The following special news broadcasts are available in the collection of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive from 1979:
Jan 17, 1979 CBS: Lamar Alexander Oath of Office
Jan 23, 1979 ABC: Carter State of The Union Address
Jan 23, 1979 ABC: Carter State of The Union Address
Jan 23, 1979 CBS: Showdown in Iran
Jan 23, 1979 CBS: Carter State of The Union Address
Jan 23, 1979 CBS: Carter State of The Union Address - Speech Only (MTO)
Jan 23, 1979 NBC: Carter State of The Union Address
Jan 23, 1979 NBC: Carter State of The Union Address
Feb 26, 1979 NBC: NBC White Paper: The American Presidency
Mar 08, 1979 NBC: Today: President Carter in Cairo
Mar 12, 1979 NBC: The Middle East: The Sticking Points
Mar 13, 1979 NBC: The Middle East: Agreement in Sight
Mar 29, 1979 ABC: Closeup: The Killing Ground
Apr 05, 1979 ABC: Energy: Crisis & Questions
Apr 12, 1979 PBS: Call to Convention: Governor Brown and the Tax Revolt
Apr 18, 1979 CBS: Your Turn (Letters to CBS News)
May 01, 1979 CBS: Fallout From Three Mile Island
May 07, 1979 PBS: Bill Moyers' Journal: A Conversation with Jerry Brown
May 09, 1979 ABC: Salt II: The Arms Debate
May 13, 1979 PBS: The 3-Mile Island Syndrome
May 19, 1979 PBS: Bill Moyers' Journal: A Conversation with Ronald Reagan
May 29, 1979 ABC: Carter Press Conference
May 29, 1979 CBS: Carter Press Conference
May 29, 1979 CBS: Carter Press Conference
May 29, 1979 NBC: Carter Press Conference
May 29, 1979 NBC: Carter Press Conference
Jun 03, 1979 NBC: The Incredible Shrinking Pump
Jun 05, 1979 CBS: D-Day Plus 20 Years: Eisenhower Returns To Normandy
Jun 13, 1979 ABC: Salt II: The Vienna Summit
Jun 17, 1979 ABC: The Carter-Brezhnev Summitt: Arms And The Future
Jun 18, 1979 ABC: Good Morning America (Salt II Signing)
Jun 18, 1979 ABC: President Carter Speech To Congress Re: Salt II
Jun 18, 1979 ABC|CBS|NBC: President Carter Speech To Congress Re: Salt II
Jun 18, 1979 CBS: Signing of the SALT II Treaty
Jun 18, 1979 CBS: President Carter Speech To Congress Re: Salt II
Jun 18, 1979 CBS: President Carter Speech To Congress Re: Salt II
Jun 18, 1979 CBS: SALT II: A Great Debate Begins
Jun 18, 1979 NBC: "Today" Show (Salt II Signing)
Jun 18, 1979 NBC: The Vienna Summit: President Carter Speech To Congress Re: Salt II
Jun 18, 1979 NBC: The Vienna Summit: President Carter Speech To Congress Re: Salt II
Jun 20, 1979 CBS: Your Turn: Letters To CBS News
Jun 21, 1979 NBC: Salt II: The Other View
Jun 26, 1979 CBS: Inflation: The High Cost of Everything
Jun 27, 1979 CBS: Salt II: Other Views
Jun 27, 1979 PBS: Do I Look Like I Want to Die?
Jun 29, 1979 NBC: The Incredible Shrinking Pump: Economic Summit
Jun 29, 1979 PBS: The Wages of Congress
Jul 10, 1979 ABC: Skylab: The Final Hours
Jul 10, 1979 NBC: National Forum: The Salt II Debate
Jul 10, 1979 NBC: Skylab Watch
Jul 15, 1979 ABC: The President Speaks: Energy & The Nation
Jul 15, 1979 ABC: The President Speaks: Energy & The Nation
Jul 15, 1979 CBS: President Jimmy Carter Speech
Jul 15, 1979 NBC: The President Speaks: Energy & The Nation
Jul 15, 1979 NBC: The President Speaks: Energy & The Nation
Jul 16, 1979 ABC: Carter Speech In Kansas City (Introduction)
Jul 16, 1979 ABC: Carter Speech In Kansas City (Analysis)
Jul 16, 1979 ABC: The President's Message: Action And Reaction
Jul 16, 1979 CBS: Carter Speech In Kansas City
Jul 16, 1979 NBC: Carter Speech In Kansas City (Introduction)
Jul 16, 1979 NBC: Carter Speech In Kansas City (Analysis)
Jul 21, 1979 CBS: The Energy Program: Other Views
Jul 24, 1979 CBS: Blacks in America: With All Deliberate Speed?
Jul 25, 1979 ABC: Carter Press Conference (Introduction)
Jul 25, 1979 ABC: Carter Press Conference (Analysis)
Jul 25, 1979 CBS: Blacks in America: With All Deliberate Speed?
Jul 25, 1979 CBS: Carter Press Conference
Jul 25, 1979 NBC: Carter Press Conference (Introduction)
Jul 25, 1979 NBC: Carter Press Conference (Analysis)
Aug 01, 1979 NBC: The Republicans: The Loyal Opposition
Aug 15, 1979 CBS: Your Turn: Letters To CBS News
Aug 19, 1979 ABC: Battleground Washington: Politics of Pressure
Aug 19, 1979 NBC: The Boat People
Sep 04, 1979 NBC: White Paper: No More Vietnams, But...
