{"id":77016,"date":"2021-04-29T22:06:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T02:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=77016"},"modified":"2021-04-29T22:06:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T02:06:48","slug":"thursday-night-newsworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2021\/04\/29\/thursday-night-newsworthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; Newsworthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just in&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>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&#8243; 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<\/p>\n<p>for two years I was one of a rotating group of 4 kids who did short 5 minute newscasts .. &#8220;News before the hour&#8221; in the morning and afternoons during mostly \u00a0kids programming \u00a0. 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 \u00a0to read the new wires every day I was there in 1973-74.. I read about the 7 day war, Watergate Nixon&#8217;s impeachment , the Vietnam war, patty hurst .  \u00a0Skylab \u00a0all that stuff&#8230; directly from news wire..<\/p>\n<p>I love watching these things with my crazy hair.. my Texas accent.. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/543161770?byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/543161770\">John Cohn teenage newscaster April 1974_Clip 1.mp4<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user51372581\">VIDEOSyncracies<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/543163118?byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/543163118\">John Cohn teenage newscaster April 1974_Clip 2.mp4<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user51372581\">VIDEOSyncracies<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can still see myself in this little kid..<\/p>\n<p>can you ?<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<br \/>\n-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in&#8230;.. 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&#8243; video cassette.. the kind used only by broadcast tv stations.. These are from 1974 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2021\/04\/29\/thursday-night-newsworthy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; Newsworthy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77017,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77016\/revisions\/77017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}