Week of October 28, 1970

Tennessee loses his seat to GOP Rep W.E. Brock. In New

York, Governor Rockefeller wins an unprecedented fourth

four-year term... Ronald Reagan wins a second term as

Governor of California. Senate winners include Hubert

Humphrey in Minnesota, Ted Kennedy In Massachusetts,

Edmund Muskie in Maine, Adai Stevenson in Illinois, Dale

Bumpers in Arkansas and Harry Byrd in Virginia. George

Wallace wins easily in another term for Governor of

Alabama.

Los Angeles, connects two of Mansion’s “girls” with the seven

murders. Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel were

connected by the witness directly and indirectly. Lake

recounted a story Van Houten told her several weeks after the

La Bianca murders including stabbing someone that was

already dead. “At first she didn’t want to, but the more she did

it, the more she like it.”

Charles (Tex) Watson, another former Manson family member being held in the

Tate-LaBianca murders, is declared insane. In a report filed by three court-

appointed psychiatrists - they said as of October 21 “Mr. Watson has become

listless, flaccid, he makes no movements, his lips are pursed, it is impossible to

spoon-feed him and we are starting to feed him by nasal tube.” Upon hearing the

news, Charles Manson asks to see him, promising to straighten him out in 30

minutes.

Salvador Izquierdo-Torres, a frustrated Spanish painter working as a dishwasher,

breaks into a museum in Vallauris France and scrawls an abstract design over a

huge fresco by Pablo Picasso. “I wanted to attract the attention of my compatriot,

Pablo Picasso, to the difficulties that a young unknown painter had to get

acceptance.” Viewing the design, Picasso told other museum visitors “it’s not

bad.” Picasso said he would restore the fresco.

142 perish in a dance-hall fire in St-Laurent-Du Pont, France. Emergency doors

of the club had been locked and planked shut to keep out crashers.

After a long day of campaigning, a tired President Nixon is forced to leave the

Western White House late night in San Clemente after a fire breaks-out beneath

his second-floor study. Fire damage was minor - mostly smoke. The president

Week of October 28, 1970

spent the rest of the evening in a guesthouse.

Arriving at Cleveland Hopkins International

kicking and slapping a policeman while

screaming “Get out of here you pig.” Arrested,

she was charged with assault of a customs

officer and fraudulently bringing drugs into the

country. Reports said vials of tranquilizers and

an ingredient of diet pills were found in her

luggage. She was released on a $5000 bond.

MGM records president Mike Curb announces

that 18 rock groups are dropped by the label

because the groups promote the use of drugs

in lyrics and personal appearances. Curb

didn’t name the groups - none of them were

name attractions. Curb said he was taking the action in the wake of a slough of

recent drug related deaths in the industry: Janis Joplin, Canned Heat’s lead

singer Al Wilson and Jimi Hendrix.

Week of October 28, 1970

pkg of 64 Crayola Crayons - .64... Etch A Sketch - $2.94

originally began on radio in 30’s as the Major Bowes Original

Amateur Hour. Mack took the show over after Bowes passed

away. The show was seen on several TV networks including

the Dumont network beginning in 1948.

CBS finally gives the green light for a new kind of comedy

called “All In The Family.” The show is an adoption of the

British hit “Till Death Due Us Part.” It’s taken two years -

Norman Lear and Bud Yorken originally offered the show to ABC - not once, but

twice.

CBS hesitated, until they found out UA wanted to make a movie out the concept.

It looks like the show could begin production in January. The pilot for ABC

starred Carrol O’Connor and Jean Stapleton. Rob Reiner is being added as the

son-in-law.

Wednesday Night TV (begins at 7:30

eastern)...(CBS) Storefront Lawyers, Medical

Center, Hawaii Five-O...(NBC) Men From

Shiloh, Special -Ice Capades, S.F International

Airport...(ABC) Courtship of Eddie’s Father,

Marcellus Clay, cousin of boxer Cassius Clay

guest stars in “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.

Week of October 28, 1970

High Enough” - Diana Ross,

“Cracklin’ Rose” - Neil Diamond, “I’ll

Be There” - The Jackson 5, “Lookin’

Out My Back Door” - Creedence

Clearwater Revival, “Patches” -

Clarence Carter, “Candida” - Dawn,

“Julie, Do Ya Love Me” - Bobby

Sherman, “Snowbird” - Ann Murray,

“It’s A Shame” - Spinners, “All Right

Now” - Free, “Lookin’ Out My Back

Door” - Creedence Clearwater

Revival, “El Condor Pasa” - Simon &

Garfunkel.

Top Albums - “Sweet Baby James” -

James Taylor, “After The Gold Rush” - Neil Young, “Closer To Home’ - Grand

Funk Railroad, “A Question Of Balance’ - Moody Blues, “Mad Dogs &

Englishmen” - Joe Cocker, “Tommy” - The Who, “Cosmo’s Factory” - CCR,

“Abraxes” - Santana.

At the movies - “Airport” -

Burt Lancaster, Dean

Martin

“Ryan’s Daughter” -

Robert Mitchum, Trevor

Howard

“Mash” - Donald

Sutherland

“The Babymaker” -

Barbara Hershey

“Getting Straight” - Elliot

Gould, Candice Bergan