1967/10/26 - Book - Philip Morris Sees His Costume in TV News Report

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As noted in the background entries on Philip Morris and the Morris Costume Company (or the Morris Magic Company in 1967), Phil Long's otherwise execrable book The Making of Bigfoot does provide a useful service by locking in Philip Morris's claims about seeing his costume on a TV news report in October 1967.  Rather than enrich Long any further by buying his book, which demonstrates only that he failed his classes on investigative journalism, those who don't have the book should get it from their local library.

 

On page 448, Philip Morris states "... Anyway, a couple of months later, October '67, I was watching TV, and this film is being shown and I see my gorilla suit...."  On page 464, Morris confirms that he saw the P-G film on TV at his home "at Kistler Avenue" in Charlotte, North Carolina.

 

According to Todd Prescott's video, Patterson-Gimlin Film—first showings at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I4pnLFhrqg&list=LL, the first showing of any extract of the P-G film on television was on a local Yakima TV station, KIMA.  While the date that this news show aired is unclear, it appears highly unlikely given the technology of the day that any east coast television show ran the P-G film which Morris claimed that he saw.