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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

1983-0360

Vidéo

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1970-12-29

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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 Cunningham

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.

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 ELLIOTT

English

Libre

V1 8401-0036

GAD 0FD547

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

With written permission of Donor / Avec la permission écrite du donateur