War

Peter Arnett on reporting from Saigon for the Associated Press during the Vietnam War

13:46

Peter Arnett on competing news outlets in Vietnam during the Vietnam War

04:30

Peter Arnett on covering the Buddhist crisis in Vietnam for the Associated Press

04:55

Peter Arnett on getting stories out of Vietnam, and on television news being late with the stories

03:45

Peter Arnett on government interference in his reporting from Vietnam

07:35

Peter Arnett on appealing to the Kennedy administration when South Vietnam was hampering their reporting from the region

09:23

Peter Arnett on covering the attempted coup in Vietnam

03:53

Peter Arnett on covering the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, and military complaints about the coverage

14:03

Peter Arnett on the reaction of the Lyndon Johnson administration to his AP reporting from Vietnam

09:50

Peter Arnett on how the Vietnam War changed reporting on wars that came after

08:03

Peter Arnett on laying the groundwork for CNN's coverage of the Gulf War

10:46

Peter Arnett on public reaction to his, Bernard Shaw's, and John Holliman's coverage of the bombing of Baghdad from the Al Rashid Hotel

03:49

Peter Arnett on using words rather than images to describe the action on the ground in Baghdad the first day of the Gulf War, and on dealing with Iraqi security

03:21

Peter Arnett on Iraqi security forces attempting to censor his reports from Baghdad

08:57

Peter Arnett on staying behind in Baghdad during the Gulf War after his colleagues from CNN left

02:02

Peter Arnett on CNN and Ted Turner resisting pressure from the George H.W. Bush administration to pull Arnett out of Baghdad during the Gulf War

02:40

Peter Arnett on reporting on the bombing of a baby milk factory during the Gulf War, and on the growing criticism of his reporting from Baghdad

11:05

Peter Arnett on broadcasting, along with Bernard Shaw and John Holliman, from the Al Rashid Hotel the night of the American bombing of of Baghdad which marked the start of the Gulf War

13:08

Peter Arnett on interviewing Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War

19:27

Peter Arnett on getting the tapes of his Saddam Hussein interview back to CNN without censorship from the Iraqi Ministry of Information

03:27

Peter Arnett on the events leading up to his 1997 interview with Osama bin Laden

15:02

Peter Arnett on his 1997 interview with Osama bin Laden

14:19

Bob Banner on his service in World War II

02:19

Bob Banner on producing Peggy Fleming Visits the Soviet Union

05:43

Erik Barnouw on how World War II impacted him and his work

05:08

Erik Barnouw on forming and heading the Armed Forces Radio Services education unit

09:04

Donald P. Bellisario on early memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

01:44

Donald P. Bellisario on his childhood town's reaction to World War II

01:50

Donald P. Bellisario on "Magnum" of Magnum, P.I.  being a veteran of the Vietnam War

03:33

Donald P. Bellisario on Dean Stockwell's difficulty with the Quantum Leap episode "The Leap Home"

02:36

Walter Bernstein on being drafted in 1941, serving in public relations during World War II, and writing a musical comedy play for the troops (pre-USO)

02:18

Walter Bernstein on getting transferred to do public relations for the Irving Berlin play "This is the Army" during World War II, controversy over a piece he wrote for The New Yorker, and getting transferred again to write for Yank magazine

02:12

Walter Bernstein on writing for Yank, the official magazine of the Army, and traveling overseas as a magazine correspondent

02:49

Walter Bernstein on the Army being aware of his left-leaning political beliefs

04:21

Walter Bernstein on reporting for Yank magazine from Jerusalem during World War II; on the atrocities against Jews during World War II

02:12

Walter Bernstein on reporting for Yank magazine from combat situations during World War II and interviewing Tito in Yugoslavia without the Army's consent

08:21

Tom Bettag on covering the Vietnam War during his early years at CBS News

03:11

Tom Bettag on the "rules" for reporting on the Vietnam War, and on what he learned from the experience of covering it

07:52

Tom Bettag on trying to land an interview with Saddam Hussein for CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

03:41

Tom Bettag on covering the Gulf War for CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, and on landing an interview with Saddam Hussein

03:41

Wade Bingham on the types of films he made as a child, and on making training films during World War II

09:47

Wade Bingham on covering the Korean War for CBS News

09:44

Wade Bingham on covering the Battle of Chongju and other battles during the Korean War

04:00

Wade Bingham on covering the firing of General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War for CBS News

12:34

Wade Bingham on his most memorable moments covering the Korean War for CBS News

02:47

Wade Bingham on memorable moments shooting the Korean War for CBS News

04:30

Wade Bingham on Edward R. Murrow bringing See it Now to Korea during the Korean War

