Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from NBC Evening News for Tuesday, Jan 22, 1991


Title: Gulf War Coverage -- NBC -- 01/22/1991 -- Tuesday

Abstract:

1st hour (7-8AM):

  • Reporters: Bryant Gumbel / Deborah Norville / Rick Davis / Katherine Couric / Jim Miklaszewski / Dennis Murphy / Diana Koricke / Brendon McLaughlin / Don Oliver
  • Interviews: Rep. Les Aspin / Michael Gordon, Pete Williams / Lloyd Bucher / Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan
  • Taped Segments: conditions in Dhahran / survival training for US military personnel / US military wives in Europe / excerpts from Iraqi TV of statements by US POWs Harry Roberts and Jeffrey Tice
  • Coverage on "Special Edition of Today: America at War" re: the Persian Gulf war, including reports that Iraq is setting fire to Kuwaiti oil wells. 2nd hour (8-8:58):
  • Reporters: Bryant Gumbel / Deborah Norville / Katherine Couric / Rick Davis / Ed Rabel / Diana Koricke / Joe Garagiola / George Lewis / Martin Fletcher
  • Interviews: Bobby Muller, Tom Burch / Rene Kosirnik / Lawrence Korb, Eugene Carroll / Phaedre Dahdaleh, "Eli", La Tanya Harry / citizens of Norfolk (Virginia)
  • Taped Segments: reaction in London to Iraq's treatment of US/Allied POWs / US pilots / the situation in Tel Aviv
  • Coverage on "Special Edition of Today: America at War" re: the Persian Gulf war, including views supporting and opposing the war; discussion of the Geneva Convention and Iraqi treatment of US/Allied POWs; the effects of the war on defense spending and high tech weaponry; Pentagon confirmation that Iraq has begun destroying Kuwaiti oil storage tanks and oil wells.

  • Begin Time:07:00:00 am
    End Time:08:58:00 am
    TVN Record Number:660219
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1991-2009 Vanderbilt University
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