[gunfire] they are now hiring back. Could you tell us what is happening here and what the situation is . I think this is the second or third day i was in vietnam. This is the special Landing Force . They were trying to get to the ridgeline. Then as they begin to move aycock crossfire i cant crop i caught crossfire in a young marine was hit badly. They needed help getting him out. Naturally i helped. It doesnt take much imagination to know what i was thinking. We need some help over here. I will give you a hand. Mr. Rather i see this young man cut down. Says, my god, this is somebodys son, brother, husband. When you are there if you let your emotions for a second out , then you will not be able to do what you need to do. Dan rather, cbs news. Very few people in a lifetime get to see this as an observer. We are inside the main pagoda now. A tank just popped his head around the corner. Mr. Rather your role is to show them and tell them as best you can what it is like, what it is really li
[chatter] [video] [gunfire] they are now firing back. Could you tell us what is happening here and what the situation is . I think this is the second or third day i was in vietnam. This is the special Landing Force . They were trying to get to the ridgeline. Just before you go to the high ridge over there. Move, ias they began to caught the crossfire and this young marine was hit badly. They needed help getting him out. And naturally i helped. It doesnt take much imagination to know what i was thinking. We need some help over here. I will give you a hand. Mr. Rather i see this young man cut down. And you say to yourself my god, this is somebodys son, brother, husband. When you are there if you let your emotions for a second out of you, then you will not be able to do what you need to do. Dan rather, cbs news. Mr. Rather very few people in a lifetime get to see this as an observer. We are inside the main pagoda now. A tank just popped his head around the corner. Mr. Rather your role is
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Tectonic plates of politics undergird us. Theant to look at event that is the most traumatic event of the last halfcentury of American Life, the. Ssassination of jfk and at almost 50 years removed, is there anything new to be said about this grim episode . Surprisingly there is. Jim pearson argues in camelot and the cultural revolution that the trauma of his killing went beyond the nations grief and outrage and led to the d formation of our political consensus. It was the catalyst for transformation of liberalism in the 1960s and should be regarded as a key turning point of the end of americas law liberal tradition and the beginning of a new kind of liberalism that represents a repudiation of the older tradition. Whether this older tradition was too brittle because of its predecessors is a matter that the panel will take up. We have david brown and the author of a biography of Richard Hofstadter. Hofstadter is important because he is one of the leading midcentury. He consensus liberali
Undergird us. We want to look at the event that i think most people would agree is the most traumatic event of the last half century of American Life, the assassination of jfk. Even if we judge september 11 more consequential. At almost 50 years removed, is there anything new to be said about this grim episode . Surprisingly there is. Jim pearson argues in camelot and the cultural revolution that the trauma of his killing went beyond the nations grief and outrage and led to the d deformation of our political consensus. It was the catalyst for transformation of liberalism in the 1960 s and should be regarded as a key turning point of the end of americas long liberal tradition and the beginning of a new kind of liberalism that represents a repudiation of the older tradition. Whether this older tradition was too brittle because of its predecessors is a matter that the panel will take up. We have david brown and the author of a biography of Richard Hofstadter. Hofstadter is important becau