ABC Evening News for
Wednesday, Apr 19, 1989
Headline: USS Iowa/ Explosion
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| Summary: | (Studio: Peter Jennings ) Report introduced. (DC: John McWethy) Explosion inside gun turret aboard battleship USS Iowa during training exercises in Atlantic Ocean near Puerto Rico reported; details given of events during reloading operations; scenes shown from ship; animation shown. [President BUSH - calls it a terrible tragedy.] (Studio: Peter Jennings ) History of USS Iowa and its class of ships featured; armor plating of gun turrets on this kind of ship explained; historical films shown. Modernization of battleships discussed; use of USS New Jersey in 1983 in support of United States Marines in Lebanon recalled. Minor collision of two other ships taking part in training exercises mentioned. | ||
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| Program Time: | 05:30:00 pm - 05:34:20 pm. Duration: 04:20 | ||
| Reporters: | McWethy, John; Jennings, Peter | ||
| Link to this page | http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=121615 | ||
| Broadcast Type: | Evening News Segment Type: News Content | ||
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| Record Number: | 121615 | ||