ABC News - World News Tonight - "News On A Different 9/11" (Complete Broadcast, 9/11/1980) 📺

Here's a 9/11 edition (but 1980) of ABC's World News Tonight as aired over WFAA Channel 8 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX; anchored by Peter Jennings in London, Max Robinson in Chicago, and Frank Reynolds in Washington.
Includes:
Opening (with preview of special assignment report on genetic engineering) (voiceover by Bill Rice), and headlines:
- Surgeon General declares toxic waste to be a worsening environmental threat; reports from Brit Hume on Capitol Hill [with comments from Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-NY) and Rep. Albert Gore Jr. (D-TN)], Jim Hickey in St. Louis, MI (about cattle at Comperda Farm quarantined after being contaminated with PVB from a nearby landfill; plus PCB in Ellisville, MO, about which Gov. Joseph Teasdale speaks) and John North in Los Angeles (homes in Fullerton and West Covina, CA exposed to toxic sludge; resident Mary Hammer interviewed); a greater look in Nightline is previewed
Sponsor billboard for Oil of Olay (voiceover by Bill Rice)
Commercials for:
Oil of Olay
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Insulation (featuring The Pink Panther) (voiceover by John Bartholomew Tucker)
- John Scali on training exercises in Egyptian desert where American pilots have been training Egyptian pilots to fly phantom jets
- Iranian President Bani-Sadr sniffs at Secretary of State Muskie's letter, saying it will make no difference in hostage situation (Day 313; video and audio cut out from 9:05 to 9:12, rejoining report in progress); followed by a look at power structure in Iran
- South Korean prosecutors demand death penalty for oppostiion leader Kim Dae Jung
- Charles Bierbauer on war games carried out by NATO and Warsaw Pact members
- Deputy Polish Premier meets with Soviet president in Moscow, and leader Stainslaw Kania vows that what triggered strikes would never be allowed to happen again; America cautions Moscow to carry out restraint
Stock prices
Commercials for:
American Florists Marketing Council
Mr. Coffee Rebate (with Joe DiMaggio)
Home Loan Money from Savings & Loans
- Republicans file FOIA request in 29 states over President Carter's use of funds in his campaign
- Barry Serafin on less-than-cordial reception for Reagan at union meeting in Buffalo, NY, then going to Erie, PA to attack Carter's energy policies
- Press secretary Jody Powell has nothing to say about any debates
- While John Anderson is campaigning in California, Ann Compton reports from New York on his campaign manager shilling for funds
Commercials for:
Dutch Boy Latex Flat Enamel paint (with Frank Gifford)
Schweppes (Buckingham Palace guard answers "call of Schweppervescence")
Ford (about car engineers in Germany, England and Dearborn, MI)
- Jules Bergman with last part in series of special reports on genetic engineering, about the making of Interferon; featuring interviews with molecular biologists Dr. Doug Foge, Dr. David Baltimore and Dr. Paul Berg, and Robert Swanson of Genentech Inc.
- DEA agents seize 20 tons of marijuana along San Francisco's waterfront, 16 arrested
- Corn crop is 16% less this year due to drought
Commercials for:
Minute Rice & Cheese
Old Spice (is that Parker Stevenson early on in the ad?)
Polaroid One-Step camera (with James Garner and Mariette Hartley presiding over barbecue)
- Greg Dobbs, in Bala, North Wales, reports on competitive simulation displays of shepherd with sheepdogs and sheep; Scottish shepherd Alistair Cutter speaks about qualities required
With that, the newscast ends
Promo for Monday Night Football Fever on Thursday (!) (voiceover by Fred Collins)
Commercials for:
Sleep Country - beds for only $399
Promo for Sat′·ur·day (about education for illegal alien children)
Hydrocurve ($89 for soft contact lenses)
Station ID / PM Magazine promo
Opening for News 8: The Scene Tonight with Tracy Rowlett (with Lalo Schifrin's "Tar Sequence" edit as from the movie "Cool Hand Luke" - and shot of General Electric PE-350 camera during one of studio shots)
This aired on local Dallas-Fort Worth TV on Thursday, September 11th 1980 during the 5:30pm to 6:00pm timeframe.
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[@michaelgoff4504]

This broadcast was closer to September 11, 2001 in time than 9/11/01 is to the present day.

