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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino was handed a note during the impeachment debate last Thursday afternoon. He glanced at it, then arched an eyebrow at CBS Reporter Roger Mudd, who followed a messenger from the committee room. Mudd learned that a bomb threat was about to interrupt the meeting and that the bomb's alleged location was in "a CBS camera." "I guess that this is one of those things that television brings," he said on the air during the ensuing recess...
...Senator Ted Kennedy, his wife Joan and sisters Eunice Shriver, Pat Lawford and Jean Smith, joined some 325 journalists and friends at the sixth annual presentation of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Awards, which honored reporting on minority-group problems. Then Ethel thanked CBS's Roger Mudd for his stint as awards chairman. "I would like to add one personal note," she began, only to come near tears as she recalled the tragedy in a kitchen passageway of Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on a night in June, 1968. "It was because of Roger, who led me through...
...April 15, 1865, just six hours after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and an accomplice rode up to the Maryland farmhouse of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd. Booth needed treatment for the broken leg he had sustained in his leap from Lincoln's box to the stage of Ford's Theater, and, as the familiar story goes, he gave Mudd a fictitious name and kept his face hidden behind a muffler and false beard. Still, Mudd was convicted as a conspirator in the assassination plot and sentenced to life imprisonment. Though he was pardoned...
...tenacious descendants have pleaded - and pleaded - with the Government to expunge his conviction from the record. Grandson Dr. Richard Mudd, 73, of Michigan, determinedly carries on the family obsession. In 1971 Mudd presented Michigan's Senator Philip Hart with a 50-page petition documenting his grandfather's innocence, and Hart has promised to present the petition to President Nixon for review. Only complete exoneration will satisfy Grandson Mudd and the dozens of other Mudd descendants. "I'm determined to get this reversed," vows he. "All of us are positive he had no connection with Lincoln...
MONDAY: CBS News Special. A powerful examination of the current power struggle between the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government. Dan Rather and Roger Mudd report on "The Long War--Congress vs. The President." CH. 7. 10 p.m. Color...