Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from CNN Evening News for Thursday, Feb 14, 1991


Title: Gulf War Coverage -- CNN -- 02/14/1991 -- Thursday

Abstract:

  • Reporters: Susan Rook / Patrick Emory / John Sweeney / Peter Arnett / Tony Clark / Jeanne Moos / Carl Rochelle / Linda Scherzer / Karen Maginnis / Tom Mintier / Ed Garsten / Eugenia Halsey / Marc Levenson
  • Taped Segments: USS America / Iraqi equipment destroyed / excerpt of interview by Bandar bin Sultan / Iraqi communication center in Rashid hotel / Jordanians march for Iraqi civilians killed in Allied bombing / UN Security Council meeting / combat air patrol / effect of the war on Israel / Valentines and the war
  • Coverage re: Persian Gulf War, including, Allied bombing of civilian bomb shelter, excerpt of statement by Marlin Fitzwater, civilian casualties, anti-war protests, letters to CNN, letters to CNN, weather in the Persian Gulf.
  • Taped footage of interviews and statements from Brig. Gen. Richard Neal, Col. Ahmed al-Robayan, Lt. Gen. Thomas Kelly, Saudi Arabian Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Iraqi Information Minister Latif Jassim, Folke Eneroth, Ghazi Ali Ismail, German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Iraqi Ambassador Abdul Amir al-Anbari, Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Eliahu Ben Elissar, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens, Israeli Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai, David Littman, Maynard Burnette, Levetrice Clark, Johnathan Logan, Robert Grayer, Jeff Caponigro, Drs. Wayne Greaves, Paul Beninger, and Alvin Novick, Bjorn Aspheim, Bruce Harvey, Raymond Bolduc, Tom Schwendler, Lori O'Brien, Kim Rego, and Debra Borchert.

  • Begin Time:11:00:10 pm
    End Time:11:58:00 pm
    TVN Record Number:660689
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1991-2009 Vanderbilt University
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