Geraldo Rivera has covered conflicts at home and abroad, met movers and shakers from every aspect of American life. Here we see everything from migrants crossing the border, to boxing for charity, to foreign conflict.
1999 1999, Latinos make up just over 5 million votes in the upcoming presidential election. We look at the issues that are important to Latino voters, like stopping military testing at Vieques in Puerto Rico. Presidential candidate at...Read More
1981 In 1981 the Israeli air force conducts a daring cross-border raid, destroying Iraq’s Osirak nuclear facility near Baghdad. The Reagan administration condemns the attack. In 1991, Geraldo Rivera’s Now It Can Be Told news program uncovers documents...Read More
1988 Puerto Rican bombshell Iris Chacon on Geraldo Rivera’s 1988 talk show ‘Hispanic Heyday’. “La Bomba de Puerto Rico” steals the show with this excellent and original performance. Thank you hispanic culture, Iris, and Geraldo. Here for...Read More
1988 At the Ford Theatre in Hollywood, Geraldo Rivera hosts his special program ‘Hispanics in Hollywood’. Live on set we have: Edward James Olmos, star of Stand & Deliver, Esai Morales of ‘La Bamba’, Rita Moreno star of...Read More
1985 Geraldo Rivera is in the Philippines for Eyewitness News, investigating the unrest then rocking President Ferdinand Marcos’ government. The country is a vital outpost for the U.S. military hosting 16,000 troops at the time. What will happen...Read More
1985 Eyewitness News, Geraldo Rivera covers the story of Bernhard Goetz in detail with a re-creation of the crime scene on that fateful subway car. We hear audio from Mr. Goetz shortly after his surrender to police, as...Read More
1983 Geraldo Rivera, reporting for Eyewitness News in 1983, takes us to the front lines outside Tripoli where Yassir Arafat’s forces are fighting against Syrian-backed PLO rebels. We then go to Beirut, Lebanon and see the conditions of...Read More
1982 Geraldo Rivera investigates the prevalence of fully automatic weapons in 1982, starting with militia groups in central Ohio. Many who own these powerful weapons of war are teachers, fathers, plumbers. We look at the reasons these sorts...Read More
1982 Geraldo Rivera’s eye-opening report on migrants crossing the Mexico-Arizona border airs on 20/20 Eyewitness News. In this segment we see the actual processes used in crossing, with informative detail. Are these methods still in use today? ...Read More
1982 Why do migrants take the risk of illegally crossing the border? As we discover, the root cause is poverty back home. This 1982 news clip has Geraldo Rivera on the ground at the border discussing the issue...Read More
