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Title
A name given to the resource
Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority publications
Description
An account of the resource
The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority was established by the Common Council on April 3rd, 1934, with the mission of managing low-income housing in the City of Buffalo. The collection consists of works published by the BMHA, including annual reports, retrospective histories, and others.
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Ten-year review of the activities of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority, 1934, ten years of progress.
Alternative Title
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10 Years of Progress
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Buffalo (N.Y.) Municipal Housing Authority
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1944]
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
2023-04-06
Subject
The topic of the resource
Housing--New York (State)--Buffalo
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
Rights
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Digital image copyright 2023 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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Text
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73 pages : 28 cm
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A language of the resource
eng
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An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
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Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
Mid-Twentieth Century (1925-1975)
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Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Buffalo
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An account of the resource
An accounting of the activities of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority since its inception in 1934.
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The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority publications
Description
An account of the resource
The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority was established by the Common Council on April 3rd, 1934, with the mission of managing low-income housing in the City of Buffalo. The collection consists of works published by the BMHA, including annual reports, retrospective histories, and others.
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
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Good housing for good neighbors
Creator
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Buffalo (N.Y.) Municipal Housing Authority
Date
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[1956]
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An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)
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Date of creation of the resource.
2023-03-29
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The topic of the resource
Housing--New York (State)--Buffalo
Publisher
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[Municipal Housing Authority] (publisher of original)
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Digital image copyright 2023 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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Text
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18 pages : illustrations
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eng
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An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
HD7304_B9_B93
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Temporal characteristics of the resource.
Mid-Twentieth Century (1925-1975)
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Buffalo
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An account of the resource
Report describing housing operated by the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority, including demographics of residents.
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Manual of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, N.Y. : April, 1888
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This collection of long-form reports by retired WIVB-TV Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg covers a wide range of social issues, Buffalo history and the arts. Mr. Newberg retired from the Buffalo CBS network affiliate at the end of 2015, after serving the station for thirty-seven years in various roles including main anchor, reporter and documentarian. <br /><br />His New York Emmy Award winning pieces explore the abortion debate, care of the mentally ill, the African American struggle for civil rights, and the lessons of the Holocaust, among many topics. His video memoir, “One Reporter’s Journey, “ reflects on his forty-six year career, beginning as an advocate for those without a voice. <br /><br />"My hope," says Newberg, “is that this collection will provide a lasting chronicle of life and issues in Buffalo during the latter part of the 20th century and into the new millennium."
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Terry Anderson, a journalist living in Beirut was abducted by the Islamic Jihad. They pushed Terry into the back of this green Mercedes and sped off.
Anderson was the longest held of more than a dozen Western hostages in Lebanon.
After nearly seven years in captivity in Beirut.
He was a reporter who became part of the story he covered.
I spent a year and a half solitary all together. It was the most difficult experience in my life. I almost went insane. Being held hostage and not being able to talk I discovered that I need people because we didn't know if we're gonna live
1985 to 1991. I and others spent those years in damp, dirty basements and small cells. I find it difficult to keep my hopes and my courage high
The last American to be free and sort of arrived with joyous welcome. Harry Anderson's exit marks the end of the American hostage ordeal in Lebanon.
All of us had a lot of problems. One of them went into a mental hospital and never got out before he died. I no one that looked at his family and said I like anymore and went up in the mountains became a hermit until he died of cancer. We were all damaged in a lot of different ways. And my problem was I sounded good. And I convinced myself and everybody else and I wasn't. I've been married three times and divorced three times. But you know you asked me if I changed. I'll tell you. My answer to that is I don't know. Ask my ex wives. Am I a jerk because I'm a jerk or because I was a hostage? I can't tell anymore.
I was very happy to get out but this was my homecoming. This is where my people are
That was a great celebration when I came up. We were having a bad time in America. I kind of symbolized something good. I believed in what I was doing, and I still do. But I started teaching I didn't have any idea what I thought I know this stuff. I'll teach them and they'll listen and I always tell students if you don't really have a passion for it, if you don't think it's something you really have to do.
Every year, dozens of journalists most donate their homes, underwritten. Fortunately, violence,
This is the most dangerous period for journalism we've ever had a lot of foreign journalism as being done by what used to call freelancers, independent journalists. They don't have much support. My daughter was one of those independent journalists. It's dangerous. It's also important. Being involved with the Committee to Protect Journalists. That's one of the most important things that I do because I'm so passionate about journalism. One of my friends had a strength sense of humor when I came home he said to me: how does it feel to know that when you die, no matter when that is no matter what else you've done your obituary will read Terry Anderson former hostage. I've come to the point where that seven years is important to me, but it's part of my life. It's not who I am.
It's hoped the end of the Gulf War will mean the end of captivity for Terry Anderson. The former Batavia resident is beginning his seventh year as a hostage in Lebanon tonight. Use for his rich Newberg within our nation's capitol today we're Anderson's family joined by other Western New Yorkers heard promises that Terry Anderson is not forgotten.
When these Washington school children were just coming into the world or learning how to walk, Terry Anderson was taken hostage in Lebanon. His sister Peggy say has kept the torch of Hope burning since her brother disappeared six years ago. Today she was reassured that a political solution may be close at hand for the hostages.
It will be an act of governments. We're closer now than surely we have ever been. Your government has not forgotten. Many.
Former hostages placed yellow roses next to the names of those who have died at the hands of terrorists in Lebanon before the Desert Storm.
A new world order that cannot happen as long as there are hostages anywhere in the Middle East.
As the Dooleys of Buffalo made their plea to the captors, children marked the second two months of Terry Anderson's captivity. It is a haunting image that never lets go of those who have volunteered to help. There was a strong western New York presence here in Washington today measured in terms of personal commitment among those who made the journey here. I knew that if my brother was in this situation, I would want others to help me.
Me to hear things like this and I just want to do all I can to support them
Washington school children marched for the hostages today, while petitions from students at Union East Elementary and Cheektowaga. Were ready for delivery to President Bush and the torture of Hope continued to burn in Washington Rich Newberg News Four update
Attention was punctuated by the beating of the helicopter blades thank you so you stared straight ahead showing little emotion until Terry Anderson emerged. Then with tears in her eyes. She rushed forward to embrace her brother. Flashing thumbs up thank you overworld for six and a half year mission was complete. As they walked toward the hospital entrance, Terry broke away to greet the tours of reporters and photographers, his colleagues, journalists thanking them personally for keeping the faith a wave to the crowd with six year old Sulamei by his side, the daughter he has never known.
Then he emerged on the hospital balcony with fellow hostages Joseph Scipio and Alan Steen, all basking in the warmth of their newfound freedom. And despite the ordeal of six and a half years captivity, Anderson displayed the good humor and charm which provided so much comfort to the other hostages when they were being held. He had some fond thoughts for the people who kept vigil in his hometown of Batavia, New York
I will be up there to see you soon I hope. I owe them a lot.
Andy had high praise for the dog a determination of his sister and her global efforts to free up
It's great to have a sister like that.
Anderson is resting now he will undergo a battery of medical tests. But the people at the V's bought in the hospital who have seen many of the hostages come and go see Anderson looks surprisingly fit and well. Some describe them as being robust.
The release of Terry Anderson from years of brutal captivity has brought a mood of jubilation to his hometown of Batavia. That's where rich Newberg joins us now for a live report, Rich?
Thanks, Jackie and Kevin. There was some uncertainty here at the beginning of the day, but by day's end, Batavia breathed a collective sigh of relief and now if you follow the yellow ribbons on Main Street, they will lead you here to the engine house. restaurant, where a party is still going strong. Night Batavia celebrates a party six and three quarter years in the making.
My feelings are just great. I've been jumping up and down all day long. I said I haven't even been able to do the things I'm supposed to do because I forgotten what that was.
And everybody is just almost giddy. They're so happy to see how this person we can be so proud of him.
A prayer service at the Salvation Army headquarters in Batavia brought people together for a more solemn reflection on the past six years and on the day when Terry Anderson was taken captive.
Since that day, the people of this community have never given up hope. There has been a constant vigil of prayer surrounding Terry and his family and his loved ones. And today we gather in a day of celebration. Terry has been released.
As Terry Anderson emerged from captivity and made his way from Lebanon to Syria, his relatives and key supporters here in Batavia were monitoring every move as the drama unfolded on television. Terry Anderson's videotaped appearance reading a message by his captors, gave his sister in law some reassurance that Terry was not only coherent, but apparently in good health.
He looks healthy, feisty as ever. I fully expect that he's going to cope with everything that's coming his way.
When live pictures of a free Terry Anderson were carried on network television. Terry's former high school classmate Steve Hawley was amazed at what he saw.
I think he looks unbelievably good.
It looks better than than any tape we've ever seen him use. It's got an unbelievably good sense of humor. He just said to somebody, you've had a wreck for seven years and I have and we know that's not true.
They were personal, quiet statements made today by those who had to express themselves. The protective covering over the bust of Terry Anderson at the Genesee country mall was removed. So Peggy Says cousin Linda could place a yellow rose and a dog near Terry's hand and the chain that symbolized his captivity. And McDonald from Batavia Middle School, felt compelled to do something to express her joy. She was six years old when Terry Anderson was taken captive.
And we're so happy he's out because I can just imagine how terrible it was for him over there.
So it's party night in Batavia, also a night when people here are looking forward to the next step, a homecoming for Terry Anderson. You know, many of those who worked so hard to free Terry Anderson really never met the man and they are just waiting for the time when he comes back to Batavia the place that his sister in law said today, he still calls home.
Rich, over the last six and a half years you have been down to the Batavia community many times covering different aspects of the story is the one word that you could use to describe the emotion tonight. Is it a collective sigh of Thank God it's over?
Sure it is. It's relief, but Batavia of course has been put on the map nationally and perhaps even internationally and there's a I think a feeling of pride. I think that's the word I would use for Batavia tonight proud of Terry Anderson and the fact that he spent his boyhood right here in Batavia, New York.
And Rich you've watched the transformation in that city today, haven't you? It's been six and a half years in the making for the celebration, but you've been there all day long and you must have been seeing signs and ribbons go up all day.
Oh, yes, I was out there with the ribbons. Shoolchildren were putting up ribbons that that really was the lesson because these kids were just starting school when Terry Anderson was taken captive and they and they've learned the meaning of freedom over the years. And Terry Anderson represents to them. A symbol of hope and courage and now freedom.
It'll be wonderful when they can break that chain on that piece of artwork at the mall down there.
There'll be a great day and I hope she comes here soon.
You've done a great job. Have a good night and thank you very much for the repack if
you're watching WIVB TV
News Four Buffalo with Bob Carroll Jimson meteorologist Chuck gurney and Van Miller with big board sports. This is News four and six.
Better late than ever Jerry Anderson gets a pile of belated birthday wishes.
Good evening, everyone. He took the Big Apple by storm on his us arrival.
Tonight. Former hostage Terry Anderson is the star attraction in the nation's capital. As news force. Richard Newberg reports now it has been another day full of smiles and welcomes
With his daughter and Sulamay's mother by his side. Terry Anderson was broken home to freedom with a ceremony featuring schoolchildren mocking each of Terry's seven birthdays that passed while he was in captivity.
And children. Let's hear it.
It was a moving ceremony but not without its lighter moments. from our Washington Redskins kicker Mark Mosley presented Terry Anderson with a team chiding him about being from the Buffalo area and supporting the Buffalo Bills
I put my autograph on this ball but this year's and I have to say this was tongue in cheek as Terry is a Buffalo Bill fan, but this year is coming Superbowl fans but I really feel it's probably gonna be between the Washington Redskins and the Buffalo Bills and we'll have to wait and see the TV.
Peggy Say says she relied on moral support from Western New Yorkers who had joined her in Washington.
Well, Batavia and thank you for all the support. We'll see you down the line.
Terry Anderson has said he wants to get on with his life. He still said he was overwhelmed with his Washington welcome. But on a political note, I asked the former hostage what he would tell President Bush at a meeting later in the day.
What I said before I think he got it right I think he did the right thing. It took a long time. It was frustrating to enormously difficult and complex question. But all the Americans are free now.
And then in between the President and several of the former hostages gave the chief executive a chance to reflect on the impact of the past three and a quarter years. Your
light on the simple truth that days and years apart. burn away the trivial things we once thought had value to reveal what truly matters in life, family, faith, hope and love.
Now, in just a few minutes, the President with some of the former hostages present will light the National Christmas Tree. And Bob and Carol I guess it's worth noting that this will be the first time in eight Christmases that no American is being held captive in Lebanon.
It's good to see him there at the White House. Rich I saw him in baseball and you've seen them now in Washington. Do you get the impression they just want to get these welcome homes behind them and actually get home.
He's a very gracious man but through the smiles and his moves are starting to feel a little lumbering as he as he moves he can tell he's strained a little bit. Doesn't want to answer any more questions. You had trouble with my question. Didn't want to really answer it. But he is always gracious. He is a wonder with a crowd. Whether it's one on one or with a crowd. He's something and to be in his presence was really an honor today.
Okay, Rich Newberg reporting live from Washington, DC. Thanks very much.
Well, he was held hostage for years in Lebanon some two decades ago. And now news four's Michelle McClintock reports. Former AP Middle East correspondent Terry Anderson is bringing a message of peace and freedom to his hometown of Batavia.
It's hard to believe it was over 25 years ago that Terry Anderson was captured in Lebanon in 1985. Western New Yorkers became very familiar with his story because Anderson is originally from Batavia. His sister Peggy se worked tirelessly for six and a half years to free her brother from the hands of Hezbollah Shiite militants to be released several times over the past two years. The former Mideast correspondent for the AP was held captive for seven years in the Middle East. Anderson says the current turmoil in the region is evidence that people there are yearning for freedom.
I think it is particularly poignant. Right at the moment after you watch the 85 million Egyptians stand up in peace, to claim their freedom.
Anderson is on the Committee to Protect Journalists, an organization that monitors attacks on the press. Ironically, Lara Logan is on the board of directors. She's the CBS News correspondent who was brutally attacked last week in Cairo.
They burned Al Jezerra's office, they confiscated their equipment. They beaten the rest of journalists. Why? Because they knew as long as those journalists were free and telling the story that people were gonna win.
Anderson says he doesn't miss reporting. He says he has a greater mission now to promote peace. That's why he's back here in Batavia. A new peace garden will be planted here to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812. And as he looks back to the Middle East, Anderson says he's hopeful for peace and a region so badly in need of freedom. Michelle McClintock for the 10 O'Clock News.
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Terry Anderson, who grew up in Batavia, New York, was abducted by Hezbollah militants in Beirut, Lebanon on March 16, 1985. He was serving as the Associated Press’ chief Middle East correspondent at the time he was taken hostage.
Anderson was held for six years and nine months, the longest of a group of Americans taken hostage at the time. The abductions were an attempt to drive U.S. military forces from Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war. Anderson was released on December 4, 1991.
From the time of his abduction, his sister Peggy Say worked tirelessly for his release. Her efforts were covered extensively by the Buffalo news media and often made national and world headlines. She was perhaps the most covered of all the hostages’ relatives.
On December 4, 1991, Terry Anderson was finally released by his captors. His 2,455 days as a prisoner included about a year and a half in solitary confinement. WIVB-TV anchor, the late Bob Koop, traveled to Wiesbaden, Germany for Anderson’s first meeting with the press. His report includes Peggy Say’s joyful embrace of her brother, one of the most moving moments of his newly found freedom.
This series of reports begins with a CNN recap of Anderson’s ordeal and later life activities. A sequence of reports follows, beginning with the time leading up to his release, his reunion with his sister, first statements as a free man, reaction in Batavia, and finally, Anderson’s return to Batavia in 2011 while on a “mission of peace.”
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This collection of long-form reports by retired WIVB-TV Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg covers a wide range of social issues, Buffalo history and the arts. Mr. Newberg retired from the Buffalo CBS network affiliate at the end of 2015, after serving the station for thirty-seven years in various roles including main anchor, reporter and documentarian. <br /><br />His New York Emmy Award winning pieces explore the abortion debate, care of the mentally ill, the African American struggle for civil rights, and the lessons of the Holocaust, among many topics. His video memoir, “One Reporter’s Journey, “ reflects on his forty-six year career, beginning as an advocate for those without a voice. <br /><br />"My hope," says Newberg, “is that this collection will provide a lasting chronicle of life and issues in Buffalo during the latter part of the 20th century and into the new millennium."
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Bread for the needy was distributed to 20 different social agencies today in Buffalo, but as Rich Newberg reports the giveaway is viewed as only a beginning.
The first few cases containing some of the 3500 loaves of bread on hand, were loaded into a car on its way back to a daycare center in the city. The bread was donated by am and A's and though this is the result of a two year grassroots effort at getting a food bank network underway, its organizers candidly admit that the impact of this giveaway will be minimal.
A drop in the bucket, a drop in the bucket, but it'll begin it'll it'll start the ball rolling and that's the big thing. Other .. other people will have food to give and they'll suddenly be aware of the fact that they're hungry people and there's an agency now to deal with it. That's the big thing.
I live a block away.
Willie Simmons was also thinking about food as he tried to keep warm near a trash can fire. He was thinking about feeding his two children. Willie Jr., seven, and Melissa, three. Their father was laid off three years ago as a shipping clerk. So now Willie Simmons tries to hustle a few bucks as the big refrigeration trucks pull into the loading docks.
Basically down here. It's just the truck drivers be down here trying to cut you know, whatever. unload trucks load them up. Well, you know, it's hard to get diapers and milk and the eyes and ears, clothes and shoes.
Willie chooses to avoid charity to provide for his children. But the bread that is now being distributed is for families that simply cannot make ends meet families that will gladly receive their fair share has been really difficult. I mean, you barely can make ends meet and you got to turn to the social services and they blacking out some people and some people didn't like noon and you just got to make the best of it. Well, you put a piece of butter on it and you can make a meal. You really can't and bonus. This bread is being dispensed at CAO headquarters at Harvard place where they say the job of feeding the needy is never over. Rich Newberg, news four, Buffalo
His name is Harvey Bryant and right now that appears to be all that he has in life. A named rich Newberg reports now on a man who has taken up residence underneath the New York state thruway.
This is home for 67 year old Harvey Brian. A few pieces of cardboard shielding him from the elements under the Thruway at Scott and Columbia streets.
Recreation for Mr. Bryant is rolling a cigarette from a piece of newspaper. He does it in one smooth, uninterrupted motion.
It is a skill he perfected while drifting from city to city for 30 years. Harvey Bryan is a hobo.
He laughs when you ask him how he survives.
Can this be a little bit gray if you have to go into the trash to get the food? This Mr. Bryant who says he has lived here for five months is concerned about the buffalo winter ahead. He says his health is failing. I'm sick already. I'm sick -- is pretty bad.
While the rest of us entered Good Samaritans Richard Williams and his fiancee Dorothy Liu. They befriended Mr. Bryant this week and they can't understand why nobody has helped. I think it's a shame.
You shouldn't have to live like this. Who's going to do anything? That's how I want to know what is he going to get help? No. The answer is yes. Because Mr. Brian's two friends brought his situation to our attention. We got the city involved.
Two men from the Department of Human Resources found Harvey Bryant toting a railroad tie for firewood. Buffalo has had some frosty nights this week.
I think everybody should have a proper place to live and this is this is really deplorable. And we're here to help Harvey and we're gonna see that it's done.
Mr. Bryan thanked us and said he would be grateful for a roof over his head. He left behind his dinner of two rather crisp pieces of pizza and most of his worldly possessions, Catholic Charities and the city of Buffalo will make sure he is well fed and properly cared for which Neubert news for update.
Buffalo soup kitchens are expecting a very busy winter this year but as rich Newberg reports for us now the city is gearing up to help those whose needs are the greatest.
Could be a long and cold winter for Buffalo's hungry and homeless population. Matthew.
Demand for food and shelter may be greater than current facilities can provide. We know it's gonna be tough. Well, there's more and more hungry people coming in every day more we see more new faces every day. Last week we found Harvey Bryant living under the New York State Thruway we learned today he is being observed at the VA hospital for possible neurological damage due to muggings. city agencies that finally came to his aid found he was unable to collect his social security benefits because he has no permanent address. But the problem As winter approaches goes beyond the so called street people. Could you end up on the streets this winter.
Diane Cole is living in a house without furniture with her two sons. What happens if you don't get furniture? Because I wouldn't be homeless I won't even know where to go to children.
What are your concerns about them?
How to do everything to ward off a possible crisis. This winter. The federal government is making millions of dollars available to cities across the country and buffalo we'll share on that funding. We would like to make a collective effort so we can get everyone together, bring them together and cut some of the red tape that it takes to help some of our homeless people. For those looking toward winter with sorrowful eyes. There is now hope hope that the Harvey Bryant's will be few and far between rich Newberg views for Buffalo
Here's a man who feeds about 200 people a day in his soup kitchen on Massachusetts Street here in Buffalo News. Ford's rich Newberg now has the story of a man who discovered his calling the hard way. Come on, here we go. can eat all that nobody goes hungry who enters Sunny Beat's soup kitchen known as helping hands do they get a hug and everybody knows they are welcome here. For me. It's a satisfaction that I'm able to help.
There were times when I needed help and no one was there. Sonny Nieto knows what it's like to be down and out. He went through a painful period in his life, but even when he was committing crimes that landed him in federal prison. He never forgot the poor. It was nine years ago when Sonny Miotto went to prison for writing bad checks. He had been addicted to prescription drugs for a skin ailment that still leaves scars all over his body today, put yourself covered with crawling neons and being stung with bees the same time though he was confused and sick at the time. He acted like a modern day Robin Hood using the stolen money to buy food, clothing and furniture for the needy. I guess it's always been in me to help people. I always wanted to be a monk good preaching hopefully like that, but never did achieve them. So this was my way of doing it. Now Sonny Nieto operates his soup kitchen and food pantry through donations. Many of those he helps don't know his story, but they realized they would be lost without helping hands. I don't know where I would be. I mean, I would probably be out in the streets looking for food.
So what motivates this man who runs Helping Hands faith? I think he has faith in himself that he wants to help people. If we can't help somebody along the way. What good are we good at we were nothing rich Newberg us for update
Life will go on for the man who just wants to be called Jeff.
It's day one just as life goes on for 100 to 150 others who on any given day live just out of sight in buffaloes tunnels under bridges and abandoned homes and in the streets in order to go over to cold blue tonight the van will be there. Okay.
Stay warm. While there are well over 5000 homeless people a year in Erie County. Who are in and out of shelters. Only a small percentage, perhaps 50 or 60 will try and tough it out. When the weather becomes severe. Jeff was one of them.
Most of the time was wildlife.
Survival was only in real bad weather. Jeff somehow survived for two years, mostly living around this shopping center in North buffalo until the blizzards and the bone chilling temperatures of recent unrelenting buffalo winters. Finally, claimed both of his legs.
Yeah.
Jason Flores who reaches out to the homeless for the matt urban Hope Center had become concerned when Jeff could no longer be found.
He finally tracked him down at the Erie County Medical Center where Jeff's life had been saved before after frostbite had earlier claimed some of his toes and part of one of his legs. This time, Jason made a vow at Jeff's bedside. We'll do what we have to do. Jeff will not return to the streets. We'll make sure that Thanks Jeff. We're gonna miss you. I'm gonna miss everybody. Jeff now is about to begin a new chapter of his life, mustering up the strength that helped him battle alcoholism, and long stretches of time without a job. He was once a cook. arrangements have been made to place Jeff in his own apartment. That's where he is heading now. But he has concerns.
In the farming neighborhood, I've never been there before. I got to meet new people and everything. So that's a wheel. But this time Jeff has a network of people who not only believe in him, but are in a position to help what you're trying to instill in him. That he's gotten. He has what it takes to to to get past this and he can live safely. Jeff is now part of the housing first program, which places the chronically homeless in permanent supportive housing. He's in an apartment he's not in the street sees he has food, he has clothing, he gets a phone. Yes TV, everything needs to move on to the next level in his life. But that last part solely rests with Jeff now. He's taking a positive approach. I can reach the door hangers on your closet. I'm not worried about that. There will be help for him to reach new goals. I appreciate the help. I definitely want to get back to work if I can. I'm sure there's work out there at some point. You got to have a positive attitude. I've got 10 I'm gonna get get through and get by
Jason Flores has something to offer to the homeless people he is about to encounter me come into to offer them hope to hook them up with services. He knows where they live.
They live in the places where life passes them by staying warm. Do you want to go into shelter? cold blue tonight.
Want somebody come pick you up?
The man declined shelter but knows where the van will be parked? If he becomes desperate. As ironic as it is, you know, in the shadows of the million dollar buildings that were building down the canal side. We still have homelessness. You know we still have people sleeping under bridges and, you know in tunnels here under this tunnel next to these railroad tracks. A homeless dormitory of blankets and mattresses on hard rocks.
It looks like there's some probably two people sleeping here you see some some woman's undergarments here and most likely a male is probably accompanying her. This shivering raccoon is now living in this space that jar Vaughn brown used to call home setup right here.
Right now they're outside homeless people just appear nobody's around anymore. It's just you in the streets. And if you can find someone to help you, it's a blessing. Jason Flores was a blessing to Javon. He worked with him for a year after finding him under a frozen blanket. And he was laying in the blanket and it was literally a sheet of ice it was frozen solid. Giovane now works at the Matt Urban Hope Center and plans on earning an associate's degree in business. He is proof says Jason that every living soul on the street can be say his story is what keeps me going.
Clients that are difficult to work with and hard to engage with. I just think Javon and did the effort that he put into it. Eventually it does pay off in the end
Well, the bars that went up under these bridges have had a chilling effect on relations between homeless advocates and buffalo city police. The bars stretch across the concrete slabs were Buffalo's homeless find shelter from the elements homeless people like Pierre and others suddenly disappeared from sight and from the outreach workers who were trying to help them. Now we can't find them. So it can't find you. You can't house you, you know, so it's just more challenging for us to be able to find them. There are more than three dozen chronically homeless people who live like this in Buffalo and there have been coordinated efforts with the police to get them off the streets and into housing. But no warning was given even though Buffalo Police knew the bars would be put up by the State Department of Transportation. We get blindsided by a narrow minded approach that actually makes it more difficult for us to achieve our goal. Buffalo Police say there have been community complaints about heroin needles on sidewalks and public lewdness, but agencies dealing with the homeless would like to have had at least a heads up because once you violate somebody's trust, it's hard to rebuild that. Coming up at six why Buffalo was positioned to become a city solving the problems of the chronically homeless, Rich Newberg, News Four
How sweet it's been to see buffalo, Bing again, is going to be back it's going to be bigger and better than it ever was before, with a billion dollars earmarked by the state for growth and development
Buffalo's on the move
And yet we are a city still struggling with issues of homelessness, inner city crime and failing schools with stagnated within it changing superintendents and in an environment where we see all kinds of opportunities opening up for people. It's not happening for the poor and minority people in the city. of Buffalo. We are still one of the poorest cities in America.
It has always troubled me deeply to see the chronically homeless living in the shadows of the city.
Stay warm if you want to go into shelter, get your vital. Some I got to know including Jeff, most of the time was away life. Survival was only in real bad weather. Jeff somehow survived for two years, mostly living around this shopping center in North buffalo. Until the blizzards and a bone chilling temperatures of recent unrelenting buffalo winters finally claimed both of his legs.
Yeah, I followed his story even as he was given his own apartment. Thanks to the outreach agencies. That are making great strides to eliminate chronic homelessness and buffalo. But only months after I reported on Jeff's attempt at a new life. I learned that he had passed away reverting back to drinking, compromising his health even further. A Life in the balance should we be doing more to help the mentally ill cope in society? I raised that question 16 years ago, working with Tom Vetter, a gifted photo journalist with a deep social conscience. We entered the world of men and women trying to desperately eke out a life in boarding houses and on the streets are physically more intense. I can't handle it when I'm off my medication and then just try and commit suicide.
They were existing from day to day, but many could have received much greater care. You have to meet all the needs. If you meet only part of them. It falls apart
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1 In 1979 the Buffalo Food Pantry was created to assist residents who couldn’t afford to feed their families. As the project developed, there were still independent efforts to feed the hungry. In 1980, the Bread Giveaway was one such effort. An organizer expressed the hope that the community would become aware of the fact that, “There are hungry people and there’s an agency now to deal with it.”
Only half a block away from the place where bread was being distributed, a poverty-stricken, laid-off shipping clerk tried to offer his services to load and unload trucks in a desperate attempt to provide milk and other essentials for his two children.
2 For some of Buffalo’s homeless, living quarters are concrete spaces under the New York State Thruway. Some use cardboard to shield themselves from the elements. 67 year old Harvey Bryant was one of them. He was a “hobo” who was barely surviving on food from trash cans. His health was failing when a Buffalo family came to his aid. The City of Buffalo’s Human Resources Department and Catholic Charities were made aware of the case and immediately provided Mr. Bryant with shelter, while also addressing some of his other basic needs.
3 Buffalo soup kitchens faced increased demand in the 1980s during a period when the city experienced economic decline. Families suddenly found themselves in dire need. The federal government set aside money for cities hoping to do more for the homeless and the hungry. Buffalo’s Department of Human Services vowed to cut through red tape in order to help the neediest.
4 Sunny Miano, a modern day Robin Hood, stole money to provide for the needy of Buffalo. He served time for writing bad checks. He then established a soup kitchen called Helping Hands. He became a beloved life-saver for the poor. His operating philosophy: “If we can’t help somebody along the way, what good are we? We’re nothing!”
5 As we entered the new millennium, there were still more than hundred homeless people in Buffalo living in tunnels, under bridges, in abandoned homes, and on the streets.
One of the most compelling and heartbreaking stories was about a man named “Jeff.” He lost both legs to frostbite. Various agencies came to his aid. He was provided a furnished apartment, but sadly, according to reports, he reverted back to heavy drinking and passed away.
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This collection of long-form reports by retired WIVB-TV Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg covers a wide range of social issues, Buffalo history and the arts. Mr. Newberg retired from the Buffalo CBS network affiliate at the end of 2015, after serving the station for thirty-seven years in various roles including main anchor, reporter and documentarian. <br /><br />His New York Emmy Award winning pieces explore the abortion debate, care of the mentally ill, the African American struggle for civil rights, and the lessons of the Holocaust, among many topics. His video memoir, “One Reporter’s Journey, “ reflects on his forty-six year career, beginning as an advocate for those without a voice. <br /><br />"My hope," says Newberg, “is that this collection will provide a lasting chronicle of life and issues in Buffalo during the latter part of the 20th century and into the new millennium."
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It's pretty much have a bomb thrown at you. It was tough. What do you think is going to be like having buffalo one newspaper?
I think it's going to be much worse than having a two newspaper town.
Any community is better off with two competing major metropolitan dailies, people in working depression and during hard times. They can't afford it. If the economy was better than they could support to pay this
Good evening once again, everyone I'm Bob Koop. You know, it's been one full year now since the buffalo courier Express published its final edition. On tonight we're going to take a look back at the paper that once reached three quarters of a million readers here in Western New York. We're also going to look ahead to the future of newspapers in our area. But perhaps more importantly, we're going to talk about how the closing of one business in this case the buffalo courier Express, has affected each and every one of us a little bit later on in this program. I'll be joined by Doug Smith, former career editor now best known to our viewers as news four's fun Ranger. We'll also be talking with AD lapping, who's been in the newspaper business for more than 60 years. News credits include managing editor of the Detroit times and the Chicago Herald American. And from Boston we'll be talking with Jim Baker, the former radio TV critic from The courier Express whose column still appears in several local newspapers. Jim's now with the Boston Herald which is owned by News America, the company that almost took over the courier Express But first, some history.
The Buffalo courier Express will cease publication with its Sunday edition of September 19. Unless a buyer is found, who will continue publication of the morning and Sunday paper. We make this announcement needless to say, with great regret this wasn't the first time and it certainly wouldn't be the last that a newspaper went out of business three months earlier in Cleveland, Ohio. The Press shocked that city by shutting down after 103 years of operation but perhaps because of recent store and plant closings here. Buffalo wasn't going to take the death of its morning paper lying down. Sure enough, six days later.
This is a much happier day than the one we had last Tuesday. I'm delighted to announce the conditional sale of the buffalo courier Express by Cole's media company to News America publishing Incorporated.
News America, the publishing Empire run by Rupert Murdoch has taken over several papers in financial trouble. And he's also taken on a lot of criticism. The New York Post on the courier Express are both newspapers but the courier was never like this. Look at these headlines. This is what's known as a tabloid newspaper.
You're gonna have two papers, fighting to create a quality product in a vacuum without the money's not the staff, but the personnel but all that you need to put out a good product which is what the news is strive to do with the courier strive to do in past years. This is no time for Murdoch. This is not his time.
But this was a chance to save the courier and most of its jobs with a couple of conditions. They came right
out and said that we're going to have if something were to continue to expect a lot harder work.
Murdoch's demands the continued strong support of the business community and the cooperation of the courier staff and cutting costs and people between 30 and 40%. And News America had to know in less than three days these agreements must be achieved before midnight Thursday in view of the closure date set by colts media on September 19. Sunday.
Well, it wasn't that easy. If the courier could have to work force 30 to 40%. The Buffalo News would be forced to make similar cuts to stay competitive, and the newspaper guild with union members at both papers wasn't happy. With the way the cuts were to be made.
While the stumbling block was not the cuts themselves. If they were talking about 90, we might have been able to agree to 90 from the president 156 Whenever it got to that it was the issue of how they would be cut. Their notion is that they should pick and choose that somehow. Everyone who works there ought to think like Rupert Murdoch ought to be able to do what Rupert Murdoch wants. Three days
later, the Buffalo Courier Express published its final edition on Sunday, September 19 1982. Well, then on Monday, September 20, the Buffalo News came out with its first sunrise edition available at newsstands throughout the area, but not readily available for home delivery. The next day, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle announced its plans to spread West offering some local news and sports coverage and own delivery and Courier Express territory to the east of Erie County. Two weeks after that the Niagara Gazette made it switch to mornings and began its spread into Erie County with delivery in parts of Amherst and the tunnel Wanda's then on October 11th. The Buffalo evening it was made switch formal, changing its name permanently to the Buffalo News for all its additions. And we'll take a look at some of the effects of the courier Express closing when we come back in just a moment. With me now is Doug Smith. Our fun ranging chief Gorham, a theater and movie critic jack of all trades rack on tour and other things here news for also though, the former entertainment editor of the buffalo courier Express. Doug started working here at Channel Four, six weeks after the courier stopped publication. He was one of the lucky ones. lucky indeed Bob and thanks to you and to everybody else and all my new friends out there. Now as you indicated not everybody could find a job. 1100 people lost their jobs when the courier Express folded. And as rich Newberg now tells us some of the people who could least afford to lose their jobs or the very people who still haven't found work.
Life has been a struggle during the past year in this resume ski household daughter Melanie was four years old when her mother gave birth to twins in February. Seven months later, the Courier folded and next Doug Smith lost his job as a circulation truck driver.
Is pretty much of a bomb, you know, thrown at you it was tough. And I still find it tough. It gets tougher now because the weeks turn into months and then months almost turn into a year now and you know, he still doesn't have anything and it's I'm putting a spot where I have to start looking and it's really hard with three little ones at home. If they were teenagers, I think it'd be a lot different.
In order to feed his family. Nick had to rely on food stamps and the house he and Murray probably purchased in June of 82 now has a lien placed against it by the welfare department. Nick with a bachelor's degree in history never thought he'd wind up on welfare.
It's just not right because after why you go for interviews here they want experience to now buy. I really want to do something now I have to go to school and get retrained because for four and a half years in college I do have in is just not going to find the job
driving a truck for the courier was not a very challenging job for Nick but he would have grossed with overtime 18 to $20,000. He finished out the year. Marine who once worked in the couriers classified section at planned on returning to work after having the twins. But now this resume skis must save every penny they can sacrificing the good life they once knew.
Can't remember the last time we went to the show or last time we went to a restaurant, you know and you try to find money for that you just can't now it's tough.
Up in the attic Nick keeps his mementos from the Courier including a mock coffin he and others belt for closing day the coffin is stuffed with old courier newspapers. And some final editions have been laid to rest inside the Courier boxes that Nick has kept for posterity
To show my kids is someplace of a newspaper. I used to be here at this newspaper. I missed a lot of good friends especially over in the transportation department. We had a lot of good, very good times over there.
It's tough to look at a year later, but how many people remain out of work? Do you have any fingers on it? Well, Bob, I was at a reunion party last night and that was a great lot of fun. But the interesting thing about that was I was just tickled at the number of people that kept coming up and telling me that they'd found jobs even in the last couple of weeks. But I'd say about 30% of the 1100 remain out of work and many of those that are working are only marginally employed. Now the funny thing is it practically every editor and high ranking executive found a comparable job. Publisher Roger Parkinson became publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribune back with a Carl's media people and executive editor Joel Kramer eventually joined him as an executive editor out there. But among the reporters in the sub editors many fine familiar names remain unattached to jobs. sports writer Phil Rinaldo old honest Harry, he considers himself retired. Rita Smith, a courier Express women's editor who so often touched all our hearts and did so many charitable things remains without work. On the other hand, TV columnist Jim Baker went from local weeklies and radio to Boston to Hartford and back to Boston, where he writes for The Herald America about the instability of the television business. Controversial Doug Turner joined the Washington Bureau, the Buffalo News, a lot of people surprised at that he does a bang up job and that doesn't surprise me at all. Columnist Carol Stevens and Eric Brady married shortly before the courier closed and they went hand in hand to USA Today in Washington. J. Boyer became the film critic for The Orlando Florida star Sentinel almost the day that the Courier closed, but columnist Mike Haley became film critic for The Denver Post. Just this past month, the news hired about 30 courier writers and editors but not very many columnist, probably the best known Louise Canelli, former Features Editor now a feature writer, artists top tools took his easel and caustic went down to the news and remains a nationwide syndication but Microsoft Liana opened his own cartoon studio then took a cartooning job with the Baltimore news American, among other photographers, Mickey Osterreicher signed on to a WKBW TV, Ron Muscat. He went to the Buffalo News and Ron Shefali that was on Ron makan Muscat. His staff became the chief photographer for the Niagara Gazette, Bob. It's a long long list and if anybody wants if anybody wants to find out what happened to some of the courier then give me a call after the show. And I'll try to give them a hand but for most of them, piecework, part time work, or just sitting there waiting for the phone to ring and there but for the grace of God and Channel Four, go live.
