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Record information – Brief The Year It Happened Here
Series title:Tuesday NightHierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Item number (ISN):6598Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTOAccession:1983-0360Media:VideoPart:1 of 1Release date:1970-12-29Production company:Canadian Broadcasting CorporationProduction credit:executive producer, William Harcourt; Gordon Donaldson; Don McQueen; Garth Price; host, Lloyd Robertson; correspondent, Don McNeil; Ab Douglas, Peter Daniel; Ron Collister; David Halton; Bill CunninghamDescription:Television news program highlighting major events of 1970. Clips and commentary on the following news stories are shown: the FLQ crisis in Quebec; the hijacking and blowing up of aircraft in the Middle East; U.S. intervention in Cambodia and protest demonstrations on American campuses; death of Arab leader Gamal Abdel Nasser; the funeral of General Charles DeGaulle; civil war in Jordan; intellectual discontent and dissent in the Soviet Union; failure of the Apollo 13 moon mission. Noteworthy sequences include Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announcing the invoking of the War Measures Act on television; President Richard Nixon giving a news conference on Vietnamese conflict; police attack on student demonstration at Kent State University; and anti-Vietnamese communist demonstrations in Cambodia. CBC correspondents provide their predictions for the new year.Subjects:ANTI-WAR MOVEMENTS~CIVIL WAR~DEMONSTRATIONS~DISSENTERS~FRANCE~FUNERAL RITES & CEREMONIES~HIJACKING OF AIRCRAFT~JORDAN~MIDDLE EAST~OCTOBER CRISIS~PRESIDENTS~PROJECT APOLLO~RIOTS~SOVIET UNION~TERRORISM~UNITED STATES~VIETNAMESE CONFLICT, 1961-1975~CANADA. WAR MEASURES ACT <1970>~KENT STATE UNIVERSITY~COLLISTER, RON~CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM~DANIEL, PETER~DOUGLAS, AB~HALTON, DAVID~MCNEILL, DON~NASSER, GAMAL ABDEL~NIXON, RICHARD~ROBERTSON, LLOYD~TRUDEAU, PIERRE ELLIOTTLanguage:EnglishDetailed holdings information: -
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