July 17th, 1992. Geraldo Rivera on his namesake talk show introduces us to David Kates, a man who was buried in a ditch while working on a residential sewer line.
“As I turned around to come out, the side of the ditch came in on me and it buried me..”
David’s face was covered with dirt for some time, and he credits his survival to taking a deep breath in before the dirt smothered him. Footage of the all-day rescue operation is shown and the experience is recounted in detail.
This day, Geraldo’s television history.