Thank you. Okay, thanks, Doug. And when we come back in just a moment, we'll be taking a look at some of the other effects of the courier Express closing, stay with us. Well, as you might expect, it didn't take very long for the economics of the local newspaper business to change. The Buffalo News saw the most dramatic changes with its daily and Saturday circulation up significantly. At its Sunday circulation almost double. Advertisers also felt the loss of the courier express as the news raised its advertising rates some as much as 119% in the past year, over the Niagara Gazette, circulation Rose 8% of the daily paper 12% for the Sunday paper after the courier folded. Almost all of that growth was informed courier Express strongholds Lockport for instance, circulation there has risen to 100% and that gives that circulation in the Tonawanda is is also up 170% It's good news to publishers, Susan Clark Jackson,
We're surprised at how well we've been received in portions of Amherst and Tonawanda. Frankly, we hadn't planned to go in to town on Monday as far as we have, but receptions just been so good that then we've gone one street farther. It's good there.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has increased its circulation by about 2000 but almost all of that in Orleans, Genesee Wyoming and Allegheny County's fringe areas are the courier the six day a week Tonawanda news has made no effort to pick up any additional subscribers but its advertising sales have risen 10% Since the courier went out people there at the tunnel on a news though attribute that the weekly circulation changes
For the past year but has seen a 30% growth in advertising revenues, a raucous picked up a few courier Express columnist and along the way expanded from a 12 page paper to 20 pages. Publishers are now considering putting out more than one paper a week. As for the effect of all of this on morning television, well in the last three readings period since the courier Express folded morning television, viewing of all channels in Western New York. As you can see there, they've all gone up. Well, now these are all changes that can be measured in dollars and cents less concrete is what may happen to a papers quality when it becomes the only game in town. Joining us now is Edie lapping whose newspaper experience spans much of the century and includes some of the major papers in the country. It's been 17 years of the Buffalo News before retiring back in 1974. And in your opinion, what's been the overall impact on the Buffalo News and on the Buffalo community of the folding of the Courier Express?
I think the quality of the Buffalo News has increased sharply. I think they're giving a better paper to the community. They have more news, it's easier to read they have more opinions, opinions by letters to the editor and opinions by a nationally known syndicated columnist. You know that that opinion, though, would run counter to what most people would think because they're the only game in town. Why should they even bother. People? Like to write their opinions. The opinion column in the Buffalo News I've noticed has increased sharply since the courier folded. More people are writing I think there are 120 letters coming in there every week which gave a reflection of what the people in Buffalo and the Buffalo area think about events. And that gives them an opportunity that they didn't have in such measure before.
Now we were talking a little bit earlier and one of the significant comments that you made that really kind of surprised me buffalo is pretty much an afternoon newspaper town right now does have that sunrise addition. But you are you're predicting that in the near future. The Buffalo News would become a morning paper.
I do that because the trend nationally is toward morning newspapers to in the next five years there will be a great drive in this country for shorter work week and shorter work days, which means that people will have more time to give to themselves. They will play in the afternoon. They will not be reading in the afternoon. Furthermore, morning paper give us the advertiser and the reader more time to read the paper and find out what is going on.
I see ad laughing thank you for offering those comments in your opinion over 60 years in the journalism business. We appreciate it. Thank you a number of questions of course arise out of the closing of a newspaper we talked with Buffalo News Editor Marie light about some of them.
We have to be careful that people definitely tend to say, Well, you're the only game in town therefore you will be able to do this and that and what difference does it make it does make a difference with I have a peculiar philosophy for an editor. And I've gotten into trouble in some editors meetings about it about a newspaper.
being the same as a supermarket, people who buy our newspaper are same as customers in a supermarket. If they do not like the product, they can go elsewhere. Now you say in a one paper towels, we're gonna go elsewhere.
They can turn on channel four or channel two or seven or 17 or 29. They can read their weekly newspapers, they can read community newspapers, neighborhood newspapers and the city. There is no monopoly really.
Monopoly really that's an interesting comment coming from Marie light. Do you necessarily agree, Doug?
Oh, what does he mean by there was no monopoly. He certainly doesn't have a monopoly on giving out information. I mean, he's in competition with people passing out the Watchtower downtown and in competition with people putting graffiti on the one of the Clinton Street bridges, but he it's not so much of monopolies they have a responsibility. You may not have a monopoly on the dissemination business, but he certainly has a monopoly on reading habits and he has he has 24 hours a day.
Now the gentleman we have right here with us, of course is Jim Baker. You may be familiar with him as a former television editor with the buffalo courier Express. Jim is with us out of Boston right now where he is working for the buffalo apartment of Boston Herald American. Rupert Murdoch bought that paper and has changed the face of the state Boston journalism quite a bit. made it a little spicier in in Beantown Jim What do you think would have happened had Rupert Murdoch gotten here in Buffalo?
I think number one, it would have been a smash success, especially with the style of paper that we are producing here in Boston. The circulation is over 400,000 Now I'm talking about daily circulation. It's nearly doubled. What it was, in the days not so long ago days of the Boston Herald American. And the style is flashy, that it's big on sports, for example, a 14 to 44 page Sunday Sports section alone. It's big on news and entertainment and it's it's fun to read. It's colorful. I think the people of Buffalo miss that style, and I think it would give them a choice if they had it.
Well, Jim, you're talking now about the guys you're working for. But I'm still gonna ask you when people go into the supermarket and the teller paper you're working for from the National Enquirer? What does it look like?
Yes, they can and the mainly in the section that I deal with, again, that 44 Page sports section that I talked about it, it looks in some ways like the New York Post it in style it is. It is flashy, as I said, but I can't think of a thing that that for example a sports fan would want that isn't in that paper it's just as complete as can be. And again I am you know I'm talking about the man I'm working for but I would have loved to see that product in Buffalo Jim is this what we're Is this what we're reduced to though that we have to show such a change in style for two newspapers to compete, that you have to have this tabloid screaming banner headline sort of newspaper as a as opposed to a rather conservative and staid operation for both to stay in business. I don't think it's necessary, but I think in a limited market and a market that is as smaller as Western New York and particularly Buffalo has become I think it's if you're talking about sales, I think you ought to give them a wide choice, give the people a wide choice. And right now, a colorful product one that is really big on sports and entertainment, in my opinion is not there and it's here in spades. In Boston, I mean, the acceptance of it is remarkable. You come into the city in the morning and you see people walking both papers, both sides of the street as you come out of the tunnel. Those of you that are familiar with Boston, you'll see one brave soul or soul walking down the middle and the end as the traffic is jammed up. It's exciting to see and it's vibrant. And I would have loved to see this kind of thing happen in Buffalo and I was saying to Bob the other day that in the last couple of years the courier Express if they made an error in strategy it was in trying to become more respectable and more responsible than the Buffalo News, which had the respectability and responsibility market all cornered, that they maybe should have tried to play the game on a different turf.
Do you feel that way? Now, Jim?
Well, I don't think you have to be one or the other. I think you can be colorful and responsible I think you can do both.
The first thing you should have is accuracy. The second thing you should have is you should be as colorful. There is no excuse for dull writing and dull reporting and dull editing. And thank goodness that isn't the case where I am. Well, we heard that Christian a union leader of the Buffalo News, just simply deploring the thought that Murdoch was going to come in or was going to horrify Buffalonians with his horrible product. Do you think that Buffalonians many buff that they would have been strong like you know, old world old Eastern European reaction to this seminal paper, telling us something if if they had embraced the Murdoch product, at the very least the people who didn't want to stay there under under him would have had a job for a few months while they went out and looked. The choice that they selected was to me and sanity. So, I mean, they you had to you they had no choice with what they chose. I mean they went out the door. They had no job. They're the people that didn't want to stay with Murdoch at least would have had a job for a while while they looked. And that's what proved to be the case here in Boston. There weren't wholesale changes. Mr. Murdoch kept the people that he wanted and he kept streamline the product. And it seems he's turned it completely around. I'm talking about a successful story here. Jim, you still have some contacts here in Buffalo. You keep in touch with a lot of the folks around town?
I sure do.
Would you give us a prediction from your standpoint, even though it is from above 400 miles away? Does buffalo stand the chance of ever bringing back another quality independent morning voice?
I think it does have a chance but what it needs what needs to happen is for the advertising community that has been that has seen tripled ad rates there for the financial community for the leaders of that community. And you know the names they have to get together and decide that their community that they are a part of deserves a choice that it deserves a couple of products and not just one in print journalism, and I'm talking about the inner city of Buffalo. Now there are there are places like Niagara Falls and Dunkirk that have a good choice. But that's what it takes the community leaders to get together and back it. Because I love that city. And I'd love to see you have a choice again.
Okay, Jim Baker, Doug Smith. Thank you very much. And we'll be back with more in just a moment.
Well now here we are one year after the closing of the buffalo courier Express but no morning paper on our doorstep and still no plans for a local morning paper. There are a couple of possibilities however, gets USA Today which celebrated its first birthday just last week, when they began offering home delivery around Western New York this month. And there are some plans by at least one local businessman to attorneys that a group of former courier Express employees to get another morning papers started. They're working on a Monday through Friday tabloid that would be called the buffalo morning sun. specific plans for that new paper should be announced in the next month. or so. But there was still the question. Can this area support a morning newspaper? We ask what you thought?
Well, I think buffalo shouldn't be a one paper town. The news was a lot better when it had some competition really does need to newspapers so we can have both viewpoints on different sides because one newspaper might have a tendency to be biased towards a different viewpoint. It's good. It's just better to have two newspapers. In any competitive situation. I think we can use an additional newspaper in town to give a more diversified view and what we have right now. I think buffalo is large enough city that it should have two newspapers.
I really do miss a carrier, because it has certain articles in there like this new one. It's okay. But
it's interesting. We get a lot of phone calls from people saying why can't we have home delivery of sunrise? We go into those streets. And what we find is most of those people are buying the afternoon additions to the news and really don't want the Morning Edition delivered. We'll find three four or sometimes two homes that are straight, which wanted and we can't establish routes.
Buffalo still basically is an afternoon newspaper town. There's just no question about that.
Well, earlier tonight at six o'clock on us for Buffalo we asked what you think about buffalo as a morning newspaper town. And here's what we found out the question was very simply can buffalo support a full time home delivered morning newspaper and the response that we got was overwhelming. Yes, by 95%.
Well, it doesn't take much to realize that there is a need for an independent, strong and competitive morning paper in Western New York. Some voices of course will claim that this is an afternoon newspaper town but it appears that people feel otherwise. But why did the courier fool if there is such a need? There? Are many, many reasons not the least among them a decline in readership across the board all around the country, as well as a greater dependence on television for more and more information.
But as broadcast journalists, we can only hope that that trend will be reversed and that a diversity of opinion, both print and broadcast media, and all sorts of information will be available to Western New Yorkers in the very near future.
That's our program for tonight. Thank you very much for joining us. Good night.
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Buffalo, New York became a one newspaper town on September 19, 1982. It lost The Courier Express, the popular morning and Sunday newspaper that had begun publishing in 1926.
This News 4 television special hosted by the late Bob Koop looks back on the reasons why the newspaper could no longer compete with The Buffalo News and the impact of the Courier’s folding on its former staff members and its readers.
Staff members of the Courier Express voted down the opportunity to work under Rupert Murdoch’s News America. It would have meant transitioning to a tabloid newspaper as well as staff cuts of between 30 and 40 percent. When the paper shut down, eleven hundred people were out of work. Buffalo’s depressed economy at the time made it difficult for many of those workers to find jobs. Some had to go on welfare.
The demise of the Courier Express followed the closings of other major newspapers throughout the country, including the Cleveland Press, which shut down three months earlier. It had been operating for 103 years.
The roots of The Courier Express date back to 1828 according to SUNY Buffalo State, which has possession of the Courier Express archives. As the E.H. Butler Library at Buffalo State points out, “From 1828 to 1926, twelve separate newspapers merged during those years, ending with the formation of the Buffalo Courier-Express…” Mark Twain once was a columnist for one of those papers, the Buffalo Morning Express.
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Hi my name is Lois Murray Gibbs. It's February 15 2021. And I'm at home in Falls Church, Virginia.
Lois, let's start from the beginning. That's always a good place to start. How did you get wind of the fact that you were living in a toxic neighborhood? And what was your reaction and the impact when you first found out?
It was really scary. I did not know when I moved in, but I was living in a toxic area. I found out through a series of articles that were in the neighborhoods because that that were written by Michael Brown. And he was talking about the toxic site he's talking about. Now you're talking about 99th Street 97th Street in the United States Elementary School, and it's like, well, when he started talking about 99 Straight elementary school, is when it clicked for me, because my son was perfectly healthy as one years old when we moved into our home since the time we moved there, kept getting sicker and sicker and sicker. And by when he went to kindergarten at 993 school, he got really sick and he developed epilepsy and, and these weird things that are not in either one of our family's history, and that's when it's like, I know what's wrong with Michael my pediatrician couldn't tell me but I knew when I read Michael's article, Michael Browns article and it said, school 20,000 tons of chemicals, chemicals that cause these diseases. It click and it was terrifying. As a mother it was terrifying.
What then so you're terrified? Where do you go from there?
Yeah, I didn't you know, I'm a high school graduate. And, you know, science was not my strength. And so I was trying to figure out where to go and I went to talk to my brother in law who taught biology at the University of Buffalo and said, This is the problem. What do I do about this? He said, This is a problem. And and so I went where most people do like in the whole world, every issue people do this. You go to your government officials because they tell you if you play by the rules, and you you know, work hard and data, and there's a problem, but your elected officials and they will fix it for you. And so I went to the 99th Street School Board superintendent, Dr. Long, I went to City Hall Michael Laughlin was the mayor. I went to my state senators, my state representatives, I went to everybody in anybody I could think of you know, you get this little voter guide things in the library. And I called everyone who said we have this problem. Can you help me and every single one of them said, No.
What did Michael Laughlin say?
Michael Laughlin said, I should go home and take care of my child like I was a dumb little girl who had no clue what she was doing. And it just sort of passively pushed me away like no, this is just crazy. I don't know what you're talking about go away. Michael Brown was a troublemaker
In footage that I've looked at, there's confrontational footage outside of Michael Laughlin's office. And there's a very telling interview that Fran Luca did where micro Laughlin Mayor of Auckland said you know, the city could be sued for a lot of money. We have to be careful about what we say we can be held liable. And you know, I have all this responsibility. Is that what you were getting? Or were you getting any answers?
I wasn't getting any answers. I later figured that out. On my own or with the help of others. It's like every single person felt that way. You know, this, this school board said, Well, we're not going to move. You know Michael Gibbs, because he's sick and because of one irate, hysterical housewife because if we do that for you, we have to do for all 407 children who attend the school. So it's like, oh, wow, there's all this liability where these children are gonna go they have to open another school. You know, Michael Lachlan was worried that just about Occidental Petroleum. He was worried about Goodyear, he's worried about Asheville trollee and Ellen street the City of Niagara Falls was owned and operated by the chemical industries. There was like 40 Some industries in downtown Niagara Falls that controlled everything happened in the city.
You go to the legislators as well, asking to help you at least relocate, right? What happened there.
Legislators, the legislators come on saying prove to us that you were harmed as a result of these chemicals. It's like it's not our job to prove to you that we are harmed. Are you our legislators, you have a whole health department. You have David Axelrod, the health commissioner or Whelan you know, and they all come and say, well, we'll show us demonstrate to us. And it's even true today and in the world I work in now, which is it's always a victim who has to prove that they are a victim, as opposed to the health department coming forward and saying, Well, let's, let's check this out. Let's see what's happening. Let's let's test your hypotheses and see if it's true.
So you go through some blood tests, right? Blood tests are given. What was the feeling at this point? Among the homeowners? Well, let me ask you this first. You wanted to organize, you felt the need to organize the homeowners. At that point, there was no organization Am I right? It was kind of every neighbor learning something but how did you how did you how did you attack that?
Yeah, there was no organization in the community. I mean, that your normal PTAs and stuff like that there was no kind of organization to deal with this issue. And so we went out to organize around the school so a lot of people think we organized around getting evacuation from the get go, that was not so we began to organize to close the 99th Street School, seeing the City of Niagara Falls and and the school board refused to close it. We actually did a petition and took it to Albany, New York, actually, on August 2 1978, the day in which they made the emergency declaration, but we had no clue about that. We got this petition, went door to door had people sign it and you know what's really interesting is that people often talk about those who work in the industry and how it's, it's the environmentalists versus the workers and it's, you know, this versus that. Do you know that only one door of the 853 doors that we we collectively knocked on was slammed in our face? That the people who worked in the industry knew the dangers that were in a backyard, they understood and one worker said one family said the chemical in my backyard is a chemical I get paid extra to work within the plant. So we knew it was dangerous, but we didn't we didn't really realize our homes were dangerous at the time. So we organized the parents movement to close the 99th Street School.
And there was another school as well.
There was a 93rd Street School but we didn't think at that time that the 93rd Street School was at risk as I didn't think my home which is three blocks from the center of the canal was at risk. I believe that the people in the first two rings of homes as they were later called 99 Straight 97 were at risk. You could talk to them. You could see their children or were sick there was rashes everywhere people were just you know, it was just horrible to do they would tell you stories about miscarriages and birth defects and children and cancers and, and deaths in their family crib deaths every year just all these horrible things in this tiny little two blocks of homes. So we all understood it was probably the school and later we came to understand there's probably the first two rings of homes. What we weren't there thinking it was my home on a 101st street or 100 and second, or 100 and third. At the beginning we really just thought it was a school in those first homes.
And initially, the evacuation was just for the people closest to the Epi Center, right? Close the first two rings and that meeting where people got quite emotional about your children who were over the age of two, because it was two and under. I might correct.
Right you had if you were pregnant or had a child under the age of two, you could be evacuated. It was like oh my gosh, it's like the canaries in the mine. What he told me and what what happened? What happened to the child who's two years and six months? Were more importantly, what happened to my pregnancy because I'm eight months pregnant. Now you're telling me it's dangerous if I'm pregnant there. I'm eight months pregnant. I lived there for eight months carrying my baby What is wrong with my baby? There was panic everywhere and justifiable because not only not only did they make that announcement, but there was nobody there to talk to the families about what that means my job. Most of us are high school graduates working in the chemical industry and listening to chemical propaganda everyday for work and the newsletter. And suddenly this happens in like, what is this mean? What does it mean for me? What does it mean for my unborn child? Was it mean for my child who's now three and a half years old and live there for that? What does it mean and there was nothing I think one of the things that Love Canal that was just demonstrated the wrongdoing by government was the fact that they would never bring people there to explain why these decisions. Why this and what happened to the others. The blood tests you mentioned, all these children are coming for blood tests. What are we looking for? No one would tell us are we looking for cancer? Are we looking for chemicals? Are we looking for disease? What are we looking for? We're we're checking the blood. What are we looking for? No one would tell us it was a huge mystery. They had a plan. They knew what they were looking for. They knew look they're doing but they chose not to inform us to keep us in the dark.
And then Family Start moving into motels. This must have been disconcerting for these families. What was that like to suddenly have to move into a motel and not know the future?
Yeah, it was it was again another sort of terrifying thing because I one hand it was a relief so you're out of your home. You're in a hotel your children are breathing safe air. Oh, so you believe and and you're in a safer environment. But the flip side to that is, oh my gosh, we got moved out. We're in a hotel. It's so dangerous, right? That we cannot live in the house. And then by the way, we had to move back to the community. Not everybody went to the hotel and stayed out of the neighborhood. So it was a catch 22 On one hand, it was sort of validation that what we were saying is right, that there was danger there. And on the other hand, you know, it was like, it was sort of scary and awful. Most of our families, by the way, work swing shifts. So for my husband work, three to 1111 to seven in the morning, seven in the morning to three in the afternoon. And so when you're in a hotel and you do swing sets, you can't sleep you have one room for all of you. You can't eat you can't pack a lunch, right? If you're if your shift is three to 11 step to bed but a loving the seven. You know how do you do that? How do you get food? How do you have milk around for the babies? And so you know, it was it was on one hand it was really fun the other hand it was just horrible.
Where did your husband work? Lois? I never asked him.
My husband worked a good year. He was a chemical operator at the plant on 56th Street. That was one of the plants by the way that came out with a high level of vinyl chloride and liver damage in both workers and the surrounding community.
Well I don't know if you want to get into the marriage thing but I know that you you divorced Right. Was it love canal that that caused it and when when you became immersed in this movement? It kind of took over your life.
It definitely took over my life. And and yeah, and to a certain extent it was. But But what what it was was that Harry my husband Harry was the same. You know he was just the same the same day and I'm the one who changed so you know after looking at all during look Cannella have been saying well don't you know as soon as is over and and tobacco be full time mom I'm gonna do all the things we need to do. You don't have to help with laundry anymore shopping or childcare or whatever. And then after the finale, I was like, you know, I can't go back to to being a full time mom. I really feel like I have this this new knowledge and understanding that I need to share with other moms across the country. Because everywhere you were looking then in the media, you were hearing about new love canals here and there and across the country. And so I felt like you know, I really needed to do that so essentially outgrew each other and ended up getting divorced as a result of that.
I want to get into your move to Washington a little bit later but let's let's jump ahead to dioxin. Dioxin from what I understand is probably the most lethal chemical created by humankind used to defoliate the jungles in Vietnam It's that powerful and then it's detected in Love Canal. This change pretty much changed the way people began nationally looking at Love Canal
No, it was interesting. So it it did change to the point where we knew it was dangerous. We heard it was dangerous. We read it was dangerous. We have Google and all that stuff we have today right? So we actually had a library and pick up a book and read it. But when the national media and national scientists and national groups like the Vietnam vets started saying oh my gosh, you guys you really should be worried about this. There was panic. I mean, especially in people like Debbie Cirillo. She looked at 97th Street, and she had the highest level of dioxin in her backyard right next to her swimming pool, aboveground swimming pool. And so yeah, it was frightening because you know a lot. A lot of people our age served in Vietnam, they understood what Agent Orange did, again, sort of like in our community. We had workers who worked in the plant with the same chemicals that their children are breathing this this whole dioxin thing in Agent Orange it was just frightening as all hat and and we really thought that you know it was traveling throughout the community and one of the discoveries they made it Love Canal about dioxin, by the way is that it does travels through the dirt. Originally, they said it doesn't it adheres to dirt and sticks there and so you don't have to worry. And we said no, no, no, you're finding it here, here, here and here. And there's a pathway there. So why don't you test that and so what they found is that dioxin actually does travel when it's mixed with a solvent like an oily chemical or substance. And so it was throughout the community and it was frightening. It was very frightening.
And then comes the chromosome announcement that there's chromosome damage. This was another element that added to national interest and began really attracting national attention. How important was that announcement from the EPA?
Oh, it was the straw that broke the camel's back. That at Love Canal by that time, which was May of 1980 when we began organizing in the spring of 1978. By that time, we were told that we would not go with our best we would not go in our yard. If you're pregnant or have a child under the age of two, you need to leave and of course you can return when your pregnancy terminates. Or your child reaches the age of two. We were told not to eat vegetables out of our gardens. We were told not to go in our basements we were told all this stuff. And then we were told it was perfectly fine to live in luck. That was no problem with living in Love Canal as long as you obeyed all these rules and then it was all of a sudden we have this chromosome damage and like what does that mean? And we found out that what it meant is like, not only do we have a high number of these particular breaks, but it means we're going to have more miscarriages and more stillborn babies and more birth defects of children. But the most important thing the straw that broke the camel's back, is when they said that genetic damage created by Love Canal chemicals that broke these chromosomes in this particular way would be passed down to our children, meaning my daughter and my son may have chromosome damage. And if they have children, their children could be born deformed or stillborn or whatever, because of Love Canal and that was it was just terrified. It's like how can you how can you say that and walk away? How can you say this and that you're not going to do anything and it really was it was about holding your child in your arm looking in that child's eyes and saying you might have been damaged and every child you have if its genetic will be passed on to that child and then next child and the next child that we just that was the straw that broke the camel's back and that's when people really lost it in ways that were frightening to me, personally
and then you have to a EPA representatives coming in, who suddenly find themselves held hostage because the people outside the homeowners headquarters pretty aggravated. That was a moment that really was a moment. What do you remember about that?
That was a moment that that was? So it goes back to when we were talking earlier that the health department makes these announcements and then they never send anybody to talk to the people. And this was yet another example these two EPA officials were hiding out in a motel. There was no public meeting to tell people what this chromosome breakage means. They were only meeting one on one with people who had their blood tested on an individual basis. And so I'm like you come down here and talk to these people. You come and tell people tell them they're going to be perfectly okay if that's what you think. And we call them down and then it literally was not a planned event. It happened spontaneously. People in the front lawn saw them come in circled them to come into the house. And that's where they stayed until we released them. And the truth was, by the way, Marie rice I told this to her 1000 times is that we were really detaining them for their own safety. We weren't holding them against their will but we so we held these guys for five hours and it was frightening. It was frightening at a number of levels. On a personal level. Am I going to jail? Am I ever going to see my children again, this is a federal offense. On a personal level across the street, on the roof, from our homeowners office, on sharpshooters with guns we could see that they were pointed out to us and and frankness Paul, who was one of the hostages he was a public relations guy. He he said Let's see this. You know they can shoot you and kill you dead and never split a hair on my head. And I'm like Oh, no. What am I doing? And then and then we got what do you do? Your whole house like what do you do? There's no manual for this, right? There's no you can't google What do you do? And trying to figure out how, you know how do we manage this? How do we do this in a way that that really makes sense and and everybody's safe in the front yard. There were all of these people who were coming out. People I didn't know people I didn't recognize picking beer. It was getting dark it was that was sort of another level of being scared because I didn't know who those people were what they will do. It was a new story. People were there live on the same all day long reporting out and so strangers were coming to see the action just like you know, Rubberneckers everywhere and yeah, so so it was it was very frightening at many different levels.
And and, and then you added that if the White House isn't looking now, the better look because this could be a Sesame Street picnic compared to what could follow.
Yeah, we did. You know, I had we had to let them go. Who and the reason we have learned go with the crowd is just getting just too loud and too it looked like it was going to explode and good reason. By the way. These are not evil people. These are not disruptive people either. These are mine apple pie kind of folk. But they've had all they can make. And so I had to go out and somehow get the crowd. Free to let go. And so that is what we did is I went out there and talked about how our congressmen were false was meeting with the President and that he would talk to them about this issue. And we wouldn't give them so this was Saturday. We would give them Wednesday, noon, to evacuate us and if we didn't get an evacuation then it would look like a Sesame Street picnic at noon to what we're doing today. So that was sort of a shot across the bow and a way for people to say yes, and then to get the hostages out before anybody got hurt, including the hostages,
And helping the cause your cause was actually an actress Jane Fonda and her husband, Tom ate there on the scene. How important was that and anticipate anything like that happened?
You know, it was very important. I did not anticipate it that they were coming with Ralph Nader to to Buffalo for an event and they swung by Love Canal and agreed to come and help us. And here's what was really important about and first of all, Jane and I are still friends today. We got we got arrested together on Friday. In December of last year. We that was her prior fire drill Fridays here in DC. But like, what was important about Jane is she brought the national media with her and the national media because right now we had to put pressure on the President of the United States who was running for office again for his second term and it was very iffy. And so we needed to get his attention. We need his people to say oh my gosh, these homemakers in Love Canal are making you look really bad and so we have to go and appease them. And so Jane Fonda coming brought that media attention in which we should say, President card you got to do the right thing. I mean, even even with the hospitality. We said President Carter, you have Wednesday till noon. We we we always put in and that was one of the important things about the media. Is that we always put the person's name out there that we needed to pressure who could make the decision to change the outcome, whether it was governor Hugh Carey, whether it was Cuomo later whether it was Carter, you know, that that was the only way we could get enough people to say, Oh, well, why is he doing that or why? When they're all he's actually did
You recall President Carter's earlier visit at the airport when the signs were being held up and Governor Kerry said, Okay, lower the signs, he sees the signs. And then and then President Jimmy Carter admitted that, that the governor was was taking more of an initiative than the White House and kind of admitted that he wasn't quite, you know, maybe not doing enough.
Yeah, well, that was the that was true. And what I discovered later, was that the state did not want the federal government involved, did not want EPA involved, did not want Health and Human Services, the ones who helped with the chromosome study was part of the EPA did not want anybody at the federal level involved. They wanted to hold the thing themselves. And in fact, at one point, I went to David Axelrod's office. He was the commissioner of health and I asked him in Albany, I asked him in his office, why is David roll for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, not here, and it's a federal as a federal health agency that we've been wanting. And he said, I don't know I invited him and he just hasn't come. And I'm like, Well, I talked to him. He told me he never received an invitation. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to pick up your phone right here on this desk. And we're going to call David, and we're going to personally invite them both you and me to come to Love Canal. And he's Oh, that won't be necessary. I forced them to call David. And all of a sudden, then we had EPA involved. That's where the chromosome study came from. That put a number of other things happen. The New York State did not share with President Carter, the White House, the EPA anything except for what they had to. They wanted to keep it all in house. And the reason for that is a chemical industry. I mean, New York and if you look at Rochester, I mean it's not just Niagara Falls, in which the chemical industry controls an awful lot. Of New York, New York's economy outside of New York City. And so they were beholding to the chemical industry and Love Canal was gonna set all of those nasty precedents. That is going to change the way they do business. Change the way lawsuits happen, change the way people look at health and environment. It was going to change things and they wanted to change as little as possible.
You know, you mentioned when we rise earlier, before we get to the President's big visit where we covered so many aspects of love. Library in mind, which you know, Where we rice earlier, before we get to the President's big visit where we covered so many aspects of Love Canal and there's one story that sticks in my mind which actually reminded me that about a week ago is that house that was moved out of there. And Marie was standing right in front as the as the House passed by her. And why would somebody want to move their house when the house might have been infected?
Yeah, well, you know, that's what America is really good at letting people just be stupid if that's what they want to do. That's what democracy is about. I don't know why he moved his house. He was convinced that it wasn't in this house that the chemicals had not seeped through the woods and then the furniture and stuff like that. And so he hadn't picked up and literally moved in. And by the way, sadly to say he moved it by another dump that he didn't know was a dump went out there and bought the land, but actually would wind up to another, but you know, people I mean, that's the thing that we have to embrace as a society you know, I wouldn't ever do that. In fact, I didn't even think my furniture and I was like, I don't want anything. You know, I went to Goodwill and bought my first sofa after I moved. But, you know, people are different and they think differently and they don't feel the same urgency or the same level of risk. And, and that's what makes us work so much harder. It's like, you know, it's like people believe that a tiny little bit of chemicals that you maybe can smell but certainly can't say can no way harm you like dioxin, for example. It really can't create those kinds. of problems. And it's a real hard, hard, hard thing to try to educate people about.
To watch so I can go up from the podium and stay on top. More than 12,000 communities we've helped folks out tell you, what's in your community, what's in the air, what's in the water was buried, what's being transported through to manage all of this information that people can now use and organize around like they did in Philadelphia to stop the trains from coming through. There were, you know, bomb trains, I literally bombed trains that if they crash, they were going to blow up and half the building was going to go with it. So you know, I've just watched people, you know, just do some amazing things and it's just been extraordinarily rewarding over the years.
And a lot of that right to know legislation started in Western New York, I owe in chemical from steel job, Assemblyman Joe Pelletier at the time was leading that fight. And you mentioned the strong union movement in western New York was responsible for bringing this to the public light that teeth were being loosened in the chemical plants and there was lead dust I believe in the government steel. The right to know really, this is all hitting at the same time Love Canal, the right to know legislation and, and West Valley, West Valley which you know, today is also still a very big issue. But I also wanted to ask you your what do you think? What are your concerns now? We have a new administration. President Biden, what are your hopes climate control he's made as a really major, major issue. Are you concerned that perhaps the, the toxic communities may take a second seat to to the issue of global warming and climate change?
Well, they often do. I will say one thing that President Biden before he was President, and I shared a podium in Delaware together, in which I didn't have a watch and he lent me his watch. So I could go up to the podium and say on time, and he really does understand toxics environment. He he gets it. He's dealt with it in Delaware. The question the question is always the same though, and he's made a promise that he is that these things are connected climate and environmental justice and toxics in the community. However, nine out of 10 times what happens is in this happens in all government, so it's not just white is that they look at the bigger picture. How can we save the most people or protect the most people and that's when climate always Trump's a community, like West Valley or a community, like the one in Delaware or or Baton Rouge or you know, somewhere else, that those are contained problems and that's what we've been struggling with for an awful long time. And I'm hoping the Biden camp will will address this, that that, you know, in Port Arthur, Texas, they're making the fossil fuels that are creating the climate change problem. And underneath those fossil fuel plants are low income brown and black families who cannot believe because of the chemicals and was a pandemic this year. They're much more susceptible and they're dying at a huge rate because it's a respiratory irritant. The chemicals and the pandemic of COVID 19 is a respiratory attacker and and it's just an they have to shelter in place. It's just insane. So I am hoping that he's he says he's connecting climate, fossil fuels and environmental justice brown and black people living in these toxic communities together. I'm hoping he does that. But historically, it's always been since since 1990, it has always been how do we protect the most people? And that is like a climate change issue. And it's true and it's not the takeaway from that. I think fettucine incredibly important. We need to do and, and we are working on it. But we we also know the smaller numbers of people who are dying in these communities because they're, they're really 53 million people. So it's a smaller number in reference to the population with a world population that's impacted by climate. But 53 million people it's a lot of people that need protection today, so I'm hoping you will
You know, most so many years after Love Canal, we went back together. I know you paid us a visit. And there was another problem people would move back into the Love Canal neighborhood. And I just remember you couldn't you were just beside yourself. I mean, how we you know, the warning signs were out there and everything was out there. This This was the first super fun, you know, this was the first and yet people move back now. How did how could that have happened? And there were lawsuits now.
Yeah, I mean, I think it was twofold. One it was the it was the lies and the rhetoric we know what lies do when especially when they're repeated over and over again by people in power and authority. The lies who say that the northern end of look and I was perfectly okay to live in. That was a lie. And but it was, you know, the City of Niagara Falls revitalization committee, the state of New York that the you know, Niagara County Health Department, you know, all of them. They all repeated this line over and over and over again, and people believed it. And part of the reason they believe that is because they got a $250,000 house for $70,000
The City of Niagara Falls revitalization committee, the state of New York, you know, Niagara County Health Department, you know, all of them. They all repeated this line over and over and over again. And people believed it. And part of the reason they believed it is because they got a $250,000 house for $70,000.
It was it's a good deal right? And many of them thought they would just live there. It was homesteaded. So they had to live there for five years as their primary residence, but they were going to live there for the five years, sell the home and go buy a home somewhere else where it was cleaner and safer and at least there was less questions. But what happened was people move in they started getting sick, and they couldn't move out. And you know, when they were discovering the chemicals in the backyards in their basements, just as it was before, then nobody's gonna buy their home, right? Like it's no longer $270,000 home or a $300,000 home. It's now worthless, just the same as ours were and so people got caught in this trap and that was unfortunate. And I think the other thing is that it was affordable housing. That was the other it was really cheap housing. And they were lovely homes and and so people were sort of this one woman I spoke to had two little girls and she said she could buy the house there and and she you know, she was asking me not to pass judgment, but she said how dangerous dangerous is it really miss Gibbs because we're living now it's drugs and crime and other things. And you know, I could get that house in love for now. And you know, removed my two daughters from all of this other dangers. And so it's waiting, you know, in the richest country of the world. We shouldn't have our people moms moms have two little girls single mom, two little girls had to make a decision between living where there's crime and drugs and raising their daughter verses where there's toxic poison, but the rest of it's okay. That's that's the society we live in today. It's really kind of sad. So, in closing, Lois, how How are your kids doing?
How are your children? My kids are doing fabulous.
My son in just ran a 50k marathon yesterday in the snow in the ice and rain and he's healthy as a horse and doing really well. And my daughter is in Austin, Texas. Who got three inches of snow yesterday.
And she has she has three beautiful grandchildren that are all perfectly healthy. So I've been truly blessed. Wonderful. Well, we're expecting maybe nine to nine inches to a foot coming our way again in the live in Texas. That's you know, that's just a dusting here in Western New York. You know that.
Thank you so much Lois, for taking time with us. Tom, did I leave anything out?
I'm gonna unmute myself. But can I ask one question, would you mind?
Am I unmuted?
I can hear you. Okay, good. First off, fascinating. Thank you so much. I just love sitting here listening to this.
I teach a class in journalism. And I showed them I showed a lot of the kids the Love Canal stuff, file footage, and they were fascinated and here's my concern and I want to ask you this question if you could pass along some advice to these kids, because I think a lot of them as freshmen reporters, make the same mistake that the mayor made with you thinking just a mom, what does she know? What did these people know? The government says it's safe, it's fine, and they blow off the story. If you're a freshman reporter and you come across the lowest gifts of 1978 in the NL situation, Mo What do you tell them? What's your advice to them?
