Rock Hudson dies of AIDS at 59 | Watch original 1985 WABC news coverage
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2019
- Actor Rock Hudson died of AIDS on Oct. 2, 1985, a story that drew international attention. Hudson’s health woes became apparent earlier that year, leading to rumors and intense tabloid coverage.
The actor eventually confirmed that he had AIDS. His illness brought attention to AIDS, which in 1985 had only recently entered the public consciousness and was still the subject of much confusion and misinformation.
This is the original Eyewitness News report anchored by Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel, and aired at 6 p.m., Oct. 2, 1985 on WABC-TV New York.
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No one should ever be ashamed of who they are...Walk tall and hold those shoulders back and be yourself.............God Bless Rock
So true.
The world doesn't need to know who people sleep with either.
God will NOT bless anyone UNLESS they acknowledge God and OBEY GODS PRINCIPLES as outlined in the New Testament; and its rather CLEAR RH did NOT do that.
@@Lauren-vd4qe Why don't you just stop with this nonsensical preaching and be a decent, compassionate person! That is if you love God so much. People like you who judge and blast a person's personal life are a disgrace. Rock Hudson was a fine man and good person. That is it! RIP Roy Harold Scherer Jr.
@@albertdibari7874 why dont u read your Bible and find out what God thinks of hmsxlty...especially in the bk of revelation..after all, u and everyone else will have to answer to God not me.
There was absolutely nothing to be done in those days. I was thirty-two that year. It was terrifying.
It was a crazy time.
@@lioness7582 feels like Covid current times
didn't help having a government that denied the aids crisis and laughed it off.
@Renee Renee this was far worse
Osea que ya estás bien anciano
“It was would be nice if that’s all that had to be said.” Powerful statement. Still very true today.
It was Hudson's admission of the disease that brought awareness as well as research to the progress of AIDS. Hudson living and death was not in vain.
He never once admitted to it and continued to have unprotected sex with multiple men after his diagnosis. He was wrong and selfish.
35 years today without you, I love you Rock
I love watching his movies. He adds such a powerful screen presence.
I remember when Magic Johnson announced he was HIV positive in 1991 and everyone speculated about how much time he had left.
I remember that we were horrified imagining such a fit elite athlete being disfigured by the disease so publicly. He still seemed to be at the height of his career competing for championships, the MVP Award and such. By then we knew that it could take years to progress to AIDS and die, but there weren't any promising treatments available.
Still sad he is sorely missed had a flair for comedy
Rock Hudson in 1985, Liberace in 1987, Freddie Mercury in 1991, Kenny Everett in 1995, Jermaine Stewart in 1997.
Too many people and stars died of AIDS. So upsetting.
Dont forget Eric Easy E Wright died of Aids too
Who is Kenny Everett ?
Rest in peace Roc. 💗
RIP Rock Hudson.......November 17, 1925.....October 2, 1985.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Lets remember his real names: Roy Shearer (sp) and Roy Fitzgerald.
I will always Love Rock Hudson Gay or Not he was a Human Being 💖💖💖💖
True he's human but God don't condone homosexual
I love him for being gay
@@vickylanding2830 llĺ
@@vickylanding2830 lllppp
@@vickylanding2830 How dare you speak for the lord shame on you
Enjoy life and do whatever you want. And after that life will enjoy you and will do whatever life wants to do to you.
An awesome actor. Friend reports of being a great person himself. All ran over by this horrible syndrome. Very sad.
Yes, he was gay. Back then it was a big deal and today not much of a deal. For some reason people still label someone as gay or straight. I don't think that will ever disappear. All the secrets he died with. Most likely nothing earth shaking with what goes on today. Aids was awful in the 1980's. The most difficult thing was the stigma or treatment patients had to endure. What a cruel and difficult life we all have to go through. Maybe make life a little more easier for someone today- gay or straight.
Except that there are still so many ignorant and arrogant people out there who think they are invincible and free to make fun of someone's ailment, until it happens to them, of course.
@@albertdibari7874 It won't happen to us. We aren't weird.
More historic clips please
He did not die in vain.
His grace of telling the world that he had HIV/AIDS lead to much research and took away a lot of the stigma of this disease.
Well, he never told his partner yet continued to have sexual relations with him. Pretty crappy thing to do.
Roger Grimsby was a much bigger icon to us Who grew up watching him.
May he rest in peace and Bill Beutel as well.
I've remember this scene when they removed his body from his home very chaotic R.I.P to rock Hudson 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😭😭😭😭
I remember this as a kid ... I didn't know what Aids was or what gay was.. but the adults around were all in shock
Shocking times for tense moments
Same here
Happy birthday in Heaven Rock ❤️
Please may his denial not be in vain, Elizabeth.
I told my dad once in 1956, "oh, I saw a rock hudson movie" dad goes "oh he's a flake"
Rock Hudson known in the movies with Doris Day in Pillow Talk Send Me No Flowers Lover Come Back before that it was 1956 classic Giant and later on television in McMillan and Wife with Susan Saint James
Rest in peace rock Houston ❤
Shock he was the first thank you and same for Freddie Mercury
Was keir dullea the actor who starred in A Space Odyssey 2001??
yes
Great movie star, who could do action and comedy with ease. He was excellent in the films he did with Doris Day who I love. I liked him the Western The Last Sunset with Kirk Douglas. Good looking guy.