10:13

Wade Bingham on competing with other news organizations during the Korean War, and on bringing sound to his footage of it

07:46

Wade Bingham on covering the French involvement in Vietnam, which was a precursor to the Vietnam War

05:50

Wade Bingham on covering the early stages of the Vietnam War for CBS News

07:59

Wade Bingham on shooting a hydrogen bomb test

03:25

Wade Bingham on covering Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Indonesia in 1960

05:45

Wade Bingham on shooting an hydrogen bomb test for CBS News

06:43

Al Borden on his experience in World War II and living through the Great Depression

01:24

Al Borden on his service in World War II

01:48

Tom Brokaw on interviewing Mikhail Gorbachev on NBC Nightly News

02:06

Tom Brokaw on being targeted with an anthrax letter in 2001

02:05

Julia Child on her time in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II

15:23

Julia Child on her time in the OSS during World War II (continued)

06:46

Robert Clary on being placed in a concentration camp with this family during World War II

04:48

Robert Clary on being liberated from Buchenwald in 1945

02:21

Robert Clary on how Hogan's Heroes was vastly different from his own real life World War II experience, and more on his character, "LeBeau"

05:25

Robert Clary on his eventual decision to share his and his family's story of being placed in a concentration camp during World War II

05:28

Robert Clary on his work speaking about the Holocaust for the Shoah Foundation, and on being the subject of the documentary "Robert Clary A5714: A Memoir of Liberation"

02:10

Nick Clooney on how his family was affected by World War II

01:47

Nick Clooney on serving in the Armed Forces Radio Network during the Korean War

06:47

Alexander Courage on becoming a bandleader in the Army during World War II and attending the Army Music School

04:44

Alexander Courage on starting to arrange music while he was in the Army

02:34

Ann Curry on reporting on the war in Kosovo for Today

08:13

Ann Curry on her dedication to covering the genocide in Darfur for Today, and on interviewing the world leaders involved in the conflict, including President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir and President of Chad Idriss Deby

11:12

Bill Dana on being sent to witness the concentration camp at Dachau by President Eisenhower

07:08

Bill Dana on the Leopoldville disaster, the "Cheshire Cats," and visiting Dachau concentration camp

Betty Cole Dukert on Meet the Press'  coverage of The Cold War

07:21

Betty Cole Dukert on Fidel Castro appearing on Meet the Press

02:44

Betty Cole Dukert on Anastas Mikoyan appearing on Meet the Press

05:30

Betty Cole Dukert on covering the Vietnam War on Meet the Press

11:14

Ralph Edwards on his bond, paper, and copper drives with Truth or Consequences during World War II

02:34

Ralph Edwards on the 1958 episode of This Is Your Life set in Hawaii to honor those who perished at Pearl Harbor and raise funds for a memorial

03:17

Jeff Fager on producing stories in the Middle East in the 1980s for CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

04:08

Jeff Fager on covering the Soviet Union for CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, including a story where they explored what Russians were proud of

02:11

Jeff Fager on producing stories on the Gulf War for CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and 60 Minutes

03:01

Jeff Fager on the Abu Ghraib story on 60 Minutes II

09:00

Jeff Fager on the controversial 2013 60 Minutes story on Benghazi

06:31

Jamie Farr on getting drafted during the Korean conflict

00:57

Jamie Farr on keeping in touch with Red Skelton when Farr got drafted in 1957 and the pair entertaining troops together

04:13

Jamie Farr on the premise of M*A*S*H

02:07

Jamie Farr on the dog tags he wore as "Klinger" on M*A*S*H and how the show was similar to the real Korean Way (in which Farr had served)

01:45

June Foray on writing scripts for the Office of Civilian Defense during World War II

01:27

June Foray on writing scripts for the Office of Civilian Defense during World War II

01:27

Ray Forrest on his father trying to bring his family to America from Germany, but instead serving in World War I for Germany

01:38

Ray Forrest on his on-air announcement of the start of World War II

01:21

Ray Forrest on being drafted into the TFPL (Training Film Production Laboratory) in World War II

03:04

Ray Forrest on working for the Signal Corps during World War II and then joining the OSS (because he spoke fluent German), and getting into a serious vehicle accident

06:02

Ray Forrest on visiting the TV station and appearing on television in uniform during World War II

