Apollo astronauts Roger Chafee, Edward White, and Gus Grissom lose their lives in a tragic flash fire aboard their grounded space capsule.
The tragedy occurred during a simulated countdown for the first flight of the Apollo program whose goal is to put a man on the moon by 1970.
Grissom and White were veterans of space flight, Chaffee a rookie.
During a drill similar to this the entire three men crew was engulfed by flames. A blue ribbon panel of space experts is investigating aided by impounded NASA films and tape recordings.
Grissom was one of the seven original astronauts, White was America's first space walker, Chaffee never in space had long experience as a jet test pilot.
He was proud and happy at his first flight was to initiate the Apollo program.
When the tragedy struck, one of the astronauts shouted, fire in the space craft!
In a few seconds all three were victims of a swift inferno which left the capsule a blackened shell.
One reporter said it looked like the inside of a furnace.
Investigators theorized that perhaps a short circuit or a electrical overload may have sparked the blaze.
Twenty-seven would be rescuers were all overcome by smoke and heat.
Apollo astronauts Chaffe, White, and Grissom, martyred heroes who gave their lives in total dedication to duty. Their memory will forever be honored.
Six Yugoslav diplomatic missions throughout the United States and Canada are damaged in a series of mysterious bomb blasts all occurring within one hour of each other.
In Washington, the Yugoslav Embassy suffered heavy damage. Here the bomb was placed in a shallow hole outside the furnace room. No one was injured, although a six year old boy was thrown from his bed in the predawn explosion.
Ceiling tiles were broken, windows shattered, and a large hole blown out of the foundation wall.
Meanwhile in New York the Yugoslav Consulate General off 5th Avenue is rocked by an explosion heard four blocks away. One firemen sent to the scene died of a heart attack.
The State Department condemns the bombings as outrageous and senseless. Anti-apolitical terrorist are to blamed for the attacks.
In the magnificent Sistine Chapel of Vatican City, Pope Paul presides at the ordination ceremonies for sixteen men about to become priests. Usually bishops confer the sacrament, Pope Paul recently revived the practice of Papal ordinations and this is the second only in recent centuries.
These candidates are unusually advanced in age from thirty-three to sixty-two and are graduates of a college specializing in the education of older men for the priesthood.
The ceremonial tying of hands is part of these solemn moments, the climax to years of prayer and study. Following in the footsteps of the first Pope Peter the Fisherman, are these sixteen new fishers of men.
The possibility of life after death is explored in Phoenix Arizona by the Cryonic Society.
They believe that cryobiology, the freeing of biological matter is the answer. They propose freezing bodies in cold storage capsules. Scientist are mostly skeptical.
A model demonstrates how one person a California man, who died of cancer, has already been frozen. A freezing liquid replaces the blood supply and the subject in wrapped in aluminum foil and placed in a capsule at 220 degrees below zero centigrade.
One of the weapons that's putting plenty of punch in the Allied push in Vietnam is the Airkat, its capable of skimming the surface of marshland in search of Viet Cong driven by a conventional airplane propeller, a fiberglass boat can hit thirty- five miles and hour.
As little as four inches of water is all that's necessary for the Airkat which provides flank protection and reconnaissance patrols while operating with assault boats.
Each carries a six man crew and a full cargo of trouble for any Viet Cong in the way.
Your looking at the world's first floating nuclear power station. A converted WWII Liberty Ship, The Sturgis, she carries a ten million watt power plant which could supply the electrical needs for a city of twenty thousand persons.
Its use military operations and disaster areas.
The reactor core contains the entire fuel supply for a full year. Both the reactor and a steam generator are contained inside a gigantic steel housing. Concrete, lead, and other shielding are used to protect the crew.
At her Fort Belvior Virginia base, the Sturgis goes through the final checkout phase.
In future use, the power will be transmitted to land by cables from the plants superstructure on the ship's bow. A thirty-five men crew will be aboard to operate and maintain the nuclear system.
The Sturgis, forerunner for many such atomic plants of the future.
The windy city of Chicago is white as well as windy. Battered by a furious winter storm which dumped two feet of snow across the Midwest. Sixty-eight deaths were traced to the blizzard.
Ten foot drifts were a common site after the twenty-nine hour which brought this giant city to a standstill.
Some ten thousand cars, buses, and trucks were abandoned on the streets and highways. Train and airline operations were halted some for several days.
There was widespread looting and many fires broke out.
Helicopters flew emergency missions with food, drugs, and blood supplies. Milk, bread, fuel, and mail deliveries were all stopped by the snow storm.
Describes as on of the biggest and worst of the century. It reduced Chicago to its a toddlin' town indeed.