In 1972, I was a 17-year-old senior in high school and my mother, sister and I attended the Munich Olympics with my dad, Jim McKay, who was assigned to cover gymnastics and track & field for ABC ...
In a technical sense, the archive footage of ABC Sports commentator Jim McKay is the real star of “September 5,” director Tim Fehlbaum’s gripping docudrama about the Munich Summer Olympics hostage ...
"September 5" is a new movie from our sister company, Paramount, about television coverage of the notorious Palestinian terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics. We have thoughts about that day ...
The drama chronicles the 1972 Munich Olympics attack from ABC Sports’ point of view, a perspective that resonates today. But the film arrives at a fraught time. By Annie Aguiar “They’re all gone.” ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jim McKay elegantly covered competitions from badminton to barrel jumping. Yet he may best be remembered for that grim day at the Munich Olympics when he broke the news with three ...
NEW YORK — Jim McKay elegantly covered competitions from badminton to barrel jumping. Yet he may best be remembered for that grim day at the Munich Olympics when he broke the news with three simple ...
When the Munich Olympics kicked off in 1972, just three decades after the end of Germany’s Nazi regime, the games were set to be a symbol of newfound peace for the country. That all changed when an ...
Broadcaster Jim McKay, who died June 7 at age 86, traveled some 4 million miles in his 37 years with ABC’s Wide World of Sports, “spanning the globe,” as the show’s slogan put it, to bring viewers ...
The powerful new film “September 5” is now available to watch at home. Based on ABC Sports’ coverage of the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics, if you have Paramount+ you can watch the movie ...