Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; 6; Should the House Committee on UN-AMERICAN Activities Be Abolished?
- Episode Number
- 6
- Producing Organization
- WOR-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
- Contributing Organization
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/514-np1wd3qv8v
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Mr. Faulk "is primarily known," WFB begins, "as a certified victim of an anti-Communist organization called Aware," which had brought him to the attention of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Mr. Faulk had sued Aware and been awarded "the most colossal judgment in libel history"; he was now seeking the abolition of the committee. On this show, Mr. Faulk begins, in his down-home sort of voice, by quoting the then-Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan as having said that "the committee's program so closely parallels the program of the Ku Klux Klan that there is no distinguishable difference between them," and we're off to the races.
- 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
- 1966-04-21
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
- 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: Faulk, John Henry
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Producing Organization: WOR-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.6 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 0:50:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; 6; Should the House Committee on UN-AMERICAN Activities Be Abolished?,” 1966-04-21, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 2, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-np1wd3qv8v.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; 6; Should the House Committee on UN-AMERICAN Activities Be Abolished?.” 1966-04-21. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 2, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-np1wd3qv8v>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; 6; Should the House Committee on UN-AMERICAN Activities Be Abolished?. 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-np1wd3qv8v