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On Feb. 1, 1988, long-time WRAL anchor Charlie Gaddy spoke over the phone on live TV with Eddie Hatcher, who was one of the men who held the Robesonian staff hostage.

Hi, this is Charlie Gaddy at Channel five. Yeah. Could you tell me who you are and what the situation is there please? My name is Renee Bollinger. I am. I work in advertising and we're still being held hostage. Are any of you in any danger? Renee? Not yet. Unless I mean unless they tried to storm the building or something. I think we're okay. Nightfall comes to tie us up and put us around the windows and the doors. Are there any guns in there? Are there two men or three men? Two men in here that I know of. Are you all in the same room? Yeah. Has anybody been hit or injured? No, no fighting or anything like that. They seem pretty calm and they pulled ambulances around the side of the building. That did not make anybody feel good. Have they said to you what they want? The governor martin, That's all they want. They want to have them meet their demands. Are they standing right there with you behind me? Would you would you ask one of them if he would talk with me? Eddie. Hatcher. Eddie, This is charlie. How are you? Well, it's a tense situation and it's getting more tense by the hour, that dark is coming and I'm afraid that they're going to make an unwise move. Eddie kind of move. What will you do? I mean what? Well, if they push it then somebody's gonna get hurt. Well now Renee said that you were thinking about tying them up when it got dark. Yeah. Line them up in the doorways. If we got we got a swat team down here become like their first shot and the beloved governor of this state has failed and not found time because His political career to get involved in this, how can he get involved in it? What do you want to talk with him since we came in here at 10:00 this morning? Not only my part of this in here, upset I was in here that they called the governor's office and threat and joining us because the government, are you in there with timothy Jacobs. And is there somebody else in there with you who's in on this? Do you know? Can you tell me who that is? Um Eddie, If the governor Eddie, if the governor talks with you, what what are you going to ask him? I'm gonna give him our demands, which plain and simple and not not extraordinary. What are they? Can you tell me? Okay, We demand that john D Hunt, who is a prisoner in the Robertson county jail, underprivileged charges be transferred to another county jail with least sev Way until the governor can set a special prosecutor and task force to investigate the charges against him. This man is in jail in jail for 14 months for doing something under the direction and guidance of the State Bureau of Investigation. But the reason getting too close to one of the county commissioner's brother's drug ring. They wanted to keep him shut up in jail where he couldn't tell anybody. All right. We demand that the governor of north Carolina initiate an investigation into the corrupt Robinson County government, including the Sheriff's department, District Attorney joe Freeman Britt and the FBI agents in this area. That's next. We demand that the recent death of a young black man who died within the Robertson county jail while begging for medical attention, be fully and completely investigated by special prosecutor. That criminal charges be brought against Sheriff hubert Stone for that death. This black man had an asthma attack for 45 minutes for help and was not allowed to medical treatment and died in the jail. Mackellar. I don't know his first name, McKellar. M C K E L L E R. Okay. Uh, okay. Anything try to stay calm. Uh, no, we're not on the air right now. I'm trying to record this in here, mike, we've got to come to the conclusion. That hubert he would rather waste all. Let this story get out Eddie. What are your other demands? That's it. That's it. That this county corrupt government investigated by out of state officials and a special prosecutor to be brought in here with no ties and and that can be trusted. Eddie. You're the leader of the group, aren't you? Ok? So people will do about what you say about everything You all haven't hurt anybody or anything like that. We've had three. We originally had 17 hostages. Three became a little sick. I'll be waiting outside to meet them At this time? We do have 10 hostages. You have 10 hostages now you have nine hostages. Now, what happened to the others Negotiate? We released two more just a few minutes earlier today, but there'll be no more released until we get something definite from the government. So you still have nine and we will keep nine. Are they all newspaper people? Even the editor of the newspaper bob horn and his staff Horn, the editor. And do you know any of the other names in there? You mentioned another one. Uh huh. This one, Renee Bollinger Roy card lee Hamilton mike, Major Maley Tanya dial and Darwin Horton. Okay. Do you know you know these, you live down there, right. You know these people, do you know all these people and they all know you uh you have guns in there. Sure. Do you, Can you tell me what kind of guns they are? We have the sawed off double barrel sawed off single shot. We have uh uh a pistol and we do have two hand grenades wired to back doors. If they're attempting to be open? They will explain. Have you ever done anything like this before? Not this radical. I have protested