Vietnam War


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Interviewees discuss the Vietnam War (1954-1975) and its coverage on television.

Highlights
Morley Safer on being a broadcast journalist in Vietnam during the war
11:55
Betty Cole Dukert on covering the Vietnam War on Meet the Press
11:14
Ed Bradley on the role television played in shaping public opinion about Vietnam
01:46
Walter Cronkite on his on-air editorial that he felt the country should get out of Vietnam; what this meant to the country and the Johnson administration
05:11
Dan Rather on reporting on the Vietnam War
10:25
Alan Alda on the connection between the Korean War setting of M*A*S*H and the then-contemporary conflict in Vietnam
01:23
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Alan Alda

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Alan Alda on the connection between the Korean War setting of M*A*S*H and the then-contemporary conflict in Vietnam
01:23

Peter Arnett

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Peter Arnett on reporting from Saigon for the Associated Press during the Vietnam War
13:46
Peter Arnett on competing news outlets in Vietnam during the Vietnam War
04:30
Peter Arnett on covering the Buddhist crisis in Vietnam for the Associated Press
04:55
Peter Arnett on getting stories out of Vietnam, and on television news being late with the stories
03:45
Peter Arnett on government interference in his reporting from Vietnam
07:35
Peter Arnett on appealing to the Kennedy administration when South Vietnam was hampering their reporting from the region
09:23
Peter Arnett on covering the attempted coup in Vietnam
03:53
Peter Arnett on covering the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, and military complaints about the coverage
14:03
Peter Arnett on the reaction of the Lyndon Johnson administration to his AP reporting from Vietnam
09:50
Peter Arnett on how the Vietnam War changed reporting on wars that came after
08:03

William Bell

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William Bell on incorporating events of the Vietnam War into the storylines of Days of Our Lives
05:05

Donald P. Bellisario

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Donald Bellisario on "Magnum" of Magnum, P.I.  being a veteran of the Vietnam War
03:33
Donald Belisario on Dean Stockwell's difficulty with the Quantum Leap episode "The Leap Home"
02:36

Tom Bettag

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Tom Bettag on covering the Vietnam War during his early years at CBS News
03:11
Tom Bettag on the "rules" for reporting on the Vietnam War, and on what he learned from the experience of covering it
07:52

Wade Bingham

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Wade Bingham on covering the French involvement in Vietnam, which was a precursor to the Vietnam War
05:50
Wade Bingham on covering the early stages of the Vietnam War for CBS News
07:59

Paul Bogart

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Paul Bogart on directing the All in the Family episode "The Draft Dodger" (airdate: December 25, 1976)
02:39

Ed Bradley

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Ed Bradley on the role television played in shaping public opinion about Vietnam
01:46
Ed Bradley on covering the New York aspect of major news stories like the Vietnam war while a reporter at WCBS radio during the late 1960s and early 1970s
01:19
Ed Bradley on reporting from Vietnam during the war, his personal experience during that time, and his impressions of the region
03:50
Ed Bradley on keeping his personal opinions about war out of the reporting on the Vietnam conflict
00:48
Ed Bradley on getting wounded while covering Vietnam
03:22
Ed Bradley on seeing activity on the Ho Chi Minh trail and the determination of the Vietcong
02:02
Ed Bradley on being among the reporters who left Saigon from the roof of the American embassy
06:03
Ed Bradley on the impact of the "boat people" story about Vietnamese refugees, and recognizing the reach of 60 Minutes
02:20

Allan Burns

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Allan Burns on getting drafted in the Vietnam War, but a back injury preventing him from serving
02:09

Dick Cavett with Emerson College

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Dick Cavett on Bob Hope getting booed at a USO show in Vietnam
01:03

Walter Cronkite

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Walter Cronkite on his on-air editorial that he felt the country should get out of Vietnam; what this meant to the country and the Johnson administration
05:11
Walter Cronkite on difficulties of maintaining neutrality while covering the Vietnam War and the "conspiratorial campaign" Spiro Agnew and the Nixon administration waged on the press
02:54
Walter Cronkite on being furious with Pierre Salinger who had leaked to the press that President Kennedy was to make an important announcement about Vietnam on the CBS Evening News
03:34

