Cold War

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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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

Interviewees discuss the Cold War (1947-1991) and its coverage on television.

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

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