Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Thursday, Apr 26, 1990


Title: ABC News/Time Forum: Beyond Vietnam

Abstract:

The second of a two part examination re: current US policy toward the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and a discussion of current US policy toward Vietnam, this broadcast is a live forum moderated by Peter Jennings (ABC) with Cambodian Network Council Chairman Kassie Neou, "The New York Times" photographer Dith Pran, Sen. Bob Kerrey, Handicapped International Southeast Asia Director Susan Walker, "Time" Washington Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud, US Ambassador to the UN Thomas Pickering, US-Indochina Reconciliation Project Director John McAuliff, Rep. Stephen Solarz, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation Executive Director Bobby Muller, columnist Kenneth Adelman, former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, Sen. John McCain, actress Liv Ullmann, author Frances FitzGerald, California State Assemblyman Tom Hayden, retired General William Westmoreland, psychologist Erwin Parson, University of WI-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala, former "Darmouth Review" Editor Deborah Stone, National Congress of Vietnamese in America President Bui Diem, Pepsi Cola International President Chris Sinclair, and former Kent State University student Dean Kahler; also, an excerpt from part one with former CIA Director William Colby, Rep. Chester Atkins, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, journalist Bertil Lintiner, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Solomon, and relief worker Edwin Pugh, a taped segment re: the end of the Vietnam War with former US Saigon Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Wolf Lehmann, former Overseas Adoption Director Cherie Clark, former "Time" photographer Dirck Halstead, former Warrant Officer Mark Gardiner, Ken Kashiwahara (ABC), Jim Laurie (ABC), and former Captain Max Cleland, and a taped excerpt of George Bush's inauguration speech; for information about part one see the record entitled "Peter Jennings Reporting: From the Killing Fields".

Begin Time:11:30:00 pm
End Time:01:31:00 am
TVN Record Number:646702
Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1990-2009 Vanderbilt University
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