Mr. McKissick had taken over the leadership of CORE from James Farmer (see Firing Line 5) and had led the organization in a more militant direction, and not only concerning race relations within the United States. As WFB puts it, his guest proceeds on the assumption "that there is a nexus between" civil rights and America's foreign policy. Hence, for example, Mr. McKissick had visited Cambodia and had determined that American bombing there was unjustified. This often heated exchange begins with the Henry Wallace movement of 1948 and goes on from there. WFB: "The point is whether you are going to exercise the kind of prudence that will keep CORE from perhaps becoming what the Progressive Party of 1948 became, which is simply a pawn of the Soviet Union." FM: "Well, I know a lot of people who worked in that campaign for Wallace who were not Communists, and ... there were many good people. I think to put a label on people, I've never been one who wanted to put a label on people ..."