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♪ my eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord ♪ >> reporter: thats andy williams singing at rfks funeral. ♪ where do i begin to tell the story ♪ ♪ of how great love can be >> reporter: continued to perform well into his 80s at his moon river theater in branson. ♪ moon river white as >> reporter: andy williams was 84. david wright, abc news, hollywood.

And decided then he wanted to enter the university of mississippi. so then this whole drama unfolded. >> reporter: this is the president taking on the staunch segregation as the governor of mississippi wanted to inject meredith into an angry mop. >> why dont you give an order to have him removed? >> how can i remove him? when theres a riot in the street? he may step out of that building and asking happen to him. i cant remove him under those conditions. >> mr. president, i took an oath you know ...

Tonight, the competitors arent the only stars at the u.s. open. as tony guida reports, theres a young american soldier on the sidelines with a remarkable story of his own to tell. >> reporter: 23-year-old ryan mcintosh is an athlete who lives to compete. >> i dont want to be second place. i want to be first. >> reporter: the former high school star is trying something very different these days-- ball boy at the u.s. open. >> its going to be a long day. >> reporter: not nearly as

Diarrhea, gas, bloating? yeah. one phillips colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. approved! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips. finally tonight, we remember a songwriter whose name you might not know, but whose songs likely made you smile. he was one-half of a writing duo to create the soundtrack for so many american lives. hal david first teamed up with burt bacharach in the 1960s. who could forge...

>> bout time this town had a new sheriff. >> reporter: americas gunslinger in chief has seven kids by five different women. now married to dina, 35 years his junior, who had her own reality show. best we can tell hes pro-abortion rights, pro-gay marriage, anti-war, a self-described quiet conservative, who just wants a change. >> when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go. >> reporter: eastwood was once the republican mayor of carmel, and briefly considered as bush 41s running mate ...

♪ well you may not know his name, hans zimmer. >> come again? >> hans zimmer. >> okay. >> but he is hollywood elite. a composer who has written some of the most recognizable scores for the post popular movies out there, including "the dark knight." >> now he developed a way for everybody to feel like theyre part of the film. abcs david wright explains. >> reporter: the term recording studio doesnt do justice to the santa monica space where hans zimmer works. theres a real "phantom of the ope...

Composition of nearby rocks. and it is the first rover on the surface of mars to be able to drill and analyze samples. all the data can be sent to earth with the most detailed images yet of the martian surface. by studying the crater layer by layer, scientists hope to learn whether this now dead planet could once have supported life billions of years ago. >> i love that we are so technologically advanced we can get there, but it still goes so slow. a football field a day. lets expedite it a litt...

Was the last house member to be elected vp, and that was 80 years ago. if elected, while ryan wouldnt be the youngest ever vp, he would be the first from wisconsin and the first named paul. and on social media, where folks gathered to talk about todays selection, the talk was about the hair of both gop candidates. as laura ingraham put it on twitter, "romney-ryan has the best hair of a political team since kerry-edwards." of course thats where the comparison ends. as they say, let the games begi...

>> im an olympic gymnast, im from bronx, new york. and im a fighter. ♪ >> reporter: its become a sort of unofficial theme song for the american athletes at the games. the ones who medaled and the ones who didnt. ♪ this ones for fighters >> reporter: the star of the video, that 19-year-old olympian john orozco, from the bronx. the name of the song is "the fighter." and im just curious, do you feel that inside? >> yeah, i really do. i feel the song. ♪ there goes a fighter >> reporter: he say...

Way we were, he said that originally he left the films famous theme music out of the last seen but noticed test audiences did not cry. >> i remember going to this studio music department and saying " you have to let me go back in and record this ending. and he did not let me to. >> so he paid for the musicians themselves to go back into the studio. >> i put in the melody. >> it became one of films classic closing scenes thanks to the music of marvin hamlisch. anthony mason, cbs news, new york. >...