished so quietly that few Atlantans
realized the tomb was now resting fewer than a hundred feet away from Auburn
Ave, near Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. King was co-pastor with his
father.
President Nixon flies to Northampton, Mass for a brief dinner with his family to
celebrate his 57 th birthday. About 200 antiwar demonstrators chanted outside the
apartment building, where daughter Julie and husband David live.
Sports - Rookie Lew Alcindor scores a career high
46 points in leading the Milwaukee Bucks to a 115-113
victory over the Los Angeles Lakers.
John Madden (33) of the Oakland Raiders and Bud
Grant of the Minnesota Vikings are named winners of
the Professional Football Writers of America John
Riddell Awards as Coach of the Year in their respective
leagues.
Week of January 8, 1970
Superbowl III - The Kansas City Chiefs trounce the Minnesota Vikings 23-7. CBS
says the game was watched by 57 million viewers.
Radio news - Los Angeles DJ Sam Riddle forms the
Sam Riddle Organization to be known as SRO for
coordinating five separate companies headed by Riddle.
The divisions include concert promotions, television
appearances, record production, publishing and artist
management. Riddle is host of “Get It Together” on ABC-TV
and still syndicates “Boss City” on TV. He’s still heard on
93/KHJ.
David Sarnoff (78), the man who put radio into the American
home, resigns as chairman of RCA Corp. because of ill health.
More radio - Host Bob Grant completes the final Two-way talkshow over KLAC,
Los Angeles, ending the station’s run as an aggressive “in-your-face” talk format.
The station has been transitioning into a MOR music format for the past few
months. Will Grant stay in Los Angeles?
Ratings -
Wonderful World of Disney - 29.2
Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In - 27.5
Gunsmoke - 27.4
Orange Bowl - 27.3
Marcus Welby - 25.5
Mayberry RFD - 25.4
Bonanza - 25.0
Here’s Lucy - 24.9
NBC Saturday Night At The Movies - 23.9
Bill Cosby - 23.9
Name of the Game - 23.7
Red Skelon - 23.4
Jim Nabors - 23.3
Andy Williams - 23.0
Television news -
ABC-TV debuts “All My Children” this week. One of the characters is Amy, a
“social activist” working with a women’s peace group who embarrasses her
Week of January 8, 1970
conservative in-laws by joining a protest demonstration and getting her picture in
the paper.
Wednesday Night Television -
CBS - CBS News With Walter
Cronkite, Hee Haw , Beverly
Hillbillies, Medical Center, Hawaii
Five-O
NBC - Huntley-Brinkley Report,
(Special) the Shameful Secrets of
Hastings Corners, (Special) Gene
Kelly’s Wonderful World of Girls
(Special) Rowan and Martin Bits The
Hand That Feeds Them, Then Came
Bronson
ABC - ABC News with Frank
Reynolds and Howard K. Smith, The
Flying Nun, Courtship of Eddie’s
Father, Room 222, ABC Wednesday
Night Movie
Educational TV - Forsyte Saga,
Beautiful Dreamer
Hee Haw - With guests Hank Thompson and Lynn Anderson
The Shameful Secrets of Hastings Corners - Pilot starring Hal Linden, Larry D.
Mann, Stefani Warren and Alan Oppenheimer
Rowan and Martin special - With Carol Burnett, Sammy Davis Jr., and the
Smothers Brothers.
Hawaii Five-O - McGarret runs into Naval resistance when they try to bring a
shooting suspect in under civil law to protect him.
Then Came Bronson Jim teams up with a guitar player to win a roadhouse
contest.
Week of January 8, 1970
Pop music this week in 1970…
RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD - B.J. Thomas
WHOLE LOTTA LOVE - Led Zeppelin
LEAVING ON A JET PLANE - Peter, Paul & Mary
I WANT YOU BACK - Jackson 5
JAM UP JELLY TIGHT - Tommy Roe
SOMEDAY WE’LL BE TOGETHER - Diana Ross
& Supremes
VENUS - Shocking Blue
HOLLY HOLY - Neil Diamond
DON’T CRY DADDY - Elvis Presley
MIDNIGHT COWBOY - Ferrante & Teicher
JINGLE JANGLE - Archies
LA LA LA (If I Had You) - Bobby Sherman
WITHOUT LOVE (There Is Nothing) -
Tom Jones
DOWN ON THE CORNER - Creedence
Clearwater Revival
EARLY IN THE MORNING - Vanity
Fare
EVIL WOMAN DON’T PLAY YOUR
GAMES WITH ME - Crow
I’LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN -
Dionne Warwick
NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOODBYE
- Steam
WINTER WORLD OF LOVE - Engelbert
Humperdinck
SHE - Tommy James & Shondells
WALKIN’ IN THE RAIN - Jay &
Americans
A BRAND NEW ME - Dusty Springfield
WONDERFUL WORLD, BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - Jimmy Cliff
ELI’S COMING - Three Dog Night
BABY TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS - Jefferson
COME TOGETHER - Beatles
HEAVEN KNOWS - Grass Roots
UP ON CRIPPLE CREEK - The Band
MONSTER - Steppenwolf
Week of January 8, 1970
TAKE A LETTER MARIA - R.B. Greaves
BLOWING AWAY - 5th Dimension
YESTER-ME, YESTER-YOU, YESTERDAY - Stevie
Wonder
ARIZONA - Mark Lindsay
NO TIME - Guess Who
WHEN JULIE COMES AROUND - Cuff Links
SUNDAY MORNIN’ - Oliver
WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES - Joe South
FANCY - Bobbie Gentry
SHE BELONGS TO ME - Rick Nelson & Stone Canyon
Band
At the movies -
Paint Your Wagon - Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Sebert
The Reivers - Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Will Geer, Michael Constantine
2001: A Space Odyssey
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? - Jane Fonda
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid - Paul Newman, Robert Redford
The Secret of Santa Vittoria - Anthony Quinn, Birna Lisi
Alfred Hitchcock’s Topaz - Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin
John and Mary - Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow
The Sidehackers - Ross Hagen, Diane McBain
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
Week of January 8, 1970
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