Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from ABC Evening News for Thursday, Dec 12, 1991


Title: Nightline

Abstract:

  • Live discussion re: the issue of US economic aid for the USSR with Ted Koppel (ABC), Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, Sen. Bill Bradley, and Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
  • Taped segment with Forrest Sawyer (ABC), excerpts of speeches by Presidents Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan, CIA Director Robert Gates, excerpt of speech today by Secretary of State James Baker, Gary Milhollin of the Wisconsin Project, Rep. Richard Gephardt, George Schopflin of the London School of Economics, Professor Robert Legvold, former Gorbachev Deputy Spokesperson Sergei Grigoriev, and US Ambassador to the USSR Robert Strauss.

  • Begin Time:11:31:00 pm
    End Time:12:01:00 am
    TVN Record Number:646910
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1991-2009 Vanderbilt University
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