Simon & Garfunkel - 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night Lyrics

This is the early evening edition of the news
The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the open housing section of the Civil Righ
Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of the measure without the votes of t
President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering discrimination by everyone for every
A compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary Committee
In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was believed to be an overdoes of narcotics
Bruce was 42 years old
Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to cancel plans for an open housing march Sunday into
Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call off the march and the police in Cicero said th
King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago Tuesday
In Chicago Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses, was brought before a grand jury t
The nurses were found stabbed an strangled in their Chicago apartment
In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee of the House Committee on Un-
Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they began chanting anti-war slogans
Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there is a substantial increase in the present
In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York, Nixon also said oppos
That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news
Goodnight

Silent night
Holy night
All is calm
All is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace