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Crew member 1: One second, Mike.
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Crew member 2:
Another ten seconds,
we'll do some shooting.
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Crew member: Okay.
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- We going?
- Crew member: We have speed.
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Why is the Fox Network
increasingly popular?
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People in America
are desperate for straight talk.
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And they're not getting it
from the networks?
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The networks are too stodgy,
too traditional.
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You gotta cut through it now.
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When I tell people I'm going
to do a profile of O'Reilly.
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"Oh! Wonderful. Wonderful.
Don't let him off the hook.
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Go get him. Bring him down.
You're the guy who can do it."
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What is it about me
that offends them?
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- Take a look at you.
- The O'Reilly Factoris on.
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I'm asking you
to shut up about sec...
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Come on, you coward!
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- Say the truth!
- What do you mean coward?
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See, I'm more angry about it
than you are!
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Shut up! Shut up!
Yeah, you had your 35 minutes.
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Shut up!
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That's not an interview.
That's a lecture.
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- You say you're a journalist.
- Correct.
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I say
that you're an op-ed columnist.
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- Which is different.
- Bill: No, it's not.
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You're a dinosaur.
You have to engage now.
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You have to challenge.
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You have to be so provocative.
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This is going to embarrass you,
Wallace.
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So are you ready
to be embarrassed?
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Playboymagazine wrote
that Bill O'Reilly
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is the most feared interviewer
since Mike Wallace.
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You're the driving force
behind my career.
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I always tell everybody,
you got a problem with me?
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He's responsible.
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So if you don't like me...
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you go to Wallace.
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[upbeat music playing]
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TV host: The mention
of my first guest's name
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has been known to strike fear
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into the hearts
of brave men and women.
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I'm Mike Wallace.
I'm Mike Wallace.
I'm Mike Wallace.
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- Please welcome Mike Wallace.
- [crowd cheering]
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TV host: Your image.
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Interviewer, journalist,
killer. All right?
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This man
is going to get somebody
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and we're going to watch it
right here on television.
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Do you enjoy "gotcha"?
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Stephen Colbert:
You are the master of nailing.
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You might have even invented
nailing somebody on camera
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with that last question.
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- How many people did you kill?
- Five.
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But I don't think
I can kill an innocent person.
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What do you mean
by an innocent person?
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Well, you're an innocent person.
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It may just have been
that you were difficult, Bette.
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- No, no, no, no.
- Not difficult. Impossible.
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You're probably unpleasant
to him...
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You're a son of a bitch.
Do you know that?
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- Oh, come on.
- You're a son of a bitch.
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Crew member: Sync.
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Interviewer:
You go in to cover a story.
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It's your camera.
It's your microphone.
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How would you like that done
to you?
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How long do you think
we'll talk?
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Interviewer:
How would you like somebody
to point a camera at you,
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to confront you
with embarrassing material
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perhaps about a life
you once led
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- or something you once did?
- Well, fine.
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But I don't have to answer.
I think it's a lousy question.
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- Crew member: All set.
- You rolling on both?
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Interviewer: I mean,
does it ever occur to you
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that what you're doing
is somehow...
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It's a little bit brutalizing?
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[clock ticking]
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How would you like it
done to you?
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I wouldn't like it.
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When was the last time
we had lunch together?
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Lunch?
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Here we are,
having ostensibly...
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This is the first time
I think, Mike.
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- both: [chuckles]
- I know.
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- It's been a long time.
- It has been a long time.
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Shall we, gentlemen,
are we rolling?
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- Crew member: We got speed.
- Okay.
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- This is a Wallace question.
- Mm-hmm.
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Why are you sometimes
such a prick?
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Uh...
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Why am I sometimes such a prick?
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Example?
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- Example?
- Example.
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Your life, Mike, is an example.
Come on.
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I want to go back
to the beginning.
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Good evening, I'm Mike Wallace.
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A nation's press
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is a good yardstick
of a nation's health.
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Take a look at the history
of any nation
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which has lost its freedoms
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and you'll find that the men
who grabbed the power,
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also have to crush
the free press.
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Tonight, we'll discuss
some of the problems
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of our own fourth estate.
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Man: The first kinescope
that I can remember saying,
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- "Now, that's Mike Wallace,"
isNight Beat.
-Mike: Of course.
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Man: How did Night Beatstart
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and how did you become
Mike Wallace?
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Mike: Growing up
in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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My mother was humorless. Strict.
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My father was honest.
Very straight forward.
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I developed a case of acne
as an adolescent,
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which I think marked
my personality.
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Back in those days,
I yearned for...
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not sunny days, gray days
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so that it wouldn't show
the pockmarks.
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When the sun was there,
I suddenly was exposed
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in all of my painful ugliness.
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Interviewer: It seems like
you've always felt
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you had something to prove.
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As a young man,
you said you had acne,
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you felt like you've got a face
for radio.
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- Mike: That's right.
- Interviewer:
That was something
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you had to prove
that you were better than.
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But you had already started
developing this tougher persona.
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Mike: I discovered my voice
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and that's what saved me.
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I thought to myself,
I'd be a radio announcer.
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There were no pictures.
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I could hide
behind the microphone.
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But I obviously wanted
to perform.
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Radio Announcer: Right now,
here's Mike Wallace.
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Mike: Listen Thursday
to Sky King.
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All of the grocers of America
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who sells Peter Pan
Peanut Butter
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help make this program
possible.
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This is Mike Wallace
up in Sheraton...
