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SouthBayDem

(32,777 posts) Sat Jul 12, 2025, 12:19 PM Jul 12

NBC Nightly News, June 24, 1975

This is an off-air recording of NBC Nightly News anchored by John Chancellor, as broadcast on WNBC-TV in New York on June 24, 1975. The program begins at the 1:10 mark after some commercials (including Purina cat food).

The lead story was about the Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 crash. A full outline of the show is here. Other stories in this edition:

AFL-CIO president George Meany criticized President Ford's economic policies.

The USDOJ revealed to Sen. Ted Kennedy that hundreds of Americans had been wiretapped without warrants since 1969.

The Senate CIA committee led by Frank Church investigates the CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.

This clip also includes the first few minutes of a WNBC news special about the plane crash. As a visual before that show indicates, Jeopardy! (then hosted by Art Fleming) was pre-empted.

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NBC Nightly News, June 24, 1975 (Original Post) SouthBayDem Jul 12 OP

I recognize John Chancellor--My parents really liked him. He was apparently a really good reporter hlthe2b Jul 12 #1

When I was a little kid in the 90s, my mom sometimes watched Tom Brokaw before dinner. SouthBayDem Jul 12 #2

When I was a little kid, we lived on the side of a mountain, so we only got one TV channel! Rhiannon12866 Jul 12 #3

hlthe2b

(110,699 posts)

1. I recognize John Chancellor--My parents really liked him. He was apparently a really good reporter

Reply to SouthBayDem (Original post)

Sat Jul 12, 2025, 12:45 PM

Jul 12

and a very professional news anchor.

SouthBayDem

(32,777 posts)

2. When I was a little kid in the 90s, my mom sometimes watched Tom Brokaw before dinner.

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 12, 2025, 01:41 PM

Jul 12

But I remember Peter Jennings was on the family TV most nights.

If I may show my age, Chancellor died just a few months before I started kindergarten.

Rhiannon12866

(239,158 posts)

3. When I was a little kid, we lived on the side of a mountain, so we only got one TV channel!

Reply to SouthBayDem (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 12, 2025, 10:26 PM

Jul 12

All of the others were blocked. It was the NBC affiliate, so my parents watched Huntley/Brinkley for news. And even after we moved and had choices, they still stuck with Huntley/Brinkley rather than the famous Walter Cronkite. They even stuck with the NBC affiliate's local news - Albany, NY - and Chris Jansing was the local anchor along with Ed Dague, a local progressive star.

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