WBBM Channel 2 - First Edition (News Segment, 9/23/81)

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Here's the first seven minutes of an edition of the overnight First Edition news summary on WBBM Channel 2 (part of another broadcast, from 1979, can be seen here). The "anchor" of this newscast is Bob Carrington. Includes:

Promo for Noonbreak (voiceover by Jerry Harper)

Opening for First Edition, with Bob going right to the news items:

- A fire in the Willoughby Towers office building at 8 South Michigan Avenue claims the lives of two firefighters, neither immediately identified; fire started at an elevator between 24th and 25th floors; the elevator's cable then snapped, plunging 16 floors, and early reports indicated the firemen were atop said elevator at the time; there were five others injured; video footage accompanies this report

- Mayor Byrne says the city will buy two-way radios for all city firemen, to improve communication and avert other accidents such as this

- No serious injuries after an eastbound freight train (Northwestern) runs into support beams while traveling under the Wells Street Bridge at Merchandise Mart around 7:15pm; that section blocked off to all traffic and CTA service on Ravenswood line rerouted; more details in a report from John Quinones, with interviews with Harold Geissenheimer, General Operations Manager of CTA and John Donovan, Commissioner of Department of Streets and Sanitation

- Striking teachers in Elgin reach tentative 2-year contract, will return to work later this day; four union leaders who were jailed for defying a back-to-work order are released

- Secretary of State Alexander Haig to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at United Nations in New York City, to discuss restraints on missile deployments in Europe; President Reagan had sent Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev a letter stating that U.S. is prepared to establish a framework of mutual respect with Soviets; comments from Gromyko made at the General Assembly are shown as part of a report from Robert Pierpoint; also featured are comments from State Department spokesman Dean Fischer

- Congressional Democrats want equal time to answer President Reagan's upcoming talk to the nation on Thursday (the 24th) at 8pm Central time (to be carried by Channel 2, live) about his latest budget cut proposals

Commercial: 1981 Toyota Trucks - "Cook Up a Deal" year-end offer (voiceover by ??)

Commercial: Kool-Aid Brand Soft Drink Mix - "You Loved It As a Kid - You Trust It As a Mother" - (C) 1981 General Foods Corporation

Commercial: Sheraton Hotels - "Taste Sheraton"

Bob then reads an item about an indictment of a South Side man, Harry Miller of 9705 South Hoxie Avenue by a Cook County grand jury for the rape of a woman who was picking up her car at a parking garage at 506 North Rush Street; he is midway through this item when the tape runs out. (As this link notes, the alleged assailant's name was actually Jerry Miller, who ultimately served 26 years for this crime; he would later sue the city and retired police officers after DNA tests were inconclusive about whether or not he was the culprit in the crime, but his suit and appeals were summarily rejected as per this page.)

This aired on local Chicago TV early Wednesday, September 23rd 1981 at 1:15am.

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Tags: 1980s WBBM Channel 2 News

here). The "anchor" of this newscast is Bob Carrington. Includes:

Promo for Noonbreak (voiceover by Jerry Harper)

Opening for First Edition, with Bob going right to the news items:

- A fire in the Willoughby Towers office building at 8 South Michigan Avenue claims the lives of two firefighters, neither immediately identified; fire started at an elevator between 24th and 25th floors; the elevator's cable then snapped, plunging 16 floors, and early reports indicated the firemen were atop said elevator at the time; there were five others injured; video footage accompanies this report

- Mayor Byrne says the city will buy two-way radios for all city firemen, to improve communication and avert other accidents such as this

- No serious injuries after an eastbound freight train (Northwestern) runs into support beams while traveling under the Wells Street Bridge at Merchandise Mart around 7:15pm; that section blocked off to all traffic and CTA service on Ravenswood line rerouted; more details in a report from John Quinones, with interviews with Harold Geissenheimer, General Operations Manager of CTA and John Donovan, Commissioner of Department of Streets and Sanitation

- Striking teachers in Elgin reach tentative 2-year contract, will return to work later this day; four union leaders who were jailed for defying a back-to-work order are released

- Secretary of State Alexander Haig to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at United Nations in New York City, to discuss restraints on missile deployments in Europe; President Reagan had sent Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev a letter stating that U.S. is prepared to establish a framework of mutual respect with Soviets; comments from Gromyko made at the General Assembly are shown as part of a report from Robert Pierpoint; also featured are comments from State Department spokesman Dean Fischer

- Congressional Democrats want equal time to answer President Reagan's upcoming talk to the nation on Thursday (the 24th) at 8pm Central time (to be carried by Channel 2, live) about his latest budget cut proposals

Commercial: 1981 Toyota Trucks - "Cook Up a Deal" year-end offer (voiceover by ??)

Commercial: Kool-Aid Brand Soft Drink Mix - "You Loved It As a Kid - You Trust It As a Mother" - (C) 1981 General Foods Corporation

Commercial: Sheraton Hotels - "Taste Sheraton"

Bob then reads an item about an indictment of a South Side man, Harry Miller of 9705 South Hoxie Avenue by a Cook County grand jury for the rape of a woman who was picking up her car at a parking garage at 506 North Rush Street; he is midway through this item when the tape runs out. (As this link notes, the alleged assailant's name was actually Jerry Miller, who ultimately served 26 years for this crime; he would later sue the city and retired police officers after DNA tests were inconclusive about whether or not he was the culprit in the crime, but his suit and appeals were summarily rejected as per this page.)

This aired on local Chicago TV early Wednesday, September 23rd 1981 at 1:15am." /> Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share

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