Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from NBC Evening News for Monday, Nov 25, 1985


Title: Today: Air Egypt Hijack

Abstract:Special Edition of NBC Today Show re: hosted by Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley. Reports by Bob Jamison, Steven Frazier, Bonnie Anderson, Jamie Gangel, and Phi Bremen
  • Interviews with G. Papadimitropoulos, Chief Commander, Athens International Airport; Anthony Lyons, passenger; Jerry Baker, passenger's father; David Hume Kennerly, photographer; unnamed passengers; Patrick Scott Baker, passenger; Dr. Judith Kipper, American Enterprise Institute; Dr. Daniel Pipes, Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College; and Yakov Smirnoff, Soviet comic.
  • Excerpt press conference Captain Hani Galal, pilot of hijacked plane.

  • Begin Time:07:00:00 am
    End Time:09:00:00 am
    TVN Record Number:659575
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1985-2009 Vanderbilt University
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