Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from NBC Evening News for Tuesday, Jan 27, 1981


Title: Home Are The Brave

Abstract:
  • NBC special "Home Are The Brave" re: welcome ceremony for the former American hostages in Washington D.C., reported by Marvin Kalb, John Dancy, Fred Francis, George Lewis, Robert Hager, and Tom Pettit.
  • Taped interviews with Victor Tomseth, Robert Blucker, Steven Lauterbach, James Lopez, Rodney Sickmann, Charles Beckwith, James Vaught, Alisa Harvey, Charles McMillan, Nora McMillan, Jesse Helms and unidentified others.
  • Taped excerpts of statements by Ronald Reagan, Bruce Laingen, Charles McMillan, Charles Percy, Claiborne Pell, and Alan Cranston.
  • Begin Time:10:30:00 pm
    End Time:10:58:50 pm
    TVN Record Number:866250
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1981-2009 Vanderbilt University
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