Nightline (ABC) from the Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Friday, Jul 06, 1990

Title: Nightline

Abstract:	Live discussion re: jailing of KMOL-TV reporter Brian Karem for his refusal to reveal sources used in reporting of confession to Gary Williams murder in San Antonio (Texas) with Forrest Sawyer (ABC), Karem (via telephone from jail), Bexar County (Texas) Assistant District Attorney Beth Taylor, defense attorney Mark Stevens, and KMOL-TV Managing Editor Forrest Carr; taped segment with James Walker (ABC), Karem, Taylor, Bexar County Sheriff Harlan Copeland, Karem's lawyer Larry Macon, Constitutional lawyer Floyd Abrams, and Jane Kirtley of the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Begin Time:	11:30:00 pm
End Time:	11:59:00 pm
TVN Record Number:	646778
Copyright:	Abstract and Metadata (c) 1990-2009 Vanderbilt University
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