Special News Broadcast recorded from CBS Evening News for Friday, Apr 25, 1980

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Title: The Rescue That Failed Abstract: CBS special report "The Rescue That Failed" re: failed attempt to rescue hostages in Iran, reported by Walter Cronkite, Ike Pappas, Doug Tunnell, Jim McManus, Tom Fenton, Lesley Stahl and Marvin Kalb. Live interview with Former CIA Official Miles Copeland. Includes taped excerpts of statements by Defense Secretary Harold Brown, President Jimmy Carter, Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Eric Rouleau, former President Richard Nixon, Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, Visiting Soviet Foreign Minister Andre Gromyko, NATO Secretary General Joseph Luns, Iranian U.N. ambassador Mansour Farhang, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, hostages' relatives: Vivian Hommeyer, Robert Moore, Virgil Sickmann, Kelly Hermening, Ernest Cooke, Susan Cooke, Barbara Rosen, Mr. Schaeffer, Pearl Golacinsky, Barbara Timm, Dorothea Morefield, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Hermening; and Iranians in the United States: Masud Mazha Ri, Afi, Malec Dowlatshahi and Bahram Nahidian. Begin Time: 07:00:10 pm End Time: 07:58:40 pm TVN Record Number: 659161 Copyright: Abstract and Metadata (c) 1980-2009 Vanderbilt University More Information: Contact the staff of the Archive.

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