Posted on 09/16/2007 6:01:24 AM PDT by Nextrush
On Sunday September 15th Governor Faubus put out the word that he had made proposals to President Eisenhower and that the National Guard would remain at the school for now.
The crowds of pro-segregationists began to dwindle the week of Monday September 16th.
The whole controversy brought national news media to the scene including the developing network television news operations.
NBC sent John Chancellor from Chicago to report live from in front of the school.
Meanwhile CBS had Howard K. Smith, who has just come back from London to head up its Washington bureau.
Live transmissions were by long-distance phone lines to New York. (There were no satellites yet)
ABC did live programs from Little Rock that involved interviews.
One of them was Sunday night September 15th with Governor Orval Faubus sitting down with a former radio announcer turned interviwer.
Mike Wallace was known as an advertising pitchman who did among other things, cigarette commercials.
His weekly interview program with famous guests aired every Sunday night.
Faubus wouldn't talk about his meeting the previous day with President Eisenhower.
Wallace brought up the claims of city officials that there was no threat of violence for the National Guard to prevent.
Wallace also asked why the guard should not be used to help integrate Little Rock Central High School rather than segregate it.
Faubus reiterated his belief that the integration would trigger the violence and it could not be allowed to preserve the peace.
Meanwhile, the groundwork for a contempt hearing against Governor Faubus and National Guard commanders was being laid by Federal District Judge Ronald Davies.
Davies set the hearing for Friday September 20th and sent out federal marshals with subpoenas for 200 witnesses.
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