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That same day, U.N. Secretary General Waldheim
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

That same day, U.N.Secretary General Waldheim arrives in Tehran to negotiatethe release of...

That same day, U.N.
Secretary General Waldheim arrives in Tehran to negotiate
the release of the hostages

Full Transcript

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That same day, U.N. Secretary General Waldheim
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arrives in Tehran to negotiate the release of the hostages.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:17:08
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.
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
The idea of a new show at 11:30 at night, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:10
The idea of a new show at 11:30 at night,
And then, something kind of amazing happens. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
And then, something kind of amazing happens.
Good evening, some of the rhetoric coming out - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
Good evening, some of the rhetoric coming out
There was a long running drama - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:13
There was a long running drama
It had lots of unpredictable characters, - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
It had lots of unpredictable characters,
There has been a startling new development - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:05
There has been a startling new development
That U.S. attempt to launch a military rescue - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
That U.S. attempt to launch a military rescue
And it had this kind of agonizing pathos - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:08
And it had this kind of agonizing pathos
Not only were the Americans - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:09
Not only were the Americans
The TV was part of what was taking us hostage. - Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project 00:07
The TV was part of what was taking us hostage.