WMAQ Channel 5 - NBC Sunday News with John Hart - "Bicentennial" (Complete Broadcast, 7/4/1976) 📺

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4 жыл бұрын

Here's the complete Independence Day edition of NBC Sunday News with John Hart as had aired on the day of America's Bicentennial over WMAQ Channel 5.
Includes:
Commercials for:
Stroh's Beer
Dodge Colt
Station ID / promo for upcoming Kup's Pump Room show, followed by Art Institute president Larry Chalmers wishing happy 200th
NBC Sunday News open (voiceover by Bill McCord) and items:
- Over 100 hostages in Africa are freed (the "Raid on Entebbe"), as reported by Steve Delaney; comments from Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres
- July 4th celebrations all over country, as to be reported later
Commercials for:
Outgro - for ingrown toenails
Jeep CJ-7
More news:
- Richard Hunt covering New York's Parade of Ships, seen by 5 million on banks of Hudson River
- President Ford speaks at Valley Forge, then at Independence Hall in Philadelphia and finally USS Forrestal carrier in New York Harbor, as Tom Brokaw reports
- Jimmy Carter invites Edmund Muskie to Georgia to speak of Democrat vice-presidential nomination
Commercials for:
Friskies Beef Dinner for dogs
BankAmericard (before they became Visa)
News continues:
- Reuters' dispatch on Queen Elizabeth II's upcoming visit to America is read verbatim
- Garrick Utley on July 4th celebrations in Leningrad; West Berlin; Paris; Spoleto, Italy - and London
Commercials for:
Lavoris mouthwash
AMC Pacer
Krylon spray paint
- Profile and history of four generations of Thompson family of Western Minnesota, from Mike Jackson (probably the same as future WMAQ anchor?) as look at immigrants
Commercials for:
Geritol (with husband, wife and baby)
Sominex "sleeping aid"
- Ending look at Thomas Jefferson, his life, and his Monticello home, outside which John says goodnight
Commercials for:
Volkswagen Rabbit
Woolite Self-Cleaning Rug Cleaner
With NBC Nightly News theme by Ray Ellis playing, and various sights of USA, ending credits:
Executive Producer - Lester M. Crystal
Principal Reporter & Writer - John Hart
Producer - Alfred Robbins
Directed by Antonio Messuri
Associate Director - E.M. Doudt
Associate Producers - Don Dunkel, Ray Elberfeld, Gerry Solomon, Sandy Goodman
Field Producer - Chris Michon
News Editors - William Boyle, Gilbert Millstein, David Schmerler
News Staff - Patricia Creaghan, Paul Hazzard, Ira Silverman, Karlton Rosholt, Paul Soroka, Gillian Popeck
Directors - May Schindler (Wash.), Larry Owen Jr. (L.A.), Jay Roper
Associate Directors - Judith Garfield (N.Y.), Randy Wands (N.Y.), David Hockwalt (Wash.)
Technical Directors - David LaLicata (N.Y.), Leon Chromack (Wash.)
Audio - Bob Batsche
Video - Walter Werner
Lighting - Robert Saron
Supervising Film Editors - Edwin Einarsen, William Freeda
Film Editors - Ed Kinney, Loren Berry, Gerry Breese, Britta Halling, Louis Fallot, Tina Gruettner, Al Helias, Nina Jackson, Walter Whitney, Robert Mole, Russell More, Miguel Portillo, Martin Sheppard, K. Su, Nick Wilkins, Bob Sorenson
Videotape Editors - Bernard Fleck, George Kiyak, Charles Shadel, Walter Balderson, Walter Dresch, Ivan Karson, Dick Leible, George Magda, Mort Smith, John Olszewski, Bob Rudick, Ed Wackernagel, Alan Wolfson
Studio Engineering - John Hillyer, Marion Simmons, Bob Lendenmann, Marion Teller, George Nick, Ray DiPrima
Stage Manager - Fred Manni
Program Manager - Stanley Rotkewicz
Production Manager - Bill Reardin
Unit Managers - Winston Pine, C.M. Torres
Production Associate - Bambi Tascarella
Researchers - Nancy Lewittes, Arax Kazanjian, M.L. Flynn
Production Assistants - Patti Ann Kanter, Valerie Brown
Production Staff - Maggi Miller, Marsha Connelly, Jeff Davis
News & Feature Assistants - Jeff Cooper, David King, Michael Wilson
NewsCenter Designed by Fred Harpman
Scenic Designer - Gene Cesa
Artists - Norma Benitez, Jenny Choi, Steve Cohen, Bill Dula, Andrew Franklin
Announcers - Bill Hanrahan, Bill McCord
NBC Sunday News
Copyright (C) National Broadcasting Company, Inc. 1976
All Rights Reserved.
Promo for The Best of the Fourth (voiceover by Fred Collins)
Commercials for:
Mutual Benefit Life - with Jim Lovell
McDonald's - Arctic Orange Shake with Dennis Quaid (posted separately here: • McDonald's - Arctic Or... )
Station ID / Irv Kupcinet wishing Happy 200th
Opening moments of The Glorious Fourth leading into Happy Birthday, America (seen individually here: • WMAQ Channel 5 - End o... )
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, July 4th 1976 during the (approx.) 5:29pm to 6:32pm timeframe.
This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The Mike and Britta Fayette Collection.
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@mmille10 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this. I was 6 years old in 1976. As I got older, I learned about the bicentennial, but I felt like I missed it. Watching this, I can see why. The celebration was low-key. I wouldn't have been able to understand the historical significance, anyway.

