Simon & Garfunkel: Silent night-7 o'clock news-

This is the original early evening edition of the news Aug.03.1966.(with Hungarian subtitle)
The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the open housing section of the Civil Rights Bill. Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of the measure without the votes of their strongest supporters.
President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering discrimination by everyone for every type of housing but it had no chance from the start and everyone in Congress knew it.
A compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary Committee.

In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was believed to be an overdose of narcotics. Bruce was 42 years old.

Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to cancel plans for an open housing march Sunday into the Chicago suburb of Cicero. Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call off the march and the police in Cicero said they would ask the National Guard to be called out if it is held. King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago Tuesday.

In Chicago Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses, was brought before a grand jury today for indictment. The nurses were found stabbed and strangled in their Chicago apartment.

In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee of the House Committee on un-American activities continued its probe into anti-Vietnam war protests. Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they began chanting anti-war slogans.
Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there is a substantial increase in the present war effort in Vietnam, the U.S. should look forward to five more years of war. In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York, Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single weapon working against the U.S.

That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news,
Goodnight.

Silent night
Holy night
All is calm
All is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace.

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[siarung]

perfect .......was this a genuine news broadcast? or one fabricated to fit this song.

forgive me but i dunno i maybe naive but hey i was even born then nor am i american

[vidiak]

Thanks for your comment.

The song is from the Simon and Garfunkel album titled Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. The news is an original broadcast of that time and it was part of the song. In 2001Sony digitalised this song so we can listen to it on two separate channels now: the song on one, the news on the other.

The photos were selected by me. If I have more time, I'll add the names of the people in the photos in the order of their appearance, showing the dates of their tragic deaths.

[kjf666]

What more can we say? This says it all.

[tuesdayjoe]

it does really..sad, huh?

[vidiak]

There's a 2000 year-old Latin saying: 'Tempora Mutantur et nos mutamur in illis'. Times change and we also change with them. This recording - semmingly - contradict this statement. Nothing seems to have changed in the past 40 years. Neither in the news nor in us.

[vidiak]

Thanks for your comment. I'm glad you understand what I meant to say with this.

[mikey1829]

You did some beautiful work on this one here.This REALLY brings back some memories and sure as hell hits home..........

[danyl123]

Damn  thats very moving >_<

[LaurasBeehive]

I would like to see this with English subtitles if possible. Thanks! It is what it is right. I appreciate it - can't say I "like" it though. Eh?

[mrfailford]

GENIOUS!!!!

[garyw930]

A Bizarre Collection Of Puzzles by The Enigma

[dramagirl8893]

I love how they get quiet and the news gets louder, My theater teacher was telling my class about it and I was dying to see it. You did an awesome job making it! It fits so well!

[jerzy862]

Apparently Robert Kennedy listened to this song and wept.

[dahmeredsback]

good job...

[philce3k]

@NoOneSpecific365 . what i mean is that it wasn't a broadcast plucked from the radio. it was specially re-recorded (based on two different broadcasts) for the record. that is FACT. :-)