The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour; MacNeil/Lehrer: UPDATE

ooh or fifth the macneil lehrer newshour comes due tonight from san francisco site of the nineteen eighty four democratic national convention

that evening for robert macneil and the rest of our crew in san francisco the news from here today date four and at last to the convention is mostly walter mondale as he and running mate geraldine ferraro ready themselves for their main event tonight's acceptance speeches otherwise very hard and in place to support the mondale ferraro ticket a man with a gun was arrested outside hart's hotel and jesse jackson after the secret service continue to protect it and other ghost police continue to search for the answers in yesterday's massacre of twenty people about dials near san diego california on the newshour tonight in the aftermath of the san diego massacre charlayne hunter gault examines what is known of the killers motives at the democratic convention in san francisco and has a record of the arkansas delegation documents the mixed emotions of mondale's moment of victory our resident political observers allan byron and david gergen i was the climax of this convention and falling job info ferraro's nomination we hear the acceptance speech she was just

completely know how the macneil lehrer newshour is funded by at and t the corporation for public broadcasting and the station and other public television stations finally as walter mondale's journey officially accept the democratic nomination for president tonight in a speech in safe to call the most important he's ever deliver behind in the polls against president reagan he will be on the podium at the mosque learning center talking to two audiences to the democratic activists in the hallways enthusiasm and energy in youth to carry his campaign through reagan and to the national primetime television audience who will make the choices and in the voting in november the various san francisco spotlights a banal mondale until tonight first on geraldine ferraro when the bird lands charles and i'm flat then as the convention began on cuomo jackson and heart in monday tuesday wednesday water but there is d is for walter mondale problem

in a sense modern mondale still faces competition from other democrats tonight those who spoke to the convention before him that may have been on his mind when he went to the convention hall this morning for rehearsal to test the microphones and the teleprompter for tonight's acceptance speech at this same podium on monday night new york governor mario cuomo gave a speech that excited and lifted the convention next night jesse jackson walker mondale tonight they will be difficult like to follow both for the delegates in the hall and for the television audience of bell jim the first really big happen at the convention there was the making of some really big history nominating i want to be the democratic candidate for vice president and roll call vote started that got only as far as arkansas in the alphabet when it was passed to her home state of new york you know

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object of the automation and affection came to the rostrum to accept the nomination and to make a speech he used geraldine ferraro at it and before you to proclaim tonight america is the land right three and zero as i stand before the american people and making the honor this great invention has bestowed upon me i recall the words of dr martin luther king jr native americans

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part and played idaho's you can earn your share of america's blessings the police i learned from my parents and knows that that is i taught my students is a teacher in the public schools in new york city the paintings behind bars the primary if you obey the law you should be protected but you're right the well you must pay your time the pipe all the political expert senate democrats

would not be in my home district in queens i put my faith in the people in the nineteen seventies together we know that political experts wrong the pianist and pay for its mind elena i know what our faith in the people and we are dying to throw the experts wrong again the pain we're going to win because americans across this country

believe in the same basic three i mean el morning the small town of elmore this month our fritz mondale was raised and soon rates and job will visit our family we use nine hundred people when elmore we hear a two thousand people on one block you would think we'd be different but we're not she'll lot to school in our mortgage as grain elevators in queens ny subway stops but no matter where they may have their future depends on education and their parents are willing to do there are you know more their family

farms in queens small businesses but the men and women who run them all take pride in supporting their families through hard work an initiative and in july new york city in queens in a flying them over grand canyon but all of us love our country and to pretend that it represents the plan b and under this administration the rule is too many of our people it isn't right that every year the share of taxes paid by individual citizens is going up

i might not or a smaller all the power lines everyone in our society contribute their fair share is in writing that this year of ronald reagan will hand the american people he'd be over interest on the national debt larger than the entire cost of the federal government under john f kennedy well listen the pain and i won in the ninth

it's been ed ray if trends continue by the year two thousand nearly all the poor people in america will be women and children the role as the ross of a decent society say when you distribute sacrificing times of austerity you

don't like women and children first the pain it isn't right that young people today the year they won't get the social security they paid for and all americans fear they will lose what they have already learned and the rain it's been mainly i'm going to mate with older americans

