Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from NBC Evening News for Sunday, Dec 30, 1990


Title: 1990: Living On The Edge

Abstract:Recap of the most significant news stories of 1990 with Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel. Includes discussion of and segments re: Persian Gulf Crisis, Bush's presidency, taxes and the budget in the US, political conflict and change in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and South Africa, the American economy, controversial medical advances, racial conflict in the US, First Amendment issues, and drugs and crime. Also commemorates influential Americans who died over the year.

Begin Time:07:00:00 pm
End Time:07:57:40 pm
TVN Record Number:894842
Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1990-2009 Vanderbilt University
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