I had just recently turned 16 in the summer of ‘85, and had been invited by a friend’s family to spend a few days at their rental in Wildwood, and it was at that time and place I was when Rock held The press conference with Liz Taylor (I’m pretty sure Liz was there, but you know how memory can be…), and it was a huge deal (at least partly due to the fact that the potus wouldn’t even acknowledge that HIV/AIDS existed. (“Leaders”, huh? Who’d-a-thunk-it?!?)… It’s only fairly recently, since I’ve become a huge TCM fan , and have become familiar with so much of Golden Age Hollywood, that the poignancy of the whole ordeal has really sunk in… Elizabeth Taylor really seemed true-blue, a FRIEND, who, as Paul Newman once said, “worked at her friendships”…
I can’t imagine how lonely and terrifying it must have been for Rock (or for anyone who died of AIDS in the 80s, the mental snapshots of hospital workers outfitted in insanely-heavy-duty Hazmat suits just to walk into the room of a patient with AIDS/HIV are still and will probably always be with me, as well as the all-encompassing image of the time of young people dying. The title of one of the early TV movies about AIDS has always summed it up neatly for me In a way - “An Early Frost”… at the time, a man being 59 years old would have seemed relatively “old”, but from the vantage point of nearly 40 years later, I can only think of “waste”. Such a damned shame how we treat our more-vulnerable (due to our personal values) populations. Still.
I also turned 16 in 85 I remember this when rock died it scared me so much I didn’t have sex with anyone for many years
Thank you,for expressing your kind,caring,compassionate thoughts,they Are so welcomed.
@@freddyhoyt1849 AIDS kept me in the closet for the next DECADE . It was the ABSOLUTELY scariest thing on the PLANET . That said - it may have saved my life.
He says “was suffering from AIDS!” like Rock murdered someone. :(
It was that homophobic 1980s....remember? Remember the 80s with that horrible hair and tacky clothing?
he did; he murdered himself by the choices he made.
@@Lauren-vd4qe he almost murdered his boyfriend who he didn't tell he had aids.
@@jackwatson3944 I just watched Phil Donahue interview 1989. Wondering how much has changed in 30+ years.
@@Lauren-vd4qe none of us know if we have it so do not judge
R.I.P Rock Hudson 1925-1985😢😢😢
Rock Hudson was a good actor. The woman loved him
Rock Hudson's last television appearance was Dynasty
I’m here after watching Netflix’s Hollywood
“wish that could be all said about him”. I wish he lived in a world that didn’t force him to hide his life.
Ryan Murphy is a scourge and so is his cheap, tawdry and mercenary fast food TV.
So am I !!
Same!
@@conradzimmerman8638 and so was Marc Christian who was nothing more than a lowlife street hustler.He was pissed cos he was left out of Rock's will. he knew he was safe from the aids virus but went to court cos he wanted a piece of the pie. Rock Hudson had some lowlife greedy graspers around him and dont forget, it was one of them that gave Rock aids.
80’s & AIDS😢
Nobody should ever be treated like this.Ever.
Agree the man was and still is a legendary icon and classy man
And he never told his partner of three years that he had AIDS yet continued to have sexual relations with him. The partner sued Hudsons estate and won around $20 million...he also died in his 50's...
I watched Giant yesterday, fabulous film he was a gentleman. Very sad ending 😔
This man did not die in vain. I think he did as much as he could to heighten awareness of AIDS in the end and for this God welcomed him with open arms in heaven for eternity. I always loved you Rock....!!!!!!!
God welcomed him with open arms? what Bible are YOU reading? 1 Corinthians 6:9; kinda says it all!!
If that is true, howcome he didnt tell his lover Marc Christian that he had aids.
He was a great guy
Rip❤❤❤❤❤
01:10 A little too much oil on James Dean--Haha... we get it-you are working in the oil fields.
I thought he was great in Las Vegas Strip war
The ideal straight virile male hunk except he wasn’t straight & liked men ,the ultimate act he kept up his whole life .
And it was his business!! Why the need to broadcast a person's private life??
@@albertdibari7874 Why are you ghey?
A tough act to keep up all those years.
He played in Avalanche 1978
I’m here because of the Cleveland Brown show.
People are so ignorant
Does anyone know if the Doris Day press conference , in 1985 with Rock,in its entirety video exist or not .. there’s only about a 10 second clip online. I can’t find it anywhere although I have seen the Best Friends episode with Rock.
stacy bryant I’ve been looking for it for years in full , your right only short clips are on here , someone must have the full news conference, please load it
She had gone into seclusion after it was announced that Rock Hudson had died of AIDS
It was so heartbreaking to see Rock Hudson go on Doris Day's Best Friends Show. Mr Hudson was such a good man. A kind man. And I'm tired of lowlives that make fun of a person's pain and sickness. Anyone that it applies to should really do a reality check before their time comes!! It won't be so funny, when your in the same situation. Doesn't matter how!! Have some decency, and have some respect.