they're a compromise in the congress to say social security every group sacrifice to keep the system sam is time ronald reagan's thoughts carrying our senior citizens ms bee yeah you pose a question whether to bring children into the world of fifty thousand nuclear warheads invasion for which americans have struggled for more than two centuries now in thinking doesn't

have to be that way change is in the air just as surely as one when john kennedy back and america to a new frontier when sally ride a rocket interest the pain dr crowe he's been by choosing a woman to run for our nation's second highest office you send a powerful signal to all americans there are notorious we cannot an la the

pain no only because it means it we can do this we can do anything geraldine ferraro's speaking within the last half hour to discuss that speech we have our resident political observers david gergen former director of communications in the reagan white house and alan dunn former democratic campaign official now editor of the political newsletter about un report what'd you think of the speech i thought the basic theme of the speech was somewhat of a mistake i thought it was a celebration of her appointment as a designation as a woman and i think it should have been a natural speech in effect there the bottom line or her statement that

women for america should ask that were injured as now america can do for them but what women could do for america i think it should be universal sweet i can imagine john kennedy saying that they're catholics is a basket not what america can do for them but what catholics can do for america at this point she's a candidate for vice president of the united states and she's not a candidate for a minister in charge of women or vice president of the women for the united states and i think she should just get off this and started giving a speech well with some you know recognition of the uniqueness of a speech that to any other vice presidential candidate david learned and she spent about two thirds are more of the speech touching a lot of central campaign issues i voted and i must say her business and stressed while more positive impression and i did not think the speech itself was all that

inspiring and it was not as riveting as the jackson speech i think the cuomo speech was inspiring and now a woman up their accepting the vice presidential nomination was i think something that we had moved millions millions of people this country not as one sign in that sense i think there's less dramatic moment in the convention i think it's going to hard for walter mondale overshadowed this in a powerful way but i think the democrats have accomplished something here when would the jacksons recently unfurled speeches some in the settler movement or so that has been important because of an asset for him for life some aspect of the speech as such but i think just the fact that she was up there doing their job was a pause in the desired in the space i agree with david and the fact that she was up there getting it made the point and i would bet you there were a tremendous number of tears and john kennedy set of that nomination from catholics and tears and tablets and probably accepted the nomination to find catholics at the bottom half of the delegates or so but aside from that and the point is that she didn't

hold a tournament that's right that's right but you need to mention that in his speech she could have mentioned him but the most the golden thing was for being here without any words needed and and what he's got to do now is reassuringly man women in the audience and the country the man at that then they are concerned there is to know picking up on some of the some of the campaign issues she had fairly hard particularly education law in order of things in which he has personal experience to think that there's any clues to how she's going to be used in the campaign foreign policy was about to move on their part and so the point is that she is going to get an awful lot of attention in this campaign she's going to have a chance to develop something from democrats was present ordinarily was that president kennedy could not do i think she was a smart move move into issues of race with mustard tennessee's republican years as your word or an extent there were also issues the president himself has been planning for practically education law and order and i think that there was definitely do not want to give him

that i think education and dr roman with years of them on top of the issue and i want them back william has a good job in the last two years of kind of tissue around that disfavor he was a position that a couple years ago for you on the campaign improvement in schools and less time for me sets hours but now if you're good you think this says about the way should be used in the campaign oh i think those are the things that she sure we used emphasizes that she should emphasize and she feels comfortable home with but again i think the most important thing that people are looking for not vice president president everyone has the ability to become a really a universal out of figure that's why at which we thought it was so important is a sentiment that he talked about the civil rights and it you know very different way nixon going to china is seen as his high point and that some extent people are going to elect a president and vice president of the country and going back to

making the same point but i think she said that you know she said when she was asked about a homeless that and she said well she's not sure if archie bunkers voted for her but she knows it again well it must about a forgotten that seventy five percent of the vote and i think she's a claim that it voted for that this is the neat it in november a lot of friends a lot of focus on them under ten percent in the polls last few days we have seen a significant jump with her on the ticket and they were replaced with its clear that they regard her as their strongest asset swedish figure mondale is there has been some discussion in the press has been surrounded now by mondo agent speechwriters just any evidence yet that she has been mined allies he'll i think they are going to attempt to do and what the reagan campaign did in nineteen eighty after you start to say that there was as much pollution caused by trees as it was by automobile sandy opened his campaign remember nineteen eighty by expressing some strong doubts about the theory of evolution and after that and says mating mistakes i

