Firing Line Season 4 Episodes

Episode 1

The Issues in the School Strike

Mon, Jan 6, 1969

Episode 2

The Plight of the American Novelist

Mon, Jan 6, 1969

Episode 3

The Walker Report

Mon, Jan 13, 1969

Episode 4

The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson

Mon, Jan 13, 1969

Episode 5

How Goes It with the Poverty Program?

Mon, Jan 27, 1969

Episode 6

The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy

Mon, Jan 27, 1969

Episode 7

The Ripon Society

Mon, Feb 24, 1969

In this 1969 episode, Harvard alumni J. Lee Auspitz and Thomas Petri debate the future of the Republican Party with interviewer William F. Buckley. Auspitz and Petri represent the Ripon Society, an American centrist Republican public policy organization. As moderate Republicans, Auspitz and Petri insist Richard Nixon's Republican Party must ideologically drift leftward to become a broader coalition and to win more electoral votes. Buckley counters that Nixon should veer rightwards in order to win over disaffected Southern voters in the near future. Auspitz adamantly disputes this possibility. He insists that Nixon cannot win the Deep South to the Republican cause so long as (1) Governor George Wallace remains a thirty-party option and (2) Senator Ted Kennedy looms as a future Democratic candidate for president. By 1972, of course, these two factors were removed and many Southern voters supported Nixon's Republican Party.

Episode 8

The Fifth Amendment

Mon, Feb 24, 1969

Episode 9

Black Anti-Semitism

Mon, Feb 24, 1969

Episode 10

Restructuring the University

Mon, Feb 24, 1969

Episode 11

Police Power

Wed, Feb 26, 1969

Episode 12

Black Student Power

Wed, Feb 26, 1969

Episode 13

Vietnam and the Intellectuals

Thu, Apr 3, 1969

Noam Chomsky defends his criticism of U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia and contextualizes several arguments put forth in his work "American Power and the New Mandarins." Buckley ascribes a self-righteous tenor to Chomsky's views and chides him for omitting Vietcong terror in his book. They debate whether a state can behave disinterestedly in the international arena and whether the United States is an imperialist power.

Episode 14

Urban Development and the Race Question

Thu, Apr 3, 1969

Episode 15

Modernism in the Catholic Church

Mon, Apr 21, 1969

Episode 16

The Campus Destroyers

Mon, Apr 21, 1969

Cartoonist Al Capp mocks student agitators and black militants. Foreshadowing the Kent State shootings, Capp argues that police should use deadly force against anti-war demonstrators. Capp also insults the panelists and the audience.

Episode 17

The ABM Conflict

Sat, Apr 26, 1969

Episode 18

Problems of a Chief Executive

Mon, Apr 28, 1969

Episode 19

Cornell and the Conflict of Generations

Mon, May 19, 1969

Episode 20

The Trouble with Enoch

Mon, May 19, 1969

Episode 21

ABM

Sat, Apr 19, 1969

Episode 22

Afro-American Studies

Mon, Jun 2, 1969

Episode 23

The Decline of Christianity

Thu, Jun 12, 1969

Episode 24

Labor Unions and American Freedom

Thu, Jun 12, 1969

Episode 25

Violence in America

Mon, Jun 23, 1969

Episode 26

Population Explosion

Mon, Jun 23, 1969

Episode 27

Marijuana - How Harmful?

Mon, Jul 7, 1969

Episode 28

The Conservative Party and the Future of the GOP

Mon, Jul 7, 1969

Episode 29

The Irish Problem

Tue, Jul 22, 1969

Episode 30

The Decline of Anti-Communism

Tue, Jul 22, 1969

Episode 31

Monarchy and the Modern World

Wed, Jul 23, 1969

Episode 32

The UN and World Affairs

Wed, Jul 23, 1969

Episode 33

Is There a Place for the Old Order?

Thu, Jul 24, 1969

Episode 34

American Popularity Abroad

Thu, Jul 24, 1969

Episode 35

Post Office Reform

Tue, Sep 9, 1969

Episode 36

Where Should the Nixon Administration Go?

Tue, Sep 9, 1969

Episode 37

Biafra and English Foreign Policy

Mon, Sep 22, 1969

Episode 38

Looking Back on De Gaulle

Mon, Sep 22, 1969

Episode 39

The Making of the President

Mon, Sep 22, 1969

Episode 40

The Welfare-Reform Proposal

Tue, Oct 7, 1969

Episode 41

Race and Conservatism

Tue, Oct 7, 1969

Episode 42

Conservative Vs. Ptogressive Republicanism

Fri, Oct 24, 1969

Episode 43

Abortion

Fri, Oct 24, 1969

Episode 44

What Have We Learned From Socialism?

Tue, Nov 4, 1969

Episode 45

Salvation, Rock Music, and the New Iconoclasm

Tue, Nov 4, 1969

Episode 46

The Selling of the President

Sun, Dec 14, 196960 mins

Episode 47

Negotiating for Peace

Mon, Nov 10, 1969

Episode 48

Vietnam

Sat, Dec 6, 1969

Episode 49

Reflections on the Current Scene

Sat, Dec 6, 1969

In her second appearance on Firing Line, American author and politician Clare Boothe Luce discourses upon the perils of environmental pollution, Malthusian overpopulation and state atheism. Luce and Buckley also discuss the My Lai Massacre.

Episode 50

The Future of the Democratic Party

Tue, Dec 9, 1969

Episode 51

Why Don't Conservatives Understand?

Tue, Dec 9, 1969

Episode 52

Tariffs

Thu, Dec 18, 1969

Episode 53

The Kennedy Years

Thu, Dec 18, 1969