I have two pieces of advice. One you could you could be a hero like Mike Brown. If you were to look at closer at some of these situations, and you could you too could break open this whole new arena of reporting. I mean, he did laying waste and he did all that he was the dude right for a long time. And that's because he talked to Karen Schroeder and you believe Karen Schroeder and he took it step 234 And five, everybody else blue Karen showed her up she was a mom was sickly kids and whining about it and her pool popped out of the ground. I mean, what kind of weird woman is this? So So really to look look beyond? Don't Don't assume what you see and what you think is real, I think is really, really, really important. And I think the other thing is that if you look at what has changed and when we're looking at social justice, so whether it's a civil rights or the women's rights or the peace movement, whatever, or environmental, almost all of them came from nobody's raising a flag about something. You know, a whistleblower, a woman who started organizing a newbie campus because she wasn't getting paid the same amount of money for the same work as a man. Right and and these are these are, these are the opportunities the Rosa Parks of the of the world, right, that these are the opportunities to really tell a story in society that is so important for people to hear, understand, and hopefully take some steps to change down the road. But it almost never comes from the governor or the mayor. It almost never comes from corporate executives. It generally comes from you know, a teacher at the University of homemaker who smell something weird. A worker who blows a whistle in a way we're seeing this in a pandemic with the vaccines and what's going on with that right. So so those are the people who are more likely to make your career then choosing to ignore them and go interview the governor was just going to give you whatever talking points is a communications person gave me this morning.
Great if I thank you so much. You're welcome. Let me just say, let me just say on camera, just to close out the interview, Lois, thank you Lois, thank you so much. For sharing so much of your life with us and the influence you've had on Western New Yorkers and the country and what you're continuing to do with your life in such an amazing way, bringing about all these changes.
It's just really an amazing story. Thanks for everything.
Thank you. Talk to you later.
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An Interview with Lois Gibbs [Her battle and victory on behalf of Love Canal homeowners]
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Lois Gibbs, a stay-at-home mom who whose family moved into the Love Canal neighborhood when her son was one year old, was never told she would be living on top of a dumpsite where 20 thousand tons of toxic chemicals had been buried.
She says that her son, who had been “perfectly healthy,” suddenly got “sicker and sicker and sicker.” He developed epilepsy. Lois began reading articles by Michael Brown in the Niagara Gazette, questioning whether a disproportionate number of health issues in the community could be attributed to toxic chemical exposure.
Mrs. Gibbs, who said it was “terrifying,” began her search for answers by going to the Niagara Falls school board, City Hall, and the offices of state senators and other representatives. She says no one offered to help. She says Mayor Michael O’Laughlin told her Michael Brown was a “troublemaker,” and that she should “go home and take care of my child.”
In her interview with Rich Newberg, Lois Gibbs reflects on the strategies employed to finally get the president of the United States to come to Niagara Falls and sign legislation benefitting Love Canal families wishing to move out of the neighborhood. It also created a Superfund to assist other communities across the country dealing with the hazards of toxic chemical exposure.
Portions of the Lois Gibbs interview appear in the 2021 documentary, “The Buffalo Story: History Happens Here.” It is part of the Rich Newberg Reports Collection. The Love Canal segment entitled “A Toxic Nightmare: The Awakening,” won a New York Emmy award in 2022 in the category of Science/Environment.
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2021-02-15
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<div class="element-text"><span><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/items/show/2175">A Toxic Nightmare: The Awakening [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 1]</a> </span></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2176"><span>Love Canal: Neighborhood of Fear [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 2]</span></a></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2177">Turning Anger Into Action [The Story of Love Canal Pt.3]</a><br /><span></span></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2178">What Have We Learned? [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 4]</a></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2347">An Interview with Michael Brown</a></div>
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Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)
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Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies : published according to the true originall copies.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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1623
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Jaggard, Isaac -1627 (Publisher of original)
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Bibliography--Folios. 1623.
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<em>Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, </em>published seven years after the bard's death, compiles 36 plays written by William Shakespeare. Named the "First Folio" by scholars, it is the first collection of Shakespeare's work printed, and contained 18 previously unpublished works--<em>The Tempest</em>, <em>Macbeth</em>, and <em>Twelfth Night</em> among them. <br /><br />Assembled by John Heminges and Henry Condell, and published by Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, the First Folio was presented by the publishers as the first authentic reproduction of Shakespeare's plays (some of which had been previously printed under dubious circumstances). Additionally, the Martin Droeshout-produced portrait in the Folio would be considered one of the few reliable images of Shakespeare, as it was approved by those who worked with him during his life. <br /><br /><span>In 1919, NYC book dealer Gabriel Wells purchased a copy of the First Folio on behalf of Colonel Charles Clifton, president of the Pierce Arrow Company. The copy, though imperfect, was described in the seller’s catalog as “probably” belonging to Samuel Gilburne, one of the actor’s in Shakespeare’s company. The basis for this claim is rather flimsy, Gilburne’s name is written next to where his name is printed in the list of “Principall Actors”. The original catalog price was $3,000.00. Henry Clay Folger (Folger Library in DC) ordered the copy only to discover it had already been sold. Folger offered to pay the buyer $6,000.00; Clifton refused indicating that he wanted to own a First Folio. Eventually Folger and Clifton arranged a swap, whereby Folger got the purported Gilburne copy and Clifton received a more-perfect copy. Folger paid Clifton $6500 for the Gilburne copy and Clifton purchased a more complete, finer copy, which sold at auction for $8,800.00. In 1926, Colonel Clifton donated this copy of the First Folio, along with the Second, Third, Fourth Folios, and the Poems to the Grosvenor Library. In 1953, the Grosvenor Library was incorporated into the newly-formed Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, and in 1964 the collection would be relocated to the newly-constructed Rare Book Room at the Central Library. </span>
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eng
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This collection of long-form reports by retired WIVB-TV Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg covers a wide range of social issues, Buffalo history and the arts. Mr. Newberg retired from the Buffalo CBS network affiliate at the end of 2015, after serving the station for thirty-seven years in various roles including main anchor, reporter and documentarian. <br /><br />His New York Emmy Award winning pieces explore the abortion debate, care of the mentally ill, the African American struggle for civil rights, and the lessons of the Holocaust, among many topics. His video memoir, “One Reporter’s Journey, “ reflects on his forty-six year career, beginning as an advocate for those without a voice. <br /><br />"My hope," says Newberg, “is that this collection will provide a lasting chronicle of life and issues in Buffalo during the latter part of the 20th century and into the new millennium."
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Okay, so let's just Mike Michael, why don't you start just by giving me your name and the date? It's the 23rd. Right November. And let's start from there. And then I'll ask you,
Michael Brown, it's November 23 2020.
Michael. It's been well recorded that you were the first journalist to become aware of problems in the Love Canal neighborhood. Can you bring us back to that moment? What is your discovery what who contacted you? What was your discovery and what were the what were your first thoughts?
Okay, well, first of all, I like to make clear that a couple of years before two other reporters at the Gazette had written a story on on the fact that there was a sump pump problem and it had an odor and there was some chemicals in there, they did testing. Then it was kind of, you know, set set aside. I that was 7619 76. I came aboard in 1977. And, and there were two. There were two reasons I went after the story. It was not in the news, and it had been a couple articles. More than a year before. And then it was a question it was very quiet and I I had been, I started to cover Chem droll, a company that was dumping highly toxic chemicals and Louis to New York. And I really got on to the toxic waste issue in Niagara County. And when I did that, in one meeting, it started up a lot of activism in the area. It started up controversy the articles did. Toxic Waste became an issue in Niagara County in a big way. I was writing about it every day. And at one of the meetings I on control, a public meeting in which people were complaining about the dump site there. There was a young girl who got up to speak and she started weeping. She was crying that you know, this place Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York, this old dump was was leaking all over the place and harming, possibly harming her family and neighbors and so forth. And that certainly caught my attention.
How all what was she crying about? Michael? What what? It's a child or birth defects or? No, she was
she was very young. She was she was 21 or younger. And she was just scared because of the odors, the the odors that were coming off in the Love Canal. And, you know, at this point, no one knew that it was a danger to human health. whatsoever. I mean, no one's concerned about the environmental aspect from the sump pumps and so forth that I mentioned. And there were studies that the city had initiated an assessment of it, and I attended one of the meetings. And when I was coming down an elevator for the meeting. I spoke to an engineer they were talking about the dump and covering it up with some clay and I asked him I said is this really a serious situation? He said, If we don't do something about this, our children or our children's children are going to suffer. And that also got my attention from that time. On that was in 77. I started to watch the situation very closely. I kept monitoring it. I kept calling the County Health Department. There was no news for the longest time. And one day in in 19 I was trying to keep it I was trying to make it an item in the news. And I was the city hall reporter Niagara Falls I was in charge of the city. i One day I was sitting at my desk at the Niagara does that and something prompted me I guess you'd call it intuition to go out there. And to you know, take a look around. Ask neighbors how they were doing when and when I did. I was shocked at what I found. I the first person I visited was a family called the Schroeder's Timothy and Karen Schroeder. They had a young daughter who was suffering more than a dozen birth defects and some severe ones. And I started they were all other illnesses in the family including with Tim and and another child. I began to canvass the neighborhood and I went door to door up there st 99 Straight what they later called the first ring of Love Canal. And in case after case door after door house after house. I people were telling me litany of different problems, whether it's was miscarriages or, or, or cancers that they thought were peculiar. And so this, you know, this became a journalistic obsession of mine. And I began to follow up closely and write anything I could on it. I ended up writing, oh 100 news stories and news items about it. And possibly, most importantly, other dumps in the area that could have posed even more of a threat but that when I call the state health department, and I mentioned I remember was a Friday I mentioned that. It seemed like there were illnesses out there. You could tell there was nearly an electrical reaction to that and shortly after that the state announced rather quickly that they were going to hold the health survey there and take blood samplings and a found miscarriages and indications of liver abnormalities and and this and they took some that was from some blood tests the the liver abnormalities and this ended up eventually leading to the declaration of an emergency. Not on August 2 1978.
Michael, what kind of resistance did you need? As you were covering this story? And what let's start with the head but also what was government's reaction and big business reaction when you first when when this issue surfaced at Philip Knapp?
Well, you gotta remember and I'm sure you know that the hooker Chemical Company was the biggest employer in Niagara Falls foul with some people. It's also one of the larger chemical companies in the world owned by Occidental Petroleum, a large entity based in Los Angeles. And so it was extremely important economically the city government the mayor, I knew the mayor very well. I used to talk to him every morning is City Hall reporter that was Michael Lachlan. And this the city manager Don O'Hara they were they were nice guys. We got along fine until this point because they really did not want much publicity on the situation. And I was being assured that it was no big deal that we're going to just cover it with some clay and maybe drain the periphery and that would be that and this is before the declaration of an emergency. I also because I was writing about it at any opportunity. I received a phone call from a state senator who, who told me he asked me says when you're going to go back to being a reporter, instead of an activist this there's no issue here. And when he tried to basically tell me to stop writing about it, and I remember even like it was Senator Lloyd patters. God bless God rest his soul and also there was a health commissioner Niagara County. I don't like I really don't like to cast aspersions on people, especially ones who have passed on as most of these have, but just being a reporter here with the facts. I'm not necessarily blaming them for anything. There was also a health commissioner County Health Commissioner who became very angry at me for questioning whether or not this could be a health hazard. And he was a medical doctor and he said to me, you know, are you a medical doctor and when you're going to be, again, kind of when are you going to go back to being a reporter and I was being a reporter. It's just that I wasn't taking answers that at face value. I knew that there was a problem there. I knew that there were possible health ramifications big time. And in fact, when a state started to sample, not just some pumps, which they had done in a couple of cases, but the air of the homes the basements along 99 Street and South 97th street. They found chlorine they found volatile organic chemicals in the air of those homes including benzene and MS caused a special alarm with me because I happen to know I happen to have read recently that benzene was the the only totally proven human carcinogen from synthetic industrial chemicals back that and as well and there were a host of dozens of other chemicals volatize and evaporating into the atmosphere of their homes. So I knew that this was a big story. I told one I told the councilmen I said this is gonna end up being the biggest story in Niagara Falls history and they simply they simply don't believe that later on. One of the councilmen told me he said, You know, I wish I had listened that was kind of a prophecy if you will, and you know, it was wasn't a prophecy, which is based on what you saw when you went out there.
When did you meet Lois Gibbs and what was your first impression?
Well, again, I had been writing a lot about this and dealing with Karen Schroeder, who would organize the citizens she was for a petition to try to get out of there. This is don't forget at this point. It was it was a problem only they thought for a few homes and only at the southern end in what they call the first ring of homes where Karen Schroeder lived and her mother lived in some other people. So she was organizing Karen was people to sign a petition about the getting out of there. I think there were like 30 homes involved. And so I was writing about that and I was out there a lot and one day and I don't know exactly what the date would have been and I got a phone call from a woman who didn't live as close as Karen she lived a few blocks farther away. And her name was Lois Gibbs and she asked if she could come and see me and talk about the Love Canal. And I said sure. And she came to the office and I gave her a technical report from engineers on what we're going to try to remediate the southern end was some clay and I basically I think I gave her more news clip she had been reading my stories, but I think I gave her more news clips and I just talked to her about the circumstance there. And that was about about the extent of it. I didn't see or hear from her again until August 2, the day it was declared a an emergency by the State Health Commissioner,
And what year are we talking about?
1978.
So did you sense that this woman who described herself as a housewife and a mother and was trying to do the best for her family? Did you have any idea that she would grow into what you know, grow this movement into one of the most incredible grass movements this country has ever seen as far as the environment goes, leading to the super fun
Well I knew that the circumstance that Love Canal was going to lead to that because it was huge news. I mean, it was massive news. It was on Walter Cronkite, it was all over the place. It was the front page of The New York Times just before August 2, a New York Times reporter named Donald McNeil came to Niagara Falls and he called me and he came to my house and had dinner at my house and and I told him about Love Canal and and he was very young reporter and so it's I have the time and I just gave him a box of my of the stuff I had accumulated and I sit here. I didn't care about journalistic competition. At this point. I wanted to see those people get out of there, and he took the material. And then on August 2 He he followed up on the same day of the emergency with a front page article in The New York Times that that that created a firestorm across America, and in an end it was a continual one. And along with the so that was the, you know, that was there was a lot of there was international publicity. There was a deluge it was it was astonishing, and it continued. Up to there. Lois had a tremendous involvement in the second evacuation in 1982 years later, later. But I know by this time I was in New York City I had left Niagara Falls to write a book about Love Canal and other toxic dumps. around America. And and she was they had evacuated the first two rings that Love Canal, but not Lois Gibbs area which, like I said, was farther out and was not as contaminated as a man a matter of fact they the state argued it wasn't contaminated at all. It was a lot of controversy over that. But anyway, she soaked up a lot of grassroots movement for for that to be likewise evacuated. And in 1980 there was they found out there was possibility of some genetic DNA abnormalities with people who did live a little farther away than then that first ring and a second ring that were evacuated. And, and this led to that, along with their grassroots effort keeping it in the news every day. Lois did with her group, gray smoke cloth and another woman, Marie Pozniak. They they constantly kept it in the nose, and especially in in front of the buffalo TV cameras and so this, these forces were to create that second evacuation which also call caused a national Firestorm.
So how important was the visual element here when you mentioned television, which is my medium and Tommy's medium? How important was television coverage? In bringing this in and up close and personal way to the eyes of the public?
Well, back then it possible it was important locally especially, it was important nationally to I mean, this was something that starting in August of 78 was like I said on network news back then, and three major networks dominated there was no cable news, and it was on all three of those major networks as well as PBS, the public stations. So it was important. Back then, newspapers were far more important than the air today, and it was probably more of a newspaper story across the country than a TV story. And also the same was was true of other circumstances. So it was certainly a big TV story and and it was important to have the television stations there for certain like I said there was somewhat of a different environment as far as media back then. And of course no internet and how just today to have his archives, where we can actually see events unfold as they did in that era.
Well, I think it's important especially if we apply it to what's going on today. I mean, after Love Canal, like I said I wrote a book about it called laying waste the poisoning of America that generated a lot of attention around the country. I did hundreds of radio and TV shows about it, including the Today Show Nightline and so forth, traveled twice on national publicity tours. And and I went on a college lecture circuit to speak about Love Canal in about 100 universities and colleges around America during the ensuing years and the reason for that the reason I'm saying all this is because I thought Love Canal would spur this country would spur this country to take a look at the chemicals it was producing and use it and realize that you should not be allowed to use or manufacture at compound unless you can disassemble it in its natural components, not in toxic form. I thought that Love Canal would have a tremendous impact on the production of plastic and we certainly know it hasn't. So I mean, that was the I think that that was the real calling of Love Canal and I I'd love this to materialize that sometime in the future because you know, I'm looking at the problem. We're we're creating more plastic than ever before and toxic chemicals are very much with us.
You recall when dioxin surfaced and people actually said they had seen the military dumping that that I guess that's probably the most toxic, isn't it? I call the most toxic substance created by humans.
It was the finding of dioxin in the conformation of it in December of 1978 that probably caused the biggest single reaction of any single day was Love Canal. I remember very distinctly the health commissioner quietly he called me up and he said I'm gonna have some big news for you and he was gonna you know, and and then he actually at the time he was laboratory director, he later on became Health Commissioner David Axelrod, an excellent human being an unsung hero of Love Canal behind the scenes in Albany, and he tipped me off to the dioxin and I confirm that there was something called trike for if at all in the canal, which always carries dioxin as an unwanted byproduct. And at the time, it may still hold true today. I don't know, dioxin or what they call TCDD was the most toxic synthetic compounds ever tested by by by humans. So this like I said, this created a fantastic uproar and a lot more national publicity
In human terms, did you see the children who had birth defects Did you see the results the human misery that these chemicals created in Love Canal? And what? What was your reaction to fellow human being when you actually saw the results of this?
Well, you take care of Schroeder's daughter Sherry I just wanted them out of there. And I didn't care if I did become an activist. I wanted these people out of there, and I, you know, I was a journalist through it, but yes, the motive was to get these people out because I did see these results. I did see the suffering. I did see the pools of chemicals in the backyard the chemicals that would come and push a fool out of the out of the ground. There was a case across the canal to 90 Southern street in a janiece family was the name and you had black sludge that came up through the drain in their spinner in ground swimming pool and I remember Mrs. janiece telling me that she had gone she didn't know what it was she went down and cleaned up this black gunk this this slurry or sludge and afterwards became very sick first of all, with a tremendous skin rash. And then a litany of panoply of other ailments. At well her ailments you can never prove these things. Her ailments perfectly matched those that are caused by contact with dioxin. I even called up her doctor dermatologist because he had diagnosed her as having lupus and I said to a doctor, and I explained that she was probably in contact with dioxins and and again I heard from him What are you a doctor? You know, why don't you just be a reporter and you know, I was very concerned for her health she ended up dying it at a at a young age. I can't prove it was from chemicals. You can you never can. But it certainly was suspect so I saw that suffering and I certainly other cases up and down 99/97 Street, and soon I found out that the Love Canal was three times the size that the government thought it was and then I started to I was doing some testing of sump pumps with a chemical laboratory and found that the spread of chemicals was farther than the government thought including into neighborhoods that were approaching, for instance, Lois Gibbs neighborhood and others in that area. And again, these type of findings would did not offer comfort to the people there and certainly energize the circumstance and Lois Gibson and grace and Murray. You know, they really kept edit to to try to get those other people out of there and they eventually succeeded.
I call you ever threatened by any special interest groups and that that stood to lose a lot of money and you ever actually threatened?
When I when I was riding, laying waste, and I would return to Niagara Falls, I'd be tailed. There were my one and I'm not blaming anyone in particular, any company in particular but when I went and paperback version of my book laying waste came out the publisher which was Pocket Books was concerned because somehow the My Schedule had had had gotten out. I would go to a city let's say Chicago, and I'd be doing the big morning show their TV show. And there would be a representative of a chemical company in the lobby. Demanding loudly that that he or they be allowed in and and then just basically just disrupting things. Well, they couldn't figure out how the industry had gotten my schedule, my precise schedule and and I even I remember even going down to the basement of the apartment buildings I lived on an East 76th Street in Manhattan and checking to see if there were any devices on on the phone panel down in the basement. You know, for the for the apartments in that in that building. Never proved that that was the case. legal threats, Luis nizer, who at the time was the most famous, the most prominent litigant as far as is suing newspapers for for whatever slander and so forth, threatened my publisher of the heart cover laneways which was a pantheon they're owned by Random House threatened to sue them out of basically out of existence if they published my book. So there was a legal threat. And, and during this time, I don't know I mean, that again, I'm not including a a particular company or politician or whomever but there was a rather suspect, circumstance in which I returned to Niagara Falls to attend a wedding and was briefly arrested. And all charges dropped just so that they can get a little bit of a headline and, and a lawyer that came, you know, it was outraged by what they did. To me. came and made them not just dropped charges, but destroy the fact that the arrest even ever occurred.
What were the charges on that? They were trying to claim I assaulted two police officers who I had been coming out of a place to Niagara Falls and they grabbed me and and holding me off for no reason and and then claiming that I was resisting them assaulting them and so forth. One of them I again, I don't like to be too specific because I can't prove it again. But one of them was a close relative of a politician who was very disturbed at my reporting on Love Canal and in fact, who when one of the councilmen proposed having a Michael Brown day for Love Canal, his response publicly was over my dead body so I don't know why that happened. It didn't deter me. And but you know, it may get back I remember doing a radio show with a guy named Shavon Otto I think you remember him relationship. And during our show, the phones went blank. And when he called me back after it came on, he said to me off year he said, Michael, are you okay? Are you safe? And I said why? And he said I've never heard a phone act. like that before. I've never had that happen before. Be careful. He was he was concerned. But other than that, no, no, I was I can't say somebody called me up and said, We're going to kill you. I got threat threats elsewhere and other situations to toxic ways, including kind of a mob associate in New Jersey, but that was not a good chemical that was not Love Canal and had nothing to do with Niagara Falls or any competency.
We got to wrap up pretty soon. Let me ask you this. What would you like your legacy to be number one. Number two, what, as a society have we learned as a result of your work and the work of those who covered that nightmare?
I guess I'm disappointed with the results so far. I mean, actually Love Canal there was a superfund which I'm sure you're familiar with that caused a lot of the most acute circumstances with these dumps to be remediated as far as putting clay covers on him and draining, draining the lead shape but we were still dumping this stuff for incinerating it in a way that could be hazardous to people. We still have a lot of chemical companies belching stuff out in poor neighborhoods very possibly causing the same type of things that happen Love Canal I don't think Love Canal was the most dangerous situation I saw in America. There was just the one that that was the first one and got a lot of publicity of thanks to being the first one thanks to the activism of people there and so forth. But you know, at least dozens of dumps around America were stopped from from major leakage of seepage I should say and, and, you know, it made the industry look at better means of disposal no question about that. But we but matters have been reversed in recent years the EPA has been got it really and and toxic and so now, once more being allowed into the air and water in a way that that is of major concern. So there's a lot of work to be done, and lessons still to be learned from Love Canal and the many other dumps around America.
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As a young journalist at the Niagara Gazette in 1977, Michael Brown took a special interest in stories by two fellow reporters at the paper involving sump pump issues in the Love Canal neighborhood. Reported problems included odors and chemicals surfacing in homes. Those articles, published in 1976, did not get much traction at the time.
Mr. Brown had begun covering toxic waste dumpsites in Niagara County. That became his journalistic focus. He managed to stir up a lot of controversy in the process.
While covering a public hearing, a woman in her early 20s from the Love Canal neighborhood broke down in tears when describing her concerns about potential health issues associated with chemicals believed to be leaking into her and her neighbors’ homes.
The city of Niagara Falls had initiated an assessment of the issue and considered covering the old dumpsite with clay. In 1977, Mr. Brown talked with a city engineer who felt the situation was very serious and could effect future generations if not properly addressed.
A period of silence by the city followed. Brown decided to follow up but said he got no answers from the County Health Department. He had become the Niagara Falls City Hall reporter for the Gazette. His journalistic intuition prompted him to go door-to-door, talking with Love Canal families. His goal was to determine whether the presence of toxic chemicals may have been having an effect on their health.
Rich Newberg’s interview with Michael Brown takes us back to that initial period of discovery and what followed next. At the time of the interview, more than four decades had passed since the Love Canal disaster became a “journalistic obsession” for Mr. Brown.
Viewers will learn of the obstacles he faced and how his reporting for the Niagara Gazette led to the rise of Lois Gibbs, leader of the Love Canal Homeowners Association, whose tireless efforts not only ended in victory for her neighbors, but served as the beginning of the environmental justice movement for people exposed to toxic chemicals in their communities.
Portions of the Brown and Gibbs interviews appear in the 2021 documentary, “The Buffalo Story: History Happens Here.” The segment entitled “A Toxic Nightmare: The Awakening,” won a New York Emmy award in 2022 in the category of Science/Environment.
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<div class="element-text"><span><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/items/show/2175">A Toxic Nightmare: The Awakening [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 1]</a> </span></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2176"><span>Love Canal: Neighborhood of Fear [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 2]</span></a></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2177">Turning Anger Into Action [The Story of Love Canal Pt.3]</a><br /><span></span></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2178">What Have We Learned? [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 4]</a></div>
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10 years ago, August 2 1978, the lives of Love Canal residents would never be the same. When Health Commissioner Robert Whelan advised pregnant women and children under two to be evacuated immediately panic kit.
Why not my three year old?..
It was a new crisis one society knew little about and even less on how to handle it. The administrator for the US disaster aid administration arrives from Washington and sees chemicals bubbling to the surface. New York State makes history deciding to evacuate everyone, all 239 families who live next to the old Booker chemical dump site. The story of Love Canal began nearly a century earlier. When entrepreneur William Love had a dream of building a canal connecting the upper and lower Niagara River for cheap hydroelectric power. The project was abandoned, the canal was used by bunker chemical in the 40s and 50s to dump 22 tons of industrial waste. In the mid 70s, heavy rainfall melting snow and rusting drums brought the buried chemicals to the surface and into backyards and basements. After the first evacuations, Love Canal homeowners President Lois Gibbs led the residents left behind a two year battle with government, even at one point holed into Washington officials hostage to bring attention to their cause.
What they have seen here today is just a Sesame Street picnic.
President Carter decided to allow 700 More families to move. CBS Television told the story of a Love Canal struggle in a two hour Docu-drama, starring actress Marcia Mason as Lois Gibbs.
It's historic weather we want to be or not. We're just historic you know, just like the falls. Luella Kenny's little boy died from a rare kidney disease she believes is linked to chemical contamination.
You have to look back with with so much sadness and just just a very difficult day for me to remember.
Here at home they're asking, Has the Love Canal sprung a serious leak? News Four's Michelle McClintock reports nervous neighbors are waiting for answers in Niagara Falls.
I can't remain silent. I'm not I'm not.
Joanne Avila Radley has lived in the LaSalle area of Niagara Falls all her life, say Love Canal and she can rattle off a list of people she knows directly affected by that environmental disaster. These are the images that can haunt anyone who calls the Cataract City home.
Now because of the sensitivity about one canal the problem that we have is that anytime anyone goes to fix a pothole or do any routine sewer work in the neighborhood, people are getting concerned.
And that's why many residents off Colvin Boulevard were concerned when a foul smelling substance was discovered during routine work on a sewer line. Department of Environmental Conservation officials tested the material at first and found it was tri-chlorobenzene substance found at the occidental chemical site.
This is the corner of 96 and Colvin. It's the exact spot where the substance was found a month ago by a contractor who was working on the sewers. It is quite literally a stone's throw from the Love Canal containment facility.
The Bradley's live blocks away from that site, but they're still concerned because hazardous waste workers have been in their neighborhood. They've been snapping photos of the work as it gets closer to their home, even at the end of their street.
Who knows even back 35 years ago. Do we get all the truth?
96 Ben Coleman Boulevard is the only location where the substance was found. According to the DC officials are expected to release the findings as soon as the lab results come in. Stay with news for as we continue to follow this story. Reporting live Michelle McClintock for the 10 o'clock news.
One of the worst environmental disasters in American history and it happened right here in our own backyard. It's now been 35 years since the emergency declaration at Love Canal the infamous neighborhood in Niagara Falls became the center of a crusade against toxic waste. And the housewife who you see here who spearheaded this nationwide mission has returned to where those homes once stood. News for senior correspondent rich Newberg joins us live from Niagara Falls. Good afternoon, Rich
Good afternoon. And you know, it's not quite over yet. This is a rather bizarre situation. 35 years later, I remember covering it 35 years ago, after the disaster, people were told that the chemicals were contained. It was safe to move back here and hundreds of families did just that. Well that brings us to this morning. This morning. Lois Gibbs, who led the three year fight to have residents evacuated from the Love Canal neighborhood returned for a walking tour of the area where 20,000 tons of toxic waste were buried 35 years ago was a battle that led to a state of emergency here at Love Canal and the eventual evacuation of over 800 families. Many residents had health disorders back then and they attributed that to chemicals seeping into their homes and their neighborhood. Well now families that moved into this same neighborhood, they were told that it was safe to say that they are suffering from major health disorders like the family of Keith Boos.
They're my they're my family because every day is contaminated and life threatening. Our family has been affected by the contaminants in our home, emotionally, physically and mentally.
We said it so many times, don't bring people back here. Just don't bring them back here. And they did and they bamboozle them into believing it was safe and gave them the data and god knows what else these folks got. And and they innocently went in and bought what I bought 35 years ago, the American dream.
So now there's $113 million lawsuit filed claiming that Love Canal may be leaking and harming people here. We're gonna have to relive what happened 35 years ago and bring you back up to date with many more details. Tonight at five and six and on our website@wivb.com reporting live in the falls. Rich Newberg news four news.
Love Canal remains one of the most talked about chemical catastrophes in this country. Dozens of groups toured the site every year helping to better understand how it happened and hoping History doesn't repeat itself
And I just don't want to do I'm disgusted.
I don't want to be here. I don't want to read all that air.
Memories of the pain and the panic of the late 70s haunt this neighborhood nearly 40 years later, it was leaking into their. Their sump pumps.
There were smells people were complaining of skin irritation and rashes.
Mike Messio was a young employee at the time working at the nearby Niagara Falls airbase. He remembers stories from people like Bonnie Schneider
I had some physical problems that I hope is not related to anything here but if they are I want to know about it.
What are those physical problems?
I have in the rheumatoid arthritis and I have severe headaches others complained of miscarriages and urinary and kidney problems.
Our concern was to was to relocate these people. We wanted them out of harm's way it took it took some years to relocate 900 families and buy them out
And there was no precedent for this.
There was no we were we were we were kind of flying by the seat of our pants today. Today Massio is the EPA is regional spokesperson. He helps share the story of one of America's worst environmental disasters, a disaster that decimated this neighborhood. Only the streets, sidewalks and streetlights remain
This is the east side of the canal yet we count only a handful of homes left families who for whatever reason refuse the EPA spy on offers.
This was a big black eye on the City of Niagara Falls Massio says there's still enormous interest in Love Canal you get requests for tours of Love Canal all the time, all the time. Probably I have to say that. This year alone probably 40 tours,
People from all over the world.
The actual canal was only 16 acres in length was about 18 feet wide. It was like a bathtub. A canal Dug as a dream for entrepreneur William love in the late 1890s and then abandoned
This was shot in 1938. Prior to disposal hooker chemical bought it and started burying barrels of chemicals 21,000 tons of toxins. Sold to the school board for $1 and words of warning they said don't build the school right over the top of the 16 acre landfill. The blizzard of 77 accelerated the nightmare that followed.
What do you gonna do for my kid? What are you gonna do?
The EPA eventually allowed hundreds of families to move back into the homes north of Colton Boulevard. Those families today are some of the ones involved in the lawsuits.
We said it so many times. Don't bring people back here. Just don't bring them back here. Louis Gibbs, who led the Love Canal relocation fight returned in 2013. This was one of the areas that was most contaminated.
Gibbs has long argued families should never have returned. We fought very hard to stop the resettlement of Love Canal.
We lost that battle.
Our family has been affected by the contaminants in our home emotionally, physically and mentally. Keith Boos spoke with news Four in 2013 he and other families can't talk to us now. Their lawyer has ordered them to stay quiet. The government told us it was safe to come back
And they innocently went in and bought what I bought 35 years ago. The American dream
Today the area looks more like a golf course just a chain link fence. That's all we've got. Oh yeah, but seal insist it would even be safe to walk on the site.
All that debris from those homes in the school Sit, sit make up the 70 acre cap
More than 200 monitoring wells dot the area offering the only real clues to the trouble it's buried below.
How do you respond to people who say why didn't the EPA move any of this stuff?
It didn't make much sense to excavate 21,000 tons of waste where it's located now and transport someplace else to put it back in the ground again,
Massio says the area is among the safest in western New York because of constant monitoring. Paid for by Occidental Petroleum, a company that bought Hooker chemical runoff from the site gets treated here before it's pumped underground to the city's wastewater facility.
They did not clean up canal at best. They put a trench around it. There was there's still 20,000 tons of chemicals in the center of that site.
That's a sentiment shared by many of this dissection of the falls families who fear the toxic waste isn't entirely contained. And that one day it may seep back into their lives.
These new lawsuits may take years to get resolved. I sat through a hearing last week and State Supreme Court and Niagara County depositions haven't even been scheduled in the 18 lawsuits. And we would like to hear from you if you have a story to share about Love Canal. You can email us investigates a wivb.com Trent Williams News Four.
It was 40 years ago this week that a working class neighborhood in Niagara Falls became the center of a national health crisis. Toxic chemical waste seeped into backyards and playgrounds the Love Canal neighborhood news for us Jen Sean spoke to residents who say even decades letter later these wounds still feel fresh.
Jackie hundreds of families were eventually evacuated from the Love Canal area. After it was discovered the waste dumped there by hook or chemical was toxic. If you ask dozens of people who grew up or raised their kids there they'll tell you the company's actions lead to long term health disasters. 40 years later, they are still fighting for answers.
He was a sweet little boy, who I think would have contributed so much to society and yet he was cut down at seven John Allen Kenny was a victim of his own backyard, His mother says. Doctors in the late 70s said the seven year old boy died from kidney disease. Well, Kenny always thought there was something more that turned out that the chemical had been coming down the storm sores and empty out into the backyard. Where the children played. That backyard she says made her son's sick. The Kennys lived on 96th Street and Niagara Falls the Love Canal neighborhood years before they moved in
Hooker chemical dumped 22,000 tons of toxic waste in the canal. You're talking about organic compounds the reactions there's a lot of pesticide products hooker chemical, was using this site as a permanent landfill to deposit drums and lamp packs.
It was black was a deep black with like blue and purple colors that kind of ran through it.
Patricia Grimsey used to play near the dump site.
If you drop something in that it bubbled up and then disappeared, so we call it a quicksand
By the late 1970s. The toxic chemicals Grimsey and our friends were mesmerized by started getting national attention. People were getting sick residents wanted answers
Our little Julie was stillborn
At one point then the head of the Love Canal homeowners association Louis Gibbs wouldn't let an EPA representative leave her office without action from the federal government.
I was asked to come out to talk with a group of citizens about their medical test results.
Now you've been taken hostage
once quiet housewives became members of an organized play
when people were burning their deeds and their mortgages as it was like a movie scene
In 1978, President Carter declared Love Canal a federal health emergency. Eventually the neighborhood was evacuated and there was a federal buyout. Many families including the Kenny's and the Grenzies settled with a chemical company out of court after spending months living in motels. This is the Love Canal neighborhood now 70 acres of emptiness. A school and 239 homes were demolished. It's an emotional graveyard for Luella Kenny seen here at the site in the 80s
We took every precaution I mean we wouldn't let him go swimming. We wouldn't let him do all these things. But we did not know about chemicals.
After John died she joined the fight alongside other mothers demanding justice.
I really never had a chance to grieve because all of a sudden I was thrust into this whole arena of trying to get out of Love Canal trying to protect the rest of my family.
They did get out of Love Canal but closure never came and the settlement did little to comfort Kenny.
We have over 100 mandatory wells not only on the site and off the site in the community.
According to the EPA, the toxic waste is now capped and contain
You don't believe that?
No.
Grenzey and her family are battling long term illnesses, illnesses she's convinced our courtesy of the Love Canal no doctor has ever confirmed so with certainty right across from the toxic wasteland is a neighborhood Black Creek.
What would you say to those families who don't buy that this is Captain contained?
Well, everything that we do at the agency is based on science. Our monitoring continues to show us today that the remedy is in place and continues to be protective. of human health and the environment.
40 years after a sitting president admitted this place was toxic Louella Kenny, now in her 80s says she's not done fighting.
I thought well, you know maybe it's time to stop but I can't do it. I can't bring John back. That's for sure. But I worry about all the other children.
For more than 30 years now. Louella Kenny has helped distribute money to families of the original Love Canal lawsuit through the Love Canal medical fund. Keep in mind there are still more than a dozen civil suits in litigation connected to the Love Canal, Jen Schanz, News Four.
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During the decades that followed the Love Canal disaster, WIVB-TV reporters have sought to gain a big picture perspective of the disaster that laid the groundwork for the environmental justice movement in the United States.
In this series of reports presented ten to forty years after the evacuation of an entire Niagara Falls community due to toxic chemical exposure, a sad truth emerges. History appears to be repeating itself.
Viewers learn that the losses of life and property that received international attention beginning in the late 1970s failed to prevent others from establishing homes in close proximity to where 20,000 thousand tons of toxic chemicals remain buried in the ground. The industrial and military waste was capped and continues to be monitored by the federal government, which has insisted the area is safe.
However, new lawsuits have been filed claiming that chemicals have migrated from the site, again taking a toll on human health. Lois Gibbs, the environmental rights crusader who organized fellow homeowners when the Love Canal story first broke, revisited the neighborhood in 2013. She couldn’t understand how anyone could move anywhere near the Love Canal site.
“We said it so many times, don’t bring people back here,” exclaimed Mrs. Gibbs during a walking tour of the site. She added, “they bamboozled them into believing it was safe…and they innocently went in and bought what I bought thirty-five years ago, ‘the American dream.’”
