Heritage; 71; Dr. Henry Wriston. Part 1: The Development of the Department of State
- Series
- Heritage
- Episode Number
- 71
- Producing Organization
- WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/512-0v89g5h48f
- NOLA Code
- HERG
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Episodes 71 - 74 of Heritage feature Dr. Henry M. Wriston, former president of Brown University in Providence, RI, and head of the Wriston Committee which investigated United States Foreign Service personnel policies. He is interviewed on education and foreign policy by Edward Green, executive assistant to the President on the Westinghouse Air Brake Corporation; Dr. Joseph Zasloff, professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh; and Dr. John S. Millis, president of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. In this episode, Dr. Wriston is interviewed by Edward Green and Dr. Joseph Zasloff. Dr. Wriston discusses his life-long interest in the State Department. His interest grew while he was a graduate student at Harvard. He traces the State Department from the time of George Washington to the present. He claims the department had little serious responsibility before World War I, that in past years the Foreign Service was a corps of independently wealthy elite, and that now the United States had an extraordinarily well-trained foreign service. However, according to Dr. Wriston, the idea of a Foreign Service Institute to train diplomats as thoroughly as the military academies train military man, is a good one which has been poorly executed. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- Through "Heritage," a selected group of prominent persons individually address themselves to broad areas of subject matter in fields where they are particularly qualified to speak. Rather than being a simple series of conventional pattern, this is a "series of series," where each guest appears on several episode in several formats (i.e. straight talk, interview, talk with small group, conversation). This series totaling 131 half-hour episodes was originally recorded on various formats including film and videotape. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1959-08-30
- Asset type
- Episode
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Interviewee: Wriston, Henry M.
Interviewer: Zasloff, Joseph
Interviewer: Green, Edward
Producing Organization: WQED (Television station : Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2303188-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2303188-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Heritage; 71; Dr. Henry Wriston. Part 1: The Development of the Department of State,” 1959-08-30, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 24, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-0v89g5h48f.
- MLA: “Heritage; 71; Dr. Henry Wriston. Part 1: The Development of the Department of State.” 1959-08-30. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 24, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-0v89g5h48f>.
- APA: Heritage; 71; Dr. Henry Wriston. Part 1: The Development of the Department of State. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-0v89g5h48f