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3 ~ Convention Coverage
Inside the hall, correspondents Frank McGee and Sander Vanocur provided close coverage of the turbulence in and around the seating area of the Mississippi delegation. Under the eyes of NBC’s long lens cameras, the two reporters covered developments as convention security officials attempted to move Freedom Party delegates from the Mississippi area.
The coverage included the report of a poll, commissioned by NBC News and conducted by Elmo Roper and Associates. Reported by correspondent Elie Abel, it measured the relative strength of President Johnson and Senator Goldwater among various voting groups and analyzed the effects of the withdrawal of Alabama’s Governor George Wallace from the Presidential race.
Other segments of the coverage, which was concluded at 12:l4 a.m. EDT, included a taped interview by Washington correspondent Nancy Dickerson with Mrs. Johnson and her two daughters, who showed viewers the Johnson photograph album and recalled intimate memories in the lives of the nation’s First Family.
Coverage on the NBC Radio Network, which began at 7 p.m. EDT and continued to 12:10 a.m. EDT, included numerous highlights of the Mississippi Freedom Party demonstrations outside Convention Hall.
Robert McCormick reported exclusively that three members of the President’s Club of Ohio — who have contributed more than $1,000 to the Democratic Presidential Campaign Fund — were locked out of the auditorium along with the demonstrators.
NBC News correspondent Charles Quinn completed a number of exclusive interviews with Negro leaders during the demonstrations both inside and outside Convention Hall. Quinn's reports were augmented by an audio feed of NBC-TV’s exclusive reports by correspondent John Chancellor.
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