01:04

Reuven Frank on erection of the Berlin Wall

08:08

Reuven Frank on the Cuban Missile Crisis

04:17

Reuven Frank on NBC's coverage of the Bay of Pigs invasion

01:33

Reuven Frank on the NBC News documentary The Tunnel

21:29

Reuven Frank on the NBC News coverage of the Vietnam War

05:47

Reuven Frank on NBC News' coverage of the anti-Vietnam War movment

02:45

Murray Fromson on seeing his Japanese-American classmates taken out of their classroom a few weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the discrimination he witnessed against Japanese-Americans

02:07

Murray Fromson on being drafted during the Korean War, and he came to write for "Stars and Stripes"

02:24

Murray Fromson on what it was like to write for "Stars and Stripes" during the Korean War, and how a story he wrote got him transferred from being stationed in Japan to Korea

02:38

Murray Fromson on some of his most striking memories of reporting for "Stars and Stripes" in Korea during the Korean War

04:29

Murray Fromson on getting in trouble for a story he wrote about a Marine while reporting for "Stars and Stripes" during the Korean War, and how this led to him being hired by the Associated Press

06:17

Murray Fromson on being a correspondent in Japan, reporting on Japan and Korea following the end of the Korean War

03:02

Murray Fromson on stopping in Saigon and Cambodia on his way to reporting in Singapore in 1956

03:29

Murray Fromson on covering the Cuban Missile Crisis for CBS News

01:49

Murray Fromson on covering the Vietnam War for CBS News

03:53

Murray Fromson on torture he witnessed while covering the Vietnam War for CBS News, and a court martial trial he covered

04:46

Murray Fromson on the My Lai Massacre and the horrors of war

01:44

Murray Fromson on a piece he wrote for "The New York Times," which was an interview with an unnamed general who said the war in Vietnam was unwinnable - the general did not allow his name to be revealed until 2006 (it was Frederick C. Weyand)

03:23

Murray Fromson on how his transfer to the Chicago bureau of CBS News came about due to an experience in Vietnam

05:38

Murray Fromson on Walter Cronkite's visit to Vietnam

01:56

Murray Fromson on what he told Walter Cronkite on his visit to Vietnam

03:15

Murray Fromson on going to Moscow to cover the Soviet Union for CBS News in 1972

02:45

Murray Fromson on what it was like to live in Moscow during the Cold War and to report for CBS News

03:12

Murray Fromson on a press conference with Leonid Brezhnev before his visit to the United States in 1973

04:02

Murray Fromson on the biggest stories he covered while he was in Moscow for CBS News

04:45

Murray Fromson on covering the end of the Vietnam War, including the plane crash of a flight taking orphans out of Vietnam

05:20

Murray Fromson on the parallels between the Iraq War and the Vietnam War

01:19

James Garner on his family and World War II

01:23

James Garner on serving in the Korean War

03:02

Larry Gelbart on touring with Bob Hope during the war, and how Hope was almost a victim of a bombing attack while in Vietnam

01:32

Larry Gelbart on how the Korean conflict was the real backdrop for the fictional M*A*S*H television series

04:27

Larry Gelbart on AfterMASH, the unsuccessful followup to M*A*S*H which he says took the "wrong take" on what should never have been a comedy

01:19

Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. on World War II interrupting and delaying the development of television

02:55

Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. on DuMont Laboratories' activities during World War II

04:55

Lewis Gomavitz on his experience with World War II

03:56

Lewis Gomavitz on his experiences with World War II and on working at an experimental television station

11:56

Julian Goodman on serving in World War II for a short time and contracting pneumonia

02:51

Julian Goodman on NBC news coverage of the Vietnam War

02:15

Don Hewitt on his experience during World War II

06:38

Don Hewitt on covering the Korean War for CBS News, and on how the technology of the industry has changed

04:48

Don Hewitt on the CBS coverage of the Gulf of Tonkin hearing

00:54

Don Hewitt on how television changed the public's opinion of the Vietnam War

03:08

Don Hewitt on television's coverage of the Gulf War

03:02

Martin Hoade on his experience with World War II

01:49

Martin Hoade on directing the made-for-television movie Duty Bound, about the Vietnam War

04:32

Stanley Hubbard on the pause in the development of television during World War II and his father's early radio stations

02:35

Stanley Hubbard on KSTP's coverage of the Vietnam War

04:52

Lucy Jarvis on producing a landmark series about the United States and the Soviet Union in the early 1960s for The Nation's Future  featuring John Glenn and Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov

12:47

Lucy Jarvis on producing the documentary The Kremlin  for NBC News

04:24

Lucy Jarvis on the technical difficulties of filming inside the Kremlin and NBC destroying unused footage

02:33

Lucy Jarvis on her crew for The Kremlin  and it being NBC first major color broadcast

