Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0132; The Question of South Africa
- Episode Number
- S0132
- Episode
- The Question of South Africa
- 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-bk16m33w9v
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- Description
- Episode Description
- This was the first appearance ever of Mr. Vorster on television, and Mr. Buckley doesn't start him off easy: "I should like to begin by asking the Prime Minister whether, as almost every account of his background in America and elsewhere notes, he was in fact during the war pro-Nazi." JV: "No. I can definitely say that it wasn't a question of being pro-Nazi. I was anti-British...." WFB: "So that in fact to deduce from that that you were pro-Nazi would be as incorrect as to deduce that we were pro-Communist because we were on the side of Stalin." JV: "Quite.... I was pro-Afrikaans." Then on to the present, with the Prime Minister impressively discussing his country's policies on press freedom, comparative standards of living in different parts of Africa, and whether you can have a successful multi-racial society. JV: "I take it what you do mean in fact--maybe you were too polite to say it--is that it is said we are in fact a police state." WFB: "It's certainly said. Certainly, yes." JV: "If that is the case, then it's the only police state that I know of where you must do your level best to keep people out; because as it happens at the moment, we have thousands and thousands of illegal black immigrants in this country and we can't get them out."
- 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
- 1974-03-13
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- Politics and government; South Africa; Vorster, B. J. (Balthazar Johannes), 1915-1983
- 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: Vorster, B. J. (Balthazar Johannes)
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: 80040.374 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 1:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0132; The Question of South Africa,” 1974-03-13, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 26, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-bk16m33w9v.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0132; The Question of South Africa.” 1974-03-13. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 26, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-bk16m33w9v>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0132; The Question of South Africa. 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-bk16m33w9v