This just in…..

Our friend Paul G of Vidoesyncracies is helping us digitise all of our zillions of videos we have from the years. He just sent me the following two gems that came off of a 47 year old 3/4″ video cassette.. the kind used only by broadcast tv stations.. These are from 1974 when I was a 15 year old teenage newscaster on KHTV UHF Channel 39 in Houston texas

for two years I was one of a rotating group of 4 kids who did short 5 minute newscasts .. “News before the hour” in the morning and afternoons during mostly  kids programming  . It was an awesome job.. I got out of school to do it.. got my drivers license early in order to get there an back.. and I was Abel  to read the new wires every day I was there in 1973-74.. I read about the 7 day war, Watergate Nixon’s impeachment , the Vietnam war, patty hurst .  Skylab  all that stuff… directly from news wire..

I love watching these things with my crazy hair.. my Texas accent..

John Cohn teenage newscaster April 1974_Clip 1.mp4 from VIDEOSyncracies on Vimeo.

John Cohn teenage newscaster April 1974_Clip 2.mp4 from VIDEOSyncracies on Vimeo.

I can still see myself in this little kid..

can you ?

nite all, nite sam
-me