Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Tuesday, Aug 27, 1991


Title: Nightline

Abstract:

  • Live discussion re: the future of the USSR's KGB with Ted Koppel (ABC) and Andrei Kortunov of the USA-Canada Institute.
  • Discussion taped earlier today between Koppel and former KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky.
  • Taped segment with Dave Marash (ABC), Ray Cline of the Global Strategy Council, former KGB agent Stanislaw Lavchenko, Jackie Judd (ABC), intelligence expert David Wise, and KGB Chief Vadim Bakatin.
  • Videotape of a cartoon by political cartoonist Ranan Lurie.
  • Announcement of the death of AIDS patient/former ABC producer Sergio Guerrero and Koppel's remarks about Guerrero.

  • Begin Time:10:30:00 pm
    End Time:10:59:00 pm
    TVN Record Number:647073
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1991-2009 Vanderbilt University
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