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Newspaper
Port Lavaca Wave
Location
Port Lavaca, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1975
Page
2
CBS airs Fear on Trial a dramatization of John Henry Faulk's 1950s blacklist battle. The program follows his firing from WCBS radio, the Aware libel suit, and a high profile 1962 verdict, while noting sparse naming of blacklisters and unclear causes behind the era's blacklisting.
A fragmentary grid lists 5:00 to 4:30 PM air times for series such as Lucy Show Mister Rogers Love Lucy and Brady Bunch along with game shows like $25,000 Pyramid Hollywood Squares and The Price Is Right style blocks. Programs include The Electric Company Villa Alegre and La Tierra with several local mentions and time cues.
A dense TV and film timetable lists showings across Classic Theatre, weathering a busy night. Programs include Ellery Queen, Streets of San Francisco, The Waltons, Space: 1999, and films like Fear on Trial and A Bullet for Pretty Boy with George C. Scott and Fabian. Local news segments and variety programs weave through the late evening slate with sports reports and musical features.
A Friday morning schedule lists children's programs and classic series. Highlights include Mister Rogers, Captain Kangaroo, Batman, Love of Life, Elvis Presley appearances, and game shows such as Wheel of Fortune and The Price Is Right along with soap operas and talk shows.
On October 2 marked events include Wilson stroke in 1919 Benedict Arnold spy hanged in 1780 Gandhi born 1869 and Marshall sworn 1967. Also Nixon Madrid visit and cuts to transitional funds. Comedian Groucho Marx turning 80 and Rex Reed at 35. Thought by Victor Hugo notes an idea whose time has come. Port Lavaca and Cainoun County Times details and staff credits listed.
A fragmented Friday afternoon guide lists daytime soaps and game shows such as Days of Our Lives Texas Perry Mason As the World Turns The Price Is Right and Love on the Spectrum with special features including Safari with Victor Mature and a mix of Western Gunsmoke Gunsmoke Wilbur The schedule also includes cartoons Sesame Street Star Trek and classic films like Boeing Boeing and Return to Paradise across various channels and times.
Asheville marks the 75th anniversary of Thomas Wolfe born in the city with four days of exhibits and theater adaptations from Look Homeward Angel. Wolfe scholars from Southern universities will discuss his work as locals recall the author who died at 37 in New York and the city’s early hostility and later reverence.
Santa Rosa AP reports Charlie Brown, the beloved Peanuts child, hits age two today. Creator Charles Schulz recalls Snoopy on the doghouse turning the strip into a cultural phenomenon with spinoffs and growing income.
Weather across Texas turned notably colder with a northern tilt as a cold front pushed southward. Alpine recorded 32 degrees, Abilene Dalhart and San Angelo saw 42, while McAllen was 68 and higher readings reached 80 in Alice Victoria and McAllen before the front moved offshore.
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