Eyewitness News at 11pm - "More Boston Blizzard of '78" - WBZ-TV (Complete Broadcast, 2/8/1978)📺 ❄️

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6 ай бұрын

Here's another full broadcast of the 11pm edition of Eyewitness News from WBZ Channel 4 in Boston, MA, anchored by Jack Williams and Maurice Lewis (in for Tony Pepper), on the aftermath of the big blizzard of '78.
Includes:
Jack and Maurice previewing newscast
Commercials for:
TWA Round Trip Check-In (voiceover by Don Criqui)
Skippy peanut butter (with Annette Funicello)
Station ID - "We're 4 Boston"
News open, with following items:
- State of emergency to remain for at least 24 more hours, Logan Airport closed to commercial traffic until Friday, and Harvard closed for first time in its 342-year history
- Aerial footage of storm's aftermath shown
- Coast Guard rescues 28 stranded crewmen from tanker at Salem Harbor
- Army and Federal troops arriving at Logan to aid in rescue, evacuation and cleanup efforts
- South Shore hardest hit, damage estimated in millions
- Extra police and MP units on duty to arrest looters; hotels, motels and shelters crowded to max
- Gas leak from 800,000-gallon storage tank from Union Petroleum at Revere East Boston line
- Weymouth town selectmen vote to impose 10pm curfew, police to enforce a driving ban beginning at 5am
- Scituate, RI hardest hit from storms, at least 2 dead; video of devastation shown, residents speak of ordeal
- Army convoys from Fort Devens en route to North Shore
- Coast Guard temporarily abandons search for possible survivor of pilot boat Can Do; 4 bodies recovered
- Gov. Dukakis and Lt. Gov. O'Neill take helicopter tour of area
- Dan Rea reports on arrival of troops at Logan
- Thousands on hunt for new food with warmer temps
- Advice to check on neighbors, especially elderly and handicapped, Columbia Point housing project without electricity since Monday
- Roads still mostly impassable
- MBTA still on hunt for snow shovelers - and tells commuters to stay home
- Federal troops arrive in Rhode Island, followed by scenes up and down Eastern Seaboard
Commercials for:
Cinnamon Life cereal (with Mikey, Bobby and Suzie)
Promo for Evening Magazine
- Possible breakthrough in Hillside Strangler case, Ned York is possible suspect; assistant police chief Daryl Gates speaks of developments
- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat leaves U.S. after final meeting with President Carter, is on tour of European capitals; Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan visits New York, will work to curtail arms sales to Egypt
- Senate starts debate on Panama Canal treaty; Sen. Robert Griffin outlines his opposition
- Carter proposes boost to aid for 5 million college students, including 2 million middle-incomers
- Three East Boston tenements along Marion Street on fire; several families evacuated, no reported injuries
Commercial: Melitta gourmet coffee
Closing stock update
Commercial: TWA Great Cities Sale (with Don Criqui)
- Bruce Schwoegler with weather forecast
- Another reminder of ban on all driving except emergency vehicles, hospital workers and MBTA employees
Commercials for:
Homemade Soup Starter
Kraft Thousand Island Dressing
Len Berman with sports:
- Celtics' 4-game winning streak ends, lose to Kansas City, followed by other NBA scores
- U.S. Figure Skating championships held in Portland, OR, Linda Fratianne has lead, Priscilla Hill of Lexington in 2nd place
- Bruins game in Detroit may be cancelled due to snow; other NHL scores
- Len relates his experience of a game called in two cities (Bob Cousy in the other)
Back to news:
- Break-ins and looting cut down due to increase police presence in Boston, as reported by Sarah-Ann Shaw
- Advice on ways to get around town while driving ban is still in effect - including skiing
And with that, the newscast closes
Station ID / First 4 News promo
First 17 seconds of open of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
This aired on local Boston TV on Wednesday, February 8th 1978 during the 11:00pm to 11:30pm timeframe.
This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The Steve Albert Collection.
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@KOBIELWOODS 2 ай бұрын

Gooooo Kansas City Kings

@alspencer3826 5 ай бұрын

I was very young, but absolutely remember the blizzard of '78. In fact just the other day, i was talking about it the other day with my mom. I remember seeing the national guard everywhere, duece and a half trucks, and hueys flying overhead. About six months ago I was visiting a friend when he showed me original newspapers from the day after the blizzard, wow to go back and read a complete newspaper (Herald American) was unreal, a bit like going back in time. Lastly, I don't miss the snow, but I miss all the people that have passed away since then, and most of all I miss my dog that I had back then. He was the smartest dog that I ever had, he was a mutt, but man what a dog. Add to that, it was my first dog, getting a little teary eyed just thinking about him. His name was King, and he may be gone, but not forgotten!! I'm sure people that have lost pets can relate.

@mr2del 5 ай бұрын

I was 4 yrs young living North of Boston.

