CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE {ERIC SEVAREID'S FINAL COMMENTARY} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of nightly news programs anchored by Walter Cronkite. Coverage includes: Bob Schieffer on President Jimmy Carter's press conference praising the Sadat-Begin Meeting in Israel; Marvin Kalb on the administration's decision to support the Sadat peace initiative; in Egypt, John Sheahan on Sadat's reaction to Carter's conference; in Damascus, Mike Lee on the Arab Summit and Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad's meeting with Arafat, with comments by PLO spokesman Khalil Fahume; Walter Cronkite on John McClellan's funeral in Little Rock, Arkansas, with Roslayn Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale among mourners; Lynn Coleman on Senate confirmation hearings; Richard Wagner on a heart disease conference in Miami Beach, Florida, with comments by Dr. Robert Levy on the decline in the death rate from heart disease; Susan Spencer on the House-Senate deadlock over Federal payments for abortions, with comments by Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), Alfred Moran of Planned Parenthood, Msgr. James McHugh of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Sen. Edward Brooke (D-Mass.); Cronkite salutes Eric Sevareid who is retiring after forty-six years in broadcasting and thirty-eight years with CBS; and in his final appearance on the "CBS Evening News," Sevareid comments on Edward R. Murrow, his loyalty to CBS, and his own rules of broadcasting. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: November 30, 1977 Wednesday 7:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:29:00
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T78:0021
- GENRE: News
- SUBJECT HEADING: Abortion; Broadcast journalism; Egypt - Foreign relations - Israel; Heart; Israel - Foreign relations - Egypt; Israel-Arab border conflicts, 1949-
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1962-1981
- COMMERCIALS:
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- TV - Commercials - Magic Chef
- TV - Commercials - Master Charge
CREDITS
- Walter Cronkite … Writer
- Eric Sevareid … Reporter
- Bob Schieffer … Reporter
- Wagner, Richard (correspondent) … Reporter
- Marvin Kalb … Reporter
- Yasser Arafat
- Hafez Al- Assad
- Menachem Begin
- Edward Brooke
- Jimmy Carter
- Roslyn Carter
- Lynn Coleman
- Kahil Fahume
- Henry Hyde
- Mike Lee
- Robert Levy
- John McClellan
- James McHugh
- Walter Mondale
- Alfred Moran
- Edward R. Murrow
- Anwar-el Sadat
- John Sheahan
- Susan Spencer