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Taken Hostage: An American Experience Special

Part 2

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Part 2

Through riveting accounts from hostages, journalists and officials, learn how Iranian students held 52 hostages at the American embassy in Tehran from November 1979 to January 1981 - a defining crisis of Jimmy Carter's presidency.

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