Washington DC siege
- Title
- Washington DC siege
- Genre
- News report; Speech
- TX Date
- Mar 1977
- Year of production
- 1977
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- Duration
- 00:03:30
- Description
- Pye Chamberlayne reports on the end of the siege in Washington DC on 11/3/77. The terrorists led by Hanafi muslim Haamas Abdul Khaalis, seized 100 hostages in three buildings and threatened to behead them unless their demands were met; speeches by Mayor Walter Washington and an unidentified hostage.
- Contributors
- Pye Chamberlayne; Walter Washington
- Keywords
- USA; Terrorism; Hostages; Islam; Sieges; Haamas Abdul Khaalis; Hanafi
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