The National November 11, 1979 Opening

Here's the opening to the November 11, 1979 edition of "The National", which started with a mass evacuation of the city of Mississauga, Ontario, caused by a train derailment that had the potential to cause major disaster. This video was sourced from a "CBC News in Review" tape. Another video posted online (not by me) was sourced from an original broadcast of a CFL game. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEi2Do9tNPI

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News & Politics

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• CBC
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• National
• 1979
• Mississauga
• Train
• Derailment

[somewhatlongdong]

I remember the Mississauga train derailment like it was yesterday. Man, time flies.

[MrCheesypuf]

@knightschwartz its an odd video to show that but lol.............that city has changed completely since that

[knightschwartz]

I want to move to Canada

[jaworskij]

I remember this time period too, because since May 1979 I was paying more attention to the news...Also in the news was the American hostage 'crises' in Iran and the Ayotolah/Shah of Iran ordeal.

[MrCheesypuf]

my dad was not even a mile away from it whatching it with his little brother who was 4 at the time

[secordman]

George MacLean, I wish we still had professional readers like him.