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Ride with Rip Reed as he races
to another thrilling adventure.
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The Green Hornet strikes again.
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- You were the Green Hornet.
- You see, back in those days,
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you did the news,
you announced dramatic shows
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like Green Hornet
and Lone Ranger.
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And you swept up the studio
before you went home.
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You did a lot of things
in other words.
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All right, boys! Let's head out.
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Announcer: Ride the rails
with Ned Jordan, Secret Agent!
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[static buzzing]
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Morley Safer: I think that
at some point in Mike's life,
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he invented a guy
called Mike Wallace,
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who was gonna be
tough as nails,
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no nonsense,
no-holds-barred,
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never took orders from anybody.
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[static tune]
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Mike: All right! Phew.
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Barbra: Oh,
you shooting my feet?
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- Do I have to put shoes on?
- No, leave the shoes off Paul,
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and start the interview please.
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- They say I'm difficult?
- [buzzes]
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What are you frightened of?
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You know, I was brought up
being scared of everything.
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You don't go in the water,
you'll drown.
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You don't stand on your toes
as a ballet dancer,
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you break your toes.
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That's who I am today.
In other words,
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I'm frightened to death
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of directing and producing
a movie.
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And yet I was always testing
the fear.
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- Meaning I don't let the fear
stop me.
- Yup.
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But it doesn't mean
I'm not frightened
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every inch of the way.
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I turned on the TV the other day
and it went boop,
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and there is a man
who had written a book
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and he's saying
"Fear is the energy
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behind doing your best work."
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Interviewer: You remember
the first time you saw
a television camera?
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Mike: Yes,
I was scared to death.
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When I first looked up
at the lights and the heat,
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I figured "I'm never going
to be able to make it.
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Who's going to wanna look
at this man?"
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Interviewer:
How did you get over it?
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Mike: Back in the early days,
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television
was a kind of experiment.
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As a result of which,
I was willing to take any job
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in television to begin with.
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- Announcer: Mike Wallace!
- [crowd applauds]
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Mike Wallace!
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You must let
your imagination soar.
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If you didn't do it,
there's only one way
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I can help ya.
I've got to know the truth!
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Parliament, with its famous
high-fi recessed filter
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is continually tested
for uniformity by the United...
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Does that embarrass you,
the cigarette commercials,
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- for example?
- You mean the fact that I...
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the fact that I did commercials?
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- The acting.
- The acting?
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Actor, pitch man.
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You yourself have
a show business background.
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Did you ever take
acting lessons?
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Show business?
Oh, you know, this baloney
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about a show business
background.
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What is a show business
background?
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Well, you were a celebrity
yourself.
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And you came
into the news business later...
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- You have no idea...
- Not from the journalistic
side of things,
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from the showbiz side of things.
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Hi, I'm Mike Wallace
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with a sensational
shortening discovery
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for better baking and frying.
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Oh man, that's some apple pie!
Golden Fluffo!
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I'm asking you about the acting.
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I know you are.
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Your welfare doesn't come
for a...
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Mike: I was a little sensitive
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about being a jack
of all trades.
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But I was searching
for something different.
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[crowd applauding]
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Little did I know
that everything
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was about to change
with my life.
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Crew member: Mike Wallace,
number four.
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Two-two dash one. Take one.
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Good evening, I'm Mike Wallace,
the show is Night Beat.
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What you're about to witness
is strictly personal.
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A direct, undiluted,
unrehearsed,
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uncensored interview.
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My role is that of a reporter.
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Up to then,
interviews had been vapid.
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Who was the most interesting
person you've ever painted?
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Senator, I understand
that you had a lot
of tea parties
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during your campaign.
Can you still drink tea?
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Rod, I've watched your show
many times
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and I want to tell you
it's wonderful.
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Mike: And then I wrote
and then I sang and so forth.
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And no one ever confronted
anybody with anything
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beyond that kind of talk.
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And we said, "Let's do some
research about these people
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and ask questions that have
never been asked before."
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Mike: I think that you'll agree
that you have a rather
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remarkable record
for being called names.
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- That's right.
- Mike: [sniffles]
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President Roosevelt
once called you a chronic liar.
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President Truman called you
an SOB at one time
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and a vicious liar
at another time.
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The late Tennessee Senator,
Kenneth McKellar
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called you an "ignorant liar,
a pusillanimous liar,
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a peewee liar, a liar
in the daytime
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and a liar in the nighttime."
End quote.
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What is there about Drew Pearson
that inspires such bitterness?
247
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Well, Mike... [clears throat]
248
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...I can't give
an objective answer on that.
249
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Could it be that you're a liar?
250
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People didn't ask
tough questions back then.
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I mean, you invented that genre.
252
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You're not answering
the specific question
253
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that I put, now you know
as well as I...
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Interviewer: Night Beat
was news. It was journalism
255
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but it was also television.
256
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-Mike: Yeah.
- Interviewer:
It was also dramatic.
257
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Tight close ups,
every little tick
258
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and almost like a police
investigation.
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- Well, you're talking
about economic equality.
- No I'm talking...
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What I'm talking
about is social equality.
261
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Now I'm getting to that!
262
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Larry:
We're in the same profession.
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Mike: Bet your sweet ass.
264
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Crew member: Rolling.
Okay, roll one.
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Take the camera left.
266
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Take 90. Slate.
267
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- Nervous?
- No.
268
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Not at all?
People say you're a patsy.
269
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- Oh that's not...
- That's the rap.
270
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- Yeah, I know.