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Under any other circumstances could be fun. Moving when you're forced to is painful.
I love my house and this is tearing me up. I'm leaving this here on the street. Line Oh, somehow, some way. Maybe they'll just move her home. There's so many people here they feel like we do we don't know just leave her here.
The families who have been forced to evacuate are being asked to throw away perishable food. The CO owners of the pine Plaza superduper are donating $1,000 to help replace some of those items.
We're concentrating mainly on milk and cheese and bread and butter items that may have been contaminated. And we're giving $30 gift certificates to all those that are moving to the first 39 that are being relocated.
The names of families with pregnant women and young children living outside the borders of the Love Canal have also been taken. Their situations will be reviewed later for a possible evacuation help. This has created resentment among some families living with a loved canal in their backyards, but whose children are older.
I don't want to be here. I don't want to breathe all that air. I'm sick, and I don't think it's fair. I've got it in my backyard. What about my three children?
Anyone and everyone however, is eligible for blood testing the lines were long today, tests are looking for possible leukemias, anemias and liver disorders. In the meantime, workmen were also busy today putting up a snow fence around the contaminated 99th Street School. A chain link fence will be installed later. A chain link fence will also be installed here around the Love Canal area. These warning signs apparently haven't been doing much good as evidenced by numerous footprints seen across the field on the other side of this fence last week. And that was way in advance of the tour over the weekend by state and federal officials here are we Bryce news for Niagara Falls
We like the home so well. So we decided we're going to take it with us.
The groans and squeaks today we're coming from this house workman methodically What about their task of jacking it up and pulling it apart? At its seams? Are you convinced it's safe for your children?
Yes, yes. We've had three tests taken on it as far as you know being contaminated. And it is clean. There's no contamination at all as far as the chemicals go.
It represents a lot of hard work money and there's a lot of fond memories here and we didn't want to get out of Love Canal. We've got to settle for something less and financially we had to do it.
The highest earners are one of several 100 families whose houses sat adjacent to the canal. The state bought it for $33,000 They bought it back for salvage at $2,500. The two halves will be made whole again blocks away in an area considered safe. Tom Eisner took one final look today at the chemicals which had seeped into his basement.
For days more crew had their job cut out for them tedious work. Each move was carefully calculated and then carried out. The result? Mission accomplished.
News Four Niagara Falls.
Niagara Falls and school officials are quietly gathering information to prepare for expected lawsuits and news for is learned that city manager Donald O'Hara has written a letter to state officials expressing his concern about the lack of speed in getting on with the cleanup. Another person who is concerned is Maria Pozniak, who lives just 100 yards outside the designated danger area. Her eight year old asthmatic daughter has been taken from the area to stay in a hotel with her mother and her condition once away from the canal area is improved, Mrs. Pozniak says but the cost of living away from their home is being borne by the positive acts and attempts to get help from the state and but nothing but red tape. And still today, homeowners association president Lois Gibbs was talking about her displeasure with a lack of anything new and last night's meeting.
I think it was basically just a rehash again, they didn't even go into the safety plan to any extent which I thought they were going to do. But we still stand the same. I don't think they'll start. I know they won't start to work on October because of if they avoid us as far as letting us okay the plans then we have a lawyer who will back us up and put an injunction on the work
Well, you might approve the plan that would allow it to start October 10?
Not until we get a lot of answers to a lot of questions that they've been avoiding giving us like the contents of the canal, the perimeters of the canal.
The governor has said that your group will have the right to veto if you do not approve the safety plan that is finally presented.
That's right. He's assured us of that twice. And we're holding him to it.
Mr. Urban has severe malformation in his leg and he has severe eye problems with one eye and we believe this is a result of contamination by chemicals.
How many people do you represent?
I really don't want to get into the number of people I represent there-- I'm more than Mr. Irvin the purpose of selecting Mr. Irvin was just to have one person go through a multitude of preliminary hearings.
Do all your clients, however, allegedly basically the same thing, some type of physical ailment?
That's right not that they are all the same. There are different physical injuries that we've claimed that are related to it, but they're not all the same by any stretch of the imagination. There are women that have had miscarriages or people with renal problems. They're varied.
I think that my charge now should go right to the country and this by this I mean, that the United States Army knew what was in that canal and still they let them children go to that school. They let citizens build homes over here. And now that we have a problem? That we do have acts and I think that we should have immediately I think the people of the City of Niagara Falls to support the situation in a crisis of toxic chemicals around a 93rd street and work our way right up town. That's how I feel about it.
We nervous wrecks we had and I have nightmares. We are afraidto go back to our homes. We don't know what's going to happen to us. The kids are blaming us Why are you keeping us here in this contaminated hell? We want to move out and we keep saying it will be soon just have patience. And something's going to happen pretty soon. And they're angry and mad and they they just can't take it no more.
The cruel and inhumane treatment of the Love Canal residents have to be addressed now by a massive outpouring of sympathy for the people there and expressions to their legislators and in particular to Governor Hugh Carey. We've invited Hugh Carey to be with us to join the legislators and the families to go to the tour. Of the Love Canal with Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden. It's important day we expect the community to rally in support of the families there.
On October 4 1979, actress and activist Jane Fonda and husband Tom hate, hate a visit to the Love Canal neighbor to lend their support.
This is a tragedy of such immense human proportions that it's very difficult to talk we've had a short bus ride while we have an opportunity to talk to some of the people in some detail about what they've gone through. The children they've lost the miscarriages, the husbands, they lost, how their lives have been torn off. It's unbelievable. That this happens in America today.
But I think it'll help us a lot. When I go to Washington tomorrow. I'm going to see those same people I'm going to see EPA and other federal people. And I'll say here's another one of your agency who has an agreement now let's do something get up and move these people immediately. Don't wait for the state to do it. It's up to you to do it now.
From Western New York's first news station here News Four's update.
Good evening. I'm Rich Newberg Lois Gibbs has called for a boycott of the Federal Health Studies at the Love Canal. The boycott was the first of several issues I discussed tonight with the president of the Love Canal Homeowners Association.
We are calling for a boycott of the EPA studies and we're calling for a boycott at the EPA meetings. The reason we're asking this is because they have not given us their design or protocols. We don't know they're gonna be done might they plan on eliminating people because of economic background likely cell development? Or because they have health problems like sugar diabetes, we feel everybody should be tested who want to be
The burning of the first family in effigy. When you were in Washington? What do you think this accomplished?
I think it explained to the nation the plight of the people and how they felt about the White House. They've ignored us and Stonewall us and they've turned a deaf ear to Love Canal. And this is how not only Love Canal people feel but Western New York and across the nation. We've had many people respond the same way.
Had you had a face to face confrontation with the President? What do you think this might have accomplished?
I think he would have regained some confidence in government that Love Canal people have lost and if nothing else, I could give him the real story of Love Canal the personal story from the families.
Hooker says a review of its records finds no evidence of US military dumping. How do you react to this finding?
I don't understand. I don't understand why Hooker would say that. If nothing else, they would say they did dumb so they could share in the cost. Many residents have verified have seen this happen back in the 40s in the 50s. And I just plain don't understand it.
The testifying of Love Canal residents before Senator Kennedy's committee. What do you think this accomplished?
Well, it brought it to national attention. Barbara Quimby and Phyllis were great and they they got across the point that we have mentally retired children we have broken chromosomes and nobody is doing anything. As a result of this. We have received sympathy, telegrams and things nationwide and everybody's more aware now than they were before.
Good afternoon. I'm Gary Gunter. Governor Carey flew into Buffalo late this morning and we're fortunate to have him right here with us live. Here's the governor with news four's Rich Newberg, Rich?
Governor, thank you for joining us this morning but the venue. There was a reported impasse and they love canal loan negotiations. The state has rejected the $15 million loan concept. Now there's an impasse what is going to happen in Love Canal?
We'll work it out. First of all, state rejection is based upon the fact that the way they gave us the money we'd have to go to a referendum, a constitutional amendment to get into the people. There is an amendment which was passed by the Senate in the house, the Javits Moynihan amendment, which shows the appropriate way to get the money to the Love Canal families so we can get permanent relocation. I'll be meeting with White House people tomorrow. I'll bring this up and we'll break the impasse.
Federal government is very concerned about the precedent setting Love Canal situation, what makes you think they're going to bend and give us for example, $50 million outright,
They're not going to give us 15 million outright, they're gonna make credit available so we can help the families get the mortgage they need for permanent resettlement. It's no no big deal by the federal government. They're simply acknowledging some of the responsibility they have, because they contributed heavily to the trauma at Love Canal.
Can we turn for a moment to the national scene? Yes, sir. Are you going to actively campaign for Jimmy Carter?
I'm going to campaign for every Democrat across New York state or anywhere else that can be helpful, but I can always campaign better if I feel solidly about the issues, and I'm trying to get the message through to the White House, you can't take New York for granted.
Air Force One taxied in about 10:30 This morning, under flattening Buffalo area skies. Security was extremely tight with Secret Service agents and local police keeping a close watch on the airport crowd. The President was all smiles as he greeted the governor, Senator Patrick Moynihan and Erie County Democratic Chairman Joseph Clangor. The President's awareness of Buffalo's problems was sharpened during the blizzard of 1977 when the federal government came to the aid of a snowed in city. Today when the President set foot on the podium. It began to rain. But the Carter smile was against sparkling when Cheektowaga supervisor Kenneth Myers presented him with the town flag. The only disruption occurred when Governor Kerry became distracted by a group of dissatisfied Love Canal residents while he was introducing the president.
Please lower those signs a president has seen them so the others behind you can see the President's gotten your message. He's seen them. We'll respond to you and please lower the side like button neighbors now so the people behind you can see.
The signs and the President was warmly received. He in turn acknowledged problems in the Love Canal District and said Governor Kerry was doing a better job than he was of meeting the needs of Canal residents.
And I have to tell you, that he's done a lot more at the state level than I and my people have done at the federal level and I will express my thanks to him for dealing with your problem.
Reacting to White House refusal to buy their homes angry residents have chemically polluted Love Canal dragged out dummies in the street and burned the Carter family in effigy. Niagara Falls police made no effort to stop the demonstration.
They were shouting for FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Team dispatched to Niagara Falls to assist residents in temporary relocation. Finally, a spokesman for FEMA emerged from headquarters to speak with the group.
They're not offering to buy your homes. They're not offering to reimburse the people whose homes were destroyed by Mount Helens, they are offering you the same thing.
How can you stand there and say these things to us when you're right in the city and see what's going on? What EPA they're just what they've given us about chromosome damage?
Love Canal residents are threatening to boycott medical tests the government may need in its lawsuit against Hooker Chemical. The government hopes to recover the millions it will spend in temporary relocation costs. Residents hope and medical boycott will pressure the government into buying their homes if not, they say the demonstrations will continue. Rich Newberg, News Four update
This church turned into a pressure cooker, more steam being led out by angry homeowners and more cries for answers. The church was packed with Love Canal residents EPA Regional Chief Jim Marshall was there to listen as homeowners expressed two years of frustration and immediate demands for a settlement on their homes.
I'm 65 years old, almost. I'm sick and tired of being a yo yo pulled this way. All the other way. Why don't you get a hold where you're pulling me down the road. All I want, all I want I don't want to be relocated. All I want is my 28 five and give it to me tonight. And I'll never look back on Love Canal now again.
1500 supportive telegrams have reportedly poured into President Carter's office from unions and environmental groups across the country. But Lois Gibbs told the group only they could keep the momentum going for permanent relocation and government purchase of their homes.
We have to keep the pressure on President Carter. We have to create more pressure than the Cubans coming in on Florida. Then the fall people in order to do that we're gonna have such telegrams, scream and holler and be heard.
It could be two or three days before the government fully coordinates a relocation program. Meanwhile, the search for hotel and motel rooms gets tougher.
We want out!
The tour guide was sent from the state attorney general's office in New York, the sightseers viewing house after boarded up house inside the Love Canal included State Supreme Court judges as well as lawyers for former Love Canal homeowners and for Hooker chemical company.
On your right, you're gonna see the 99th Street School
Slowly they passed landmarks of a deserted community whose former residents are now locked in court battles with hooker over claims of personal injury. This state now owns these homes and plans on tearing down 237 of them. The tour was designed to give the legal opponents judges one last close up look.
If you wish to go into the homes we'll show you how to don the protective equipment that you would need so
No one was permitted to enter the houses until they were fully protected from chemical exposure boots, gowns, gloves and even a respirator if you want to total protection then there was this observation from attorney Richard Lepus, who represents the former homeowners
Of course it's interesting that we're all donning the suits and our clients have lived in these homes for years without any of these suits on including the children.
Though we were all shielded from any chemical contamination. There was no protection from the eerie feelings of emptiness and desolation that the absence of life here creates. The attorneys representing the homeowners want the houses demolished mostly for health reasons. One Hooker attorney said the company takes no position on the question of demolition for the people who moved out of here and for the country as a whole the questions raised by the Love Canal disaster will continue to be raised long after the last house is demolished. Rich, Newberg News Four Niagara Falls.
May 16th 1980 Rare chromosomal damage was found in a sampling of Love Canal residents.
We found two particular characteristics in this study, which are ominous.
I just want to get my kids away from your weapon to factories on the first year or maybe they can have a decent life. I don't know. My son's probably already permanently damaged.
That was the straw that broke the camel's back.
The fact that we now know that the chemicals are in the home that they got into the people and caused chromosome damage in the people indicates that the miscarriages and the birth defects and cancer is a result of living in this neighborhood.
We have got abnormalities in our chromosomes and we've known it all along that on our street alone there has been already eight cases of cancer on the 15th House street
May 19 1982. EPA officials are held hostage for six hours.
If we do not have a disaster declaration, Wednesday by noon then what they have seen here today is just a Sesame Street picnic in comparison..
Two days later, President Jimmy Carter declared the Love Canal neighborhood a national emergency and agreed to evacuate all Love Canal families. And on October 1 1980 President Carter came to Niagara Falls to announce that all the Love Canal families who wish to leave their homes would be provided the money to permanently relocate.
There's really no way to make adequate restitution for that kind of suffering. But this agreement will at least give the families of the area some 750 of them the financial freedom to pack up and leave if they choose to do so.
The President singled out the woman he called the grassroots leader of the Love Canal residents, Lois Gibbs for special recognition
Without her impassioned advocacy and dedication. There might have never been a love canal emergency declaration and that's a great one might never have come to pass. There must never be in our country another Love Canal.
I love you now, Mr. President. What can I say? New York loves you today.
Lois Gibbs and her two children have moved to the nation's capitol, where Mrs. Gibbs has begun to organize a national citizens clearinghouse for hazardous waste problems. She already has enough mail to keep her busy for the next couple of years.
What I have here is 1000s of people who have written us from 13 Other countries and these people want information and this is what I'm going to provide what is chloroform me what does it do to humans? What is the safe level? How do I get the state to test and what should I test for and at what level? How do I do a house survey? I want to provide all this information to these individuals to help them evaluate the problems and eventually resolve.
Now a single parent, Mrs. Gibbs will attempt to take care of her two children Michael, eight, and Missy, five, while spending the rest of her time asking private foundations for grant money. She says she'll be making a minimum wage for a while but he's willing to make the sacrifice for the cause She believes in.
There are family suffering financially, psychologically and health wise, tapping across the country to people in the United States. Don't band together now, don't identify their problems and clean them up. Then God only knows what generations has to come.
Mrs. Gibbs earned the reputation as a fighter for victims of chemical contamination. She is credited for having President Carter declare the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls a national emergency, which led to the permanent relocation of hundreds of Love Canal families. She is convinced her struggle will determine the kind of life her children and her children's children will lead.
I want my children you know, I want them to grow up in a place where they can plant their gardens, eat the food and have normal children and not be concerned. It's not going to happen unless we do this
Rich Newberg News Four, Washington.
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These selected reports beginning in 1978 provide insight into how Love Canal homeowners were able to channel their fears and anger into action in terms of personal injury lawsuits against the Hooker Chemical Corporation and pressure applied to their local, state and federal government representatives.
Beginning in the summer of 1978, when blood tests were first administered and only a selected number of households were ordered to evacuate their contaminated homes, Lois Gibbs and her Love Canal Homeowners Association demanded that arrangements be made to move out more families for permanent relocation.
After strong lobbying efforts, president Jimmy Carter took initial action in approving enough funds for New York State to buy 236 Love Canal homes. Families were relocated at a cost of $10 million dollars.
Three months later it was revealed that 200 tons of dioxin, one of the most lethal chemicals produced by humans, were buried in the canal. Residents said they witnessed the military also using the canal as a dumpsite.
In May 1980 the Environmental Protection Agency determined that some residents suffered from chromosome damage. Four days later President Carter declared Love Canal a national emergency. Eventually another 710 Love Canal families were relocated.
Love Canal families had originally sought $15 billion dollars in damages from Hooker Chemical’s parent company Occidental Chemical Corporation. In 1983, about 1,330 families got a settlement of $20 million dollars. In addition, a one million dollar medical trust fund was created.
In 1995, Occidental Chemical Corporation and Occidental Petroleum agreed to pay the federal government $129 million dollars as reimbursement for clean-up costs of the Love Canal landfill.
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<div class="element-text"><span><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/items/show/2175">A Toxic Nightmare: The Awakening [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 1]</a> </span></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2176"><span>Love Canal: Neighborhood of Fear [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 2]</span></a></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2177">Turning Anger Into Action [The Story of Love Canal Pt.3]</a><br /><span></span></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2178">What Have We Learned? [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 4]</a></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2347">An Interview with Michael Brown</a></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2350">An Interview with Lois Gibbs [Her Battle and Victory on Behalf of Love Canal Homeowners]</a></div>
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Good evening, everybody. I'm John Beard.
And I'm Marie Rice. The frustration and helplessness of two years of living a nightmare for over a 700 Love Canal family erupted Tuesday night and overflow crowd packed the Niagara County legislative chambers in hopes of persuading their elected officials to join the proposed Love Canal. Revitalization authority. The proposal had been rejected before and emotion filled the air as residents pleaded with the legislators before the vote carried a
child for nine months. Or little Julie was still born.
The loss of our child may be a direct result of the chemicals. Please don't allow this to happen to anyone else before you get them out. Don't let it happen yourself.
The proposal was turned down by a 16 to 15 vote and once again the Love Canal residents had their cause rejected but this was one rejection too many people were mad and they wanted answers.
Representatives are supposed to support as well. The nation is looking at you you're like damn fools and murder
because also do wrong pay sweetie. pay you. Pay
what you had this past weekend you got to sit there and both
residents once again rallied around Love Canal homeowners President Lois Gibbs the legislators were cheered and shouted at and finally sheriff's deputies were ordered to escort Mrs. Gibbs outside.
Please tell us why I am not moving until I get an answer why.
Residents decided they had done all they could went home to prepare for Wednesday's announcement from Washington. That announcement from President Carter was the Triumph presidents had fought too long years for
President Carter today declare an emergency to permit the federal government and the state of New York to undertake the temporary relocation of approximately 700 families in the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls
The good news was also mixed with feelings of uncertainty and sadness as residents wondered where they would go and if they would ever see any of their friends and neighbors again, Love Canal residents will be relocated, but the scars will never disappear. We'll take a look back at the last two years when Love Canal neighborhood and fear continues. The tragedy of the Love Canal has been a two year long story. Let's go back to the summer of 1978. The Love Canal the most infamous chemical dump in the nation. A distinction earned because the eyes of the country have been riveted on that small patch of land in Niagara Falls since 239. Families were moved at state expense two years ago, finally declared a federal emergency. It's the only hazardous waste site to be identified as such. The dream of William love turn nightmare. In 1894 the entrepreneur had a scheme or a giant model city and water canal to provide industrial power. The plan was aborted but for chemicals then use the dead canal as a dumping ground for industrial waste. From above it looked harmless enough, but only a few feet below the surface deadly chemicals were gurgling their way to the top finding their way into the basements of nearby residents. The prognosis was grim birth defects kidney ailments respiratory problems, possibly even death accompanied the path of the migrating toxins. August 2 1978, state health commissioner Dr. Robert Whalen declared a state of emergency at the Love Canal and advise pregnant women and children under two years old to be evacuated immediately.
Well, how dangerous is it for a person just standing there right now?
You have to take into consideration three or four variables. The first variable are the levels of air pollution in the individual homes, too. You have to take into consideration the relative risk for a particular individual children and unborn children being the highest risk three you have to take into consideration the duration of risk. And these are the issues that we tried to balance out among around scientific staff and with the nationwide expert panel and arrived at the conclusions that resulted in my honor.
Well what is the ultimate status of this area going to be is it going to be leveled? Do you think ultimately, I think that what we're trying to do here is deal with First things first, the concerns of the people have to leave I think is our first concern. The second the question of trying to do something to reduce the immediate problems that the construction is the second one. The task force set up by Governor Kerry will continue to meet and we'll try to meet and determine other more long range suggestions and proposals as time goes on.
One of my three year old
child
where is the difference? What about the seven
discriminate?
Families with children under the age of two should be evacuated. I think that's a double standard and I don't believe that that's fair to anybody. I think any family that fears for their lives and that of their family should be given the same opportunity to be moved into quarters. That gives her family protection while the work continues of cleaning up this mess one off.
basis. Spend a return preserve backing this agree and I think you will be rad at this that the state
pursue the polluters.
We wanted most was security in our home and we don't have it. So I had Dr. Whelan suggested I picked up my wife and my two sons and I took them away from here. So what presumably safely I hope.
August 5 1978 William Wilcox administrator for the US federal disaster aid administration arrives from Washington to tour the contaminated area where they
make it a state. It's not in the paper anything about a remedial work. They weren't the funds for the remedial work but just forgetting about the people. We've suffered enough medically do have to die while they're cleaned it up. The police take that back to Washington.
Wilcox was ordered here by the White House. He was to report directly to the President on how bad the situation really was. He was personally escorted across the decades old chemical landfill. The Federal official wearing only shoes as he brings boots when he visits blood sites, but didn't know he would need them here today. A hole where waste had risen to the surface was pointed out. He went inside the residence homes to see and smell more waste that had entered through basements. Wilcox said he was most anxious to hear from the residents. None was bashful.
Everything started dying out here.
Let me ask you this question. I should have asked some of the others. Maybe you too if, if you were to leave this area for some period of time six months or something and the houses were boarded up and then this was all cleaned up. And you got assurances that there wasn't a problem. Would you come back? No. That's not what we're looking for.
We're looking for to be moved out of the area permanently. I don't care 10 years from now if they clean that back up, clean our property up. We're still no value to our homes, but the reputation is still here. Many people.
Mr. Wilcox, what's your impression of what you've seen so far this morning? Well, I
think both in scientific terms and in human terms, it's a very troublesome situation. And that's really about all I can say at the present time. I think that people are living here under very difficult circumstances. We'll be preparing a report pulling together all the information providing report to the White House tomorrow.
What chance do you think there is that these people might get federal aid?
Well, I think that there's going to be federal assistance in one form or another. The only question is, what is the best form of assistance and we'll want to be working closely with Governor Kerry and Mr. Hardy, his staff and others in formulating any federal program. That seems appropriate for the situation.
August 10 1978, the state of New York makes history it announces it will permanently relocate 239 families left behind, however, are more than 700 families. For some then there's jubilation for others despair. Still others clung to the belief that eventually they'd be moved stinks at nighttime Robin. And did you see the all the oils and stuff that are coming up? It's
really sickening. And um, you know, when I wake up in the morning, I have asthma real bad and I can't breathe. My eyes are all swollen. And you know, when I wake up in the morning and stuff like that, are you worried about your baby? Yes, because I don't want to deform baby or something wrong with it or something like that, you know,
February 8 1979. Another unsettling announcement from the New York State Health Department. New Health Commissioner David Axelrod recommends the temporary relocation of all pregnant women and children under two who lived within a six block area of the contaminated landfill.
When we examined all of the data and compared the effects which I've already enumerated on the wet areas with the dry areas, we found that there was indeed an increase in risk for the fetus that is that there was a small but significant risk higher than would be anticipated for those living in the wet areas. And these risks were manifested by increases of approximately two fold in congenital malformations in spontaneous abortions. And in an increase in low birth weight infants. The decision or recommendation that the panel made to the New York State Department of Health at a meeting held yesterday was that based on this information, we should recommend that the fetus in effect be removed from the source of exposure. That defines itself as meaning that pregnant women living in the so called wet areas should be removed from the canal areas.
In August two children two and under people from 99 to 97. To children that were a few months over two years old. They were advised to be because it houses their children. My daughter was only two that she's two years and four months now. Why does she have no importance now?
I wasn't as much danger in August with my baby as I am now. Why was I forced to stay here all this time? My baby soon almost a year and a half and myself started and now she's concerned about my three year old as I am on this baby are carrying.
Can he answer the question Please, ma'am?
What I what I said was at the age of two represented a reasonable assertion as to a point when the maximum impact from these chemicals would be diminished.
This was the first time the health department had given serious consideration to research gathered by the homeowners association. The women told us the state office had dismissed their studies connecting the pathways of OLED screen beds and increased health problems as useless housewife data.
I'm not a scientist. I am a housewife is as important in the paper many times. My date is not useless. It is not pointless. It is not valid. Every one of these people in this audience last gave me that say they don't like what you're doing in the house pocket. is going to take six months, eight months, 10 months you prove that pregnant women are in danger. You prove and children under two are in danger. I know my own family experience that there are other children in this area that are not even in danger, but I'm damn right I died. And if we sit and wait for six more or less the the blue ribbon panel with Laura Lee knows who they are, meet and decide on this. We're going to have dead children.
October 26 1979 New York announced agreement on legislation to remove and additional 550 families the details of that plan have yet to be carried out December 20 1979. The federal government's use over chemicals for $117 million. And on April 28 1980, the state of New York's use over chemicals or $635 million. From the beginning hooker disavowed any legal responsibility. The company says the property was deeded to the City Board of Education in 1953 for $1 and the school system was warned about the site. Hooker says it was contractually agreed that the board could make no claim against Hooker when it took possession. May 16 1980 rarer chromosomal damage is found in a sampling of Love Canal residents.
We found two particular characteristics in this study which are ominous one that there were more ring chromosomes than one would expect to find. But secondly, and more disturbing was the presence of what we call extra fragments. And that is a very rare observation in any population.
We have got abnormalities in our chromosomes and we've known it all along that on our street alone, there has been already eight cases of cancer on a 15 How Street and it's really had me scared all along but they told me it was a national average. And now I have found proof that probably I will even get it again.
May 1919 82. EPA officials are held hostage for six hours
If we do not have a disaster declaration Wednesday by new then what they have seen here today is just a Sesame Street picnic.
Homeowners President Lois Gibbs has fought for relocation long and hard over the last two years. She's with us tonight. This is give 700 families can now be relocated. How far away from the canal do they live?
Well they live on this map you can see buffalo Avenue to the south vertical Street to the north 93rd Street on the west and 130 on the east side.
And how wide are blocking areas that
Exactly that's a 10 block area.
This is good. You said the federal government said it would take them from six to nine months to buy up the homes. I'd love canal residents now. And the last two years you've done some pretty good sources of your own in Washington. How long do you think it might take?
I think it's just a matter of days. I don't think it's going to take 120 160 days that they're quoting. You're dealing with EPA officials and Health Studies. The politics are mainly what's controlling Washington and the relocation of Love Canal residence.
What if there is no federal aid coming? Well, then the entity will take over and purchase the home so regardless, we have a backup for the purchase. It's not like there's nothing there. There's something on the side that the federal government does fall through.
But what do we do that about Niagara County because they decided again the other night that they wouldn't join the authority.
That's true, but they can still form the authority with the city and the town of Wakefield alone without the county. Why do you feel
the federal government took so long to make this declaration this emergency declaration? Do you feel it was a political decision because they were afraid it might be precedent setting? And it might have to move many, many other people from around the country at various dump sites.
Definitely a political decision. That's one reason and the reason I decided now I think is more because of the presidential election this year. And President Carter and Neil take votes and one way to do it is pleased New York State residents and the governor.
How's the relocation coming right now? Are people happy with the people we talked to yesterday? Not many of them were very jubilant. I know you figured that it was a victory. But many of them told us they were very disappointed because it was temporary and not permanent.
Yes, that's true. And because many of them had to give up in Canada by the hotel room themselves tonight. And then have them wanting to do so. And because it was temporary and they they've seen temporary time and time again and they're tired of moving on the short term and moving back to the contaminant houses. They want to move somewhere for once a clean environment and stay put and raise their family somewhat normally for change. Are we
gonna see trouble if they move into another location and then they're told that they have to move
back? You are definitely going to see trouble. Yes, the residents are going to move back. They're fearful for their lives.
What do you think may happen? Anything's possible, Marie, anything.
All right. Mrs. Gibbs, thank you very much for joining us. If there's a hero or a heroine to come out of this, you're certainly Rihanna. We'll be back with closing comments from when we turn with Love Canal neighborhood and feed. From a quiet unassuming residential neighborhood to a chemical Ghost Town normal everyday people over the last two years have come out fighting when their lives and the lives of their loved ones are endangered. By a silent unseen chemical threats.
The fight for the Love Canal homeowners isn't over yet. The federally ordered relocation is only temporary. The families want to move someplace permanently, where they can live without fear. of chemical poisoning.
House I want to know the answer to your first question is can you go back and live in your parents house? Yeah, yeah, the answer? The answer is yes. You can go back to your parents number the second question that you get. The second question you asked me was are you what are the chances that you'll grow up to be a normal man?
Not much.
The answer to that question is that you have as much likelihood as growing up to be a normal man. Is someone living on 100/10 Street
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Love Canal: Neighborhood of Fear [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 2]
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Two years into the battle for environmental justice in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls, WIVB-TV presented a news special. The disaster had reached a crisis stage with homeowners demanding action by all levels of government. They had unknowingly moved into a neighborhood developed on top of a toxic dumpsite and were now suffering the consequences of harmful chemicals making their way into their homes and schools.
The half hour presentation, was written, produced and reported by Marie Rice, who co-anchored the special with WIVB anchor John Beard. It featured some of the most emotional testimony from Love Canal family members whose loved ones were sick and dying due to chemical exposure. More than seven hundred families were demanding that they be relocated and that their grievances be properly addressed.
Tests determined that residents had suffered “ominous” rare chromosomal damage. Lois Gibbs, who ultimately led the Love Canal Homeowners Association to victory, later attributed Buffalo news coverage to the successful outcome. The grassroots crusade has been credited with launching the environmental justice movement in the United States.
President Jimmy Carter came to Niagara Falls to sign legislation that met homeowners demands and led to the creation of the Superfund. Formerly known as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, the program is designed to provide emergency responses to sites contaminated by hazardous substances. By one count there are 40,000 federal Superfund sites across the United States.
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1980
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Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)
Chemical plants -- Waste disposal -- Environmental aspects -- New York (State) -- Niagara Falls
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<div class="element-text"><span><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/items/show/2175">A Toxic Nightmare: The Awakening [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 1]</a> </span></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2177">Turning Anger Into Action [The Story of Love Canal Pt.3]</a><br /><span></span></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2178">What Have We Learned? [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 4]</a></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2347">An Interview with Michael Brown</a></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2350">An Interview with Lois Gibbs [Her Battle and Victory on Behalf of Love Canal Homeowners]</a></div>
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This collection of long-form reports by retired WIVB-TV Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg covers a wide range of social issues, Buffalo history and the arts. Mr. Newberg retired from the Buffalo CBS network affiliate at the end of 2015, after serving the station for thirty-seven years in various roles including main anchor, reporter and documentarian. <br /><br />His New York Emmy Award winning pieces explore the abortion debate, care of the mentally ill, the African American struggle for civil rights, and the lessons of the Holocaust, among many topics. His video memoir, “One Reporter’s Journey, “ reflects on his forty-six year career, beginning as an advocate for those without a voice. <br /><br />"My hope," says Newberg, “is that this collection will provide a lasting chronicle of life and issues in Buffalo during the latter part of the 20th century and into the new millennium."
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The loss of a child may be a direct result to the chemicals. Please don't allow this to happen to anyone else before you get them out
"Scream and holler and be heard"
This is what Love Canal looks like today, a vast and desolate fenced in area. Those of us who covered the Love Canal disaster for our western New York television viewers knew the story would have a ripple effect because of what it revealed about toxic contamination. It became what prosecutors called a national symbol for corporate irresponsibility. Long before TV news cameras were around an entrepreneur named Lillian love broke ground for a canal in 1894. It was about seven miles from Niagara Falls. He plan to divert water from the mighty Niagara River to help power a modern industrial city that he and his investors hope to create the project never have. The giant ditch that Mr. Love created became a dumping ground for 20,000 tons of toxic chemical waste from the pucker chemical and plastics Corporation and the US military. In 1953, poker sold the property to the Niagara Falls School District for $1. homes and schools were built on the side of the toxic barrier and then chemicals began surfacing into people's homes and the property around them and there was a terrible human price to be paid.
I lost obviously the one externally has stillborn. Her son is sick, this person is sick. How many more kids have to be sick haven't been done. We're not gonna let...
Michael Brown rookie reporter for the Niagara Gazette wrote his story after going door to door in the Love Canal neighbor in 1978. In case after case door after door house after house I you know people were telling me litany of different problems whether it's was miscarriages or, or, or cancers that they thought were peculiar. So this became a journalistic obsession of mine.
Like well, when he started talking about 99 Straight Elementary School is when it clicked for me because my son who was perfectly healthy is one years old when we moved into our Love Canal home. What since the time we moved there, kept getting sicker and sicker and sicker. What do you do for my kid? What are you gonna do?
A leader of the homeowners emerged. Lois Gibbs.
Anything going on in the state of New York it is more important as these people lie.
The state of New York initially announced it would evacuate only pregnant women and children under two who lived closest to the dump site.
Back now
When Niagara County lawmakers would not support the relocation of residents. Lois Gibbs lashed out as our cameras were rolling
The media especially television is so important that it is the platform the bully pulpit, if you will, in which you can not only get your message out, but you can also provide the pressure on those who need to be pressured to do the right thing.
Discovery of dioxin one of the most lethal chemicals ever created by humans and use to defoliate the jungles of Vietnam during the war, raised fears to a new level the United States only knew what was in that canal and still they let their children go to that school. They let citizens build homes over here because
I remember being in the White House where the army came in full dress and said no sir, we did not dump there. And they lied to the White House representatives. It was fascinating to me was the fact that when they dropped a drum in there and they would open up there's like a machine that you know you know the flames fire, everything went in here.
So it just created a fantastic uproar and a lot more national publicity.
On October 4 1979, actress and activist Jane Fonda and husband Tom Hayden, hate a visit to the Love Canal neighborhood to lend their support
This is a tragedy of such immense human proportions that it's very difficult to talk we've had a short bus ride while we have an opportunity to talk to some of the people in some detail about what they've gone through the children they've lost the miscarriages, the husbands, they've lost. Their lives have been torn up. It's unbelievable. That this happens in America today.
Jane Fonda coming brought that media attention in which we could say the president card you got to do the right thing
With buffalo television news cameras rolling. Lois Gibbs made it clear that Love Canal residents were making their case directly to the White House.
They have to keep the pressure on President Carter. We had to create more pressure than the Cubans coming in and Florida. Than the ... they demanded of federal buyers of their homes.
I'm 65 years old, almost second, third up in a yo yo all this way. All the other way. Why don't you get a hold on where you're pulling me down the road? Oh my God, I don't want to be relocated. All I want is my 28th Five and given to me tonight. And I'll never look back at Love Canal again.
May 16 1980. Rare chromosomal damage is found in a sampling of Love Canal residents.
We found two particular characteristics in this study, which are ominous.
I just want to get my kids away from here from the factories are under pressure or maybe they can have a decent life. I don't know. My son's probably already permanently damaged.
That was the straw that broke the camel's back. The fact that we now know that the chemicals are in the home that they got into the people and they caused chromosome damage in the people indicates that the miscarriages and the birth defects and cancer is a result of living in this neighborhood.
We have got abnormalities in our chromosomes and we've known it all along. On our street alone. There has been already eight cases of cancer on the 15th House street may 19 1982. EPA officials are held hostage for six hours
If we do not have a disaster declaration Wednesday by now what they have seen here today is just a Sesame Street picnic.
Two days later, President Jimmy Carter declared the Love Canal neighborhood a national emergency and agreed to evacuate all Love Canal. And on October 1 1980 President Carter came to Niagara Falls to announce that all the Love Canal families who wish to leave their homes would be provided the money to permanently relocate.
There's really no way to make adequate restitution for that kind of stuff. But this agreement will at least give the founders of the area some 750 of the financial freedom to pack up and leave if they choose to do so.
The President singled out the woman who called the grassroots leader of the Love Canal residents lowest gear for special recognition
Without her impassioned advocacy and dedication. That might have never been a Love Canal emergency declaration. And this agreement might never have come the time. There must never be in our country. Another Love Canal. A Love Canal. Mr. President, what can I say? New York love you today.
When people are right in people peacefully demonstrate and speak truth to power. That's how democracy works. And then we got what we need. I believe that every American has a fundamental right to breathe clean air and drink clean water. I know that we haven't filled that filling this basic obligation to all Americans, especially low income, white, black, brown and Native American communities. It's not going to be easy. But it's absolutely necessary.
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A Toxic Nightmare: The Awakening [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 1]
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More than forty years after covering the Love Canal disaster in Niagara Falls, former WIVB-TV senior correspondent Rich Newberg returns to the site where 20,000 thousand tons of buried industrial chemicals took a terrible toll on families living on top of the toxic dumpsite. Hooker Chemical had once sold the property to the Niagara Falls School District for a dollar.
The cries of families ravaged by chemical exposure in their own homes had initially been ignored by lawmakers who were in a position to offer meaningful support. The grassroots struggle of these homeowners and their ultimate victory in winning federal support offers powerful lessons to a nation still troubled by environmental injustice.
