CSPAN3 American History TV January 23, 2016
Khomeini was greeted by several million iranians when he returned from exile about two weeks later. An armed rebellion soon led to the fall of the royal government and a National Referendum established iran as a republic on april 1, 1979. On november 4 of that year, iranian students seized the American Embassy and took more than 50 hostages. Next we look at the release of the hostages the day president Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, january 20, 1981, from cspans president ial Library Series recorded in 2007. We have this important piece of videotape. It is extraordinary. It was what ought to h...