- I don't think you're a patsy.
271
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You get information your way.
I get information my way.
272
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But the rap on King
is that he's a patsy.
273
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He will never ask a hard
question.
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I'm Larry. I'm Larry
of the corner.
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And when we were on the corner
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I was the kind of kid
who used to say,
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"Why do you want to drive
the bus?"
278
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But, wait a second.
Why do you want to drive a bus?
279
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Why do you put your hand
in the coin box
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and take out one out of every
three quarters...
281
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- Now, you would
ask it that way...
- ...Mr. Bus Driver?
282
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...and I would say,
"Aren't there temptations?"
283
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And he would say,
"Temptations? No."
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- What I would not do
because it's not my style...
- Yeah.
285
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- ...is say,
"You've taken quarters!"
- [chuckles]
286
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Now, okay,
there's no perfect interview.
287
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Don't confuse anger
and hostility
288
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with an insistence
on getting to the bottom line.
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To the fact.
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There will be some, I'm sure,
who will feel it is a mistake
291
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to give network exposure
to Eldon Edwards,
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the Imperial Wizard
of the Ku Klux Klan.
293
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To you who feel that way,
I respect your views,
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although I do not share them.
295
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This will be an unrehearsed
interview with Eldon Edwards.
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I don't know what he will say.
297
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Mr. Edwards, you say
that the Klan reject violence?
298
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It does.
299
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Your own Grand Dragon
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is quoted having said not once,
but many times,
301
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"Negroes who try to force
their way into our white schools
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are not looking
for an education.
303
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They're looking for a funeral."
304
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Well, I didn't hear him
say that.
305
00:13:35,466 --> 00:13:37,773
Then how do you account
for a report like this.
306
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"Armed, robed and masked men
307
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pulled cripple from home
near Negro area.
308
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Character assassination,
boycotts, open warnings,
309
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anonymous telephone calls,
threatening letters."
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Do you employ those techniques
to get your beliefs across?
311
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Well, I don't care
to even answer.
312
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I've never seen an interview
that you did not dominate.
313
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Why do so many Hollywood stars
fear to stand up
314
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and speak their mind?
315
00:14:05,235 --> 00:14:07,063
Well, Mike, I've heard
quite a bit about you.
316
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You're supposed to be
a pretty rough boy.
317
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When I am sitting here now,
being myself,
318
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that's the most difficult thing
in the world for any actor
319
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and certainly for me.
320
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because then you do feel naked,
you don't have a script.
321
00:14:19,815 --> 00:14:22,383
Mrs. Roosevelt,
I think that you will agree
322
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that a good many people
hated your husband.
323
00:14:26,126 --> 00:14:27,301
They even hated you.
324
00:14:27,736 --> 00:14:29,738
Oh, yes, a great many do still.
325
00:14:30,173 --> 00:14:31,087
Why?
326
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Is it hard to ask
those questions?
327
00:14:33,263 --> 00:14:34,612
- Is it difficult?
- No, not at all.
328
00:14:34,786 --> 00:14:36,223
- How do you do it?
- Mike: [chuckles]
329
00:14:36,484 --> 00:14:39,139
I'm nosy and in...
and insistent
330
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- and not to be pushed aside.
- And confident.
331
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Confident that
when I ask a question,
332
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there's a reason
for its being asked.
333
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It's not a question
picked out of the air.
334
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You're seeing behind me...
335
00:14:51,978 --> 00:14:53,980
Mike: You ask tough questions
that get behind the facade
336
00:14:54,197 --> 00:14:56,591
to try to understand
what's really going on
337
00:14:57,244 --> 00:14:58,201
behind the scenes.
338
00:14:59,420 --> 00:15:01,944
Salvador Dali
is a self-confessed genius
339
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with an ingenious flair
for publicity,
340
00:15:04,425 --> 00:15:07,080
who sees the world
through surrealist eyes.
341
00:15:07,384 --> 00:15:09,778
You said, "I adore three things.
342
00:15:10,213 --> 00:15:13,347
Weakness, old age, and luxury."
343
00:15:14,174 --> 00:15:16,045
Why do you adore old age?
344
00:15:16,828 --> 00:15:22,704
Because I believe young people
is completely stupid, you know.
345
00:15:22,878 --> 00:15:24,619
- Young people are stupid.
- Exactly.
346
00:15:24,793 --> 00:15:25,707
[chuckles]
347
00:15:26,621 --> 00:15:27,622
Crew member:
Yeah, we're rolling.
348
00:15:29,145 --> 00:15:31,234
I'm sitting
in Mike Wallace's office.
349
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Normally, he interviews people
350
00:15:33,236 --> 00:15:35,282
and I'm turning
the tables on him.
351
00:15:36,544 --> 00:15:37,849
The fact is,
I'm a little nervous.
352
00:15:38,067 --> 00:15:40,113
- Why?
- I don't know but I am.
353
00:15:40,330 --> 00:15:42,506
Well then let me ask you,
what makes a good interview?
354
00:15:44,944 --> 00:15:47,033
- I understand that...
- Yeah?
355
00:15:48,164 --> 00:15:50,079
...when you prepare
for a broadcast...
356
00:15:50,297 --> 00:15:51,472
Mm-hmm.
357
00:15:51,820 --> 00:15:53,474
...you don't really prepare.
You don't...
358
00:15:53,648 --> 00:15:55,432
that is you don't have a script,
you don't have questions.
359
00:15:55,606 --> 00:15:57,782
You don't have...
