Best television interpretation or documentary on foreign affairs
AWARD DATE: 1990
AWARD NAME: The Edward R. Murrow Award 1990
AWARD RECIPIENT: Ted Koppel, Phyllis McGrady
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: ABC News—The Koppel Report
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Death of a Dictator.”
This dramatic well documented story of the collapse of Romania’s Dictator captured the confusion of history in the making by utilizing extraordinary home video shot by people inside government and revolutionary circles.
Citation for Excellence:
Peter Jennings and ABC News: Tom Yellin, Executive Producer; Leslie Cockburn and Stuart Schwartz, Producers
Two Documentaries: “A Line in the Sand” and “From the Killing Fields.”