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In June of 1968, Robert Kennedy wins the California Primer. He makes his acceptance speech here at the Ambassador Hotel.
My thanks to all of you. And now it's a home to Chicago, and let's win there.
I'll never forget that night in the KTLA control room. The senator had just finished his speech. We were leaving the air. We were off for maybe five or ten or fifteen seconds when an engineer from the Ambassador said, there have been shots fired here. They're shooting. We cut to them right away to see what was happening.
Hello, Chuck.
This is Chuck.
Hector's gone to see.
You want to take it?
Hey.
Can we roll?
I can't hear you.
I'll do it for both of you if you want.
Is there a doctor in the house?
Quiet, please.
Quiet, please.
The best thing everybody can do here is an orderly way leave. Would you please do that just in an orderly way? Clear the room.
He has been shot, along with one or two others. They're on the ground. The back room right now, they're calling for a doctor. One doctor back there. They need another doctor.
This condition, I don't know. His wife, Ethel, is with him. That's all we can say now, but a couple of people have been shot, along with Robert Kennedy, now lying on the floor behind the embassy room here in the Ambassador Hotel.
Any doctors in the room, please?
Once again, doctors are being called for to go in the area directly behind the platform and through the kitchen.
Shortly after the speech, Senator Kennedy left the podium, went out through an entrance way behind the podium as if going to the kitchen, and there he was shaking hands with some of the kitchen help.
And that's when the shooting took place.
Our other unit, the Telemove Unit, our fast unit, was at the McCarthy headquarters and immediately was dispatched to Central Receiving Hospital.
That's where the Senator was taken, and before we arrived at the scene, he was then transferred to the Good Samaritan Hospital, and at this moment, our unit is at the Good Samaritan Hospital.
Hal Fishman is standing by for further reports.
And the latest word received from Frank Mankiewicz, the press secretary of Senator Kennedy, is that his condition is very critical.
The heart is good, his breathing is good, unassisted, he is unconscious, and six neurosurgeons are operating on him at the present time.
By the beginning of the 1970s, Los Angeles needed a rest.
Somehow we survived the 60s and the 70s. LA became one of the major urban areas and an economic and cultural power.
But instead of finding itself in a golden age, Los Angeles was turning out to be a big place with a lot of the same problems as other big places.
But it also had unique problems, one of them, brush fires.
I haven't been up here in about 20, 22 years, but these communication sites sit on the highest hill, and it's a good place to get a signal out when you have a television camera.
We had a big fire, started way over by 101, came over the hills, and raging fire coming toward the coast.
But when you're covering it with your cameras, you're down deep in canyons, and when you could see the fire, you couldn't get a signal out.
When you got a signal out, you couldn't see the fire. So finally we came up here on top of this peak and got the big roaring wind that day.
We got the, with the metal handles, put up the 30-foot transmitting dish and got it to Mount Wilson. It worked just fine.
But the fire was still far away, and it gradually came over. We did a couple of live cut-ins to say that the fire was coming.
And while we were up here, a sheriff came by and said, you know, you fellas are going to have to get out of there. This fire is coming right in your direction.
And I said, oh no, we're okay up here. We have a nice big paved parking lot, so I wouldn't worry about it. We got a good signal out.
And he said, no you don't. He said, look, I want you out of there.
So he said, I've got to move some people down the road. I'll be back in 10 minutes, and I want you out of there.
Well, I told the desk, I said, sheriff wants us to get out. I don't think we have to. Look at all this parking we had.
No matter how heavy the brush, the fire is not going to come up and hit us here. So they said, well, do you want to stay?
I said, sure. So we were all set to go, and that sheriff came back right up this road about five, 10 minutes later.
He said, look, you've got to get out of here. It's too dangerous. It's all going right to the sea.
And he said, look, I'm not kidding. Do you want to get arrested?
Oh, I figured I'd better go to the desk and say, this sheriff is rather determined to have us move.
And I said, well, what do you think? I said, whatever you say.
And they were quiet for a moment. The sheriff was fuming and looking at me. And then they came back and said, maybe you better go.
OK, so we packed up and followed the sheriff down the road.