Sep 07, 1979 ABC: Carter Statement re: USSR Troops in Cuba
Sep 07, 1979 CBS: Carter Statement re: USSR Troops in Cuba (Comments)
Sep 07, 1979 NBC: Carter Statement re: USSR Troops in Cuba (Comments)
Sep 19, 1979 CBS: Your Turn: Letters To CBS News
Oct 01, 1979 ABC: Carter Speech Re: USSR Troops (Introduction)
Oct 01, 1979 ABC: Carter Speech Re: USSR Troops (Analysis)
Oct 01, 1979 CBS: Carter Speech Re: USSR Troops
Oct 01, 1979 NBC: Carter Speech Re: USSR Troops (Introduction)
Oct 01, 1979 NBC: Carter Speech Re: USSR Troops (Analysis)
Oct 02, 1979 ABC: Pope John Paul II: United Nations Address
Oct 02, 1979 CBS: Pope John Paul II: The American Journey (U.N. address)
Oct 02, 1979 CBS|ABC|NBC: Pope John Paul II: United Nations Address
Oct 02, 1979 NBC: Pope John Paul II: United Nations Address
Oct 02, 1979 NBC: Pope John Paul II: United Nations Address
Oct 09, 1979 ABC: Carter News Conference (Introduction)
Oct 09, 1979 ABC: Carter News Conference (Analysis)
Oct 09, 1979 CBS: Carter News Conference
Oct 09, 1979 NBC: Carter News Conference (Introduction)
Oct 09, 1979 NBC: Carter News Conference (Analysis)
Oct 10, 1979 CBS: Jimmy Carter speech
Oct 10, 1979 CBS: The Russians in Cuba: Salt II Other Views
Oct 11, 1979 NBC: Henry Kissinger: An Interview With David Frost
Oct 23, 1979 NBC: Women Like Us
Nov 04, 1979 CBS: CBS Reports: Teddy
Nov 07, 1979 CBS: Iran: The Desperate Dilemma
Nov 08, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage
Nov 09, 1979 ABC: Good Morning America
Nov 09, 1979 ABC: Senator Edward Kennedy at Vanderbilt University
Nov 09, 1979 CBS: CBS Morning News
Nov 09, 1979 NBC: "Today" (re: Hostages in Iran)
Nov 09, 1979 PBS: Cambodia- A Nation is Dying
Nov 12, 1979 ABC: President Carter Announcement (Analysis)
Nov 12, 1979 CBS: President Carter Announcement (Comments)
Nov 12, 1979 CBS: Iran: The Oil Cutoff
Nov 12, 1979 NBC: President Carter Announcement Re: Importation of Iranian Oil
Nov 12, 1979 NBC: The Crisis In Iran: The US Responds
Nov 12, 1979 PBS: World Special: The Real War in Space
Nov 14, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 11
Nov 15, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 12
Nov 16, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 13
Nov 16, 1979 PBS: The MacNeil / Lehrer Report
Nov 18, 1979 NBC: Prime Time Sunday (Khomeini interview)
Nov 19, 1979 ABC: Weekend Report (Khomeini interview)
Nov 19, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 16
Nov 19, 1979 NBC: Crisis In Iran: Freedom For Some
Nov 20, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 17
Nov 20, 1979 CBS: What Next In Iran?
Nov 21, 1979 ABC: Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 18
Nov 21, 1979 CBS: Day of Crisis
Nov 21, 1979 NBC: Crisis In Iran: The Turmoil Spreads
Nov 22, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 19
Nov 22, 1979 CBS: Morning News
Nov 23, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 20
Nov 23, 1979 CBS: CBS Morning News
Nov 25, 1979 PBS: The Russian Connection
Nov 26, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 23
Nov 28, 1979 ABC: Carter News Conference (Introduction)
Nov 28, 1979 ABC: Carter News Conference (Analysis)
Nov 28, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 25
Nov 28, 1979 CBS: Carter News Conference
Nov 28, 1979 CBS: The President On Iran
Nov 28, 1979 NBC: Carter News Conference (Introduction)
Nov 28, 1979 NBC: Carter News Conference (Analysis)
Nov 29, 1979 ABC: Good Morning America
Dec 03, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 30
Dec 03, 1979 NBC: Crisis In Iran: Where We Go From Here?
Dec 05, 1979 PBS: The Dick Cavett Show
Dec 07, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 34
Dec 07, 1979 CBS: Iran: A Week of Tumult
Dec 10, 1979 NBC: Hostage! The First TV Interview - A Reaction
Dec 11, 1979 PBS: Two Sides of SALT II
Dec 21, 1979 ABC: Carter Statement Re: UN Economic Sanctions Against Iran
Dec 21, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 48
Dec 21, 1979 CBS: Carter Statement Re: United Nations Economic Sanctions Against Iran
Dec 21, 1979 CBS: Iran: A Call For Sanctions
Dec 21, 1979 NBC: Carter Statement Re: UN Economic Sanctions Against Iran
Dec 21, 1979 PBS: Wall Street Week
Dec 26, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 53
Dec 26, 1979 CBS: Tehran: The Night After Christmas
Dec 26, 1979 NBC: White Paper: The American Presidency
Dec 27, 1979 ABC: The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 54
Dec 27, 1979 PBS: Direction '79: Perceptions of a Changing America
Dec 28, 1979 ABC: Carter Statement (Analysis)
Dec 28, 1979 CBS: Carter Statement (Analysis)
Dec 28, 1979 CBS: American Dream, American Nightmare...The Seventies (Part I)
Dec 29, 1979 CBS: American Dream, American Nightmare...The Seventies (Part II)
Dec 30, 1979 ABC: Infinite Horizons: Space Beyond Apollo
Dec 31, 1979 CBS: The Hostages At Christmas
Dec 31, 1979 NBC: Crisis In Iran: The Hostage Christmas
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