KUTV Newswatch 2 at 6 and 10: Monday, January 29, 1979, 6 P.M. and 10 P.M. news

Digitized version of an aircheck for the color broadcast of the evening news from January 29th, 1979, originally recorded on U-matic videocassette. Includes commercials. Broadcast headlines 6 PM: Trial begins for alleged religious assassin Eddie Marston accused of the 1975 murder of Robert Simons; Report on Ervil LeBaron and the Church of the Firstborn in Chihuahua, Mexico; Man accused of the first degree murder of Armand Higley bound over for trial in Third District Court; The Utah State Legislature is expected to pass a tough new criminal law to deter parental child snatching, most county attorneys oppose the bill; Over 19,000 Salt Lake County home owners missed the deadline to pay their property taxes; Weather report; Local and national sports; snowmobiling at Yellowstone National Park; Troubleshooter: man has trouble with his new car stereo Broadcast headlines 10 PM: Visit of Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to Washington, DC officially begins; President Carter commutes Patty Hearst's bank robbery sentence and releases her from jail; Sixteen-year-old girl opens fire on an elementary school in San Diego, CA; Trial begins for alleged religious assassin Eddie Marston accused of the 1975 murder of Robert Simons; Man accused of the first degree murder of Armand Higley bound over for trial in Third District Court; Salt Lake City Commission's investigation of possible bribes and power-grabbing at City Hall gets underway; The Utah State Legislature is expected to pass a tough new criminal law to deter parental child snatching, most county attorneys oppose the bill; Underground test scheduled at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site; St. George, UT residents say that the publicity around cancer victims and the nuclear test blasts in the late 1950s is causing unfounded fear and hurting business; World and national news headlines; Weather report; Local and national sports; Wirth Watching: ski racing at Snowbird Ski Resort