Came back the next day. Fire had burned right to the coast, right to Malibu, right up to this hill.
I came up to the spot and I looked down, and the fire had stopped at the parking lot.
But you wonder the intensity of the flames, those big, billowing, hard, horrible flames.
What would have been like if we had stayed?
And I said, gosh, I really kind of thank that sheriff for what he said that day.
In 1972, an eerie reminder of the Kathy Fiskes tragedy.
Another young person, Anthony Bernardino, falls into trouble.
Stand chambers and KTLA's live cameras are sent to the scene.
Withstand the late KTLA newsman, Dick Garty.
We've been watching, as you at home have been watching, Dr. William Baker, the El Monte Fire Department doctor, giving signals with his hands.
He had our microphone, earphones, and the stethoscope.
And what they're doing, they're actually tapping underneath Anthony right now. They're probably within six inches.
And he is hearing those taps and getting it at the moment.
Anthony is crying, as we could expect, and trying to determine just how close they are.
So from what we can gather, they are within maybe six inches underneath Anthony.
And they are tapping slowly to open up the hole so that Anthony would come down very slowly into the hands of the rescuer.
With us here is Mark Nottingham. Mr. Mark Nottingham was also one of the men at San Marino in April of 1949.
He lives in Temple City. Mr. Nottingham, how is this similar to the Cathy Fiskes attempts?
Well, this year is to have better equipment, number one. Number two, it's not as deep in the ground as it is about 30 feet.
And Cathy Fiskes, we've about almost 100 feet.
And this could be that moment we've been waiting for.
Firemen are checking.
It is David, and he has the boy. He has Anthony. He has the boy.
The boy has on the white hat. Jack Crippend is there. The boy is moving around and talking to them.
He's talking to them. He's talking to them. They lay him on the gurney, the mobile stretcher.
I think, Dick, he's OK. He's OK.
By the 1980s, the minicam and satellite trucks have become a part of every station's news equipment.
They made possible more live reports from more places than ever before.
A flash brush fire races through the Baldwin Hills in July 1985.
This is Vintage Stand Chambers reporting, taking you, the viewer, right along into the story.
The front of this home is right down the top of that hill.
So that's where the flames earlier are cutting up.
John, let's see if we can get through here. There is a little path by this pickup truck.
And please excuse the camera. We can get it. Let it get through here.
The house next to us, the other flames, we're getting in the spray of this fire hose.
But there you can see, keep right on there, you can see some of the flames
that actually working on that roof. In fact, that home is gone.
John, turn right behind you there. Can you see that? That home is completely gone.
This, we're right at the top of the hill.
And there you can see the fire working on the roofs, the sides.
And here a fireman on top of the house next to it, he's doing a great job in saving this house
because this has singed and the fire was all around.
This has all been burned, as you can see here, came right across the top.
Now, here's something we don't know about yet, a big black billowing cloud of smoke.
That is to the north at the present time. That is to the north.
John, can you see right behind you there again?
Excuse the camera panning around back and forth like this, but we want to show you just what is actually going on.
They're trying to set the flames out there. Firemen are completely circling.
The house that he's working on there, however, I think is really totally lost.
Now, these are figures that we have of this moment.
Reports are, we can't confirm this, but pretty good reports that 15 homes have been destroyed in this fire.
We've also had reports of some injuries.
We've had a couple of rescue ambulances up here.
We do know that as many as two people have been treated and are being hospitalized at the present time.
Now, as you can see, this area here really is practically okay. It's been singed and the fire's been right up to the side.
Should we go back to the front there, John?
And I might tell control that in walking back here, my earphone got caught on something and it disappeared.
So tell John, okay, there's a big drop here, John, careful.
But this is kind of a narrow walkway between the two houses.
The house on this side is okay. The house on the other is completely lost.
Firemen are still trying to get through there.
Now, we're getting pretty much out of the smoke at the present time.
Okay, we hit the end of the line with the cable there.
But getting out of the smoke, the big job, of course, is there are so many homes that are in danger.
And the fire units had to get up here and just make as good a stop as they could.
And as we said at the present time, as many as 15 have been destroyed.
In February of 1986, one of Stan's most unusual assignments takes place.
