20042000s NEWS
NEWS: 9/22-23/04, KERRY SPEECH, TAIWAN, ELTON JOHN CURSES, FIGHTING IN IRAQ, BRITISH HOSTAGE, CAT STEVENS, SCOTT PETERSON;DX EXT B&W footage from 50s where blacks were not aloud in schools;INT John Kerry gives speech in West Palm Beach w/scratchy voice, states he will never privatize social security...ever; DX EXT ws helicopter in Taiwan during anti-terror drill, police cars, cops slide down side of bldg on rope (cool!);DX EXT fighting in Iraq, major protest, soldier fires non-lethal weapons at protesters, man arrested;INT terrorist group makes video, each of them stare into camera, laugh and shake hands, they then bow in prayer, pose w/guns;INT Pres. Bush attends ceremony opening American Indian Museum, National Anthem sung in Cherokee, Bush speaks (in American); INT Prime Minister Allawi gives speech in congress;INT police video of Peterson house while Laci was still missing, T/H Scott Peterson;INT Ward Weaver, creepy looking child murderer, pleads guilty in court;INT T/H Cat Stevens talks to reporters in airport about not being allowed in US, vintage footage of Stevens performing; INT Stevens (Yusef Islam) in 1989 condemning Salman Rushdie;INT British hostage pleads for his life, hostage's son pleads to kidnapers, hostage Bigley's wife makes plea;INT Italian newspapers w/2 female hostages on front page, shaky video footage of Islamic women in burkas;DX EXT Asian wife of British hostage Ken Bigley makes plea in her own language, photos of Bigley & wife; DX EXT battle in Iraqi neighborhood, fighters roll burning tires, more gunfighting, shaky footage, helicopter fires, ambulance;DX EXT lots of dancing militants, cars burned to a crisp, damage to bldg;DX EXT pipeline on fire in Fallujah;DX EXT damage in Samaara after major combat;INT T/H NATO member talks to press about assistance to Iraq; Repeat of terrorists making video, posing for camera (earlier in tape); DX EXT Iraqi soldiers yell, barbed wire, gunfire heard in distance, dead body covered in blanket, soldiers tend to wounded man;DX EXT wounded man on ground; DX EXT Kerry in Ohio disputes speech by Allawi that things are going well in Iraq; DX EXT Kerry sounds really pissed as he lists miscalculations in Iraq; Really nice weather graphic backgrounds; INT reporters question Cat Stevens in airport refused entrance to US on terror warning list; INT daredevil climbs on bridge, var shots of bride, ship under bridge, daredevil basejumps off bridge, chute opens, he lands; DX EXT aerial of small plane in lake after crash;DX EXT Israeli flag draped coffin, mourners cry, scream (though they don't look Israeli strangely); INT an irritable Elton John tells the press to 'fuck off' (he's bleeped), CELEBRITY BEHAVIOR AGAINST PAPARAZZI calls the Taiwanese 'rude vile pigs';
