Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Wednesday, Jul 17, 1991


Title: Nightline

Abstract:

  • Live discussion re: possibility that three US Vietnam War soldiers listed as missing-in-action are still alive in Cambodia with Ted Koppel (ABC), MIA's daughter Shelby Robertson Quast, Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Carl Ford, and Sen. John Kerry.
  • Taped segment with James Walker (ABC), MIA's mother Gladys Fleckenstein, MIAs' wives Johanna Lundy and Barbara Robertson, Bob Zelnick (ABC), MIA's daughter Colleen Shine, MIA's brother Jeff Donahue, and Kerry.

  • Begin Time:10:30:00 pm
    End Time:10:59:00 pm
    TVN Record Number:647043
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1991-2009 Vanderbilt University
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