ABC News Viewpoint - "The Day After" - WLS Channel 7 (Complete Broadcast, 11/20/1983) 📺

Here is (in improved quality) the complete live ABC News Viewpoint special on "The Nuclear Dilemma". This aired immediately following "The Day After" on WLS Channel 7 - an ABC Theater telemovie about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States. Hosted by Ted Koppel. There were no commercial breaks, or breaks of any kind, in the broadcast.

Panel of guests were:

Carl Sagan - notable and distinguished scientist and an authority on the topic of Nuclear Winter.

William F. Buckley Jr. - noted conservative political commentator, and publisher of the National Review

Robert S. McNamara - United States Secretary of Defense to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

Henry Kissinger - National Security Adviser and later Secretary of State for President Richard Nixon

Brent Scowcroft - National Security Adviser for President Gerald Ford, and later National Security Adviser for President George H.W. Bush

Elie Wiesel - noted author, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Holocaust survivor

Also includes a one-on-one interview with then Secretary of State George Schultz, Sagan addressing the concept of nuclear winter, audience questions, and more.

At 1:04:37, Sagan gives his now famous analogy, "Imagine, a room, awash in gasoline. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches. The other has 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger..."

We also see an on-screen crawl at 33:45 and again at 35:57 promoting WLS-TVs Eyewitness News coverage of the movie, immediately following the Viewpoint special.

Lastly, after the special is over there is a promo for ABC News featuring Peter Jennings.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 20th 1983 during the 9:25pm to 10:45pm timeframe.

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