Here's the first 23 minutes of the broadcast of NBC Nightly News with John Palmer, on WMAQ Channel 5.
This was immediately preceded by the Channel 5 News at 5pm seen here: • Channel 5 News at 5pm ...
Station ID / stock market update line phone number (voiceover by Jim Hill)
NBC Nightly News leads off with Geneva arms talks and stances of Soviets and Reagan, mention of the proposed "Star Wars" missile defense system, and speculation on the death of Soviet leader Chernenko (he was in fact, by this time, really most sincerely dead)
- Martin Fletcher report on Khiam, Lebanon car bombing
Commercials for:
Glidden Spred Satin paint
National Car Rental
Bayer aspirin
- John Cochran on Vice President Bush's round the world trip discussing aid to Africa, including visiting the continent itself
- Shipments of food and medicine arrive in Ethiopia, paid for by sales of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid - followed by Dennis Moore report on the making and success of USA For Africa's "We Are the World"
- Greek president Constantine Karamanlis resigns after Socialists refuse to back him for re-election
- Swiss voters reject measure to provide an extra week's paid vacation to workers over 40
Commercials for:
Rubbermaid
Tempo Soft Antacid
Volkswagen Golf
- 5th anniversary of anti-KKK rally in Greensboro, NC where 5 Communist Party members were killed; families seek up to $50 million, as David Hazinski reports
- Irving R. Levine on the new breed of businessman called "corporate raider"
- ATM fraud costs banks about $100 million a year
Commercials for:
Kellogg's All-Bran
AT&T
Taster's Choice (voiceover by Ken Nordine)
- Bill Schechner (ex NBC News Overnight) reports on "Iowa's Harvest of Tears" with struggling farm families (tape ends before report does)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 10th 1985 during the 5:30pm to 5:53pm timeframe.
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