WBBM Channel 2 - First Edition (Mostly Complete, 1979)

Here's the first ten minutes of the First Edition news on WBBM Channel 2. The newsreader is announcer Jerry Harper. Includes:

Promo for Dinah! with guest Jacqueline Bisset for 3:30pm (voiceover by Jerry Harper)

Opening, with these news items:

- Chinese forces capture at least 13 towns and 2 provincial capitals in Vietnam, with Soviets pledging to help Vietnamese - filmed report from Paul Byers in Hong Kong, with footage from Chinese TV; President Carter confers with aides on Chinese and Iranian situations; China's strategy is to force Vietnamese talks on Cambodia

- Cause of fire that killed 2 persons (identified as Samuel Taylor and George Hermim (sp?) ) in uptown (at 4651 North Magnolia Avenue) on Monday not determined as yet; Steve Shepard reports on this and 11 other fires in 23rd Police District that are suspected to be arson (as opposed to over 70 in 1978), with comments from Sgt. James Sandoz of Bomb and Arson and interview with uptown resident Mrs. Anne Stevens

- Renee Ferguson interview with a once-budding local businessman (owning a rib house and two auto repair shops), Wallace Davis, who had been shot accidentally on the South Side on March 8th 1976 (by Officer Joseph Freels who thought Davis was a suspect in a shooting), with part of his liver, both bile ducts, spleen and gall bladder removed; she reports on support from Chicago's black community, including an upcoming exhibition fight between Muhammad Ali and Luke Capuano for February 28th at DePaul Alumni Hall, and a marathon on the 19th at the Roberts Motel at 301 East 63rd Street to raise $14,000 for legal expenses; his attorney Terrence Hegarty worries about the outcome of his planned $15 million lawsuit against the city, trial for which to start April 16th, owing to makeup of jury

Commercial: Folger's Coffee (with Virginia Christine as Mrs. Olsen)

Commercial: Osco Drug - Take Good Care Of Yourself - Save The Osco Way

More news:

- 3 persons (Policeman Joe Trotta; Beatrice Lyons, 83; and Susan Mensville, 47) injured in a fire in an apartment building at 8 East Chestnut, probably caused by heater that set fire to rags in basement; all reported in fair condition at Henrotin Hospital

- Firemen from eight suburbs fighting fire at 15 West 232 Plainfield Road in Burr Ridge; four firemen slightly injured

- President Carter took spill headfirst while cross-country skiing on mountain slope near Camp David over weekend, according to Press Secretary Jody Powell; photo shown of him with gash on right forehead and scratches on his face

- 100 National Guard troops on standby in Baltimore in wake of over 700 incidents of looting and robberies after major snowstorm that dumped 20 inches on city; over 200 have been arrested, and mayor orders 10-hour curfew that is to end at 5:00am; other cities hit hard by blizzards were New York City, Washington, DC, Atlanta, and Charlotte, NC; reports from Jerry Landay and Jed Duvall (only one of whom is heard over film footage up and down the Eastern Seaboard before tape cuts out)

This aired on local Chicago TV early Tuesday, February 20th 1979 between approximately 1:20am and 1:30am. (A movie is listed as starting at 1:35am, so we are only missing the last 5 minutes or so.)
(Approximately 1:20am - 1:30am. A movie is listed as starting at 1:35am so we are only missing the final 5 minutes or so)

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