TODAY {MURDER OF HARVEY MILK} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of early morning programs featuring interviews, special features, and summaries of national and international news. Floyd Kalber reports with news summaries, the top stories of which are as follows: Andrea Mitchell reports on trouble for President Jimmy Carter's gas rationing plan as clips of the views of Reps. Timothy Wirth (D-Colo.) and Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) are shown; John Cochran reports on the upcoming British elections as Conservative candidate Margaret Thatcher and Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan are shown in clips; and Lee McCarthy interviews 84-year-old conductor Arthur Fiedler, who returns to his post at the Boston Pops Orchestra following brain surgery. Bob Ryan gives the national weather outlook. Syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman comments on the "radical chic" of blue jeans vs. the "conservative chic" of designer jeans.
Tom Brokaw interviews William S. Paley, chairman of CBS and author of "As It Happened," his autobiography. Paley discusses the early years at CBS; his satisfaction with the quality of present-day programming; and the importance of programming for the mass audience. Brokaw, Jane Pauley, and Gene Shalit discuss Paley's career. Kalber's news and sports summaries include John Dancy with clips of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's (D-Mass.) criticism of President Carter's oil windfall profits tax. Ryan gives the national weather. Brokaw's interview with Paley continues with a discussion of Paley's relationships with Bill Moyers, Dr. Frank Stanton, Walter Cronkite, and Edward R. Murrow, and Paley rebuts the accounts of these relationships offered in David Halberstam's book, "The Powers That Be." Eric Burns reports on the upcoming May 22nd Canadian elections as Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Conservative candidate Joe Clark are shown. Includes commercials.
Floyd Kalber reports with news summaries, the top stories of which are as follows: Tom Roberts reports on a police strike in Birmingham, Ala.; Norma Quarles reports on a minor accident at a nuclear power plant in Zion, Ill.; Don Oliver reports on the trial of Dan White for the Nov. 27, 1978, murders of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk; and Robert Hager reports on the Vermont reunion of Soviet dissidents Aleksandr Ginzburg and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Bob Ryan gives the national weather outlook. From Honolulu, Hawaii, Jack Perkins on problems (e.g., inflation, high gasoline prices, etc.) in "paradise." From Washington, D.C., Robert Abernathy reports on carcinogens in non-prescription sedatives and sleep-aids, and interviews Leslie Dach of the Environmental Defense Fund and Dr. Richard Wyatt, a drug and sleep expert. Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, and Gene Shalit debate the report that retired CBS correspondent Eric Sevareid turned down an offer of one million dollars to do commercials. Kalber's news summaries include James Polk with a report on Senate hearings as Sen. Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.) speaks out against charges of financial wrongdoing brought against him. Other segments include the following: Ryan gives the weather; Brokaw and Pauley read audience mail on a recent "Today" interview with Margaret Trudeau; Paula Nelson and Pauley discuss the need to keep personal financial records; and Shalit talks with actor Roy Scheider about his acting career and his new movie, "The Last Embrace." Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: May 2, 1979 7:00 AM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:53:56
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T79:0335
- GENRE: Talk/Interviews
- SUBJECT HEADING: She Made It Collection (Jane Pauley); Canada - Elections - 1979; Canada - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Great Britain - Elections - 1979; Great Britain - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Jeans (Clothing); Petroleum industry and trade - U S; Rationing; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1952-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Tom Brokaw … Host
- Jane Pauley … Host
- Gene Shalit … Host
- Bob Ryan … Reporter, Weather
- Robert Abernathy … Reporter
- Eric Burns … Reporter
- John Cochran … Reporter
- Robert Hager … Reporter
- Floyd Kalber … Reporter
- Lee McCarthy … Reporter
- Andrea Mitchell … Reporter
- Don Oliver … Reporter
- Jack Perkins … Reporter
- James Polk … Reporter
- Norma Quarles … Reporter
- Tom Roberts … Reporter
- Ellen Goodman … Commentator
- Boston Pops Orchestra
- James Callaghan
- Jimmy Carter
- Joe Clark
- Walter Cronkite
- Leslie Dach
- John Dancy
- Arthur Fiedler
- Alexsandr Ginzburg
- David Halberstam
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Harvey Milk
- George Moscone
- Bill Moyers
- Edward R. Murrow
- Paula Nelson
- William S. Paley
- Roy Scheider
- Eric Sevareid
- Frank Stanton
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Herman Talmadge
- Margaret Thatcher
- Margaret Trudeau
- Pierre Trudeau
- Henry Waxman
- Dan White
- Timothy Wirth
- Richard Wyatt