[Award-Winning WCSH News Coverage]

Datecirca 1959

Viewing NotesChannel 6 news anchor Larry Geraghty at news desk; talks about award-winning new coverage, shows examples of 'outstanding coverage of news events'; discusses report and shows footage covering 05/14/1959 shootings by Gordon Hamlin in Limerick, Maine, that killed his wife, Westbrook Police Chief Pierre Harnois, and wounded several State Troopers; footage includes man crouching by car, body brought out on stretcher, flags at half-mast for slain Chief, bullet hole in television set and bullet-riddled refrigerator, interview with State Trooper wounded during the shooting, interviews with sisters of the woman who was shot, State Police Cheif statement on the incident; Henry Magnusson report on 1937 slaying of Dr. James Littlefield and wife in South Paris by 17 year-old boy Paul Dwyer who fled to New Jersey with bodies in car, 1959 press conference footage with Dwyer on his release and innocence, footage of Dwyer in Rumford leaving hearing; Magnusson discusses 'Right to Know' bill/law with footage of first-ever footage of public hearings and Maine Legislature in action, report from inside House chambers; Lee Quimby on death of Governor Clinton Clauson with footage of swearing-in ceremony of John Reed as new governor and open casket funeral services for Clauson; Geraghty on daily coverage with action footage of blazing fire on Route 1 at Sam's Shopping Center in Scarborough