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NBC NEWS ELECTION YEAR ’64
NBC NEWS SCORES BEAT OVER COMPETITION IN COVERAGE OF NEWS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING COMPROMISE SOLUTION TO MISSISSIPPI SEATING CONTROVERSY
NBC CONVENTION CENTRAL, ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 26 - NBC News scored a five-minute news beat over its network competition yesterday afternoon (Aug. 25) in presenting live television coverage of a news conference announcing approval by the Democratic convention credentials committee of a compromise settlement of the Mississippi seating controversy.
A special NBC News report from 4:09 to 4:19 p.m. EDT, carried the full report of the compromise solution, which was read by Walter Mondale, Attorney General of Minnesota, who headed a five-man credentials subcommittee dealing with the problem. Mondale had already concluded the five recommendations in the report when a second network began coverage of the news conference.
The compromise included recommendations that the convention seat party regulars who pledge support of the Democratic national ticket in November; that the convention adopt a policy that state parties by 1968 must permit full participation in party affairs regardless of race, color, creed or national origin; and that Aaron Henry and the Rev. Edwin King of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party be seated as "delegates at large."
NBC News updated the coverage with additional information by correspondent Edwin Newman on the "NBC News Afternoon Report" from 4:25 to 4:30 p.m. EDT. Newman also was the reporter at the earlier news conference. o
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