ABC Network - ABC News 20/20 - "Mrs. DeLorean / Iranians" (Partial Edition, 1983)
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Here's part of an edition of ABC News 20/20 on the ABC Network, hosted exclusively by Barbara Walters (Hugh Downs was on vacation).
Includes:
Show opening titles and preview of stories (voiceover by Bill Owen):
- Barbara Walters 20/20 Report - interview with Cristina (Ferrare) DeLorean, wife of auto magnate John Z. DeLorean - "The Day the Dream Died"
- John Stossel looks at The Oak Ridge Boys (this profile is not included in this clip)
- Bob Brown with a look at the persecution and execution of Iranian Baha'is - "In the Name of Islam"
Barbara next goes into Cristina's story and the aftermath of her then-husband DeLorean's business collapse and October 19th 1982 arrest on charges of cocaine trafficking about which she insisted she knew nothing, plus her modeling career and her dipping her toe into acting, as well as her family life (taking care of an adopted son Zachary, and mother to a daughter, Kathryn). A clip of an acting role on Fantasy Island (her first since the DeLorean collapse; it was in an episode, "Three's a Crowd/Second Time Around," which would air November 19th 1983) is shown. She speaks of her initial reaction to John's arrest, and how many of their friends in showbiz and media largely abandoned them; and how, just before the arrest, she knew his company was in dire financial straits but saw nothing untoward in their finances; his popping of aspirin for "terrible headaches"; the total collapse of her own modeling career in the wake of his arrest; she denies his flamboyance extended to his money, and explains how he came up in the world from a lowly background and "worked for" what he earned. There is a look at his company and the financing for the making of his cars in Northern Ireland, a deal that went sour which she blames on the British government, and insists he's been framed. Then is the timeline for the lead-up to his arrest, including a meeting at the Plaza La Raina Sheraton Hotel in Los Angeles, which she insists was a setup.
(POSTSCRIPT: Cristina would for some years be a co-host of AM Los Angeles on WLS's sister station KABC Channel 7; she divorced DeLorean in 1985 and would marry then-ABC executive Tony Thomopoulos a few weeks later. As for the DeLorean automobiles, they would become a main plot point of the 1985 film "Back to the Future." As for DeLorean himself, Barbara notes at the end of the segment that his trial would be held October 4th; he would later be found not guilty in 1984, and after an indictment on tax evasion for which he would be acquitted in 1985, his career as a businessman was all but over and he would pass away on March 19th 2005 at age 80.)
Previews of the Oak Ridge Boys and Baha'i profiles, before recording cuts out
Barbara next introduces Bob's piece on the persecution, murders and desecration of the Baha'i in Iran, including a recent incident of 16 members being hanged. Those interviewed including Ramna Mahmoodi, whose mother was murdered in 1982 and whose father vanished beforehand; and Dr. Paul Hakim, whose father, a Baha'i doctor, was murdered in 1981. A history of the Baha'i faith, including religious persecution and desecration of various sites, is then shown at various points in the piece, as well as their main spiritual base in Israel, situated there long before the modern state was established. Also interviewed in Don Barrett, an American Baha'i lawyer who once represented Gulf Oil and lives in Haifa where he serves as Secretary General of the Baha'i World Center; Ambassador Said Rajaie Khorassani of the Iranian Mission to the United Nations, who dismisses any accounts of persecution of Baha'is as propaganda; and Farid Akhtar-Kavari and brother Badi, whose father was executed on orders from an Iranian student; the father's widow, Banu Akhtar-Kavari who also moved to the U.S., speaks of his final moments. (The recording ends midway through this piece, not long after another excerpt of Barrett's interview.)
"...a heart-rendering experience..."
This aired on local Detroit TV on Thursday, July 23rd 1983 during the 10:00pm to 11:00pm (Eastern) timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: [email protected] Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to DVD, please e-mail [email protected] Thank you for your help!
Includes:
Show opening titles and preview of stories (voiceover by Bill Owen):
- Barbara Walters 20/20 Report - interview with Cristina (Ferrare) DeLorean, wife of auto magnate John Z. DeLorean - "The Day the Dream Died"
- John Stossel looks at The Oak Ridge Boys (this profile is not included in this clip)
- Bob Brown with a look at the persecution and execution of Iranian Baha'is - "In the Name of Islam"
Barbara next goes into Cristina's story and the aftermath of her then-husband DeLorean's business collapse and October 19th 1982 arrest on charges of cocaine trafficking about which she insisted she knew nothing, plus her modeling career and her dipping her toe into acting, as well as her family life (taking care of an adopted son Zachary, and mother to a daughter, Kathryn). A clip of an acting role on Fantasy Island (her first since the DeLorean collapse; it was in an episode, "Three's a Crowd/Second Time Around," which would air November 19th 1983) is shown. She speaks of her initial reaction to John's arrest, and how many of their friends in showbiz and media largely abandoned them; and how, just before the arrest, she knew his company was in dire financial straits but saw nothing untoward in their finances; his popping of aspirin for "terrible headaches"; the total collapse of her own modeling career in the wake of his arrest; she denies his flamboyance extended to his money, and explains how he came up in the world from a lowly background and "worked for" what he earned. There is a look at his company and the financing for the making of his cars in Northern Ireland, a deal that went sour which she blames on the British government, and insists he's been framed. Then is the timeline for the lead-up to his arrest, including a meeting at the Plaza La Raina Sheraton Hotel in Los Angeles, which she insists was a setup.
(POSTSCRIPT: Cristina would for some years be a co-host of AM Los Angeles on WLS's sister station KABC Channel 7; she divorced DeLorean in 1985 and would marry then-ABC executive Tony Thomopoulos a few weeks later. As for the DeLorean automobiles, they would become a main plot point of the 1985 film "Back to the Future." As for DeLorean himself, Barbara notes at the end of the segment that his trial would be held October 4th; he would later be found not guilty in 1984, and after an indictment on tax evasion for which he would be acquitted in 1985, his career as a businessman was all but over and he would pass away on March 19th 2005 at age 80.)
Previews of the Oak Ridge Boys and Baha'i profiles, before recording cuts out
Barbara next introduces Bob's piece on the persecution, murders and desecration of the Baha'i in Iran, including a recent incident of 16 members being hanged. Those interviewed including Ramna Mahmoodi, whose mother was murdered in 1982 and whose father vanished beforehand; and Dr. Paul Hakim, whose father, a Baha'i doctor, was murdered in 1981. A history of the Baha'i faith, including religious persecution and desecration of various sites, is then shown at various points in the piece, as well as their main spiritual base in Israel, situated there long before the modern state was established. Also interviewed in Don Barrett, an American Baha'i lawyer who once represented Gulf Oil and lives in Haifa where he serves as Secretary General of the Baha'i World Center; Ambassador Said Rajaie Khorassani of the Iranian Mission to the United Nations, who dismisses any accounts of persecution of Baha'is as propaganda; and Farid Akhtar-Kavari and brother Badi, whose father was executed on orders from an Iranian student; the father's widow, Banu Akhtar-Kavari who also moved to the U.S., speaks of his final moments. (The recording ends midway through this piece, not long after another excerpt of Barrett's interview.)
"...a heart-rendering experience..."
This aired on local Detroit TV on Thursday, July 23rd 1983 during the 10:00pm to 11:00pm (Eastern) timeframe.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: [email protected] Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to DVD, please e-mail [email protected] Thank you for your help!
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