Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Thursday, Jan 17, 1991


Title: Gulf War Coverage -- ABC -- 01/17/1991 -- Thursday

Abstract:

  • Reporters: Mike Schneider / Carole Simpson / Steve Shepard / Bill Seamans / Ken Prewitt / Bill Greenwood / Jeanne Meserve / Rick Inderfurth / Gary Shepard
  • Interviews: Henry Dodds / Joseph Stanislaw
  • Taped Segments: Reaction in Israel to outbreak of war / Excerpts from President George Bush, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, Colin Powell (replay of earlier conference), Mikhail Gorbachev , former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and from pilots returning from direct fighting in Iraq
  • Coverage on "The Gulf War" re: the Persian Gulf war, including continued coverage of the US air attack on Baghdad and a report of the economic impact of the war.

  • Begin Time:04:00:00 am
    End Time:04:15:00 am
    TVN Record Number:861072
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1991-2009 Vanderbilt University
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