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OCR Page 1 of 61NEWS SUMMARY
May 3, 1972
(Tues, nets, wires, columns)
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
The major stories of the day:
- All nets led with death from high blood pressure of 77 year old
J. Edgar Hoover, - - "the original untouchable" director for
48 years of what many are calling the world's finest law
enforcement agency. He served 8 Presidents and 16 attorneys
general. RN's personal tribute on film on all nets and there is
wide praise from almost all quarters, including from Clark and
Anderson, of a man seen by many as a legend in his own time,
an incorruptible, dedicated public servant whose later years
became increasingly controversial.
- NVA have apparently moved thru ARVN's newest defense line
for Hue and have also taken another base in the Hilands. Grim
assessments on all nets and bloody, pathetic film of refugees
and retreating ARVN in what CBS called one of most disorganized,
disorderly retreats in the entire war.
Washington taking latest
news "very seriously" with NBC saying US intelligence reports are
worse than Admin has admitted.
Prior to WH statement that
he's on the Sequoia, NBC says HAK again gone -- apparently to Paris.
- HHH and Wallace neck and neck in early returns from Indiana but
HHH is apparent winner. Things are screwed up in Ohio as 170 out
of 1700 Cleveland vote machines either arrived late or were
damaged and all polling places will stay open there til midnite
as a federal judge accedes to HHH's strong protest over situation
while McGovern unsuccessfully calls for impounding of ballots.
- NBC/CBS film first ever of the lunar rover zipping around
up there in the moon's Grand Prix. And CBS noted scientists
said astronauts were "fantastically lucky" in their finds from
lunar rock from Highlands.
J. EDGAR HOOVER (1895-1972)
For almost every living US generation, led Cronkite, Hoover stood
as a symbol of incorruptible law enforcement, a man who often boasted
that his men couldn't be bought. He took a scandal-ridden bureau and
brought it to an agency envied thruout the world for its efficiency and
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