Category Archives: Classic News

ABC News: 20/20- First Episode: 6/06/1978

Source: The New Democrat As the lead in to this video said ABC News, was a small player if not joke in the network news business in the 1970s. They basically remained that way until the Iran Hostage Crisis in … Continue reading

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ABC World News Tonight (July 10, 1978) The Soviet Union Making Trouble

Source: The New Democrat  The thing that people need to know about Marxist states which is exactly what the Soviet Union of Russia was for over seventy-years before the Soviet Union broke with all the non-ethnic-Russian states breaking away and … Continue reading

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ABC News: America Held Hostage: The Iran Crisis

Source:The New Democrat  I never make excuses for terrorists and terrorism and don’t respect anyone who does. But the U.S. Government including the Carter Administration and every single American administration going back to Harry Truman, have some responsibility for this … Continue reading

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Bob Parker: ABC World News January 6, 1987: The 100th Congress & The Iran Contra Investigation

Source:The New Democrat Early 1987 and really the whole 1987 year was a bad one for President Ronald Reagan and the Reagan Administration. Republicans, lost the Senate in 1986 which gave Congressional Democrats complete control of Congress going into 1987. … Continue reading

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ABC News: 45-85- Communism on The March

Source:The New Democrat Without the creation of NATO the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that is responsible for the security of North America and Europe and Europe primarily, Germany would’ve been occupied by either the United States or Soviet Union. And … Continue reading

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Bob Parker: ABC News 45-85: Start of The Cold War

. Source:The New Democrat What British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was talking about when he called for the need for a North Atlantic Alliance that would fight against the spread of communism in Europe, became NATO in 1949. The North … Continue reading

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ABC News: Special Report – American Hostages Day 444

Source:The New Democrat  The final insult from Iran to President Jimmy Carter was Iran not officially releasing the American hostages in Iran until the second or minute that Jimmy Carter was no longer President of the United States. And then … Continue reading

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ABC News: Special Report – Iranian Hostage Crisis – 12/03/1979

Source:The New Democrat The Shah of Iran was a major reason for why the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis came about in the first place. Because the Shah was a dictator and at times a brutal dictator even though he was … Continue reading

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ABC News: Special Report: Iranian Hostage Crisis (11/11/1979)

Source:The New Democrat  The 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis was the final nail in the coffin of a very horrible year for America and President Jimmy Carter. With all the bad economic news with the high cost of living due to … Continue reading

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Bob Parker: ABC News 45-85- Post-World War II

Source:Bob Parker– ABC News anchor Ted Koppel. Source:The Daily Press “45/85 Part 1 an ABC News television documentary. It aired on September 18, 1985. The three-hour program combined archive film and television footage with new interviews to document post-World War … Continue reading

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