CBS Evening News (partial) - 1975-03-31
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[0:05] from CBS News headquarters in New York
[0:08] this is the CBS Evening News with Walter
[0:11] Cronkite and in Washington Eric Severide
[0:14] Ike Pappas Fred Graham Bruce Dunning in
[0:18] Saigon Peter Collins in Saigon Ed
[0:22] Bradley and Phenom Penh Phil Jones in
[0:24] Bakersfield California Robert pierpoint
[0:27] in Sacramento and Randy Daniels in
[0:30] Hamilton Ohio
[0:31] good evening from South Vietnam today
[0:34] more stories that can be described only
[0:37] as Indescribable reporters and
[0:40] photographers are catching some of it
[0:42] but the full scope of what is going on
[0:44] there probably is beyond words and
[0:46] cameras the weekend horror of government
[0:48] soldiers brutally fighting to escape the
[0:51] Nang on the now stop to U.S airlift has
[0:53] taken on New Dimensions with almost one
[0:56] and a half million persons trapped in
[0:58] Danang thousands scrambled to escape on
[1:01] the USC rescue but that too has been
[1:03] ordered halted because of communist
[1:05] shelling many drown trying to get to
[1:08] those evacuation ships and today bloated
[1:10] bodies floated into nang's Harbor others
[1:13] lucky enough to get on barges died of
[1:15] exposure before reaching the ships their
[1:17] stories of marauding government troops
[1:19] battling over small boats and barges
[1:21] that would take them to the ships and
[1:24] aboard one of the ships the Pioneer
[1:26] Commander a report that South Vietnamese
[1:28] Marines killed 25 persons they claimed
[1:31] were Vietcong suspects and there are
[1:34] stories of government soldiers seizing
[1:36] control of evacuation ships of soldiers
[1:39] raping robbing beating refugees Bruce
[1:42] Dunning reports now on the evacuation
[1:44] effort
[1:45] the first chip to