[@FuzzyMemoriesTV]

Crazy, isn’t it?

[@joekerr7975]

Enviormental issues, Overseas war, Problem with illegal aliens, Presidencal Canadates not wanting to debate, Is this 1980 or 2024?

[@steelionx9255]

Perfect proof that everything was not perfect back then.

[@jamesslick4790]

SAME AS IT EVER WAS I was 18, didn't have a care Working for peanuts, not a dime to spare But I was lean and solid everywhere Like a rock

[@mysticakhenaton1701]

I was probably crying on this day, at 12. FIRST week back to school. LOL LOL

[@RussellB]

I was probably crying too bc I was just born

[@jamesslick4790]

I was likely high as all get out. I was 18, didn't have a care Working for peanuts, not a dime to spare But I was lean and solid everywhere Like a rock....

[@scottl.1568]

Turned 4 years old on this day, and my parents almost certainly watched this broadcast... I'm too young to remember it, though 😅

[@hrtvfan2870]

2:17 A VERY young Al Gore sighting

[@andyrose5616]

Norman Rose voices the Oil of Olay ad at 6:33. Ralph Bell voices the Minute Rice ad at 25:06 (with Thom Bray appearing as the “darling please” guy)

[@elizabethpeterson455]

The commercials are great. They were classy then...far cry from the ads today🙄

[@jamesslick4790]

I was 18, didn't have a care Working for peanuts, not a dime to spare But I was lean and solid everywhere Like a rock

[@WinterInTheForest]

There were white people in them.

[@jfilesgraphics]

"Bohm deedee Bohm" "Daa Daa Da Daaaaa......Daa Da Daaa Daaaa Da Daaaa" lol

[@NoName-zb1gm]

Back when news was news not opinion and not infotainment. Actually on Sept 11, 1985 Pete Rose broke the all time hit record.

[@benbrown3532]

This story was aired over 40 years ago. I wonder what our toxic waste levels are now?

[@allentoyokawa9068]

@@deckard97 no, that was china

[@cindylousutton2595]

Sure didn't get any safer or cleaner. Just a way to siphon off govt funds. The root of all evil.

[@patrickrancourt4782]

The day when i turn 10 Thanx to share this Happy & safe 2024 to everyone's from Patrick 😀

[@joshstephens3650]

I was almost 3 1/2 years old when this aired.

[@hopegrimsley3427]

It’s crazy to see Brit Hume, Al Gore, and Bob Dole 43 years ago.

[@steelionx9255]

No it's not crazy. It also won't be crazy to see Matt Gaetz and other Congress people his age 43 years from now.

[@jamesslick4790]

I know..Right? I was 18, didn't have a care Working for peanuts, not a dime to spare But I was lean and solid everywhere Like a rock

[@susandaniels9733]

M60 Tanks,our main battle tank then,105mm smoothbore.the M1 was proved vastly superior.

[@tkaye2]

0:38 The Library of Congress evaluating toxic waste levels? Huh?

[@DP-hy4vh]

Pbb in 90 percent of Michiganders. I wondered why people were acting nuts in my area back in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

[@homelessjesse9453]

When America was still at least somewhat normal.

[@robertmoir5695]

September 11th 1980 a day I vaguely remember just before I turned 19 I remember September 11th one year before 2000 I had a root canal I thought it was a drag and it was a long process but when your country is attacked by a group of terrorists and thousands of innocent people die That s worse than having a root canal

[@jamesslick4790]

$300,000 homes with upside down abandoned cars a few feet away...in 1980?!? FFS I'm from PITTSBURGH the "OG" city of pollution and "brownspace" wasteland and in 1980 $300,000 would have got you an entire BLOCK of houses...In the SUBURBS!