don't think that magnet and then after that the rate and people tried to keep the wraps on and i think that we summer camps because he is an experienced and because the press is very tough financial planner a phillies pitchers cc is not caught off guard and there are some quotas not taken out of context we have to read that letter there's another world besides the one of the democrats here in san francisco and charlayne hunter gault in new york has today's news from showing them police and then use cbo california today grappled with the grizzly details and searched for a motive in yesterday's mass killing there one of them called the worst one man massacre in us history as a call went out for blood today from stanford san diego blood bank some of the survivors remain in critical condition and reconstructing the events leading up to the killings police say the forty one year old james oliver hubert he burst into a mcdonald's restaurant in sandy see grow and within the

automatic rifle and other weapons started shooting anyone in sight shouting i've killed thousands and i'll kill thousands more the man called the bullets into a terrified customer is in a rampage that lasted ninety minutes he killed twenty people including five children and wounded twenty others it ended with a fairly sharp shooter killed a gunman with a fatal wound to the head at least described as a slaughterhouse here to tell us more about the tragedy and its aftermath is the man in charge of the investigation led to an apology but rondo of the san diego police department he joins us tonight from the studios of public station kqed's in san diego and what you've been able to find out today about the killer that might shed some light on this awful tragedy we know that the man moved to the san diego area from nasa won ohio with his wife and two children about six to seven months ago i was unemployed at the time

here since i worked as a security guard he was discharged from a us security guard position about a week ago at that time but he did not obtain a other employment and some were despondent over that yesterday when this incident occurred and he went with his family or to a traffic court appearance then to the san diego zoo for a visit left his house about fifteen minutes before the incident occurred and walked or drove to the year a nearby mcdonald's restaurant as he entered the restaurant he was on with two weapons a shotgun and a nine millimeter semiautomatic rifle he also had a nine millimeter pistol he ordered all of the people in the restaurant to the floor and according to a surviving witness says he immediately started singing people and all the other results were that we had twenty one people dead to within the restaurant and immediately outside of it and another of fourteen to fifty people injured by

gunshots you think that the loss of this job of the security guard might have had something to do with i understand also that he lost his job as a welder in ohio before coming at you think these incidents along with the traffic thing that may have that sparked something in him that cause this rampage were trying to determine a bike contact in ohio authorities in local contacts of the suspect whether or not this could have happened a valet with her this is something as a buildup for a long period time because we have very little information as to him making statements are they are indicating that he would do such well one of the things i read today was that line i think it was one of the an ohio sheriff deputy said that this man was always talking about shooting somebody add have any previous arrest record or contact with the police or anything that you know would have indicated this is a minor contacts with us

police in his home town in ohio but again they're going into his background that this time we don't have anything that really indicates that something of this magnitude or any some of violence in his background what i also read it in various wire reports today i bet that he he had had dug violent incidents in his home with his own family that one of his children had wealth on her face and said that her father had heard he had heard that he had had an argument with his wife just before he left the house at have you been able to find out anything about that sort of our information is served to the contrary that just prior to him leaving the home he kissed his wife goodbye so he was leaving walked away see wanting to take a nap and then later learned that this incident had happened a block away in the restaurant in a true that one of his children saw from the balcony of a home the fall in sudan this is quite possible week that children

are at a position in the house is just a block away and it overlooks the the seats of one of that quote i'd kill thousands out our killed thousands more what you make of that image would be a veteran or the bee have military experience they sell our information he is not a veteran he does not have military experience how we're still trying to confirm that quote so many people and their excitement to stopping her get her statements by the man but we're not serve the things that he actually said that we do know that he ordered people to the floor and then immediately started shooting victims when they collide complied and laid down for one isn't that your investigation that even balding now me what it what are the steps that you're taking now and what once we be taking in the next few days well we're still continuing work at the scene itself we've been there all day today investigating physical evidence collecting physical evidence we know that

