Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Sunday, Nov 12, 1989
Title: Freedom Weekend
| Abstract: | Broadcast re: East Germany's decision to open its borders and tear down portions of the Berlin Wall with Peter Jennings (ABC); taped segments with Jennings, Jack Smith (ABC), Jim Laurie (ABC), Vitaly Churkin of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Soviet newspaper editor Vitaly Kurotich, Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennady Gerasimov, Brit Hume (ABC), excerpts of remarks by George Bush, Secretary of State James Baker, and Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, and unidentified others; live interviews by Jennings with Democracy Now Co-founder Wolfgang Ullmann, Don Kladstrup (ABC), Laurie, Barrie Dunsmore (ABC), Nikolai Shishlin of the Soviet Central Committee, Professor Robert Legvold, Hume, and John McWethy (ABC). |
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| Begin Time: | 06:00:00 pm |
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| End Time: | 06:58:00 pm |
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| TVN Record Number: | 646325 |
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| Copyright: | Abstract and Metadata (c) 1989-2009 Vanderbilt University |
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| More Information: | Contact the staff of the Archive. |
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