What do you do, wing it?
360
00:15:58,522 --> 00:15:59,567
Yeah, basically I do.
361
00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:02,613
- Why?
- Because I find that...
362
00:16:03,049 --> 00:16:06,748
I think that I'm a surrogate
viewer and I feel so...
363
00:16:07,009 --> 00:16:08,402
I feel really connected to...
364
00:16:08,576 --> 00:16:10,186
to the women
who are out there watching me.
365
00:16:10,534 --> 00:16:11,753
I know. But having said that,
366
00:16:11,927 --> 00:16:12,841
still, if you're going
to be proxy
367
00:16:13,015 --> 00:16:14,277
you've got to ask the questions
368
00:16:14,669 --> 00:16:16,192
- that they want to ask.
- That they want the answers to.
369
00:16:16,410 --> 00:16:18,803
- But... All right.
- So, so, so that's what I do.
370
00:16:18,978 --> 00:16:21,067
I ask the questions
that I want the answers to.
371
00:16:22,024 --> 00:16:23,243
Mike:
Now that you're a film star,
372
00:16:23,591 --> 00:16:25,158
is it all
that it's cracked up to be?
373
00:16:25,375 --> 00:16:28,291
No. When you have been
in the business
374
00:16:28,857 --> 00:16:31,294
for a certain length of time,
you first of all come to realize
375
00:16:31,468 --> 00:16:33,079
that nobody gets there
in the first place
376
00:16:33,253 --> 00:16:35,211
without a lotta hard work,
disappointment,
377
00:16:35,385 --> 00:16:37,170
- some heartbreaks.
- Compromises?
378
00:16:37,692 --> 00:16:38,954
Yes.
379
00:16:39,128 --> 00:16:40,347
Compromises
with your own honesty?
380
00:16:41,043 --> 00:16:42,262
Yes.
381
00:16:42,610 --> 00:16:45,308
Mike: It is a form of learning
about others
382
00:16:45,482 --> 00:16:47,006
and ourselves through others.
383
00:16:47,745 --> 00:16:49,530
It's almost like a love affair
in a strange way.
384
00:16:49,747 --> 00:16:51,140
Beverly Sills:
Yeah, boy, you do that a lot.
385
00:16:51,488 --> 00:16:52,794
Do what a lot?
386
00:16:53,186 --> 00:16:56,406
Oh, those love affairs on camera
and all that. [chuckles]
387
00:16:57,407 --> 00:16:58,887
- One final question.
- Sure,
388
00:16:59,627 --> 00:17:01,759
- I'm beginning to like this.
- Mike: [laughing]
389
00:17:02,021 --> 00:17:04,501
Mike: Night Beat defined me
for myself.
390
00:17:04,762 --> 00:17:06,808
I suddenly had found my bliss.
391
00:17:07,374 --> 00:17:08,505
Interviewer: You had become
Mike Wallace.
392
00:17:08,679 --> 00:17:09,767
Mike: Yeah, exactly.
393
00:17:11,117 --> 00:17:12,988
And suddenly
we were discovered
394
00:17:14,511 --> 00:17:16,861
and we were overnight, a hit.
395
00:17:17,253 --> 00:17:20,561
This you immediately
knew was the way
396
00:17:20,735 --> 00:17:22,476
- for Mike Wallace to go.
- Absolutely. Yeah.
397
00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,306
And that's when I became
a prick...
398
00:17:28,482 --> 00:17:29,309
on the air.
399
00:17:33,008 --> 00:17:35,793
Mike: Night Beat
changed the face of television.
400
00:17:36,664 --> 00:17:39,188
It was a sensation.
And then ABC wanted it.
401
00:17:39,493 --> 00:17:41,190
So they made it
The Mike Wallace Interview
402
00:17:41,364 --> 00:17:43,105
- and put it on the network.
- My name is Mike Wallace.
403
00:17:43,279 --> 00:17:45,194
The cigarette is Parliament.
404
00:17:46,717 --> 00:17:48,328
Announcer:
The Mike Wallace Interview.
405
00:17:48,676 --> 00:17:50,286
A new type of interview show
406
00:17:50,460 --> 00:17:51,983
springing up
all over the country.
407
00:17:52,941 --> 00:17:54,856
It's the kind of show
that really digs
408
00:17:55,030 --> 00:17:56,292
into the heart of things.
409
00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,034
Mike: And suddenly
that kind of interview
410
00:17:59,295 --> 00:18:01,341
became quite a big hit
across the country.
411
00:18:01,558 --> 00:18:03,169
I wouldn't go
on Mike Wallace's show
412
00:18:03,343 --> 00:18:04,605
if I had the time.
413
00:18:05,127 --> 00:18:06,955
That guy can cut you to ribbons.
414
00:18:08,130 --> 00:18:11,264
In television drama,
few names have the prestige
415
00:18:11,438 --> 00:18:13,179
of that of our guest,
Rod Serling.
416
00:18:13,875 --> 00:18:15,920
We'll learn what he means
by the price tag
417
00:18:16,095 --> 00:18:17,531
that hangs on success.
418
00:18:18,184 --> 00:18:19,881
The Twilight Zone
is your own creation.
419
00:18:20,447 --> 00:18:21,578
You're doing it for money.
420
00:18:22,188 --> 00:18:23,798
How many hours a day
do you work right now?
421
00:18:24,015 --> 00:18:25,539
12 to 14 hours a day.
422
00:18:26,017 --> 00:18:26,888
How many days a week?
