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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Some 60 Americans,including our fellow citizen whom you just sawbound and blindfolded, are...

Some 60 Americans,
including our fellow citizen whom you just saw
bound and blindfolded, are now beginning
their sixth day of captivity inside the U.S.
Embassy in Tehran

Full Transcript

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Some 60 Americans, including our fellow citizen
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whom you just saw bound and blindfolded,
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are now beginning their sixth day of captivity
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inside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:15:45
Uploaded
Jun 11, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, history
Production
End Cue,Electric Chinoland,C41

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Movie Summary

For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news 24 hours a day filling 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing wars, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today.
Officials will continue their search for some way - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Officials will continue their search for some way
A lot of the early reports indicated that there were, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
A lot of the early reports indicated that there were,
You know, obviously, if you were running - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
You know, obviously, if you were running
Nobody else is gonna keep this." - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Nobody else is gonna keep this."
Her goal was trying to reveal a set of agendas - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
Her goal was trying to reveal a set of agendas
Soviet troops have swept into Afghanistan, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Soviet troops have swept into Afghanistan,
As much as it would like to, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
As much as it would like to,
Day 59, January 1st, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
Day 59, January 1st,
But this time, Khomeini'’s revolutionary guards - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
But this time, Khomeini'’s revolutionary guards
That same day, U.N. Secretary General Waldheim - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
That same day, U.N. Secretary General Waldheim
She was kind of watching - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
She was kind of watching
Kind of uniformly anti-Iran, people were calling for war. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:04
Kind of uniformly anti-Iran, people were calling for war.
She felt that there was a lack of sympathy - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
She felt that there was a lack of sympathy
One analyst says, Khomeini so strongly detests the U.S. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
One analyst says, Khomeini so strongly detests the U.S.
For its support of the Shah who was his lifetime enemy, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:11
For its support of the Shah who was his lifetime enemy,
Outside the United States Embassy in Tehran, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
Outside the United States Embassy in Tehran,
[chanting] - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
[chanting]
America Held Hostage aired first for fifteen minutes, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:06
America Held Hostage aired first for fifteen minutes,
It'’s actually a kind of successful show - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
It'’s actually a kind of successful show
Nightline was actually a very transformative program - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Nightline was actually a very transformative program