CNN SOVIET COUP COVERAGE, HOUR 22: CNN PRIME NEWS (TV)
Summary
Continued from T:26637. The 22nd hour of CNN's coverage of the attempted coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Anchor Bernard Shaw begins "CNN Prime News" with a summary of events in the Soviet Union and in the Baltics. In this hour, Eileen O'Connor reports from Moscow that tanks are surrounding the Russian Federation Building; from the White House, David French reports on the statement issued by Pres. George Bush in the afternoon; and in London, Rick Sallinger reports on the British and European reaction. Shown in clips commenting on the coup are German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; British Prime Minister John Major; Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel; British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd; and Francois Heisbourg of the International Institute of Strategic Studies. In other news, Jerry Jerrell of the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Fla., explains that Hurricane Bob will be soon be downgraded to a tropical storm; Richard Roth reports on hurricane damage along the Eastern seaboard; and in a brief summary, Shaw reports on the conviction of Julio Gonzalez by a jury in the Bronx, N.Y., and the court appearance of confessed serial killer Donald Leroy Evans. Also in this hour, Deborah Potter reports from the U.S. State Dept. on the future of U.S.-Soviet relations, with clips of comments by U.S.S.R. analyst Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), State Dept. spokesman Richard Boucher, and Viktor Komplektov, Soviet ambassador to the U.S.; Shaw interviews Adm. Stansfield Turner, former CIA director; CNN military affairs correspondent Wolf Blitzer reports on the Soviet military, with clips of comments from Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), national security advisor Brent Scowcroft, and others; and Karen Maginnis gives an update on Hurricane Bob. The hour concludes with a report on the reaction of the Russian community in America to the news of the Soviet coup. Shaw concludes the hour, preceded by a preview of "Larry King Live." Continues with T:26645.
Includes commercials for Pip Printing, Just For Men Shampoo-In hair coloring, Howard Johnson restaurants, A.1. Steak Sauce, Hampton Inn, Toyota Previa automobiles, Healthy Choice (with Diahann Carroll), Advil pain reliever, P.S. Gitano jeans, Oldsmobile automobiles, The New Yorker magazine, The Original California Car Duster, Ford automobiles, John Hancock Financial Services, Sterling by Rover, "A Portrait of Cuba" from Turner Publishing, "Roger Whittaker: Sincerely Yours" from Heartland Music; promos for CNN, "Larry King Live," and the TBS series "National Geographic Explorer"; and a public service announcement for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S. Department of Commerce).
Cataloging of this program was made possible by a grant from the Times Mirror Foundation.
Details
- NETWORK: CNN
- DATE: August 19, 1991 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:59:56
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:26644
- GENRE: News
- SUBJECT HEADING: Baltic States - History - 1991; Hurricane Bob, 1991; Serial murders; U S - Foreign relations - U S S R; U S S R - History - Attempted coup, 1991; African-American Collection - News/Talk
- SERIES RUN: CNN - TV, 1991
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - "A Portrait of Cuba" from Turner Publishing
- TV - Commercials - "Roger Whittaker: Sincerely Yours" (Heartland Music)
- TV - Commercials - A.1. Steak Sauce
- TV - Commercials - Advil pain reliever
- TV - Commercials - Ford vehicles
- TV - Commercials - Hampton Inn
- TV - Commercials - Healthy Choice meals
- TV - Commercials - Howard Johnson motels
- TV - Commercials - John Hancock Financial Services
- TV - Commercials - Just For Men hair coloring
- TV - Commercials - Oldsmobile automobile
- TV - Commercials - Original California Car Duster
- TV - Commercials - P.S. Gitano jeans
- TV - Commercials - Pip Printing
- TV - Commercials - Sterling by Rover
- TV - Commercials - The New Yorker magazine
- TV - Commercials - Toyota Previa automobile
- TV - PSA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin.
- TV - Promos - "Larry King Live"
- TV - Promos - "National Geographic Explorer"
- TV - Promos - CNN
CREDITS
- Bernard Shaw … Anchor
- Eileen O'Connor … Reporter
- David French … Reporter
- Rick Sallinger … Reporter
- Richard Roth … Reporter
- Wolf Blitzer … Reporter
- Deborah Potter … Reporter
- Karen Maginnis … Reporter
- Richard Boucher
- George Bush
- Diahann Carroll
- Vytoutus Cekanauskas
- Dennis DeConcini
- Donald Leroy Evans
- Julio Gonzalez
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Phil Gramm
- Valav Havel
- Franois Heisbourg
- Douglas Hurd
- Jerry Jerrell
- Helmut Kohl
- Viktor Komplektov
- John Major
- Sam Nunn
- Serge Rakhlin
- Brent Scowcroft
- Helmut Sonnenfeldt
- Margaret Thatcher
- Jaak Treiman
- Stansfield Turner
- Gennadi Yanayev
- Boris Yeltsin