And some predictions were on the money, whether we cared to admit it or not.
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for April 8, 1967
Prophetic and disturbing words from UN Secretary General U Thant, who gave that assessment on the escalating war in Vietnam, this April 8th in 1967, joining a growing swell of voices opposing our further involvement in what was deemed a costly and pointless war.
Of course, mainstream media wasn’t going to buy it; not yet anyway. So the pessimistic view was buried somewhere in the middle of the news for this day. Instead, reports centered around a South Korean Military Transport plane crash in a suburb of Seoul, with an estimated 50 dead as of this broadcast. News of vice-President Humphrey’s continuing goodwill tour of Europe and the tensions in Cyprus. Continued Naval activities in the waters outside of North Vietnam, with stepped up attacks on U.S. ships, and the aforementioned U Thant quote.
A cold wave sweeping from the Midwest to the East with snow was reported on this otherwise Spring day.
And the “King Of Jazz“, Paul Whiteman was having a birthday. Whiteman, whose debut of a “Symphonic Jazz Work” called Rhapsody in Blue by a young up-and-coming composer named George Gershwin in 1924 catapulted the careers of both Gershwin and Whiteman on to national prominence, turned 77 on this day.
And that was much of what went on this day – April 8, 1967, as reported on ABC News Around The World.
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