Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1004; Ruminations With Murray Kempton
- Episode Number
- S1004
- Episode
- Ruminations With Murray Kempton
- Producing Organization
- Southern Educational Communications Association
- South Carolina Educational Television Network
- Contributing Organization
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/514-b853f4mg2q
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- Description
- Episode Description
- The title is apt: this is not a show with a specific agenda, and even though Messrs. Kempton and Buckley disagree on public policy probably 70 per cent of the time, there are no fireworks between these two old friends--just half an hour's worth of delicious conversation. MK: "Since you've had this program you know many more people than you did before you started it. You've had a parade of felons that would make the average criminal-court judge feel that his calendar was overburdened. But you know them all. I mean, you make a distinction between G. Gordon Liddy and Huey P. Newton... You recognize honor in some people, Bill, and you recognize its absence in others. There are very few people who have honor." "The great aim of life is to have as few apologies to make as humanly possible." "The only terror I felt during [the McCarthy era] was from liberals who used to yell at me for being seen in public talking to Roy Cohn." Currently there is only a digitized transcript available for this episode.
- Series Description
- The television series Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. was a venue for debate and discussion on political, social, and philosophical issues with experts of the day. Firing Line broadcasts from 1966 through March 1971 were produced and syndicated by WOR-TV, a commercial station in New York, but some of them were also broadcast on noncommercial television stations. Starting in April 1971, Firing Line broadcasts were produced by the Southern Educational Communications Association, an arm of South Carolina Educational Television. Hoover Institution Library & Archives' Firing Line collection guide can be found at: https://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/firing-line.
- Date
- 1994-03-28
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- United States; journalists; Kempton, Murray, 1917-
- Rights
- Copyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Guest: Kempton, Murray
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Producing Organization: Southern Educational Communications Association
Producing Organization: South Carolina Educational Television Network
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.1266 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 0:30:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1004; Ruminations With Murray Kempton,” 1994-03-28, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 15, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-b853f4mg2q.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1004; Ruminations With Murray Kempton.” 1994-03-28. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 15, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-b853f4mg2q>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1004; Ruminations With Murray Kempton. Boston, MA: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-b853f4mg2q