Eyewitness News at 11pm - "More Boston Blizzard of '78" - WBZ-TV (Complete Broadcast, 2/8/1978)📺 ❄️
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- Here's another full broadcast of the 11pm edition of Eyewitness News from WBZ Channel 4 in Boston, MA, anchored by Jack Williams and Maurice Lewis (in for Tony Pepper), on the aftermath of the big blizzard of '78.
Includes:
Jack and Maurice previewing newscast
Commercials for:
TWA Round Trip Check-In (voiceover by Don Criqui)
Skippy peanut butter (with Annette Funicello)
Station ID - "We're 4 Boston"
News open, with following items:
State of emergency to remain for at least 24 more hours, Logan Airport closed to commercial traffic until Friday, and Harvard closed for first time in its 342-year history
Aerial footage of storm's aftermath shown
Coast Guard rescues 28 stranded crewmen from tanker at Salem Harbor
Army and Federal troops arriving at Logan to aid in rescue, evacuation and cleanup efforts
South Shore hardest hit, damage estimated in millions
Extra police and MP units on duty to arrest looters; hotels, motels and shelters crowded to max
Gas leak from 800,000-gallon storage tank from Union Petroleum at Revere East Boston line
Weymouth town selectmen vote to impose 10pm curfew, police to enforce a driving ban beginning at 5am
Scituate, RI hardest hit from storms, at least 2 dead; video of devastation shown, residents speak of ordeal
Army convoys from Fort Devens en route to North Shore
Coast Guard temporarily abandons search for possible survivor of pilot boat Can Do; 4 bodies recovered
Gov. Dukakis and Lt. Gov. O'Neill take helicopter tour of area
Dan Rea reports on arrival of troops at Logan
Thousands on hunt for new food with warmer temps
Advice to check on neighbors, especially elderly and handicapped, Columbia Point housing project without electricity since Monday
Roads still mostly impassable
MBTA still on hunt for snow shovelers - and tells commuters to stay home
Federal troops arrive in Rhode Island, followed by scenes up and down Eastern Seaboard
Commercials for:
Cinnamon Life cereal (with Mikey, Bobby and Suzie)
Promo for Evening Magazine
Possible breakthrough in Hillside Strangler case, Ned York is possible suspect; assistant police chief Daryl Gates speaks of developments
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat leaves U.S. after final meeting with President Carter, is on tour of European capitals; Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan visits New York, will work to curtail arms sales to Egypt
Senate starts debate on Panama Canal treaty; Sen. Robert Griffin outlines his opposition
Carter proposes boost to aid for 5 million college students, including 2 million middle-incomers
Three East Boston tenements along Marion Street on fire; several families evacuated, no reported injuries
Commercial: Melitta gourmet coffee
Closing stock update
Commercial: TWA Great Cities Sale (with Don Criqui)
Bruce Schwoegler with weather forecast
Another reminder of ban on all driving except emergency vehicles, hospital workers and MBTA employees
Commercials for:
Homemade Soup Starter
Kraft Thousand Island Dressing
Len Berman with sports:
Celtics' 4-game winning streak ends, lose to Kansas City, followed by other NBA scores
U.S. Figure Skating championships held in Portland, OR, Linda Fratianne has lead, Priscilla Hill of Lexington in 2nd place
Bruins game in Detroit may be cancelled due to snow; other NHL scores
Len relates his experience of a game called in two cities (Bob Cousy in the other)
Back to news:
Break-ins and looting cut down due to increase police presence in Boston, as reported by Sarah-Ann Shaw
Advice on ways to get around town while driving ban is still in effect - including skiing
And with that, the newscast closes
Station ID / First 4 News promo
First 17 seconds of open of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
This aired on local Boston TV on Wednesday, February 8th 1978 during the 11:00pm to 11:30pm timeframe.
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WOW! What a blast from the past. How on earth this came up in my feed I do not know.
I was very young, but absolutely remember the blizzard of '78. In fact just the other day, i was talking about it the other day with my mom. I remember seeing the national guard everywhere, duece and a half trucks, and hueys flying overhead. About six months ago I was visiting a friend when he showed me original newspapers from the day after the blizzard, wow to go back and read a complete newspaper (Herald American) was unreal, a bit like going back in time. Lastly, I don't miss the snow, but I miss all the people that have passed away since then, and most of all I miss my dog that I had back then. He was the smartest dog that I ever had, he was a mutt, but man what a dog. Add to that, it was my first dog, getting a little teary eyed just thinking about him. His name was King, and he may be gone, but not forgotten!! I'm sure people that have lost pets can relate.
I was 4 yrs young living North of Boston.
Shiloh she was the Best.
I was 6 years old and I still remember it!
RIP King❤❤❤❤
@realityqueen3173 thank you
I was 10 years old and still remember that "Blizzard of '78", 47 yrs today: it seems like 47 months or days though! From Jan. 3 till around early February, those frigid subzero temps had even shut down the local Post Office in Benton Harbor; and school was supposed to resume on 1/9/78: but Mother Nature (and The Lord God!) blocked all plans! Come Feb., it felt like a little 'heatwave' when the temperature rose above 33° (a big difference from about 4 weeks earlier!); and eventually, the Harbor is slowly getting back to normal, and the school system reopens! However, we all had to make up for the snow days in Jan.-Feb.: the last day was on Tuesday, June 27: then, our family members would travel to Bartow, FL in July: they went to a Spiritual convention, and I stayed at Grandma's house; the highlight of the Summer was "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty (and 6 yr old black girl Latasha Dixon was in the picture, driving a 2tone dark/light blue Chevrolet or GMC Suburban; with thick braided hair, deep dimpled smile and a few missing teeth, waving and blasting the radio!)!!
