Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...station, owned by Lady Bird Johnson and her daughters, is affiliated with all three major networks, KTBC initially found itself responsible not only to the community but to the nation as well. Seconds after the first bulletin, the station tipped off U.P.I to the story, then readied a brief voice report for the noon CBS-TV newscast. Meanwhile it was rushing crews to the scene. At 12:20, TV News Director Neal Spelce began nearly two hours of live telecasting from near the tower...
...camera and raced out to help rescue wounded victims while bullets spattered around him. He was not hit. (The only newsman who was: A.P.'s Robert Heard, shot in the left shoulder.) Meanwhile the story was prompting calls to KTBC from as far away as Canada requesting brief radio reports. With incredible patience, station staffers provided 250 different such "line feeds." It never hindered their own coverage. Police identified the dead Whitman at 1:24; a KTBC reporter had the news...
Bored by Nudes. The older students present administrators with a few new problems. They may drop out for a time because they prefer to winter in Florida. One cut classes for a brief time because she had "to take care of an elderly lady." Retired Army Captain John A. Short wanted to take a woodcarving class but had to pass an introductory art course first. It included sketching live nudes-and it bored...
During their brief rest stops, members of the walk tried to persuade hecklers to change their viewpoint about war. In response, they were hostilely disputed and often taunted. Said one teenager from Dorchester, "It [the war in Vietnam] is just like when you have a fight with a gang. They stab you and you want to stay them back...
...About your Essay on Privacy [July 15]: solitude without loneliness is available to all who seek it. It is a question not of where but of when. That brief period in the morning from dawn until everybody wakes up offers a new and different world unknown to most of us-serene yet vibrant, peaceful yet alive, free of the hostilities of the strange or the pressures of the familiar...