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It's a strange strange world. We're livin Master Jack. He taught me all I know and I never looked back. It's a very strange world and I thank you Master Jack. He took a River KQED KQED newsroom. It's New Year's Eve, a unique program of news and

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news analysis made possible by a special grant from the Ford Foundation tonight newsroom is going to be two hours long. We're going to look at the year that was World Press will be delayed until nine PM tonight and Orpheus in the Underworld until 10. We're in

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color. We have a lot of special features and special guests, Newsman Bill German and columnist Arthur Hoppy and ralph Gleason, historian, Charles sellers, critic, David Littlejohn, lawyer, marshall Krause radical todd Gitlin. The lovely Mimi London bob bastions, cartoons and as always much, much more. Tonight. We've

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been talking about what happened this year. We thought it appropriate to to talk about what's going to happen next year. And we asked Arthur Hoppy to tell us, I know all about that mill. I have some headlines here that you're bound to see in 1969 with

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the help of Bill German, a great old headline writer. one you're bound to see, I'm convinced is coed alive here. That's sort of, that's you're sure to see that in your paper and secret Nixon strategy that's bound to come up and a bizarre bathtub vendetta in

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the Chronicle will have that. What story that will go on. It doesn't make any Bill wants to explain. Bill wants to explain each of these headlines. But you want to explain that about the Sicilians and stuff and the, I don't think we can give it away.

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Alright, don't give it away how we gonna sell papers if you explain these and the one that's bound to be my favorite. I'm sure we're going to have it is giants, mets thriller, see sports, I have a whole lot of last year and the year before

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I have a whole lot of us like first photo and key witness mom and urge new tax plan stories to go with these things. I don't think we need them. You know, we used the headlines only to sell papers and why, you know, I've always wondered

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why we put the stories in that kind of wrecked the headlines, but we've been doing that for years. But I do have some stories that that I know we'll see during the coming year For instance and I've done these in categories politics for instance. By May

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14, President Nixon will finally find a negro willing to serve in the White House. He will serve breakfast lunch and dinner. I like that one. Great proud of that And in space for example, in the space effort on May 23 um the, in a, in a

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moment, in a dramatic moment in man's conquest of the universe. The first American astronauts will step out of their capsule onto the barren surface of the moon. They will be greeted by Eldridge cleaver. That's silly. Uh well in education, I think I confidently predict that dr

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Hayakawa will keep his promise to keep state college open throughout the coming academic year except of course for Easter vacation, which will be from January 15 to June three. And then let's see in sports. Uh, one of my favorite, I don't think anybody else like on

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october 23rd. Lon simmons will say, well fans, the 40 niners maybe trading the rams 42 to 7 here in the third quarter. But one thing you can say for the san Francisco team is that they never quit. And at this point the 40 niners will say

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the hell with it and walk off the field. I've been waiting before that it was your right. I wish I'd picked another team in finance uh, by october 1st, I'm sure howard Hughes will get tired of Nevada of living in Nevada. So he'll sell it. And,

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and then religion. I I do want to have a religious note in here on june 3rd, Bishop pike will announce that he's sick and tired of controversy and is therefore running off of the south south seas with six topless dancers. The Romania man ambassador and Stokely

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carmichael to practice the worship of sorrow aster and let's see in California, Some local news, panic will strike in early April when a noted seer predicts that a calamitous earthquake will destroy California on April 17 and you know, and as most such such cases as these,

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the hysteria will prove to be unfounded. Uh, California would be wiped out by an earthquake on april 16th instead. And uh let's see if I got him, oh in the, in the world of drama, which you've covered for 68 a classic greek comedy will prove a

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sensation on broadway. It's titled Spiro T Agnew and uh that's a funny name. I where'd you dig that one up? I just made that up. I have an item here, that's one of those little filling items that we use a lot and I don't know anything

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like this, but On September 23 Abner Grandma, I will say the heck with his long hair and hippy beads and narrow jacket and bell bottom pants and he'll cast him aside and put on his uh flowered tie and brooks brothers pants suit and he'll get arrested

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as a transvestite. Uh And that's about all I go, one more mel, one more confident prediction is that on December 31, 1969 we'll all gather here and everybody will say thank God we got through that, that's very nice. You know, we invited Mimi London to come

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here tonight for two reasons. One, we thought she should look pretty on the program. We have no other gals and we thought every once in a while we'd look at Mimi and feel better about it. I feel a lot better. And the other reason we invited

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her was to see if she could sit for two hours without saying a word. And since she's already broken that uh promise or pledge or whatever, it seems to me, we ought to take advantage of the presence of both Mimi and Arthur too revived one of

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the classic stories of the year. And that's the story of Apple mary. Read the funnies again and go ahead running over time. Anyhow. What's have the apple mary since we saw you two? And I was going to ask me, well, nothing. But we can, you know,

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we could do an old one and no one would know. Do you remember? No one? Yeah. Um Apple and the loves of Apple mary yesterday, and we did today, didn't today. Very Apple mary's cousin, Apple Pan Dowdy Was voted one of the 10 worst dressed women

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of the year. Um concerned and frustrated. Apple pan dowdy renounced living in conventionality and retired to a nudist camp Where she was voted one of the 10 worst dressed women of the year. That was I remember that one. I didn't remember that one. All right, thank