Mr. Newberg tracked down the former Niagara Gazette rookie reporter who broke the story in 1978. In a rare interview, Michael Brown recalls his "journalistic obsession" after going door-to-door in the Love Canal neighborhood and establishing a pattern of still births and cancer.
Lois Gibbs, the stay-at-home mom who rose to national prominence in her fight to be heard, tells Mr. Newberg that local broadcast journalists played a major role in getting the word out. “When people are right and people peacefully demonstrate and speak truth to power,” she said, “that’s how democracy works, and then we got what we needed.”
The story ends with President Joe Biden bemoaning the fact that the right of every American to breathe clean air and drink clean water has yet to be fulfilled.
“A Toxic Nightmare: The Awakening” received a New York Emmy Award in the category of Science/Environment. It also won a national Telly Award. In addition, Rich Newberg and co-producer Tom Vetter took first place “Enterprise Reporting” honors from the Journalists Association of New York.
The piece appeared as a featured segment of the Buffalo primetime special, “The Buffalo Story: History Happens Here,” which won a New York Emmy Award for “Public Service.”
Originally aired on WIVB-TV and WNLO-TV / Buffalo, New York.
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<span><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2176">Love Canal: Neighborhood of Fear [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 2]</a> </span>
<span><a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2177">Turning Anger Into Action [The Story of Love Canal Pt.3]</a></span>
<a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2178">What Have We Learned? [The Story of Love Canal Pt. 4]</a>
<a href="http://digital.buffalolib.org/admin/items/show/2347">An Interview with Michael Brown</a>
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This collection of long-form reports by retired WIVB-TV Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg covers a wide range of social issues, Buffalo history and the arts. Mr. Newberg retired from the Buffalo CBS network affiliate at the end of 2015, after serving the station for thirty-seven years in various roles including main anchor, reporter and documentarian. <br /><br />His New York Emmy Award winning pieces explore the abortion debate, care of the mentally ill, the African American struggle for civil rights, and the lessons of the Holocaust, among many topics. His video memoir, “One Reporter’s Journey, “ reflects on his forty-six year career, beginning as an advocate for those without a voice. <br /><br />"My hope," says Newberg, “is that this collection will provide a lasting chronicle of life and issues in Buffalo during the latter part of the 20th century and into the new millennium."
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All the breaking news that we are following tonight Clarence Center, a plane unknown what type of plane has crashed tonight into a home on Long Street in Price Center. And it is a commercial plane and be the first time in the history of the Buffalo Niagara airport that we've had a plane crash of a commercial flight here. News four's Lisa Flynn is live right now in Clarence center with new information right now Lisa Jackie it appears to be just that I've just spoken to a representative from New York State Police. He's standing right at the scene. He confirms for me that it was a large jetliner that crashed with 5060 people on board. He says that jetliner is fully involved as is the home. I also spoke to Trisha Cruz who was able to get right to the scene and she said it crashed right near the Clarence center fire hall which is right on Clarence center road and that's exactly what we were told that it was in that area. Now, Trisha tells me that the whole area is filled with a thick smoke. We could barely see anything. So there are dozens of emergency vehicles that have responded to the scene. Firefighters trying to put out the blades. But we have been told again it was a large commercial jetliner that crashed over there. With 50 to 60 people on board their fate is not known. To what's right now but it doesn't sound good out there. Dan and Jackie. Are residents this was a traumatic experience as you can imagine. As far as Rob Mac I was spoke with people who live near the spot where flight 3407 went down Fire fighters spent the night at the crash scene spraying water and foam on the wreckage. You can see large pieces of the plane on top of and behind the level house on Long Street in Clarence center. Sam ... lives about a block away and heard an unusually loud engine noise. I knew some was up and I thought to myself What about plane crashes and right when I saw that I heard a huge explosion over there. And in my periphery I saw like the window I saw the orange. The orange flash and I knew a plane crash. Sam rushed to the scene because he knows the people who live next door to the house the plane hit you can feel the heat already very hot. It was very bright. The flames were very... Shirley Hammond lives at the corner of long and Naples. She was doing a puzzle. She heard the noise and then she came to her window and couldn't believe what she saw and heard this awful noise I went over to the kitchen window and I think that noise and the light coming down and all of a sudden me I went bang fire and I yelled to my husband I just get out of bed. I said the plane came in originally thought the plane crashed in her yard and the magnitude of this crash didn't hit her until much later. I thought maybe it was a little small plane. And then they tell me it's a big one. I don't think I want my daughter come back from Florida. Even as firefighters continue their efforts, investigators wasted no time getting here to begin their search for answers. In Clarence center. Rob Macco us for fear immeasurable heartbreak. How did it happen? And we've already done some initial analysis and auditions those recordings Why did flight 3407 fall from the sky? And good evening. No one ever expected it to happen here but it did. 50 lives lost in that fiery disaster. And the search for answers has only just begun. We begin our live team coverage tonight with news for investigative reporter Luke Moretti in Clarence. Now, Lou, at least that's right. Federal investigators arrived in the Buffalo area around 830 this morning and the first order of business get the black box recorders and start piecing the puzzle together. Wow, something went terribly wrong five miles from the Buffalo Niagara International Airport This aircraft was five miles out. All of a sudden we have always thought that aircraft continental flight 3407 fell off the radar screen on final approach crashing into a home and Clarence sounded like the plane like the engine was like sputtering and then next you know just kind of like cut out you can hear just like a big ball of flame. 50 people died 49 on board and Doug Wielinsky who was in his Clarence home when the plane came crashing down. His wife Karen and their daughter Jill escaped the home with minor injuries. Hours later, federal investigators recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders entertaining conversations that crew was having leading up to a buffalo landing. Say we're talking about significant ice buildup on the windshield and on the leading edge of the wings. Investigators say that the icing button was selected but it's unclear if it actually worked. Then one minute before the end of the recording the landing gear goes down the airplane experienced severe pitch and roll moments. We saw that on the flight data recorder not normal says the NTSB Steve .. remember they're setting up to land. So you would expect the airplane to be flying nice and smooth landing configuration getting slower and slower so they couldn't get down to the landing speed and flying straight and level. Meanwhile, Buffalo FBI agents continue assisting with evidence gathering and recovery. They're still does not appear to be anything through our interviews that we've gleaned that would indicate at this time that there is any criminal activity involved or anything else to that matter. In the coming days. The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office will be working to recover the remains of victims from the Clarence crash site. Health Commissioner Dr. Anthony Billitier says it could take weeks and require DNA matching part of what we all need is to obtain DNA from family members and any DNA that may exist from the victims from the past or life back here and Clarence the Erie County Medical Examiner's Office is providing daily briefings for family members in an effort to answer their questions and hopefully provide some comfort. In the meantime, the FBI is asking anyone with information about the crash to call them at 71685678 800 That's 7168567 810 20 Tonight, and just a few minutes from now will mark 24 hours since the crash and the Erie County Sheriff's Office is going to conduct a minute of silence to mark this tragic event. recovery phase of this continues first thing in the morning. We're live in Clarence tonight, Luke Moretti for the 10 o'clock Yeah. All right, thanks. Well, a normal night at home instantly turned into a nightmare for the family inside the house the plane barrel into and tonight we're about to hear from the wife and mother who made it out alive. I happen to notice a little light on the right of need. That tiny bit of light was Karen Wielinsky ray of hope she has survived the impact of the plane striking your Longstreet home and Clarence center. Taryn told WBEN radio how she got out and then just kind of pushed what was the part of that often sold out the hole? Karen's 22 year old daughter Jill was upstairs in the front of the house when the plane hit she to miraculously survived and found an opening and when I got her I mean of course she wanted to know where duck was. I didn't know. And to me, it looks like the plane just came down in the middle of the house. And unfortunately, that's where Doug was. Karen's husband, 61 year old Doug Wielinsky did not make it out. Karen says Doug was in the dining room working then his beloved sports memorabilia when the plane hit the woolen skis are well known in the Clarence School District, where Karen's a secretary, dog and engineer is a Vietnam veteran who frequently came to the school to do lectures on Vietnam. When students were always enthralled. There is like, just a vibrant person. As we told you, the families of those lost in the crash of Flight 3407 knew the crash site for the first time yesterday. senior correspondent rich Newberg talk with the parents with 34 year old Jennifer Neal, who was expecting her first child. He joins us now live from Clarence. Well, the Neil family has shown extraordinary courage during these trying times. Jim Neil has reached out to so many others it's part of his way of dealing with the pain. We thank the Lord for the faith keeps kind of keeps us glued together. It was the faith of Jim and Mary Neal that helped them stay strong when they visited the crash site of flight 3407 on Monday. Their daughter Jennifer, six months pregnant perished in the crash. Her fiancé Todd Ecker said he needed to go to the site and the family accompanied him just to have seen the site I think maybe most important and to promote a type of closure. There was heavy lifting a plane parts and sounds you would hear at a construction site. But Jim Neil was focused on first responders and uniformed officers and the dignity they showed the families it was hard for him to talk about it. I don't know if it will get through it. But it's unbelievable. The face of God is everywhere. at the crash site, Jim Neil wanted to reach out to everyone and try to help ease their pain and sacred ground. There are 50 people that I prayed for, even though I'm one of them, but they needed and the security people needed hugs he said Jim Neill wanted to have them on and the families as a group and thanked all of the agencies involved for the respect and the dignity they have shown. Reporting live in Clarence Rich Newburgh news for at five. For the families that have visited the crash site talking about that experience can be very painful with the parents of Jennifer Neal who was expecting her first child or learning leaning their fate to pull them through. senior correspondent rich Newberg is live tonight in Clarence with their story rich. Well, Jim Neill has reached out to all the families and even first responders right from the beginning because helping others seems to help him deal with his loss. Amid the flowers and confusion of the crash site, there was the father of gender for meal rain, not only for the soul of his daughter, but for everyone around him as well. It's sacred ground. There are 50 people here that I prayed for, even though I'm one of them, but they needed. Governor David Paterson was struck by Jim Neal's outreach the day after the crash when the governor met with the families was walking around consoling the families of the other loved ones that were lost, and we ended up learning that he was actually someone who had lost his daughter, a daughter. Who couldn't wait to be a new mother, a woman with a sense of humor and a sense of compassion. at the crash site. Her father was comforted by those around him and in some way wanted to return the feeling. There must have been a couple of 100 state police and sheriff there and I wanted to hug them all but you can. Well, Jim Neil says faith is the glue that has held his family together and all the families of bank all the agencies that responded the way they did with dignity and respect. Reporting live from parents rich Newberg news four and six. Sharon's Jonah and Jake suddenly left without a mother lit a candle in her memory and 1000 people in mourning try to hold on to the image of Susan Whaley, the spirited and spiritual woman with a contagious smile. We still see Susan in our mind's eye we see her magnificent face smile or bouncing curly hair. As the daughter of Holocaust survivors Cantor Susan Whaley reached out with a one world view to all generations especially the young and had developed a program for Jewish Muslim and Christian youth so they could discover what they had in common. Not one thing that's been untouched at a loss or every one of us has been touched by Susan spirit, her home and her outreach for peace among us all. And this service was filled with music many of the songs Susan would say, to inspire others to make a difference in the world. Honor Susan by kindling your own lane, which Kindles that farewell you made your mark and all here today are your witnesses. Rich Newberg news four One week after the tragedy the parents of Ellyce Kausner are sharing memories of their daughter. They sat down today with senior correspondent rich Newberg. It just feels so incomplete without her Ellyce Kausner was a child who blazed her own path in life. She was on her way to a law degree and was always ready to take anyone on in a verbal sparring match. He would spark some controversy or say some outrageous thing that would get us all laughing and she had a passion for a life a love of animals and found great joy and sharing good times with her for nephews and a niece knowing those times are gone forever. Adds to the pain for Ellie sister. overwhelming grief that they will not have her. There is so much love that is that I feel like as has been stripped away from them. Ellie's brother Chris was among the first people at the scene of the crash and found the courage to tell his family and the community what had just happened. But a week later, Chris is having problems dealing with that moment. The whole part where she dies in a fiery plane crash in our backyard. On national news. I cannot get my head around that. Ellie's Father John remembers the last minutes with his daughter his last minute decision to have lunch with her down in Florida six days before the crash even though he was busy and running late. She looked at me with a really nice and bright smiles and I love you guys and I love you honey. I'll see you soon. Kids turn until we left and that was a great memory for me. Take a moment to tell those you love how you feel about them said John Klausner adding you just never know. Rich Newberg News Four we first heard about the loss of Ellyce from her brother on that terrible night a week ago tonight. The family talk with senior correspondent rich Newberg about Ellyce live saying she packed a lot into her 24 years heading for a law degree and hoping someday to raise a family. Their family was close knit and her father remembers his last minutes with Ellie when he made time to have lunch with her. She looked really nice and bright smile and said, I love you dearly. And I said I love you honey. I'll see you soon. kissed her and that's how we left and that was a great memory for me. Tell them you love them says John never take a moment he says adding you just never know. You can see Rich's entire interview with the Kausner Family on our website@wib.com we all remember the crash of Flight 30 4072 and a half months ago. That's right. Tonight...takes us on an emotional journey with a widow who visited the crash site today for the very first time. The neighborhood is quiet. The sky is blue. And for Jennifer West. It's the very first time she's been to the flight 34 07 crash site in Clarence center it almost looks like nothing happened. Exactly. Exactly. it in a way that's spoken in a way that I don't want to forget and that's why I think a Park would be really nice. Husband Ernie West a Northrop Grumman employee was on the ill fated plane. Now Jennifer is left caring for their two year old daughter's summer. She can't help but think of her husband's last moments. Can you imagine this break? Darren Tolsma also a Northrop Grumman employee died in the crash. He survived by his wife Robin and their two children Darren and Nicky. Both wives have become very close since suffering such a profound loss. Robin postman says visiting the site it says some comfort from the pain we try so hard to like fool ourselves into thinking that they're like their own business trip still and that they're gonna come home. You know, that's how we sometimes get through the day. Almost. It's a denial thing. Yeah, very much because we didn't get to see them and say goodbye. The crash site on Long Street remains empty. Much like Robin and Jennifer feel inside. They take stones from the ground, a way of finding something that was lost in this neighborhood. So many questions, never knowing I don't know what additional ones I don't know anything I just know that he's not here. Next month, the National Transportation Safety Board will hold hearings on the plane crash. Family members who lost loved ones are hoping to get some answers the truth about what happened. Robin and Jennifer say they will lean on each other to get through it. Luke Moretti news for if we had known say when Captain Renslow was in training that we had falsified his application and left off to fail check rides he would have been immediately dismissed. Good evening, federal investigators are now questioning whether long commutes low pay and a misleading job application may have all added up to disaster in the cockpit of flight 3407 A second day of NTSB hearing shifted to the backgrounds of both the captain and his first officer. Tonight. We do though that first officer Rebecca Shaw made a base salary of just over $16,000 a year. She flew from Seattle to Newark the night before the crash and was often seen sleeping overnight in the crew room, and that's against company policy. Investigative reporter Luke Moretti is in Washington tonight low pay and long commutes are what investigators focused in on during day two of the crash. Erin's one NTSB board member called it a recipe for disaster. In the case of flight 34 07 Full pilot Rebecca Shaw was paid a salary solo about $16,000 a year she worked a second job at one point I can't believe it my son will be starting off more than intern with a two year degree and and and the first officer also worked at a coffee house as well as flying the aircraft that's ridiculous. And Shaw may have been suffering from .. for having to commute to her job in New Jersey from her home in Seattle. When we get on a plane every time every one of us gets on the plane. We think that's a Top Gun pilot that Toronto that's flying this plane. And this testimony we hear that that's not always the case being wild. Colgan air executives were peppered with questions about the thoroughness of background checks for prospective pilots. Captain Marvin Renslow According to testimony, failed pre check rides or pilot tests before Hogan hired them. If we had known say when Captain Renzo was in training, we had falsified his application and left off to fail check rides, he would have been immediately dismissed. Colgan officials acknowledge that rents low and Shaw were not paying close attention to the planes instruments and did not follow airline procedures for responding to his stall. I asked the National Transportation Safety board's acting chairman, how that fits into the agency's investigation. That's what resulted in the accident. But this accident may have begun. The events that created the accidents may have this Act may have gotten not just an hour or two or three before, but maybe days, maybe months, maybe even years. Family members of flight 34 07 crash victims we're back on Capitol Hill once again, as he helped make air travel safer in Washington loop. My resume is four. Day three of the National Transportation Safety board's hearing wrapped up here in Washington DC. Once again pilot training was the focus. Federal investigators dig for answered on this last day of hearings in the Colgan air crash or questions about what the crew did not do think this crew went from complacency to catastrophe in 30 seconds and they didn't see it coming. 50 people died in Clarence Center when a plane stalled and crashed. According to testimony Captain Marvin run slow pull the nose up when he should have done the opposite. In this case, I don't see any evidence that he ever understood the situation some NTSB board members expressed frustration in the way the FAA deals with the agency's safety recommendations. Ask for changes based on accidents based on serious situations. And the fact is, change doesn't really happen. We have to have a collaborative process in place to work because it's not an issue that can be solved. solely from directing family members of crash victims listen to three days of testimony detailing all that went wrong. The bottom line is they weren't trained to handle the situation they were told. She by her own record said she'd never seen it before that is unimaginable their week in Washington brought a lot of pain and watched an animation of the last moments of the flight on a big screen. They read the cockpit voice recorder transcript as disturbing as it was, but they had each other get through a scene with all the other families. That a huge comfort for me. It really has there's no one who can understand what we're going through except for families. It could be months before the NTSB releases an official cause of the crash and Clarence Center. The meantime a Senate subcommittee on aviation announced today that it will hold hearings next month to regional airlines safe in Washington move correct news. National Transportation Safety Board reveals the probable cause of the crash of white burden 407. Almost one year after the tragedy and crime center federal investigators blamed pilot error and claim the FAA has failed to address critical problems allowing history to repeat itself at the expense of many lives. And it's the same thing over and over again. We have made recommendations time after time after time they have not been heated by the FAA are good evening to you the NTSB says complacency and critical failures by the pilots apply for the pool seven lead to catastrophe. Today in Washington investigators say weather did not cause the crash, but rather a captain Marvin Renslow became startled and confused with a plane Stick Shaker activated. Investigators also pointed out critical errors in the final seconds of flight saying happened Red Bull is the exact opposite of what he should have done to recover from a stall. The hearing also citing unnecessary pocket conversation and cell phone use. Colgan air pilot training is being questioned along with the FAA in response to safety recommendations. That will begin our extensive team coverage tonight with us or senior correspondent which neighbor who's joining us live tonight from Washington. Good evening rich. Hello Jackie. Well, the problems that caused the crash of Flight 3407 are not new and that is hard for families to hear. But western New York families who lost loved ones are getting a lot of help in their fight to bring about change. It was an emotional start for some families of crash victims that had not seen the video simulation of flight 3407 going out of control I just can't imagine the fear that everyone felt. And I'm glad I watched it because I want to be with Him in every moment. Fear brought on after the Colgan pilots mishandled the warning says the NTSB that the plane was about to stall the appropriate response to the stall a response that may have reflected inadequate training by Colgan air on the prevention and recovery of full stalls should Colgan have been training full stalls in the simulator. Yes or no? Yes. And in the airline industry, it isn't saying its speed is like and clearly the reason this thing went down is they weren't monitored vigorously. The NTSB has more than 20 safety recommendations for the FAA, including areas of pilot performance training and fatigue issues that we've seen time and time again. And unfortunately, it's taking 50 more lives for us to focus additional attention on these issues that have not been addressed. The FAA slow response to change has been frustrating for these families and their supporters, including the co pilot who helped land a plane on the Hudson it's been a year now since this accident, and absolutely nothing has changed. We've got nothing but rhetoric and studies and talk from the FAA. The families are insisting on 1500 hours of flight training or regional airline islands. Jennifer West brought a rock from the crash site and an angel carrying the name Becky, for the mother of 3407. copilot Rebecca Shaw is to let her know that we know she's going through the same pain of losing a daughter and that you know we stand behind her. The NTSB has more than 20 safety recommendations for the FAA, including areas of pilot performance training and fatigue issues that we've seen time and time again, and unfortunately, it's taken 50 more lives for us to focus additional attention on these issues that have not been addressed. The FAA slow response to change has been frustrating for these families and their supporters, including the co pilot who help land a plane on the Hudson. It's been a year now since this accident and absolutely nothing has changed. We've got nothing but rhetoric and studies and talk from the FAA. The families are insisting on 1500 hours of flight training for regional airline miles. Jennifer West brought our rock from the crash site, and an angel carrying the name Becky, for the mother of 3407 co pilot Rebecca Shaw is to let her know that we know she's going through the same pain of losing a daughter and that you know, we stand behind her. I just want to say to the families and the friends who lost people, literal families and sorry for their loss are now coming up at 530 The Safety Board Chairman talks about the families many from the Buffalo area and the role that they are playing in trying to move the FAA into action. Reporting live in Washington which Newburgh news for at five buffalo families are relentless longing for reform and claim it some are claiming that there's been a death year at higher levels at the FAA level. I have to tell you, the families in this accident have been simply amazing. We have seen some incredible grace come out of people who've gone through the worst experience of their life, to really come together and try to determine if there's anything that's good that could come from this. It's to make sure that no one has to go through what they went through. They have been a strong voice. They have been aggressive. They've been educated on the issues. And they've been a great help to the Safety Board as we try to focus attention on issues related to this accident. Today's finding cited fatal mistakes at a point when every second counted. US for investigative reporter we have the next layer of our team coverage tonight. Will Jackie errors by the pilots not icing that's the word from federal investigators who have spent nearly a year examining the crash of Flight 34 07. Today's report described the startled crew reacting improperly. pilot error tops the list of factors and the crash must always know what her speech are at all the time. Federal investigators say Captain Marvin wrens low and first officer Rebecca Shaw did not take action as the plane's airspeed slowed his failure to make standard ...s for even a declarative statement associated with recovery it can further suggest that he was not responding to the situation using the Welborn habit pattern. They even entered contradictory Speed Warning information into the cockpit computer before takeoff according to NTSB stat. In the final seconds of the flight, the plane Stick Shaker warning of a stall activated, there was adequate time for the food to take action before the stick shaker that was followed by the plane stick pusher that points the plane's nose down during his stall investigators say Captain Rennes lo made the wrong decision by pulling back on the stick. He did it not once but three times. The captain's improper flight controller was for instead consistent with startle and confusion. Last year news for flew with test pilots from Cal spans Niagara Falls operation they showed us what it's like when the stick shaker and pusher activate a shaker. Notice I can come in and out of the shaker all I want. Investigators say First Officers shots should have stepped in to take action before the situation was not recoverable. I do think there was time it wasn't just a split second thing I think this is a fairly large stable spray wing airplane. There was time to evaluate the situation and take recovery. Another issue involves the non essential talk between the pilots during the flight from Newark to Buffalo board member Robert some wall an airline captain for more than 20 years summed it up this way. It was as if the flight was just a means for the captain to conduct a conversation with this young first officer. Now Colgan air which operated the flight for Continental was also criticized for not giving Renzo remedial attention. Despite his failures on several check rides. The company said in a statement that the pilots were properly trained and how to recover from a stall. Luke Moretti News Four Well family is unable to make it to Washington for today's hearing are relying on each other to remain strong as more answers are revealed. Use for His glory Schultz is live from the Millennium hotel and she grew up with tonight Laurie? Well Jackie right now there's a 10 minute break so you can see the doors to the Cleveland room are open and that's where family members have been watching the hearing via satellite here. At the millennium. It's been a long emotional day for all of them, including a clearance mom who lost her husband and her home in the crash. This is something that happened at my house and that's her. Karen Wielinsky can easily recall the night flight 3407 crashed and her clearance home She not only lost her husband, she and her daughter survived. I don't know that right off I know. It's rough rough for my girls to go down and see the flight Wielinski in about 30 family members whose loved ones perished in the crash watch the hearings via satellite at the Millennium Hotel. Shannon Green's husband Brad was on that flight. His wedding band was retrieved she wears it around her neck of the water. So it's my husband. She's pushing for mandated legislation regarding pilot training. Captain to me means a leader and somebody ready to go ready to leave. And I'm disappointed and I guess I expect more from the industry. Michael ... you know hopes the FAA listens to the recommendations. His wife Dawn was killed on that flight. It is a great opportunity. But I'm not all that confident that changes will be made. The aviation industry is lobbying hard changes from being made, but the 3407 group is well organized and stands united. Karen Wielinski is right there with them. The work to do now is to get the recommendations implemented and and to get some changes made that are gonna stop things like this from happening. And Karen also says that she's very pleased that the findings are being released prior to the one year anniversary next week. She's not sure what she's going to do but she does know for sure that she won't be going to the site now much more on that coming up at 530. Live and to do all the Lori Schultz needs for the head of the FAA faced a grilling today on Capitol Hill amid passionate calls to prevent another tragedy like the crash of Flight 3407. This comes on the heels of the NTSB stunning report on the cause of the crash news for senior correspondent Rich Newberg brings us the very latest tonight, rich? While the FAA is new administrator Randy Babbitt is big on voluntary compliance by the airline when it comes to safety standards. But a year after the crash of Flight 3407 That isn't going over well with victims families, lawmakers or the government's chief inspector for transportation. Progress has been slow in implementing initiatives with the greatest potential to improve safety before the House aviation subcommittee, harsh criticism of the FAA now under a new administrator Randy Babbitt, who did not win points when he said change could be years in the making installation The industry didn't devolve into the state of where we see serious gaps in professionalism and attention in the cockpit overnight. It took years and it's gonna take us years to get it bring it back. I think the confidence of the American public is reducing every day that we delay. The crash in Clarence now attributed to pilot error has again raised issues that must be addressed issues of pilot training, professionalism and hiring practices, the poor performing pilot and the pilot in the Colgan crash who repeatedly failed certain training evolutions and we need to be concentrating more on hiring practices with some of the airlines and and weeding some of these folks out that do not belong in the cockpit families of 3407. crash victims had hoped FAA action on tougher safety standards would be implemented as quickly as possible, but unfortunately, as possible means what looks to be a very long timeline. And that's the very frustrating part about this With this bureaucracy that is the FAA has been so screwed up and tied in a knot over the last several years that to wait for them to get something done despite Babbitt's best efforts is going to take too long and that's why I think we need legislation. And Senator Schumer expects the Senate to bring up the FAA bill in the next month. Many provisions have the backing of the families of crash victims and Senator Schumer says he will add an amendment requiring 1500 hours of training for both the pilot and co pilot. Reporting live rich Newberg news for at five. Robin Tolsma who lost her husband Darren in the crash says it's time for President Obama to weigh in on this legislation. Tolsma sent this question to Katie Couric through wivb.com She said I want to know why President Obama has not mentioned one single word about the FAA reauthorization bill, which would save 1000s of lives each year. CBS News is asking viewers to send in their questions for Katie Couric presidential interview, which airs this Sunday before the Superbowl. The families applied for the 407 will reunite on the anniversary of the crash next Friday, February 12. The public is invited to join in a memorial walk which will begin at the crash site on Long Street in Clarence center and continue on to the buffalo airport. There will be several rest stops along the way. If you'd like to register you can find a link on Wi Fi ve.com. So we ask for your safety today to keep us safe and to keep the memory and presence of our loved ones in our hearts. After a prayer the relatives and friends of crash victims set out for the airport and miles away to complete the journey. They're loved. She wouldn't be the first one I'd get my check today. She really was a great daughter a great sister. She would just persevere. To love you. We want to honor our people. We're marching for a cause and aviation safety change. Let's take the untrained, tired, unqualified train and make a better system. That's what that's what the goal is the House of Representatives in October the master very comprehensive bill that will be the biggest change in aviation safety since the FAA was formed if we had to deal with a lot of problems in the Senate right now. The memorial walkers were greeted by schoolchildren from the Nativity of various schools and clouds their parishes lost three of its members in the crash. We need to support them, the families and show them that we actually really care about them and that we want them to know that our loves. After about five hours, the marchers reached the airport. They had been joined by Senator Chuck Schumer, who walked the last mile with that, but the road to change can be long and winding a community. Hopefully it continues saying look, we notice a problem and why don't we fix it it's hard but family members of flight 3407 victims find courage and strength in the aftermath of tragedy tonight at 1017 It will be the 360/5 time I've had that countdown but devastation of losing loved ones serves as the catalyst for change. We're here because we're concerned about the safety of those leaving here this morning. The safety of your loved ones family members have been pushing for better training for pilots, especially those on regional airlines like Colgan air, which operated flight 3407 That's the plane that crashed in Clarence center one year ago. This news conference is another opportunity for families to push the FAA and the government to take action Today was a 10 mile walk. And the last year was at least 1000 miles for us all. I do have to remind you the next month or two months in Washington is going to feel like 10,000 miles. The Senate is set to look at legislation improving airline safety including requiring newly hired co pilots to have 1500 hours of flying experience. Now we're going to march the last mile to get all of the changes that they have sought enacted into law Captain Jeff Stiles The Miracle on the Hudson co pilot hopes those changes come soon. For the sake of everyone. Anybody who knows me knows I do not like to be called a hero. People call me a hero. I am not these people are the buffalo families. You are all my heroes. You will always be my heroes. Heroes vowing to be heard in honor of loved ones last mile is ... news for the families of flight 3407 Share with a call a smoking gun against Colgan air. It's a major story you saw it first on Wi bv.com Good evening everyone Jackie's often I know one investigates like news for chilling evidence from the families of flight 3407 that they say will prove that pilot Marvin Winslow should not have been in the cockpit on that fateful night. News four's Rich Newberg brings us the shocking developments now rich Don, these are the emails that attorneys for the victims of flight 3407 Say provide a smoking gun leading up to the 2009 crash in Clarence center. The crash of Flight 3407 killed 49 passengers including a pregnant woman and one man in his home on Long Road in Clarence. Families of victims have said the pilot Marvin Winslow was not qualified to handle the queue 400 bombard the aircraft. Now their attorneys say they had the emails to prove it. These emails in our judgment prove that Cogan sacrificed safety for profits. Internal emails from Colgan air is top management mentioned runs low as a possible candidate to fly the q 400. You might want to check the training records there is something in the back of my mind on Rennes low says dot Chaplain Caulkins chief pilot Bill Honan says yes, you are correct. Renzo had a problem upgrading Harry Mitchell Colgan is Vice President of Operations says anyone that does not meet the men's minimum requirements and had problems and training before is not ready to tackle the queue. Bill Honan says he is already off the list. Harry Mitchell. Great thanks. A month later say attorneys Rennes low was flying the aircraft. I might add that Colgan is not able to prove that Marvin wrens low underweight underwent any kind of remedial training or other special training that would have changed him from a position of not being qualified to being qualified. An attorney for Colgan air told me Captain Renslow had passed the Q 400 test and would had to have passed in order to have flown the aircraft that day. He would not comment further. But Maryland counselor who's 24 year old daughter Ellie died in the crash says this renews her heart ache because she believes the crash was preventable. Airlines knew they had unqualified pilots. They put them in the air anyway, the consequences were deadly. And it's such a callousness. towards human life. Attorneys for victims families say Colgan was struggling financially in 2008. While expanding its air routes and increasing the size of its planes. They say the airline was desperately looking for pilots. More on that coming up at six reporting live rich Newburgh news for at five Thanks Rich be sure to stay with us for and Wi vb.com For the very latest latest and these major developments in the flight 3407 story. New emails suggest the pilot of doom continental flight 3407 was not qualified to be in the cockpit. We broke the story first on wi v v.com. And senior correspondent rich Newberg has what attorneys called the smoking gun tonight Rich, well done these are emails now made public that attorneys for victims families say proves that Captain Marvin Rennes Lowe was not qualified to fly the plane that crashed in Clarence Kogan managers were talking about Renslow. These are quotes you may want to check the records. There was something on the back of my mind on Winslow. Yes, you are correct. Renzo had a problem upgrading anyone that does not meet the men's minimum requirements. And had problems and training before is not ready to tackle the queue. That's the cue 400 claim. He is already off the list. Great. Thanks. A month later say attorneys Renzo was flying the aircraft. I have not taken news this hard and a long time and I don't know what it is. I think it's I think it's just the outrage that they didn't care. I want attorney for Colgan air told me Captain Winslow was qualified to fly the Q 400 aircraft he had no further comment we'll hear from an attorney for the victims families coming up at six reporting live rich Newberg news for had 530. Just ahead flight 3407 families say the emails are the smoking gun against Colgan air and news for has and three serious injuries after grinding crash into a tree news for it six starts right here right now. You're watching Tony YV TV, probably serving buffalo griffins here and all of Western New York. With Jackie Walker, Don Vogel's sports with John Murphy and whether Whitman while just don Vaughn live from California in Buffalo, keeping you connected. This is new four at 6am Good evening everyone. Jackie is off tonight. You're seeing this story first on four news for has the emails of flight 3407 attorneys are calling the smoking gun and their case against Colgan air senior correspondent Rich Newberg reports. The Colgan emails indicate the airline new the pilot was not qualified for that cockpit. In the months before the crash of Flight 3407 and Claridge which claimed 50 lives including a pregnant woman, Colgan air was expanding its air routes and moving to bigger planes. According to her attorneys for victims families. Colgan was struggling financially. Colgan was undertaking a new program with new planes, these two 400 planes 15 of them and at the time Colgan was desperately looking for pilots to fly these planes Internal emails from Colgan air as top management mentioned runs low as a possible candidate to fly the q 400. You might want to check the training records. There is something in the back of my mind on Renslow says dot Chaplain Caulkins chief pilot Bill Honan says yes you are correct. Resnlow had a problem upgrading. Harry Mitchell Colgan's Vice President of Operations says anyone that does not meet the men's minimum requirements and had problems and training before is not ready to tackle the queue. Bill Honan says he is already off the list. Harry Mitchell. Great thanks. A month later say attorneys Rennes Lowe was flying the aircraft. These emails in our judgment prove that Colgan sacrificed safety for profits. An attorney for Colgan air told me Captain Renzo had passed the cue 400 test and would had to have passed in order to have flown the aircraft that day. He would not comment further. But Marilyn counselor who's 24 year old daughter Ellie died in the crash says this renews her heartache because she believes the crash was preventable. The airlines knew they had unqualified pilots. They put them in the air anyway, the consequences were deadly. And it's such a callousness towards human life. Colgan had been fighting the public release of the emails until today. victims families have told me they wanted them released to help prevent this type of accident from ever happening again. Attorney Hugh rush told me the families believe this is the smoking gun. Reporting live rich Newberg news for at six Also tonight the government is getting tough on the airline accused of putting an unqualified pilot in the cockpit of flight 3407 It's a major development tied to a news for investigation. The federal government is now telling Pinnacle airlines to hand over the so called smoking gun. News force rich Newberg was first to expose the stunning emails. He brings us the latest tonight rich Pinnacle airlines the parent company of Colgan whose plane crash and clarity in 2009 has been ordered by federal accident investigators to turn over records that had been withheld. The crash killed all 49 people are on board including a pregnant woman and one man on the ground. During the hearings by the National Transportation Safety Board Kogan officials testified that pilot Captain Marvin Renslow was fully qualified to captain that aircraft but emails from Colgan top management later produced during court proceedings indicated rents low had been dropped from the list of pilots eligible to fly the new Q 400 plane that was being introduced into the fleet at the time. A month later. Renslow was flying that aircraft that crashed and Clarence there's strong reaction tonight to the demand by the Feds that Colgan turned over those emails as part of the federal investigation of this crash. As far as the family members go, we feel that Cogan hid this information because they knew it was out there and they knew it would make them look bad and it would have changed the way the investigation was handled by the NTSB or Western New York delegation. As the United States Attorney General to investigate this as well because you don't have a federal investigation in a plane crash and withhold relevant emails. That's not right. We want to find out too that he charged that he brought a spokesman for Pinnacle airlines just minutes ago told me tonight the company will comply with the NTSB request for those emails and remains confident that the company was in full compliance with FAA regulations. Much more coming up at six reporting live rich Newberg news four and five. You saw this story first time for now the National Transportation Safety Board is ordering Colgan air to produce those internal emails questioning the qualifications of the flight 3407 pilot, our senior correspondent rich Newbern broke the story and he brings us the latest almost three years after flight 3407 crashed and Clarence Center killing everyone on board and one man on the ground. Federal accident investigators are ordering Colgan air as parent company Pinnacle airlines to turn over emails from Colgan top management emails that had questioned the qualifications of pilot Marvin wrens low on the queue 400 aircraft, the plane that crashed. Those emails had surfaced in a lawsuit by victims families. I don't know how anybody could take anything that Colgan produces as truth at this point. A Colgan airlines spokesman told me the company will comply with the National Transportation Safety board's request for the emails and remains confident that the company was in full compliance with FAA regulations. But Western New York's lawmakers in Washington are calling for an expanded federal investigation. But we talked to the head of the NTSB we said you ought to be calling for a reinvestigation or at least ask for is there any other information out there that's been with help the victims families who have been fighting for tougher FAA regulations regarding the amount of training for pilots and issues of pilot fatigue, believe their cause has picked up momentum. If anything, what this will do is it'll show how strongly we need this legislation in place that we can't have a lapse in pilot training or pilot fatigue, especially the training. Congresswoman Cathy Hochul said the western New York delegation in Washington is calling for an investigation by the US Attorney General to see if any charges may be brought in this case. Reporting live Rich Newberg, News four and six. Also tonight, a former insider talks the news for and potentially loads more ammunition for the so called smoking gun in the case of flight 3407 Colgan air has come under fire since the 2009 tragedy and Clarence center and tonight a former employee has come forward she says she wouldn't set foot on a plane operated by Colgan air use for senior correspondent Rich Newberg has the latest in our ongoing investigation. Rich Gina riders scheduled crews for Colgan air at the time flight 3407 went down and Claire in stature and tonight for the first time on television she tells me how Cogan allegedly ran its operation. Sometimes she says compromising safety to save money for wise needs to stop the deception needs to stop Sheena Ryder who is visiting the memorial at Buffalo's Forest Lawn Cemetery where some of the unidentified remains of the crash victims of flight 3407. Are ferried says Colgan air should never have allowed that plane to fly from Newark to Buffalo conditions were icy and another plane that night had slid off the runway at another airport. Flight 3407 had already been delayed two hours. If I was on duty that night, I would have argued with dispatch. I wouldn't let that plane go. Gina had put flight attendant Matilda Quintero on 3407 So Matilda would have more time off with her boyfriend. The crash has left Geno's psychologically scarred, but also angry with Colgan because she says the company would fly pilots who lacked sleep, just to cover each leg of a flight itinerary. Sometimes their flight schedules were changed. Their rest was reduced. It's completely illegal. Just as long as we got it to work in the computer. It was okay Gina has joined a Facebook campaign started by 3407 widow Robin tolsma. A campaign called I will never fly Colgan air. I will never fly their planes Gina responded. Robin who visited her late husband Darren mycelium at Forest Lawn also met with Gina and told her she welcomes her support. Gina told her I'm with you. I'm with you. And I like I always say I'm going to bring COVID I'm coming for you and I'm bringing it home with me. Because I'm not gonna let you do this to one other person. Robin told me says 1600 people have joined her Facebook campaign during the past 11 days. Colgan air responded tonight to our story and this was just the end given that we have not seen the allegations says Colgan, we will not comment on them at this time. Reporting live rich Newberg news for at five. For years, Farr was first to report on Colgan air emails expressing concerns about the qualifications of a pilot who crashed flight 3407 and Clarence center Tonight senior correspondent rich Newberg talks with a former Colgan cruise scheduler, who explains why she will never fly that airline again. Gina Ryder who is visiting a Forest Lawn Cemetery memorial to the victims of flight 3407 says Colgan air should never have allowed that plane to fly from Newark to Buffalo conditions were icy and another plane that night had slid off the runway at another airport. Flight 3407 had already been delayed for two hours. If I Transcribed by https://otter.ai
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On Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 10:17 pm, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a house in Clarence Center, a suburb of Buffalo, New York. All forty-nine passengers and crew members were killed. One man in the house also lost his life.
