11-07-2022, 06:39 PM
Hope things have changed in Utah. Best restaurant fight I’ve never witnessed. Small town north of SLC. Black soundman, Nightly News cameraman, correspondent. Gigantic old man sitting near them, not happy about the soundman. Cowboy hat, roughout boots, size 18, really really big. Loud, racial invective, not happy. Gets up and advances to Jim who is not small. Cameraman looking for cover, correspondent gets up to talk and craps his pants. Jim very calmly rises and as the old man gets close picks up his chair and bashes it over the guys head. Goes down in a puddle. They scram, jump in the car and go Parnelli Jones.
To this day he is known as Chairman Jim.
Told to me by the cameraman, who with me tears later wears an Oklahoma Football t shirt to a secret location in the Philippines after being blindfolded and tossed into a blacked out vehicle with Diane Sawyer and our soundman and producer. On scene after setting up and waiting for hours under guard he comes over to me scared to death as there are multiple AKs in the room. “God, I hope he’s not a Nebraska fan.”
To this day he is known as Chairman Jim.
Told to me by the cameraman, who with me tears later wears an Oklahoma Football t shirt to a secret location in the Philippines after being blindfolded and tossed into a blacked out vehicle with Diane Sawyer and our soundman and producer. On scene after setting up and waiting for hours under guard he comes over to me scared to death as there are multiple AKs in the room. “God, I hope he’s not a Nebraska fan.”