WMAQ Channel 5 - NBC Sunday News with John Hart - "Bicentennial" (Complete Broadcast, 7/4/1976) 📺

Here's the complete Independence Day edition of NBC Sunday News with John Hart as had aired on the day of America's Bicentennial over WMAQ Channel 5.

Includes:

Commercials for:

Stroh's Beer

Dodge Colt

Station ID / promo for upcoming Kup's Pump Room show, followed by Art Institute president Larry Chalmers wishing happy 200th

NBC Sunday News open (voiceover by Bill McCord) and items:

Over 100 hostages in Africa are freed (the "Raid on Entebbe"), as reported by Steve Delaney; comments from Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres

July 4th celebrations all over country, as to be reported later

Commercials for:

Outgro - for ingrown toenails

Jeep CJ-7

More news:

Richard Hunt covering New York's Parade of Ships, seen by 5 million on banks of Hudson River

President Ford speaks at Valley Forge, then at Independence Hall in Philadelphia and finally USS Forrestal carrier in New York Harbor, as Tom Brokaw reports

Jimmy Carter invites Edmund Muskie to Georgia to speak of Democrat vice-presidential nomination

Commercials for:

Friskies Beef Dinner for dogs

BankAmericard (before they became Visa)

News continues:

Reuters' dispatch on Queen Elizabeth II's upcoming visit to America is read verbatim

Garrick Utley on July 4th celebrations in Leningrad; West Berlin; Paris; Spoleto, Italy - and London

Commercials for:

Lavoris mouthwash

AMC Pacer

Krylon spray paint

Profile and history of four generations of Thompson family of Western Minnesota, from Mike Jackson (probably the same as future WMAQ anchor?) as look at immigrants

Commercials for:

Geritol (with husband, wife and baby)

Sominex "sleeping aid"

Ending look at Thomas Jefferson, his life, and his Monticello home, outside which John says goodnight

Commercials for:

Volkswagen Rabbit

Woolite Self-Cleaning Rug Cleaner

With NBC Nightly News theme by Ray Ellis playing, and various sights of USA, ending credits:

Executive Producer - Lester M. Crystal
Principal Reporter & Writer - John Hart
Producer - Alfred Robbins
Directed by Antonio Messuri
Associate Director - E.M. Doudt
Associate Producers - Don Dunkel, Ray Elberfeld, Gerry Solomon, Sandy Goodman
Field Producer - Chris Michon
News Editors - William Boyle, Gilbert Millstein, David Schmerler
News Staff - Patricia Creaghan, Paul Hazzard, Ira Silverman, Karlton Rosholt, Paul Soroka, Gillian Popeck
Directors - May Schindler (Wash.), Larry Owen Jr. (L.A.), Jay Roper
Associate Directors - Judith Garfield (N.Y.), Randy Wands (N.Y.), David Hockwalt (Wash.)
Technical Directors - David LaLicata (N.Y.), Leon Chromack (Wash.)
Audio - Bob Batsche
Video - Walter Werner
Lighting - Robert Saron
Supervising Film Editors - Edwin Einarsen, William Freeda
Film Editors - Ed Kinney, Loren Berry, Gerry Breese, Britta Halling, Louis Fallot, Tina Gruettner, Al Helias, Nina Jackson, Walter Whitney, Robert Mole, Russell More, Miguel Portillo, Martin Sheppard, K. Su, Nick Wilkins, Bob Sorenson
Videotape Editors - Bernard Fleck, George Kiyak, Charles Shadel, Walter Balderson, Walter Dresch, Ivan Karson, Dick Leible, George Magda, Mort Smith, John Olszewski, Bob Rudick, Ed Wackernagel, Alan Wolfson
Studio Engineering - John Hillyer, Marion Simmons, Bob Lendenmann, Marion Teller, George Nick, Ray DiPrima
Stage Manager - Fred Manni
Program Manager - Stanley Rotkewicz
Production Manager - Bill Reardin
Unit Managers - Winston Pine, C.M. Torres
Production Associate - Bambi Tascarella
Researchers - Nancy Lewittes, Arax Kazanjian, M.L. Flynn
Production Assistants - Patti Ann Kanter, Valerie Brown
Production Staff - Maggi Miller, Marsha Connelly, Jeff Davis
News & Feature Assistants - Jeff Cooper, David King, Michael Wilson
NewsCenter Designed by Fred Harpman
Scenic Designer - Gene Cesa
Artists - Norma Benitez, Jenny Choi, Steve Cohen, Bill Dula, Andrew Franklin
Announcers - Bill Hanrahan, Bill McCord

NBC Sunday News
Copyright (C) National Broadcasting Company, Inc. 1976
All Rights Reserved.

Promo for The Best of the Fourth (voiceover by Fred Collins)

Commercials for:

Mutual Benefit Life - with Jim Lovell

McDonald's - Arctic Orange Shake with Dennis Quaid (posted separately here:    • McDonald's - Arctic Orange Shake with...  )

Station ID / Irv Kupcinet wishing Happy 200th

Opening moments of The Glorious Fourth leading into Happy Birthday, America (seen individually here:    • WMAQ Channel 5 - End of "The Glorious...   )

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, July 4th 1976 during the (approx.) 5:29pm to 6:32pm 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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