Americans tuning in to network news on the evening of April 24, 1980, would likely have seen what had, by then, become a familiar sight — Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, or Peter Jennings, seated before a graphic that now read something like “America Held Hostage: Day 173.”
It had been 173 days since a mob of Iranian students calling themselves the Mus…
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