Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from PBS Evening News for Sunday, Jan 30, 1983


Title: Frontline: In the Shadow of the Capitol

Abstract:

A look at the city of Washington D.C. and the people who run the local government. The report focuses especially on the administration of former Mayor Marion Barry and other former SNCC members involved in the administration.

Juan Williams, Ivanhoe Donaldson, John Wilson, Courtland Cox, Mitch Snyder, Ben Martin, Gaston Neal, Benjamin Hooks, Eugene Rivers, Reverend Douglass Moore.

Begin Time:08:00:00 pm
End Time:08:58:00 pm
TVN Record Number:909988
Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1983-2009 Vanderbilt University
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