The Event That Held The News Hostage | TAKEN HOSTAGE

Published: 01 January 1970
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The barrage of the 24-hour news cycle is never-ending. News wasn't always like this. In fact, one event in 1979 changed the modern media landscape forever: The Iran hostage crisis.

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Unfolding like a political thriller, TAKEN HOSTAGE tells the story of the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 American diplomats, Marines and civilians were held hostage at the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. For the next 444 days, the world watched as the United States received a daily barrage of humiliation, vitriol and hatred from a country that had long been one of our closest allies. Told through the candid, personal testimony of those whose lives were upended by the action, the crisis would transform both the U.S. and Iran and forever upend the focus and direction of American foreign policy.

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