The first report we had, and we were still in Los Angeles near the studio, is that there was a light plane in a tree.
And it was, oh, 50 feet up or something. Well, we didn't pay too much attention. That didn't make much sense.
Then we heard a lot of equipment going to the scene and they said, let's take a look at that.
So we took about a 30, 40 minute drive out here, pitch black at night, about 9.30.
We drive up and it is just pitch black. And in the distance, we see a plane upside down illuminated.
They had banks of lights around so they could see what they were doing on the rescue effort.
And it was hanging from one of those high tension wires, 90 feet in the air.
Well, you couldn't believe it. So we ran over, got the gear out, set the camera up and started.
It was just about 10 o'clock right at the start of News at 10. And it was the same reaction back there.
How is this possible? How can a plane come in, hit high tension wires and then get stuck?
But somehow it happened and it was really stuck up there.
The big thing is it looked like it just couldn't stay there. Obviously it was going to fall.
And I kept thinking to myself, what am I going to say if it falls?
Coming down very slowly out of the plane, the door is open, it's on the wings.
He has the rope around him, the fireman talking him down, slowly moving, slowly moving.
The basket is right underneath. The fireman's arms reach out to pull him.
Coming down, I can see very close, he's holding onto the rope.
He's got a tense moment. What an ordeal.
Almost standing up now, almost in the basket.
And he made it. He made it. First person out of the plane.
I think this is the climatic moment. This is the moment we've been waiting for.
The plane has been hanging up there for over three hours.
And these two men have been up there after writing the high tension wire for 500 feet
before the plane became entwined.
But there he is, moving down the slide ever so slowly.
And that sling that he has is reassuring, but every inch must be so painful.
He's down into the basket.
What a relief.
How he did it.
And when the Ontario Fire Department went up there in those long, tedious moments
as both of the men worked their way down out of the plane,
a tremendous feeling of relief and happiness went through the crowd here on hand.
Our cameras have been here in Ontario, just east of the Ontario International Airport,
and the two men are safe and are down, and we're very thankful.
I don't know how in the world they're going to get that plane down,
but we'll let other people worry about that.
And it was an incredible experience.
We were on the air for well over three hours, watching every single moment.
In 1986, Stan returns to Moscow, this time to cover the first Goodwill Games.
On this side of the Kremlin Wall is Red Square.
They say there are a million visitors in Moscow every single day.
Well, thousands of them can be seen here at the square.
It's paved in cobblestones.
Red Square is big enough to handle the sightseers, picture-takers,
and the tour groups with plenty of space left over.
When we come back, a look at the post-visit to Los Angeles,
the downtown high-rise fire, and Stan's star ceremony on the Walk of Fame.
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In 1987, Pope John Paul II announces he will be coming to Los Angeles.
And KTLA decides that for the length of the visit, two and one-half days,
the station will preempt all of its regular programming to cover this historic event.
It was really one of the highlights of my career.
First of all, it just came out of the blue.
It was a complete surprise to me.
I really didn't hear about it until I was told the station was going to be on the air 48 hours straight.
I thought, that's impossible. There isn't that much going on.
And then it began to evolve.
Then when I got the call about going to Poland and the Vatican,
that was another of those overwhelming moments.
They were very cooperative.
They said, here's what you do.
You stand here and the Pope will come by talking to different people.
And he said, because he's going to Los Angeles, he may want to say a few words and talk about it.
So I was all geared with my Los Angeles question, and I was quite nervous.
And even the loud, you know, press like today, the press is in this area, that's it.
But for this one time, we were up right with the Pope.
The Friday came up to me and the Pope shook my hand and I said,
we're looking forward to your trip to Los Angeles.
And he said, I hope.
And then he went on to the next person. That was my interview.
His Holiness is coming by the location at Second and Main.
We'll come right into view right now.
He's standing there, His Holiness now, standing next to Archbishop Mahoney,
driving on down and of course, followed by the Secret Service and all of the men.
So the motorcade has now reached St. Bibiana's.
The church bells ring out a joyous feeling to say that he is here, that he has arrived,
that the first event on his long stay in Los Angeles is over, the motorcade to the cathedral.
