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Connie Chung Anchors the CBS Evening News

achievement

Connie Chung began co-anchoring the CBS Evening News, becoming the first Asian American-and second woman-to anchor a major US network nightly newscast. (Shares Jun 1 with the Domingo and Viernes assassination.)

Communities
  • Chinese American
Topics
  • media
  • journalism
Event type
  • achievement/first
Identity lens
  • women

Sources

Also on June 1

injustice

Assassination of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes

Filipino American labor reformers Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, officers of ILWU Local 37, were assassinated in Seattle; a civil jury later found the Marcos regime had ordered the killings over their anti-Marcos organizing.

Content note: violence