WLS Channel 7 ABC Evening News Partial Edition 5281975

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Here's the second half of the ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith in Washington and Harry Reasoner in New York, as aired over WLS Channel 7. (The first part had been recorded over.) Quality is a bit off. • Includes: • Incomplete commercial for Hoover vacuum cleaners • Harry reports on: • Report by Irv Chapman on students and Communists giving up control of U.S. AID complex in Vientiane, Laos, after long negotiations headed by charges d'affairs Christian Chapman • New government in Lebanon, headed by seven-time Prime Minister Rashid Karami • UN Security Council votes to keep peacekeeping force in Israel / Syria conflict • Commercials for: • Krylon spray paint • Cool Whip non-dairy whip topping • Dick Shoemaker report on California doctors reconsidering a walkout over high malpractice insurance rates; interviews with Elizabeth Teig (whose husband Rexford underwent delayed surgery), nurse Cyn Thompson, and comments from Gov. Jerry Brown • Postal rates commission recommends reducing postage stamp from 10 to 8 1/2 cents, and postcards from 8 to 5 cents • Wall Street trading summary • Commercials for: • Reynolds Aluminum recycling - with Jerry Lewis for Muscular Dystrophy • Samsonite luggage • Howard's news summaries: • First planes of Vietnamese refugees from Guam arrive in Indiantown Gap, PA • Michael Slobodian, a 16 year-old student in Brampton, Ontario Canada, opens fire on high school, kills 2 and injuring 13 before killing himself • Rabbi Baruch Korff resigns from fund set up to pay for Richard Nixon's legal fees • Ex-heavyweight boxing champ Ezzard Charles dies in Chicago, aged 54 • Philadelphia Flyers win second straight Stanley Cup, WPVI Channel 6's Mike Strug reports on celebrations, with Bernie Parent and Bobby Clarke • Commercials for: • Excedrin aspirin • Vanish toilet bowl cleaner • Harry gives commentary on current New York City financial situation, then he and Howard close the program followed by ending credits (with voiceover by Bill Rice - including promo for upcoming Issues and Answers with guest, Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb, to be interviewed by Bob Clark and Edward P. Morgan): • Senior Producers - Walter Porges, David Jayne • In New York: • Producers - Jeff Gralnick, Stuart Schwartz • Directed by Charles Heinz • Associate Producers - Betsy Aaron, Phil Bergman, Joan Bieder, Bernard I. Cohen, Victor Neufeld • News Writers - Sidney Kline, Bob Roy • Associate Directors - James Creighton, Robert Murphy • Technical Director - Al Dort • Audio - Morley Lang • Film Editors - Al Attianese, Lou Bouchignani, Ray Finch, Rick Gelb, John Gillen, Sally Hergrueter, Joseph Jankowsky, Henry Leilich, John Nicoletti, Peter Matthews, Frank Paniz, Frank Radice, Ed Stern, Edward Thomas, Desi Wong • Videotape Editors - Pat Malik, Walter Urbanski • Senior Video - Charles Rees • Video - Tom McGuire • Lighting Director - Alfred Sturnhann • Assistant Graphics Director - George Fox • Graphic Artists - Gerald Andrea, Henry Chiger, Phil Cirrone, Joel Goldberg, Jay Heller, Maria Miller, Ismael Porrata • Director of Graphics - Ben Blank • Scenic Designer - John Braden • In Washington: • Producer - Tom Capra • Associate Producers - Bob Furnad, Ed Harris, Bill Knowles, Dave Newman • News Editor - Steve Steinberg • News Writer - William Pettit • Directed by Richard Armstrong • Associate Director - Bill Weisel • Technical Director - Jim Harvey • In Chicago: • Producer - Terry Cory • In Los Angeles: • Producer - Dan Harmon • In Atlanta: • Producer - Jim Whisenant • A Presentation of ABC News • • Promos for The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - A Sound of Dolphins, and Baretta (voiceover by Bill Rice) • • Preview of upcoming Eyewitness News with Fahey Flynn and Joel Daly, including: • Chicago City Council passing anti-fraud ordinance • Mayor Daley attending son's wedding • Michael Halas (?) not to run for Illinois Governor • City crackdown on taxicab safety • And of course, John Coleman with weather and Bill Frink with sports • • Commercials for: • • Zayre furniture - with Jane Curtin (also posted separately here: • Zayre - with Jane Curtin (Commercial,... ) • • First second of incomplete commercial before recording stops • • This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, May 28th 1975 during the 5:45 to 5:59pm timeframe. • About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television: • The Museum of Classic Chicago Television's primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s and early 80s, primarily) recorded off of any and all Chicago TV channels (or other cities occasionally); footage which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. 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