Week of July 1, 1971
The Vietnamese Communists announce there are ready to free all U.S. prisoners
of war step-by-step by the end of this year if all U.S troops are gone from
Vietnam by then.
The Supreme Court frees the New York Times and Washington Post to resume
publishing articles on the Pentagon’s top secret Vietnam War study. It rejected
the government’s contention of an imperiled national security.
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird orders the Air Force to take control of all
secret defense documents at Rand Corp, thus beginning a security crackdown
resulting from the leak of the top-secret Pentagon study on the Vietnam War.
National security adviser Henry Kissinger meets five Vietnamese political figures
on the final day of his visit to Saigon.
Dist. Atty.
Jim Garrison
, who
became an international figure with
his probe of JFK’s assassination, is
arrested by federal agents and
charged with taking bribes to
protect illegal pinball machines.
President Nixon, launching
America’s 200
th
birthday party five
years head of time, declares his
goal is “the building of an open
world.”
At a luncheon - The U.S Senate
honors Frank Sinatra upon his
retirement from show business
Sinatra sat in the second row of the Senate’s family gallery near Gregory Peck.
Sports -
Pete Rozelle warns the announcers of all three networks that they can’t talk to
athletes during the progress of NFL exhibitions and games this year. He doesn’t
want athletes interviewed during games, even if the action is interrupted.
Playing in Las Vegas -
Andy Griffith - Caesars Palace
Bob Newhart, Abbe Lane - Desert Inn
Robert Goulet - Frontier
Week of July 1, 1971
Pat Boone - Fremont
Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Jr. - International
Buck Owens - Landmark
Englebert Humperdinck - Riviera
Music news -
A turnaway crowd of 2,000 paid a farewell to
Fillmore West at the corner of market and
van Ness in San Francisco. They came to
see Santana, Creedence Clearwater
Revival, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver
Messenger service and Tower of Power. Bill
Graham planned to keep Fillmore West
operating during the summer, but a dispute
with police following an LSD-sippng incident
during one of his concerts at another
auditorium “helped me move the date up.”
The Fillmore West opened on Dec. 10, 1965.
Graham says - “I want to get out of the grasp of the monster I created, But I’m
not getting out of the business.”
The Rolling Stones are coming back to the U.S. for a concert tour. Plans are now
being laid for a three-week November tour.
Television news -
CBS says “60 Minutes” will go to a weekly edition beginning in September. Up
until now, it’s been shown twice per month. Look for it on Sunday nights.
Bill Cullen
will return to a new gameshow - “Three on a Match” on August 2.
Howard Cosell has been signed to appear on
an episode of “The Partridge Family.” He’ll be
seen as a commentator in “Whatever
Happened to Moby Dick?”
Saturday night television -
CBS - Mission: Impossible, My Three Sons,
Arnie, Mary Tyler Moore, Mannix
NBC - Andy Williams, Saturday Night at the
Movies
ABC - Lawrence Welk, Val Doonican
