KABC-TV7 (1974) Eyewitness News "SLA SHOOTOUT" Judd Hambrick, John Schubeck

KABC-7 May 17, 1974 / EYEWITNESS NEWS "SLA SHOOTOUT" Judd Hambrick, John Schubeck, Larry Caroll, Christine Lund, Chuck Henry..... all tapes are cleaned and baked before transfer. please keep in mind the quality Matters on condition of machines and how they were recorded plus tape stock Used. Also Many of These Recordings were Recorded Off Rabbit Ear Antenna, s Not Cable Tv Yet
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[@josephalfonsoamantia7028]

It's funny how a lot of people think that the 1970's was a better time, including myself, but when I watch these old news stories, people were nuts back then too.

[@kuahmelallah]

For real. Hearst & the SLA, Watergate, Jonestown, Hillside Strangler, Son of Sam, the oil crises, Iran hostage situation, Kent State, and more. Super crazy.

[@sexobscura]

Not any surprise at all Throughout our history - at any point - we've proved we're nothing less than psychotic

[@rickh3714]

In NZ we had our Jimmy Savile -Bert Potter - who I saw once as a kid at the local swimming baths with his hippy dip ship wives, Mr Asia Gang who killed a schoolmate with their heroin, Crewe Murders, Carless days, Presentless Christmas about the same time. Plus the level of car and bike accident deaths was v.high proportionately.

[@veronaraven3099]

@@kuahmelallah New York was nuts in 1977...

[@RickyJr46]

Reporter Christine Lund climbing the stairs and knocking on that apartment door? Extreme bravery!

[@davewanamaker3690]

Thanks for posting history. It is interesting to see how the incident was reported. Very fascinating.

[@marktubeie07]

I literally laughed out load at 00:43 when the _Eyewitness News Team_ all came into opening shot at once. Absolutely hilarious - the reporters were not on the scene, they were all in the studio congregating! Now I know for sure the skits re-created in the movie 'The Groove Tube' were dead accurate! Also a sign of good journalism as seen by the disclaimer stated at 04:47 , try seeing that nowadays!

[@bmasters1981]

"Also a sign of good journalism as seen by the disclaimer stated at 04:47 , try seeing that nowadays!" Unlike FOX and MSNBC today, where speculation is news!

[@LarryCarroll3]

On the contrary, Tubeie, we were ALL (except for the anchors) on the scene! By the time we did THIS show we were extremely grateful to have come back from that story alive! Our team was filled with real, professional, dedicated broadcast journalists who re-defined local television news because we WERE involved in the stories we reported. It took me 3 days and a quantity of valium to recover enough from that experience to return to work!

[@marktubeie07]

Larry Carroll I am sorry you read my comment as a serious statement. It was a comment about the objective observation of it as sent up in a movie of the same era. I work in the industry and I would not, for one moment, question the dedication of these people to do a great job in the light of the story at hand. Again, it was meant as a content on the scene in the studio, not a comment on the staff themselves.

[@josephalfonsoamantia7028]

This is how the Eyewitness News began. I remember this from a small child. I guess it was just their theme to start the news with the news reporters walking onto the set each time the news began. Also, as a child I always thought Larry Carroll was a cool looking guy, the only problem was that he always had bad news. LOL!

[@brettshepherd5240]

@@marktubeie07 LARRY CARROLL BURNED YOUR ASS...LOL

[@mukbangsareawesome6335]

I never knew John Schubeck was at KABC. Wow.

[@feeshtacos]

That anchor hair looks safer then my motorcycle helmet ...

[@oldiesgeek454]

😆 And you just know it was heavily sprayed with Gillette Dry Look hair spray.

[@TheWorseOne]

I remember when this happened! This was 1 of 4 channels we could get at the time.

[@MacrossSD]

That story about the Torrance crash -- I actually pass by that intersection (Hawthorne and via Valmonte) every day going to work. The area that the crash occurred is now a Truxton's American Bistro restaurant in the Hillside village professional and shopping center, as far as I could tell from the footage. And, yes, Newton/Hawthorne is still a more heavily-trafficked intersection just a block to the north, as it's a shortcut for people cutting across to the Pacific Coast Highway.

[@HappyHands.]

I'm upset and depressed that i actually remember the Honda commercial

[@toastnjam7384]

I grew up in LA and the entire shootout broadcast live. I was riveted to the TV.

[@Mark-Smeaton]

7.35: The cops refused to allow the fire brigade to put the fire out for at least a full hour? I had to rewatch that -:I thought I must have misheard but it got worse. The cops were captured on film screaming abuse at the firemen who were brave enough to ignore them and were trying to put the fire out. I'm no fan of terrorists but that was just barbaric - and yeah, I know they claimed the SLA were still firing but that would have been highly unlikely by the time the house was engulfed in flames (they were hiding in the Crawlspace under the house - it was almost definitely the sounds of unfired ammunition exploding towards the end).

[@AnthonyWilliams-li5mz]

I actually use the bank that Patty Heirst robbed it was the Crocker Bank in Downey. It’s no longer there.

[@cedricliggins7528]

There was a teller there named Angie. She was so pretty and nice

[@davewanamaker3690]

Larry Carroll great announcer and Christine Lund as well. She had poise on the scene. Good reporting. Did either go to the networks? Better than anyone on NBC.

