KUTV Newswatch 2 at 6: Monday, January 17, 1977, 10 P.M. news

Digitized version of an aircheck for the color broadcast of the evening news from January 17th, 1977, originally recorded on U-matic videocassette. Includes commercials. Broadcast headlines: Gary Gilmore shot to death by firing squad, becoming first criminal executed in the United States in more than ten years; Overnight legal battles threatened to postpone Gary Gilmore's execution; Reactions to Gary Gilmore's execution; Gary Gilmore's ashes to be spread by air across parts of Utah County; Supreme Court delays execution of Jarry Jurek; Theodore Sorensen asks President Jimmy Carter to withdraw CIA director nomination; President Ford hands congress a $440 billion budget for Fiscal Year 1978; 23 US sailors and marines die as a barge collided with a freighter in Barcelona Harbor; Idaho governor Cecil Andrus, President-elect Jimmy Carter's pick for Interior Secretary, meets little opposition on capitol hill; Orrin Hatch sees Andrus' policies as a benefit for Utah; Salt Lake City Judge Paul Grant's testimony could help Melvin Dummar's case surrounding Howard Hughes' Mormon will; Orem, UT man killed in stabbing at the Sundowners Motorcycle Club; Weather report; Special report on Utah's liquor laws determines that current law is so restrictive that full enforcement would make lawbreakers of every liquor-selling establishment; Local and national sports; Figure skater Suzie Brahser is the first woman named Utah Sportsman of the Year; Outdoors: new regulations for operating outdoor vehicles on National Forest land; Wirth Watching: man's house in Silverfork Canyon smaller due to incorrect tape measurer