Rock Hudson dies of AIDS at 59 | Watch original 1985 WABC news coverage

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Actor Rock Hudson died of AIDS on Oct. 2, 1985, a story that drew international attention. Hudson’s health woes became apparent earlier that year, leading to rumors and intense tabloid coverage.
The actor eventually confirmed that he had AIDS. His illness brought attention to AIDS, which in 1985 had only recently entered the public consciousness and was still the subject of much confusion and misinformation.
This is the original Eyewitness News report anchored by Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel, and aired at 6 p.m., Oct. 2, 1985 on WABC-TV New York.
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@skygazer6898 4 жыл бұрын

No one should ever be ashamed of who they are...Walk tall and hold those shoulders back and be yourself.............God Bless Rock

@atrocchia 3 жыл бұрын

So true.

@AndyB718 3 жыл бұрын

The world doesn't need to know who people sleep with either.

@Lauren-vd4qe 2 жыл бұрын

God will NOT bless anyone UNLESS they acknowledge God and OBEY GODS PRINCIPLES as outlined in the New Testament; and its rather CLEAR RH did NOT do that.

@albertdibari7874 2 жыл бұрын

@@Lauren-vd4qe Why don't you just stop with this nonsensical preaching and be a decent, compassionate person! That is if you love God so much. People like you who judge and blast a person's personal life are a disgrace. Rock Hudson was a fine man and good person. That is it! RIP Roy Harold Scherer Jr.

@Lauren-vd4qe 2 жыл бұрын

@@albertdibari7874 why dont u read your Bible and find out what God thinks of hmsxlty...especially in the bk of revelation..after all, u and everyone else will have to answer to God not me.

@maxalberts2003 4 жыл бұрын

There was absolutely nothing to be done in those days. I was thirty-two that year. It was terrifying.

@lioness7582 4 жыл бұрын

It was a crazy time.

@reneerenee4034 4 жыл бұрын

@@lioness7582 feels like Covid current times

@moonie1825 3 жыл бұрын

didn't help having a government that denied the aids crisis and laughed it off.

@JamesDeanRivera Жыл бұрын

@Renee Renee this was far worse

@ajshalomadir298 22 күн бұрын

Osea que ya estás bien anciano

@kevinharris3993 2 жыл бұрын

It was Hudson's admission of the disease that brought awareness as well as research to the progress of AIDS. Hudson living and death was not in vain.

@TheTerryE Жыл бұрын

He never once admitted to it and continued to have unprotected sex with multiple men after his diagnosis. He was wrong and selfish.

@jpete3027666 6 ай бұрын

I remember when Magic Johnson announced he was HIV positive in 1991 and everyone speculated about how much time he had left.

@seanwebb605 2 ай бұрын

I remember that we were horrified imagining such a fit elite athlete being disfigured by the disease so publicly. He still seemed to be at the height of his career competing for championships, the MVP Award and such. By then we knew that it could take years to progress to AIDS and die, but there weren't any promising treatments available.

@clifftanton8385 20 күн бұрын

Still sad he is sorely missed had a flair for comedy

@alsouthall4885 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, he was gay. Back then it was a big deal and today not much of a deal. For some reason people still label someone as gay or straight. I don't think that will ever disappear. All the secrets he died with. Most likely nothing earth shaking with what goes on today. Aids was awful in the 1980's. The most difficult thing was the stigma or treatment patients had to endure. What a cruel and difficult life we all have to go through. Maybe make life a little more easier for someone today- gay or straight.

@albertdibari7874 2 жыл бұрын

Except that there are still so many ignorant and arrogant people out there who think they are invincible and free to make fun of someone's ailment, until it happens to them, of course.

@CrenshawConnection 2 жыл бұрын

@@albertdibari7874 It won't happen to us. We aren't weird.

@circa1890 9 ай бұрын

He did not die in vain. His grace of telling the world that he had HIV/AIDS lead to much research and took away a lot of the stigma of this disease.

@LoriL010 19 күн бұрын

Well, he never told his partner yet continued to have sexual relations with him. Pretty crappy thing to do.

@MyRadioJourney 4 жыл бұрын

“It was would be nice if that’s all that had to be said.” Powerful statement. Still very true today.