423
00:18:27,454 --> 00:18:28,237
Seven.
424
00:18:29,499 --> 00:18:31,675
And because those become
so large,
425
00:18:32,111 --> 00:18:33,547
what becomes small?
426
00:18:33,851 --> 00:18:35,984
I think probably
the really valuable things,
427
00:18:36,158 --> 00:18:37,986
you suddenly find yourself
having to compromise
428
00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,249
along the line.
Giving so many hours to work
429
00:18:40,771 --> 00:18:43,600
and a disproportionate number
of fewer hours to family.
430
00:18:53,610 --> 00:18:54,481
[beeps]
431
00:18:54,829 --> 00:18:56,439
Interviewer:
432
00:18:57,527 --> 00:18:59,268
How many times
have I been married?
433
00:19:00,356 --> 00:19:03,054
What in the world do you want
to ask a question like that for?
434
00:19:03,751 --> 00:19:06,319
What... what relevance
does that have?
435
00:19:07,929 --> 00:19:10,540
That's the kind of a question
that you might hear
436
00:19:10,714 --> 00:19:15,284
on Hard Copyor A Current Affair
or Four Times.
437
00:19:16,329 --> 00:19:17,721
Women and Larry King.
438
00:19:18,679 --> 00:19:19,810
What a saga.
439
00:19:21,421 --> 00:19:22,509
Why are you looking so serious?
440
00:19:23,684 --> 00:19:25,947
Because it's an area of my life
I, uh...
441
00:19:28,210 --> 00:19:30,256
haven't done well with.
I've done...
442
00:19:30,430 --> 00:19:31,387
You've been married
how many times?
443
00:19:31,561 --> 00:19:32,823
- Five.
- So your wife
444
00:19:33,128 --> 00:19:34,521
or your love is an intruder.
445
00:19:35,609 --> 00:19:37,001
Is an aside.
446
00:19:37,654 --> 00:19:39,178
You know I used to say,
if I came home
447
00:19:39,352 --> 00:19:41,963
and had two messages;
"Your wife called urgent,
448
00:19:42,398 --> 00:19:43,704
CNN called urgent."
449
00:19:44,531 --> 00:19:45,706
- I'd call CNN.
- No contest?
450
00:19:45,967 --> 00:19:46,837
No contest.
451
00:19:47,055 --> 00:19:48,012
[indistinct chatter]
452
00:19:48,665 --> 00:19:50,232
What the hell
is that smug smile about?
453
00:19:51,015 --> 00:19:53,670
What do you regret most
454
00:19:53,844 --> 00:19:55,498
about the decisions
of your life?
455
00:19:56,499 --> 00:19:58,632
Oh, that's hard.
456
00:19:58,893 --> 00:20:01,678
Probably, the first bad decision
I made was to get married
457
00:20:01,852 --> 00:20:04,855
at the age of 22.
Which is damn foolish.
458
00:20:07,075 --> 00:20:11,079
Mike: I married a college chum
who was Peter's mother
459
00:20:11,471 --> 00:20:12,950
and Chris Wallace's mother.
460
00:20:14,561 --> 00:20:15,649
Well, we went to school
together.
461
00:20:16,519 --> 00:20:18,042
And it became quite apparent
462
00:20:18,478 --> 00:20:20,131
we were married
when we were too young
463
00:20:20,610 --> 00:20:21,829
and that was not going to work.
464
00:20:23,657 --> 00:20:24,962
What kind of a father were you?
465
00:20:25,354 --> 00:20:27,922
Hmm. Absent a lot of the time,
not very good.
466
00:20:29,010 --> 00:20:30,054
Not very good.
467
00:20:35,190 --> 00:20:37,453
One of the most colorful
and notorious gangsters
468
00:20:37,627 --> 00:20:39,716
in the United States
in the late 1940s
469
00:20:39,890 --> 00:20:41,283
was Mickey Cohen.
470
00:20:42,197 --> 00:20:45,069
Mickey, you've killed at least
one man or how many more?
471
00:20:45,331 --> 00:20:46,897
I have killed no men...
472
00:20:48,812 --> 00:20:50,074
that, uh...
473
00:20:50,684 --> 00:20:53,252
in the first place,
didn't deserve killing.
474
00:20:53,513 --> 00:20:55,123
Larry: Did you have any fear
of Mickey Cohen?
475
00:20:55,776 --> 00:20:57,081
Mike: No.
476
00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,476
But he succeeded to offend
all manner of people.
477
00:21:01,347 --> 00:21:04,306
A police chief who happens
to be a sadistic degenerate.
478
00:21:04,915 --> 00:21:08,528
Mike: He gave such ammunition
with which to sue us for libel,
479
00:21:08,745 --> 00:21:11,008
and everybody did.
Everybody did.
480
00:21:11,531 --> 00:21:14,360
What about this statement
that you made in your own paper?
481
00:21:14,534 --> 00:21:16,231
You have no right
to sit in judgment of me.
482
00:21:16,405 --> 00:21:18,625
I'm not sitting in judgment,
I'm simply asking a question.
483
00:21:19,016 --> 00:21:20,975
Mike: We were doing things
that were for the time,
484
00:21:21,236 --> 00:21:23,891
revolutionary.
I mean asking serious questions.
485
00:21:24,239 --> 00:21:25,719
Asking abrasive questions.
486
00:21:26,154 --> 00:21:28,678
I'm ready any time you want
to repeat the stupid question.
