Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from CBS Evening News for Saturday, Jan 23, 1982


Title: The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception

Abstract:
  • CBS Reports: The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception anchored by Mike Wallace, George Crile
  • Interviews with Sam Adams, General William Westmoreland, Colonel Gaines Hawkins, General Joseph McChristian, Richard McArthur, Colonel George Hampshire, George Allen (CIA), Colonel Russell Cooley, Commander James Meacham, Colonel Daniel Graham
  • Topics re: Tet Offensive; self-defense militia; battle orders, DIA
  • Footage of speech by President Lyndon Johnson (March 1968); police clash in Chicago 1968; Vietnam war footage; Westmoreland congress address 1967; Meet the Press footage with Westmoreland re: infiltration; Lt Colonel Everett Parkins photographs; Walter Cronkite; Tet offensive footage

  • Begin Time:08:30:00 pm
    End Time:10:00:00 pm
    TVN Record Number:830423
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1982-2009 Vanderbilt University
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