Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Wednesday, Jun 26, 1991


Title: Nightline

Abstract:

  • Live discussion re: the issue of alcohol advertising targeted to ethnic and racial groups with Ted Koppel (ABC), Reverend George Clements, Surgeon General Antonia Novello, and Association of National Advertisers President Dewitt Helm.
  • Taped segment with Dave Marash (ABC), advertising executive Lowell Thompson, Ira Teinowitz of "Advertising Age", former DC Health Commissioner Reed Tuckson, Reverend Calvin Butts, and Jeff Becker of the Beer Institute.
  • Update by Koppel of 6/20/91 "Nightline" broadcast re: possible 1980 meeting between then Reagan campaign manager William Casey and an Iranian official to discuss US embassy hostages being held at that time in Tehran, and excerpts of interviews with Imperial War Museum Secretary Jonathan Chadwick and Professor Arthur Funk.

  • Begin Time:11:31:00 pm
    End Time:12:00:00 am
    TVN Record Number:647029
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1991-2009 Vanderbilt University
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