Firing Line
Season 10
Firing Line was an American public affairs show founded and hosted by conservative William F. Buckley, Jr., founder and publisher of National Review magazine. Its 1,504 episodes over 33 years made Firing Line the longest-running public affairs show in television history with a single host. The erudite program, which featured many of the most prominent intellectuals and public figures in the United States, won an Emmy Award in 1969.
Where to Watch Season 10
15 Episodes
- Oil: the Issue of American InterventionE3
Oil: the Issue of American InterventionAlthough Mr. Kissinger said it ever so carefully in his famous interview, Mr. Buckley begins, "his words were, 'I am not saying that there's no circumstance where we would not use force, but it is one thing to use it in the case of a dispute over price; it's another where there's some actual strangulation of the industrialized world.' - Integrity and JournalismE10
Integrity and JournalismNew York Times writers Tom Wicker and William Safire discuss timely topics: the Attica prison uprising and the public's lack of concern for prison-reform and rehabilitation programs. The public outcry against Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate affair and Gerald Ford's official pardon of his predecessor. - Is Our Military Defense Adequate?E36
Is Our Military Defense Adequate?Mr. Schlesinger had served in a variety of positions in the Nixon Administration, remaining in the last of those after Mr. Nixon succumbed to Watergate. The discussion here begins with South Vietnam, which had just fallen to the Communists, and moves through the Persian Gulf and Soviet power generally, to broader questions such as the difficulties of foreign policy in a democracy. - The Implication of the Manson PhenomenonE39
The Implication of the Manson PhenomenonIn a show taped just a few weeks after Squeaky Fromme's attempt on Gerald Ford's life, WFB engages his guest--who had prosecuted Charles Manson and his "family" for the murders of Sharon Tate et al. six years earlier--in an absorbing exploration of the Manson phenomenon: to what extent it grew out of the Sixties culture; whether executing Manson might have put an end to his cult; how Manson resembles and differs from Hitler. - Should We Choose Our Presidents Differently?E47
Should We Choose Our Presidents Differently?The author of A Ford, Not a Lincoln is in a state of cheerful despair about the future of democracy in America. A wide-ranging discussion of the way our candidates are chosen nowadays and of the press's failure to hold them accountable.