01:16

Lucy Jarvis on filming The Kremlin  during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962

07:33

Ted Koppel on his first television appearance in 1966 - covering the Vietnam War

11:25

Ted Koppel on being the first Western journalist to reach Baghdad when Iraq invaded Kuwait

01:25

Mort Lachman on writing for Bob Hope's USO shows

02:42

Mort Lachman on traveling to Vietnam with Bob Hope

02:48

Norman Lear on his experience with World War II in the Air Force

02:28

Norman Lear on where he was on December 7, 1941 and on his time in the army

03:10

Jim Lehrer on his experience growing up during World War II

01:38

Jim Lehrer on covering the Vietnam War

01:15

Ray Evans and Jay Livingston on how World War II affected them

00:36

Ray Evans and Jay Livingston on how World War II affected them

00:36

Stewart MacGregory on getting into radio in New York and the onset of World War II

09:24

Stewart MacGregory on his experiences in World War II

08:25

Stewart MacGregory on becoming a cryptograph specialist in World War II

04:34

Robert MacNeil on his experience of World War II

08:54

Robert MacNeil on covering the Belgian Congo Crisis

08:57

Robert MacNeil on covering the rise of The Berlin Wall

05:31

Robert MacNeil on covering the Cuban Missile Crisis

08:35

Robert MacNeil on covering the Cuban Missile Crisis

06:28

Robert MacNeil on covering the Cold War in East Berlin

07:05

Abby Mann on writing the Playhouse 90 classic "Judgment at Nuremberg"

15:23

Abby Mann on writing Playhouse 90: "Judgement at Nuremberg"

17:10

David McCallum on his memories of bombs falling in England during World War II

03:44

David McCallum on the concept of a Russian agent and an American agent working together on The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

01:15

Jim McKay on his experience of World War II

03:37

Jim McKay on his interview with Fidel Castro and on the Cuban Missile Crisis

03:58

Ed McMahon on his activities during World War II

04:14

Ed McMahon on flying fighter planes as a Marine in the Korean War

01:27

Barney McNulty on his experience of World War II

07:00

Barney McNulty on traveling with Bob Hope on his USO Tours of Vietnam

17:16

Sig Mickelson on CBS News' coverage of the Korean War

02:05

Sig Mickelson on a dust up between CBS News and the Eisenhower White House over a scheduled interview with then-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev

09:58

JP Miller on how the great depression and World War II impacted him

05:06

JP Miller on getting hurt while fighting in World War II

Vic Mizzy on serving in the Navy's welfare recreation office during World War II - working on films and writing shows

03:53

Vic Mizzy on composing songs that became hits during World War II

01:52

Vic Mizzy on playing the organ for the Navy during World War II and falling ill

08:36

Bill Monroe on covering the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis for NBC News

03:37

Bill Monroe on NBC News' coverage of Vietnam

01:14

Bill Monroe on NBC News' coverage of the Vietnam War, and on covering the Lyndon B. Johnson administration

07:40

Priscilla Morgan on her brother's experience in World War II and joining the WAVES

08:10

Priscilla Morgan on her experiences in the Navy WAVES

04:49

Pat Morita on his family being placed in an internment camp during World War II

04:46

Pat Morita on starring in Farewell to Manzanar, which portrayed the Japanese internment camps

07:19

Arthur Penn on his experience with World War II, and on meeting Fred Coe and Lester Shorr

09:20

Arthur Penn on putting on plays while touring around Europe during World War II

06:16

Abraham Polonsky on his experience with World War II

01:46

Abraham Polonsky on being involved with the OSS during World War II

10:15

Del Reisman on his service during World War II, and on his education

10:23

Del Reisman on the impact World War II had on Rod Serling's writing, and on Serling's celebrity, brought about by The Twilight Zone

01:11

Ed Resnick on shooting the atomic bomb tests in Las Vegas for KTLA

06:09

Ed Resnick on the logistics of shooting the atomic bomb tests, which were broadcast live on KTLA

06:12

Ed Resnick on the crew of KTLA's broadcast of the atomic bomb test

02:41

Gene Reynolds on his service in the Navy in World War II

00:55

Gene Reynolds on M*A*S*H  in regards to Vietnam

01:57

Andy Rooney on his experience in World War II, and on writing for Stars and Stripes

12:56

Andy Rooney on his work at Stars and Stripes during World War II

12:15

Andy Rooney on the CBS Radio coverage of World War II, and on going to Normandy in the wake of D-Day

09:31

Andy Rooney on his editors at Stars and Stripes and on encountering Ernest Hemingway