The twin-engine turboprop belonged to Colgan Air, a regional airline company serving Continental Airlines. The flight had originated in Newark, New Jersey. It crashed only a few miles from the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport.
This composite of stories begins the night of the crash. WIVB-TV’s Lisa Flynn was the first to report that it was a commercial airliner that crashed, not a small plane, as had been first thought. The crash sent a shock wave across Western New York. Many of the victims were from the Buffalo area.
Families and friends of those who perished in the crash remembered their loved ones during grief stricken moments, and Western New York went through a period of mourning. Many questions were raised about the cause of the crash and whether the crew had been properly trained to operate this particular aircraft. Family members began attending hearings in Washington DC and closely followed the investigation.
A year after the crash, the National Transportation Safety Board determined that pilot error was the probable cause of the accident. Captain Marvin Renslow had failed to correctly respond to a stall, which is the sudden reduction in lift of an aircraft. The pilot had pulled back on the control column, tilting the nose of the plane up instead of lowering it and applying full power.
Families had begun questioning whether Federal Aviation Administration regulations for regional airlines were adequate. Critical safety issues raised included pilot training and fatigue. On the one year anniversary of the crash, family members and supporters walked from the accident site on Long Street in Clarence to the Buffalo Niagara International Airport to draw attention to their cause.
In a series of WIVB investigative reports, Rich Newberg revealed that internal emails from Colgan Airlines were obtained by lawyers representing the relatives of deceased passengers. They indicated that pilot Marvin Renslow had training problems and appeared not ready to handle the Bombardier Q400 aircraft. However, a month later he was flying the plane. When Newberg questioned an attorney representing Colgan Air, he maintained that Capt. Renslow was qualified to fly the plane.
Attorneys representing the crash victims determined that Colgan Air had been expanding air routes and moving to fifteen of the bigger models of the Q 400 planes. Attorney Hugh Russ said Colgan was “desperately looking for pilots to fly these planes.” Russ said, “These emails in our judgement prove that Colgan sacrificed safety for profits.”
Families charged that Colgan Air had withheld the emails during the investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB then ordered Colgan Air’s parent company, Pinnacle Airlines, to produce the internal emails in question. The company said it would comply.
A former Colgan Air crew scheduler came forward and told Newberg that the airline would fly pilots who lacked sleep to cover each leg of a flight itinerary. Colgan had no comment.
Eventually, the families, after many trips to Washington, got the FAA to implement tougher regulations including more hours of flight training and a requirement that airlines keep more extensive records detailing how pilots performed during training. Measures were also implemented to cut down on pilot fatigue.
Deborah Hersman, who was chair of the NTSB, told Rich Newberg, “…the families in this accident have been simply amazing. We have seen some incredible grace come out of the people who have gone through the worst experience of their life to really come together and try to determine if there’s anything good that can come from this, to make sure that no one has to go through what they went through. They have been a strong voice. They have been aggressive. They’ve been educated on the issues, and they’ve been a great help to the safety board as we try to focus attention on the issues related to this accident.”
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Our big story tonight, honoring the men and women who put their lives at risk for our safety.
Injured firefighter Don Herbert was at the top of the list he was injured. Five months ago. His recovery has been slow. And tonight his family accepted the honors in his behalf. John Herbert's youngest son four year old Nicky throughout a ceremonial pitch before tonight's Bison's game. Some of those honored tonight died in the line of duty. Don Herbert miraculously survived this house fire on interim Park Avenue after being buried under burning debris for 12 minutes and brought back to life by his fellow firefighters. Don Herbert's progress has been slow but steady according to his family. His wife Linda told him he was among those being honored tonight.
And he said it sounded like it was going to be a good time. And he was happy so I just hope that it sticks with him.
Even five months after his rescue Don Herbert short term memory comes and goes he also still hasn't regained his sight and adding to the pain for his family is the new report from the fire department critical and part of the way the blaze that inner Park Avenue was fought.
Definitely the firemen themselves are not to be at any blame. They did everything they could and probably beyond what anybody would expect it out.
Don Herbert was still not well enough to attend tonight's tribute. His family was later treated to the game, but his 13 year old Tommy Herbert watch the action on the field. He can only think of his brother throwing out that first pitch. No, he wished his dad could see it was just hoping that like they can see it one of these days.
Today's tribute was organized by the 100 Club of Buffalo, which is providing more than a million dollars to families and men and women who have lost their lives in the line of duty. In Buffalo tonight, it is time to meet the man the entire city has been pulling for firefighter Dawn Herbert. He was severely injured while battling a blaze several months ago today. He invited us into his hospital room.
Okay, Progress for Don Herbert is measured in small steps these days. You feel pretty good okay, let's no one knew if he would ever walk or talk again when he was pulled from a burning house after the roof collapsed on top of him. He was buried under rubble for 12 minutes and it stopped breathing after his air pack ran out. He was brought back to life by his buddies paid off but this is from his fellow firefighters now bring a smile to his face. There's a kind of closeness here similar to what he shows his own family. This is a man who still thrives on challenges. His wife Linda and I, for example, asked him about his progress on the parallel bars the peril of their room. Zero is a very, he wants to tackle something more difficult. The Interpark fire damaged part of Don's brain which also affects his eyesight, but it couldn't burn out His Spirit. Hugs of course are part of his therapy. And everyone wants to get into the act. Don's family has given him tremendous support and encouragement, hoping for small signs of progress but realizing his very survival is in itself something of a miracle.
We got more than we had counted on in the beginning. I mean, they told us he was not going to come out of a coma and we've heard him talk and he's got a wonderful heart. He's just wonderful to be around. I guess. We're asking.
Father, Son, son to father there is communication here, which means prayers have been answered. According to Linda Herbert.
You know, it's one thing to have faith and believe that when you're tested, I think that's when it really comes down. And this has been a test of faith that I hope nobody ever has to go through
a great handshake Holy mackerel. I had the privilege of meeting a real hero today, who still exemplifies courage and strength of character as he goes from fighting fires. To fighting for a life worth living. A benefit for Don Herbert will be held this Friday from 2pm until midnight at the OD and tickets are $20.
Don Herbert was a firefighter in Buffalo, New York on December 29 1995. He was battling a house fire when the building's roof collapsed. Don was trapped under a pile of debris and nearly suffocated a local news camera captured firefighters pulling Don from an adequate window. By the time his wife Linda and four sons reached the hospital. Dawn was already in a coma.
I remember pleading and begging with him in the hospital when he was unresponsive. Just you know, don't leave me Don't leave the kids. You know. We need to you know we need to try to get them to squeeze your hand or over toe or something like that. It just we're looking for just about anything done. Herbert did regain consciousness but a few months later slipped into a minimally conscious state. He can respond to some stimuli, but was unable to communicate. Move to a nursing home he was kept alive by a feeding tube and take them to one neurologists and I was basically begging him, you know to tell me is he going to get better or isn't he and he just sort of said well look at him. What do you see? You see what I see there's nothing there and I was just devastated.
While Don languished in the nursing home, years passed, and his four boys grew into men determined to keep their father in their lives. Linda brought dawn to birthdays and holidays, but says he sat slumped in his wheelchair unaware of his surroundings. What was it like as a kid growing up? See your dad there?
I think after 10 years of seeing him hooked up to a feeding tube and different machines that you can sort of get used to it or something-- I really never did and it made me sick to my stomach to go. No, I didn't go that often because I just couldn't stand seeing him like that.
And then one day two years ago, the nursing home called with shocking news. Dawn had woken up was asking for his family. One of the nurses lent the Herberts a video camera to record Don's incredible awakening. His first words were a struggle, he hadn't spoke in nearly a decade. The family members and buddies from the firehouse rushed to Don's room. Blinded in the accident, Don recognized everyone by their voice, everyone that is except his youngest son Nick, who was just four when his dad was injured.
He still thought that I was really young and he went to like put his hand out to tell and to see how tall I was. And we just kept telling him to raise his hand higher because he was trying to feel for me.
When he learns that he has been gone for 10 years, and he seems heartsick about it. Oh, yeah. You can. The sadness is palpable.
He felt so bad. He thought it like he had banded us he felt so bad that he wasn't there for the boys.
Did it feel like an opportunity to say stuff that you never thought you would have?
Yeah, here's my chance to really tell him about me. Trying to make him feel proud.
Don Herbert's reunion with his family was brief. While trying to get out of bed he fell and suffered another brain injury. He later contracted pneumonia, and less than a year after he woke up, Don Herbert died. His Awakening was celebrated as a miracle and a family member has written a book about it. But Dr. Nicholas Schiff and neurologists at Weill Cornell Medical Center says Though rare, he's seen other startling recoveries and believes Don Herbert's story should be a wake up call for doctors.
When I went to medical school, like 20 years ago, there were very various kinds of one liners you get in medical school about ways ways of understanding problem and the one liner you get about brain injury was damaged, that what's done is done. What's done is done structural brain injuries unchanging so with people with patients and minimally conscious state, it's not true to say what's done is done.
I think we know enough now to know that there are some minimally conscious state patients where that statement is false.
A roof collapse left him in a coma for 10 years, but there was that one day that caught the world's attention. And that was 10 years ago today that some believe a medical miracle happened right here in Western New York.
It was the day that fall on buffalo firefighter Don Herbert woke up from a coma news for George Richard is here with a look back. George, was a day that caught the medical world's attention and gave hope to other families who have loved one suffering brain trauma. Today I sat down with Don Herbert's son.
It was just a big shock to get that phone call.
Patrick Herbert will never forget the day in 2005 when his mother called him saying dad's talking. Buffalo firefighter Donald Herbert had been in a coma for the previous nine years that Britain rushed to the nursing home to see his dad.
And he parked right up looked around and said, No, it's just amazing for 16 special hours that the friends and family poured in. Patrick introduced his future wife for the first time. And it was great to be able to talk to him and Tom on my account before so just looking back at that that's that was the greatest thing. I have.
But he wouldn't last the experiment of drugs that would normally treat attention deficit or Parkinson's disease only worked for a day. He died a year later. But to this day, his name is still on the side of buffaloes rescue one where he served that night in 1996 when a roof collapsed on him, causing permanent brain damage. Rescue one now happens to be where Patrick works, in fact of the poor boys in the family, to our buffalo firefighters to our buffalo police officers following in the footsteps that he taught them with hard work and civil service.
We pretty much wouldn't be where we're at without him. So I'm sure he's more than more than pleased looking down on us.
A relative of the Herbert family actually wrote a book about that day. It's called The Day Donnie Herbert Woke Up
It was described as a sea of fire in the city of Buffalo. Firefighters had arrived at a warehouse fire when suddenly there was an explosion.
The walls came down on him and as clear as that. There's I'm sure you saw the trucks that are damaged and then they were right next to him and and that's a way to happen.
Among the known dead are five firefighters. As many as 70 people were injured. One nearby hospital filled up so quickly. It had to airlift some of the injured to other hospitals. homes as far as nine blocks away had windows blown out walls and ceilings crumbled from the shockwaves
I tried to grab a little baby, two years old. She blew one way and I blew the other way enough we all hit the floor and the ceiling just kept falling on us.
The warehouse and church and several homes were destroyed. Buffalo's Mayor James Griffin declared a five day state of emergency in his city and asked Governor Cuomo for aid.
It devastated this whole area. It must have been a terrific explosion. I understand windows were blown out in all areas of our city because of this thing and it's just just a tragedy.
There were more than 125 firefighters on the scene. Some said this was one of the worst explosions in the city's history. Rich Newberg for CBS News, Buffalo.
Buffalo is bravest are remembering their fallen brothers tonight. It's been 30 years since the department's darkest day.
While the first call went out on that night of December 27 1983. A huge explosion on North Division Street damaged 12 city blocks. The blast claimed seven lives including five buffalo firefighters.
news fours rich Newburgh was there 30 years ago.
No one was prepared for what happened on December 27 1983. Buffalo firefighters had responded to a report of a large propane leak at a warehouse at North Division and Grosvenor just seconds after the chief announced his arrival an explosion leveled the four story building and shook buildings miles away.
Like a bomb had gone off. Literally it had -- it looked like a warzone. It looked like something I've never seen before something out of Apocalypse Now.
Five buffalo firefighters lost their lives that night. Mickey Catanzaro who had survived Vietnam as a Marine and was a husband and father of four sons was one of them. His wife Jean had gotten a call from a concerned friend after the explosion
Well there has been a terrible propane explosion and it was a very dear friend of ours and he said that they couldn't find Mickey.
Nicholas Catanzaro was Mickey's youngest son. He is now 30 years old and has become a buffalo firefighter. He was nine months old when his father perished in the propane blast.
I just had this urge to be just like him, and I felt like that would be a better gift to my mom than anything is to try and be as much like him as possible.
Nicky Catanzaro says his father was a man of strong character strong enough in life to give his wife the strength to go on to raise four boys strong enough in memory and spirit to give his youngest son the courage to face the unknown on any given day.
I feel like he's he's looking over me every day. And making sure that I'm safe as possible.
It's been 35 years since an explosion blew apart blocks of downtown Buffalo. It still stands as the biggest tragedy ever faced by the buffalo Fire Department. Seven people putting fire firefighters died after responding to a propane gas leak. The department's deadliest fire happened December 27 1983 Tonight, loved ones of some of the victims attending a service honoring their sacrifice. Our Rachel Mongiovi shows us tonight's memorial service.
This is a day that will never be forgotten in Buffalo's history books for many people. The memories of this tragedy are just as painful today as they were 35 years ago at 8:23 hat night firefighters were called to a four story warehouse here on North Division Street. They were responding to reports of a propane leak. Just seconds after firefighters arrived the propane tank detonated the explosion leveled the building and other structures killing seven people and injuring a dozen others. Every year on this day at the exact time, loved Ones gathered to once again remember. The fire department rings out the alarm 191 To honor the five firefighters of ladder five
It's important to remember any that's the only way to honor our fallen is to because remember, because as long as there is a fire department, as long as there's an engine 32 and a ladder five, you know, people will be here every year.
I will say it's sad to see something like this happening. And I hope something like this never happens again anywhere. Because too many innocent people was killed. It was one of the darkest days of Buffalo's history.
This tragedy was in still is the deadliest in Buffalo Fire Department history. A memorial still sits at the first call box 191 at the intersection where this tragedy unfolded in Buffalo Rachel Mongiovi News Four
It was a cataclysmic event that forever changed us as a nation when America and our state was attacked. Western New Yorkers answered the call.
We knew that staying home just wasn't an option. A group of us felt we had to go there and we had to go there now. So we got there as quick as we possibly could.
As New York reeled in the aftermath of 911 local firefighters and emergency workers pack their gear and headed straight for ground zero. They knew only that Americans had been slaughtered and hundreds of their brethren were missing in the Carnage
If there was an accident in Buffalo and these people that are walking in front of me were trapped under a building, New York City would be one of the first people down there. We couldn't stay home. We had to come and do we had to do when everyone was stepping out of their cars and applauding and you know, that was quite dramatic.
The heartfelt appreciation of New Yorkers left a lasting impression on buffalo firefighter Lt. Tony Liberatore. He made friends manning the now familiar bucket brigade with 1000s of fellow firefighters and volunteers. Now Lieutenant Liberatore returns to help train New York City firefighter recruits, recruits desperately needed to fill the loss of 343 firefighters and a host of others who retired in the last year,
September 11. We always felt that there was a great bubble over the United States and wars happened somewhere else. And I think unfortunately, that bubble has been burst. And we realize that we are now as vulnerable as the rest of the world.
It was well it was a nightmare I guess in many ways.
Erie County Emergency Services Chaplain Joe Bain joined the contingent of local volunteer firefighters who also answered the call. Emotions really good home for him, as he watched the funeral of New York Fire Chaplain Michael Judge, his counterpart and fellow Franciscan
So to go away I had to leave the room for a while and we could so it kind of started to hit having been in there many times and then to go and see that smoky rubble that looked like just a war zone and I've never been in a war. only seen it on TV. It was how do you describe it?
In the days that follow the attack denomination did not matter, as 1000s staggered under the weight of uncontrollable grief.
I call it ministry of presence. Doesn't matter what church, synagogue, mosque you're in. You're there with people, no matter who you reached out to a hand came back and that's probably what changed me.
Unspeakable evil, paralyzing grief and incredible destruction did not break the spirit of those who responded. Father Joe saw something special.
When I looked in their eyes and we hugged each other and I was able to pat on the back those dusty dirty people coming out of Ground Zero. I saw the face of God. It's real and talked about putting things in perspective. God is present in churches and synagogues and mosques and I saw the face of God and those people, and then my brother and sister emergency workers. That's God presents to me in a gut, real Way.
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SEGMENT 1:
The Rescue and Awakening of Don Herbert
A month after Buffalo firefighter Don Herbert was rescued from an attic of a burning house, WIVB-TV senior correspondent Rich Newberg and photographer Tom Vetter reported on the dedication and sacrifices of those who fight fires for a living.
On December 28, 1995, Herbert became trapped after the roof collapsed. He ran out of oxygen before fellow firefighters could locate him. They saved his life but he suffered from brain damage and blindness.
Rich Newberg visited the veteran firefighter whose speech was impaired but who was determined to do anything necessary to regain his strength and communication skills. Despite his strength of character and will to survive, Herbert later lapsed into a decade-long coma.
On April 30, 2005, Don Herbert suddenly awakened and made international news when he began talking to family members and friends as if it were yesterday. He had been given drugs normally used to treat Parkinson’s disease, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and depression.
Anderson Cooper, reporting for CBS’s 60 Minutes, produced a major story on what many were calling a “miraculous awakening.” Herbert broke into tears when a fellow firefighter told him he had been unresponsive for about ten years.
Subsequently, Don Herbert took a fall out of bed, which again weakened his condition. He developed pneumonia and passed away on February 21, 2006.
Herbert left behind a wife and four sons. Two became firefighters. The amazing story of his awakening gave hope to families with brain damaged loved ones in a coma. Herbert will always be remembered for his bravery and courage as part of a rescue team, and for his desire to do the very best he could under debilitating circumstances.
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The Ultimate Sacrifice on North Division Street
On December 27, 1983, a propane tank explosion at a four story radiator warehouse in Buffalo claimed the lives of five Buffalo firefighters. It remains the largest single day loss of life in the history of the Buffalo Fire Department. In addition, two civilians living near the warehouse were killed in their home.
The explosion occurred shortly after the firefighters arrived on the scene, responding to the call of a propane gas leak. All five crew members from Ladder 5 were killed instantly. Eleven others were injured when the blast occurred. There were more injuries during rescue efforts. More than 150 civilians were taken to hospitals.The warehouse was destroyed as were buildings within a four-block radius. It was later determined that the 500 gallon propane tank had been illegally housed in the warehouse.
A memorial service honoring the memory of the fallen firefighters takes place every year on December 27th at 8:23 p.m., the time of the explosion. It is held at fire call box number 191 at the intersection where the explosion took place.
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When the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were attacked and destroyed by terrorists on 9/11/2001, Lt. Tony Liberatore, now a captain in the Buffalo Fire Department, said at the time, “A group of us felt we had to go there and we had to go there now. So we got there as quick as we possibly could.”
WIVB’s Lisa Flynn and photographer Steve Beauchamp produced a segment for the hour special, “Day of Sorrow: Year of Change,” featuring the role Buffalo firefighters played in recovery efforts at Ground Zero. They called the story, “Forever Changed.”
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The following program is a special presentation of news four.
And now News Four presents flight 3407 for the families
And good evening, everyone. I'm Don Postles
And I'm Jacquie Walker. They were mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and some of the best friends you could ever ask for in life and the 50 people who lost their lives when flight 3407 went down and Clarence Center were also extraordinary people and Tonight, we celebrate their lives. First, Melissa Holmes looks at what happened. Melissa.
Every day we learn more about the victims of the plane crash and more about the crash itself. It could be weeks, months or even years before we know why flight 3407 went down. It could be even longer for those who mourn to heal. fitting for zero so 0.5 Continental flight 3407 Newark to Buffalo in that last conversation between the female first officer and the tower. The final approach to the buffalo now average national airport seems normal. But seconds later the bombardment a dash eight q 400. dropped off the radar was five miles out and all of a sudden it's always thought that aircraft only six miles from the runway like 3407 fell from the sky landing on a house in Clarence Center. 50 souls perished. The date Thursday, February 12. The time 10:20pm lives were forever changed.
To me it looked like the plane just came down in the middle of the house and unfortunately that's where he was.
I heard my mother making noise on the phone that I never before.
He took the earlier flight because he wanted to come home and say goodnight to the kids before they went to bed.
The flames went on for hours. When it was finally safe, Federal authorities began searching for answers through the black boxes. National Transportation Safety Board investigators determined the pilot turned on the planes de icing system. It was functioning but problems persisted.
The crew discussed significant ice buildup ice on the windshield and leading edge of the wings.
The plane was on autopilot but then the plane stall prevention system kicked in, giving control back to the pilot. That's when it began to pitch and roll. It's like 3407 plunged 800 feet in five seconds.
At memorial services throughout the community 1000s have gathered for prayers and for peace. individuals from all walks of life has become one through unspeakable tragedy.
We try to love our neighbors as we would love ourselves but today we love our neighbors because we realize that they are ourselves.
Thoughts and prayers from around the world are going out to the victims and their families. But for Western New Yorkers, we know the faces we know the names none of us will ever forget where we were when we heard flight 3407 fell from the sky.
It seems out of the wreckage and the deaths a solidarity has been born a unity that Western New York has never seen before. Dawn and Jackie.
Thank you Melissa. Well, the families who lost our loved ones I'm flying 3407 return to the crash scene this afternoon for the very first time.
It was for us George record is live tonight in Clarence center with more of that emotional visit today.
GEORGE-- Yeah, and it's hard to say just how much closure this may have brought for the families the scene is still there. It has changed though there is no recognizable debris obviously no human remains visible, but still for for about one hour today. Everything stopped as the families came to see up close for themselves, the spot where their loved ones spent their last seconds of life. It was about 1245 This afternoon, when six busloads of family members and friends of the victims rolled up to the crash site, as members of the public looked on from two blocks away outside the perimeter on Goodrich road and they get to closure out of it why I think it's always a good deal.
I can't imagine I mean, I love my family and to see something like that, you know, but I mean, I guess that's all they you know, that's all they could have left to see. So, you know, like I say God bless them and my heart goes out to them and their families.
The families spent about an hour there laying flowers just over the fence of the crash scene. Immediately afterward. A few designated members of the media were taken to the site, including only one TV camera and local radio reporter Barbara burns.
Initially it looked simply like a construction scene. There was a lot of construction equipment, bobcats cranes, and then once you got close as close as they let us in the end, we got within I would say maybe 2025 feet. You started to realize it started to set in you saw the tail of the plane. While I was there, a huge crane took away a large piece which turned out to be a big a big part of the engine of the plane. Just I mean you keep hearing this word over and over surreal and it is surreal.
And we will have more first hand accounts from people who have seen the site up close as you see behind me. They are keeping the perimeter enforced here probably at least until the weekend is what we're hearing. We'll have more later on this hour reporting live on Goodrich road and Clarence George Ricker news for
All right, George. Well, one woman aboard continental flight 3407 was pregnant with her first child. Family and friends of Jennifer Neal feel cheated, they tell news four's Rich Newberg they we're looking forward to seeing Jen experience the joy of motherhood.
34 year old Jennifer Neil and her fiance Todd Acker were anxiously awaiting the birth of her son. Jennifer perished in the crash, but everyone remembers her spirit.
A beautiful young woman with a big smiling face and just very caring about other people. She was a fantastic person.
Jennifer is remembered here at Women and Children's Hospital where she worked in the physical therapy department for a while she had a special way with the children she helped as the hours go on after we found out it's it's harder and harder.
Mary Pat Battaglia remembers Jen helping this child recovering from spinal surgery, Jen was able to help her, you know, get up on your hands and knees and crawl around a little bit. It's strengthening for these kids. Get up and kneel at the table, pull yourself up to standing and she was she could she could get these little ones to work. She could motivate them because it was fun and she was happy. Jen was having a good time. And so the kids were having a good time.
As a student at Clarence High School, Jennifer excelled as a musician and an athlete, a strong team leader. Jennifer believed that anything and everything she wanted to do in life was possible, said her family. Every person that she met in life was drawn to her by her grace and inner beauty that was immeasurable. Jennifer went on to work for a drug company positioning herself in the top 4% of national sales. Her parents said she is forever in our hearts and minds.
That was Richard Newberg reporting there now at age 24. Ellyce Kausner of Clarence was one of the youngest passengers on board flight 3407 and many knew her simply Elly but there's nothing simple about the second year law student who was filled with laughter and loved in life. News four spoke with one of the Ellyce's family members this afternoon now,
Before we got the full picture of the deadly crash before we knew who was on the plane and who wasn't. We heard one name at least counselor has loved ones put it all on the line to find her that fateful night. Today, hundreds of well wishers have been filling the clubhouse of Clarence's main park for at least his week to mourn the loss of a bright light cut short so suddenly and violently, just a few miles away. 24 year old Ellyce Marie Kausner or Elly as she was affectionately known, graduated from Canisius College and was in the second year of law school. As Ellie's aunt Nancy Houston put it her niece would have been great as a lawyer or anything she set her mind to
She was always the life of the party. I almost never saw her without a smile. Just just a fantastic young woman. It's impossible even to describe what the world has lost in in having her not with us any longer.
Visitation continues tonight. until nine with a memorial service set for tomorrow morning. The family is asking that donations be made to the Erie County SPCA. Donna Jackie.
Thank you, Alan. The crash of Flight 3407 has left that deep hole in the hearts of nine brothers and sisters from Buffalo
Mary Pettis was the big sisters who all of them the rock of the family. She was also engaged to be married for her fiance. The tragic events of Thursday were the worst possible ending to the love story of his life. Here's news four's Laurie Schultz
Family members of flight 3407 their shock and sadness as reality sets in. There are also many memories.
She was the friend that everyone wished they had. And she was the person that everyone wished they could be
Sue and her father brothers and sisters gathered to remember 51 year old Mary Pat is the oldest of the 10 siblings, a lifelong Buffalonian was a software manager for a health care company. She was returning home from a business trip to New York when the plane went down. Her grieving fiance says everyone who met her fell in love with her. They were to marry this spring . Dealing two days after the nation's first deadly airline crash since 2006. air travelers seem to brush away any fear of flying and boarded flights. However New Jersey's newer flight 3407 came from some passengers admitted that safety was on their minds.
Oh yeah,definitely. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, there's no way anyone can sit up there and say they're not thinking about that are easy. It's very nerve racking, and our son actually was in the area, and he would have taken that flight to Buffalo.
Bianca was to New York the morning continues. Mary's widowed father says it really hit him when his daughter wasn't there to bring it coffee as she did every day since the wife died. brought coffee every morning and quite a girl. But amid tears are beautiful memories far stronger than the haunting images of the doomed flight.
Thank you, Laurie. And by now, many of us have also heard the story of passenger Beverly Acker, like Mary Pettis, Beverly was also a pillar of strength for her family, displaying tremendous faith and courage, especially in the years since the 911 attacks, a tragedy that took a life of her husband, and she was returning home to honor his memory. Beverly Eckerd family who is trying to cope with tragedy for a second time her husband Sean Rooney was killed in the 911 attacks on the World Trade Center. She was coming to Buffalo to celebrate his birthday with her sisters and to award a scholarship at Canisius High School. In her husband's memory.
It was just laughter in her voice. We were just talking all the time over the week what we were going to do and how we were going to do it.
After 911 she became an advocate for the victims families. Now her family was pulling on her strength Ben to get through this now.
She said Shawn faced death with such calm courage. And it calmed her we were more visibly shaken in Beverly who said I have to be strong. And I watched her and I think that lesson what she did there is allowing us to follow I keep thinking How did Beverly do this? I know how she did this. And she gave us a gift because she did this already. She was not afraid of death. The family is reflecting on Beverly and her talents. There's the mug she made inscribed with the words do all you can in the time that you have. There are also paintings that she made for her sisters. The family believes she's now reunited with Sean
I think she's a peace and I she was not afraid of death. She-She looked at it as a way probably be reunited with Sean
Beverly lived life with vigor and determination. She was an inspiration for all who knew her there was no fence that was too high. There was no pit was too deep. They could climb over it, climb out of it together or individually. And she's just amazing.
Beverly achor was held in such high esteem not just by her family, but by the community and her classmates here at Sacred Heart are planning on honoring her this May with the Distinguished Alumni Award. Her life is over. But her legacy lives on. She was recently called to the White House to meet with President Obama, who was touched by her compassion for life.
Tragic events, such as these remind us of the fragility of life and the value of every single day. One person who understood that well was Beverly Packard, who was on that flight and who I met with just a few days ago. You see Beverly lost her husband on 911 and became a tireless advocate for those families whose lives were forever changed on that September day. And in keeping with that passionate commitment, she was on her way to Buffalo to mark what would have been her husband's birthday and launch a scholarship in his memory. So she was an inspiration to me and to so many others and I pray that her family finds peace and comfort in the hard days ahead.
And many other families also hope and pray for that same peace and comfort tonight
News four's Melissa Holmes is joining us again with more stories of lives lost Melissa
Zach Aidan they're the stories of for more Western New Yorkers who have left behind husbands, wives, children, and tremendous legacies.
Father, we pray specifically for the families the individuals that are grieving at this time.
The community is wrapping its arms around those families who have lost loved ones in the crash of continental flight 3407 We're learning more about them. There was 44 year old Don mana Keno our lives together were just being with each other being with being with family. And in our two dots. John and Michael had been married for 14 years. She and her co worker were coming back from a business trip with Schering plough pharmaceutical company when the plane crashed. Michael says he's being strong for her family and Clarence and in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
I can hold it together because, you know, I gotta I gotta let people know about this. There was Dr. Allison Des Forges;
The Chinese have a saying that if a marriage is too happy, it can't last too long. Just totally devoted mother, a totally devoted wife.
They were husband and wife for 44 years and had two children together. Des Forges was also a human rights activist and the world's leading expert on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and its aftermath. She was returning home from London that fateful Thursday night. Her last conversation with her husband was about fearing the flight from Newark to Buffalo in the icy conditions.
She knew that it was going to be a rough ride. Unfortunately, she didn't know it was going to be in a plane which probably shouldn't have been flown in those conditions.
It is the hope of Roger Des Forges that his wife's legacy will live on and others inspired by her work. That may be one of the outcomes of this tragedy, that her moral power will be actually greater in death and it was even in life.
The family of Brian Kuklewicz is also mourning. He leaves behind his wife of 14 years Karen and their twin sons who will be celebrating their ninth birthday on Wednesday without their father. That shooter Walgett native who grew up on Buffalo's east side worked as an engineer for burns cascade. There was also Darren Talsma Lancaster, who was supposed to for a later flight,
he broke the earlier flight
tickets before they even
tells me it was traveling with three co workers from Northrop Grumman. His wife Robin admits he spent more time at work than at home, but his priorities were clear worked
for his kids. They are his pride and joy a
16 year old Nicole and 19 year old Darren know that West Act was an act of love so we can't complete
How will you stay strong.
Being an engineer, my dad was always obsessed with details and he came for everything and he always said you know if anything happened to me, he goes, You're the strong one. You're gonna be the one that's got to you know, put the take the burden on your shoulders.
A burden no child should ever have to bear
it's okay because you prepare to be
fine. Four completely separate lives now bonded together by tragedy. A community praying together love for healing for all
these things in your son's.
There was also Susan Whaley of Amherst. She dedicated much of her life to helping others heal through faith and music. She was the cantor at Temple back down in Williamsville and even recorded a CD called stones of healing and hope. The daughter of Holocaust survivors use her infectious spirit for life to reach out to people of all generations.
She had a tremendous ability to teach. She also had a tremendous love for life a zest for life, one that she shared with everyone she knew. friends
and loved ones remembered Wally during a special service at Temple Beth on on Friday. The impact she made on so many people there and across western New York also lives on tonight. Dawn and Jackie.
Thank you, Melissa and hundreds of Western New Yorkers from all faiths came together this morning to remember the 50 lives last Thursday night as far
as chill arena takes us now to a celebration of life and community in Florence.
For one hour, every one who packed the Eastern Hills Wesleyan Church and Clarence put their differences aside. That great sense today we are all one community, a community searching for one common ground closure. But even for those responsible for today's prayer service like Pastor Carl e slack. There were even times he didn't have an answer. Families need
to go on they need to walk on. I don't know how you do that.
Those words ring especially true for people like Joon Fisher, my daughter, three of them were here for them. Sad thing and I couldn't get over it.
In a hurry. That's for sure.
But Pastor Darius Pridgen says today's example of solidarity will help a great deal
for people to look beyond where someone lives or what his name is or what their background is to get to the point of saying we're all people and the loss of life touches us all,
even if most of whom attended the ceremony never knew those who are no longer with us.
One plane crash 50 lives but not just 50 Lies 50 unique souls
each represented by a rose placed in a vase before the altar by the brave firefighters who responded to the scene where they fell from the sky.
We've seen enough tears and heard enough cries of people to fill our sadness cup for a lifetime. There is not a person aboard that flight 3407 That is not one or two degrees removed from a person that I know
all listings to see God was then we're all victims families, people in the neighborhood even people just watch this tragedy unfold on television. All are feeling a sense of grief.
And the ways of coping with this can vary which is why we have invited Jen Henry for the life transition center of hospice to join us tonight. She's a grief counselor. So Jen, we thank you for joining us and you know, what should people be feeling people who really have no real connection to the tragedy? What are normal feelings?
I think everyone feels deeply about this. We all have experienced some sort of loss in our own lives. This is not unlike 911 other losses that our community and nation has known and so this reminds us that we're all vulnerable. You can't count on life always be the same from one day to the next. And should you acknowledge the feelings that you have that you may be you may be angry even you may be fearful upset,
angry fearful. You may actually not have any feelings being Nam, strange as it may sound is also a response. But any of those irritability, not being able to sleep not eating overeating. All of those--during the call first came in. It was said to be a small plane. And Lisa Flynn was out of the scene. She told us that her sources said maybe 50 people could be dead. And then we found out as we stayed on during the night that Beverly Acker was among those dead and all sudden, you find out at someone you know, and it takes your breath away, and then that's the shock. And then as the time goes on, you really start feeling the pain and the suffering for her family and for all the victims families.
Yes, that's right. So it will change over time. And there's no right or wrong way to feel no right or wrong way to grieve.
I'd like to know what you say to somebody now. I think each one of us in this community knows somebody somehow connected to this tragedy. If you know someone who lost a close loved one or someone they know on this plane, what should you say to them? Maybe you know, nobody knows what to say in these times.
You let them talk. You tell them you don't know how they're feeling. I mean, that's one thing sometimes we say I know exactly how you're feeling. Don't say that. We don't none of us do. You let them talk, share their feelings. And just be open and respectful. And I'm thinking of you I care about you.
That means a lot to for them to know that you really sincerely care about and you're thinking about it, there's nothing you can do that bring the person back. But how does a person know if they're in such deep grief? If they need to seek professional help? What are the signs?
Initially, it's very normal, the things that we've talked about but if these attitudes, outlooks on life and so on, continue for several weeks or several months, then it's time to begin to think about seeking help whether we're there interfering with your life where you're not able to sleep, or you're always irritable. You can't go back to work after a month or so. Then it may be time to see some time needs to pass here before you know if you're really in distress and you need counseling.
Yes, but you can still talk with someone now to help you through the crisis period.
Right. And having said that, we want to remind folks that we have gents co workers. They're a counselor standing by right now. At the life Transition Center. They are available to take your calls. The number is 83664608366460 is the number for counselors that are there right now and they'll be there till eight o'clock.
