1979 Solar Eclipse - ABC News Coverage

Excerpts from an ABC News Special Report that aired at 11:00-11:29 a.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 26, 1979 as the last total solar eclipse for North America until August 21, 2017 swept across the Pacific Northwest.

Frank Reynolds anchored from New York, with live reports from former science correspondence Jules Bergman and reporter Bob Miller. Live images from Portland, Oregon, Washington state's Goldendale Observatory and Helena, Montana.

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Science & Technology

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• solar
• eclipse
• 1979
• ABC
• News

[ComradeSephiroth]

Salem, Oregon - 08/21/2017! Make sure to book your hotel a year or two in advance...

[StefanoFan27]

wow, this is so awesome.

[beckythumper]

@SoochOne Mee too

[beckythumper]

I was in 6th grade but only saw the partial. Then I heard in 1984 about the coming 2017 eclipse which is now just 5 years from now, how time is fliyng by.

[desertlands]

I was in 4th grade at Sacred Heart Elementary School; Ely, Nevada. We went out onto the playground with makeshift reflective solar viewers. Funny, haven't even thought of it until now, thirty three years later. It all comes back to memory like a snap!

[SoochOne]

I don't care where this falls in 2017, i'll be there, and i'll take pictures. It's insane to know that some people will never experience this within their lifespan.

[flexor212000]

it's almost time!!

[leandar]

This is great.  You wouldn't happen to have the entire program, would you?

[sodamntired]

did the Mayans predict this too?

[iLOVENATURE2011]

awesome video...keep up!

[mostrosticator]

I was 7 living in Los Angelas California, in Long Beach...pinhole and square through a shoe box....good times. L.A. didn't get complete darkness...wasn't even close.

[CaliforniaKimmie]

I remember this in grade school, I remember our teacher helping us make glasses out of layers of exposed film to look at it, - very dangerous, but then we thought it was pretty cool back then! we also did the pin hole with white construction paper. looks like the best view for the 2017 one will be near Cincinnati.