CBS News Broadcast: Dawson's Field Hostages, White House Response (Sept. 8, 1970)

On September 6, 1970, all on the same day, three passenger airliners all bound for New York were hijacked in a coordinated terrorist operation. An attempted hijacking of a fourth plane failed, but a fifth plane was hijacked three days later.
The event were a watershed moment called the Dawson’s Field hijackings. Commercial aviation would never be the same again.
To learn more about this historic event, listen to The Pan Am Podcast, Episode 6: Hijackings and the Dawn of Global Terrorism
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The four planes involved were: a TWA Boeing 707, a SwissAir DC-8, a El Al Boeing 707, and a Pan Am Boeing 747 named Clipper Fortune. A fifth plane, a BOAC Vickers VC 10, was hijacked three days afterward.
Dawson’s Field was a direct result of the Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. In addition, this event sparked the Jordanian civil war of 1970 and 1971. As a result, the Black September terrorist organization was formed against the King of Jordan and would later carry out the Munich massacre at the Olympic Village in 1972.
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[@k4106dt]

How refreshing to see a pure news program without "coming up" teases, self promotion bumpers or sound effects, other than a faint sound of a teletype. Even the commercials were tolerable. Can you imagine a Bayer aspirin commercial today without a blasting music track?

[@ronflatter1235]

Eric Sevareid blinked. A lot.

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Ut was a fascinating time to be alive.

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I use this to go to sleep thank you news

[@George_Tropicana]

It said in color but it’s in black and white 🤔

[@ericsamuelson5656]

The videotape reel seen here is B&W

[@AarHan3]

27:57 - And that's the way it was: Tuesday, September 8, 1970.

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old hag

[@LindaMerchant-pm8vn]

Typewriters in the background and in black and white cbs news with Walter Cronkite eric severeid and Dan rather

[@liamcragin]

Those sound like teletype machines relaying news stories to the newsroom

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Interesting how times don’t really change with Palestine

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Wow this us fascinating

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3:09

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21:10 - Nixon does not like the color of Sunny's Surplus.

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Great.

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