over one hundred and fourteen rounds of nine millimeter ammunition were fired by the suspect in the building but he also shot at police vehicles fire nickel fire engine officers and other civilians on the street and at this time there were just trying to confirm not that in all cases it affects the victims very little doubt that this time looking for anybody's information that my father's decide whether this man who is there anything that the people could have done or if it could have done to mitigate the damage that was done i mean apparently that sort of opened up on and started firing exactly it doesn't appear that anything could've been done that we believe that one of the deaths that occurred probably occurred within the first ten minutes so we started shooting if anything like this ever happened in the history of san diego that you know of certainly nothing to this magnitude we have another sniper

incidents had a young lady several years ago that opened up from her house on a schoolyard and two people were killed a school principal and a custodian also of several other people and children were injured but certainly nothing of this magnitude well armed officer ed rendell thank you very much for being with us and wish you all the luck in the investigation now for the rest of the day's news scientists in california have announced they discovered a new protein that may cause the common form of leukemia researchers at the university of california at los angeles say the discovery could eventually lead to a better diagnostic tests for the disease known as chronic and i lived in this leukemia a cancer of the bone marrow it as an adult one of leukemia which strikes ten thousand americans each year the discovery is being hailed as a breakthrough in understanding the link between genes and cancer for the first time this week president reagan took a brief step out of washington journey into columbia south carolina they were at a conference of fifteen caribbean

leaders the president continued his blistering weeklong attack on communism soviet union and cuba hear is a report from tom fowler of south carolina educational tv the largest gathering ever of caribbean leaders was called historic bias german jamaican prime minister edward schiappa during the summit has focused on the region the troubled economy and threats from left wing political conventions president reagan for his administration's attention to the region some are fond of training but smaller countries sit on the periphery of the center of the interests of major parts of you indeed move the caribbean from the periphery to send regular riders morning after the final session of the british army general with caribbean leaders the invasion toppling communist power grab in the region that is always remember the crucial distinction between the legitimate use of force for

liberation verses totalitarian aggression for conquest the president had strong words for the upcoming nicaraguan watch as we would wholeheartedly welcome a genuine democratic elections in nicaragua but no person committed to democracy will be taken in by a soviet style sham election situation in nicaragua's not promising but of the sandinistas would keep their original commitment permit free elections respect human rights and establish an independent nation conflict in the region would subside if the chemicals and all sorts of the soviet bloc in cuba and visiting enormous resources to undermining this hemisphere celebrity as well meanwhile in managua thousands of sandinistas rally today in celebration of the fifth anniversary of its revolution opposition parties yesterday threatened to boycott the election set for november unless unless a two year old state of emergency was lifted today nicaraguan won't achieve daniel ortega announce plans

ease restrictions on civil liberties but not before three months in france the communist party was offered but refuse for post in the new government however french foreign military policies are not expected to change things about these ministries were reappointed to their posts the french cabinet resigned earlier in the week over a domestic dispute and i went to go see asians of all sorts in all stages going on around the world today after year suspension the us and vietnam have agreed to resume talks on vietnam war soldiers missing in action in switzerland argentina walked out of the first direct talks over the future of the falkland islands calling the talks pointless an eleven year old talks between nato and the warsaw pact nations on reducing troop forces in europe broke off for the summer but now san francisco the democratic national convention as walter mondale's day and night but gary hart his candidacy and his night now behind him did not go

away and hide the day you know a lot of mondale's hotel for what was described as a unity meeting and he held a news conference he opened that by putting on the mondale ferraro campaign buttons and then reflecting on his campaign what went wrong what went right and why his supporters should now switched to walter mondale i think the mondale ferraro ticket not only is a winning unwinnable to get its an imperative for this party in this country i will as i've said throughout this race do everything in my power every ounce of energy every hour of the day i've committed to that take that has poured into this country when this critical election well i want to try to do as a contribution to this nation is encourage as many of those people who were sold generous unhelpful to ask to support this ticket to turn this country around that a