@mikefredrick71 3 жыл бұрын

This really helps me escape 2020. This god awful year..

@epaddon 4 жыл бұрын

The end credits shot from the roof of the WTC. And a day when taking pride in America's history was something that unified us all. Like the WTC, that sadly is gone now.

@gli7utubeo 4 жыл бұрын

Good catch, but I'm curious how this was indicated. Was it the view at 26:54 ? Thank you.

@erinmeggik391 Жыл бұрын

60s baby here and find this to be a nostalgic post. 👍

@Sashabooboo Жыл бұрын

On July 04, 1976 he BBQ'ed in the backyard. He lined the bottom with foil, then a layer of cat litter and then the charcoal. Lit the fire using fluid. I still do it that way occasionally. He just turned 47. Very little grey and a small paunch. I'm sure wondered if he would see the next one. He might have thought, "Could happen. I'll be 97, but it could happen." She looked at him. She looked at me and thought, "He'll be 60 something." She shuddered at the thought and then considered herself. "Could happen. I'll be 95, but it could happen." Friends and loved ones I've known so dear. Many are gone, yet still I'm here. He died 28 years later in 2004. She made it 39 of the 50 years.

@jimmymelendez1836 3 жыл бұрын

I did a little math for that big Bicentennial special with Paul Anka. He was 34 years old going on 35. Now that's young yet he looks older when he did the big Happy Birthday, America special.

@theylied1776 4 жыл бұрын

I've been waiting on you guys to find someone with a recording of the Bicentennial, 1976 4th of July. I have looked for the last 5 years for a recording longer than a local news report in New York or Los Angeles.

@thekidfromiowa 4 жыл бұрын

Indeed for the longest time the most extensive collection of network footage is the 5 part posting of the ABC coverage. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e5ygg8l7rLippIk.html

@pattibrooks1907 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the memories !

@gregsells8549 4 жыл бұрын

Plus the opening of the L.A. Unified Bicentennial spectacular from the Coliseum, and words from David Brinkley and John Chancellor, who had been covering festivities all day.

@longstreet2740 4 жыл бұрын

Mid to Late 70s ( Between End of Vietnam to late 1979 Iran Hostage crisis ) saw little international turmoil , at least for USA, ..... There was a yearning for more laid back simpler times ..Country music was cool. ( WMAQ Country Radio ) . There were problems of course. Sadly many industrial businesses in Chicago & Indiana began the slow decline which never recovered. World became more complicated depressing in the 80s.

@charlessmith263 3 жыл бұрын

Big bombs were bursting on the ground. Big bombs were also bursting in the air. I was 5 years old in '76 and I did not know anything about "fireworks" and "firecrackers" - but that is what i heard outside on that greatest of July 4ths in American history - the Bicentennial.

@mmille10 Жыл бұрын

Again and again, when I hear people interpret Jefferson's meaning in the Declaration of Independence, I think they get it so wrong. The narrator at Monticello said that Jefferson wanted "impossible dreams, like all men are created equal," as if to say, "Equal in station," which the narrator said, "we are still trying to deliver." And then he says, "a government that promises everyone the pursuit of happiness," as if that was its job. That wasn't what Jefferson meant at all. "Happiness" in Jefferson's day meant something akin to "taking chances," or "riskiness." The term was not so much about feeling joy. To get the true sense of it, he was talking about taking risks optimistically. So, in our modern English, "the pursuit of happiness" would roughly translate to, "the pursuit of chance in life." The line about "all men are created equal" was really a declaration of the end of feudalism, and the end of the capricious rule of monarchy. He was talking about equal rights, not equal outcomes. There would be no nobility, no titles, no special privileges for some in the eyes of the law.

@joeypieper6384 4 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday America!

