A New Year’s Day special half-hour report: How the world covered Barack Obama’s historic victory, and how the next president sees the global challenges ahead.
SOURCES: Russia Today, Russia; Comedy Central, U.S.; Once Noticias, Mexico; Al Alam, Iran; TV5 Monde, France; FCI, Japan; TRT, Turkey; CNN, U.S.; Deutsche Welle, Germany; BBC World, U.K.; Al Jazeera English, Qatar; CCTV, China; PressTV, Iran; KBS News, South Korea; CBS News, U.S.; NBC News, U.S.; ABC News, U.S.; South Asia Newsline, India; Telesur, Venezuela; TVE, Spain; Media Line, Israel
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NBC’s Today Show open for Decision 2008 Election Day (Tuesday, November 4, 2008) with Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira live from Election Plaza at Rockefeller Plaza. West Coast feed.
“Who will be the next president of the United States? It’s up to you to decide. Today, election day, Tuesday, November 4, 2008.”
Note: To get the full impact, pause it for a few minutes before viewing so that the video has time to load!
It was November 4, 2008, and we were on a two night layover in Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania in East Africa. We had just concluded our 2nd safari in two years to East Africa, with five nights in the huge Selous Game Reserve, and two weeks with our good friend and superb guide, Baraza Salaho of Bushbuck Safaris of Arusha. It was 7:30 AM, hours before the first polls were scheduled to open in the Unied States. We had shot over 1000 photographs once again, and I had shot seven hours of Hi Def video from Selous clear up to the Masai River in the North. We sensed that Barck Obama would be our next President, and we wanted to guage the reaction of typical Africans on the street. So with trusty SONY on my shoulder, we took to the street corner in front of the New Africa Hotel to learn the reaction of Africans to the possible election of the first African American President of the United States.
The revelation that Obama’s candidacy was the only thing that gave their lives any meaning has caused many supporters to wander aimlessly, unsure of what to do with themselves.
In 1971, then US Senator Mike Gravel released a collection of top-secret government documents, deemed “The Pentagon Papers” into the public record, bringing to public light the series of lies and false pretenses under which the United States invaded Vietnam.
This is the entirety of the footage the Gravel campaign has obtained thus far, and both the audio and video cut out occasionally.
Per request, we put this clip in its entirety on Youtube. However, you can download or play a high resolution version here:
http://www.archive.org/details/GravelPapers1971
http://www.gravel2008.us
Contact us:
Skyler McKinley
National Multimedia Coordinator
multimedia@gravel2008.us
