Park Chung Hee, the
1980 Presidential race was getting started, the body of
Mamie Eisenhower, former First Lady arrived in Kansas for burial and the coming week would mull Congress giving
Chrysler a much needed bailout to stave off bankruptcy.
By the afternoon it got different. Five people were shot dead and at least eight were wounded during an Anti-KKK rally in Greensboro North Carolina, as carloads of whites opened fire on an otherwise peaceful demonstration. Twelve acknowledged Klan members would later be arrested. Protesters overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, signaling what would become a 444 day odyssey of hostages and attempted negotiations.
It goes to prove how quickly things can change, from seemingly nowhere.
But on the morning of the 3rd, when this CBS World News Roundup was broadcast, it was just another quiet weekend.