I was 17 and lived right on the coast in low lying area, 4' of ocean slush in the living room, we had to trudge through 3' of slush then 1/2 mile up the hill to grandparents, they had a real fireplace thank God for them. Next day I literally walked on top of our cars, frozen in ice.
Love the theme music!
Great to see that tonight show intro at the end!!! If you have any more with the full intro i have notifications on!!
From what I understand, that snippet of the open was a guide as to which edition of "EWN" on "TV 4" this was.
Wow.....I was living in Boston then. Still remember it as a surreal time!
Why surreal?
@@Cptblogh Just for seeing it happen and the aftermath. Like nothing before or since. Waiting to get into Star Market in a line that stretched across the entire parking lot. There was no power and they let in a certain number of people at a time to avoid widespread looting. Streets made passable by airport plows but the walls on either side of the road were ten feet tall. Snow that came to the bottom of stop signs that were on poles at least 12 feet high. To this day I make sure I am well stocked with dry goods by the end of the Fall....."just in case".
Something about the endlessly looping synthesizer bridge of that theme is like music designed to stimulate the most reptilian portion of your brain.
I was 15 and living in Chelmsford, Massachusetts during this 1978blizzard. My family and all of my friends remember no school and spending all day for days shoveling ourselves and our neighborhood out!
Thank God for the Future 🎆🌌🎆🌌🎆🎆🌌🎆🎆🌌🎆🎆
I was 6 but clearly remember going to church on the sled with my brother and sister, and having my grandfather pull me on the sled to the store.
I grew up in the 70's and remember watching the various Boston news channels. I don't remember Maurice Lewis, it looks like he was sitting in for someone in this particular newscast but he seemed to be an excellent newscaster, wish he had been a regular in Boston news
@@SteveIngalls-zm5ig Bob Ryan was on channel 5, he later went to the South
Amazing vid!!!
My mom and aunts and uncles survived the blizzard.
The Bruins did make it to Detroit for that game on the 9th and won too, the question is did they stay out there for the next one six days later in Toronto or come back home first, normally would have gone home, in all it was an extended road trip which ended on the west coast on the 25th and the only loss was at Chicago on the 18th.
@23:00 Soup Starter was very good 🥣 😊
I used it for beef stew by adding flour. Those were the days😊
Lived in Maine at that time. We didn't have Power for over a month. Thankfully my Father had the house heated using a wood stove.
If something like this would happen today as technologically advanced as we are today It would still take a month to get the power back on. And nowadays people would go nuts and probably revolt they wouldn’t have the thought and the ability for Wood burning Stoves for heat. Imagine how much more dependent our lives depend upon power? And I don’t even believe that half of the homes in the United States have backup generators or Solar Power for Backup Power.
At 14:30 there is a story about the Hillside Strangler case in Los Angeles, the suspect was not the actual killer.
With the advent of cable tv (remember how you wouldn't have commercials because you'd be paying for tv?) it seems news became "infotainment" and opinion.
Which is why stuff like this stands far and above any of the political junk that calls itself "news" today.
A storm like this would be fun, if you weren't what we call an "essential worker."
@@trueKENTUCKY Most of the working class are, sadly. But one of these days robots will do all of these jobs.
I was 18 yrs old living at the memorial school in hull with the military
At approximately 10:00- I completely understand that the National Guard has to eat too. However, shouldn’t they have already been prepared with their own food for that ahead of time? Doesn’t supplying the National Guard with groceries from a grocery store limit the amount of food available for the citizens?
Yeah. it's counter productive.
Satellite shots during the weather report still on black and white scratchy film, looking like it was out of the 1950s. This on a major television station.
As I understand it, the satellite images are actually supplied by the Weather Bureau, not by the television stations. The quality didn't improve until the the Weather Bureau began upgrading its equipment. Of course, the radar was already in course of improvement with the introduction of the Doppler system in the wake of the April '74 tornadoes. The upgrade overall was hastened as a result of the blizzards across the country in '77 and '78. Even so, it's amazing to contemplate what meteorologists were able to do at the time with the limited equipment they had.
The local stations got these Weather Bureau satellite "animations" on their daily news feed from the networks.
@@thomash.schwed3662 And the mediocre job they do now with incredible equipment. I guess back then, they had no excuses for being wrong.
The storm ended on the morning of the 8th. I watched the storm clouds clearing nantasket beach at 8:45 am
@@marioncobaretti2280 Well yes the clouds cleared but the precip was over several hours before that, for most intents and purposes.
1:16 that pb is not looking very smooth tbh 🧐
Len Berman in Boston before going to NYC
Never knew that ! And boy Don Crique was everywhere in 1980
But he was introduced as "Ken Berman."
25:11 short shorts ❤👀👀
These news guys had such great thick hair. What happened nowadays?
America was much better.
Gooooo Kansas City Kings
Maurice Louis is gone and fogotten not anything about this man on the internet
@@2010pjm Louis or Lewis
30:06
Oh you mean they had catastrophic weather before global warming?
Thanks to global warming in New England we rarely if ever see winters like this anymore.
That is ironic because after this storm and storm of 77 people were blaming this not on the Greenhouse Effect but instead on what they called the little Ice Age. There is no global cooling or warming for that matter this is something that happens naturally.