WMAQ News open 1967

opening minutes from a 1967 WMAQ News broadcast detailing the snowstorm that had paralyzed Chicago

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• television
• 1960s
• 1967
• Chicago
• Illinois
• snow
• blizzard
• storm
• WMAQ

[1974rail]

can you ask him if he has the whole news clip from 1967

[robatsea2009]

he sent me the entire recording yes, and I've posted another substantially longer clip from it elsewhere on my channel.

[1974rail]

where did you get this clip from?

[robatsea2009]

A friend provided it a few years back

[Maxwedge12000]

Man that was a great time to be a kid and living in Chicago.

[ShelleyGirl51]

Wow....I remember it so well...and I really loved it!!!

[tumak1966]

Think the news guy was Floyd Klaber....Harry volkman....the weatherman....he always wore a

flower on his suit coat during his telecasts. Chicago had good character news casters!

[starguard]

@gplito LOL :D

[starguard]

And to think while we were buried knee deep in snow back then, my uncle was basking in warm balmy weather in the Jungles of Vietnam!

[parkman35]

What do any of these stupid comments below have to do with this clip? Geeze people get a grip!

[standtall67]

@barber747 Chicago homicide stats are Blacks commit 80%, Hispanics 19%, while whites commit 1%. Chicago PD/Chicago Tribune stat. And for the record, blacks were well established in Chicago in 1967. Chicago had large riots in the black community in 1966 and 1968. Does that make his comments ridiculous enough for you to call him a "prick" or a "fag" or a racist? Since when does stating facts make you the target of insults?

[FaganRoberts]

@barber747 Crazy, but true. And you know it.

[barber747]

@FaganRoberts

Well okay I apologize for the insults, but still, what you said previously sounded crazy!!

[FaganRoberts]

@barber747 Are you kidding me? Chicago was replete with blacks in 1967. The Great Southern Migration ended only a couple years after this. Most crime was/is committed by blacks (and now Mexicans) in Chicago. Anyone is capable of committing a crime, true, but it is not racist to recognize what racial group is doing the most of it.

Open you're eyes, man.

[barber747]

@Godzie1

This was about 20 years before my time...and my dad was only six years old when this occurred.

[barber747]

@TheBucksatan

Wow you're a complete prick and a fag.

If you didn't have a marble for a brain then you'd know that blacks were mostly in the South @ the time. And besides, ANYONE is capable of committing a crime, black or not.