It was a pivotal moment in the history of broadcast news. The live coverage of the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics by an ABC sports team was the first time that a terrorist attack unfolded in real time on television screens across the globe.
The 22 hours of rolling coverage reached 900 million viewers, an unprecedented global audience and more than had watched the human moon landings three years earlier. It transformed not just the media and journalism, but also the way people consume news and process global events.
