Soviet troops attack Lithuanian television centre
- Title
- Soviet troops attack Lithuanian television centre
- Genre
- News report; Vox pop
- TX Date
- Jan 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:01:16
- Description
- Soviet soldiers have stormed Lithuania’s main television and radio centre in Vilnius. At least 11 people are feared dead and over 100 injured. Katherine Kelly is in the studio; Sue Jameson reports from the scene. Includes vox pop with distressed female eyewitness. 5 o’clock news item, preceded by IRN intro.
- Contributors
- Sue Jameson; Katherine Kelly
- Keywords
- Deaths; Politics; Armed forces; Television; USSR; Demonstrations; Broadcasting; Radio; Peaceful protest; Buildings; Mikhail Gorbachev; Lithuania; Vilnius
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LBC/IRN, "Soviet troops attack Lithuanian television centre". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0000300405014 (Accessed 19 Jun 2025)