Nightline #646994
ABC Special for Tuesday, Apr 09, 1991
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Live discussion re: issues related to news media coverage of unconfirmed allegations about public figures, including the current rape accusation against Kennedy family member William Kennedy Smith and incidents alleged in the book "Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography" with Ted Koppel (ABC), Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, and biographers Doris Kearns Goodwin and David Horowitz. Taped segment with Jeff Greenfield (ABC), including excerpts of statements by and/or interviews with Sen. Ted Kennedy, Channel 7 "Eyewitness News" reporter Roz Abrams, former President Ronald Reagan, Al Hunt of the "Wall Street Journal", Howie Carr of the "Boston Herald", William Norwich of the "New York Daily News", and unidentified others.
- Duration:
- 00:29:00
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