Interviewees discuss the Cold War (1947-1991) and its coverage on television.
About
“I was introduced to Khrushchev, and Kennedy said to him, ‘This lady wants to do a film about the Kremlin.’… And he said, ‘Part of what we should present to America is, ‘Who is Russia?’ She wants to show your history, your culture, your artwork.’ And Khrushchev, who spoke only Russian, said, 'Почему нет,' which means, ‘Why not?’” - Lucy Jarvis, Producer
Highlights
Lucy Jarvis on producing the documentary The Kremlin for NBC News
04:24
Former FCC Chairman Newton Minow on arranging for Voice of America broadcasts on commercial stations during the Cuban Missile Crisis
05:48
Betty Cole Dukert on Meet the Press' coverage of The Cold War
07:21
Sam Donaldson on how press access changed between the Vietnam and the Gulf Wars
01:26
Robert MacNeil on covering the Cold War in East Berlin
07:05
Max Schindler on covering the Cuban Missile Crisis for WRC and NBC
02:59
Who Talked about This Topic
Bob Banner
Bob Banner on producing Peggy Fleming Visits the Soviet Union
05:43
Wade Bingham
Wade Bingham on shooting a hydrogen bomb test
03:25
Wade Bingham on covering Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Indonesia in 1960
05:45
Wade Bingham on shooting an hydrogen bomb test for CBS News
06:43
Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw on interviewing Mikhail Gorbachev on NBC Nightly News
02:06
Betty Cole Dukert
Betty Cole Dukert on Meet the Press' coverage of The Cold War
07:21
Betty Cole Dukert on Fidel Castro appearing on Meet the Press
02:44
Betty Cole Dukert on Anastas Mikoyan appearing on Meet the Press
05:30
Jeff Fager
Jeff Fager on covering the Soviet Union for CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, including a story where they explored what Russians were proud of
02:11
Reuven Frank
Reuven Frank on erection of the Berlin Wall
08:11
Reuven Frank on the Cuban Missile Crisis
04:17
Reuven Frank on NBC's coverage of the Bay of Pigs invasion
01:33
Reuven Frank on the NBC News documentary The Tunnel
21:29
Murray Fromson
Murray Fromson on covering the Cuban Missile Crisis for CBS News
01:49
Murray Fromson on going to Moscow to cover the Soviet Union for CBS News in 1972
02:45
Murray Fromson on what it was like to live in Moscow during the Cold War and to report for CBS News
03:12
Murray Fromson on a press conference with Leonid Brezhnev before his visit to the United States in 1973
04:02
Murray Fromson on the biggest stories he covered while he was in Moscow for CBS News
04:45
Hal Gurnee
Hal Gurnee on directing Tonight Starring Jack Paar from the Berlin Wall
06:16
Lucy Jarvis
Lucy Jarvis on producing a landmark series about the United States and the Soviet Union in the early 60s for The Nation's Future featuring John Glenn and Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov
12:47
Lucy Jarvis on producing the documentary The Kremlin for NBC News
04:24
Lucy Jarvis on the technical difficulties of filming inside the Kremlin and NBC destroying unused footage
02:33
Lucy Jarvis on her crew for The Kremlin and it being NBC first major color broadcast
01:16
Lucy Jarvis on filming The Kremlin during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
07:33
Herb Jellinek
Herb Jellinek on The Day After
05:02
Jeff Kisseloff
Jeff Kisseloff on the truth of the Alger Hiss story emerging in his oral history research
09:54
Robert MacNeil
Robert MacNeil on covering the Belgian Congo Crisis
08:57
Robert MacNeil on covering the rise of The Berlin Wall
05:31
Robert MacNeil on covering the Cuban Missile Crisis
08:35
Robert MacNeil on covering the Cuban Missile Crisis
06:28
Robert MacNeil on covering the Cold War in East Berlin
07:05
David McCallum
David McCallum on the concept of a Russian agent and an American agent working together on The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
01:15
Jim McKay
Jim McKay on his interview with Fidel Castro and on the Cuban Missile Crisis
03:58
Al Michaels
Al Michaels on how the U.S. Hockey team playing the Soviets at the Winter Olympics played into the Cold War narrative at the time
05:24
Sig Mickelson
Sig Mickelson on a dust up between CBS News and the Eisenhower White House over a scheduled interview with then-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
09:58
Newton N. Minow
Former FCC Chairman Newton Minow on arranging for Voice of America broadcasts on commercial stations during the Cuban Missile Crisis
05:48
Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe on covering the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis for NBC News
03:37
Ed Resnick
Ed Resnick on shooting the atomic bomb tests in Las Vegas for KTLA
06:09
Ed Resnick on the logistics of shooting the atomic bomb tests, which were broadcast live on KTLA
06:12
Ed Resnick on the crew of KTLA's broadcast of the atomic bomb test
02:41
Max Schindler
Max Schindler on covering the Cuban Missile Crisis for WRC and NBC
02:59
Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr on going to Moscow for CBS News in 1955, and on getting in with Edward R. Murrow
07:46
Daniel Schorr on interviewing Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow on Face the Nation
07:33
Daniel Schorr on covering Nikita Khrushchev's trip to the United States in 1959 for Eyewitness to History
04:10
Daniel Schorr on how CBS News portrayed Nikita Khrushchev, and on negotiating his Face the Nation interview
03:36
Daniel Schorr on being expelled by Moscow by the KGB, and on covering various stories for CBS News
02:18
Daniel Schorr on covering the construction of the Berlin Wall for CBS News, and John F. Kennedy's visit to Germany
04:21
Daniel Schorr on covering various stories in Eastern Europe in the early 1960s
05:42
Daniel Schorr on doing a CBS documentary on East Germany, and on clashing with William S. Paley
06:43
Robert Schuller
Robert Schuller on Hour of Power expanding into Russia and meeting Mikhail Gorbachev
05:38
Brandon Stoddard
Brandon Stoddard on developing The Day After
16:38
Av Westin
Av Westin on being in Berlin when the Berlin Wall went up
05:17
Av Westin on various major news events in his career
11:02