KENNEDY L- .- . President Kennedy's address~o~~Y ~ .I hope I\ you hear d Rover C BS - was interrupted by applause eighteen times. The Joint session of Congress, reacting_ to what it heard the President say. Not u e c s t a t i ~ - : . ~ ; ~ ~ /\ . -~.-iiLW""W-1:"Wl--~.aJ.,ater reaction on Capitol A ~tot-P of Congress,.,{ backing President Kennedy. Hill! Most members ~ MxtMkAwith---::' some loud dissent. For example, from Representative Passman of Louisiana - who says Mia t h e ~ ~ ~ r e i g n aid leaves him "in a state of shock." " ~ First,~Mr. Kennedy described the nature - of the challenge we face. Geographically - covering the southern hemisphere, from Asia to Latin America. Time - decades, probably. What to do - about it? President Kennedy pointed ~ out - that we,_ already made progress at home and abroad. ,, At home -by halting the recession. A broad - by acting to save the free nations wherever possible. KENKEDY - 2 Disarmament? Under thia administration, every effort will be made - to get an atomic teat aan. Space? We're going to put an additional five hundred million into aur program - to land a man on the - Moon by Hlneteen Seventy.~ spend 110re on rockets to Mara and Venua, """- art1t1c1al aatellltea - and the rest or our apace prosram. The Army - to be ll0dern1zed. 'Dle Information Agency, to get some or the funda - that Ed Murrow haa aaked tor. ~ ~ l ) ( u d . Alliances like Mato to be strengthened. AnotherA..t•ltca . '. -- ~ u-?l ' for orelgn aid. This is the Kennedy request that threw /'-. representative Paasaan - into a shock. Here's an item - of apeclal interest. The item called - Khrushchev. President Kennedy says he's meeting the soviet boss -- to prevent Khrushchev from miscalculating our . power, and our will to use it. The Kennedy address adds up to - more danger, more hope, more effort, more money. Objective - to save America and the free world from Communist aggresslo~. RIDERS There's one surprising thing - about the "Freedom Riders" in Jackson, Mississippi. Theyfre receiving a comparatively polite welcome - in that stronghold or segretation. The reason!- ~ J:t 1 s rather simple. Their bus - escorted by maased highway patrol cars and the National Guard. Result - no violence from white mobs. And the "freedom riders " who violated the Milsiaalppi segreptlon lan today - were carted ott to Jatl without any disturbance. Meanwhile, the b Reverend Martin Luther King has returned to hla office - 1n Atlanta. The Attomey General ls pulling five hundred U.S. Marshals - out of Alabaaa. ~ integration leader 1n Montgomery haa bNn al1glltly wounded - by a shot fired from a passing car. CATTON A great historian of the Civil War calla on the South - to liquidate the Civil War. Bruce Catton, telling the New Jersey Historical Society - that our great national conflict decided the race question once and for all. )"ecided ,) it in favor of -- negro equality. But, according to this famous chronicler of the American Iliad - Dixie haan't caught up with the rest of tjle country. Hence, the violence - surrounding the "freedom riders." Bruce Catton•s verdict - here are his words - "there ls no safe middle ground between Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler." ,MJBII lA§§ lntenae fightiD& la reported tonight between Paki1tania and Af1hana along the hi1torio Horthweat frontier - e1peoiall7 in the ■01t 1trategic of all aountain defil••• the IbJber - the bleak paaa that ia the gatewa, to the aab-contlnent of liindaatan. Th• lbJber tbrou1h •hioh couatl••• arale1 haw• ■ad• tb•lr way to victor, or death in iorthern !n4la. Taaerlaae, the ruthl•••• Baber - founder of the ■01ul ••pire. And Nadir Shah - the Persian ling who helped to break up th& e ■pire. The earl7 ArJana, the Macedonlaas, the Peraiana, the •hit• Hua, the Briti1b under ~ord loberts of Ihandahar. ~n fact th• lbJber fasa, tor over a century, and tor all ti•• will be reme ■bered for th• exploits ot To■Q Atkin,. The colorful ator7 ot