Ronald Reagan on Korean airliner attack

Title

Ronald Reagan on Korean airliner attack

Genre

Speech

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:15:48

Description

US President Ronald Reagan on the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 by Soviet jet interceptors after it strayed into Soviet airspace. Mentions the US fatality - Congressman Larry McDonald - and a previous attack by the Soviet Union on a civil aircraft, in 1978.

Contributors

Ronald Reagan

Keywords

USA; Civil aviation; Deaths; USSR; International relations; Homicide; Aeroplanes; Aviation; Civil aircraft; Civilians; South Korea; Korean Air Lines; Larry McDonald

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