ABC News Nightline Ted Koppel's Final Nightline

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On Tuesday November 22, 2005, Ted Koppel signed off for the last time from Nightline, the news program he has anchored for nearly 26 years on ABC News. The broadcast looks back at a series of shows that, over time, has become one of his favorites. Morrie: Lessons on Living was a three-part series that aired in 1995 and told the story of Morrie Schwartz, a retired sociology professor from Brandeis University who, at the time, was dying of ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease. Koppel's interviews with Schwartz caught the attention of a former student, sportscaster Mitch Album, who in turn began weekly visits with his professor that led to the national bestseller, "Tuesdays with Morrie".