Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Tuesday, Apr 24, 1990


Title: The Best of "Nightline" With Ted Koppel: The "Nightline" Decade

Abstract:

Broadcast of retrospective segments from the first ten years of "Nightline" with Ted Koppel (ABC), former Executive Producer William Lord, former Producer Susan Mercandetti, former Senior Producers Robert Jordan and Stuart Schwartz, former Executive Producer Richard Kaplan, Guest Producer Gil Pimentel, and excerpts of interviews with then Iranian Charge D'Affaires Ali Agah, Dorothea Morefield, then presidential candidates Gary Hart, Geraldine Ferraro, George Bush, and Michael Dukakis, former Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford, then baseball executive Al Campanis, AIDS patient Kenneth Meeks and his companion Jack Steinhoebel, AIDS patient Ryan White, then Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Soviet Cosmonaut Georgi Grechko, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, former Antelope City Councilman Don Smith, Rep. Wayne Fawbush, Ma Anand Sheela, Mel Gabler, Bishop Desmond Tutu, R.F. Botha, Koos Van Der Merwe, Patricia Godley, Denny Skutnik, Michael Mahoney, Dan Casey, Leslie Brinkley, and unidentified others.

Begin Time:09:00:00 pm
End Time:09:58:00 pm
TVN Record Number:646698
Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1990-2009 Vanderbilt University
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