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you very much. We go now to bob Baskin for his comments thus far, bob. We started out talking about Montgomery street people in my age. I always think of Montgomery Street as people jumping out the window and all that. They don't do that anymore. They're they're

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much too fat. Uh Lyndon johnson finds himself at the end of this year, just as he did at the end of last year and the year before blowing up another Vietnam balloon. That is the balloon of hope of the settlement. And he's surrounded with the ruins

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of the others. And this one doesn't look really much better at this time. Ah I was glad to hear that there may be some prizes offered for carpentry in paris because I just happen to be devising this, this model of what's going on there. People are

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constructing a table to sit at. But as you see, it comes off in all different directions. Do you think I'll win? I think you will. That's a different twist. This is the year that the airplane became an international symbol of foreign relations, became of the burden

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in the international badminton game planes in Algeria, Beirut Athens Havana all over the place became very useful protest symbols. Ah And now this happens to be the part of the program in which mention is made of robert Kennedy and Well, this is not a very brilliant

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cartoon Commemorating his death. It struck me as very ironic because I was just reading something from his remarks when he decided to run earlier this year. One of the reasons he gave was because I want the US to stand for hope rather than for despair. And

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I had to think how how untrue this had come. All right, thank you belle. We go now to George do shake as. Bill German mentioned a little while ago. This was the year of the first heart transplant. Bill put the story down said that it was

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just an ordinary story. I don't know. All right. In 1968 a handful of the world's surgeons took their boldest step thus far. They transplanted hearts from one human being to another. Candor compels me to admit that the first two were done in December 1967 by Cape

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Town surgeon, Dr christian Bernard and by dr Adrian Kantrowitz at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn Dr. Kantrowitz. His patient and infant boy died immediately. But Dr. Barnard's patient, 53 year old Louis Washkansky lived for 18 days. But on January 2, 1968, Dr. Barnard transplanted the heart of

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a 24 year old accident victim into Dr. Philip Broberg 58, a dentist who had been involuntarily retired by severe and crippling heart disease about five or six years ago Dr Bleiberg is still living on thursday. He will celebrate his first anniversary with Clive house heart still

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beating vigorously in his chest. Here's a picture of dr Bleiberg as he looked before his operation. A dying man, here he is after the operation holding up the making the universal victory sign. And here he is in july after his discharge from the hospital with a

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portrait of dr christian Bernard on the wall beside him. He looks like the very Hollywood picture of a famous and handsome surgeon, doesn't he? And finally, here's dr Blidberg just last month frolicking with his friends on a Cape Town beach. It's summer now in South Africa

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as you know, his was the first really successful operation and he is still one of the few who have survived very long. That's one of the good news stories of 68 I guess. Ed radon sell you reported on the check story Vietnam story. What else happened

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in the world this year? Well if it was a year of violence in both of those places and in here at home, it was also true of much of the rest of the world, all during the year of bloody civil war raged between Nigeria and its

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secessionist state of Biafra. From years beginning two years end the Middle East crisis waxed and waned and waxed hotter. Here is um Well that's the wrong picture actually. I was going to show you a picture of the one of the airplanes that was damaged at Beirut

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airport the other day. That's it. That's it. Yeah, in january and the american people were shocked when a navy intelligence ship was seized by a little communist north Korea for a brief time. That incident threatened to enliven a second war front in Asia. But cooler heads

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prevailed diplomatically. The release of the crew last week. A warm and human story was bizarre and unique. Never had a super great power made such an admission and repudiated in the same breath perhaps there is still, this is still another sign of soviet inclination to negotiate

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Or is it just the duplicity of the nations? Communist china began to recover from the great rampage of the cultural revolution. It made even a few peaceful sounds directed towards the United States. Relations between the United States and Japan along a staunch ally began to wither

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slightly over Okinawa in american bases. But the great revolution of the world. Students spread from country to country inside the communist bloc in the advanced countries and even into such backward countries as Egypt polish students, for example, rioted against the closing down of famous historical drama

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because it had anti soviet overtones. Students in orderly, prosperous west Germany right against the restrictions of the educational system and turned their wrath on a rich publisher In Japan. Three of the chief Tokyo universities have been shut down for most of the past 11 months. In

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all 50 Japanese colleges have been struck for a brief period. This year, the students of Mexico City's famous national university fought the government of President Diaz Ordaz to a standstill for four months on the principle of autonomy and almost closed down. The 19th modern Olympian. About

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40 people were killed But the most fiery stood in revolution was one I suppose, which will be known as the French Revolution of 1968 in France the same old school system had been creaking along since the time of napoleon and in May a young radical of

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the new left Danny, the red cone bendy sounded the toxin of revolt at Nanterre University in the paris suburbs, it spread from campus to campus. The famous Sorbonne was shut down. Once again, rebel students marched by the thousands through the streets of paris, waving the red

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and black flags of communism and anarchy. Police and students clashed as they have before In the latin quarter, students raising the traditional barricades of cobblestones, sewer leads, traffic signs. After several days of vine police, student fighting in the quarter, some of the main streets there looked

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like this and then the workers joined the students, an unusual social phenomenon. Reynolds auto workers were the first to go out. In a few short days of May, the entire machinery of the french economy ground to a dead halt.