Father Manning and I went over to the Coliseum for the procession of the Pope for mass.
And I felt like a rock star being with Father Manning at the Coliseum
with the 50,000 Catholics when the Pope was there.
I was just mobbed and signed autographs and we were all on a wonderful high.
A very exciting moment. Thousands in the crowd waving white handkerchiefs like, waving papal flags.
The stands on the south side there just alive with flashes as people were taking pictures
as the Holy Father in the poltmobile drove around the field.
The next night, a mass at Donner Stadium.
His Holiness has a slight smile on his face. You can tell that he is enjoying the moment.
He is with his people.
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On May 4th, 1988, just before the end of News at Ten, word that a downtown high rise is on fire.
Our camera location is looking at the north side of the tower.
Now the fire is burning at the present time on about the 14th or 15th floor.
It has been lapping up and this north side is the side that they are really worried about
and they're really having the battle there.
They're trying to make sure that they have water where they need it so they can try to handle it
but for the past hour or so it's been lapping right up and it's been a very difficult situation.
We can take a look, Gary, can we take a look closer now on the 14th and 15th floors
because there you can see the magnitude of the fire burning big flames at least two floors
and it has burned about four up from where it started.
Where we're positioned is just beyond the library that was destroyed by fire.
That is just below this in that area.
So now you can actually see one, two, three, four, five floors engulfed in flames
and in the last short period of time the flames jump to that upper floor.
There you have two windows that are burning and again this is roughly the 14th and the 15th floors
and huge flames now are burning in the area and two windows at that very top fire.
So what has been happening is the, what all firefighters fear the most, the lapping effect
where the flames on the floors below jump up to the floors above and with tremendous heat
they just consume everything that is combustible and then moves on to the fire above that.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame with the legends of radio, television, stage, film, and recording
are honored with their own stars.
It would only be a matter of time before the legendary Stan Chambers would be so honored
and in 1987 his time arrived.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's a great pleasure to present Mr. Stan Chambers.
I do want to just say thank you and I know I have to start with Beverly Jane.
Beverly, thank you very much. Come on darling.
This is really what I remember about the beach. This whole beautiful wide beach, nobody on it.
It was ours. We just had more fun here, just the family and we had a good dozen neighbors
who lived here year round but it was just too far out for most people.
We used to take those wonderful walks along here, way back to where the water goes right up
to all those rocks on the far side of the houses and then way, way up past the pier.
It was a beautiful, wonderful living.
Every time I get here to Malibu I really have to think back to those early years
and actually the time that I met Bev. It was just a remarkable story and to have it turn out so well
makes me feel so happy about it.
We were doing the Kathy Fiskes telecast at 27 hour attempt to find the little girl
who was in the hole in San Marino. It was unsuccessful but it was an emotional time
in all of our lives here in Los Angeles of people who saw that.
Bev was visiting her folks up at the ranch in Oxnard and her mother was there, her sister
and Bev had just broken up with a fellow she had been going with for some time.
Bev's mother was sitting there watching the Kathy Fiskes telecast and her sister Marie came in the room
and Bev's mother said, why can't Beverly meet a nice young man like this fellow on television?
Marie laughed and said, I know him, that's Dan Chambers. We were at school together.
In fact, I saw him at a wedding just a few weeks ago and that was the conversation.
She said, you want to introduce them.
Well, I got a call from Marie McLaughlin, Bev's sister, the following week.
They said, why don't you come up and have dinner at my place? I'd like you to meet my sister.
I said, that sounds wonderful. So I went up, we had dinner up at her place and Bev and I just hit it off.
We were married about six weeks later.
It really was quite a blow. Just before we left on the trip, Bev was diagnosed to have recurrence of cancer.
And the doctor said, go on the trip, the treatment won't be any different and we'll pick it up when you come on back.
So we knew that things were not going well.
But she was in wonderful condition, wonderful health and helped a lot on the trip and was just great.
And she was just fine that whole year.
Then we were back at the conventions the following year.
And again, wonderful condition. And then it was that fall that she got sick and then she died in February.
So we were married 40 years.
And as I said, it was just so wonderful to be married to your best friend and to be married to a saint.
