Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1225; The End of Firing Line: Part II
- Episode Number
- S1225
- Episode
- The End of Firing Line: Part II
- 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-th8bg2j97d
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- Description
- Episode Description
- This pair of farewell shows begins with a pastiche of excerpts from Firing Line (featuring Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Mother Teresa, Jesse Jackson, and many more) and closes with excerpts from Mr. Buckley's appearances on other shows (including Laugh-In) and imitations of him by, e.g., David Frye. In between, WFB and his guests talk about New York versus Washington, the state of the tax-code debate-and the effect of Firing Line. RB: "When we were looking at some of those clippings, you weren't just debating liberals, you were debating actual radicals. You were debating people all across the spectrum, Jesse Jackson when he was far more leftwing than he is today,... Allen Ginsberg, a homosexual Jewish Hindu. You know, people from all across-" WFB: "There are still a lot of them today." RB: "But how often do they get an hour of television? How often does anyone with an intelligent opinion get an hour of television? We've just finished three series of presidential debates. We have men who want to be the most powerful man in the world having to utter haiku and slip them into 45-second slots, and that's the level of discourse." ... WFB: "So there it is, ladies and gentlemen. I wish you Godspeed." 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
- 1999-12-14
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- Firing line (Television program); Anniversaries
- 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: Reagan, Ronald
Guest: Green, Mark J.
Guest: Brookhiser, Richard
Guest: Kristol, William
Guest: Jackson, Jesse
Guest: Robinson, Peter
Guest: Ginsberg, Allen
Guest: Mother Teresa
Guest: Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous)
Guest: Ford, Gerald R.
Guest: Lowry, Richard
Guest: Kinsley, Michael E.
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: 80040.1509 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 0:30:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1225; The End of Firing Line: Part II,” 1999-12-14, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 15, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-th8bg2j97d.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1225; The End of Firing Line: Part II.” 1999-12-14. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 15, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-th8bg2j97d>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S1225; The End of Firing Line: Part II. 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-th8bg2j97d