Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Friday, May 04, 1990


Title: Nightline

Abstract:

Broadcast re: 20th anniversary of shootings at Kent State University with Ted Koppel (ABC); taped segment re: events leading to shootings with Jeff Greenfield (ABC), historian Todd Gitlin, former White House aide Leonard Garment, former Black Panther Party member Bobby Seale, excerpt of 1970 speech by radical activist Jerry Rubin, excerpt of 1970 speech by then President Richard Nixon, former Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, excerpt of 1970 news report by Peter Jennings, excerpt of 1970 speech by actress Jane Fonda, and syndicated columnist Mona Charen; taped segment re: Kent State memorial service with wounded Kent State student Dean Kahler, Kent State student Amy Harmon, slain Kent State student William Schroeder's mother Florence, Ohio Governor Richard Celeste, and Kent State Professor Henry Halen; taped segment from DC Vietnam War Memorial with Koppel, Vietnam veterans Jim Thompson, Eric Schwartz, Donald Lawson, and Tim Thomas, David Colan, Jim Lawrence, and unidentified others.

Begin Time:11:30:00 pm
End Time:12:00:00 am
TVN Record Number:646730
Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1990-2009 Vanderbilt University
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