[El Rukn Raids]
News report about police raids on the El Rukn gang.
Off air news report from the WSM-TV (Nashville) evening news on March 31st, 1978, featuring Carol Marin.
A Channel 5 news special about facially disfigured people, reported by Carol Marin.
Composite of several news reports by Carol Marin investigating mob ties to Chicago’s first ward politicians.
Carol Marin special report on a controversy over the building of a bridge and highway through Napoleon Hollow in Pittsfield, IL.
Carol Marin special report on life on the streets of Uptown, focused on a woman named Anna Ronkowski, who spent 24 years living on the streets, beginning as a child runaway, experiencing prostitution, drug and alcohol addiction, and rape, before getting clean at age 39.
B-roll footage shot by WBBM between October and December 1978 to accompany these stories: Gambling Raids, Uptown Shooting, Gun Raid, Florida Silencers, and Jack Louis Bail Bonds Out. Followed by some of a Walter Cronkite report called “The Meat ‘Yellow Sheet.'”
Segments reported by Carol Marin for Channel 5, including: El Rukn gang, National Guard cleanup of condo site, crooked cop Albert Cartwright, American farm dilemma, and Chicago drag club The Baton.