Here's a complete broadcast of Eyewitness News at 10pm on WLS Channel 7, anchored by John Drury and Mary Ann Childers.

Includes:

"Don't Do Drugs" PSA with Kirk Cameron

Promo for The Jennings/Koppel Report (voiceover by Fred Collins?)

Mary Ann and John preview upcoming newscast, with Daily Lottery numbers (for Daily Game and Pick Four) shown at end

Commercials for:

Your Local Ford Dealer cash back on popular trucks

Swatch watch (a day at the beach)

Illinois State Lottery Lotto 7 "The Really Big Money"

Station ID / Oprah promo

Newscast open (voiceover by Al Parker), with stories:

White Sox end Milwaukee Brewers' 13game winning streak, beating them 71; Brad Palmer reports from Comiskey Park

Dick Johnson reports on new plans for new Chicago Bears' stadium, a presentation at Malcolm X College paid for by Rush PresbyterianSt. Luke's Hospital; among speakers are architect Bill Wallace, plus Pastor Arthur Griffin, West Side resident Addie Anderson, are interviewed

Waukegan judge rules Rockford man, John Adams, is legally responsible for child born to his soontobeexwife Ritaray through artificial insemination though he opposed it; Alan Krashesky reports, Andy Austin sketches

A meeting in Chicago (at 540 N. Michigan) on AIDS among medical experts, professionals and community leaders; excerpts of speeches from Dr. Mervyn Silverman, Founder for AIDS Research; Surgeon General C. Everett Koop; and Chicago Archbishop, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin

Controversy over rap song, "Condom Rag," and Governor Thompson refusing to include it as part of AIDS Awareness Week; a vocal group performs it outside WLS studios, and Thompson explains why he passed on it

Italian authorities warn of plot to murder prisoner Carmen Esposito, wanted in that country

Commercials for:

New York Carpet's International Carpet Expo 87 Sale

Illinois Bell "Phone First"

BASF VHS tapes

Oldsmobile 3.9% APR on key car models

More news:

Terrorist attack in Colombo, Sri Lanka, leaves 150 dead, or 305 over 5 days; blamed on Tamil militants

Suspected Nazi war criminal Karl Linnas handed over to Soviet Union

Bob Petty report on school board in Manteno reprimanding music teacher Edward Greybull (sp?) for locking reprobate students in closet; meeting lasted only a few minutes with many irate parents; Manteno Schools Supt. Bill Dixon reads punishment

Commercials for:

True Value Hardware Stores Springtime Sale (voiceover by Pat Summerall)

Northern Trust Banks

Castrol GTX Super MultiGrade motor oil (voiceover by Whitfield Connor?) (ending tag for Lee Auto Parts by Al Parker)

ADR Performance Software

News continues:

Opening of Terra Museum of American Art at 664 N. Michigan

Jerry Taft (in for Steve Deshler) with the weather

Chicago area native Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum, "Mr. Green Jeans" on Captain Kangaroo, dies in East Stroudsburg, PA at age 77

Commercials for:

Data General (with people singing "Someday We'll Be Together") (with actress Kathy Kinney)

Volvo comprehensive roadside services

Tim Weigel sports, starting with Sox win (and more from Brad Palmer, with comments from Dale Sveum and Paul Molitor), and going on to Cubs vs. St. Louis (and using a Warner Wolf phrase), American and National League game scores and NHL action

Commercials for:

[REMOVED] Chicagoland/Northwestern Indiana Chevy Dealers "We're Tearing Up the Town!" (removed and posted separately due to music rights issues:    • Chicagoland/Northwestern Indiana Chev...  )

Suncast Easy Link Watering System

Mita copiers (to tune of "Nobody But Me" a la Human Beinz)

Back to the news:

Frank Sinatra back at Chicago Theatre for return engagement; excerpt of him singing "I've Got the World on a String," after which Mary Ann and John close newscast

Commercials for:

Your Local Ford Dealer Ford Taurus

Illinois State Lottery Lotto 7 "It's Big, And It's Going to Get Bigger"

Wang Labs computer systems "Give Us a Day to Make It Work for You"

Promo for "Say No! to Drugs" Parade for May 9th, sponsored by Channel 7 and Chicago SunTimes

Station ID / PSA

(Nightline with Ted Koppel "Shock Radio" immediately followed, which you can see here:    • Nightline with Ted Koppel  "Shock Ra...  )

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, April 21st 1987 during the 9:58pm to 10:30pm timeframe.

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