487
00:21:29,157 --> 00:21:30,898
Mike: We got
into a flock of lawsuits
488
00:21:31,377 --> 00:21:33,509
and it just became too
controversial.
489
00:21:34,858 --> 00:21:36,251
This has been the last program.
490
00:21:36,425 --> 00:21:38,775
As tonight's guest,
Arthur Larsen has said,
491
00:21:38,949 --> 00:21:41,300
"Before we can tell the world
who we are
492
00:21:41,822 --> 00:21:43,693
and before we can act
for the future,
493
00:21:44,303 --> 00:21:47,958
we ourselves must know
who we are, what we stand for.
494
00:21:48,959 --> 00:21:50,831
And what we mean by freedom."
495
00:21:51,832 --> 00:21:53,312
Mike Wallace, good night.
496
00:21:57,228 --> 00:21:58,229
Mike: And just like that,
497
00:21:58,926 --> 00:22:01,058
The Mike Wallace Interview
was off the air.
498
00:22:05,889 --> 00:22:08,501
Hello. I'm Mike Wallace
with real news.
499
00:22:08,675 --> 00:22:11,286
News about Revlon's new Lanolite
lipstick,
500
00:22:11,504 --> 00:22:14,289
the first non-smear lipstick
that actually beauty treats
501
00:22:14,507 --> 00:22:15,986
your lips as you wear it.
502
00:22:16,291 --> 00:22:17,074
Interviewer: How did you feel
about moving on
503
00:22:17,248 --> 00:22:18,206
without that show?
504
00:22:19,033 --> 00:22:20,077
Mike: I was lost.
505
00:22:20,556 --> 00:22:22,123
I used to say,
I have to do all these things
506
00:22:22,297 --> 00:22:24,778
because I have all these kids
to support and so forth
507
00:22:24,952 --> 00:22:28,042
and I knew that that was...
that was less than the truth.
508
00:22:28,347 --> 00:22:29,565
Gals...
509
00:22:29,739 --> 00:22:31,350
I was beginning
to pay a price
510
00:22:31,524 --> 00:22:34,178
for some of the television work
that I had done.
511
00:22:35,092 --> 00:22:36,572
I hated it after a while.
512
00:22:37,225 --> 00:22:38,879
You're right. Within us
there seems to be
513
00:22:39,053 --> 00:22:42,186
a frightening void
we are forever trying to fill
514
00:22:42,448 --> 00:22:45,146
but never quite do, of lostness.
515
00:22:45,886 --> 00:22:46,713
What do you mean?
516
00:22:48,062 --> 00:22:49,585
You've never felt that feeling?
517
00:22:57,245 --> 00:22:58,115
Interviewer:
518
00:23:21,922 --> 00:23:23,967
[over radio]
This is Mike Wallace
currently going around the world
519
00:23:24,141 --> 00:23:27,754
in 40 days and reporting
to WBZ'sProgram PM...
520
00:23:27,928 --> 00:23:29,843
[narrating] I had been on a trip
around the world
521
00:23:30,017 --> 00:23:31,932
for Westinghouse Broadcasting
that summer.
522
00:23:32,106 --> 00:23:33,499
[over radio] ...with
my portable tape recorder,
523
00:23:33,673 --> 00:23:35,457
I'll bring you an actual
word picture
524
00:23:35,631 --> 00:23:39,156
of New Delhi, Cairo, Nairobi,
other news making cities...
525
00:23:39,374 --> 00:23:42,072
[narrating] My son Peter
had taken the summer off
from Yale
526
00:23:42,246 --> 00:23:44,423
and had gone to Greece.
527
00:23:45,467 --> 00:23:48,427
And his mother told me
that they hadn't heard from him
528
00:23:48,775 --> 00:23:50,298
you know, in a couple
to three weeks.
529
00:23:51,604 --> 00:23:53,997
We didn't hear from him
and didn't hear from him.
530
00:23:54,911 --> 00:23:57,827
So finally I said,
"Something's got to be wrong.
531
00:23:58,349 --> 00:24:00,395
I'm going to go over
and see what's going on."
532
00:24:06,662 --> 00:24:09,535
We didn't know if he'd gone off
with a crowd someplace
533
00:24:09,709 --> 00:24:11,537
or met a girl or something
of that sort.
534
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,714
And I went to Xylokastro
to this youth hostel
535
00:24:14,888 --> 00:24:18,457
and there was...
I saw his bag with his clothes.
536
00:24:18,718 --> 00:24:20,241
And then somebody
close by said,
537
00:24:20,589 --> 00:24:22,983
they thought that he had
gone up this mountain
538
00:24:23,244 --> 00:24:24,680
about three or four miles away.
539
00:24:27,117 --> 00:24:30,077
I got on a donkey
and we went up the mountain.
540
00:24:30,773 --> 00:24:33,036
And finally came to a ledge,
541
00:24:34,255 --> 00:24:36,387
very high looking out
over the Gulf of Corinth.
542
00:24:37,345 --> 00:24:38,302
And I looked down...
543
00:24:41,523 --> 00:24:42,437
I uh...
544
00:24:44,352 --> 00:24:45,396
I saw my son.
545
00:25:03,066 --> 00:25:05,286
Nothing, nothing,
nothing like that
546
00:25:05,939 --> 00:25:07,506
had ever happened to me before.
547
00:25:09,333 --> 00:25:10,900
It was just shattering.
548
00:25:11,248 --> 00:25:14,034
[melancholic music playing]
549
00:25:32,226 --> 00:25:34,184
Morley: I cannot think
of anything worse
550
00:25:34,402 --> 00:25:36,665
than losing a child.
