CNN 20: U.N. Peacekeeper Killed, July 31, 1989
GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR: A pro-Iranian Shi'ite Muslim group released a videotape of what it said was the execution of William Higgins, a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel kidnapped a year and a half ago while he served as a U.N. peacekeeper in Lebanon.</s>FRANK SESNO, CNN ANCHOR (on camera): I remember having a conversation here at CNN as to what to do with that tape, how much of it show, what should we say about it, because it was this haunting image of Colonel Higgins suspended, dangling from a rope. We don't normally convey those images. We did put that image out there for all to see, and it was haunting. And it led the president of the United States to say that no stone would be unturned in the search for those who were guilty of this crime. This was the United States confronting unknown groups with unknown locations. And for all the connections to Israel and -- and other nations, there wasn't much the United States was in a position to do -- as an indication that the Iranians disapproved of the action and could bring pressure to bear on the party of God to release other hostages -- turned out to be a long, drawn-out, very difficult time, though, before those hostages came out.