05:14

Andy Rooney on covering the end of World War II for Stars and Stripes

02:11

Bob Schieffer on covering the Vietnam War as a newspaper reporter

04:31

Bob Schieffer on covering anti-Vietnam War demonstrations for CBS News

03:04

Bob Schieffer on covering the Vietnam War as the Pentagon correspondent for CBS News

02:51

Bob Schieffer on covering George W. Bush and the Iraq War as CBS News Chief Washington correspondent

03:43

Max Schindler on covering the protests of the '60s

04:00

Max Schindler on directing coverage of the Vietnam War for NBC News

07:21

Daniel Schorr on his experiences during World War II

01:45

Daniel Schorr on his experiences during World War II

05:11

Daniel Schorr on going to Moscow for CBS News in 1955, and on getting in with Edward R. Murrow

07:46

Daniel Schorr on interviewing Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow on Face the Nation

07:33

Daniel Schorr on covering Nikita Khrushchev's trip to the United States in 1959 for Eyewitness to History

04:10

Daniel Schorr on how CBS News portrayed Nikita Khrushchev, and on negotiating his Face the Nation interview

03:36

Daniel Schorr on being expelled by Moscow by the KGB, and on covering various stories for CBS News

02:18

Daniel Schorr on covering the construction of the Berlin Wall for CBS News, and John F. Kennedy's visit to Germany

04:21

Daniel Schorr on covering various stories in Eastern Europe in the early 1960s

05:42

Daniel Schorr on doing a CBS documentary on East Germany, and on clashing with William S. Paley

06:43

Mel Shavelson on Bob Hope entertaining the troops in Vietnam, and on the politics of the time

07:03

Mel Shavelson on Bob Hope's travels around the world entertaining soldiers during World War II

02:46

Mel Shavelson on Bob Hope's travels around the world entertaining soldiers during World War II

02:46

Jack Shea on entering the Army in 1952 and making training films

01:56

Jack Shea on editing Bob Hope's USO shows

03:19

Jack Shea on music director of Bob Hope's television specials, Les Brown, and entertaining troops at USO shows

05:42

John Silva on how World War II affected his family; on becoming a radar officer in World War II

06:58

John Silva on the technological innovations he learned about as a a radar officer in World War II

01:14

Garry Simpson on serving in the Navy as a test engineer

01:41

Garry Simpson on showing civil defense films during World War II and NBC not broadcasting television during the war after 1942

03:21

Howard Smit on his experiences during World War II

01:31

Howard Smit on participating in making training films for World War II

03:08

Howard K. Smith on censorship he faced at CBS radio in Berlin during World War II

00:35

Howard K. Smith on leaving Germany and arriving in Switzerland on December 7, 1941

01:29

Sid Smith on joining the Marine Corps College Program during World War II; on transferring to the Navy

02:29

Sid Smith on directing Bob Hope's Christmas Specials and other Bob Hope Specials, including USO Shows

02:20

Sanford Socolow on getting drafted into the Korean War and serving in the public information office and the First Radio Broadcasting and Leaflet group

06:06

Sanford Socolow on how Walter Cronkite became "the most trusted man in America" and the story behind Cronkite's on-air condemnation of the Vietnam War (which Cronkite delivered on a special primetime report, not on the CBS Evening News)

05:13

Sanford Socolow on CBS's coverage of the Vietnam War

03:55

Sanford Socolow on the friendship between Frank Stanton and Lyndon Johnson and whether it influenced CBS news coverage of Vietnam

04:17

George Takei on being confined to an American internment camp during World War II 

13:09

George Takei on Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek's commentary on American society at the time

05:32

James Wall on his service during World War II

12:48

James Wall on going overseas to serve during World War II

08:03

James Wall on dancing to boost the morale of the troops during World War II

03:13

James Wall on segregation in the Army during World War II

10:28

Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes' coverage of the Vietnam War

10:32

Mike Wallace on being sued for libel (and beginning his battle with depression) by William Westmoreland after he interviewed him for his special The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception

04:39

Bob Weiskopf on his service in World War II while working for The Fred Allen Show

01:33

Bob Weiskopf on his wife almost going to an internment camp during World War II

01:06

Joseph Wershba on his experience with World War II

03:03

Joseph Wershba on the See It Now "Christmas in Korea" report in 1952 with Edward R. Murrow

12:07

Joseph Wershba on 60 Minutes story on The Gulf of Tonkin incident

04:14

Av Westin on being in Berlin when the Berlin Wall went up

05:17

Av Westin on various major news events in his career

11:02