And if you have young children in your family, stay tuned and the next half hour John will have some important tools for helping them cope as well.
Very important to talk to the kids about this and we'll be talking to you in a little bit. Now. Jim, thank you so much. Hospice is also holding a special seminar to help this community cope with the tragedy of flight 3407. This will take place on Wednesday, coming up this week Wednesday from five to six and the hospice buffalo Education Center. This is located at Como Park Boulevard in Cheektowaga and Horizon Health Services is holding free support groups for the next four Saturdays from 930 to 1030 in the morning, that's at the Boulevard counseling center that's near maple road in the town of Tonawanda. And for more information you can call 8311800. You'll find all this on our website. We'll also repeat it for you a little later in the program.
Well, the only two survivors of this terrible tragedy were on the ground.
Karen Wielinski and her daughter Jill made it out of the burning house alive. Doug Wielinski did not. Here's news fours Lisa Flynn,
I happened to notice a little light on the right of me that tiny bit of light was.
Karen Wielinski's ray of hope she had survived the impact of the plane striking her long street home in Clarence center. Karen told WIVBTV and radio how she got out and then just kind of pushed what was me part of that often crawled out the hole.
Karen's 22 year old daughter Jill was upstairs in the front of the house when the plane hit she to miraculously survived and found an opening and when I got her I mean of course she wanted to know where her dad was. I didn't know and to me, it looks like the plane just came down in the middle of the house. Unfortunately, that's where Douglas Karen's husband
61 year old Doug Welinski did not make it out. Karen says Doug was in the dining room working on his beloved sports memorabilia when the plane hit the woolen skis are well known and declared school district or Karen's a secretary. Doug, an engineer is a Vietnam veteran who frequently came to the school to do lectures on Vietnam was students were always enthralled to hear his lectures. Just a vibrant, good person.
And the Clarence community and the school's Federal Credit Union have set up a fund for the Weilenski family. You can drop off your donations at the credit union office at 9145 Sheridan drive in Clarence or you can mail them to post office box 657 Clarence, New York 14031. Well, we all know that buffalo is a hockey town and Madeline Loftus loved ice hockey. In fact, she was on her way back to Buffalo for a reunion game with her old teammates at Buffalo State is news forest. Joe arena tells us that game went on in her honor, and it will for years to come.
From the opening faceoff to the final handshakes. This game wasn't about scoring goals. It was about a friend
The reunion game from now on will be Maddie's game.
Madeline Lynn Loftus never made it to the game, or had the chance to catch up with her friends and teammates this weekend. She was on flight 3407 Her friends played the reunion game today, but with heavy hearts and say there wasn't a moment Maddie wasn't on their minds, especially during the final minute.
All I could think of really was the final minutes for Maddie. And this is her game and just go as hard as you can because she would be going as hard as she could
Years earlier, while Maddie was still in high school in her hometown of New Jersey. Maddie proved how hard she could go by becoming the only girl on an all boys hockey team.
And whether it was a boys team or a girls team. She was going to succeed too, would have been thoroughly disappointed if we if we hadn't played today. And I think it was great that we got out there and you know, every other shift I mean she popped into my head the entire game and I'm sure everybody else out there too.
Moments after the game the players formed a circle, took a knee and lit 10 candles for Mattie's number. They prayed. They cried. And as a group held on to the little piece of Maddie left in all of them, as their task now is much more difficult than anything they could deal with at the office or on the ice.
All among the victims of the continental crash the entire crew, the flight crew of four and a young pilot who was off duty they all shared a deep love of flying. The crew included Captain Marvin runs low of Lutz, Florida first officer Rebecca Shaw from Maple Valley, Washington and Matilda concerto and Donna Prisco flight attendants from New Jersey. 47 year old Marvin Rennes Lowe, a husband and father from Lutz Florida was the pilot of continental flight 3407 hours after the crash, his pastor spoke up his deep faith.
They want you to know that their faith is that God is sovereign, that God is in control even when it seems everything is out of control.
Next to the captain in the cockpit. 24 year old first officer Rebecca Shaw, who was married. Her family says she had a passion for flying
She experienced loved. She experienced passion she experienced passion in life and in her career. She would walk in and everyone would be in smiles because you just couldn't help yourself because she was always so happy and so smiling and she loved her husband so much flight attendant 52 year old Donna Prisco from Randolph New Jersey had been a stay at home mother of four before she fulfilled her lifelong dream of becoming a flight attendant last June. She trained as a flight attendant with 57 year old Matilda Cantero, a breast cancer survivor who was also realizing her dream later in life.
And when she got her wings she was really excited. She just loved it absolutely loved.
That's the common thread binding the crew of Flight 3407 their family members say each was in the sky that night because flying was a profound passion. Each had worked hard to gain the wings so flight had the privilege of flying whether she was an amazing pilot, absolutely amazingly proud of your family as a family.
And that off duty crew member was Captain Joseph CIPA Leto.
He didn't live here in western New York at the time of the crash but he had strong ties to the area and he too will be sorely missed.
Chautauqua County airport manager Dave sanctuary is mourning the loss of an old friend.
It's just an absolute shame to lose a gentleman's such a gentleman so young in his life and so dedicated to his career.
Captain Joseph Zuffoletto, was a native of San Diego but was based out of the Jamestown Airport last year. Sanctuary says you'd often drop by to chat and check in on the weather and aviation science graduate of Embry Riddle University sanctuary says Zuffoletto, got his pilot's license at 17
You could tell that just from getting him to talk about an airplane and he was just starting to kind of glow.
When Zuffoletto, was reassigned to the Newark Airport, the 27 year old would hop on a plane to see his grandmother in Buffalo.
I understand that he would fly there when he had a short time off rather than trying to get all the way back to his home
Friends of Zuffoletto in the area are working to organize a memorial service for a man who is said to have quote a heart of gold.
Joe is was the epitome of what what you look for in a pilot he he cared deeply about his professionalism. He cared deeply about doing the best job that he ever could do.
And that was news four's Michelle McClintock, Ronald and Linda Davidson are returning to the southern tier after visiting a relative out of town. They dedicated their lives to helping others and as Milo's here says tells us the close knit knit community that they call home will forever be grateful.
Ronald and Linda Davidson, a husband and wife parents of three victims of a flight 3407 tragedy,
great grief for all of us. There's like a hole that I don't know if it'll get filled or not.
Sunday service at the couple's longtime spiritual home, St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Westfield.
In this time of sorrow. Faith is the pillar of strength that is helping family and friends cope.
God take them to your heart and love them.
The Davidson's were returning home on plate 3407 After visiting their daughter,
It was very nice that they had seen all their children just before they left.
Linda was a nurse for 25 years. The Davidsons are remembered for giving back to their community. You see their calling went beyond Sunday services.
Ron was a volunteer in the soup kitchen on those days. Good good. Very funny man. And she would come in once a month. Take the blood pressure to clients in the soup kitchen that would come in and just awful nice people.
On Sunday, a chance for the community to remember and find answers in their beliefs.
To remember is is instead of pulling things apart, it's putting things back together the way they're meant to be a husband and wife, parents, friends.
It's right for us to grieve. We know where they are, but we miss them.
And looking forward to visiting relatives in Toronto a father a mother, their only child and his Aunt board a flight 3407 The four members of the Massop family of Bloomfield, New Jersey had delayed their vacation until they could get time off from work and school. Donald and Dawn Mossap 12 year old Shawn and Dawn's sister Ferris were active church members
They were God fearing loving, caring people. The type you would really want as friends.
Well two other members of the Masa family were supposed to take that flight but they decided to stay behind.
And two other passengers from New Jersey we're heading to Buffalo to share their musical talents with Western New Yorkers.
News Four's Trisha Cruz has their stories tonight.
Coleman Mallette was a 33 year old musician from New Jersey who just released his first CD in 2007. this VHS tape shows Clay Yarborough and a blue shirt back in the 1980s. Back then, he was playing at a coachmen Park concert in Clearwater where he played for power play. He went on to play at the ringside cafe in St. Petersburg with a band called taxi. Ron Reinhardt, a friend and fellow musician says music was Yarborough's Passion.
Clay was an excellent musician. Excellent, good reputation in the area. Some say he focused on music because of his traumatic experience in Vietnam. He was the most macho guy in the world. He was decorated Vietnam War grunt. I mean, he was he saw it all clay. Clay saw it all. And I mean, just there's nothing worse that anyone has seen that clay hasn't seen hadn't seen. And he was wounded couple times. I think he's helicopters crashed a couple times since then. Yarber didn't like flying but he did it anyway, on Thursday. He was one of 49 passengers who died when the commuter plane crashed and Clarence center so he would play said once he said, you know, he said he should be dead. He said he should have died in Vietnam. So everything since then has been gravy.
Reinhart says Yarber didn't worry about the small things after his close calls with death. He became a free spirit who lived through his music his music will now move on.
And the beat goes on. So many stories.
Really? Well. families of the victims were allowed to visit the crash site today for the very first time and after they left some members of the media were also allowed in use for storage records spoke with some of these media witnesses today, GEORGE?
Yeah, very few of even the media have been allowed in as you see the perimeter is still strictly enforced here. Most of us are kept a few blocks away. But here's a perspective from a few who have seen it up close.
I've visited the site on a daily basis. I've seen it transformed from a fireball in its first few minutes to smoldering pile to a coal pile and now the tear down of that pile and the analysis on it. Still to this day. I'm amazed at the compressed area that it's that it's encompassing, it's a very small piece of property. And then to have this huge tail section sticking out of the out of the ground is just it's staggering. It's amazing.
Mostly saw just what looked to be a pile of like dirt and rubble. We heard the word methodical from a lot of the investigators and that is exactly what I saw. They are going literally shovel by shovel. It's absolutely surreal, amazing to see. You know, we keep seeing over and over and over again. This plane hit one home, just one home and to see that. The most amazing part of it all was the steps to the front door still in place still intact, charred and burned, but still in place where they were when this plane went down.
That is the last place you know their loved ones were when they were on Earth. So like I said thinking of myself I understand when significance that location has. Its significant 25 years as a trooper and I've seen a lot of things and investigated a lot of even fatal motor vehicle accidents or things like that tragedies that have occurred that have involved people in you know, the magnitude of this one makes it different and you'll never forget it. My troopers never forget it.
It really does leave an impression on anybody who sees it a different impression for everybody. And again, it's hard to say just what impression or whether it provided much closure at all for the family, but they spent a good hour on site and we could see them from a distance moving by carrying flowers. They threw flowers over a fence as even though there was maybe not much to see any more at least represented the place where their loved ones spent their final seconds.
Well George I think for major Cummings to say that all the years that he's been a state trooper what he's seen that he's never seen anything like this tragedy.
Exactly. And I think the same could be said here in the media. I mean, I've certainly never covered a story that has affected so many people locally like this and you know, I'm sure you could say that, you know the same thing, just the it impacts everybody differently even if you didn't know somebody well, who was on that flight. It's buffalo. Everybody knows somebody who knew somebody on that flight.
George, I want to ask you the NTSB investigator has been talking about they're removing pieces of the plane from the scene and have already removed a good portion of it. Are you seeing any trucks going by or any of that wreckage as it's leaving that area? No, we haven't. I mean, we see construction vehicles moving in and out not often not necessarily trucks that might have a giant covered piece of wreckage, nothing like that. And we have been here all day. It's mostly just standard construction trucks. Of course in the middle of the day they paused all the work for the families, but I think they're really trying to respect the privacy of all of it and covering whatever they take away. We don't see dumpsters, we don't see any open things like that. And while I'm at it the you know, although we're being kept a few blocks away here. Dave Bissonnette at the Emergency Coordinator for Clarence is estimating that by this weekend, possibly all the streets will be opened by this weekend. He says possibly, except for maybe just that one block with the housing question.
But George, you spent all day in Clarence and I was just wondering what's the demeanor of the residents out there? They've been dealing with this since last Thursday night.
They believe it's being handled well. At least the few I talked to made a point of saying how well they think that the authorities are handling this and you know, we weren't treated like we're a nuisance as you know, sometimes you worry about disrupting the privacy of venue. We're right next to houses here, but we have been taken well here. And I've heard no complaints of the way any of this has been run.
All right, George record. We appreciate your observations from the scene tonight.
And as you can imagine, firefighters are among the first to respond to the fiery crash scene. Now
George spoke with a first responder who says the images that he saw Thursday night will be with him for the rest of his life. We had a job to doand we wanted to go and get it done. But volunteer firefighter way. Mahalik says nothing could have prepared him for a site like the crash of Flight 3407 He drove one of the ambulances for the town of Newstead to the scene that night. They quickly learned there were no survivors and when you're trained to help somebody and you can't help them, but like most firefighters, he didn't think twice about going back the next day to help with the recovery efforts. He shared the photos with us that he took from what he calls Ground Zero. Even now almost three days after the crash there is still a perimeter setup, keeping the public and the media a few blocks away from the actual crash scene. That's why Wayne's pictures bring us all that much closer to what most of us haven't seen, like the way the trees are sliced in such a way to almost show the path the plane took on the way down or the landing gear that sticks out from the top of the scene.
There's been those thoughts, you know, why am I doing this? Why do I put myself in this situation? You know, but that's there's more to life than just living it for yourself. I mean, we're all humans were meant to help each other and firefighters are human too.
And John Henry, who is a great therapist from the life Transition Center is here with us again, John, let's talk about those first responders. They gotta be dealing with a lot now they realize if they saw that ball of fire and then what was happening inside?
Absolutely. The concentric circle. I mean, it's like a ripple. Those people that responded initially, all the way out to people just living on the streets. And the neighborhoods in that community and then on out to the larger community and the nation.
So you would expect those first on the scene perhaps to be most affected. Even though you know as we heard major Cummings from the State Police say they see you know, death they see violence on a regular basis, but they've never seen anything like that not to the magnitude of this I mean, something like this that is so unexpected, a plane dropping from the sky. It's just there's no way that people prepare for this. And so it just is very distressing and yet you know, through the years, we've never up until this point, had a commercial aviation disaster in Western New York, but these first responders continue to have drill after drill through the years, and I don't care how many drills you have. I think when you come across the real McCoy, it's like a ton of bricks. This is it. We got a job to do but then you realize the emotional toll of what's going on to the victims. Yeah, and that's going to go away. I mean that I hope people know that. That's going to stay and need attention for months and perhaps years. Yeah, and counseling may very much be in order for some folks here. Now. Let's talk about children. Because they see it on television. They've heard they're hearing about it in school. A lot of them have parents who fly or they have been on airplanes or they even have airplanes flying over their house. How are children to deal with this?
Well, I think the first thing we really ought to talk about his let's let's limit their exposure to some of the stories and some of the discussions. I mean, as this unfolds, it may be quite inappropriate to have them know some of the details that are available. But on the other hand, having said that, it's important that when we do talk to them, we are clear and concise, confident with what we know and what we don't know. And give them accurate information in ways that they can understand.
And I agree with you the news is not for children and for small children. Don't let them sit there and soak it up. But Jen, we want to thank you so much. And we want to remind folks because we've been talking about counseling that we have grief counselor standing by right now. They will be on the phones up until eight o'clock tonight. They're at the life Transition Center. And they are available to take calls at 8366460 Jen we thank you so much. The number again is 8366460.
And on Wednesday, hospice is holding a special seminar to help this community cope with the tragedy of flight 3407. It will take place from five to six at the hospice buffalo Education Center. That's on Como Park Boulevard in Cheektowaga. No one needs to register you can just literally walk in and we'd like to let you know that horizon Health Services is holding free support groups for the next four Saturdays from 930 to 1030. At the boulevard Counseling Center, this is near maple road in the town of Tonawanda. For more information you may call 831 1800. You'll find all of this on our website wiv.com. And as Western New Yorkers work through their grief, federal investigators continue their search for answers. For more on that now we're going to head to Amherst and to our news for investigative reporter Luke Moretti, Luke.
Well, the reality is it could take many months before we know what caused this horrific plane crash. Investigators continue searching for answers. And that includes talking to pilots who were flying in the area that night.
We went on to ask him what I seen they experienced what flight conditions they experience and so forth. So we're putting out these questionnaires. We're putting them dispatchers we're gonna go out and start doing interviews of the accident dispatcher and and other folks involved with this. And this is again a process it's going to take place over the next several weeks.
Now as investigators tried to put together the pieces of the puzzle, they're looking at a lot of different factors and that includes icing. 53407 stripped a buffalo appears to be uneventful until its final 26 seconds we now know that 11 minutes after takeoff from Newark, the pilot in control turned down the aircraft's de icing system he left he left it on the remainder of the flight this is a very sophisticated de icing system on the Q 400. And he had an audit properly and it was working properly that as far as we can you know determine when the crew left new work. The weather was late to moderate icing in the Buffalo area. The visibility was three miles with snow in light mist.
It was really not a bad weather day and they chose to launch but recordings analyzed by investigators indicate the crew had commented about significant ice buildup on the planes windshield and wings. We know the plane was on autopilot, but was turned off when the plane stall prevention system kicked in. At that point, a terrifying sequence of events begins to unfold is the aircraft gyrates wildly in roll to the left 46 degrees now and then a roll back to the right 105 degrees.
Investigators say the turboprop planes rapidly falling 800 feet in five seconds. The pole inside the cabin was twice the force of gravity. As for how icing on the wings and windshield affected the pilots ability to control it in the final minutes is still unclear. However the NTSB recommends that the autopilot be disengaged in icing conditions so that you have the manual feel for what might be changing in your flight regime. Because of the ice.
But the FAA which regulates aviation has not yet made that recommendation a hard fast rule to say that they should not have been flying on autopilot is not correct. I mean, it's up to the airlines it's up to the FAA it has not been changed, you know become a rule yet. That you will disengage the autopilot. The NTSB
Steve ... says several airlines have changed their procedures when it comes to isin. What does the manufacturer of this particular aircraft say about that?
The only restriction that they see the manufacturer of this airplane and that they write about is that disengage the autopilot in severe icing conditions, but severe icing is something investigators haven't found yet based on pilot reports from other airplanes. Now investigators are hoping to be finished at the crash site in clearance by Wednesday afternoon. They're hoping to get done before a big storm moves into the area but they say they'll stay as long as they have to. And once again a final determination on this won't be known for many months to come. We're live in Amherst tonight Luke Moretti news for all right thank you, Luke. And one way or another this tragedy has had an impact on every person who calls western New York home that is so true. If you would like to send your condolences to the victims families, you can do so on our website wiv.com. You'll also find more information there about support groups and other places where you can turn for help dealing with such devastation.
And we want to thank you for joining us tonight as we remember the 50 extraordinary people who have touched so many lives. We're going to leave you now with the angelic sounds of the Clarence Senior High School chorus and the lasting images of a tragedy that has united this community and changed so many lives.
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Four days after a plane crashed in the Buffalo suburb of Clarence, New York, claiming the lives of all forty-nine people on board and a man on the ground, WIVB-TV- Channel 4 presented a one hour special honoring the memory of those who perished.
“4 The Families” included eulogies from relatives and friends and the latest details on the crash investigation.
Colgan Air Flight 3407 was on its way from Newark, New Jersey to the Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Colgan Air was a regional company servicing Continental Airlines.
Shortly before the crash, the crew had reported a buildup of ice on the aircraft's wings and windshield. The Bombardier Q400 two-engine turbo-prop failed to recover from a stall and crashed into a house on Long Street in Clarence Center. Three people were in the house. A mother and her daughter were able to escape. The father did not survive. The accident occurred at 10:17 pm, about five miles from the Buffalo airport.
An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board would later attribute the crash to pilot error. Instead of pointing the nose of the plane downward and applying full power, the proper reaction to an aerodynamic stall, Captain Marvin Renslow pulled back on the control column pointing the nose upward causing the plane to pitch and roll. It quickly lost altitude and crashed.
Among those killed in the crash were Allison Des Forges, a human rights investigator and an expert on the Rwandan genocide, Beverly Eckert, named co-chair of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee after her husband was killed in the September 11 attacks, Susan Wehle, the first American female Jewish Renewal cantor, and jazz musicians Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett, who were en route to a concert with Chuck Mangione and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Hello, I'm Richard Newberg. It's good to be with you again. You know, after covering us in western New York for close to four decades, I think I can be sure of at least one thing. Buffalo has a compelling story to tell. Why? Because of the resilience of our people. And because of our incredible place in history, that we lost buffalo more than I could sell buffalo to anybody anywhere. I'm here to report now that the buffalo story is being told, as it's never been told before.
The birth of the civil rights movement. I began in the 1960s, It began here in Niagara about 100 years ago.
The place where the movement for Environmental Justice found his voice
Scream and holler and be heard.
The gateway to the West that once fueled the nation's economy, and now gives new life to the place where it all started.
I've been here 50 years. It's the first time that people are optimistic.
The Buffalo story comes to life when viewed through the lens of local television news. That cameras have been rolling for three quarters of a century. But there is a problem. We are in danger of actually losing this living chronicle of our history. The reels of news film, and the 1000s of videotapes that hold the images of our story are deteriorating.
This is really the beginning of discovery for us. You've invented a giant time capsule. For all intents and purposes. WIVB was the first station to work with the buffalo Broadcasters Association and efforts to rescue our moving image history and make it available to new generations so they can learn some valuable lessons from our past
What is going to happen to 15 percent unemployment in general area?
We are video archive where the video Memory Keepers. Nobody else has that and if we don't do something about it, it's lost.
Other stations have now joined the mission. It is a massive effort that keeps our history alive. My hope is that you will see the value and all of this as we've used some of the big stories out of buffalo in western New York that made a difference.
For now, perhaps more than ever, our resilience is being put to the test as we emerge from the global pandemic and confront the social issues that have been tearing us apart. It may very well be the lessons of the Buffalo story that bring us all together again.
We know that we're oppressed. We know that this is a system that oppresses us
As an African American, individual, black female, I do understand why some protesters may feel that they're still or we, as black people are still oppressed because to some extent, we are
We Shall overcome some day..
And professionally I think the Buffalo Police Department has done a great job with working with the community trying to hear the voice of the community. I know the mayor has appointed a commission to examine police policies.
We honor your right to protest and we will protect your right to protest but there is no place for agitators who are trying to incite violence and create mischief in our community.
Frustrations over racial injustice and excessive use of force by the police have played out violently on Buffalo streets before. And it is because we have these moving images. This incredible window to the past that we are able to question just how far we've come during the past half century
While I was growing up. The police officer was the enemy of the occupying force.
After witnessing the beating of an innocent black youth in Buffalo during a rock throwing incident in the late 60s, John Eberhard decided to take the police exam as an act of self defense
I joined the police department to protect myself from the police
More than 20 years after the riots of the 60s, Buffalo citizens were still demonstrating against alleged police brutality aimed at people of color
On my face was South Africa, United States or my face was South Africa and what's going on all over the world.
Just about two weeks after the hearing in Buffalo, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa visited the Queen City asking for support in his fight against the official separation of the races in his country. And we say something that can allow such things to happen. is easy.
And he spoke against those who advocate for violence to achieve their goal of white supremacy.
You know what's happened in your own country, to people who have been involved in the Civil Rights Movement. What's happened to people like Martin Luther King Jr.
Archbishop Tutu his visit also put the spotlight on Buffalo's marginalized inner city where civil rights leaders were worried about a permanent underclass of citizens due to institutional racism.
Racism is still alive and well, but the problem has mushroomed considerably, much larger than it was in 1968 for our community.
This Buffalo rally against racism in January of 1981 drew national attention about 500 demonstrators confronted white supremacists who threatened to disrupt the city. Only two white supremacists showed up.
We put him down, we put the Nazis and the klan down. We have a first round
It was a time when 1000s of people from all backgrounds united together in Buffalo, another time of crisis when black men were being gunned down by Joseph Christopher, the so called 22 caliber killer who is still at large. The statement behind the rally was profound.
That violence against any one segment of the population is violence against all.
While trying to drink from a whites only water fountain during a trip down south Don Dawkins was yanked away by his fearful mother when he was just a child. He became a TV news photographer at WIVB and was determined to use his skills in Buffalo to confront the reality of racism. Dawn passed away in 2007, but was successful in highlighting the lives of African Americans in Buffalo who made great contributions to the civil rights movement.
A lot of these stories emanating from predominantly communities of color were negative. And so don wanted to share positive stories he used to tell me we've done some we've done good stuff, but it's stories aren't told.
Dawkins created a series of Black History specials, even making cameo appearances as an enslaved man seeking refuge in what was the Michigan Street Baptist Church built by African Americans in Buffalo?
The church's hidden treasure that these school children are about to discover is beyond a wall in the basement. A dark damp, chilling glimpse into the past a sanctuary within a sanctuary away from the gaze of bounty hunters. That was a false wall that you could move and push them in there and then move the wall
Black young people do not know where they came from. If I don't know where I came from. Well my god..
thanks to WIVBS willingness to make these stories available to students. Buffalo school children are learning where they came from, and about those giants of the civil rights movement, present and past who made history in Western New York.
History is coming alive in a way that no textbook could express.
I'm looking for this woman.
I want you to think of a character trait that you might be able to describe Harriet and all her accomplishments
She really cared and was confident of risking her life after even if there was after
her.
Maybe a little hard for her because she had to weed all one people out of the slavery and she didn't want to get caught by boundary.
They are even learning that some of Harriet Tubman descendants settled in Buffalo
Growing up. The only people who really knew about Harriet Tubman was her family
..That we live in a place where such as mark of history, what was
They are particularly intrigued by the story of Arthur Eve, as they watch W IVB News Highlights of his life
..That people of goodwill will vote for candidate regardless of race color upgrade.
The fierce advocate for civil rights to become Buffalo's first African American having served as New York deputy assembly speaker and negotiate who tries to avoid bloodshed during the Attica prison uprising of 1971.
He did not succeed in those efforts, but never gave up the fight for racial justice and equality. What kind of character traits might you say that Mr. Eve portrays?
He was determined to end segregation and, and the other one that was that he was a leader because he led the civil rights movement.
So imagine their excitement when they actually met a living legend of the civil rights movement, who also happens to be their school's namesake. They will never forget these observations from our theory, after he looked into their faces, to see hope. Hope.
Absolutely.
We will get
No question in my mind that we keep working hard, we will succeed.
People who cannot remember their past are condemned to repeat it. We're not going back that way. We did.
This defining moment. Change has come to America. This is history.
No words in describing this journey. You don't know the feeling that I have at this moment and being a part of this from the very beginning and being here tonight to know that the next president of these United States will be rock Obama, the first African American I want to be remembered as a caregiver as a wise old man full of love and hospitality.
Julie was stillborn. My child may be a direct result to the chemicals. Please don't allow this to happen anyone else before you get them out?
Scream and holler and be heard
This is what Love Canal looks like today. A vast and desolate fenced in the area. Those of us who covered the Love Canal disaster for our western New York television viewers knew the story would have a ripple effect because of what it revealed about toxic contamination. It became what prosecutors called a national symbol for corporate irresponsibility. Long before TV news cameras were around an entrepreneur named William love broke ground for a canal in 1894. It was about seven miles from Niagara Falls. He planned to divert one from the mighty Niagara River to help power a modern industrial city that he and his investors hope to create. The project never happened. The giant ditch that Mr. Love created just became a dumping ground for 20,000 tons of toxic chemical waste from the auto chemical and plastics Corporation and the US military. In 1953, hooker sold the property to the Niagara Falls School District for $1. homes and schools were built on the site of that toxic burial ground. And then chemicals began surfacing into people's homes and the property around them and there was a terrible human price to be paid. I lost me what was even one an extraordinary has stillborn. Her son is sick this person's child is sick. How many kids have to be sick how many buckets have to die? We're not going to let it happen.
Michael Brown, a rookie reporter for the Niagara Gazette wrote his story after going door to door in the Love Canal neighborhood in 1978.
In case after case, door after door house after house I you know people were telling me litany of different problems whether it's was miscarriages or or, or cancers that they thought were peculiar. So this became a journalistic obsession of mine.
Like when you started talking about 99th grade elementary school is when it clicked for me because my son who was perfectly healthy is one years old when we moved into our Love Canal home. Since the time we moved there, kept getting sicker and sicker and sicker.
What do you do for my kid? What are you gonna do?
A leader of the homeowners emerge. Lois skins
I can't see anything going on in the state of New York it is more important that these people lie.
The state of New York initially announced it would evacuate only pregnant women and children under two who lived closest to the dumpsite. What do you do? I got my three year old back to back now.
When Niagara County lawmakers would not support the relocation of residence. Lewis Gibbs lashed out as our cameras were rolling .
The media especially television is so important that it is the platform the bully pulpit, if you will, in which you can not only get your message out, but you can also provide the pressure on those who need to be pressured to do the right thing.
The discovery of dioxins one of the most lethal chemicals ever created by humans and us to defoliate the jungles of Vietnam during the war, raised fears to a new level. The United States only knew what was in that canal and still they let their children go to that school. They let citizens build homes over here if I remember being in the White House, where the army came in full dress and said no sir, we did not dump there. And they lied to the White House representatives that was fascinating to me was the fact that when they dropped the drum in there and they would open up it was like a machine that you know you know the flames fire everything went to near
I said this created a fantastic uproar and a lot more national publicity.
On October 4 1979, actress and activist Jane Fonda and husband Tom hay, paid a visit to the Love Canal neighbor to lend their support.
This is a tragedy of such immense human proportions that it's very difficult to tell talk. We've had a short bus ride where we have an opportunity to talk to some of the people in some detail about what they've gone through the children they've lost the miscarriages, the husbands, they've lost their lives in the torment.. it's unbelievable. Because it happens in America today.
Jane Fonda coming brought that media attention in which we could say President Carter you got to do the right thing. With buffalo television news cameras rolling. Lois Gibbs made it clear that Love Canal residents were making their case directly to the White House.
You have to keep the pressure on President Carter. We have to create more pressure than the Cubans coming in on Florida. Then the fall people and I found it. They demanded a federal buyer of their homes.
I'm 65 years old almost. I'm sick and tired of being a yo yo Oh this way. That way. Oh the other way. Why don't you get a hold on where you're pulling me down the road. All I want. I want I don't want to be relocated. All I want is my 28 Five and give it to me tonight and road and I'll never look back at the Love Canal again.
May 16 1980 Rare chromosomal damage is found in a sampling of Love Canal residents.
We found two particular characteristics in this study, which are ominous
I just want to get my kids away from your work in the factories out in the first year or maybe they can have a decent life. I don't know. My son's probably already permanently damaged.
That was the straw that broke the camel's back.
The fact that we now know that the chemicals are in the home that they got into the people and they caused chromosome damage in the people indicates that miscarriages and the birth defects and cancer is a result of living in this neighborhood.
We have got abnormalities in our chromosomes and we've known it all along that on our street alone. There has been already eight cases of cancer on a 15 How street may 19 1982. EPA officials are held hostage for six hours if we do not have a disaster declaration Wednesday by now then what they have seen here today is just a Sesame Street picnic.
Two days later, President Jimmy Carter declared the Love Canal neighborhood a national emergency and agreed to evacuate all Love Canal families and on October 1 1980, President Carter came to Niagara Falls to announce that all the Love Canal families who wish to leave their homes would be provided the money to permanently relocate.
There's really no way to make adequate restitution for that kind of suffering. But this agreement will at least give the founders of the area some 750 of them the financial freedom to pack up and leave if they choose to do so.
The President singled out the woman he called the grassroots leader of the Love Canal residents lowest good for special recognition without her impassioned advocacy and dedication. There might have never been a love for now emergency declaration and this agreement might never have come to pass. There must never be in our country. Another Love Canal. Our Love Canal. Mr. President, what can I say?
New York we love you today.
When people are right in people peacefully demonstrate and speak truth to power. That's how democracy works. And then we got what we need. I believe that every American has a fundamental right to breathe clean air and clean water. I know that we haven't fulfilled that. fulfilling this basic obligation all Americans especially low income, white, black, brown and Native American communities. It's not going to be easy but it's absolutely necessary.
Fandemonium?
It's phenomenal It's pandemonium. It's fantastic. All those things that we will take our grave with us is the times that stripping our heart going to the Super Bowl I'm gonna see my Bills
Jackie Walker covered all four consecutive Super Bowls for the fans back home.
And I was able to bring the viewers the excitement, the experience, the sights, the smells. The stories of people who have to the car without a ticket and just drove to the Super Bowl city. fire the shot heard
round the world now on the way
Though the bills came up short each time as painful as it was, the fans show great pride and unwavering support for the team. I cried after that feel that message later. This treasured piece of video history. illustrating the undying dedication of the NFL is greatest fans was resurrected when the bills made another run for the Super Bowl in 2020.
Intercepted by Derek Johnson and he breaks it out and is still on the run. He may go all the way he's in the Baltimore 40 to 30 gets a block at the 25.
It time to put history into perspective. The moving images from three decades ago had to be rescued from the tape archives before they were lost forever. videotapes have a limited shelf life and their contents must be digitally saved in order to survive.
It is crashing if you want to tell a story. And you can't find that historical footage. The record on buffalo is a gateway for the product of the entire Great Lakes region which are sent to the eastern part of the United States.
This 1948 documentary was rescued from the central library in Buffalo. It gives us a glimpse into our post war status as an industrial powerhouse of buffalo provide part of the steel which is a basic material for our country's industries. At its peak, Bethlehem Steel employed 22,000 workers.
By 1962 This plant was pumping out six and a half million tons of steel. My first big assignment was to do a story on the history of Bethlehem Steel, and what it meant to Buffalo. It was part of the DNA of buffalo
but the plant that put generations of Western New Yorkers to work suffered catastrophic layoffs in the summer of 1977 3500 jobs
..will be eliminated at Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna
Plant profits had plummeted, and Lackawanna became a city of rusted dreams, two days after Christmas 1982 Bethlehem Steel announced it would stop making steel in Lackawanna. This is a sad day for the Lackawanna plant. And for the people who have worked here what has happened to the one strong industrial base here in Western New York.
And the question most steel workers are asking tonight, what will happen to me it's hard to believe when they told me I wouldn't I wouldn't stake my life on it that they wouldn't do it.
What are your feelings say You know, you only got a few more days to go.
I feel bad about it. Take my livelihood. If you didn't live through it, never understand the impact that the closure of the steel mills and other types of blue collar industries had on this community and created a psychological impact that it took decades for this community to get on.
A billboard reading well the last worker out of Western New York, please turn out the light came to symbolize a region in serious economic decline.
It would be years before buffalo turned to its greatest resource for three birth, the waterfront, rebuilding the Inner Harbor based on the theme of the legendary Erie Canal which once served as the nation's gateway to the West.
This incredible rebranding of Buffalo, based on its storied waterfront history was recorded in its entirety and featured in WI VB documentaries, which are now available to the public through the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library website. We are approaching the 200 year anniversary of the Erie Canal in 2025.
What really makes us special is our water and our access to the water and formed us. We lost access to it during the industrial period. We're finding it again.
And as we rediscover the history of one of the world's toughest and most colorful waterfronts were the Erie Canal hooked up with Lake Erie. We are learning more about the men who scooped grain out of the giant freighters. The late Mayor Jimmy Griffin was one of them.
You had to dust and the dust was tough but we were talking about you had to wear the mask. It's tough breathing with the mask. Well we go to lunch we go to a gym and most of the time and we get so we used to say don't wild a dust or Washington dust. You know, the more we know our history, the better citizens we're going to be because we're going to care more. So that's where we get these teachable moments.
They can be iconic moments like this at a precise turning point in our own local history. One generation built the Erie Canal. Another generation buried it in a new generation. This generation. Read Now Kate's this project to the future of buffalo in Western New York.
Hello, Buffalo I met as you may remember me as televisions is no nonsense news director Luke grant. If you think about it, journalists provide us with our first draft of history. Right here in Buffalo, more than 15 years of TV news coverage is being brought back to life.
Local stations are working with the Buffalo Broadcasters Association to bring back the stories that helped define the Niagara Frontier.
The fast lane neighborhood drifts reached to the rooftops it's called the archive project. And I supported with all my heart Sophie. can teach it can illuminate even a challenging time. Today is our way of thanking our heroes from Western New York. For the service they dedicated their lifestyles to protect us serve our country. keep our country free.
I can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those.
Remember, those are not here. That's a while remember most otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.
As the Buffalo Broadcasters Association moves forward, trying to rescue our local TV news, film and videotape before it's too late. A bigger picture emerges of decades of local television coverage that would have made Morrow proud.
Terrorists can destroy steel in concrete, but they cannot destroy our spirit. Buffalo televisions extraordinary potential to teach, illuminate and inspire stems in part from the depth of coverage of its news teams.
We knew that staying home just wasn't an option. group of us felt we had to go there and we had to go there now. So we got there as quick as we possibly could.
From the buffalo response to 911 To the families who lost loved ones in a plane crash in clouds and worked so hard to strengthen FAA regulations...
We chased the buffalo story wherever it took us, including the Persian Gulf, covering our Air Force reservists out of Niagara Falls as they prepare for the first Gulf War.
We have the best the best mission liability record in the Middle East for all the C 130s. There are over here.
There was one mission in western New York that simply could not fail finding a way to pump 600,000 gallons of high level radioactive waste at West Valley out of underground holding tanks with a limited shelf life. West Valley is about 30 miles south of Buffalo and the health and safety of everyone in the region was at stake, some 600,000 gallons of lethally radioactive liquid waste that must be disposed of a biotechnology that has never been developed.
The mission was successful. Scientists and engineers found a way to turn the dangerous liquid waste into a glass like solid for safer storage. Environmental activists were able to stop more nuclear waste from coming into what had become a radioactive waste dump site.
You got to stop this madness that's going on in our town.
