ABC News - World News Tonight - "News On A Different 9/11" (Complete Broadcast, 9/11/1980) 📺

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The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV)

4 ай бұрын

Here's a 9/11 edition (but 1980) of ABC's World News Tonight as aired over WFAA Channel 8 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX; anchored by Peter Jennings in London, Max Robinson in Chicago, and Frank Reynolds in Washington.
Includes:
Opening (with preview of special assignment report on genetic engineering) (voiceover by Bill Rice), and headlines:
- Surgeon General declares toxic waste to be a worsening environmental threat; reports from Brit Hume on Capitol Hill [with comments from Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-NY) and Rep. Albert Gore Jr. (D-TN)], Jim Hickey in St. Louis, MI (about cattle at Comperda Farm quarantined after being contaminated with PVB from a nearby landfill; plus PCB in Ellisville, MO, about which Gov. Joseph Teasdale speaks) and John North in Los Angeles (homes in Fullerton and West Covina, CA exposed to toxic sludge; resident Mary Hammer interviewed); a greater look in Nightline is previewed
Sponsor billboard for Oil of Olay (voiceover by Bill Rice)
Commercials for:
Oil of Olay
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Insulation (featuring The Pink Panther) (voiceover by John Bartholomew Tucker)
- John Scali on training exercises in Egyptian desert where American pilots have been training Egyptian pilots to fly phantom jets
- Iranian President Bani-Sadr sniffs at Secretary of State Muskie's letter, saying it will make no difference in hostage situation (Day 313; video and audio cut out from 9:05 to 9:12, rejoining report in progress); followed by a look at power structure in Iran
- South Korean prosecutors demand death penalty for oppostiion leader Kim Dae Jung
- Charles Bierbauer on war games carried out by NATO and Warsaw Pact members
- Deputy Polish Premier meets with Soviet president in Moscow, and leader Stainslaw Kania vows that what triggered strikes would never be allowed to happen again; America cautions Moscow to carry out restraint
Stock prices
Commercials for:
American Florists Marketing Council
Mr. Coffee Rebate (with Joe DiMaggio)
Home Loan Money from Savings & Loans
- Republicans file FOIA request in 29 states over President Carter's use of funds in his campaign
- Barry Serafin on less-than-cordial reception for Reagan at union meeting in Buffalo, NY, then going to Erie, PA to attack Carter's energy policies
- Press secretary Jody Powell has nothing to say about any debates
- While John Anderson is campaigning in California, Ann Compton reports from New York on his campaign manager shilling for funds
Commercials for:
Dutch Boy Latex Flat Enamel paint (with Frank Gifford)
Schweppes (Buckingham Palace guard answers "call of Schweppervescence")
Ford (about car engineers in Germany, England and Dearborn, MI)
- Jules Bergman with last part in series of special reports on genetic engineering, about the making of Interferon; featuring interviews with molecular biologists Dr. Doug Foge, Dr. David Baltimore and Dr. Paul Berg, and Robert Swanson of Genentech Inc.
- DEA agents seize 20 tons of marijuana along San Francisco's waterfront, 16 arrested
- Corn crop is 16% less this year due to drought
Commercials for:
Minute Rice & Cheese
Old Spice (is that Parker Stevenson early on in the ad?)
Polaroid One-Step camera (with James Garner and Mariette Hartley presiding over barbecue)
- Greg Dobbs, in Bala, North Wales, reports on competitive simulation displays of shepherd with sheepdogs and sheep; Scottish shepherd Alistair Cutter speaks about qualities required
With that, the newscast ends
Promo for Monday Night Football Fever on Thursday (!) (voiceover by Fred Collins)
Commercials for:
Sleep Country - beds for only $399
Promo for Sat′·ur·day (about education for illegal alien children)
Hydrocurve ($89 for soft contact lenses)
Station ID / PM Magazine promo
Opening for News 8: The Scene Tonight with Tracy Rowlett (with Lalo Schifrin's "Tar Sequence" edit as from the movie "Cool Hand Luke" - and shot of General Electric PE-350 camera during one of studio shots)
This aired on local Dallas-Fort Worth TV on Thursday, September 11th 1980 during the 5:30pm to 6:00pm timeframe.
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@michaelgoff4504 4 ай бұрын

This broadcast was closer to September 11, 2001 in time than 9/11/01 is to the present day.

