Roosevelt Room Television (Khundu Atrocity Footage)

Television screen in the Roosevelt Room broadcasts graphic Khundu footage: marching crowds, armed jeeps, a slain child, and piled corpses from rapes and massacres. Josh and Charlie watch frozen; President Bartlet repeats Clark's euphemism before the images demand plain language. Leo, Clark, Man 1st, and Man 3rd stand by as the broadcast pierces the briefing's abstractions.

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S4E14 · Inauguration Part I

From Routine Briefing to Khundu's Moral Reckoning

The Roosevelt Room television broadcasts the Khundu footage that shifts the meeting from procedural updates to moral emergency; it supplies the visceral images that force staff to confront atrocity and change priorities.

Before: Operational in the Roosevelt Room, used for routine situational awareness feeds and news updates.

After: Turned off by Josh after the staff is confronted with graphic footage; remains the evidentiary focal point of the briefing.

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S4E14 · Inauguration Part I

When Words Become Images: The Khundu Atrocity Revealed

The Roosevelt Room television broadcasts the Khundu footage to the assembled directors and later to Josh and Charlie in the bullpen; it functions as the medium translating classified imagery into public-seeming evidence that cannot be euphemized away.

Before: Active broadcast/display device in the Roosevelt Room with routine capability to show intelligence feeds.

After: Remains in place but its broadcast is shut off after the footage; its images have already registered on viewers.

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S4E14 · Inauguration Part I

Interagency Blowback — Reese Reassigned

The Roosevelt Room television broadcasts Khundu atrocity footage that shifts the meeting from diplomatic items to moral emergency; images underscore the President's and staff's urgency and provide the emotional backdrop for policy and personnel consequences.

Before: Tuned in and displaying routine world news and briefing imagery during the Roosevelt Room meeting.

After: Remains a focal point for emotional reaction; later turned off by Josh after the staff digests the material.

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