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KTVX Ch. 4 [Salt Lake City, UT] - The Ten O'Clock News - "McCartney... |
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Not from Chicago, but elsewhere in the country, is an |
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excerpt of The Ten O'Clock News from KTVX Channel 4 in |
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Salt Lake City, UT, pertaining to the arrest of former |
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Beatle Paul McCartney in Tokyo for marijuana possession. |
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Introduced by anchor Bob Koop, a taped report from ABC |
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News' Mary Ann Maskery, relaying that McCartney and his |
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then-band, Wings, arrived at the airport for an 11-show |
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tour, scheduled for January 21st to February 2nd, with |
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100,000 tickets already sold. But at Narita International |
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Airport, customs officials found a total of 8 ounces (219 |
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grams - almost half a pound!) of marijuana in his luggage |
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and jacket pocket, and he was arrested on the spot and |
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put in prison for at least one night. He faced up to five |
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years in prison and a fine of US $2,000 if convicted, or |
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else expelled from Japan. The planned concert tour ended |
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up cancelled, promoters losing up to US $420,000 in fees |
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alone. |
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(Postscript: Ultimately Paul's time in "the pokey" would |
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last nine days; he would be released without charge and |
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deported back to England on January 25th. The aftermath |
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would also lead to the end of Wings' live career, and |
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then their final breakup the next year.) |
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Co-anchor (a young Kathleen Sullivan, before she "made |
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it" on the national news stage) then gives an incredibly |
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bad segue from that report to the Presidential race |
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before the recording ends. |
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This aired on local Salt Lake City TV on Wednesday, |
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January 16th 1980 during the 10:00pm to 10:30pm (Mountain |
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Standard Time) timeframe. |
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About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television: |
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The Museum of Classic Chicago Television's primary |
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mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early |
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home videotape recordings (70s and early 80s, primarily) |
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recorded off of any and all Chicago TV channels (or other |
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cities occasionally); footage which would likely be lost |
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if not sought out and preserved digitally. Even though |
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(mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the |
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entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs |
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with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for |
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historical preservation. For information on how to help |
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in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted |
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to DVD, and to view more of the 4,700+ (and counting) |
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