@TheDeadHead420 3 жыл бұрын

awesome

@wmbrown6 4 жыл бұрын

Notice the difference between NBC and CBS with respect to news anchors in their terminology. NBC had "Principal Reporter & Writer"; CBS's main news anchor of the time, Walter Cronkite, was its "Managing Editor."

@theamazingDrBob 4 жыл бұрын

Hey that Dodge commercial is voiced by Dan Ingram, New York radio legend from musicradio77 WABC.

@pntyhs 2 жыл бұрын

26:54 - does anyone know the artist/title of the theme? Shazam turned up nothing.

@albrokenomoney2127 Жыл бұрын

Had me at Strohs and cheeseburgers.

@jimwalsh7943 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know if there is a recording of John Hart's final morning news show that showed sunrises all over the world?

@gli7utubeo 4 жыл бұрын

Note the information about the slaves in John Hart's discussion about the revolving shelves without a touch of irony. Hard to imagine that commentary today. ( Go to 24:20 and listen for 25 seconds.) (The entire piece starts at 22:23. Fascinating.)

@jimwalsh7943 Жыл бұрын

I came to this video while looking for information about John Hart who I remember fondly from my young adulthood. I take it that your comment refers to Hart's comment about the accuracy of a slave's memory and that his comment may have been, somehow, "racist." My guess is that the source was a comment by Jefferson, not an expression of snarky racism by Hart. I found Hart's earlier comment about Jefferson's concept for America as an "experiment," not a "model," to be one we should all keep in mind. We can evolve...and we have.

@gli7utubeo Жыл бұрын

@@jimwalsh7943 No I did not mean to imply that it was racist or inaccurate or even inappropriate (and I certainly did not mean to say anything critical or negative about John Hart, a fine reporter). I just thought that if that fact had been pointed out today, it would have been noted as, let's say, an artifact of its time. Thanks for the comment.

@charlessmith263 3 жыл бұрын

I am guessing that "Happy Birthday America" was probably done by KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles, but likely not. The LA Coliseum was not the Rose Bowl but the Rose Bowl did have KTLA-5 do a TV broadcast on one of the Bicentennial firework extravaganzas there - among many pro fireworks that happened - on that memorable Bicentennial bash all across America.

@michaelbruchas6663 4 жыл бұрын

No bumper music and sounds like the nat sot never made it over from the original recording...

@LaurenLover81 4 жыл бұрын

What came up 8:30/ 7:30 central after Happy Birthday America, leading up to the 10/ 9 central recap?

@wesclay14 2 жыл бұрын

Bob Hope had his special for the 200th Birthday which also was star studded with Sammy Davis, Jr., Donny and Marie, Captain and Tenille and Debbie Reynolds and cameo appearances of other celebrities.

@LaurenLover81 2 жыл бұрын

@@wesclay14 CBS apparently won the whole day and night at all ratings levels including households. I imagine NBC got pretty decent ratings against strong competition, while ABC got a somewhat good rating with their minimal coverage and Sunday Night Movie that celebrated America.

@LeonelLAURE 4 жыл бұрын

Unova, am I right?

@melaniexoxo 4 жыл бұрын

🇺🇸🇺🇸💥💞

@DeadAbeVigoda 4 жыл бұрын

A reminder of when our country was mostly sane and halfway decent.

@jeenkzk5919 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed! The media have gone insane now. Trying to tell us how to think instead of reporting and letting us decide.

@gli7utubeo 4 жыл бұрын

OK, 6 years to the 250th birthday.... (Does this have a name?)

@nedwart 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the sestercentennial. America's will occur in 2026.

@jimmymelendez1836 3 жыл бұрын

@@nedwart I would be 49 years old. I'll be pushing 50 when that time comes. Geez!

@theylied1776 4 жыл бұрын

We're all immigrants? My ancestors were not immigrants, they didn't have a choice in coming to the United States. By definition immigration means choice.

@theylied1776 3 жыл бұрын

@Arthur Ace I see, I used Too Many big words. Just let me know what you didn't understand and I will dumb it down for you.

@stevengallant6363 9 ай бұрын

@theylied1776 You should be thankful Your ancestors were brought to the United States. Your Lucky to live in the best country in the World.. Show a little gratitude.....

@theylied1776 9 ай бұрын

@@stevengallant6363 You should be thankful that my ancestors were brought here and have fought in every war since the the revolutionary war. Despite being slaves and treated as second-class citizens. My ancestors were not immigrants, they were Black and Native Americans. So show a little gratitude. This country didn't give my family anything that we didn't EARN!

@dariowiter3078 3 жыл бұрын

I ❤️ seeing women in silent-film speed(I'm referring to the beer ad), but do they have to feature guys in it? Couldn't it be just an all woman picnic? 😋😁