critical hour and to prevent what i think increasing numbers of people fearing that is say that a disaster second reagan administration barclays is a smart campaign blew the nomination here and there but i hope people remember where we started and the odds we have overcome to even get to this convention there's a very very fine parents some of whom had much greater advantages that we knew were not present this convention as active candidate so and he'd support to keep that perspective why i wish we had the resources to have that kind of national political base that we needed after new hampshire we made a decision that a critical critical decision in november and december of nineteen eighty three the focus what resources we had what little financial an organization resources we had on i work a new hampshire with the understanding that if i didn't distinguish myself somehow on those early states that nothing else matters ft that meant we didn't have organizers in the south would nab organizers no

annoyance or are we also were thin at the top i assiduously dr even under those conditions of fatigue and frustration and the rest tried to avoid personal attacks or certainly try to avoid saying as anything that i didn't believe it and i'm obviously it's impossible to run a national campaign for your hands without stepping over the line and sometimes manic your body does that the jury that as an entity if i could go back and re run of the perfect presidential campaign makes and tactical decisions differently about probably ten percent remarks a little bit not thinking about any any future ambition for myself i've often said that i have the best job in the world and i believe i do and that's being united states under protected in the state of colorado there was another heart happening today an unidentified gunman was arrested outside the park headquarters hotel this morning after a loaded pistol was found in his waistband a secret service agent had noticed the bulge the

gun was found on the man was taken into custody immediately and the local police station officials and the man made no effort to reach for that or pull out on another security matter jesse jackson today officially requested his secret service protection continue indefinitely as jackson is no longer a presidential candidate secret service protection would routinely in the next day or so sector that triggered our you'd like the decision on the jackson request jesse jackson told reporters today that he's not looking for a post in the mondale campaign you noted that he can help elect a democratic ticket by working outside the official mondale campaign structure but jackson added a baby after the question of whether or not you actually work for mondale he will if mondale in the democratic party do with the issues he raised during his presidential effort we need a message with the measure that's so manners that must be addressed not a one state democratic parties we arguing meet with

silence yes fellas a jazz lover over again at least these are state beyond that one last eight legislate wells county and local officials the democratic party's strength evasive on the syllable intelligence and integrity slate maybe we shall request but blacks and hispanics be involved in the mondale chair at the policymaking position of staff as well that's a new policy that balances the dnc the democratic national committee all of them all in the dnc relative to up this occasion was commissioned at this convention

without having equities in the ruins that really skew results never again shall we have twice more popular votes than others only cause fund and elizabeth bracket has been following the forty two delegates from arkansas to catch the moods of this convention last night at the climactic moment she was with them on the convention floor it's been it was a feeling to see the money is being allocated i mean really

the climax of the arkansas democrats had come after a long night of watching counting and waiting keeping the closest watch on that counting money help with bruce lindsay a pencil never out of his hand before really out of his ear a young attorney delegation hard on a different set of phones the opposition bill clinton's knew it was over for jesse jackson still it was important that you know jackson delegates let hard work ray smith still hope for a miracle still hoped his candidate speech would somehow shake both loosen the tight rest of the month they'll camp emotion was i as gary hart took his turn

he's been lily beyond the grave and the selfishness of the present day and the reluctance that lies the promise of the holiday and in the same week oh no

the mondale delegates the reaction was different i caught substantively what i thought was on and why and in the end it was not to be for gary hart in the end those were telling the red signs came down the blue signs leno and it was walter mondale's not at all are people were solid i knew there was followed a solid nominee and we were twenty six months in arkansas boredom on bill so we have we met the night oh for the youngest member of the arkansas delegation it had been an evening

flight really makes it now i just figured it out as the cheers began to fade the calls for unity begin those goals led by gary hart may as i ask you madam chair usaid a motion from the floor of this convention to make it unanimous by acclamation the nomination of walter vale many of these tried to find his candidate wasn't easy and disappointed we've done a week a week that will go to the balance now is well it works and that's why

moments after hart stepped down it was jesse jackson's turn to call for unity would his delegates respond it was a question that had been asked throughout the state there was only one man you surprise appearance so it was walter mondale's moment the only question who along with a cheery lance once the final campaign begins in arkansas the cheery

