WRAL Sports anchor Tom Suiter tosses hat like Mary Tyler Moore

The 1992 NCAA Basketball Final Four tournament was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Duke University won the championship game. WRAL Sports anchor Tom Suiter was part of team coverage of all the festivities that surrounded the sporting event and of course the game itself. This short clip shows Tom having fun imitating the iconic hat toss by Mary Tyler Moore as ... (read more)

News Coverage of NC Friendship Force Trip to USSR, 1982. Part 8. Soviet Wages

In November, 1982 WRAL News sent reporter Shelley Kofler and photographer Bruce Wittman to accompany 100 members of the NC Friendship Force, led by the Carolyn Hunt, wife of NC Governor Jim Hunt, to visit Moscow and Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). At that time, the relationship between the governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and America was ... (read more)

News Coverage of NC Friendship Force Trip to USSR, 1982. Part 7. Home Visits

In November, 1982 WRAL News sent reporter Shelley Kofler and photographer Bruce Wittman to accompany 100 members of the NC Friendship Force, led by the Carolyn Hunt, wife of NC Governor Jim Hunt, to visit Moscow and Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). At that time, the relationship between the governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and America was ... (read more)

News Coverage of NC Friendship Force Trip to USSR, 1982. Part 6. Housing Conditions

In November, 1982 WRAL News sent reporter Shelley Kofler and photographer Bruce Wittman to accompany 100 members of the NC Friendship Force, led by the Carolyn Hunt, wife of NC Governor Jim Hunt, to visit Moscow and Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). At that time, the relationship between the governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and America was ... (read more)

News Coverage of NC Friendship Force Trip to Russia 1982. Part 5 Consumer Goods

In November, 1982 WRAL News sent reporter Shelley Kofler and photographer Bruce Wittman to accompany 100 members of the NC Friendship Force, led by the Carolyn Hunt, wife of NC Governor Jim Hunt, to visit Moscow and Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). At that time, the relationship between the governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and America was ... (read more)