KUTV Newswatch 2 at 6 and 10: Friday, August 4, 1978, 6 and 10 P.M. news

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Title KUTV Newswatch 2 at 6 and 10: Friday, August 4, 1978, 6 and 10 P.M. news
Alternative Title Friday, August 4, 1978, 6 and 10 P.M. news
Creator KUTV (Television station : Salt Lake City Utah)
Contributor Greenlaw, Patrick; Tyre, Adele; Allgire, Dick; Gilmour, Sandy; Walker, Gary; Warren, Larry, 1950-; Ripplinger, Randy; Rawson, Mike; Eubank, Mark E.; Howard, Bill; Jimenez, Bob; Wirth, Craig
Date 1978-08-04
Spatial Coverage Utah, United States; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Subject Television news programs--Utah--Salt Lake City; Television broadcasting--Utah--Salt Lake City; KUTV (Television station : Salt Lake City Utah)
Description Digitized version of an aircheck for the color broadcast of the evening news from August 4th, 1978, originally recorded on U-matic videocassette. Includes commercials. Broadcast headlines 6 PM: Seven family members of religious leader Immanuel David's family leapt from a balcony at the International Hotel in Salt Lake City; hospital seeks blood donations for the sole survivor; Family of religious leader Immanuel David will hold a press conference following David's death; police question whether or not to rule deaths murder or suicide; Witness reactions to the Immanuel David family jumping from a hotel balcony; Fire at Amoco oil well near Evanston, WY extinguished; Utah Valley Hospital starts a pilot program for medical arbitration; Northern Utah farmers upset at Utah Power and Light's proposal to increase power rates by 90%; House Interior Committee agrees to cut the amount of money Utah will have to pay to clean up uranium tailings; Weather report; The Department of Energy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are in the final planning stages to build a solar power generator at Natural Bridges National Monument; National and local sports; Utah State Amateur Women's Golf Tournament; interview with Washington Bullets coach Dick Motta; Court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin dismisses a disorderly conduct suit against a man who speaks only Chinese due to the language barrier Broadcast headlines 10 PM: Dean and Lousanne Longo, family of religious leader Immanuel David hold a press conference following David's death; Hospital seeks blood donations for the sole survivor of Immanuel David's family murder-suicide; Veteran's Administration grants disability status to Donald Coe, soldier whose exposure to the Operation Smokey atomic bomb explosion in 1957 led to a leukemia diagnosis; World and national news headlines; Northern Utah farmers upset at Utah Power and Light's proposal to increase power rates by 90%; Flooding in West Central Texas; Weather report; Fire at Amoco oil well near Evanston, WY extinguished; National and local sports; BYU golf player Tiru Fernando wins the Utah State Amateur Women's Golf Tournament; Scientists go before Congress to ask for an end to the three-year moratorium on test-tube baby research; Wirth Watching, best of: Look-a-like contest featuring Tim Conway of the Carol Burnett show
Collection Number and Name A0303, KUTV News collection
Type Image/MovingImage
Genre U-Matic
Format video/mp4
Extent 1:01:03
Language eng
Rights
ARK ark:/87278/s6gr1k6j
Relation For a finding aid for the collection, including contents of each program, see: http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv245086
Setname uum_knc
ID 1460551
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gr1k6j
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