NBC Nightly News - 1995-10-16
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[0:00] Any advice? Demands for racial justice.
[0:03] NBC News in depth tonight. The man and
[0:05] the movement behind the march. Minister
[0:07] Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.
[0:10] President Clinton praises the march
[0:11] acknowledges the pain. Criticizes the
[0:14] messages of hate. And health watch
[0:16] tonight. How HMOs are targeting healthy
[0:19] seniors because they've got the big
[0:21] bucks. From NBC News, this is NBC
[0:25] [music] Nightly News with Tom Brokoff.
[0:28] reporting tonight from Washington.
[0:31] >> Good evening from Washington where at
[0:33] this hour the march now is beginning to
[0:35] wind down, but the heart of the capital
[0:36] was filled with African-American men
[0:38] today. A huge crowd. Official police
[0:41] estimates 400,000, perhaps even larger
[0:44] than that, young and old from all
[0:46] corners of the country here to
[0:47] participate in ceremonies of
[0:49] celebration, atonement, protest. here to
[0:52] be praised and challenged by black
[0:55] preachers and politicians, poets and
[0:57] entertainers. At the end of the day, a
[1:00] long passionate and confrontational
[1:02] speech from the controversial leader of
[1:04] the march, Minister Lewis Farrakhan of
[1:06] the Nation of Islam. Farrakhan spoke
[1:09] beyond the audience directly in front of
[1:11] him, challenging President Clinton. We
[1:15] begin now with NBC's Robert Hager.
[1:17] They poured off buses from Baltimore,
[1:20] Richmond, Syracuse, Norfolk, and all
[1:22] across the country. By midday, they
[1:25] filled the Washington Mall from the US
[1:27] capital all the way to the Washington
[1:28] Monument, a stunning site. They heard
[1:31] from scores of black leaders and from
[1:33] the poet Maya Angelo. And at day's end,
[1:36] th