series examining the Arab–Israeli conflict. He was also responsible for a four-hour Nightline National Town Meeting on AIDS. After a stint during the 1980s as executive producer of ABC's Nightline, Kaplan served as executive producer of ABC's Primetime Live from 1989 to 1994. The trademark of Primetime Live became investigative journalism with broadcasts focusing on child care, racism in the United States, slavery in the Caribbean, unsanitary and dishonest food handling by the major grocery chain Food Lion, and the abuse of patients seeking pap smears and mammograms. Primetime Live also covered the Gulf War, the historic opening of the Berlin Wall, the 1989 San Francisco earthquake and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In 1990, he produced exclusive tour of the White House and the Kremlin, and later produced ABC's coverage of the final days of Mikhail Gorbachev’s presidency. At the same time he produced Primetime Live, Kaplan was one of the producers and on-scene coordinators of the ABC News coverage of the Gulf War from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. In September 1991, he was the executive producer of the historic ABC News Town Meeting in which Soviet leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin appeared together live from the Kremlin, to answer questions from Americans viewing in studios in cities across America. Prior to joining Primetime Live, Kaplan created and was executive producer of Capital to Capital, a series of programs which marked the first live exchanges between members of Congress and high-ranking officials at the Kremlin. He was also the executive producer of Viewpoint, the ABC News forum for criticism and analysis of broadcast journalism and of The Koppel Report. In 1991 Primetime Live aired an exposé of the Food Lion supermarket chain where undercover reporters posed as employees, falsifying their resumes and staging events. The exposé depicted Food Lion as an unethical seller of outdated and contaminated foods. Food Lion sued, and a jury that saw the 45 hours of video from which Kaplan and ABC distilled a 10-minute hit piece awarded Food Lion $5.5 million in punitive damages for fraud committed by Capital Cities-ABC against the company. The award was later reduced by a judge to $316,000. The verdict was then overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. Even though ABC was wrong to do what it had done, the court felt that Food Lion was unable to show that it had been directly