I mean, we are programmed
551
00:25:37,231 --> 00:25:39,102
so that they will outlive us.
552
00:25:39,799 --> 00:25:41,888
Is that something that still
haunts you?
553
00:25:43,019 --> 00:25:45,935
Mike: I was married
all that time to my job,
554
00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:48,459
had kids.
555
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,681
I was self-absorbed.
556
00:25:53,377 --> 00:25:54,335
I'm ashamed to say.
557
00:25:55,684 --> 00:25:57,686
My job was more important
than my family,
558
00:25:59,253 --> 00:26:00,863
and I became a casualty of that.
559
00:26:03,083 --> 00:26:04,519
Are you never lonely? Honest.
560
00:26:04,998 --> 00:26:06,652
I mean there are the two of you
and that's it.
561
00:26:07,435 --> 00:26:09,306
That's nice. Never.
562
00:26:10,394 --> 00:26:11,308
You had a son...
563
00:26:13,093 --> 00:26:15,878
and he died at the age
of 40-some odd.
564
00:26:24,104 --> 00:26:24,974
Still not over that?
565
00:26:30,806 --> 00:26:32,155
I'm sorry,
I didn't mean to do that.
566
00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:40,947
Okay.
567
00:26:45,168 --> 00:26:46,300
Leona: I'm tough...
[soft chuckles]
568
00:26:47,214 --> 00:26:48,607
- What do you mean?
- I am tough.
569
00:26:49,259 --> 00:26:50,478
- Oh yeah.
- It's not easy.
570
00:26:50,652 --> 00:26:51,348
I can see you're tough
as the Dickens.
571
00:26:52,654 --> 00:26:55,004
It seems your only
vulnerability.
572
00:26:57,137 --> 00:26:57,964
Don't be silly.
573
00:26:59,618 --> 00:27:00,880
- Mike: There are...
- People are vulnerable,
574
00:27:01,054 --> 00:27:02,403
of course, you're vulnerable.
575
00:27:06,363 --> 00:27:08,583
Barbara Walters: Your son
died in 1962.
576
00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:12,543
Do you ever get over that?
577
00:27:17,461 --> 00:27:19,376
Mike: I mean there's always
that... The memory of this...
578
00:27:20,813 --> 00:27:22,641
I mean, Peter was a... Just a...
579
00:27:25,034 --> 00:27:26,427
It changed your life, didn't it?
580
00:27:27,863 --> 00:27:31,127
Interviewer: Some people
when they go through a loss
like that
581
00:27:31,301 --> 00:27:32,651
it hardens their heart.
582
00:27:33,347 --> 00:27:35,305
It sounds like it focused
your mind.
583
00:27:35,523 --> 00:27:36,698
Focused my mind.
584
00:27:37,612 --> 00:27:41,529
Interviewer: How did it affect
your becoming who you are?
585
00:27:43,226 --> 00:27:45,968
Mike: I'd been unwilling
to give up
586
00:27:46,186 --> 00:27:48,928
doing certain things
that I was doing in television.
587
00:27:49,145 --> 00:27:50,538
Circus folks
just can't get enough
588
00:27:50,712 --> 00:27:51,931
of Peter Pan Peanut Butter!
589
00:27:52,496 --> 00:27:55,499
And after Peter died
I said to myself,
590
00:27:56,109 --> 00:27:58,720
"What is it that you want to do
with your life?"
591
00:28:01,418 --> 00:28:04,508
I don't want to read
everybody else's words anymore.
592
00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:06,380
I don't want to do
commercials anymore.
593
00:28:08,643 --> 00:28:11,385
I would like to be
a serious reporter.
594
00:28:14,431 --> 00:28:16,564
[beep]
595
00:28:17,521 --> 00:28:20,089
Announcer: From CBS News,
this special report.
596
00:28:21,090 --> 00:28:22,439
Interviewer: How did 60 Minutes
start?
597
00:28:22,962 --> 00:28:24,093
How did you end up there?
598
00:28:24,572 --> 00:28:27,444
What was the state of CBS News?
599
00:28:31,013 --> 00:28:32,449
[indistinct chatter]
600
00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:34,713
Man: You got 30 seconds,
30 seconds.
601
00:28:35,191 --> 00:28:36,758
Good evening. Tonight,
See It Now
602
00:28:36,932 --> 00:28:38,368
devotes its entire half hour
603
00:28:38,542 --> 00:28:40,327
to a report
on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
604
00:28:40,719 --> 00:28:42,155
The other big missile site
605
00:28:42,329 --> 00:28:44,853
is in Matanzas province
close to Havana.
606
00:28:45,506 --> 00:28:50,032
Mike: When I first got there,
everybody wanted to go work
at CBS.
607
00:28:50,206 --> 00:28:51,555
Crew member: Clear that shot!
Get Sakhalov out!
608
00:28:51,860 --> 00:28:53,383
- Get 'em out!
- Mike: Because it was Cronkite,
609
00:28:53,644 --> 00:28:55,821
Sevareid, Murrow.
610
00:28:55,995 --> 00:28:57,823
Interviewer: That was
the essence of news back then
in many ways.
611
00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,694
Mike: That was the voice
of authority.
612
00:28:59,912 --> 00:29:01,696
That was the voice
of the establishment
613
00:29:01,870 --> 00:29:03,742
- giving us the news.
- And that's the way it is.