[@micmac99]

This is incredible, dramatic historical news footage. It is from May 17th, 1974, in the middle of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapping furor with Patty Hearst, heiress to the Hearst/San Francisco Examiner newspaper/magazine publishing fortune. Patty Hearst survived this as she was in a different location (apparently watching this very coverage, or from one of the other stations), and was later involved in a bank robbery in Sacramento in which a bank customer was killed. Patty Hearst was convicted of bank robbery and served nearly a couple of years behind bars. Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence and Bill Clinton pardoned her. She ended up marrying one of the cops who was protecting her when she was briefly out on bail, starting a family and living a relatively quiet life to this day. The SLA was a domestic terrorist group led by highly radicalized left-wing activists. Six members of the SLA died in the fire dramatically shown in this footage. Rick, I don't know if people from Northern California have sent you tapes similar to what you have from Los Angeles, but if so it would be nice if you somehow also found news coverage from KGO Channel 7 in San Francisco (the sister station to KABC), where Patty Hearst is from and where the SLA was based. KGO was the highest-rated news station in the Bay Area for years, especially in the 70s. This was a HUGE, HUGE story in the Bay Area and I do recall it from my childhood. I'm not from LA but Southern California people can attest to the legend of Bob Banfield, Chuck Henry (still on the air to this day I believe), Christine Lund and the others at Channel 7.

[@josephalfonsoamantia7028]

Michael Sheldon Reed Christine Lund lives in Alaska and owns a small gift shop. Unfortunately Doctor George Fishbeck, who was the weatherman died a few years ago. I believe some of the others are still on the air, but I now live in Northern California and don't get down to Southern California too often.

[@waynewright2886]

Chuck is Still on the Air here at NBC 4 here in L.A. Just Watched him Tuesday Night on the 11pm NBC 4 News.

[@MrRJMGREEN]

Is that Theresa Saldana in the McDonald's commercial?

[@oldiesgeek454]

This was pre-Combo Meal McDonald's. 😊

[@DKHD176]

We go live to Ron Burgundy at the scene... Scotch, Scotch Scotch. I love Scotch.

[@andrewbrown1067]

Longtime KNBC anchor Chuck Henry (whose last day was yesterday) worked at KABC and is shown here starting at 17:05

[@MrRJMGREEN]

Poor Steven Weed!!! What she did to him was awful! He got even with his book!

[@1TexasTV]

No weather and sports?

[@waynewright2886]

This was a Major Shootout in South L.A. which Took Everybody Including the LAPD & FBI by Surprise on May 17th 1974.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Judd Hambrick (0:26) was a reporter in Baltimore in later years. WBAL-TV, I believe, but Baltimore it was.

[@RolloSmokes]

Judd never worked in Baltimore or at WBAL-TV. That was his brother Mike.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

@@RolloSmokes OK, thanks. I saw the name in a TV Guide. I never lived in Baltimore; I saw it it the Baltimore-Washington TV Guide. This was in the '70s, so I forgot the first name, but I do remember the Hambrick name.

[@brentmann2988]

35:31 John Schubeck's sideburns are awesome!

[@obsoletevideo6048]

Yes it was on 16 x 9. So now it's here in 4.3 Ratio

[@danieltaylor9275]

6:05 to 6:35 - from KNXT (now KCBS-TV)

[@RolloSmokes]

John Schubeck was almost on his way out of KABC-TV by this point. He left to rejoin KNBC six months later, in November 1974.

[@StudioZ7]

Patty Hearst not Hurst.

[@veronaraven3099]

The Circle 7 lives in NYC and LA (Chicago too)

[@joshstephens3650]

And Detroit, San Francisco, and Redding, CA.

[@MrWolfTickets]

4:25 - oh she was..... WHAT?

[@2345allthebest]

back in the old days, the news reporter walks right up to the door where the armed insurgents might be and knocks! wow

[@bmasters1981]

This event, believe it or not, is how a contestant named Erik Kraepelien unseated long-time champion Thom McKee on Tic Tac Dough in Thom's final appearance in 1980 (and became the new champion); the question about this is around the 10-min. mark of Thom's final broadcast here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmHHXpSMq7Gejac

[@jchow5966]

Anazing news reporting - amazing.

[@ericsamuelson5656]

9:05 Joseph Benti's then girlfriend

[@vincegay986]

American policing and American media at their worst.

[@martincaidin4166]

hairspray!

[@wonmoss0206]

The entire Eyewitness News team was in studio and probably a couple from KNX & KNBC.

[@bobkohl6779]

Eyewitness news is KABC, not KNBC. I worked at both

[@BrandenFudgey]

Is this American news?

[@waynewright2886]

Hell Yes... it Starting as the Kidnapping of Patty Hearst in February 1974 in the Bay Area & Resulted in this in South L.A. on May 17th 1974. Patty Hearst was Arrested by the FBI in September 1975 cause she Took Part in the Bank Robberies, She Was Sentence Around 76 or 77, was Out in Early 79 from Federal Prison East of San Francisco. She's Still Living & Married & Living in Connecticut.

[@oscarramos5681]

Yes.

[@kuahmelallah]

Chuck Henry is an L.A. news legend, but that hair was horrible! I also must acknowledge a young Bob Banfield looking like Robert Redford.

[@mshroye2]

Wasn’t this already posted

[@Baynewsvideo]

It's got a bug in the corner now.

[@sexobscura]

*COMIN' STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON*

[@oldiesgeek454]

It reminded me of Fred Sanford's neighborhood. RIP Red Fox. 😊

[@paleskinnybones]

Footage should be 59.94 FPS, not 29.97 FPS