Word: broadcasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Press release from ABC, as well as statements from Harvard spokesperson Peter Costa, advertise the event as the first-ever live broadcast from the Yard...
...John Shattuck, vice-president for government, community and public affairs, said the show is by no means the first, since television broadcast were quite common during Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration...
...anarchy spread along the streets and freeways of a city designed around the car and free mobility. Gangs attacked luckless drivers, beating and robbing and leaving them sprawled on the roadways. Hovering news helicopters captured several of these assaults; footage rivaling the King video in its wanton brutality was broadcast worldwide. L.A.'s 7,800-member police force, working on alternating 12-hour shifts, was overwhelmed by the scope of the violence. Wholesale looting went largely unchecked; many of the more than 3,700 fires started during the rioting raged out of control, since police protection was unavailable for those...
...BRADLEY'S ONLY VISIBLY SHREWD MOVE DURING THE RODNEY KING RIOTS was a request for an hour of crisis counterprogramming. Last Thursday he encouraged Channel 4, the NBC-owned and -operated Los Angeles outlet, to air The Cosby Show's farewell broadcast as originally scheduled. Maybe the mayor was just another fan of Bill Cosby's who did not want to be denied closure. Maybe he thought the Cos would calm the populace. Maybe he wanted to give the anchors a chance to repair their hairdos. Or maybe he just wanted to make at least one pair of them shut...
...punched him and stole his wallet. Another fired a shotgun into him at close range. As a blood-soaked Denny called for help, he was hit with beer bottles and karate-kicked in the head. The whole macabre scene, like a mirror-image replay of the King beating, was broadcast live on a local TV station. Denny was eventually rescued by four black bystanders and taken to a hospital, where he underwent four hours of brain surgery...