ABC NEWS SPECIAL: AMERICA HELD HOSTAGE: THE SECRET NEGOTIATIONS {PART 2 OF 4} (TV)
Summary
Part two of this four-part updated "ABC News Special" report on the Jimmy Carter administration's negotiations with Iran to free the American hostages. Highlights include the following: a discussion of the United Nations Commission's failure to see the hostages, with comments by Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Hamilton Jordan, and Harold Saunders; the negotiations between Iran and Panama for the arrest of the Shah, including discussion by Ghotbzadeh, Christian Bourguet, Panama's President Aristedes Royo, and the Shah's spokesman Robert Armao; the failure of the deal to have Panama arrest the Shah in exchange for the hostages' transfer to the Iranian government, includes comments by Jordan, Armao, Bourguet, the Panamanian lawyer for Iran, Juan Materno Vasquez, Eric Rouleau ("Le Monde"), Hector Villalon, and Ghotbzadeh. Includes a commercial for the motion picture "Fort Apache, The Bronx" with Paul Newman and Edward Asner.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: January 28, 1981 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:30:11
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T83:0640
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Iran - History - Hostage crisis, 1979-1981; Panama; United Nations
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1981
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Robert E. Frye … Executive Producer
- Robert Roy … Executive Producer
- John W. Lower … Senior Producer
- Frank N. Manitzas … Senior Producer
- Martin Clancy … Producer
- Neil Cunningham … Producer
- Jeff Diamond … Producer
- Robert Murphy … Producer
- Ellen Rossen … Producer
- Jan Rifkinson … Direction (Misc.), Post-Production Director
- George Orick … Writer
- Pierre Salinger … Reporter
- Robert Armao
- Edward Asner
- Christian Bourguet
- Jimmy Carter
- Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
- Hamilton Jordan
- Materno Vasquez, Juan
- Paul Newman
- Pahlevi, Mohammed Riza (Shah of Iran)
- Eric Rouleau
- Aristedes Royo
- Harold Saunders
- Hector Villalon