The news replayed that video over and over that night. It was either NBC NYC or Fox NYC news. The next day or so it wasn’t even mentioned. I remember my son and I being stunned that it just “disappeared”. The press got their orders rather swiftly.
I did not have a TV at the time but remember hearing about it for some days on talk radio.
oddly enough there was one mooselim name on the flight 800 Passeneger list
* Ferrat, Mohammad, Ivory Coast
on a twilight zone note
Kevorkian, Capt. Ralph G. , 58, TWA Flight 800 pilot, of Garden Grove, Calif.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/twa800/list01.htm