Pobre rock Hudson.
Opening reporter is the reason they manufacture makeup. Yiiiiikes!
Rock Hudson was such a MAN
A she man
Oh christ.....YOU ARE FUNNY!!!!
When hollywood preferred to keep people's sexuality behind closed doors.
59 that is way too young.
Babies die at birth
He looked so much older
i was 17 years old when i saw him make his coming out and revealed his homosexuality. He was in Paris with a french singer and actress: Line RENAUD. Aids at this time was considered like a new sodom and gomorrah destruction from anger GOD!
That time I am 16 age that time no h I v cases in lndi
How could anyone have known, is he going to look the same way from 1956 to 1985? people age...
Please don't run outside at the street!
Please walk outside at the street!
Please don't run in the store!
Please walk in the store!
Please don't run in this church!
Please walk in this church!
Please don't make your lot of noise in this church!
Please be quiet in this church!
Please turn around and do your work neatly and carefully in the classroom!
Please don't steal your food from your friends in the food court!
Please don't look at your friend's food in the food court!
Please don't throw your food on the floor!
Please don't drop your food on the floor!
Please don't punch your friends in this church!
Please don't kick your friends in this church!
Please don't hit your friends in this church!
Please don't fight for your friends in this church!
Please stay in your seat and don't get up off the chair in the classroom!
It's great
Gay people died not because of Aids itself but discrimination ....People don't understand that it is the personality that is the most important ..
He was diagnosed HIV/AIDS and continued to have unprotected sex with 1/2 a men that he never told. Real nice guy. There are people who have gone to prison for doing the exact same thing .
paparazzi creeps. >: -
Of course the most aggressive giornalista were British it is disgusting to see them here almost laughing when trying to take a bloody picture
who else is here from Destroy All Humans? i never even knew that Rock Hudson was a real person, i thought that he was just a fictional person from Destroy All Humans lol
After the movies ended he ended up on TV with McMillan and wife. Susan st James said Hudson was effeminate. What I thought was bad was him kissing Linda Evans in Dynasty, knowing he might have had the disease.
Really
Many old starts where gay
Were not where
Clearly, English isn't your first--or even second or third--language. You might want to try the time-honored procedure of mouthing the words after you've printed them. And don't forget to put a period at the end of every "sentence" you attempt.
@@maxalberts2003 who gives a damm about his first language not being English? Oh yeah , ignorant people do
He wasn't to ill to accept treatment.. Nancy Reagan wouldn't sign off on treatment for Rock Hudson .. Rock was at a French Military hospital but they wouldn't treat him unless he had someone high up in the US Govt to sign off.. Nancy refused to sign it and she wouldn't let Ronald sign it either Rock was hoping that their friendship would help in Nancy decision but it failed so the Hospital refused to treat him
Wrong
t@@nickrogers241 right
Don't spread this nonsense.
@@seanwebb605 for Christ sakes read it about i swear to Christ
Just don't put it in the butt and you'll be fine.
Don't be an idiot.
TOPS lived. Bottoms Died.
Oral Only guys lived.
UGH! Those nasty 1980s...all that homophobia, horrible hair and tacky clothes.
You didn’t like the thick hair ? And what was tacky about the clothes? Surely you don’t like the crap hairstyles, and clothes of today! All the skinny jeans ugh
Yes, but the 80's music was great
Excuse me the 80's were great best music best fashion and hair.. Not like today
Ugh back toyou. Whats so wonderful NOW?????? Great Fashion and Hair styles better than today
But great music and fun movies
Rumors are James Dean was gay too!
Cuauhtli Astorga they say he was bi.
@@thethrowawaythatstayed7055 we will never know if he was and nobody is talking
I think Dean was bi and did what he needed to do to get ahead in the business
@@nancyneville8700 It's already well-documented that Mr. Dean was brilliant. "Bi" is not the correct way to spell brilliant.
Not just rumors - it’s documented and James didn’t hide his relationships
Aids made it to California in the trunk of a Hudson ....
What a horrible thing to say. Shame on you
What a disgusting comment. Go to !!!!!!!!!!!
Disgraceful and evil!
I hope that he repent of his sin God grace and mercy 🙏
According to singer Pat Boone he prayed to receive Jesus Christ a few days before he died.
You know something?? People like you who judge and decide how people should live their lives are a disgrace!!! What sin?? Did he kill someone? Did he rob people? Did he dishonor his mother or father? See where I'm going??? Stop playing God, and let the man rest in peace. People like you make me sick!!!
@@albertdibari7874 They're just showing their ignorance.
@@albertdibari7874 Well said Albert!
What a waste!
The Bible says it's wrong!!! The Lord is my Savior!!!❤
Where is such a thing written?
@@seanwebb605 LEVITICUIS 18:22
LEVITICUS 18:22 CHAPTER 18 VERSE 22
@@frankbalazs8816 Spell it out for us.
@@frankbalazs8816 Spell it out for us. You appear to be the biblical scholar.
He could have lot of women but he chooses to have lots of men🐈....😂
You mean he was a she-man
I was shocked
Fucked Around and Found out