Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Tuesday, Oct 17, 1989


Title: Earthquake Coverage

Abstract:

Live ABC coverage of the San Francisco Bay area earthquake with Ted Koppel (ABC), reporters Bruce Hall, Mark Nelson, and Rick Lozano, San Francisco police officer Duane Collins, Al Michaels (ABC), Gary Thorne (ABC), Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent, San Francisco Police Commander Isiah Nelson, Peter Jennings (ABC), Ken Kashiwahara (ABC), taped remarks by George Bush and Chief of Staff John Sununu, Tim McCarver (ABC), KGO reporters Leslie Brinkley and Sydnie Kohara, former Seismic Safety Commission Director Bob Olson, Brit Hume (ABC), National Earthquake Information Center Geophysicist Willis Jacobs, KGO reporters Pete Wilson, Don Sanchez, Willie Monroe, Carol Ivey, and Lisa Stark, Christie Welter of San Jose Medical Center, Bay Area Earthquake Preparedness Project Director Richard Eisner, Goodyear Blimp Pilot John Crayton, International Association of Fire Chiefs President Jim Estepp, KGO reporter Dan Lovett, and unidentified others; coverage continued on "Nightline".

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TVN Record Number:646306
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