CBS Evening News from July 3, 1975

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Walter Cronkite was on vacation, so Roger Mudd was in the anchor's chair. Also, the video is one hour long because it contains both the original and an "updated" edition from a network feed.

Here is an outline of that day's edition with most descriptions from Vanderbilt University's TV news archive:

* "Wholesale prices and jobless rate drops in June. Unemployment 8.6%."

* (1:56) "Black teenagers unemployment rate 33% in June" - with a report from Watts, CA

* (4:06) "Factory raided due to illegal aliens working there."

* (6:54) "President Ford flies to Ohio to dedicate environmental center and to politick."

* (9:29) Poll shows lack of name recognition of 1976 Democratic presidential candidates among Democratic and independent voters. After Mudd dryly called those numbers a "staggering blow to the egos of at least a dozen of the following" there is a silent scroll of the "unfamiliar" numbers ranging from 4% for Ted Kennedy to 68% for Dale Bumpers. A certain man from Georgia named Jimmy Carter? 58% of Americans didn't know about him (but that would quickly change).

* (11:25) "armed Soviet missile sub collided with United States nuclear sub in Soviet waters" in 1974.

* (11:49) "India Premier Indira Gandhi tries to broaden political base with economy reforms for poor."

* (13:31) World Conference on Women concludes in Mexico City.

* (15:48) "Church of England votes to keep exclusive male priesthood."

* (16:02) "United States Civil Service Commission says homosexuals cannot be barred from fed. jobs; only when conduct affects job performance."

* (16:17) New York City sanitation worker strike ends, resulting in 3,000 workers keeping their jobs.

* (18:50) Automobile sales up 7% from May 1975.

* (19:00) Aluminum manufacturers agree to delay price hikes.

* (20:17) Eric Sevareid shares observations from the NAACP convention. He observed a positive environment lacking militant 60s-style activists.

* (22:35) Watergate updates: "Last of 3 Watergate grand juries completes its work. Federal Judge George Hart dismisses jury," and "Ex-Attorney General John Mitchell disbarred in New York"; "Representative William Hungate (D-MO) retiring."

* (24:25) "Arthur Ashe beats Tony Roche in Wimbledon semifinals."

* (25:43) "Fireworks sales brisk in 18 states where sales legal."

* (28:12) Closing credits and a promo for a weekend horse race

Some of these stories (especially about the factory raid and aluminum prices) don't seem out of place in today's news.

The CBS primetime entertainment lineup that day started with a rerun of The Waltons, followed by the 1971 Western film Catlow starring Yul Brynner and Leonard Nimoy. (Hadn't it been four years since CBS canceled every show with a tree in it?)