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  • wes sarginson is a bag of shit! he is very prurient. he once showed a naked photo of murder victim yvonee clardy on the air. he is into that kind of stuff a well as panty S & M this semi illirterate crap made more money than the TV news producer he is not an American but a lousy english immigrant

  • WOW, 30 years ago. Fuck I'm getting old.

  • This was thorough as hell!! They knew it was Wayne Williams!!! It was too premature though...They actually chose a respectable black woman to talk to! So much has changed in our society.

  • Wes Sarginson, Mark Pickard and Johnny Beckman would eventually join rival station WXIA "11Ailve". Out of those three, Wes and Johnny are retired today and Mark is still with 11Ailve as a reporter.

  • This was long before DNA evidence.Does anyone think they'll rexamine this case with DNA?

  • I do wish the Atlanta stations would go back to this clean style of production. You don't have bugs and logos and flashy graphics all over the freaking screen. You have NEWS.

  • @scason You know that not going to happened, because yes the screen clutter with bugs and crawls, but this is the 21st century style of news and graphics and the flashy is to draw you in, and those days of yester year are over....

  • @applesauce2100 Yes, I know. It seems like the media feels like they have to treat us like a bunch if infants. Drawing us in with bright, shiny, flashy graphics.

  • @scason news was news back in the day...more of a serious presentation. look at headline news now and remember it from back in the day. everything is NOT breaking news (hln)...it's like a joke

  • @scason. The stations started to get competitive around 1982 when cable really came in with CNN.

  • What an interesting open for WSB (and VERY clear for 1981). The presenter listing similar to what most stations which used Telesound's "And You" would use.

    Also, the Action News titles look a lot like a late 1980s CBS Evening News title graphic.

  • LOVE those nats 8:03- 8:10! This is wonderful! I linked it on Southside Atlanta Memories, on a post about the Atlanta Child Murders. Thank you so much for posting this.

  • Thanks for posting! There's so little out there on Williams and the Atl. child murders. I was a 9 yr. old living in the metro Atl. area at the time this was happening and remember it well. It's one of the reasons I got into the news business myself.

  • Oh the Atlanta kid murders. I remember all of that. Wayne Williams is in prison for that, and that is the house they were at.

  • This film is near perfect.How did you get it? I remember all this from when I was a kid.

  • How many co-anchors has Monica had???

  • Monica has had alot of co-anchors during her almost 35years at Ch.2 When she started in 1975 John Pruitt & Monica Kaufman followed by Jim Wilkerson & Monica Kaufman Wes Sarginson & Monica Kaufman Terry Wood & Monica Kaufman Don Farmer & Monica Kaufman July 4, 1994 John Pruitt retunrs to WSB 5pm Don Farmer/Monica Kaufman 6/11pm John Pruitt/Monica Kaufman in 2000 5pm Gulsant Dart/Monica Kaufman..... around 02/03 Gulsant moves to KIRO a cox station and Monica/John at 6/11pm
  • IIRC this was Wayne Williams' press conference for the child killings in 1981

  • Interesting... didn't realize that Wes anchored in Atlanta before being on WXIA.

  • Yup and Marc Pickard currently workds at WXIA-11ALIVE

  • We're seeing Ernie Bjorkman BEFORE he left for the Mile High City.

    His first go-round at KMGH was about 1982-1984, and his second go-round at what we now know as ABC-7 was from 1988-1999.

    His first go-round at KWGN was from 1984 to 1988, when it was an independent station. His round two at Channel 2 Denver was from 1999-2008, when it was a WB affiliate (now with the CW). Both go-rounds were always anchoring a 9:00pm primetime newscast

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