It was just an incredible 40 years.
And then I was very much alone, very reflective, very passive.
And it took a long time before I could even come out of the shell.
And the important thing is that there are things that happen that you can't change.
And it's important that you move on, that you accept the responsibilities of life, that you do the best you can.
And then out of the blue, on a blind date, to meet Gigi and to realize that she had just gone through the same loss,
the same ordeal, the same depth of despair that I had.
And we exchanged these feelings. We were very open. We were able to appreciate each other.
And we just enjoyed being with each other.
And this grew into a very beautiful love.
And two years after Bim died, we were married.
And it's a whole new life.
And what it is is both Gigi and I closed the pages.
She closed the pages on Hank. He died the same month that Bev did.
And I closed the pages on Bev.
But they're there to open. We have the same memories.
We have the beautiful life that we had together.
And we learned so much from that.
And I think this has added so much to our happiness today.
So we look ahead. We appreciate and have enjoyed the years that we had before.
And enjoy now these wonderful years we're having together.
But it's something that everyone has to face at one time or the other.
And I think it's important that you accept the fact, the fact you can't change,
and go ahead, live your life, and do the best you can.
So I'm very lucky to be so much in love.
Dan is flexible, loving, exciting.
He is a wonderful man that I've been very blessed to meet and to marry.
I'm happy that Stan is happy. That's the most important thing.
In our next segment, a surprise reunion for Stan as our salute to his 45 years with KTLA Vintageists.
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Drop off some warm clothes.
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Tonight on the Channel 5 News at 10,
a suspect is arrested in the poly class kidnapping.
Antoine Miller is formally sentenced, while Damien Williams awaits his.
World AIDS Day promotes knowledge, hope and anger throughout the globe.
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An anniversary celebration turns violent.
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The Channel 5 News at 10 tonight.
Now this rather nondescript spot in Lakeview Terrace was the scene of a police action
that would change the course of history.
In March of 1991, George Holliday is trying out his video camera.
He tapes an event in this empty lot and then brings the tape to KTLA.
Stan Chambers was the reporter who broke that story.
Late last Saturday night and early Sunday morning there was a police pursuit here in the Lakeview Terrace area.
It came to an end at the 11,700 block of the Foothill Boulevard.
George Holliday lives across the street.
He had his video camera out and recorded what happened as the suspect was being arrested.
A year later, after a verdict of not guilty for the officers involved,
rioting breaks out again in the City of the Angels and again Stan Chambers is reported.
We now have another fire that has broken out and this is very close to that swamp meet
that we were talking about on Vermont near Manchester.
You see the building to the left, that's the new fire.
The building with the gray smoke that we were talking about is now taken whole.
The gray smoke has turned to black.
The fire is coming through the roof and the whole building is completely engulfed in fire.
And then if we can look to the right, here is the second fire.
And lest I'm wrong, that is the building that was being looted.
Remember we had people running in and out carrying merchandise.
And there that building is now completely engulfed, roaring flames.
Look at all those cars that are stopped in the street there.
We can't really tell what's happening, but people are running out of the stores.
Look what they're carrying, bags of everything, clothes, huge quantities.
And they're coming out of that, they're picking up things off the sidewalk,
running in different directions.
And over in the left, the person in the yellow shirt is kind of looking through the stolen items,
seeing which ones he wants to keep.
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During Stan's 45 years at KTLA, he's covered almost every Rose Parade held during that time.
Earlier this year, to honor him, Stan got to ride a float down the route of the parade.
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Now we're tempted to call this the Stan Chambers float,
but it is really from the Bank of America called Awards Night on this entry.
There is Stan now, and I know that along with him is Armie Archer, that's his cameraman, Dave Lopez, with him.
Both of them decked out in tuxedos.
Oh, quite impressive.
Hi, Stan.
Stephanie and Bob, really, this is the way you should enjoy the parade.
It is absolutely fantastic.
Everybody's having a great time out here.
They're waiting and cheering and yelling, and all of these happy faces talking right back to you.
It's a wonderful perspective on the parade.
Hi, happy new year.
Fabulous.
And it's really fun.
There's one lady in the front line here.
This phone call is for you, though.
