Nightline (ABC) - 1994-12-21

Name: Nightline (ABC) - 1994-12-21
Uploaded: 2025-10-03
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Read a transcript preview of “Nightline (ABC) - 1994-12-21” from malgent, uploaded on 2025-10-03.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] On OPB.

[0:01] >> It was just weird. It was strange, but

[0:03] it was good at some point.

[0:05] >> We didn't like it very much. It wasn't

[0:06] as one It wasn't one of uh his best

[0:09] movies.

[0:10] Okay, Mixed Nuts opened in area

[0:12] theaters, rated PG-13. That's it. See

[0:14] you tomorrow.

[0:17] ABC News and Channel 2 News recognized

[0:20] as the leader in television news.

[0:23] Tomorrow morning at 6:00, join Dan

[0:25] Christopher and Janice Weibel for

[0:27] Channel 2 News this morning.

[0:33] December 21st, 1994.

[0:39] If we invade Cuba, our missiles chances

[0:41] of being fired at the United States A

[0:43] young president whose credentials on

[0:46] military matters were in question, under

[0:49] pressure to invade Cuba. Should we have

[0:51] a nuclear explosion? We either blast

[0:53] power or we're not.

[0:55] Uh you have you have warned these people

[0:58] time and again, but they can't say not

[1:00] only blockade I don't see a blockade

[1:03] being It seems to me the alternative

[1:05] indeed is just going to the UN and so on

[1:07] without it or invasion of blockade seems

[1:10] to me the worst alternative. Tonight,

[1:13] the JFK Tapes, eavesdropping on the

[1:16] Cuban Missile Crisis.

[1:26] This is ABC News Nightline, substituting

[1:29] for Ted Koppel and reporting from

[1:30] Washington, Cokie Roberts.

[1:33] Today we've gained a fascinating insight

[1:36] into a tense time in US history. The

[1:38] John F. Kennedy Library released tape

[1:40] recordings of meetings on October 22nd,

[1:43] 1962,

[1:45] the day President Kennedy addressed the

[1:47] nation about what came to be called the

[1:49] Cuban Missile Crisis.

[1:51] This government, as promised,

[1:54] has maintained the closest surveillance

[1:57] of the Soviet military buildup on the

[1:59] is