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"Nightline's" Ted Koppel Discusses the History of the Show.

Host of ABC'S "Nightline" Ted Koppel. He has a new memoir about his 16 years with the news show and his life before journalism. It's called "Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television" (Times Books, by Ted Koppel and Kyle Gibson).

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, May 30, 1996: Interview with Ted Koppel; Review of Sonny Rollins' album "Sonny Rollins +3."

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