KUTV Newswatch 2 at 6 and 10 pm: Thursday, February 9, 1978

Digitized version of an aircheck for the color broadcast of the evening news from February 9th, 1978, originally recorded on U-matic videocassette. Includes commercials. Broadcast headlines 6 PM: Paul Cooper, soldier who witnessed "Smokey" atomic bomb testing, dies from leukemia; Congressional committee investigates a link between radiation exposure and leukemia; Deseret News reports that the security at Tooele Army Depot is inadequate; Tyler John Anderson declared too incompetent to stand trial in Hotel Utah hostage case; Escaped kidnapper Ted Bundy makes the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list; Accountability for tax-payer funded youth programs; Outdoors: National Park Service proposes cutting permits for commercial rafting trips; Weather report; Local and national sports; interview with University of Utah Basketball coach Jerry Pimm about the WAC championship; Webster Elementary School brings kids to County Health Department for immunizations Broadcast headlines 10 PM: Paul Cooper, soldier who witnessed "Smokey" atomic bomb testing, dies from leukemia; Cooper's legacy and the radiation exposure study; FBI says Ted Bundy is suspected of killing three dozen women, puts Bundy on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list; Ogden, UT man will stand trial for a first degree murder charge; Kansas City man handing out two dollar bills part of publicity stunt for local radio station; City West Jordan, UT attempts to drum up support for a new hospital; World and national news headlines; Brigham Young University professor says young boys are discriminated against in classrooms; Ballet West holds a special performance for junior high and high school students; Weather report; Local and national sports; interview with BYU basketball player Danny Ainge; Russian Flu is sweeping the US