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
I was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal for removing a Sidewinder Missile from the airplane pictured above, I was assisted by my friend and former shipmate Jack Adams who is now deceased. The heat was so intense the ejection seat fired as seen in the video. I’m a life member of the Forrestal Association. I and Jack Adams are both mentioned in Kenneth V. Killmeyer’s book Fire, Fire, Fire on the Flight Deck Aft; This is Not a Drill. Ken’s book is the most compressive account of the Forrestal disaster to date, as lived by the men who had to fight for their lives.
Thank you, Rufus P. McKibben, thank you for sharing your comments on this tragic event, you having shared here. And we thank you, for your service to our country.