CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: VIETNAM PERSPECTIVE: THE MCNAMARA TESTIMONY (TV)
Summary
One in this limited series of CBS news specials which ran from 1965-1967, with continuing coverage of the Vietnam conflict. Presents highlights of Sec. of Defense McNamara's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Committee chairman Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) and fellow Senators Bourke Hickenlooper (R-Iowa), Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), John Sparkman (D-Ala.), John J. Williams (R-Del.), Joseph S. Clark (D-Penn.) discuss the following topics with Robt. McNamara: political disorder in South Vietnam and Vietnamese elections; the Viet Cong threat to democratic elections; whether the U.S. is involved in a civil war or a war of communist aggression; and "U.S. Expansionism" and presence on the Asian continent. This program is a "CBS News Special Report." Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: April 20, 1966 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:28:57
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T79:0328
- GENRE: News
- SUBJECT HEADING: Vietnam War - 1966; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews; U S Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Vietnam, S. - Elections
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1966
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Robert Vitarelli … Director
- Harry Reasoner … Reporter
- Marvin Kalb … Reporter
- Roger Mudd … Reporter
- J. William Fulbright … Guest
- John Sparkman … Guest
- John J. Williams … Guest
- Albert Gore … Guest
- Bourke Hickenlooper … Guest
- Joseph S. Clark … Guest
- Robert McNamara … Guest