We will go to the courts. We will go to Congress not just once but over and over and over
Will the latest weapon in the war against cancer bring hope to patients for whom other treatments fail the story tonight on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
In this footage rescued from the archives, the nation learned about the breakthrough cancer therapy developed by Buffalo researcher Dr. Thomas Doherty. We made the journey to China and Japan with him as he shared his method for shrinking tumors we can
It would ultimately destroy the cancer and not irreversibly harm the normal tissue either around it or nearby.
That same year, we covered Holocaust survivors from Buffalo joining 1000s of fellow survivors and their loved ones at a historic gathering in the nation's capitol.
A year later, Tibor Baranski of Buffalo was honored as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. He helped save 1000s of Jewish lives while working with Christian groups in Hungary during the Holocaust.
Evil is not all powerful, it is possible to break it for one human being to stand up is broken.
We were horrified to learn that a western New Yorker Timothy McVeigh was the Oklahoma City bomber, who blew up the Murray Federal Building, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more.
Every where you went. in Oklahoma City. There was someone standing on a street corner weeping, weeping.
What they were going through was pure hell.
Former web news photographer Tom Vetter, covered the story in Oklahoma City with Jackie Walker and gotten to know Tim McVeigh's father Bill,
All the sudden he's thrust into the international spotlight as having a son as a terrorist. And he used to say to us all the time, to me, he's just Timmy he's my son. That's probably think about when he was a kid.
Timothy paid for his crime with his life and how shocking was it to learn that six young Yemeni Americans from Lackawanna were charged with providing material support to al Qaeda after attending terrorist training camp in Afghanistan, broken down kind of sales in lumber, Milan, Madrid, London Paris, as well as Buffalo, New York.
We covered the efforts to free Terry Anderson, a journalist from Batavia, who was taken hostage in Lebanon.
Tears in her eyes, she rushed forward to embrace her brother, His sister Peggy they say worked tirelessly for his release. The State Department has been ... that Cynthia Dwyer is being held captive in
Iran. And we reported on the Odyssey of Cynthia Dwyer of Buffalo when she was taken hostage in Iran and falsely accused of being a spy.
Revolutionary Guard in Tehran today tried on espionage charges. 49 year old Cynthia Dwyer, freelance writer from Buffalo, New York.
The first thing I did when I got here. It's just my wife. Because we are from Baltimore. And we talk about
whenever there was a big story in the world. We used to say I bet there's a Buffalo connection and more times than not there seem to be some weird, unique connection to Buffalo.
But perhaps there is no connection more compelling than the story of Anne Odre, the Buffalo woman who was shot along with Pope John Paul the second during an attempt on the Pope's life, the bullet went through the Pope's intestine that bullet then went through Anne Odre's chest.
Don Postles was on a plane to Rome that night, and interviewed and Odre at her hospital bedside.
Anne Odre says Tom Postle's -- someone from Buffalo cares about me. I am surrounded by these doctors and nurses. No one speaks English. I have been wounded. The Pope felt very badly that she had to suffer pain for a bullet that was intended for him. The two became very, very good friends.
John Paul, the second would invite Buffalo News teams and delegations for private audiences with him throughout his reign as Pope
We had just covered solidarity struggle for freedom in Poland and met up with lekhpal Windsor, who would later become Poland's president. Pope John Paul. The second is ties to the western New York Polish community dated back to his days as a cardinal that ties ran so deep that Western New Yorkers had a front row seat to his installation. Channel Four retired photographer Mike Pompeo a senior just days before he turned 100 years old. remembers that moment, like it was yesterday.
And I was lucky enough to be about three or four feet away from him for 20 minutes or so. I recognized that this was history that I was fortunate enough to have the privilege of being a part of that.
Mike Burnbrae senior son Mike Jr. would cover the Pope's return to Poland in 1999 where he again singled out Western New Yorkers for special blessings.
You know, having this archival footage available to the public when they read about John Paul the second or study him in school or just have an interest in the man. If that archive is preserved, they could easily access it and see it from a perspective of a Buffalo audience.
The people in Buffalo are genuine. The history is captivating, and there is a passion to preserve that history for all time and all future generations.
A time when Buffalo was bested by a blizzard.
The Buffalo broadcasters archive project has gotten the attention of the nation's top Moving Image Archivists. For years they have been trying to convince the local television stations to share their archival collections with the communities they serve.
The stories that we tell about the country about the world start at the local level, start at the regional level and seeing all of those pieces come together help us build that big picture.
Buffalo teachers are now viewing a small portion of the restored collection, including a special showcase on the role western New York played in the civil rights movement. So they can build lesson players based on real life events as they unfold as a teaching tool. It's fantastic that has a direct connection to our actual curriculum and content.
Not only globally but locally in Buffalo buildings are looking at history from primary sources, firsthand sources nothing's greater than a lot of videos that we have seen here.
This is being done for the entire community and future generations. And anybody who can click a button and open a whole new world of buffalo history.
The Buffalo story much like the story of our nation is filled with great expectations, great sacrifices, major defeats and major victories. As broadcast journalists who witnessed many of these extraordinary events. We can now share this living chronicle of buffalo history. Perhaps these teachable moments will help new generations chart new paths to future success. To quote the late Bishop William Henderson. If I don't know where I came from, where I'm going
I'm Rich Newburg thank you for joining us as we continue on this historic journey
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“The Buffalo Story: History Happens Here” aired on June 7, 2021 as a local primetime special on WIVB-TV. The documentary features major events covered by the station’s news department and illustrates the contributions of Buffalo’s broadcast journalists and the value of local television news archives and their potential to inform, educate and uplift the communities they represent.
The two major segments in the first half of the program deal with the pursuit of racial and environmental justice in the Buffalo-Niagara region. Buffalo’s legendary role in the civil rights movement and the notorious Love Canal disaster are revisited through key archival news and documentary footage.
The second half features Buffalo’s prominence as a television market for news and its ties to many historic developments and events of national and international significance. Examples include the terminus of the Erie Canal, the Buffalo woman shot along with Pope John Paul II during an assassination attempt, and the four consecutive Super Bowl appearances by the Buffalo Bills in the 1990s.
The one hour program highlights efforts by the Buffalo Broadcasters Association (BBA) to preserve the images on early news film and videotape before they deteriorate and are lost forever. It is written and hosted by WIVB-TV’s retired senior correspondent Rich Newberg. He was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the BBA’s Archive Project sixteen years earlier.
Newberg’s fellow producer and editor Tom Vetter also worked at WIVB-TV as a news photographer. Newberg and Vetter created the station’s documentary unit in 1999. Some segments of their New York Emmy Award winning pieces appear in this documentary.
Veteran WIVB anchor Jacquie Walker co-produced the program along with WIVB graphic arts director Kurt Murphy.
“The Buffalo Story: History Happens Here” is more than just a history lesson or a tribute to the local broadcast journalists who provided an extraordinary chronicle of life-changing events. It is a call to action to preserve the news footage that helped define a region and in some cases, a nation.
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Murphy, Kurt (Co-producer, Graphic Arts Director)
Holland, Dan (Contributing Photographer)
Mombrea, Mike Jr. (Interviewee, Documentarian)
Ziemer, Heidi (Consulting Archivist)
Mombrea, John (Digital Archivist)
Terranova, Michael (Digital Archivist)
Newberg, David (Logo Designer)
Dworsky, Molly (Logo Designer)
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2021-06-07
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Television Broadcasting of news--New York (State)--Buffalo--History.
Television Journalists--New York (State)--Buffalo--History.
Social Justice--United States.
Black lives matter movement.
Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)--History
Radioactive waste disposal--New York (State)--West Valley.
Buffalo Bills (Football team)--History.
McVeigh, Timothy.
Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995.
John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005.
Waterfronts--New York (State)--Buffalo.
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Rich Newberg Reports Collection
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Moments In Time Video, Inc. & TVRE Productions, Inc.
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
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Access to this digital version provided by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Videos or images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of Rich Newberg, Tom Vetter, WIVB-TV and the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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1970-2020
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This collection of long-form reports by retired WIVB-TV Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg covers a wide range of social issues, Buffalo history and the arts. Mr. Newberg retired from the Buffalo CBS network affiliate at the end of 2015, after serving the station for thirty-seven years in various roles including main anchor, reporter and documentarian. <br /><br />His New York Emmy Award winning pieces explore the abortion debate, care of the mentally ill, the African American struggle for civil rights, and the lessons of the Holocaust, among many topics. His video memoir, “One Reporter’s Journey, “ reflects on his forty-six year career, beginning as an advocate for those without a voice. <br /><br />"My hope," says Newberg, “is that this collection will provide a lasting chronicle of life and issues in Buffalo during the latter part of the 20th century and into the new millennium."
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The Colored Musicians Club
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A select group of Buffalo’s most gifted African American musicians reflect on the era when the Colored Musicians Club hosted the nation's greatest jazz artists. Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis were among those who came to the club after their concerts and jammed with Buffalo musicians “until the sun came up.” The musical ties were strong. Buffalo musicians were sometimes invited to join the jazz greats on the road.
The club was organized in 1918 and chartered in 1935. The building on Broadway and Michigan Avenue was purchased in 1944. It provided rehearsal space and social opportunities for Buffalo’s Black musicians who belonged to Local 533 of the American Federation of Musicians. Club members recall being denied entry into the white musicians union, Local 43. The two locals merged in 1969 but the Colored Musicians Club is still thriving. The building now features an interactive museum and is scheduled to undergo a multi-million dollar renovation and expansion.
The first video is a compilation of segments by Rich Newberg, drawn from the 2003 WIVB-TV documentary, “Buffalo Soul: The Legacy Plays On.” The second piece is a WIVB-TV report by Jordan Williams marking the 80th anniversary of the Colored Musician’s Club. It aired on July 24, 2015.
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Mombrea, John (Post-production Editor)
Baxter, Tim (Post-production Editor)
Dady, Kelly (Director)
Clemons, Michael (Tape Operator)
Benzel, Gary (Tape Operator)
Young, Matt (Audio Engineer)
Dawkins, Don (Researcher)
Newberg, Rich (Researcher)
Vetter, Tom (Researcher)
Hairston, Mylous (Researcher)
Musial, Chris (Researcher)
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2003-01-28
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Colored Musicians Club (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Jazz--New York (State)--Buffalo--History and criticism
African Americans--New York (State)--Buffalo
Tinney, Al.
African Americans--New York (State)--Buffalo--Social conditions
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Rich Newberg Reports Collection
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WIVB (Television Station : Buffalo, N.Y.)
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Buffalo Soul: The Legacy Plays On
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Everyone has a story to tell about nine eleven. Tonight, senior correspondent Rich
Newberg has the tale of miracle of survival from the World Trade Center and a twist of fate that brought two Western New Yorkers together. When the first plane hit tower one, Sheri Leach of Buffalo was on the Seventy-eighth floor. She had come to New York City for a sales meeting. The wing of the plane made contact with her floor.
Where the plane had hit the fire had come around the building and just start coming towards our window.
Thoughts of her baby boy and husband filled her mind. She had to get out.
People were –people were burned.
Sheri hurried down 78 flights of stairs and held back her panic.
I would cry to the side so the people I was with couldn’t see me because I wanted to try to keep things together.
Sheri Leach has two reminders of her brush with death on September 11th. This piece of Tower One and her wallet which fell 78 stories when the tower collapsed. The wallet was discovered six days later in an almost unbelievable twist of fate. At ground zero, an environmental specialist from Buffalo assisting top federal emergency personnel noticed the wallet including a picture of Sheri’s son and her driver’s license among other things. He tracked her down and today met her face to face for the first time.
Uh it’s nice to see you alive.
Sherman had been overwhelmed by the destruction his first night at Ground Zero but then the discovery of the wallet.
Here was a connection to –to Buffalo, so for e it was very emotional and it took a few days to readjust to that.
He didn’t know whether Sheri Leach was dead or alive but finally made phone contact and remembers her first words. It’s me. I’m alive and all I remember was I-I was just started crying and it was very emotional for me.
The wallet will be the key to many stories yet to be told to Sheri’s son.
I want him to know how it’s important to have family and that’s what drove me out of that building. My son- we drove out of my building knowing to see my son and my husband and my parents again. That was it.
Rich Newberg, News Four at Six.
When New York Coty was attacked on September 11th, Volunteers from Buffalo were quick to respond. In tonight’s special report, senior correspondent rich Newberg and photographer Mike Mombre take us to Ground Zero now five months later to find Western New Yorkers still at work.
How do you mend a hole at the heart of a city? How do you pay homage to 3000 innocent lives suddenly snuffed out? Every day, workers are lowered into the pit where bodies have yet to be recovered. American flags are everywhere. People are working together for a common cause but scars for some run so deep that they can see nothing good ever coming out of this disaster.
For me at this point to say that anything good can come of this that I can see anything good coming out of this. It’s a – that’s a long way away. I thought this couldn’t be even be the United State. It looked like a war zone.
Barbara Janicki knows how difficult it is. The Salvation Army worker from Buffalo was here in September and has come back again. You have a-a bond. It’s a bond that nobody understands unless they’re here. It’s a special bond. At the huge white tent called the bubble workers take a break for food and drink. Sometimes a little counseling.
They constantly meet to be encouraged to know someone cares about them, to know there’s something spiritual here who can take care of their spiritual needs. Volunteers from Buffalo were there from the very beginning giving help and encouragement in many different ways. Helping to rebuild lives and property. That Century 21 Store right on the edge of disaster is making a comeback and a Western New Yorker is right in the middle of making it happen.
How you doing? Ron Papa’s National Fire Adjustment Company based in Buffalo had to appraise damages in the tens of millions of dollars. He could barely make his way through the cement dust back in September. It was just everywhere. It was a – it was a white powder that was just everywhere and we were here maybe a half hour or an hour. We had a real problem breathing. The only problem now is meeting tomorrow’s grand opening deadline but Century 21 is coming back. I think it’s just done giving a message to everybody that we are not, not going to put it, We’re not going to take it. That’s all and the people, people in New York and- and all over the world could see that nobody’s going to kick us around.
From a-top Century 21, Ron Papa has gotten the big picture of the task below while helping the Department Sore secure enough money to get back in business. He too says it all makes a statement to the world.
If there’s any city or any nation that’s going to be able to do it, it’s going to be ere and it’s going to –
The grand re-opening of Century 21 will be carried by TV stations all over the world. It was the biggest and the closest business to ground zero and Ron Papa of Buffalo is credited by the store owners with helping the business get back to its feet.
Well those are some amazing pictures there and you have more coming up at six now. I walk with the governor around Ground Zero and he hasn’t forgotten our needs in this neck of the woods.
Okay, thanks. We’ll see it at six.
New York Governor George Pataki was in Manhattan when terrorists struck the towers on September 11th. Five months later the Governor walked through Ground Zero with our senior correspondent Rich Newberg.
It was just incomprehensible. I mean these buildings around us were all on fire.
Governor George Pataki was brought to Ground Zero by the New York City Fire Department within hours of the attack. Everything was covered with inches of dust from the pulverized concrete that, that just looked like something out of a nuclear nightmare. He appreciates the sacrifice and courage of those who also suffered losses but are still on the site helping out any way they can. That’s in an… to minds that no one will ever forget this. And we never will. For those who work in the so-called pit where bodies are still found – they are enveloped in the horror. You look at it and you’re looking up and it reminds me of a large grave site and I’m uncomfortable down here and you know, I’m uncomfortable anybody has to be there.
Yet public viewing platforms accommodate thousands of tourists a day. Some people feel compelled to come here to see the reality for themselves. They couldn’t confront the realty through a television alone.
It just seems like a, a movie. Something that didn’t actually happen because we are so are removed from New York City where we live in Wisconsin. I think it’s important that you allow people to come and pay their respects. Should they rebuild? I think it’s too soon . This is sacred ground. Uh almost 3000 people dies here and many of their remains have not been recovered.
But the Governor’s focus must now be on rebuilding not only lower Manhattan but a state economy that has been weakened. While we’re using Federal funds for Lower Manhattan, I proposed an empire opportunity fund. Two billion dollars targeted to upstate to help communities like Buffalo – to help them fight for jobs, to help them redevelop themselves as we redevelop Lower Manhattan. Wat about the Falls? We’re going to keep moving the floor with the Falls, The funding commitment for the USA and Niagara is absolutely there and we are going to do it. The Governor has said USA and Niagara will redevelop the falls with the same commitment the state made to revitalize Times Square.
Excuse me Governor, I was wondering if I can impose upon you to sign this for my …
Sure, I’d be happy to. Thank you very much.
I’m proud of you guys. It’s more than five months after the attack and yet the spirit is still there. The sense of mission, the sense of unity, the sense of purpose that might not have existed on September 10th is still there.
It’s all mind boggling. Well the governor says 20 billion dollars for rebuilding Manhattan will come from the federal government. His two billion dollar plan to help cities like Buffalo must be approved by the state legislature.
Don and Carol..
Thanks very much, Rich.
Yup
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Everyone has a story to tell about nine eleven. Tonight, senior correspondent Rich
Newberg has the tale of miracle of survival from the World Trade Center and a twist of fate that brought two Western New Yorkers together. When the first plane hit tower one, Sheri Leach of Buffalo was on the Seventy-eighth floor. She had come to New York City for a sales meeting. The wing of the plane made contact with her floor.
Where the plane had hit the fire had come around the building and just start coming towards our window.
Thoughts of her baby boy and husband filled her mind. She had to get out.
People were –people were burned.
Sheri hurried down 78 flights of stairs and held back her panic.
I would cry to the side so the people I was with couldn’t see me because I wanted to try to keep things together.
Sheri Leach has two reminders of her brush with death on September 11th. This piece of Tower One and her wallet which fell 78 stories when the tower collapsed. The wallet was discovered six days later in an almost unbelievable twist of fate. At ground zero, an environmental specialist from Buffalo assisting top federal emergency personnel noticed the wallet including a picture of Sheri’s son and her driver’s license among other things. He tracked her down and today met her face to face for the first time.
Uh it’s nice to see you alive.
Sherman had been overwhelmed by the destruction his first night at Ground Zero but then the discovery of the wallet.
Here was a connection to –to Buffalo, so for e it was very emotional and it took a few days to readjust to that.
He didn’t know whether Sheri Leach was dead or alive but finally made phone contact and remembers her first words. It’s me. I’m alive and all I remember was I-I was just started crying and it was very emotional for me.
The wallet will be the key to many stories yet to be told to Sheri’s son.
I want him to know how it’s important to have family and that’s what drove me out of that building. My son- we drove out of my building knowing to see my son and my husband and my parents again. That was it.
Rich Newberg, News Four at Six.
When New York Coty was attacked on September 11th, Volunteers from Buffalo were quick to respond. In tonight’s special report, senior correspondent rich Newberg and photographer Mike Mombre take us to Ground Zero now five months later to find Western New Yorkers still at work.
How do you mend a hole at the heart of a city? How do you pay homage to 3000 innocent lives suddenly snuffed out? Every day, workers are lowered into the pit where bodies have yet to be recovered. American flags are everywhere. People are working together for a common cause but scars for some run so deep that they can see nothing good ever coming out of this disaster.
For me at this point to say that anything good can come of this that I can see anything good coming out of this. It’s a – that’s a long way away. I thought this couldn’t be even be the United State. It looked like a war zone.
Barbara Janicki knows how difficult it is. The Salvation Army worker from Buffalo was here in September and has come back again. You have a-a bond. It’s a bond that nobody understands unless they’re here. It’s a special bond. At the huge white tent called the bubble workers take a break for food and drink. Sometimes a little counseling.
They constantly meet to be encouraged to know someone cares about them, to know there’s something spiritual here who can take care of their spiritual needs. Volunteers from Buffalo were there from the very beginning giving help and encouragement in many different ways. Helping to rebuild lives and property. That Century 21 Store right on the edge of disaster is making a comeback and a Western New Yorker is right in the middle of making it happen.
How you doing? Ron Papa’s National Fire Adjustment Company based in Buffalo had to appraise damages in the tens of millions of dollars. He could barely make his way through the cement dust back in September. It was just everywhere. It was a – it was a white powder that was just everywhere and we were here maybe a half hour or an hour. We had a real problem breathing. The only problem now is meeting tomorrow’s grand opening deadline but Century 21 is coming back. I think it’s just done giving a message to everybody that we are not, not going to put it, We’re not going to take it. That’s all and the people, people in New York and- and all over the world could see that nobody’s going to kick us around.
From a-top Century 21, Ron Papa has gotten the big picture of the task below while helping the Department Sore secure enough money to get back in business. He too says it all makes a statement to the world.
If there’s any city or any nation that’s going to be able to do it, it’s going to be ere and it’s going to –
The grand re-opening of Century 21 will be carried by TV stations all over the world. It was the biggest and the closest business to ground zero and Ron Papa of Buffalo is credited by the store owners with helping the business get back to its feet.
Well those are some amazing pictures there and you have more coming up at six now. I walk with the governor around Ground Zero and he hasn’t forgotten our needs in this neck of the woods.
Okay, thanks. We’ll see it at six.
New York Governor George Pataki was in Manhattan when terrorists struck the towers on September 11th. Five months later the Governor walked through Ground Zero with our senior correspondent Rich Newberg.
It was just incomprehensible. I mean these buildings around us were all on fire.
Governor George Pataki was brought to Ground Zero by the New York City Fire Department within hours of the attack. Everything was covered with inches of dust from the pulverized concrete that, that just looked like something out of a nuclear nightmare. He appreciates the sacrifice and courage of those who also suffered losses but are still on the site helping out any way they can. That’s in an… to minds that no one will ever forget this. And we never will. For those who work in the so-called pit where bodies are still found – they are enveloped in the horror. You look at it and you’re looking up and it reminds me of a large grave site and I’m uncomfortable down here and you know, I’m uncomfortable anybody has to be there.
Yet public viewing platforms accommodate thousands of tourists a day. Some people feel compelled to come here to see the reality for themselves. They couldn’t confront the realty through a television alone.
It just seems like a, a movie. Something that didn’t actually happen because we are so are removed from New York City where we live in Wisconsin. I think it’s important that you allow people to come and pay their respects. Should they rebuild? I think it’s too soon . This is sacred ground. Uh almost 3000 people dies here and many of their remains have not been recovered.
But the Governor’s focus must now be on rebuilding not only lower Manhattan but a state economy that has been weakened. While we’re using Federal funds for Lower Manhattan, I proposed an empire opportunity fund. Two billion dollars targeted to upstate to help communities like Buffalo – to help them fight for jobs, to help them redevelop themselves as we redevelop Lower Manhattan. Wat about the Falls? We’re going to keep moving the floor with the Falls, The funding commitment for the USA and Niagara is absolutely there and we are going to do it. The Governor has said USA and Niagara will redevelop the falls with the same commitment the state made to revitalize Times Square.
Excuse me Governor, I was wondering if I can impose upon you to sign this for my …
Sure, I’d be happy to. Thank you very much.
I’m proud of you guys. It’s more than five months after the attack and yet the spirit is still there. The sense of mission, the sense of unity, the sense of purpose that might not have existed on September 10th is still there.
It’s all mind boggling. Well the governor says 20 billion dollars for rebuilding Manhattan will come from the federal government. His two billion dollar plan to help cities like Buffalo must be approved by the state legislature.
Don and Carol..
Thanks very much, Rich.
Yup
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“One Survivor’s Story”
Five months after the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in Lower Manhattan, Western New Yorkers were still lending support at Ground Zero.
One of the environmental cleanup experts, Steve Sherman, had found a wallet in the debris containing the Buffalo driver’s license of Sheri Leach. She had been on the 78th floor of Tower One when one of the wings of the plane that had penetrated the building made contact with her floor.
Sheri’s survival and her meeting with Steve Sherman is the basis of the first story in this collection of reports by Rich Newberg.
“Western New Yorkers Lend a Hand”
In February 2001, bodies were still being recovered from under the debris at Ground Zero.
Buffalo Salvation Army workers Barbara Janicki and Maj. June Carlson were among those giving help and encouragement to responders still on the scene.
Ron Papa of Buffalo helped assess damages to the Century 21 department store on the site. He recalls barely making his way through the cement dust following the September attack.
“Governor Pataki at Ground Zero”
In his final report in this series, Rich Newberg meets with New York Governor George Pataki at Ground Zero. The Governor was in Manhattan on 9/11 and shares his feelings after New York City firefighters brought him to the scene of mass destruction.
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This collection of long-form reports by retired WIVB-TV Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg covers a wide range of social issues, Buffalo history and the arts. Mr. Newberg retired from the Buffalo CBS network affiliate at the end of 2015, after serving the station for thirty-seven years in various roles including main anchor, reporter and documentarian. <br /><br />His New York Emmy Award winning pieces explore the abortion debate, care of the mentally ill, the African American struggle for civil rights, and the lessons of the Holocaust, among many topics. His video memoir, “One Reporter’s Journey, “ reflects on his forty-six year career, beginning as an advocate for those without a voice. <br /><br />"My hope," says Newberg, “is that this collection will provide a lasting chronicle of life and issues in Buffalo during the latter part of the 20th century and into the new millennium."
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Securing the Homeland: Western New York's Anti-terrorism Measures
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Following the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on America, assessments were made on Western New York’s vulnerability as a target. Its location on the border with Canada, the power grid, chemical companies located in Niagara Falls, and its position on the Great Lakes, all placed Western New York among the nation’s top fifty vulnerable regions.
Efforts quickly got underway to prepare for a worst-case scenario, including heightened training for emergency responders and those involved with intelligence gathering. A new center for homeland security in Buffalo was also created.
The following collection of reports by former WIVB-TV senior correspondent Rich Newberg documents the stepped-up efforts to protect the citizens of Western New York through cooperative efforts among many municipalities and agencies across the Niagara Frontier.
1 WIVB-TV Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg presents an exclusive report on plans for a local Homeland Security Department in the soon-to-be-built Public Safety Campus on Buffalo’s East Side.
The 250,000 thousand square foot campus will house Central Police and Emergency Services, and state of the art forensic lab facilities.
There are also plans for Erie County to join forces with the state for the nation’s largest wireless government communications system. The new system would allow police, fire and emergency medical services personnel to talk to each other.
Hard lessons were learned when New York City firefighters and police officers could not communicate with each other during the Twin Towers attacks.
2 1:01:12 - 1:03:26
The Erie County Medical Center conducts a drill for a radiation exposure emergency. Mobile units are training to respond to a terrorist attack. Concern here is for a potential dirty bomb or bio chemical attack that could affect the health of eighty to a hundred thousand people.
Fifty-thousand tons of antidotes are now in place and could be deployed by air or ground. More protective gear is also on its way to Buffalo. Plans are also in the works to develop a system of mass immunization.
3 Close to a million dollars in new federal money has been dedicated to improving anti-terrorist training and response programs in Erie County. Response to a dirty bomb incident would require declaring the radioactive area off limits for quite some time, depending on the strength of the radioactive material used in the device.
4 The post 9/11 era calls for greater security and more sophisticated background checks of employees at airports.
“Ultra-scan, a new device developed in Western New York, identifies people through finger imaging. Its accuracy is believed to approach one hundred percent.
5 A new state-of-the art Emergency Operations Center at an undisclosed location in Western New York is near completion. (The location is later revealed to be in Cheektowaga).
New York Governor George Partaki, urges New Yorkers not to fall victim to fear.
Deputy Erie County Executive Carl Calabrese, one of the local Homeland Security leaders, says an effective response to terrorist threats rests on “having the right information at the right time in the right peoples’ hands.”
Erie County Emergency Services Commissioner Mike Walters says, “There has to be a spot where major decisions are made, and we have that capability here better than we’ve ever had it before in this community.”
6 More details are revealed about the new $2 million dollar Emergency Command Center where life saving decisions would be made during a terrorist incident or natural disaster. The facility can accommodate 105 emergency coordinators who have direct access to immediate lines of communication, including video conferencing and satellite downlink capability.
A new “800 Megahertz Wireless System” statewide would allow emergency responders from different agencies to talk to each other.
7 A major response exercise is conducted using actors as would-be victims of a terrorist attack is carried out on the campus of Buffalo State College. The drill creates a hostage situation following a terrorist hijacking of an NFTA bus. The Buffalo SWAT Team goes into action.
NFTA spokesman Douglas Hartmayer says first responders believe there may be some explosives onboard the bus. The drill is carried out using smoke bombs, the Erie County Sheriff’s helicopter, and a Buffalo SWAT Team storming of the bus.
The drill is deemed to be successful, due to effective cooperation between agencies and a unified command situation.
8 More details on the drill that started on the streets of Buffalo. WIVB-TV senior correspondent Rich Newberg said “it looked so real it was somewhat frightening.”
The exercise includes a scenario where the terrorists who hijacked an NFTA bus and took hostages, had radioactive material onboard.
Rich Newberg reveals that the Transit Police who gave chase to the would-be hijacked bus, had not been told this was a drill.
9 Another drill is carried out involving first responders from Western New York and Southern Ontario. They dealt with the need for emergency chemical containment should terrorists attack the region. Western New York is third in the nation in the amount of hazardous material shipped through an area.
Buffalo Hazmat Team leader, firefighter Captain Tommy Fitzpatrick, says there toxic industrial chemicals could become a target for terrorists. Six agencies were represented in this drill including the FBI, airport rescue and fire and Twin City Ambulance.
10 More details on the above mentioned Buffalo Hazmat drill that took place at the Training Center in Cheektowaga. Special attention is paid to the potential disruption of a rail line or pipeline carrying hazardous chemicals.
11 The US Coast Guard is bolstering homeland security on Western New York’s border with Canada. Coast Guard Buffalo is about to be equipped with machine gun capability. Since 9/11, there are more patrols on the water.
A new 25 foot fast and powerful response boat is ordered for homeland security in Buffalo. There is also a higher level of cooperation between the Coast Guard and US Border Patrol. Citizen boaters are also being asked to report anything suspicious.
12 More details on the beefing up of US Coast Guard stations. Chief Steven Barr of Coasts Guard Buffalo says the new security boat will be able to turn at high speeds and will be “cabonized” for greater crew protection.
13 FBI Director Robert Mueller, who took over the agency seven days before 9/11, visits Buffalo’s FBI office.
The Lackawanna Six was the major topic of discussion.
Mueller says the men charged with providing material support to al-Qaeda by attending a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan can be considered, in his opinion, a “sleeper cell.” He says the Muslim community in Lackawanna was a big help in brining the case to a successful conclusion.
Mueller also said the US war effort in Iraq was aided by Iraqis in the Buffalo area and across the country.
Relating to another case, Mueller praised the Buffalo FBI office for its work on the James Kopp case. Kopp was arrested for the murder of Buffalo abortion provider Dr. Barnett Slepian.
He also gives credit to the Joint Terrorism Task Force comprised of twenty agencies assisting in anti-terrorism efforts.
14 New York State Police Superintendent James McMann, a Rochester native, is named by Governor George Pataki as coordinator of the state’s counter-terrorism efforts.
The Buffalo-Niagara region is named as one of 30 strategic regions in the country and will receive a federal $10 Million dollar counter-terrorism grant. $8 Million will go for planning, training and equipment. $2 Million for overtime costs in relation to Code Orange terrorist alerts.
15 Dr. Fred Cowie, an anti-terrorism expert, conducts as seminar in Buffalo. He is wearing orange prison garb and is handcuffed. He looks just like the Unabomber Ted KaczynskI and was once arrested by a police officer who mistook him for the suspect responsible for killing three people and injuring twenty-three others during bombings in various parts of the country between 1978 and 1995. He is from the same Montana town where Kaczynski was jailed.
Cowie gets the attention of emergency planners attending the session to learn the latest in anti-terrorism training techniques.
Former FBI Agent In Charge Bernie Tolbert also addresses the group. He is now running security for the NBA. He says big sports venues such as arenas and stadiums need to step up security.
16 More on the homeland security seminar mentioned above. Dr. Fred Cowie says, ”We have to find new ways, exciting ways to deliver the message and say ‘hey, that flammable liquid that took down the World Trade Center, that’s the same one your cop car is going to be pulling up to in a gasoline truck.”
17 The “nerve center” of Erie County’s emergency response operations is officially put into service. The Emergency Operations Center offers a high tech response to the worst of disasters. The center is located on Broadway in the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga. The center is equipped with a 105 seat training auditorium.
18 More on the Erie County Emergency Operations Center which will help coordinate responses by the county’s five thousand volunteer fire fighters and EMS providers.
19 The position of Buffalo Disaster Coordinator falls victim to budget cuts. Jack Sneiderhan was in working on an $880,000 thousand dollar grant for the city’s disaster efforts when his job was eliminated.
Plans are in the works for Erie County to take over Buffalo Police and fire dispatch functions. It will all be housed under one roof in the soon-to-be built new public safety campus on Buffalo’s East Side.
John Gibb, head of the New York State’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Task Force says the Western New York region has become a model for inter-agency, inter-regional cooperation. He is the point man for two $10 Million dollars grants to the Buffalo-Niagara region.
20 More on plans to put regional police and fire dispatchers under one umbrella in a Homeland Security campus being developed.
21 Erie County works to link up core buildings under one surveillance system. A new control center has the capacity to monitor 500 cameras. Erie County’s Public Works Commissioner Maria Lehman calls it “one stop shop surveillance for everything that’s going on in the buildings.”
22 A new million dollar alarm and communication system pinpoints the fire on any given floor in Buffalo’s major high-rise buildings. On every floor, firefighters have direct contact with the Control Center and are no longer dependent on cell phones.
23 New York State Homeland Security Chief Jim McMahon announces that $5.5 Million dollars in anti-terrorism funding is on its way to Erie County.
Some of the funds are earmarked for anti-terrorism training. Some of the training will take place on a new Public Safety Campus on Oak Street. The building is nearing completion. A top priority in spending will also go toward a new Rescue One truck for Buffalo. It will be equipped to respond to a terrorist attack. Money will also be spent on new protective gear for Buffalo firefighters responding to hazardous situations.
24 More on Homeland Security funds for Erie and Niagara counties. The state will pick up $2 Million dollars in labor costs for dispatchers.
25 Senior Correspondent Rich Newberg gives Western New York its first look at plans for a new $31 Million dollar Regional Training Center at Oak and Elm streets in Buffalo.
The first building designed to house local Homeland Security departments and a state-of-the-art forensic lab.
The new Training Center will bring in ECC criminal justice students and potentially offer anti-terrorism training for officers across the Northeast. An outdoor training facility simulating terrorist situations is another high priority.
A quarantine center is tops on the Erie County Health Department’s list.
Erie County is also looking to partner with the University at Buffalo to make Western New York a “Region of Excellence” for terrorism research.
26 New York State is ready to award a contractor to install America’s most advanced emergency communications network. It would allow first responders from different agencies to communicate with one another. Erie County Deputy Erie County Executive Carl Calabrese says the new Public Safety campus could potentially serve as the “brain center” for the new system.
27 A new approach to tracking victims of a biological attack is being developed in Erie County. A system using mobile computers at hospital bedsides would feed information into a central site for instant analysis.
Mike Moskal of the Calspan UB Research Center says it would be possible to prevent the spread of a disease further or start treating patients faster.
Paramedics would also be able to electronically record information while a patient is being transported to a hospital.
Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Anthony Billittier says health officials need information to determine if there is a disease spreading or victims are suffering from a terrorist event.
28 Western New York’s most spectacular tourist attractions, including the Maid of the Mist boat ride at Niagara Falls, have become a major security concern.
All ports and vessels must soon comply with new safety regulations.
Training sessions are held warning venue owners what to look for as tourists enter their attractions. Checking passengers for weapons on cruise vessels and tourists boats and security cameras are among the security measures taken.
29 More on anti-terrorism training sessions for tourist operators of major attractions on the Niagara Frontier.
Emphasis is placed on monitoring suspicious behavior of tourists, not their skin color, cultural attire or ethnic background. Training should be made available to the ticket-taker to the deckhand.
All of the nation’s ports and vessels must soon comply with tighter security measures. The belief is that terrorists will try to find the venue that is not protected.
30 Another major federally-funded drill has a hundred emergency responders from Western New York training for major “dirty bomb” attacks. The exercise includes the scenario of an attack on the Canadian side of the Peace Bridge. The drill takes place at the Emergency Operations Center in Cheektowaga.
Public Health agencies are notified. A decision is made to shut down traffic on the Thruway. The drill is conducted by federal emergency experts from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency).
In the drill, the Boulevard Mall is targeted by terrorists. There is also another threat on the New York State Thruway.
The exercise provides an opportunity for emergency responders from different agencies get to know each other. Representatives from Canadian agencies, including the Niagara Region Public Health Department, took part in the session. The exercise took a year to plan.
31 More on the above drill, testing the ability of emergency responders to handle a terrorist “dirty bomb” attack on the Peace Bridge in Buffalo and Boulevard Mall in the Town of Tonawanda. A decision is made to keep people sheltered in their homes and businesses.
The exercise includes a mock TV news anchorman who presents updates as the drill unfolds. The idea is to help define the information that citizens would need to know for protection. The lines of communication during a crisis situation is a critical element that must be considered.
32 A plan is put forward to consider a state-of-the art training center at the Niagara Falls International Airport.
The piece opens outside of Rochester, New York where a drill is underway, challenging firefighters from the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority to respond to a mock-up 737 plane whose cabin is on fire. It simulates a terrorist attack.
Deputy Erie County Executive Carl Calabrese attends the drill. He is considering a joint proposal that would have Erie and Niagara Counties building a training center on land at the Niagara Falls Airport. A feasibility study is underway. There is a long history of mutual aid.
34 More on the above story that includes graphic video showing response training for a terrorist attack on an airplane. It is pointed out that computers often drive training programs like this one. In this exercise, sensors show whether the firefighting techniques employed are effective.
WIVB-TV senior correspondent Rich Newberg shows viewers what it looks like inside the cabin of the mock-up plane after flames were extinguished.
The NFTA firefighters are given a good review by a training instructor.
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video/mp4
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Moving Image
Subject
The topic of the resource
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention.
Relation
A related resource
Digital collections of the B&ECPL.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
2001-
Language
A language of the resource
eng