KUTV Newswatch 2 at 6 and 10: Friday, October 27, 1978, 6 and 10 P.M. news

Digitized version of an aircheck for the color broadcast of the evening news from October 27th, 1978, originally recorded on U-matic videocassette. Includes commercials. Broadcast headlines 6 PM: Claims filed against the government by Utah residents who live in the atomic bomb testing fallout areas with high cancer rates; Trial date set for Dan and Edna Murdock, accused of neglecting and exploiting tenants at their boarding house; Two men plead guilty to killing French tourists near Kanab, UT; Two people remain hospitalized after a deadly car crash in Salt Lake City; Utah's AFL-CIO supports the unification of Salt Lake City and unincorporated parts of Salt Lake County; Troubleshooter: man wants refund for cancelled airline ticket; Weather report; Local and national sports; new University of Utah fieldhouse; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will send missionaries to Nigeria for the first time; Unpaid contractor hired to build a wall for the LDS Church's new visitor center places lien on Temple Square Broadcast headlines 10 PM: Claims filed against the government by Utah residents who live in the atomic bomb testing fallout areas with high cancer rates; Trial date set for Dan and Edna Murdock, accused of neglecting and exploiting disabled tenants at boarding house; Logan Mayor Walter Nickel drops a controversial plan to build a road through a popular park; Republican county commissioner candidate says democratic rival bribed elementary school children with ice cream cones in mock political poll; World and national news headlines; Disabled Vietnam veteran Mike Johnson receives a new tractor; Weather report; Local and national sports; Wirth Watching: fall birds at the Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake City; First graders' dance rehearsal