Cityline - Homeless Vets; Tuskegee Airman J.J. Kersee

DateMay 16 1989

Can DescriptionsMaster; Cityline - Homeless Vets; Tuskegee Airman J.J. Kersee; X3913; WCVB code 3; rec. date: 5-16-89; Air date: 5-28-89

AbstractViewer alert: disturbing images of war violence and death; CityLine: Vietnam/Tuskegee; Karen Holmes hosts the program that focuses on Memorial Day celebrations that still seem to exclude Vietnam War veterans; Peace Foxx is interviewed about the efforts of the Vietnam Vets Workshop; black screen breaks; A clip from the "Red Badge of Courage" is part of the report on the Tuskegee Airmen; Frank Roberts is interviewed about his 62 missions as part of the airmen; Ralph Cooper, Veterans Benefits Clearing House, Inc, talks about the upcoming program of returning the remains of Black civil war soldiers found in the southern states that will be brought back to their native homes in the north; Jackie Joyner-Kersee is interviewed by Valerie Navy about her life after Olympics victories, and how things are in between herself and sister-in-law Florence; credits with the guitar cover by Jimi Hendrix of the Star Spangled Banner; black screen breaks with count downs and odd images during the count downs; a series of teasers for the show;

OtherIn the studio Karen Holmes, Phil Rubin, Valerie D. Navy, Emmons S. Levine, Robin Washington, Angela A. Smith, Kymberly D. Terry, Skip Peabody, Nancy Moloney, Jim Barker, Giles Baker, George Manning, Margaret Smith, Joe Soucar, Kif Williams, Frank Firnschild, Rob Crowley, Dick Erickson, Roger Rice, Howie Rouse, Doug Dike, Alan Pratt, Wayne Smith, MGM Pictuers, ABC Sports, Olive's Beuty Salon, Ava Botelle, Cramers Hair Studio, Karl Nurse, Donna Latson Gittens;