Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Tuesday, Dec 19, 1989


Title: Nightline

Abstract:

Live discussion re: recent package bombings in Alabama and Georgia with Chris Wallace (ABC), NAACP Executive Director Benjamin Hooks, Anti-Defamation League Southern Civil Rights Director Charles Wittenstein, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Special Agent Jim Adamcik; taped segment with Forrest Sawyer (ABC), Al Dale (ABC), Adamcik, Warren Strain of Jackson, Mississippi station WAPT, Walter Rodgers (ABC), excerpt of today's press conference by FBI Director William Sessions, and Hooks; this broadcast was interrupted by two brief ABC News special reports re: US attack in Panama.

Begin Time:11:30:00 pm
End Time:12:05:00 am
TVN Record Number:646353
Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1989-2009 Vanderbilt University
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