ABC Evening News - 1969-11-13
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[0:00] News headquarters in Washington, I'm
[0:01] Howard K. Smith.
[0:03] >> I'm Frank Reynolds in New York. These
[0:04] are tonight's headlines. Apollo 12's
[0:07] mechanical problems have been solved and
[0:09] the moon launch is go for tomorrow on
[0:12] schedule.
[0:13] President Nixon makes an extraordinary
[0:14] visit to the Congress and thanks members
[0:17] of both parties who support him on the
[0:18] war.
[0:19] Demonstrators who oppose Mr. Nixon on
[0:22] the war begin what they call a march
[0:24] against death in Washington. And Vice
[0:26] President Agnew makes a speech about the
[0:28] men responsible for network television
[0:31] news. Howard
[0:33] Reports tonight from Tom Jarrell on the
[0:35] President's surprise visit to the
[0:37] capital, Bob Clark on the presidential
[0:39] address to the Senate, Sam Donaldson on
[0:42] the anti-war protests now underway,
[0:44] Frank Mariano on a Marine division whose
[0:47] fighting days in Vietnam are over,
[0:50] Gregory Jackson on five arrests in
[0:52] connection with those New York bombings,
[0:54] and Howard Tuckner on a morale booster
[0:57] for police in Indianapolis. Frank.
[1:01] Today Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean
[1:03] said, "We're ready to go when they are."
[1:06] And they, the men behind man's second
[1:08] flight to the moon, are ready, too.
[1:10] Yesterday a hitch developed that could
[1:12] have delayed the moon shot for a month.
[1:14] A leaky hydrogen tank was discovered.
[1:17] Working around the clock, technicians
[1:19] replaced it. The space agency says the
[1:21] launch will go off on schedule at 11:22
[1:24] a.m. Eastern time tomorrow. Here with a
[1:26] report on the men and the mission is ABC
[1:29] science editor Jules Bergman.
[1:37] >> Apollo 12 begins here at pad 39 as