WLS Channel 7 - Saturday Eyewitness News (Opening Segment Excerpt, 1977)

Here's something really old and rare - the first 4 minutes of the opening segment to the Saturday Eyewitness News from June of 1977! Featuring Bob Petty, Johnny Mountain, and Mike Nolan on sports. Includes:

WLS-TV Chicago Animated Station ID/Movie Promo Bumper (Voiceover by ??)

Opening to the Saturday Eyewitness News. (with voiceover by ??)

Stories include:

First test flight of Space Shuttle orbiter deemed a success.

40-ton magnet bound for the Soviet Union has a problem boarding a plane at O'Hare International Airport.

30-something Latino man is dead after being the victim of an armed robbery in Humboldt Park.

First black-owned bank on the West Side, The Community Bank of Lawndale, opens for business. Featuring James Hadley, president of the bank. Jim Johnson reporting.

Lincoln Towing and MLA Towing have been hit with a class-action lawsuit.

Taxi cab settlement: raise in rates.

And once again, the tape ends. :-(

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, June 18th 1977 at 10pm!

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