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Public Eye takes you back to 1965, when abortions were not legal in the United States. In this broadcast, Walter Cronkite reported on the "legal, moral and medical aspects" of the abortion debate in America and around the globe..Click on the video box to watch.

In an early attempt at journalistic transparency, CBS News shot a phone interview between Jimmy Hoffa and Walter Cronkite on two cameras in April 1964. "In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story," said Cronkite. So here they are side by side. Click on the video box to watch.

Public Eye takes you back to 1965, when abortions were not legal in the United States. In this broadcast, Walter Cronkite reported on the "legal, moral and medical aspects" of the abortion debate in America and around the globe..Click on the video box to watch.

This “CBS Morning News” program from August 1973 has it all: Sally Quinn soldiers on through a fever for her morning news debut; Hughes Rudd cracks wise about political rhetoric; the Watergate hearings are underway (Lesley Stahl reports from Capitol Hill); Phil Niekro throws his first no-hitter and a White House speechwriter named Buchanan defends President Nixon around the 37:40 mark. Click on the video box to watch.

In this week's installment of "From The Vault," Public Eye takes you back to the protests at the 1972 Republican Convention in Miami, where the news covering the news made the news."Anatomy Of A News Story" -- featuring Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather -- aired on June 28, 1973. Click on the video box to watch.

In this week's installment of "From The Vault," we bring you Mike Wallace's 1970 report on the intersection of television and politics. It opens with a series of campaign ads from that era. "For better or worse," says Wallace, "television has changed the nature of the political process in the United States." Click on the video box to watch.

This week, we bring you the opening portion of a 1972 CBS News report on a new teaching technique for elementary school students. There are no grades, no tests, and, it seems, "more freedom." Click on the video box to watch.

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Long before blogs and the Media Research Center and Media Matters appeared on the scene, media bias was a topic of discussion. Exhibit A: A 1964 special hosted by CBS News correspondent Eric Sevareid, who speaks of "an ugly boil of hostility towards the press." His guests are Clare Boothe Luce, a former member of Congress and "active supporter of Senator Goldwater," and Ralph McGill, publisher and columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Click on the video box to watch.

Digging through the crates this week to just the sixth episode of "60 Minutes" that ever aired -- before it was even 400 minutes old -- back on December 12, 1968.

An international negotiator observes that “Divided countries are very difficult to bring together.”

Shoplifters are ruining the Christmas season, back in the days before Christmas was under attack.

Some football players play dirty.(?!)

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In this week's edition of "From The Vault," we bring you "Generations Apart: A Question Of Values." It's Part 1 of a report that aired on May 20, 1969 concerning "the conflict of generations." Click on the video box to watch.