Here's an edition of The 9 O'Clock News with John Drury and Marty McNeeley on WGN Channel 9, incorporating the national INN - Independent Network News (anchored by Steve Bosh and Bill Jorgensen).

Includes:

End of Wall Street Journal Business Report with Jack Taylor

Station ID slide (voiceover by Jack Taylor?)

Opening titles (voiceover by Paul Rogers?)

John previews local news and sports stories, then introduces INN

INN opening titles (sponsor billboard voiceover for Brim decaffeinated coffee and Remington Micro-Screen Shaver by Bill Biery)

- Highway bridge in East Chicago, IN collapses, killing 13 construction workers

- Reagan unveils plans for tuition tax credit for middle-income families whose kids go to private school, as detailed by John Aubuchon

Commercials for:

Remington Micro-Screen Shaver - with Victor Kiam

Brim decaffeinated coffee

Burlington Coat Factory

Starcraft-Venture Pre-Season Camper Sale at Wheaton Rental Center (voiceover by Jack Taylor?)

- Part of Argentine fleet sets sail for Falkland Islands, while British armada approaches Ascension Islands

- First Americans evacuated from Falklands arrive in Miami

- Four Palestinians wounded in fighting in Gaza Strip

- Five convicted assassins of Sadat executed in Egypt

- Special report on today's all-volunteer Army by Eric Roberts

Commercials for:

Phillips Milk of Magnesia

Red Carpet realtors

Your Favorite Buick Dealer

Promo for Saturday Night Live

- Richard Townley on sentencing of Jack Henry Abbott (sketches by Bob Smith; interviews with Abbott's lawyer Ivan Fisher, victim's father-in-law Henry Howard, and Norman Mailer)

- Court gives Indiana couple permission to let 6-year-old die

- Jerry Girard on Minnesota Twins' Kent Hrbek

Commercials for:

Aspirin-Free Arthritis Pain Formula (voiceover by Peter Thomas)

South Dakota Tourism

- Drew Scott on survey showing 30% cheat on income taxes; featuring Sharon Aitkin and Sen. Bill Bradley (D-NJ)

- Business news

Commercials for:

National Enquirer

Ford - with Telly Savalas

- Antelope, OR residents vote to keep town from becoming HQ for Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh; reported by Tim Malloy; features interview with Don Smith

- National weather report

Sponsor billboard for Red Carpet realtors and Phillips Milk of Magnesia (voiceover by Bill Biery), with end credits segueing to local news:

- More on East Chicago bridge collapse; reports from Robert Jordan, Don Harris (with voices of James Brannock and Mayor Bob Patrich) and Muriel Clair (featuring John Pegg)

Commercial: Atari computers

- More on Reagan's speech (before National Catholic Educational Association at McCormick Place) as reported by Elizabeth Brackett (interviews with Jack Wuest of Alternative Schools Network and William Gallagher); next he goes to 8th grade civics class at St. Peter's Elementary School in Geneva where Larry Roderick gives rundown (featured are Sally Froelich and Linden McConnell, and students John Regole and Michele Boose)

Commercials for:

Stat-Tab (Statistical Tabulating Corp.)

ARCO (eliminating their credit cards)

Fireside Chrysler-Plymouth-Imports

- Tom Skilling with the weather

- Near-collision over Lake Michigan last month was much closer than first reported, according to FAA

- Sen. Charles Percy to ask Reagan to nominate Paul Plunkett as Federal judge, after Gov. Thompson's wife Jane takes herself out of running

Commercials for:

Dominick's Finer Foods - sale on round steak

United Airlines (with Joseph Papp)

Lincoln Carpets - Generic vs. Brand Carpeting

Good Year Tiempo All-Season Steel Radial tires

- Bill Frink with sports

- Illinois Lottery Daily Game number

Commercials for:

Al Piemonte's Auto Discount Outlet

WGN Radio 720 AM

Osco Drug

- Fire on first floor of Maywood building kills young woman and her son

- Reminder to get your taxes in by midnight

With that, John closes newscast

Ending, with weather recap on screen and voiceover promo for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Telethon (by Jack Taylor?) (incomplete; recording ends before newscast does)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, April 15th 1982 during the 9:00pm to 9:58pm timeframe.

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