ARCHIVE OF TONY KIRITSIS Videos
On Tuesday, February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis took Dick Hall hostage in Indianapolis, Indiana. After walking into the building at 129 East Market Street he went up to the 4th floor where the Meridian Mortgage offices were located. There he tied his dead man's line around Richard Hall and then dialed 911. This video is the entire 911 call made that day from Kiritsis. Please be warned this video has a lot of expletives.
As you’ll see in the film, Tony Kiritsis held court before local media and law enforcement for an incredibly intense amount of time while he read off his demands and shoved his hostage Dick Hall around in front of the cameras. We didn’t have enough space to include the whole spectacle, but the footage in its entirety is significant for many reasons, not the least of which is that you will never see anything like it on TV today.
So here are the first 8 consecutive minutes of the news conference like you’ve never seen them before. That’s because we had to create this video from scratch using multiple audio and video sources that had never been mixed together before.
For an excellent account of what it felt like to be in the room that night on February 10, 1977, please check out a piece written by our good friend Tom Cochrun. In later years, he would become an anchor on WTHR’s evening news here in Indianapolis, but back in ’77, Cochrun covered the story as a reporter for local radio giant WIBC and has eloquently captured the experience of the whole thing, and in particular the Thursday Night News Conference, in his Tracearticle “A Time of Hostages: A Reporter’s Notebook.”
Stephen Kiritsis is interviewed after the press conference.
Here you will see Tony Kiritsis older brother being interviewed the night of Tony's arrest.
In the documentary, Josh Littman's, WISH-TV 8 reporter, states that "Tony has three brothers but he doesn't like two of them". Stephen is one of the brothers at the time that he didn't like.
Kiritsis Live Verdict
Raw video..The jury had been out for two and a half days, and on the night of October 21, 1977, no one really thought they would reach a unanimous decision before calling it a day. Court officials and attorneys had gone to dinner or retired for the evening when they were suddenly called back into the City-County Building. This was broadcast live on local Indianapolis TV.
After the verdict interviews.
Raw live footage after the verdict had been read in the Tony Kiritsis trial. Three people are interviewed. First is Tony's attorney Nile Stanton, Tony's brother Jimmy Kiritsis, and prosecutor George Montgomery. Unfortunately, Montgomery's audio is a bit noisy and could not be fixed. Also seen in the video is Tony's other lawyer Richard Kiefer. A big thank you to local newsperson Linda Lupear for providing footage.
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