before and marched. No, but that doesn't do anything. Do you mind telling me how old you are? Eddie. Do you have a family, are they are they have you been in contact with your family since you've been in there? Yes I have. What do they what do they think about? Well they're down here just got a phone call and she's out there at the operation headquarters. She said if they did start to shoot she would she would get shot too because she'd be in the line. Eddie, don't you think the governor is going to try to talk with you and and then they come back and tell me that he's being briefed beneficial for his political campaign? You tell me that's our governor but I'll guarantee you this newspaper staff if we live to get out getting support from these people. Eddie. What kind of work do you do in north Carolina with the Tuscarora. The other men in there with you? He's a former employee tribe. You're both on the staff of the Tuscarora. Well what is the latest thing? What is the who besides me? Who has contacted you? News from all over as far west from Hawaii. I've been on live with CNN live with Cbs I couldn't begin to tell you but it's just not I can't sit and talk on the phone and tell the whole story what the evidence I have and and and I can't I don't have time to do that. Well, Eddie, you don't mind if I call you back in a little while do you live interview? Yeah. Okay. Well take care and try to be calm, will you? As long as they become somebody better let these people see the state people out here with guns? I'm worried about these little local law enforcement officers that we might suck up. You see what I mean? And if they pushed me into it, bingo, do a cut in here in a couple of minutes. Can you stay on the phone with me live? Okay. And we try not to use that word you just used. Hold on just a second from W. R. A. L. T. V. This is an action news five news brief. Good afternoon everybody. I'm on the telephone with Eddie. Hatcher. Eddie is in the offices of robert Sony in in Lumberton and he is one of the men holding about nine people hostage. And Eddie, are you still on the phone there? Alright. Tell me what your plans are. Eddie, Nobody's been hurt yet. What do you intend to do? We have now barricaded doors. Were aware of. The swat team is in the area. I've been on the phone with the United States Attorney General's office. The Department of Justice with the governor's office. But the governor has failed to call. He said he sees this as uh as maybe might hurt his political career in the future as to how he gets involved in this. Uh We have doors barricaded at sunset if necessary. Cut all lights of any shots are fired in here, no one will know who's getting shot. But once the shots start then it goes full blast. Eddie, What is it that you want? What will it take for you to just put the guns down and let those people get out of there. What will it take our demands that I spoke of all day that the governor of this state sending a special prosecutor and task force to investigate the corrupt government here in Robertson county. That suppressed the indian people and blacks of Robinson County and to investigate the State Bureau of Investigation agents within this district. And you did you grow up there? Off and on. I was raised in Richmond County. My daddy was from Richmond County. Do you have a family? Yes, I do. Have you contacted them since I didn't contact them. They are here now down here and haven't been contacting me. Uh and word from one of them was if it starts to go down they go down with it. If it starts to go down direct quote when they start firing and we will be in the midst and we will go down with you. Well, Eddie, I hope you stay stay calm. I'm trying to stay calm when you can't get a governor that's not concerned with the lives of people here in this office. And what do you have? Well Eddie, thank you for talking with me. We'll have details for you at 6:00 on action news five The preceding was a special report from Action News five on this come in. Yes, yes this was, thank you very much. Yeah. How you feeling you want to say for this comedian? Hey guys, right. What were you trying to tell us in the courtroom during the, I wanted to make a statement to the FBI directly not to say that. Why not? Eddie got anything from everybody. Jake 10 4 until further reconnection 366 36, 10 4 years back up. Everybody needs to stay clear. What's it mean to the ground? Come on. Wait, that might be the third. I don't know. I thought that was mine. This county 30. Okay, 17 years old markets like Maldonado in the greatest africa. Yeah, we gotta All right. The building we're at. I don't know. They just came in the front door and I was at the front of the building going toward the back of the building and I saw him as they came in the door and I heard a strange noise and I turned around and glanced behind me and the man coming in the door last had a chain in his hand and he chained the door and as he did that, the other guy pulled out a gun. It looked like a pump shotgun sawed off shotgun. What did they say? He told the reception said this is a holdup. I didn't hear the rest of it because I had, I kept walking and they evidently didn't see me and I ran out the back telling everybody else that there was a hold up. So you left through the back door, right when you saw this? Yeah, I left through the back door. Yeah. My back. Okay. Mhm. And y'all got enough today without shooting that. What channel is that?

