The Romanian Revolution broadcast live
This was the first revolution to be broadcast live on a national television network. Click on the image below to go to the TVR (the Romanian public broadcaster) coverage of the revolution.
The first group of protesters reached the headquarters of the national television broadcaster, Televiziunea Română, at around 11 am. They asked the management to broadcast information about the status of the protests in the country.
Initially, the director of the network rejected their request but after a series of talks, representatives from the broadcaster promised that an amplification station would be set up in the courtyard. In the end, they set up Studio 4 for the first live broadcast of a revolution.
- Voices of revolution: RomaniaThe image above is of the moment poet Mircea Dinescu announced live on air "The dictator has fled". In this link, he talks about that day.
United States consular officials talk about the day
Frederick Becker was the Romania Desk Officer from 1988-1990; he was interviewed by Charles Stuart Kennedy beginning in 2004 Virginia Carson Young, interviewed by Kennedy beginning in July of 1992, describes her time actually living in the Embassy during the revolution and rescuing people. Richard A. Virden, interviewed by Kennedy in 2011, discusses the immediate aftermath of the Revolution.
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