may not last very long private party polls show mondale trailing ronald reagan by fourteen points in the state party leaders hope geraldine ferraro will help bridge that gap but they're not sure yet another feisty new candidate will be received in arkansas when arkansas politician told me arkansas' politics like those of other southern states are more anti establishment populist the republican or democratic oh i'll admit the politician a man who had run as the mondale delegate it may have been easier to win arkansas and with gary hart back now to hell as alan bannon david gergen for some closing thoughts on this file convention day garden as the republican barons the democrat john and this is the numbers are conventions obligation in particular seemed to be a convention of speeches cuomo and then jackson and lenhart an urban ferraro where ted kennedy is introducing know monday on the last and the speakers walter mondale what kind of pressure is on him to make a great speech david it is just to thumb a i think

that the democrats have distinguished themselves with the writer karen michel and as with a lot of what they've said that the speeches and likely the first to relive over a fine speeches and i think they're disproven theory where it has no place in american politics now that we've all lost because of television and we want what's causing mr cuomo shows that wasn't true jackson shows that wasn't true eleanor said earlier today that there are a number of people watching the next speech actually increased as he spoke was the country's fifth at this this in his own family well i think it's very it's on walter mondale but not necessarily dish i mean i don't think he can matt salmon emotionalism that that geraldine ferraro as the first woman brings into city jesse jackson was the first black in that position things and again the most important thing and from what i've read about the speeches so far the most important thing and it looks like you'll meet that is to is to talk to people on the other

sixty million would have a number of millions of americans are watching in their living rooms tonight and wanna know what kind of man he isn't presumed that it's my understanding those of the things and that because of that i think the self discipline to use those things where in the bush rally buttons to have to bring the crowd to a frenzy is it isn't important that i think the crowd will act enthusiastic there the melody you have the problem of timelessness that they were taught or six weeks is chief speechwriter went back and read every acceptance addressed by the present one was presidential candidate no credit crisis and then in the center and everyone by the republican presidential candidate after hour one of asperger's as his speeches are a little hesitant to make you into a briefing today that among the folks had to lay out some things and purposes of the speech would you would you say the speech aimed at kind of boring and mondale's in the jurors' perception of people perceive him back or the

center i think honestly and stated purpose later the state proposed is that they think that there have been characters says critic campaign people saw it was walter mondale isn't what stands for the first part of the speech layout walter mondale man the path he's traveled to get to the nomination and the second part of the speech talk about stress that he would like the country to go and in the future what they very much want to make this a referendum on the future verses or a final passage and they'll lose an argument over the past week of the car because one of the things they really want talk about futures get people to work when a future would be like an issue in the world wanted to happen with a lot of water mundo cost a bit of that because they chose a mention that teddy kennedy is introducing nose and it was an interesting no water mondale it was an old fashioned rouser us with a minute or so of the year our resident museum in washington no president in modern times has ever tried to get a tax exemption through

segregated schools except ronald reagan at a sense equal rights amendment for us as a congress every president has called for its ratification acts that ronald reagan since the days of william mckinley and revising them in support of the progressive income tax edwards says the same four days of warren g harding no president as dare to appoint a secretary of the various was an enemy of the environmental etc and ever since the bygone days of bourbon both a great president even richard nixon as negotiate with the leader of the soviet union ecstatic ronald reagan era

ok that that burden is overwhelming message that demagogues i think that right now i think what he's doing is exactly so what the democrats are going to read an exactly was vulnerability is and that is to vibrate it from even the republican tradition and each of those cases whether it's negotiating with the russians sitting down whether it's supporting the ira whether it's making a commitment to the environment in the way that it's not honest those goals reagan has broken the last republican to do that and the speech delivered day is so similar you know with our four walter mondale's prefer it that the republicans have just a report right now that point home they would not be appropriate

and i was in the living room and afterwards they'll be enough flags and in the music and i'm up balloons have enough fireworks and that he looked into the attic and he's got a part of living in like katie talk to the people on the floor and the people in her home that a partisan democrats and alike like me that have been so far isn't always say that it is no fantasy that you are out of democrats in a mori around our vessel as likely voters in eight thank you the macneil lehrer newshour is funded by at and t reaching out in new directions the corporation for public broadcasting and the station and other public television stations he's both

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