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 4 ай бұрын

Crazy, isn’t it?

@mysticakhenaton1701 4 ай бұрын

I was probably crying on this day, at 12. FIRST week back to school. LOL LOL

@RussellB 4 ай бұрын

I was probably crying too bc I was just born

@jamesslick4790 4 ай бұрын

I was likely high as all get out. I was 18, didn't have a care Working for peanuts, not a dime to spare But I was lean and solid everywhere Like a rock....

@scottl.1568 4 ай бұрын

Turned 4 years old on this day, and my parents almost certainly watched this broadcast... I'm too young to remember it, though 😅

@hrtvfan2870 4 ай бұрын

2:17 A VERY young Al Gore sighting

@elizabethpeterson455 4 ай бұрын

The commercials are great. They were classy then...far cry from the ads today🙄

@jamesslick4790 4 ай бұрын

I was 18, didn't have a care Working for peanuts, not a dime to spare But I was lean and solid everywhere Like a rock

@WinterInTheForest 2 ай бұрын

There were white people in them.

@joekerr7975 4 ай бұрын

Enviormental issues, Overseas war, Problem with illegal aliens, Presidencal Canadates not wanting to debate, Is this 1980 or 2024?

@steelionx9255 4 ай бұрын

Perfect proof that everything was not perfect back then.

@jamesslick4790 4 ай бұрын

SAME AS IT EVER WAS I was 18, didn't have a care Working for peanuts, not a dime to spare But I was lean and solid everywhere Like a rock

@NoName-zb1gm 4 ай бұрын

Back when news was news not opinion and not infotainment. Actually on Sept 11, 1985 Pete Rose broke the all time hit record.

@patrickrancourt4782 4 ай бұрын

The day when i turn 10 Thanx to share this Happy & safe 2024 to everyone's from Patrick 😀

@jfilesgraphics 2 ай бұрын

"Bohm deedee Bohm" "Daa Daa Da Daaaaa......Daa Da Daaa Daaaa Da Daaaa" lol

@benbrown3532 4 ай бұрын

This story was aired over 40 years ago. I wonder what our toxic waste levels are now?

@allentoyokawa9068 4 ай бұрын

@@deckard97 no, that was china

@tkaye2 4 ай бұрын

0:38 The Library of Congress evaluating toxic waste levels? Huh?

@homelessjesse9453 4 ай бұрын

When America was still at least somewhat normal.

@robertmoir5695 4 ай бұрын

September 11th 1980 a day I vaguely remember just before I turned 19 I remember September 11th one year before 2000 I had a root canal I thought it was a drag and it was a long process but when your country is attacked by a group of terrorists and thousands of innocent people die That s worse than having a root canal

@hopegrimsley3427 4 ай бұрын

It’s crazy to see Brit Hume, Al Gore, and Bob Dole 43 years ago.

@steelionx9255 4 ай бұрын

No it's not crazy. It also won't be crazy to see Matt Gaetz and other Congress people his age 43 years from now.

@jamesslick4790 4 ай бұрын

I know..Right? I was 18, didn't have a care Working for peanuts, not a dime to spare But I was lean and solid everywhere Like a rock

@ginocavazos2153 Ай бұрын

21 Years Later The News on this Day wouldn't be simple unfortunately

@susandaniels9733 Ай бұрын

M60 Tanks,our main battle tank then,105mm smoothbore.the M1 was proved vastly superior.

@bdsnook3 4 ай бұрын

You got that News8 broadcast you teased us with in the last couple seconds? 🤞

@FuzzyMemoriesTV 4 ай бұрын

Yep will post that eventually I’m sure

@jamesslick4790 4 ай бұрын

$300,000 homes with upside down abandoned cars a few feet away...in 1980?!? FFS I'm from PITTSBURGH the "OG" city of pollution and "brownspace" wasteland and in 1980 $300,000 would have got you an entire BLOCK of houses...In the SUBURBS!

