First 2.5 hours of Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War - Part 1): CBS News Special Report (live) . 1991

Timeline (slowly adding as I rewatch): 00:06 - Operation Desert Storm announced at the White House. 6:04 - Warplanes begin to take off in Saudi Arabia. 11:45 - Air raid sirens sound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; people asked to seek bomb shelters. Part 2 link below. Since I'm unable to be on the motorcycle for now (*sigh*)... I was rooting around on my hard drive for a video I thought I had saved years ago - couldn't find it, but I did find something else long-lost:... (from memory & what I've heard:...) Back on January 16, 1991, my mom (a stay-at-home mom at the time - boy, those were the days!) was watching CBS Television (the go-to network for news back then) while doing some housework. While she was in front of the TV, CBS interrupted their regular programing for breaking news. The White House was just about to announce the beginning of Operation Desert Storm, a.k.a. the Gulf War - a bit expected by the news agencies but still unexpected at the time. Just as the news broke, my mom hurried & grabbed a VHS tape, juggled with the cellophane wrapping, popped it into the VCR and hit record as fast as she could just as quick as CBS was going to the White House. She captured pretty much everything, right at the beginning of non-stop coverage of the war by CBS News; as it happened and as things were known. This video shows nearly 2.5 of what I believe to be six hour VHS tape. Years ago my parents left stacks of VHS tapes in my care (my dad is still urging me to throw them out :/ ) - TV recordings dating back, beginning in the 1980's (memories~). This recording is one of the more significant ones. In 2012, a company came out with a VCR/VHS to computer video converter, so I bought it and captured what I could of the Desert Storm tape then (2.5 hours - HDD limitations ~o~ ~). Hopefully one of these days I can capture the rest of that tape..... So anyways, this is what news looked like at that time; before the time of the internet, of instant knowledge and of instant news. Hope this brief glimpse into the past interests you about as much as it brings back memories to me :p heh (...maybe not-so-good ones :/ ~)~..... Thanks for watching what you do watch ^_^ ! Part 2 here:    • Next 2.5 hours of Operation Desert Storm (...   Lead anchor of CBS News: Dan Rather. January 17, 1991 *All copyrights remain the property of their respective owners and no challenge to ownership is intended or implied. *Watermark on video by user is to prevent ripping of this video only. No ownership claims are intended or endorsements of the video contents are implied. *According to the U.S. Supreme Court case 'Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.' (464 U.S. 417 -1984), the court found that such recordings/copying onto VHS/Betamax tapes are allowed, stating that when "time-shifting" (recording/copying onto VHS/Betamax tapes) "merely enables a viewer to see such a work which he had been invited to witness in its entirety free of charge, the fact ... that the entire work is reproduced ... does not have its ordinary effect of militating against a finding of fair use..." and that "Combined with the noncommercial, nonprofit nature of time-shifting" (as in this case), it is "fair use."