New York Daily News 10 February 1976 Patty Hurst Amtrak AmFleet Ad John Curry ++

Description

New York Daily News (New Jersey Edition) – Tuesday, February 10, 1976. This old newspaper features on the front page a picture of an artist’s depiction of the Patricia Hurst trial. The headline is: ‘Patty on Stand: ‘I Was Told I’d Be Killed’ and ‘Tearfully She Testifies: Forced Into Bank Robbery – Sexually Assaulted By Captors – Given Black Eye 4 Times’ – What you see in the pictures is what you get.

Volume 57, Number 197.

All 76 pages are included – please note the tearing / wear around the edges – LOOK AT THE PICTURES!

Some of the contents:

• ‘Ford: Hike SS Tax & OK ‘Illness’ Plan’ – President Ford asks congress to raise the Social Security Tax and cover “catastrophic illness” under medicare
• ‘Pat: ‘I Was Told I’d Be Killed’ Says She Was Coerced Into Bank Robbery’ – Patricia Hurst testifies at her trial.
• ‘Reds Take Key Angola City, Threaten Main Military HQ’ – Fighting continues in Angola’s civil war
• ‘Report 5 Looters Slain in Guatemala’ – The Guatemalan army kills armed looters in the wake of a devastating series of earthquakes
• An ad for 1970’s Console TVs,Zenith Chromacolor II for only $599
• TWA has a full page ad for service to California
• Several full page ads for cigarettes.
• A Two-Page Ad for General Motors’ small cars and how they’re better than imports – with charts to prove it!
• A&P has an ad featuring the new red jackets that store managers will be wearing.
• Amtrak has a full page ad for their new Amfleet – ‘. . .the most comfortable, smoothest riding, luxurious way to travel’
• The centerfold has several pictures of rescue workers freeing folks trapped in a diner after a tractor trailer rammed a car into the front of the restaurant and pictures from the Westminster dog show.
• There are movie ads for Gable and Lombard, The Hindenburg, Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother, and more!
• Potamkin has a 1976 Seville for only $10380
• The sports section has coverage of the winter olympics
• The back page features a pictures of Olympians: figure skater John Curry, ice dancers Colleen O’Connor and James Millns, and Phil Mahre.
• and much more!

Good used condition for a pushing 50 year old newspaper! Please note the tearing / wear around the edges, all 76 pages are included – LOOK AT THE PICTURES!

Here is a link to Wikipedia’s article on this newspaper.