@k30blzr 4 ай бұрын

Anyone born on this day surely had a terrible 21st birthday

@mysticakhenaton1701 4 ай бұрын

it all depends on what side of the globe you were born on.

@Chelaxim 4 ай бұрын

Have you seen the picture of a girl with her 16th birthday cake in front of her and she has a very glum look on her face while in the back on the tube TV is the news and it's 9/11

@er1c175 4 ай бұрын

Especially if you worked there that day!

@scottl.1568 4 ай бұрын

In my case it was my 25th birthday 😐

@jayrogers8255 4 ай бұрын

My 1st girlfriend turned 22 that day.

@Julietta-zv9db 4 ай бұрын

😢😢😢

@DP-hy4vh 4 ай бұрын

Pbb in 90 percent of Michiganders. I wondered why people were acting nuts in my area back in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

@troynov1965 4 ай бұрын

28:38 The Great Earl Campbell

@TyroneEpps 4 ай бұрын

This is sad 😢 !

@richardsclassiccommercials5534 4 ай бұрын

21 years later, well you know.

@george.s.8491 3 ай бұрын

And here we are. Look at all the autoimmune issues we have now. And then some. So many health issues for people, too many to list

@kascnef 4 ай бұрын

2 years after the news theme came out

@FlavioGirl 4 ай бұрын

a young albert gore jr.

@jamesparker4471 4 ай бұрын

Gain of function

@bryanw91178 4 ай бұрын

My 2nd birthday

@clintonswaim 4 ай бұрын

Not sure if I like this lol

@sherryhannah9262 4 ай бұрын

I hope y’all will reply to this this was the day before my 11th birthday

@ginocavazos2153 Ай бұрын

2:11 Future Vice President and should have been President Al Gore

@Nicksonian 4 ай бұрын

I voted for John Anderson, my first vote for president. I almost immediately decided it was a mistake. That’s why today I won’t vote for Robert Kennedy, Jr. Unfortunately, third-party candidates will never have a chance and will only act as spoilers.

@MMAfighter38113 4 ай бұрын

I’m glad you realize the obvious. All I read nowadays, especially from young voters, is that third party is our only hope as a nation. Fact is, it’s mathematically impossible for a third party candidate to win

@JohnSmith-zw8vp 2 ай бұрын

Not John Anderson the country singer right?

@MMAfighter38113 2 ай бұрын

@@JohnSmith-zw8vp Right. Two different people

@robertpalin2161 4 ай бұрын

2:28 Algore

@coldsamon 4 ай бұрын

Always was a clown.

@gterrymed 4 ай бұрын

back when things were NORMAL! Things still made sense.

@steelionx9255 4 ай бұрын

Not everything was normal back then.

@StudioZ7 4 ай бұрын

People didn't think so then, with the hostage crisis in Iran, a bad economy, high unemployment, high inflation, etc.

@gterrymed 4 ай бұрын

@@StudioZ7 I thought things were NORMAL; day camp, playing outside, waiting for dad to come home from work. Now we have all this Trump and LGBTQ garbage. What were you doing in 1980?

@JohnSmith-zw8vp 2 ай бұрын

Back when Reagan asked shortly after this newscast if America was better off now than it was four years ago? Well 45 states sure didn't seem to think so!!

@gterrymed 2 ай бұрын

@@JohnSmith-zw8vp back when you and your mom wanted at the top of the driveway for your dad to come home; did you have a childhood or no? Every kid waited in their driveway for their dad to come home in 1980 so to speak.

@nicholaspiazza8687 4 ай бұрын

I thought for a second you meant the 09/11/2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

@alitlweird 4 ай бұрын

*_*Vintage commie propaganda.*_*

@raw_si_siht 4 ай бұрын

But really not that old when you step back.

@alitlweird 4 ай бұрын

@@raw_si_siht I know. Just wanted to be the first to call it out for what it is. 🤪🤓😉😜

@jameslong9921 2 ай бұрын

@@alitlweird You're talking rubbish, this isn't 'commie propaganda' how'd you come to that conclusion, no wait don't tell me, if it's anything like your original post it won't be worth two hoots