Billy Crystal

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Billy Crystal on performing in a comedy team after college, and on watching the Vietnam War draft lottery on television
03:40

Sam Donaldson

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Sam Donaldson on covering the Vietnam War for ABC News
10:26

Betty Cole Dukert

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Betty Cole Dukert on covering the Vietnam War on Meet the Press
11:14

Michael Eisner

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Michael Eisner on how the Vietnam War impacted him while he was working at ABC

Reuven Frank

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Reuven Frank on the NBC News coverage of the Vietnam War
05:47
Reuven Frank on NBC News' coverage of the anti-Vietnam War movement and on his regrets over Vietnam
02:45

Murray Fromson

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Murray Fromson on stopping in Saigon and Cambodia on his way to reporting in Singapore in 1956
03:29
Murray Fromson on covering the Vietnam War for CBS News
03:53
Murray Fromson on torture he witnessed while covering the Vietnam War for CBS News, and a court martial trial he covered
04:46
Murray Fromson on the My Lai Massacre and the horrors of war
01:44
Murray Fromson on a piece he wrote for "The New York Times," which was an interview with an unnamed general who said the war in Vietnam was unwinnable - the general did not allow his name to be revealed until 2006 (it was Frederick C. Weyand)
03:23
Murray Fromson on how his transfer to the Chicago bureau of CBS News came about due to an experience in Vietnam
05:38
Murray Fromson on Walter Cronkite's visit to Vietnam
01:56
Murray Fromson on what he told Walter Cronkite on his visit to Vietnam
03:15
Murray Fromson on covering the end of the Vietnam War, including the plane crash of a flight taking orphans out of Vietnam
05:20

Larry Gelbart

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Larry Gelbart on touring with Bob Hope during the war, and how Hope was almost a victim of a bombing attack while in Vietnam
01:32

Julian Goodman

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Julian Goodman on NBC news coverage of the Vietnam War
02:15

Don Hewitt

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Don Hewitt on how television changed the public's opinion of the Vietnam War
03:08
Don Hewitt on the CBS coverage of the Gulf of Tonkin hearing
00:54

Ron Howard

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Ron Howard on accepting a role in the pilot of Happy Days (aired as an episode of Love, American Style) to avoid the Vietnam War draft
02:11

Stanley Hubbard

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Stanley Hubbard on KSTP's coverage of the Vietnam War
04:52

Charles Floyd Johnson

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Charles Floyd Johnson on Magnum, P.I. being a show about Vietnam veterans returning home
01:20

Ted Koppel

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Ted Koppel on his first television appearance in 1966 - covering the Vietnam War
11:25

Steve Kroft

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Steve Kroft on how his service in Vietnam prepared him to become an journalist
01:43

Mort Lachman

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Mort Lachman on traveling to Vietnam with Bob Hope
02:48

Jim Lehrer

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Jim Lehrer on covering the Vietnam War
01:15

Robert MacNeil

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Robert MacNeil on covering Vietnam and Richard Nixon
04:03

Barney McNulty

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Barney McNulty on traveling with Bob Hope on his USO Tours of Vietnam
17:16

Burt Metcalfe

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Burt Metcalfe on how M*A*S*H related to Vietnam
01:47

John Moffitt

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John Moffitt on how The Ed Sullivan Show did not reference the Vietnam War
00:39

Bill Monroe

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Bill Monroe on NBC News' coverage of Vietnam
01:14
Bill Monroe on NBC News' coverage of the Vietnam War, and on covering the Lyndon B. Johnson administration
07:40

Bill Moyers

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Bill Moyers on the very beginning of the Vietnam conflict
00:32
Bill Moyers on the relationship between the Johnson administration and the press during the Vietnam War
06:29
Bill Moyers on his own beliefs about the Vietnam War
04:52

Roger Mudd

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Roger Mudd on CBS coverage of the Vietnam War
01:55

Agnes Nixon

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Agnes Nixon on a topical story about the Vietnam War on All My Children
01:42

Dan Rather

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Dan Rather on reporting on the Vietnam War
10:25

Tim Reid

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Tim Reid on the "Who is Gordon Sims?" episode of WKRP in Cincinnati
03:50

