Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Thursday, Mar 21, 1991


Title: Nightline

Abstract:

  • Live discussion re: causes and pervasiveness of police brutality in US in the aftermath of videotaped beating incident by Los Angeles (California) olice with Ted Koppel (ABC), former Austin (Texas) police officer identified as "Frank", and National Fraternal Order of Police President Dewey Stokes.
  • Taped segment with Los Angeles community leader Kerman Maddox, George Bush, Professor James Fyfe, Reverend Calvin Butts, DC policeman Gary Hankins, author Michael Avery, author Ishmael Reed, and unidentified others.
  • Update on postwar conditions in Iraq, including UN report recommending immediate lifting of sanctions blocking the shipment of food, supplies, and agricultural equipment there.

  • Begin Time:11:30:00 pm
    End Time:11:59:00 pm
    TVN Record Number:646961
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1991-2009 Vanderbilt University
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