August 1978 NYC News | That Was the News Then: Episode 1
The year was 1978: “Grease” was the hottest movie, Reese’s Pieces first hit the candy shelves and a gallon of gas cost 75 cents. This is what New Yorkers were watching on the news in August:
0:00 Introduction
0:21 Son of Sam serial killer
3:31 Crackdown on youth crime
6:46 NYC plagued by arson – and false alarms
9:31 New York’s major newspapers shutdown, strike
11:08 What the Knicks and Yankees were up to on Aug. 29, 1978
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