35 years ago: WRAL News anchor Charlie Gaddy had phone conversation on live TV with man holding Robesonian newspaper staff hostage

On Feb. 1, 1988, Eddie Hatcher and Timothy Jacobs walked into the Robesonian newspaper office in Lumberton with sawed-off shotguns and chained the door closed behind them. The men wanted to bring national attention to what they saw as rampant corruption and racism in Robeson County.

35 years ago: WRAL News anchor had live TV conversation with man holding Lumberton newspaper staff hostage

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From his boyhood home to the WRAL anchor desk, Charlie Gaddy shares memories of a legendary career. 

if you look on them at a map of north Carolina, there's a dot in the middle. The word Biscoe is right beside the dot charlie. Gaddafi's hometown. It's a wonderful little town. Kind of reminds me of Mayberry and I can remember sitting on the steps of our little house and hearing ed Murrow on the radio from London, 1940, there's another searchlight while the bombs were falling. Just a few people here walking rather hurriedly toward the air raid shelters. But the idea that Ed Murrow was talking to daddy and me and Biscoe just made the hair stand up on my head and I thought I sure would like to be a broadcaster. But instead, young charlie went to Washington to study law. I didn't flunk out. I always quick to say that. But after I got into contracts torts and legal methods, I thought, oh my God, I just threw in the towel and started knocking on doors at the huge broadcast stations up there. And I got in one of them at NBC as a page boy. It's where he met his future wife Nancy, an executive secretary at NBC. She had this great figure and this little summer dresses weaving back and forth and I just thought I need to get to know that girl. This is NBC. There was an audition for summer replacement announcer and that's how I got on the air. I had to give the system. Q after meet the press. This is the NBC television network. That was all I had to say. But I'll tell you my hands broke out in a sweat and that was back when we had to keep the log for the FCC and my hands perspired. So I was smearing the ink and everything. Good morning and welcome to our FM left news. He learned of a job opening in Raleigh, reading commercials, reading news and hosting a show and it was a telephone call in thing and it got to be very popular and that's how I got over to Channel five because Channel five wanted charlie for its show. It's Good Morning charlie. The show that makes you the star at times he was a singing star for tonight. I'm going to see mama chair of me. Oh, but eventually he became the W. R. A. L. News anchor. Good Evening. I'm charlie Gaddy and welcome to our new expanded edition of Action News five. He was on the desk and in the field for 24 years. The hot and arid summer of 1977 continues tonight. Tell me about the Robison Ian newspaper and the hostage situation. Oh my goodness! Eddie. Hatcher, american indian activists went in there with a shotgun. What will it take for you to just put the guns down and let those people get out of there. I talked to him and I said, Eddie, you've got to put that gun down and he said, well I want to talk with Governor Hunt. So I put Hatcher and the governor on the phone together and Governor Hunt talked him into putting the gun down the tornado that struck Raleigh in 1988. We were coming in here with the fireman and the rescue people at the same time. We were that early, the 50th anniversary of D Day and the people of this part of France would have true heroes for life. That was one of the most emotional stories. The white crosses takes your breath away. There's the sacrifice right there in front of you. Action News five with Charlie Getty. I found news made my life Enriched in so many ways. The man in the White House now is President Ronald. Reagan Charlie retired from W. R. A. L. in 1994. My father died at 65. Now I did. I was 63 when I retired. I didn't think I was going to die 65. But I thought, well maybe 70 Or maybe 75. Well here I am, Here I am, 90, 90. And grateful and wise. The young people would say to me, what is the secret? I said there is no secret. You follow the truth and your fair and you just use your common sense. The temperature inside these tents 110 degrees. I do feel good about what I've done because I've seen things and I couldn't have imagined being a boy from Biscoe. It was amazing. Really? II

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In honor of his 90th birthday on Sept. 17, test your Charlie Gaddy knowledge!

Charlie Gaddy is the legendary WRAL-TV newscaster whose reassuring, conversational anchor style led viewers to call him "the Walter Cronkite of North Carolina television."

Gaddy was the primary anchor of WRAL's evening newscasts for 20 years, winning awards and becoming one of the most successful local news anchors in television history.

In honor of his 90th birthday on Sept. 17, test your Charlie Gaddy knowledge!

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Thursday was a special day for legendary WRAL News anchor Charlie Gaddy and his wife, Nancy.

AS FOR HOW LONG THE ISSUE IS ANYONE'S GUESS. MANY EXPERTS BELIEVE AT LEAST THROUGH THE ELECTION. MONICA LALIBERTE, WRAL NEWS, 5 ON YOUR SIDE. >> DURING THE PANDEMIC WE HAVE USED THE TERM MILESTONE IN A NEGATIVE WAY. TONIGHT WE ARE USING IT IN A WONDERFUL WAY TO CONGRATULATING A MEMBER OF THE WRAL FAMILY ON A MILESTONE. LOOK AT THIS . CHARLIE AND NANCY GADDY 60 YEARS AGO THIS IS THEIR ANNIVERSARY. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL COUPLE. THEY MET WORKING AT THE NBC STATION IN WASHINGTON AND OUR PHOTOGRAPHER TOOK THIS PICTURE BEFORE THE WEDDING AND LOOK AT THIS. I LOVED. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN TOGETHER BECAUSE OF RESTRICTIONS. THEY SPEAK EVERY DAY ON THE PHONE. FROM ALL OF US, CHARLIE AND NANCY, HAPPY 60th ANNIVERSARY. >> SO MANY PEOPLE KNOW CHARLIE FROM BEING HERE FOR 24 YEARS AND SO MANY NOW NANCY THE FISH

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WRAL legend Charlie Gaddy celebrates 60th anniversary

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