@fgatti78 3 жыл бұрын

35 years today without you, I love you Rock

@kevinprior3549 2 жыл бұрын

Rock Hudson in 1985, Liberace in 1987, Freddie Mercury in 1991, Kenny Everett in 1995, Jermaine Stewart in 1997. Too many people and stars died of AIDS. So upsetting.

@Anthony-Testicali 10 ай бұрын

Dont forget Eric Easy E Wright died of Aids too

@LannieLord Ай бұрын

Who is Kenny Everett ?

@antoinetteclarke1685 4 жыл бұрын

I will always Love Rock Hudson Gay or Not he was a Human Being 💖💖💖💖

@vickylanding2830 4 жыл бұрын

True he's human but God don't condone homosexual

@ferferal4509 4 жыл бұрын

I love him for being gay

@paulsciberras590 3 жыл бұрын

@@vickylanding2830 llĺ

@paulsciberras590 3 жыл бұрын

@@vickylanding2830 lllppp

@ltfringr 3 жыл бұрын

@@vickylanding2830 How dare you speak for the lord shame on you

@ng2193 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoy life and do whatever you want. And after that life will enjoy you and will do whatever life wants to do to you.

@bennettwinters7278 3 жыл бұрын

I love watching his movies. He adds such a powerful screen presence.

@thethrowawaythatstayed7055 4 жыл бұрын

He says “was suffering from AIDS!” like Rock murdered someone. :(

@GeeB1 4 жыл бұрын

It was that homophobic 1980s....remember? Remember the 80s with that horrible hair and tacky clothing?

@Lauren-vd4qe 2 жыл бұрын

he did; he murdered himself by the choices he made.

@jackwatson3944 2 жыл бұрын

@@Lauren-vd4qe he almost murdered his boyfriend who he didn't tell he had aids.

@pegjardin1954 2 жыл бұрын

@@jackwatson3944 I just watched Phil Donahue interview 1989. Wondering how much has changed in 30+ years.

@MB-pe1dw 2 жыл бұрын

@@Lauren-vd4qe none of us know if we have it so do not judge

@comeandgetyourlove1655 4 жыл бұрын

RIP Rock Hudson.......November 17, 1925.....October 2, 1985.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@wendynichols6946 3 жыл бұрын

Lets remember his real names: Roy Shearer (sp) and Roy Fitzgerald.

@candice5186 3 жыл бұрын

I remember this as a kid ... I didn't know what Aids was or what gay was.. but the adults around were all in shock

@jasonbertalotto2355 3 жыл бұрын

Shocking times for tense moments

@bethdale3082 3 жыл бұрын

Same here

@gilloera8912 2 жыл бұрын

I told my dad once in 1956, "oh, I saw a rock hudson movie" dad goes "oh he's a flake"

@Ta_bella 4 жыл бұрын

I’m here after watching Netflix’s Hollywood

@rorypeddicord2583 4 жыл бұрын

“wish that could be all said about him”. I wish he lived in a world that didn’t force him to hide his life.

@conradzimmerman8638 4 жыл бұрын

Ryan Murphy is a scourge and so is his cheap, tawdry and mercenary fast food TV.

@greyeyes2872 4 жыл бұрын

So am I !!

@JulianTrinidadGardea 4 жыл бұрын

Same!

@skygazer6898 4 жыл бұрын

@@conradzimmerman8638 and so was Marc Christian who was nothing more than a lowlife street hustler.He was pissed cos he was left out of Rock's will. he knew he was safe from the aids virus but went to court cos he wanted a piece of the pie. Rock Hudson had some lowlife greedy graspers around him and dont forget, it was one of them that gave Rock aids.

@BPDHANA 3 жыл бұрын

Was keir dullea the actor who starred in A Space Odyssey 2001??

@daliasaha3379 Жыл бұрын

yes

@yoranw4608 4 жыл бұрын

An awesome actor. Friend reports of being a great person himself. All ran over by this horrible syndrome. Very sad.

@AndyB718 3 жыл бұрын

Roger Grimsby was a much bigger icon to us Who grew up watching him.

@melanier7309 7 ай бұрын

May he rest in peace and Bill Beutel as well.

@hazelvelasquez4016 3 жыл бұрын

Rest in peace Roc. 💗

@vernonnilesjr8752 3 жыл бұрын

I've remember this scene when they removed his body from his home very chaotic R.I.P to rock Hudson 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😭😭😭😭

@MaximumJoy 4 жыл бұрын

More historic clips please

@cassie6583 3 жыл бұрын

This man did not die in vain. I think he did as much as he could to heighten awareness of AIDS in the end and for this God welcomed him with open arms in heaven for eternity. I always loved you Rock....!!!!!!!

