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World News Tonight Season 36 Episodes

  • 1953-2021
  • 74 Seasons
  • ABC
  • News
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From the 1950's to the 1990's, the three major television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) were, for the most part, the only source for national and international news. In the fall of 1953, John Charles Daly began anchoring the then-15-minute 'John Daly and the News' on the ABC television network. Daly, who served as host of the CBS game show 'What's My Line?' contemporaneously, anchored the newscast until 1960, with multiple hosts and formats succeeding him to the present day, with various title changes including 'ABC Evening News' from 1968 to 1978, 'World News Tonight' from 1978 to 2006, 'World News' from 2006 to 2009, and 'ABC World News' from 2009 to 2014. Since 2014 to present day (2024), the program has been called 'ABC World News Tonight'.

Season 36 Episode Guide

Season 36

1 Episodes 1997 - 1997

Episode 3

Au Pair Murder and an Internet Failure

Mon, Nov 10, 19976 mins

In this live studio segment, ABC News World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings discusses what he calls an "astounding day" for au pair Louise Woodward, who was on trial and accused of murdering a small child in her charge. A judge reduced her her murder conviction to manslaughter and then reduced her sentence to time served reported. ABC News correspondent Antonio Mora reports with the news from the Cambridge, MA court that made the decision. ABC technology correspondent explains to Peter how an apparent Internet glitch may have interfered with Judge Zobel's posting of the decision. ABC legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin discusses the legal ramifications of it all.

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