JONATHAN MANN, CNN ANCHOR: CNN has obtained a videotape of an interview with U.S. Hostage, Terry Anderson. The interview was provided by an independent Lebanese production company. Anderson, of course, is the chief Middle East correspondent of the Associated Press kidnapped more than six-and-a-half years ago.</s>TERRY ANDERSON: "We have radio. We have magazines and we have a little bit of television, although most of it's inadequate."</s>AL HINMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As Terry Anderson talked about playing chess and listening to international radio newscasts, his family and friends excitedly watched the videotaped interview.</s>JACK ANDERSON, TERRY ANDERSON'S BROTHER: He looks fantastic. He looks healthy and in better spirits than he's been in a long, long time.</s>HINMAN: The Reverend Lawrence Jenco watched the videotaped interview and remembered when he and Terry Anderson shared a cramped cell. Jenco, when he was freed in 1986, said he and Anderson were frequently beaten and mistreated by their captors. Jenco thinks, also, that Anderson may have helped talk his captors into allowing the unprecedented interview.</s>REV. LAWRENCE JENCO, RELEASED HOSTAGE: He's very convincing to them. He says: Listen, you know, the only way they're going to do anything is for us to get back on, you know, on television ourselves, let them know that we're okay, and let them know what the issues are.</s>HINMAN: Anderson's family and friends hope his hint of another possible hostage release soon means Terry might be home in time to celebrate his 44th birthday.
CNN 20: Videotape of Hostage Is Released, October 6, 1991