This is really the way, Bob and Stephanie.
I'm enjoying it thoroughly.
Happy new year.
Thank you, Stan.
It's beautiful.
What a wonderful gentleman he is.
So glad that he's here.
45 years at KTLA, now almost 46.
This is a picture of the KTLA on-the-air family taken in the late 1940s.
There, Stan, recently we gathered together as many of those television pioneers as we could
to talk a bit about their colleague, Stan Chambers, Bill Welch.
We did a lot of shows, Stan and I, covering special events and such as that,
where we were doing things that had never been done before on television.
How do you cover this type of thing?
Well, let's try this.
If it works, it works.
If it doesn't, we'll find some other way to do it.
Dorothy Gardner.
We did shows like the opening of the circus, the ice shows, home shows, movie premieres,
and naturally lots of Christmas parades.
And we also did quite a few of the Tournament of Roses parades.
And it was really always a joy to work with Stan.
He's always very gracious and warm and easy person to work with.
He's just like what you see on camera.
John Milton Kennedy.
He is my idea of one of these unspoiled persons who belongs in everybody's front room on television.
Everybody who is sensitive to quality and gentleness and, oh, this is no word for a man usually,
but it is for him, loveliness.
He's just an extremely fine, nice person.
Ken Grunnell.
I can't remember anybody in those days as hard as we worked and what we did of losing their temper
and getting mad at another individual.
I can't remember any jealousy at all.
And of course, Stan was, you know, a top dog at the station.
But we weren't jealous of Stan at all.
We were learning from Stan because he was there two years before I started.
So we would sort of follow his path and watch his actions and what he did.
And as a result of that, we certainly got a heck of a lot better.
Bud Steffen.
The best thing I can remember about Stan is I met him in USC.
I was a graduate student there and he was still an undergraduate.
And Stan went to KTLA and got on and I got there two months later.
Stan always wore a white shirt and a necktie.
I think he was born with a white shirt and a necktie.
But the reason he said he did it was they never knew when he might have to call them
to come up to the mic and if we lost a picture or whatever, Stan had to go on camera.
But the best part of that was they never got to do any hard work or dirty work.
In other words, they'd say, Stan, would you get that?
I know, Bud, you'd get it because I wasn't dressed as neatly as Stan.
And then there was a surprise reunion featuring something you don't see very often.
Stan, almost speechless.
Oh, God.
Mrs. Holmes said I'm not going to do it.
Hey, Bill.
Hey, Stan, you're still with us, right?
Take a look, Los Angeles, at some of the true pioneers of local television.
They made it possible for the rest of us to be broadcasting to you.
There were other salutes to Stan in this 45th year of service to KTLA.
They came from the former mayor.
You not only have your star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
but you are cemented into the hearts of all of us in this city for what you have meant to us.
...on television.
And you started it before anybody else ever had an idea that this system would work.
So I congratulate you.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
The Board of Supervisors, the L.A. City Fire Department.
He is the senior statesman of journalism in this area.
It is with great pride that I commend you and extend to you my personal thanks
for your many contributions to the people of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles City Fire Department.
Gee, thank you very much.
Thank you.
That is beautiful.
The State of California and from Cardinal Roger Mahoney.
It is hard to believe that 45 years have gone by already.
But God willing, I hope, Stan, you're with us many, many more years
because the news, without your particular influence and warmth and that personality you bring to it,
the news would simply not be the same.
Thank you. God bless you, Stan Chambers.
Also at last year's USC Notre Dame football game, before a crowd of 90,000, another honor.
The University of Southern California joins in the celebration of its 45th anniversary as a broadcaster on KPLA.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome 1944 USC graduate, Dan Chambers.
Cheers!
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But perhaps most importantly, the best tribute came from his children, all 11 of them.
I'm really proud of my dad. He's as good a dad as he is a newscaster and he's exemplified himself,
not just to the public, but to our whole family for all these years.
We couldn't have a better father in the whole world. Good dad.
He loves his kids. He always puts his family first. He loves everybody.
Papa, he's an incredible guy. He's always there for us. He's always got these brilliant answers to our problems.
I can't imagine life without him. He's a wonderful man.
