WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsFive - [Partial] Coverage of Sam Giancana Funeral with Rich Samuels (1975)

Here's a partial, incomplete report from Rich Samuels of WMAQ Channel 5 on the funeral of former Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana.

We catch this report as Rich lists Giancana's crime career, going back to Al Capone and including gambling and prostitution rings. He describes "a sea of anonymous faces" which mostly dominated the funeral service, except for Keely Smith who, he said, signified his preferences for "show business types in his later years." He notes about the hostility between the mourners and the media that blew out in the open outside the service.

We next see a brief shot of anchor Floyd Kalber covering the next story before the channel switches to WLS Channel 7, where Joel Daly is heard reporting on a fire (with pertinent footage).

Technical Note: While this report originally aired in color, as presented here it was recorded on an early reel-to-reel home videotape recorder in black-and-white. Also, during the shot of the Queen of Heaven Cemetery, notice that the superimposed text (set in Gill Sans Medium) misspelled the last word as "Cemetary."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, June 23, 1975.

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