TV3 NATIONAL NEWS SPECIAL. NBC NEWS - AMERICA AT WAR. 17/01/1991

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1991
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Rights Information
Year
1991
Reference
F103105
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Series
NBC NEWS
Place of production
United States of America
Categories
Television
Duration
0:41:00
Production company
NBC

NBC NEWS is a current affairs show produced by the National Broadcasting Company in New York, USA. The show is broadcast internationally, including in New Zealand. This recording was captured off-air by Robert Chapman of Auckland University’s Politics Department and forms part of the extensive Chapman current affairs broadcast collection. The Chapman collection contains a small selection of recordings of NBC NEWS from 1991. During this period, NBC NEWS was broadcast in New Zealand at midday on TV3. The lead anchors in 1991 were Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd. In addition to the news programme, this item also contains advertisement breaks featuring local New Zealand commercials. 

This episode contains coverage of Persian Gulf War. NZ items on: public reaction, peace protests, Iraqis in NZ; sharemarket & exchange rate news. Ken Burslem (Correspondent in Los Angeles); Douglas Hurd (British Foreign Minister); Ewan Jamieson (fmr Defence Chief of Staff); Mark Allen (protestor).

NBC News: The Liberation of Kuwait begins as the USA launches Operation Desert Storm. Correspondents in the Gulf report in. Analysts speculate.

NBC News: America at War: Operation Desert Shield, Persian Gulf War. Events, rationale, tactics, strategies, options. Bush addresses the nation. Correspondents in the Gulf & at Pentagon report in. World financial markets. Mohammed Abbul Hassan (Kuwaiti Ambassador to UN); Edward Peck (fmr Chief of Mission, Iraq); Harry Summers (military strategist); David Boren (chair, Intelligence Cmte); George Bush (address to the nation); Richard Cheney (Secretary of Defence); Colin Powell (Joint Chiefs of Staff); Ehud Olmert (Israeli Health Minister); Bob Hormats (v-c Goldman Sachs); John Dancy (State Dept); James Zogby (Arab-American Inste).

NBC News: America at War: Persian Gulf war news coverage continues; comment by specialists. William Odom (fmr Dir., National Security Agency); Les Aspin (chair Armed Services Cmte); Joyce Starr (US Global Strategy Cncl).

NBC News- America at War: Persian Gulf war coverage continues: including Soviet role & comment. Harry Summers (military specialist); Ken Moranville (US Navy ret.); William Odam (fmr Dir., National Security Agency); Vitaly Korotich (ed., Ogonyok).

War in the Gulf: continued coverage from NBC, BBC & TV3; latest developments; NZ public opinion; debate in British parmt; comment by analysts & experts. voxpop; George Bush (US Pres.); Margaret Thatcher (fmr GB PM); John Major (GB PM); Neil Kinnock (GB Labour Party leader); Robert Hager (The Pentagon); Adel Darwish (The Independent); Hossein Askari (George Washington Uni.); William Burrows (Reconnaissance specialist); Brian Jenkins (Terrorist expert); Mark Pelervin (US Jewish Congress); Frank DeFord (ed., The National); James Jones (chair, NY Stock Exchange); George Mitchell (Senate Majority leader).

Replay of George Bush's address to the nation.