ABC RADIO NEWS * WXYZ (ABC affiliate) * SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1967

‘ABC NEWS AROUND THE WORLD’

Saturday, July 29, 1967

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It’s the top of the hour with ‘NEWS AROUND THE WORLD’ from ABC NEWS in New York. Opening with the hour’s top story is a report from ABC correspondent Don North, on the devastating fire which sparked explosions on the flight deck of the USS Forrestal, minutes before the carrier was to launch an air strike over North Vietnam. An undetermined loss of life had been reported. Twenty-nine planes were heavily damaged or destroyed in the blaze.

In this segment you will hear ABC NEWS reports from Saigon, Washington, and Miami Beach.

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ABC News anchored by Jim Harriott, New York. ‘News Around The World’ was broadcast on ABC radio affiliate WXYZ 1270 in Detroit.

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Audio source from the Gordon Skene Collection.

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ABC NEWS. ON THIS DAY. 50 YEARS AGO

**THE CREW OF THE USS FORRESTAL** extinguishes the remaining fires on the flight deck off the coast of Vietnam, 29 July 1967. In the foreground are the remains of an *F-4B Phantom,* behind which can be seen the burned hulk of a second *Phantom.* One hundred thirty-four crew died in this fire, the worst aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. *(Click on image for largest view)*

National Guardsmen patrolling Detroit’s Grand River Avenue in front of the Olympia, Thursday, July 27, 1967 — **The National Guardsmen** patrolling Detroit’s Grand River Avenue in front of the Olympia. *Thursday, July 27, 1967 (click on image for largest view)*

J U L Y 2 9 , 1 9 6 7 : T O D A Y I N M U S I C H I S T O R Y

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In Detroit, the Monkees scheduled concert at Olympia Stadium was immediately canceled days earlier due to widespread rioting, shootings, fires, and block-to-block looting — affecting local and federal mandated curfews imposed over the entire city through a four day period, week of July 23-27. Sponsored and scheduled by Dick Clark Productions and WKNR for Saturday, July 29, the concert would later be rescheduled for another date in August.