He's a lot of fun. Always supportive, always there for you. Never let me down. Never let any of us down.
Nothing was more important to dad than family and they taught us how important it was to have a real good, strong, loving family that's always there for you.
My dad is real warm and open and I think a lot of people probably, for the first time when they meet him, they get that feeling and it just doesn't change.
That's one of the really interesting things about dad is that you get to know him and it only gets better all the time.
Dad is the kind of guy that I can call when I'm at school and he'll kind of cheer me up if I'm feeling low.
He's always got the love and very considerate of when I need him, he's there. He's always there for me.
I love him very much.
He always makes time for everybody, whether it's his grandkids or his children or anybody else's kids. He's a real loving guy.
And incidentally, when all the Chambers family gets together, you have to rent a hall.
Ten years ago, on the occasion of STAND's 35th anniversary at KTLA, two former Channel 5 journalists expressed their thoughts about STAND.
They are themselves legends in Los Angeles television, the late Cleet Roberts and the late Bill Stout.
A really nice guy, everybody says that about him.
Frankly, I've gotten tired of hearing it over the years, but I believe it.
And it is astonishing that such a nice man, decent man, good news man, could last so long.
You can't tell the story of television news in this community from the very beginning to today without having Chambers run through it from the start right up to now.
He has been the glue that has held KTLA together.
He stepped in and ran the news department when there was no, quote, news directory.
He stepped out gracefully when they got a news director.
He anchored the news when they didn't have an anchorman, quote, and he stepped out when they got an anchorman.
He's an all-purpose journalist, and he is, I believe, probably the dean in this town.
Our program will be right back with the conclusion of tonight's Salute to Stan.
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And now here's our general manager at KTLA, Greg Nathanson.
The biggest question I'm asked as general manager of KTLA is are there two stand chambers? Is he a twin? He must be.
Because how can somebody be on top of the grapevine in a snowstorm where no one can move for hours and hours they're stalled,
and then 45 minutes later, Stan is again reporting from downtown LA on another story.
There must be two stand chambers. He must be like a twin, like the little girls in Fall House.
I began to wonder. Stan seems to be everywhere. He reports on every major story in LA for us.
So I asked the payroll people to come and show me the payroll checks and see if there were two stand chambers.
And it turned out there really is only one stand chambers. He is unique.
Stan has probably covered every important major news story on television in the history of Los Angeles television journalism.
But what amazes me even more about Stan than his great reporting skills is Stan the man.
Stan as a person is warm, caring, intelligent, honest, and a true gentleman.
Stan is a true Los Angeles treasure, and KTLA is proud to have had this treasure in their possession for the last 46 years.
And we hope it will be another 40 years.
Some people age when they're 20, age and become very old looking and old feeling.
Certain people have enthusiasm for what they do, remain young.
Maybe their bones creak and so forth, but they are able to carry on, you know, for as long as they feel good
and enjoy what they're doing. And Stan is one of them.
Before we leave, if I might, just a personal word about Stan Chambers.
Stan and I met at KTLA back in 1965. We've worked together over these many years.
I would just like you to know the kind of person that Stan is personally.
He has been a real friend, a guiding light in this television industry, and he is a wonderful human being.
That person you see on television is the same warm, creative individual off television.
You know, there's an old joke that affirms an underlying truth of the transitory nature of life in television.
It goes, if my boss calls, get his name.
And yet, for 45 years, no one at KTLA, no one in television has had to be reminded of the name Stan Chambers.
It confirms the fact that he is a remarkable man in a remarkably difficult field.
And it reaffirms that at least sometimes honesty, integrity, and ability do have their just rewards.
Congratulations, Stan. We look forward to many more years of your coverage of this great city.
And now the final words on this program do belong, most appropriately, to Stan Chambers.
One of the real benefits and one of the real joys in what I do by meeting so many people every day,
I really am meeting a lot of viewers.
And I feel like I know them so well, and they feel like they know me.
And it's like meeting another member of the family.
So because television is such an intimate personal vehicle, to think that they've accepted me for this long as a close friend
is a wonderful, wonderful memory and wonderful experience.
Stan Chambers for Channel 5 News.
Thank you.