Gene Reynolds

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Gene Reynolds on M*A*S*H  in regards to Vietnam
01:57

Aaron Ruben

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Aaron Ruben on why "Gomer Pyle" didn't go to Vietnam and why there were no African-American's in Mayberry on The Andy Griffith Show
02:07

Morley Safer

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Morley Safer on being a broadcast journalist in Vietnam during the war
11:55
Morley Safer on his first trip to Vietnam
03:26
Morley Safer on the escalation of the Vietnam conflict
13:29
Morley Safer on the Cam Ne story, during which he reported on American soldiers burning a Vietnamese village 
15:58
Morley Safer on the public reaction to his reporting of Cam Ne
09:40
Morley Safer on Fred Friendly's support during backlash from the government after the Cam Ne story
05:36
Morley Safer on when public opinion against Vietnam began to turn against the war
02:35
Morley Safer on Morley Safer's Vietnam
02:16
Morley Safer on the 60 Minutes segment "Returning to Vietnam
07:25

Pat Sajak

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Pat Sajak on developing his style as a host in the armed forces radio
04:35

Bob Schieffer

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Bob Schieffer on covering the Vietnam War as a newspaper reporter
04:31
Bob Schieffer on covering anti-Vietnam War demonstrations for CBS News
03:04
Bob Schieffer on covering the Vietnam War as the Pentagon correspondent for CBS News
02:51

Max Schindler

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Max Schindler on covering the protests of the '60s
04:00
Max Schindler on directing coverage of the Vietnam War for NBC News
07:21

Reese Schonfeld

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Reese Schonfeld on UPI's coverage of the Vietnam War
05:34

Mel Shavelson

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Mel Shavelson on Bob Hope entertaining the troops in Vietnam, and on the politics of the time
07:03

Bob Simon

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Bob Simon on covering the Vietnam War for CBS News in 1971; on the Tet Offensive; on the change in American public opinion about the war
09:07
Bob Simon on the song the military chose as the evacuation signal for press to get out of Vietnam
01:55
Bob Simon on covering the end of the Vietnam War from Hanoi
03:25

Howard K. Smith

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Howard K. Smith on his son and the Vietnam War
01:11

Dick Smothers

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Tom and Dick Smothers on the changing social and political views in the sixties as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour came on the air
02:14
Tom and Dick Smothers on their dealings with CBS, their firing, and their thoughts about the larger political issues which may have contributed to the demise of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
17:37

Tom Smothers

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Tom and Dick Smothers on the changing social and political views in the sixties as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour came on the air
02:14
Tom and Dick Smothers on their dealings with CBS, their firing, and their thoughts about the larger political issues which may have contributed to the demise of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
17:37

Sanford Socolow

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Sanford Socolow on how Walter Cronkite became "the most trusted man in America" and the story behind Cronkite's on-air condemnation of the Vietnam War (which Cronkite delivered on a special primetime report, not on the CBS Evening News)
05:13
Sanford Socolow on CBS's coverage of the Vietnam War
03:55
Sanford Socolow on the friendship between Frank Stanton and Lyndon Johnson and whether it influenced CBS news coverage of Vietnam
04:17

Frank Stanton

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Frank Stanton on CBS News' coverage of Vietnam
01:07

George Takei

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George Takei on Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek's commentary on American society at the time
05:32

Robert Vaughn

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Robert Vaughn on his involvement with politics and speaking out against the Vietnam War
13:23

Mike Wallace

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Mike Wallace on being sued for libel (and beginning his battle with depression) by William Westmoreland after he interviewed him for his special The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception
04:39
Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes' coverage of the Vietnam War
10:32

Matthew Weiner

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Matthew Weiner on season six of Mad Men  and using the news events of 1968 as a backdrop 
11:22

John Wells

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John Wells on crafting the stories of China Beach using real life stories from Vietnam veterans 
04:17

Joseph Wershba

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Joseph Wershba on 60 Minutes story on The Gulf of Tonkin incident
04:14

Av Westin

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Av Westin on various major news events in his career
11:02

Brian Williams

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Brian Williams on writing a letter to President Lyndon B. Johnson at age eight
03:06

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