Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from CNN Evening News for Wednesday, Feb 13, 1991


Title: Gulf War Coverage -- CNN -- 02/13/1991 -- Wednesday

Abstract:

  • Reporters: Susan Rook / Bernard Shaw / Charles Bierbauer / John Holliman / Jeanne Moos / Greg Lefevre / Wolf Blitzer / Art Harris / Brent Sadler / Charles Feldman / Beverly Schuch / Al Hinman
  • Taped Segments: Allied bombing of civilian bomb shelter / Iraqi media propaganda / UN Security Council meeting / Syria-Israel relations / Arab-American reaction to Allied bombing of civilian bomb shelter / US military strategy / US Second Marine Division / "Special Assignment" re: Army Reservists / the last 18 hours
  • Coverage re: Persian Gulf War, including Allied bombing of civilian bomb shelter, Soviet-Iraq relations, Syria-Israel relations, Egypt-Libya relations, war poll.
  • Taped footage of interviews and statements from Iraqi Health Minister Abdul Salam Said, Marlin Fitzwater, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, President George Bush, Turkish Ambassador Nuzhet Kandemir, Kuwaiti Ambassador Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Brig. Gen. Richard Neal, Group Capt. Niall Irving, Lt. Gen. Thomas Kelly, Sidney Blumenthal, Douglas Feith, British Ambassador Sir David Hannay, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Yemini Ambassador Abdalla Saleh al-Ashtal, Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, Iraqi Ambassador Abdul Amir al-Anbari, Boris Golishev, Shimon Peres, Faisal Husseini, Itamar Rabinovitz, Benjamin Netanyahu, Avi Pazner, Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, Capt. David Herrington, Capt. Scott Campbell, Gen. Colin Powell, Gen. Wes Clark, and Col. James Patrick O'Neal.

  • Begin Time:09:00:10 pm
    End Time:09:58:00 pm
    TVN Record Number:660656
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1991-2009 Vanderbilt University
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