@Lauren-vd4qe 2 жыл бұрын

God welcomed him with open arms? what Bible are YOU reading? 1 Corinthians 6:9; kinda says it all!!

@wendynichols6946 2 жыл бұрын

If that is true, howcome he didnt tell his lover Marc Christian that he had aids.

@kimbradley9595 Жыл бұрын

Shock he was the first thank you and same for Freddie Mercury

@hakeemgordon-fi8qz Жыл бұрын

Rock Hudson was a good actor. The woman loved him

@force263 2 жыл бұрын

I had just recently turned 16 in the summer of ‘85, and had been invited by a friend’s family to spend a few days at their rental in Wildwood, and it was at that time and place I was when Rock held The press conference with Liz Taylor (I’m pretty sure Liz was there, but you know how memory can be…), and it was a huge deal (at least partly due to the fact that the potus wouldn’t even acknowledge that HIV/AIDS existed. (“Leaders”, huh? Who’d-a-thunk-it?!?)… It’s only fairly recently, since I’ve become a huge TCM fan , and have become familiar with so much of Golden Age Hollywood, that the poignancy of the whole ordeal has really sunk in… Elizabeth Taylor really seemed true-blue, a FRIEND, who, as Paul Newman once said, “worked at her friendships”… I can’t imagine how lonely and terrifying it must have been for Rock (or for anyone who died of AIDS in the 80s, the mental snapshots of hospital workers outfitted in insanely-heavy-duty Hazmat suits just to walk into the room of a patient with AIDS/HIV are still and will probably always be with me, as well as the all-encompassing image of the time of young people dying. The title of one of the early TV movies about AIDS has always summed it up neatly for me In a way - “An Early Frost”… at the time, a man being 59 years old would have seemed relatively “old”, but from the vantage point of nearly 40 years later, I can only think of “waste”. Such a damned shame how we treat our more-vulnerable (due to our personal values) populations. Still.

@freddyhoyt1849 8 ай бұрын

I also turned 16 in 85 I remember this when rock died it scared me so much I didn’t have sex with anyone for many years

@NancySanders-om4ic 4 ай бұрын

Thank you,for expressing your kind,caring,compassionate thoughts,they Are so welcomed.

@LannieLord Ай бұрын

@@freddyhoyt1849 AIDS kept me in the closet for the next DECADE . It was the ABSOLUTELY scariest thing on the PLANET . That said - it may have saved my life.

@user-qz1oc1is7o 26 күн бұрын

R.I.P Rock Hudson 1925-1985😢😢😢

@samuelgriffin4167 2 жыл бұрын

Rock Hudson's last television appearance was Dynasty

@fgatti78 2 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday in Heaven Rock ❤️

@ellisonpearson3387 2 жыл бұрын

Please may his denial not be in vain, Elizabeth.

@LoriL010 19 күн бұрын

And he never told his partner of three years that he had AIDS yet continued to have sexual relations with him. The partner sued Hudsons estate and won around $20 million...he also died in his 50's...

@samuelgriffin4167 2 жыл бұрын

Rock Hudson known in the movies with Doris Day in Pillow Talk Send Me No Flowers Lover Come Back before that it was 1956 classic Giant and later on television in McMillan and Wife with Susan Saint James

@lepanhman 3 жыл бұрын

The ideal straight virile male hunk except he wasn’t straight & liked men ,the ultimate act he kept up his whole life .

@albertdibari7874 2 жыл бұрын

And it was his business!! Why the need to broadcast a person's private life??

@CrenshawConnection 2 жыл бұрын

@@albertdibari7874 Why are you ghey?

@kevinharris5737 Жыл бұрын

A tough act to keep up all those years.

@lisabullock7461 14 күн бұрын

Rest in Eternal Peace ❤

@jeffmcpeek2526 2 ай бұрын

Nobody should ever be treated like this.Ever.

@clifftanton8385 20 күн бұрын

Agree the man was and still is a legendary icon and classy man

@Votedjt2024 Жыл бұрын

Rest in peace rock Houston ❤

@jamesdunning8650 2 жыл бұрын

When hollywood preferred to keep people's sexuality behind closed doors.

