"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 ...
ABC Sports was covering the 1972 Olympics, in Munich, Germany, when Arab terrorists armed with submachine guns took the Israeli team hostage. The fatal drama was carried live on television – an ...
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 ...
“September 5” has no business working as well as it does. It tells the story of a tragedy — the killing of 11 Israeli athletes, by terrorists, at the 1972 Olympics in Munich — but not from the ...
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 ...
Jim McKay, the sportscaster who brought the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" into U.S. homes as the longtime host of "ABC's Wide World of Sports" and who anchored the network's coverage of ...
Chronicling how ABC covered terrorist attacks at the 1972 Munich Olympics, it shows the kind of care that was taken when news was happening quickly. Instead of relying on hearsay or the opinion of ...
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 ...