CBS Evening News with Morton Dean - WBBM Channel 2 (Complete Broadcast, 3/26/1978) 📺

Here's the complete broadcast of the Sunday evening edition of the CBS Evening News with Morton Dean as aired in Chicago via WBBM Channel 2. This was about two months after the switch from the old 5k telco audio to AT&T 'diplexing' picture and sound so it came as crystal clear in Chicago (as we can assume in, say, New York as well).

Includes:

Promo for CBS: On the Air, followed by 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Don Robertson)

Commercials for:
True Value Hardware Stores - Hardware Week (with Pat Summerall)
New PGA Concept Irons (golf clubs) from Kidde
'Lightning' station ID (voiceover by Bob Carrington?)

CBS Evening News open (voiceover by Hal Simms)

- Riot at Narita International Airport 40 miles from Tokyo, Japan; reported by Bruce Dunning

Commercials for:
Sominex (with Nancy Marchand?)
Cadillac cars

- Negotiations to end strike of construction workers who work on coal mines still underway, followed by Ed Rabel report on miners' return to work, spotlighting miner John Schuck and mine supervisor Carroll Hicks; comments from Retired Miners Association president Dewey Cantley

- National Climatic Center declares 1977-78 to be coldest winter on record; but if Chicago and Decatur, IL are any indication, spring isn't all that warm either

Commercials for:
Lanacane Bath Treatment (with Nancy Robins)
Clorets Breath Deodorant

- Egyptian President Sadat tells visiting Americans that Israelis and Egyptians are speaking two different languages in peace negotiations

- Jerry Bowen report on Israeli cabinet's vast support for Prime Minister Begin and his policies; comments from cabinet spokesman Arye Naor, plus developments in Lebanon cease-fire and Easter services in Christian villages

- Swedish peacekeeping troops caught in crossfire over Litani River in Lebanon - followed by Mike Lee report on how Lebanese political cartoons are reflecting the conflict, with interview with cartoonist Mahmoud Kahil

- Belgian industrialist Baron Edward Jean Empain released in front of Paris Opera House after being abducted two months before

Commercials for:
GM Quality Service/Parts - "Mr. Goodwrench"
A1 Steak Sauce

- Shari Gilbert reports on Pope Paul VI Easter appearance at St. Peter's Square amid concerns over his health

- A look at various Easter services, including in Miami (attended by Chuck Colson and Anita Bryant, reported by Ike Seamans of WTVJ Channel 4), and Brest, France (in wake of Amoco oil spill, reported by Susan Peterson; interview with James, Delia and Julie Percy)

- Rod MacLeish commentary on the need to believe in something this Easter

- Miss Wales beauty pageant agog over winner from unpronounceable town of Llanfairpwllwynglyygogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (which had to be shown on lower-third of screen, on three rows), Denise Hughes, who for brevity's sake will represent neighboring Mold instead

Commercials for:
Super Poli-Grip denture adhesive
Lanier's Pocket Secretary mini-cassette recorder/player (with Arnold Palmer)

- President Carter orders government bureaucrats to stop speaking "bureaucrat-ese," as reported by Bruce Morton in first of three-day course; featured are FDA's Nathan Trinish (sp?), NIAAA's Mary Jacobs-Jackson, Office of Consumer Affairs' Fred Goldberg, and The Federal Register's John Phillips and Polly Rich

- IRS Commissioner Jerome Kurtz puts your chances of being audited for taxes is 1 in 40 - but if your income is over $50,000, it goes to 1 in 6; plus, two agents create board game, "Challenge the IRS"

"And that's the news"

Commercials for:
Pontiac LeMans
Radio Shack Red Tag Sale

CBS Evening News ending (voiceover by Hal Simms; videotape provided over weekend by WCIA Channel 3, Champaign; our own WBBM Channel 2; and WTVJ Channel 4, Miami) - witness to many miscues and other technical difficulties spilling over to . . .

Promo for CBS: On the Air (voiceover by Hal Simms) - but no 'Eye-D'

'Lightning' station ID (voiceover by Bob Carrington?)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 26th 1978 during the 5:00pm to 5:30pm timeframe.

This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The Mike and Britta Fayette Collection.

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