Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; 188; The Mylai Massacre
- Episode Number
- 188
- Episode
- The Mylai Massacre
- Producing Organization
- WOR-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
- Contributing Organization
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/514-1v5bc3tj8v
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- Description
- Episode Description
- A serious, though sometimes heated, discussion that begins with who bears responsibility for the Mylai massacre (JCB: "Now I do also believe that if you get American troops into a long and indefinite war, going on for years and years in a strange country where they don't understand people, where they can't communicate ... if you search and destroy, and, worst of all, if you are always surrounded by people of whom you can't be sure whether they're your friends or your enemies ... statistically you've got to expect a certain number of people to break loose and do something like this") but goes on to questions such as, Was the attack on Hiroshima launched in cold blood? Where did the word "gook" originate? (CF: "We used it in World War II, against the enemy." WFB: "Did we?" CF: "Well, where I was.... We talked-" WFB: "Surely not you?" CF: "Well, yes, surely me too. If I had said 'Japanese' none of the fellows I was with would know what in the devil I meant") and (from Mr. Frankel) "Aren't both you people sort of forgetting the Hundred Years War?"
- 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
- 1970-01-15
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- War; My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968
- 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:
Frankel, Charles
Guest: Bennett, John Coleman
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: 80040.188 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 0:50:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; 188; The Mylai Massacre,” 1970-01-15, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 31, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-1v5bc3tj8v.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; 188; The Mylai Massacre.” 1970-01-15. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 31, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-1v5bc3tj8v>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; 188; The Mylai Massacre. 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-514-1v5bc3tj8v