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CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: VIETNAM PERSPECTIVE: GENERAL THIEU AND UNCLE SAM (TV)
Summary
One in this limited series of CBS News Specials which ran from 1965-1967, with continuing coverage of the Vietnam conflict. This program looks at the 9/3/67 national elections in South Vietnam and focuses on the newly-elected President (Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu) and Vice President (Nguyen Cao Ky). Program highlights include the following: Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Maine) talks with Vietnamese citizens; Rather comments on President Lyndon Johnson's views of the election and land reform; and Kalb interviews Vice President Ky. (Presented under the umbrella of "Who, What, When, Where, Why.") Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: September 5, 1967 10:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:28:26
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T81:0305
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Vietnam War - 1967; Vietnam, S. - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Vietnam, S. - Elections - 1967
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1967
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Bernard Birnbaum … Producer
- Philip Scheffler … Producer
- Jane Bartels … Associate Producer
- Sam Roberts … Associate Producer
- Joe Gorsuch … Director
- Dan Rather … Reporter
- Harry Reasoner … Reporter
- Bernard Kalb … Reporter
- Edmund Muskie
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Nguyen Van Thieu
- Nguyen Cao Ky