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Acting Up on the <i>Evening News</i>

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Published June 14, 2001 at 11:00 PM CDT

On Jan. 22, 1991 three AIDS activists snuck onto the set of the CBS Evening News. John Weir, one of those men, spoke on AIDS community television about getting the attention of the nation.

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