@user-uk4oi9pj2e 7 ай бұрын

He was a great guy

@thmsd409 8 ай бұрын

People are so ignorant

@stacybry29 4 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know if the Doris Day press conference , in 1985 with Rock,in its entirety video exist or not .. there’s only about a 10 second clip online. I can’t find it anywhere although I have seen the Best Friends episode with Rock.

@tur74d56 4 жыл бұрын

stacy bryant I’ve been looking for it for years in full , your right only short clips are on here , someone must have the full news conference, please load it

@nancyneville8700 4 жыл бұрын

She had gone into seclusion after it was announced that Rock Hudson had died of AIDS

@albertdibari7874 2 жыл бұрын

It was so heartbreaking to see Rock Hudson go on Doris Day's Best Friends Show. Mr Hudson was such a good man. A kind man. And I'm tired of lowlives that make fun of a person's pain and sickness. Anyone that it applies to should really do a reality check before their time comes!! It won't be so funny, when your in the same situation. Doesn't matter how!! Have some decency, and have some respect.

@eddie12454 3 жыл бұрын

Great movie star, who could do action and comedy with ease. He was excellent in the films he did with Doris Day who I love. I liked him the Western The Last Sunset with Kirk Douglas. Good looking guy.

@ms.jasmine2340 Жыл бұрын

80’s & AIDS😢

@lilac624 9 ай бұрын

Gay people died not because of Aids itself but discrimination ....People don't understand that it is the personality that is the most important ..

@milart12 2 жыл бұрын

01:10 A little too much oil on James Dean--Haha... we get it-you are working in the oil fields.

@lioness7582 4 жыл бұрын

59 that is way too young.

@vickylanding2830 4 жыл бұрын

Babies die at birth

@DeniseLopez-gt9wg 3 ай бұрын

He looked so much older

@Navostar1 3 жыл бұрын

I’m here because of the Cleveland Brown show.

@startrekstarfleetlcars44779 10 ай бұрын

He played in Avalanche 1978

@brexitannia9703 2 жыл бұрын

I watched Giant yesterday, fabulous film he was a gentleman. Very sad ending 😔

@richvanorden7026 5 ай бұрын

He was diagnosed HIV/AIDS and continued to have unprotected sex with 1/2 a men that he never told. Real nice guy. There are people who have gone to prison for doing the exact same thing .

@waynepayne9875 2 жыл бұрын

Rock Hudson was such a MAN

@gilloera8912 2 жыл бұрын

A she man

@charlessedlacek5754 4 ай бұрын

Oh christ.....YOU ARE FUNNY!!!!

@desmondcastro3679 4 жыл бұрын

I thought he was great in Las Vegas Strip war

@apap1586 Жыл бұрын

How could anyone have known, is he going to look the same way from 1956 to 1985? people age...

@Hakim21210 9 ай бұрын

i was 17 years old when i saw him make his coming out and revealed his homosexuality. He was in Paris with a french singer and actress: Line RENAUD. Aids at this time was considered like a new sodom and gomorrah destruction from anger GOD!

@PhilVerryChannel 2 жыл бұрын

Opening reporter is the reason they manufacture makeup. Yiiiiikes!

@mikalugg5641 3 жыл бұрын

Please don't run outside at the street! Please walk outside at the street! Please don't run in the store! Please walk in the store! Please don't run in this church! Please walk in this church! Please don't make your lot of noise in this church! Please be quiet in this church! Please turn around and do your work neatly and carefully in the classroom! Please don't steal your food from your friends in the food court! Please don't look at your friend's food in the food court! Please don't throw your food on the floor! Please don't drop your food on the floor! Please don't punch your friends in this church! Please don't kick your friends in this church! Please don't hit your friends in this church! Please don't fight for your friends in this church! Please stay in your seat and don't get up off the chair in the classroom!

@rosemarie.bentleybentley5121 Жыл бұрын

Rip❤❤❤❤❤

@gabrielletanner5339 11 күн бұрын

Nature is saying...this is not normal..

@GeeB1 4 жыл бұрын

UGH! Those nasty 1980s...all that homophobia, horrible hair and tacky clothes.

