{"id":24188,"date":"2017-04-27T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T23:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24188"},"modified":"2017-04-27T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T23:29:30","slug":"breaking-news-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/breaking-news-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/klausl.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Millions of Hollywood tourists see the iconic 160-foot KTLA tower sitting behind a fence on the corner of Sunset and Bronson next to studio facilities for the station. In May 2016 live TV coverage showed police and\u00a0firefighters responding after a man climbed the tower.<\/p>\n<p>Today, and every day, thousands of tourists stroll the Hollywood Walk of Fame where the station itself, and six individuals associated with KTLA \u2013 former owner Gene Autry, newsmen Hal Fishman, George Putnam, Stan Chambers, Larry McCormick, and founding manager Klaus Landsberg \u2013 have received stars.<\/p>\n<p>Behind every star is a story and one of the most fascinating stories is about the remarkable Klaus Landsberg, pioneering engineer and genius in creating &#8220;must-watch&#8221; television. In the book, &#8220;Line of Sight: Klaus Landsberg His Life and Vision,&#8221; his former wife, Evelyn De Wolfe, described him as part Edison, part P.T. Barnum. Landsberg ushered in the Television Age with breaking news stories \u2013 riots, nuclear bomb tests, and the 1949 attempt to rescue 3-year-old Kathy Fiscus, who fell into an abandoned water well shaft in San Marino \u2013 shown live to viewers on TV.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/evelyn-de-wolfe.html\">Read the book review<\/a>&#8230;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Hollywood tourists see the iconic 160-foot KTLA tower sitting behind a fence on the corner of Sunset and Bronson next to studio facilities for the station. In May 2016 live TV coverage showed police and\u00a0firefighters responding after a man climbed the tower. Today, and every day, thousands of tourists stroll the Hollywood Walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}