URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/6188
Collection Structure Firing Line broadcast records >  Episode guide >  War Crimes: Part II
Item Title War Crimes: Part II
Collection Title Firing Line broadcast records
Guest Bruce, Collot
Guest North, Oliver
Guest Carpenter, Donald
Guest Winston, Mark
Guest Bender, John
Guest Winship, Mike
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date Created July 07, 1971
Description Mr. Buckley begins by telling us that he had recently received a letter from three Marine officers stationed at Quantico, Virginia, all Vietnam veterans, all concerned about media coverage of "atrocities and war crimes allegedly committed in the Republic of Vietnam." The three officers, our guests on this show, state that they never witnessed or were told at close hand of any such incidents. Their purpose in going public was, as Captain Bender puts it, "primarily ... a concern that the families of our own men-and myself, thinking of the 216 enlisted men that served in my rifle platoon over the nine and a half months that I commanded it, and the 17 officers who were rotated through my company while I was in Vietnam,... I felt personally that I didn't want the families of any of those people to feel that their sons or their husbands were coming home as, quote, 'war criminals.' " A moving account of what the war looked like on the ground-and, yes, Lieutenant North is that Oliver North.
Subject(s) Atrocities War crimes Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Recorded Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Dimensions Duration: 60 minutes
Format Text
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Color color
Color color
Soundtrack sound
Soundtrack sound
Hoover ID Program S0009
Record Number 80040.254
Notes Video available through special order.
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
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