@joshua9073 4 жыл бұрын

You didn’t like the thick hair ? And what was tacky about the clothes? Surely you don’t like the crap hairstyles, and clothes of today! All the skinny jeans ugh

@Herman992113 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but the 80's music was great

@wendynichols6946 3 жыл бұрын

Excuse me the 80's were great best music best fashion and hair.. Not like today

@wendynichols6946 3 жыл бұрын

Ugh back toyou. Whats so wonderful NOW?????? Great Fashion and Hair styles better than today

@Whatt787 3 жыл бұрын

But great music and fun movies

@GymmyRhys 4 жыл бұрын

who else is here from Destroy All Humans? i never even knew that Rock Hudson was a real person, i thought that he was just a fictional person from Destroy All Humans lol

@ashyhusky4130 Жыл бұрын

He wasn't to ill to accept treatment.. Nancy Reagan wouldn't sign off on treatment for Rock Hudson .. Rock was at a French Military hospital but they wouldn't treat him unless he had someone high up in the US Govt to sign off.. Nancy refused to sign it and she wouldn't let Ronald sign it either Rock was hoping that their friendship would help in Nancy decision but it failed so the Hospital refused to treat him

@nickrogers241 7 ай бұрын

Wrong

@ashyhusky4130 7 ай бұрын

t@@nickrogers241 right

@seanwebb605 2 ай бұрын

Don't spread this nonsense.

@ashyhusky4130 2 ай бұрын

@@seanwebb605 for Christ sakes read it about i swear to Christ

@nilzeteoliveirasantos9388 2 жыл бұрын

Pobre rock Hudson.

@stolte95 4 жыл бұрын

paparazzi creeps. >: -

@DavidThomas-fb8bq 3 жыл бұрын

After the movies ended he ended up on TV with McMillan and wife. Susan st James said Hudson was effeminate. What I thought was bad was him kissing Linda Evans in Dynasty, knowing he might have had the disease.

@jaqietarogers6210 3 жыл бұрын

Really

@PoisonelleMisty4311 4 жыл бұрын

Many old starts where gay

@b4rnb4rn40 4 жыл бұрын

Were not where

@maxalberts2003 4 жыл бұрын

Clearly, English isn't your first--or even second or third--language. You might want to try the time-honored procedure of mouthing the words after you've printed them. And don't forget to put a period at the end of every "sentence" you attempt.

@alexb8689 3 жыл бұрын

@@maxalberts2003 who gives a damm about his first language not being English? Oh yeah , ignorant people do

@elizabethgraeter7899 Жыл бұрын

It's great

@venkateshyadav822 2 жыл бұрын

That time I am 16 age that time no h I v cases in lndi

@smashedlittlek 6 ай бұрын

Of course the most aggressive giornalista were British it is disgusting to see them here almost laughing when trying to take a bloody picture

@elpatron1977 4 жыл бұрын

Rumors are James Dean was gay too!

@thethrowawaythatstayed7055 4 жыл бұрын

Cuauhtli Astorga they say he was bi.

@nancyneville8700 4 жыл бұрын

@@thethrowawaythatstayed7055 we will never know if he was and nobody is talking

@md28stads 4 жыл бұрын

I think Dean was bi and did what he needed to do to get ahead in the business

@maxalberts2003 4 жыл бұрын

@@nancyneville8700 It's already well-documented that Mr. Dean was brilliant. "Bi" is not the correct way to spell brilliant.

@joshua9073 4 жыл бұрын

Not just rumors - it’s documented and James didn’t hide his relationships

@toptenviralvideos2077 5 ай бұрын

Just don't put it in the butt and you'll be fine.

@seanwebb605 2 ай бұрын

Don't be an idiot.

@LannieLord Ай бұрын

TOPS lived. Bottoms Died.

@LannieLord Ай бұрын

Oral Only guys lived.

@vickylanding2830 4 жыл бұрын

I hope that he repent of his sin God grace and mercy 🙏

@zachthehistorian 3 жыл бұрын

According to singer Pat Boone he prayed to receive Jesus Christ a few days before he died.

@albertdibari7874 2 жыл бұрын

You know something?? People like you who judge and decide how people should live their lives are a disgrace!!! What sin?? Did he kill someone? Did he rob people? Did he dishonor his mother or father? See where I'm going??? Stop playing God, and let the man rest in peace. People like you make me sick!!!

@moonlitdesert 2 жыл бұрын

@@albertdibari7874 They're just showing their ignorance.

@gregoryjug4586 2 жыл бұрын

@@albertdibari7874 Well said Albert!