Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0807; Health Risks in A Nuclear Environment
- Episode Number
- S0807
- 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/514-222r49gv92
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Mr. Bailie had charged that emissions from the Hanford Nuclear Facility had been causing health problems in the region for forty years; Mr. Fox says, "The Hanford operation is one of the safest operations in the state"; Ms. Steele's research leads her to concur with Mr. Bailie, although she points out that "The U.S. Department of Energy has never done a baseline study--who was here, where they went, and how they were affected." The show suffers from Mr. Fox's tentativeness as a debater, but we still learn a lot. In Mr. Buckley's summation: "Let's by all means say to the government: Find out what's going on. And say to the scholars: Find out what did go on, and attempt to distinguish between the two. Meanwhile, don't let perestroika, as Mr. Shrum suggests, give us a false sense of complacency." 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
- 1989-01-10
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- United States; Environmental aspects; research; Hanford Site (Wash.); Nuclear weapons plants; Washington (State); Safety measures; waste disposal; Radiation; Health aspects
- 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: Bailie, Tom
Guest: Steele, Karen Dorn
Guest: Fox, Michael F.
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Moderator: Shrum, Robert
Producing Organization: Southern Educational Communications Association
Producing Organization: South Carolina Educational Television Network
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.1054 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 0:30:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0807; Health Risks in A Nuclear Environment,” 1989-01-10, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 18, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-222r49gv92.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0807; Health Risks in A Nuclear Environment.” 1989-01-10. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 18, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-222r49gv92>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0807; Health Risks in A Nuclear Environment. 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-514-222r49gv92