Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Tuesday, Jan 15, 1991


Title: Nightline

Abstract:

  • Live discussions re: today's UN deadline for withdrawal of Iraq's military forces from Kuwait with Ted Koppel (ABC), Brit Hume (ABC), Gary Shepard (ABC), Bob Zelnick (ABC), former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman William Crowe, military analyst Bernard Trainor, Forrest Sawyer (ABC), military analyst Anthony Cordesman, Pierre Salinger (ABC), and Judith Kipper of the Brookings Institution.
  • Taped segment with Sawyer, and US soldiers Ron Woods, Tom Gemmell, Philip Leatherbury, Marci Gindlesberg, Thomas Landino, and unidentified others.
  • Taped segment with John Donvan (ABC), Jordan Member of Parliament Laith Shebelat, Professor Kamel Abu Jaber, George Joffe, and unidentified Jordanians and Palestinians.
  • Taped segment with James Walker (ABC), terrorism expert Brian Jenkins, Heino Kopitz of "Controlled Risks", State Department Spokesperson Richard Boucher, and excerpt of 1/12/91 statement by George Bush.
  • Taped segment with Jeff Greenfield (ABC), excerpts of various radio and television broadcasts, and unidentified Americans.
  • Taped segment with Jackie Judd (ABC), Bishop Edmund Browning, Alex Molnar of the National Network of Military Families, and unidentified anti-war protestors.
  • Broadcast concludes with a collection of images and the statements of unidentified people.

  • Begin Time:10:30:00 pm
    End Time:11:30:00 pm
    TVN Record Number:646832
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1991-2009 Vanderbilt University
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