The Wire Q&A: Ted Koppel Remembers the Iran Hostage Crisis
On November 03, 2009 at 1:17 PM Ted Koppel was ABC’s State Department correspondent when he got a call on Sunday, November 4th, 1979 asking him to come into the studio to report on a developing story in Tehran. Hundreds of radical students had seized the U.S. Embassy denouncing it a “nest of spies” and holding its staff […]