WLS Channel 7 - Saturday Eyewitness News (Opening Segment Excerpt, 1977)

Here's something really old and rare - the first 4 minutes of the opening segment to the Saturday Eyewitness News from June of 1977! Featuring Bob Petty, Johnny Mountain, and Mike Nolan on sports. Includes:

WLS-TV Chicago Animated Station ID/Movie Promo Bumper (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)

Opening to the Saturday Eyewitness News. (with voiceover by Wayne Atkinson.)

Stories include:

- First test flight of Space Shuttle orbiter deemed a success.

- 40-ton magnet bound for the Soviet Union has a problem boarding a plane at O'Hare International Airport.

- 30-something Latino man is dead after being the victim of an armed robbery in Humboldt Park.

- First black-owned bank on the West Side, The Community Bank of Lawndale, opens for business. Featuring James Hadley, president of the bank. Jim Johnson reporting.

- Lincoln Towing and MLA Towing have been hit with a class-action lawsuit.

- Taxi cab settlement: raise in rates.

And once again, the tape ends. :-(

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, June 18th 1977 at 10pm!

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