@jeremiahabbott5277 3 ай бұрын

Shiloh she was the Best.

@Bethiegraceful Ай бұрын

I was 6 years old and I still remember it!

@tkaye2 6 ай бұрын

Something about the endlessly looping synthesizer bridge of that theme is like music designed to stimulate the most reptilian portion of your brain.

@thesmartestone8329 5 ай бұрын

Love the theme music!

@billmacneil6781 6 ай бұрын

Wow.....I was living in Boston then. Still remember it as a surreal time!

@Cptblogh 5 ай бұрын

Why surreal?

@billmacneil6781 5 ай бұрын

@@Cptblogh Just for seeing it happen and the aftermath. Like nothing before or since. Waiting to get into Star Market in a line that stretched across the entire parking lot. There was no power and they let in a certain number of people at a time to avoid widespread looting. Streets made passable by airport plows but the walls on either side of the road were ten feet tall. Snow that came to the bottom of stop signs that were on poles at least 12 feet high. To this day I make sure I am well stocked with dry goods by the end of the Fall....."just in case".

@MTSs2024 6 ай бұрын

Great to see that tonight show intro at the end!!! If you have any more with the full intro i have notifications on!!

@wmbrown6 6 ай бұрын

From what I understand, that snippet of the open was a guide as to which edition of "EWN" on "TV 4" this was.

@MrDuds1984 6 ай бұрын

Len Berman in Boston before going to NYC

@bryanburnap4537 6 ай бұрын

Never knew that ! And boy Don Crique was everywhere in 1980

@robquin1525 5 ай бұрын

My mom and aunts and uncles survived the blizzard.

@rjdoucette 6 ай бұрын

Amazing vid!!!

@observer7418 6 ай бұрын

With the advent of cable tv (remember how you wouldn't have commercials because you'd be paying for tv?) it seems news became "infotainment" and opinion.

@bmasters1981 4 ай бұрын

Which is why stuff like this stands far and above any of the political junk that calls itself "news" today.

@vostock83 24 күн бұрын

At 14:30 there is a story about the Hillside Strangler case in Los Angeles, the suspect was not the actual killer.

@HereForTheComments 6 ай бұрын

A storm like this would be fun, if you weren't what we call an "essential worker."

@HereForTheComments 6 ай бұрын

@@SnakeBush Most of the working class are, sadly. But one of these days robots will do all of these jobs.

@TELEVISIONARCHIVES 5 ай бұрын

Lived in Maine at that time. We didn't have Power for over a month. Thankfully my Father had the house heated using a wood stove.

@jeremiahabbott5277 3 ай бұрын

If something like this would happen today as technologically advanced as we are today It would still take a month to get the power back on. And nowadays people would go nuts and probably revolt they wouldn’t have the thought and the ability for Wood burning Stoves for heat. Imagine how much more dependent our lives depend upon power? And I don’t even believe that half of the homes in the United States have backup generators or Solar Power for Backup Power.

@jeremiahabbott5277 3 ай бұрын

At approximately 10:00- I completely understand that the National Guard has to eat too. However, shouldn’t they have already been prepared with their own food for that ahead of time? Doesn’t supplying the National Guard with groceries from a grocery store limit the amount of food available for the citizens?

@stevengallant6363 2 ай бұрын

Yeah. it's counter productive.

@StudioZ7 6 ай бұрын

Satellite shots during the weather report still on black and white scratchy film, looking like it was out of the 1950s. This on a major television station.

@thomash.schwed3662 6 ай бұрын

As I understand it, the satellite images are actually supplied by the Weather Bureau, not by the television stations. The quality didn't improve until the the Weather Bureau began upgrading its equipment. Of course, the radar was already in course of improvement with the introduction of the Doppler system in the wake of the April '74 tornadoes. The upgrade overall was hastened as a result of the blizzards across the country in '77 and '78. Even so, it's amazing to contemplate what meteorologists were able to do at the time with the limited equipment they had.

@tkaye2 6 ай бұрын

The local stations got these Weather Bureau satellite "animations" on their daily news feed from the networks.

@ralphrodgers353 20 күн бұрын

America was much better.

@MTSs2024 6 ай бұрын

30:06

@heidemonteith 6 ай бұрын

25:11 short shorts ❤👀👀

@heidemonteith 6 ай бұрын

1:16 that pb is not looking very smooth tbh 🧐

@MrLamontSanford 5 ай бұрын

Oh you mean they had catastrophic weather before global warming?

@Foxonian 6 ай бұрын

Thanks to global warming in New England we rarely if ever see winters like this anymore.

@janetoconnor3636 6 ай бұрын

That is ironic because after this storm and storm of 77 people were blaming this not on the Greenhouse Effect but instead on what they called the little Ice Age. There is no global cooling or warming for that matter this is something that happens naturally.