no parties it was a big night recently
the legends of local 10 all came
together for one big night remembering
some of the biggest stories that South
Florida has ever seen the names you
might remember like um Dwight Lauderdale
and Vicki Frasier yeah and you might
remember done no Susan Candiotti the
list goes on former local ten
investigative reporter Connie Hicks she
shows you the big night more than a
hundred and fifty people showed up or
what's likely to be a once-in-a-lifetime
reunion from the County Courthouse
news anchor Dwight Lauderdale with
meteorologist Don noe we all shared a
common bond we were young people in the
business we wanted to be the best that
we could be and we really became a
family and in doing that but it was sold
here on a family including reporter
Vicki Frasier
with photographers doing what
photographers do they thought that I'd
investigative reporter Clarence Jones
reminiscing with his former intern Tammy
leader a memoir is the title of my book
is your gonna murder you because people
with constant
always always he was getting murdered
threats all the time I could jump on a
shrimp boat and go cover the Mario
boatlift because we had the time in the
budget eating I'm an Bishop the an
bishops the Dwight Lauderdale's at Glen
drinkers they put us on the path he
would all a map remembered more than 40
years later by Richard Schlesinger who
had become a correspondent for CBS News
most amazing news stories one after
another after other national news
stories and so it was like trial by fire
so a lot of these living legends yeah
you saw them on camera but there's a lot
more who were behind the cameras these
are the ones that made the assignments
produce the shows shot the videos edited
the videos and most of the stories or at
least some of the stories were fun but
frankly a lot of them were not live
local late-breaking
former news director Steve Wasserman
after 45 years a news and executive
management still remembers the 1980
riots in Miami's Overtown
I put an Bishop on the set we didn't
have any live shots it was a you know
earlier time in our industry and I sat
in on television and calm the people
down make sure the community knows that
you're going to give him the right
information and she went on television
and I to this day believe and she was
largely responsible for calming the
nerves South Florida during that very
difficult time the officials are not
seeing some things that eggy Lewis would
go on to teach journalism to college
students the news stories in South
Florida during the time that we were
there
unbelievable everything came to
self-abort everything came it ended in
something Ted Bundy came to South where
the cocaine Wars police corruption riots
before heading to CNN Susan Candiotti
spent a week riding with Miami homicide
detectives Susan Candiotti channel 10
Eyewitness News
right before I arrived in Miami that the
homicide rate was 600 people a year I
believe it was it was the worst it had
ever been and there was also beauty the
first story that I covered when I got to
Miami was Christoph's surrounding the
islands with pink polypropylene the
entire city was was fixated on when this
rhinoceros was going to have a baby
worry alter made a career of doing fun
stories and I look around this room and
I just can't believe the enormous amount
of talent that we had both in front of
the camera behind the camera and
throughout the whole building is 3900
Biscayne Boulevard we were a family and
we had fun at the time I'm Connie Hicks
and I'm signing off because we were once
color vision 10 and then Newswatch 10
and then channel 10 Eyewitness News
and finally Connie Hicks local 10 News