On This Day: June 30, 1987 – Iran Contra Hearings Interrupt American Television

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On This Day: June 30, 1987 – Iran Contra Hearings Interrupt American Television.

On this day June 30, 1987, televisions across the United States were interrupted as the Iran Contra affair hearings were broadcast live to the public. Millions of Americans tuned in to witness the high-stakes investigation unfold in real time as top officials from the Reagan administration were called to testify before Congress.

The scandal centered on a covert operation in which senior administration officials secretly approved the sale of arms to Iran, a country then under an arms...
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