[@bdsnook3]

You got that News8 broadcast you teased us with in the last couple seconds? 🤞

[@FuzzyMemoriesTV]

Yep will post that eventually I’m sure

[@kascnef]

2 years after the news theme came out

[@troynov1965]

28:38 The Great Earl Campbell

[@ginocavazos2153]

21 Years Later The News on this Day wouldn't be simple unfortunately

[@TyroneEpps]

This is sad 😢 !

[@Julietta-zv9db]

😢😢😢

[@richardsclassiccommercials5534]

21 years later, well you know.

[@FlavioGirl]

a young albert gore jr.

[@george.s.8491]

And here we are. Look at all the autoimmune issues we have now. And then some. So many health issues for people, too many to list

[@bryanw91178]

My 2nd birthday

[@ginocavazos2153]

2:11 Future Vice President and should have been President Al Gore

[@jamesparker4471]

Gain of function

[@k30blzr]

Anyone born on this day surely had a terrible 21st birthday

[@mysticakhenaton1701]

it all depends on what side of the globe you were born on.

[@Chelaxim]

Have you seen the picture of a girl with her 16th birthday cake in front of her and she has a very glum look on her face while in the back on the tube TV is the news and it's 9/11

[@er1c175]

Especially if you worked there that day!

[@scottl.1568]

In my case it was my 25th birthday 😐

[@jayrogers8255]

My 1st girlfriend turned 22 that day.

[@clintonswaim]

Not sure if I like this lol

[@sherryhannah9262]

I hope y’all will reply to this this was the day before my 11th birthday

[@robertpalin2161]

2:28 Algore

[@coldsamon]

Always was a clown.

[@jks3849]

Algore take me away

[@gterrymed]

back when things were NORMAL! Things still made sense.

[@steelionx9255]

Not everything was normal back then.

[@StudioZ7]

People didn't think so then, with the hostage crisis in Iran, a bad economy, high unemployment, high inflation, etc.

[@gterrymed]

@@StudioZ7 I thought things were NORMAL; day camp, playing outside, waiting for dad to come home from work. Now we have all this Trump and LGBTQ garbage. What were you doing in 1980?

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

Back when Reagan asked shortly after this newscast if America was better off now than it was four years ago? Well 45 states sure didn't seem to think so!!

[@gterrymed]

@@JohnSmith-zw8vp back when you and your mom wanted at the top of the driveway for your dad to come home; did you have a childhood or no? Every kid waited in their driveway for their dad to come home in 1980 so to speak.

[@Nicksonian]

I voted for John Anderson, my first vote for president. I almost immediately decided it was a mistake. That’s why today I won’t vote for Robert Kennedy, Jr. Unfortunately, third-party candidates will never have a chance and will only act as spoilers.

[@MMAfighter38113]

I’m glad you realize the obvious. All I read nowadays, especially from young voters, is that third party is our only hope as a nation. Fact is, it’s mathematically impossible for a third party candidate to win

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

Not John Anderson the country singer right?

[@MMAfighter38113]

@@JohnSmith-zw8vp Right. Two different people

[@nicholaspiazza8687]

I thought for a second you meant the 09/11/2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

[@alitlweird]

*_*Vintage commie propaganda.*_*

[@raw_si_siht]

But really not that old when you step back.

[@alitlweird]

@@raw_si_siht I know. Just wanted to be the first to call it out for what it is. 🤪🤓😉😜

[@jameslong9921]

@@alitlweird You're talking rubbish, this isn't 'commie propaganda' how'd you come to that conclusion, no wait don't tell me, if it's anything like your original post it won't be worth two hoots

[@vollste]

Huh, Carter didn’t want to debate Reagan and now in 2024 Briben doesn’t want to either with Trump…

[@ginocavazos2153]

Why would he want to after the last time they debated it was just a shouting match mostly by Trump