aoldieriDI during th• reign of Queen Victoria. A story that captured the i ■ agination of the world - when it was p ut into fiction b7 Rudyard Iipling. Reae■ber iBJtCI PASS - 2 tho•• Iipllng ■aaterpiecea - 8 Plain tale• fro ■ the billa,• •The Man Ibo lould Be Iin1•, and ao on. Kore recently ■7 Criend Yeat1 Bfown of the Bengal ~ancera? The Britlab Toaalea fought their dra■ atio Af1han ware - out there oa that wil4 lorthweat frontier. low, with the Britiah aone - lt'• the Patlatanla agalnat the Afiban. More hi1tor7, beiq ■a4e - in a place that baa aeen a lot ot hl1tor1,. The lbJber Pa,,. X-15 Even in an age of speed, when records are being set every day - this sounds phenomenal. Pilot Joe Walker revved up his X-15 to - a mile a second. More than three thousand miles an hour - or five times the speed of sound. Walker, zipping through the sky over the Mojave Desert ao faat - the noae of the X-15 reached a temperature or seven hundred degrees. Hts plane, performing perfectly• carrying him back to Edwards Air Poree base with a new speed record - a mile a second.I iOLlPAX As for thereat of ua - let'• alow dowa whea •• driYe these next few da,a! The lational SaCet7 ~ounoil i11u11 it1 annual aarning; askln1 all 4r1Yera to drive car1full7 - over th• long Meaorial ~•1 •••k•n4., The ~ouncil, knowiaa th& thi1 adYic• won't be taken ••rioual7 b7 eYer7bocl7 - also ■ake1 tbe aria prediction that toar hundred an4 fifteen A ■erlcaa1, will die on our highwa71 - between to ■orrow andnext ledne14a7. SINGAPORE Today's catastrophe 1""s1ngapore - is one of the age-old stories of the orient. Fire, breaking out - in the squatter district. The teeming slum areas - that have been part of life 1n the Far East for thouaands of years. A high wind, whipping the flames - - . through the shacks and lean-toe. Destroying - a square mile of them. Tonight• many dead. Many missing. Ten thouaand - homeless. ""'- tl, ~~ lit- Singapore. The Ilng of Jordan - ia a aarried aan, tonight. Iing Huaaein, going through with the cere■oDJ - ia aplt• of hie advlaora. They obJected to the bride - Toni Gardiner, daughter of a Brltiah ~olonel aervin1 la Jordan. The royal advisor ■ in Aaaan, insisting - that their aonaroh oqht to aarry an Arab girl - perhap• a daughter of a deaert Sheik. ling Husael•'• replJ - that Toni la hla per1onal choice. ~h• haa becoae a lo1lea, but will not have th• title - Queea of Jordan. She'll be known aa luna El Bua1eia - aeanlac •Bueaein~• deaire.• lf •h• win• favor in the e7e1 of the Jordanian• 1he probably will be proclaiaed queen later on. §JIMII [gLLgl JQBMAI And tar to the Borth, acro11 the aiddle eaet an4 Europe - there was another royal wedding. Sweden'• Prine••• B irgitta, ■arrying - a ~eraan prince. Prince Johann, of the Houae of Bohen1ollern - last reignin1 dynasty of Ger■ aDJ, until laiaer lilbela took it on th• laa at the end of •orld lar One. The ••4diq ia Stocthola 4eaoribed aa 1 ai ■ple,• eYeD thoqh it took place - ia the throae roo ■ of tbe palace; aad ••• atteaded b7 ••Yen hun4red and titt7 1••1t1 - iaoludiq luopeaa ro7alt7, Priae liai1ter1, and the Stockhol■ diploaatic aorp1. Oatai4• the palace - cannoa1 boo ■iag a twent7 one gua aalute. tianda - playin,. ~ro•d• - cheering. The bride, ap p earing on th• baloo117 - with a aold crown on her head. A •ai ■ple• wedding, uick. Ju1t a aiaple wedding. PRINCF.SS FOLLOW SWEDEN . ' : Now let's follow the trail of royalty - over to London. Tonight crowds are gathered outside Kensington Palace - cheering Princess Margaret and her husband, Anthony Armstrong-Jones. Celebrating the news - of a coming addition to the Royal Family. The British have always had a sort spot for their lovely Princess - because she always see•d out of luck. First - in the shadow of her sister, the heiress to the throne. Then - that unhappy love affair with Group Captain Peter Townsend. All ehis, forgotten tonight - in Britain's hoopla for the third member who will be Joining the menage in Kensington Palace.