Title

1980s news clips - Korean airliner shot down

Genre

Speech

TX Date

Sep 1983

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:00:29

Description

Speech by US President, Ronald Reagan, responding to the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 by a Soviet jet (01/09/83). From a series of news clips from the 1980s used in a retrospective compilation at the end of the decade.

Contributors

Ronald Reagan

Keywords

Aircraft; USA; Air accidents; USSR; International relations; Military affairs; Airlines; Korean Air Lines

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