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Gulf War LIVE Broadcasts 20 Years Ago Today
Hard to believe that it's already been 20 years since the Gulf War was announced on TV by White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater.
That late afternoon/evening (January 16, 1991) also featured live reports from Baghdad of air raids in progress, much like Ed Murrow had invented and perfected 50+ years earlier for CBS in London.
In many (all?) instances, the TV reports in 1991 differed from Murrow's radio broadcasts only by including a static graphic element: a headshot of the particular correspondent superimposed on a map of Iraq to accompany the audio-only report.
It was a night of TV as it had once been pejoratively described in the 1940s: radio with pictures!
(Posted by Feliks Banel)
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