The Start of Something New
On January 28th, 1979, Charles Kuralt welcomed viewers to the very first broadcast of Sunday Morning. Here is how it all began ...
Good morning. Here begins something new. I'm Charles Kuralt and this is SUNDAY MORNING, a 90-minute CBS News program that starts right now.
Every Sunday morning we're going to bring you the news, of course, but we're going to spend most of this hour and a half together trying to explain what's happening to ourselves and to you. And we're not going to hurry through it.
We have time for a background story on a major event, so we'll have a background story every week. We have time to talk about art and music and books and movies, so we'll do that; sports, of course.
And we'll even deal each week with a subject that television rarely talks about - television.
There will be serious essays on religion and learning and science, business, the environment. We'll tell you what to expect from the weather in the week ahead.
And every week, I'm going to sit down over there and talk with the CBS News correspondents who are covering the big stories, wherever in the world the news finds them, to see if we can make some sense of where we've been during the past week, and where we're going.
Right now, we're going to the news headlines for the first edition of SUNDAY MORNING, January 28th, 1979:
China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping is en route to Washington for a nine-day visit to the United States.
Iran's exiled leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, says if Prime Minister Bakhtiar wants to meet him in Paris, Bakhtiar will have to resign first.
Pope John Paul, on his visit to Mexico, has urged Latin American Catholics to keep the traditional faith.
A United Airlines jumbo jet, flying from Los Angeles to New York, was hijacked. Police have seized the woman hijacker. All 131 aboard are safe.
And President Carter leads the nation in mourning the death of Nelson Rockefeller. Funeral services for the former Vice President, who died at 70, will be held Monday.