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

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Title: The Mission that Failed Abstract: Live NBC news program covering the recent failed rescue attempt of US hostages in Iran, hosted by John Chancellor. With reports and analysis from John Palmer, Hillary Brown, James Compton, Roy Neal, Andrea Mitchell, Bob Jiminez, Kenley Jones, John Hart, Jim Bittermann, Keith Miller, Fred Francis, Steve Delaney, Judy Woodruff, Jim Cummins, Garrick Utley, and George Lewis. Taped footage of interviews with President Anwar Sadat, Bob Ropelewski, James Schlesinger, Professor Edward Luttwak, Miles Copeland, Theresa Gallegos, Jesus Lopez, Ernest Cooke, Zane Hall, Virgil Sickman, William Kupke, Kenneth Hermening, Vivian Homeyer, George Holmes, Jim De Marco, George Bush, Mayor Coleman Young, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Henry Kissinger, Senators Frank Church, Henry Jackson, and Charles Percy, Edmund Muskie, Howard Baker, Alan Cranston, and Representatives Henry Reuss, Samuel Stratton, James Wright, and John Anderson. Taped footage of statements from President Jimmy Carter, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, Senator Edward Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan. Begin Time: 09:00:00 pm End Time: 09:58:50 pm TVN Record Number: 853748 Copyright: Abstract and Metadata (c) 1980-2009 Vanderbilt University More Information: Contact the staff of the Archive.

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