614
00:29:03,959 --> 00:29:05,613
Monday, September the second.
615
00:29:05,787 --> 00:29:07,789
Announcer: The world news;
concisely summarized
616
00:29:08,007 --> 00:29:09,095
and clearly explained.
617
00:29:09,617 --> 00:29:11,445
This is Walter Cronkite.
Good night.
618
00:29:12,446 --> 00:29:14,796
Interviewer: I remember,
when the word swept
through the newsroom.
619
00:29:14,970 --> 00:29:17,973
Mike Wallace
is gonna be a CBS correspondent.
620
00:29:18,582 --> 00:29:22,195
And people thought, oh, my God,
the button-down world of CBS.
621
00:29:22,369 --> 00:29:24,066
Wait till this cat
gets in there!
622
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,068
He'll really open it up.
What is the treatment
623
00:29:26,242 --> 00:29:27,374
that you get
when you're frozen out?
624
00:29:27,591 --> 00:29:28,418
Hazed.
625
00:29:29,463 --> 00:29:31,160
Yeah.
They were less than cordial.
626
00:29:31,813 --> 00:29:32,771
Are you gone?
627
00:29:34,337 --> 00:29:36,557
Mike: They said who needs
this pitchman
628
00:29:36,731 --> 00:29:37,950
for Philip Morris cigarettes?
629
00:29:38,124 --> 00:29:39,821
So here we are.
Pennsylvania Station.
630
00:29:40,169 --> 00:29:42,345
Five minutes after seven.
The lights have been on...
631
00:29:42,868 --> 00:29:45,479
the lights have been out
for about an hour and a half.
632
00:29:45,740 --> 00:29:47,611
Mike Wallace
at Pennsylvania Station.
633
00:29:49,918 --> 00:29:51,790
I was tainted
and they were pure.
634
00:29:52,051 --> 00:29:54,531
And so I was not greeted
by everybody
635
00:29:54,705 --> 00:29:55,794
with great enthusiasm.
636
00:29:57,534 --> 00:29:58,884
And then I met Don Hewitt.
637
00:29:59,275 --> 00:30:00,711
Announcer: The newsroom
never sleeps.
638
00:30:01,060 --> 00:30:02,626
The search for stories
has the attention
639
00:30:02,801 --> 00:30:05,194
of Cronkite's executive
producer, Don Hewitt.
640
00:30:05,368 --> 00:30:07,457
...on camera
which we'll illustrate tomorrow.
641
00:30:07,849 --> 00:30:09,198
- [beep]
- Crew: Sound roll three,
642
00:30:09,851 --> 00:30:12,288
60 Minutes,
interview with Don Hewitt.
643
00:30:12,811 --> 00:30:14,464
Interviewer: Nothing like
interviewing your boss.
644
00:30:14,638 --> 00:30:16,031
Makes you real comfortable,
you know?
645
00:30:17,076 --> 00:30:19,382
Here's some descriptions
of you. You ready?
646
00:30:21,341 --> 00:30:24,910
Manic, brash, genius,
cocky, competitive,
647
00:30:25,954 --> 00:30:26,825
perfectionist.
648
00:30:28,870 --> 00:30:30,393
I accept everything but genius.
649
00:30:30,567 --> 00:30:32,569
Call me Tuesday when you get
back. Call me collect.
650
00:30:32,787 --> 00:30:35,355
Don: I'm not a brain.
I'm not an intellect.
651
00:30:35,529 --> 00:30:37,966
- [indistinct chatter]
- In the early days,
652
00:30:38,184 --> 00:30:41,230
when there were that bunch
of intellectuals at CBS News,
653
00:30:41,622 --> 00:30:44,146
I think they looked at me
as some sort of upstart.
654
00:30:44,451 --> 00:30:46,932
We're in the seventh grade
of the junior high school
655
00:30:47,106 --> 00:30:48,934
- division of the...
- Don: Mike and I sort of allied
656
00:30:49,108 --> 00:30:52,198
as two roughneck kids
who didn't come out of Oxford.
657
00:30:52,415 --> 00:30:54,765
...revolution called New Math
is all about...
658
00:30:56,593 --> 00:30:58,160
Interviewer: You said
that they were skeptical of you.
659
00:30:58,334 --> 00:30:59,640
Why were they skeptical?
660
00:31:00,162 --> 00:31:01,250
Mike: You know, I've done all
manner of things
661
00:31:01,816 --> 00:31:03,513
that had nothing to do
with the news.
662
00:31:03,905 --> 00:31:04,775
Mr. Wallace?
663
00:31:06,952 --> 00:31:07,909
Mr. Wallace?
664
00:31:08,736 --> 00:31:11,695
- I... I give up.
- [students chuckle]
665
00:31:13,741 --> 00:31:14,568
I had to prove myself.
666
00:31:16,048 --> 00:31:18,354
It was apparent to me early on
that the only way
667
00:31:18,528 --> 00:31:20,095
that I was going to get
people to watch
668
00:31:20,269 --> 00:31:22,358
wasn't because I was
the kind of reassuring,
669
00:31:22,532 --> 00:31:25,057
avuncular Walter Cronkite type.
670
00:31:25,231 --> 00:31:27,798
Anchor: Mike Wallace,
who has been
traveling the country.
671
00:31:27,973 --> 00:31:30,366
What about civil rights?
Let's touch on that a second.
672
00:31:31,150 --> 00:31:33,413
Mike: It was because I was gonna
research thoroughly
673
00:31:33,587 --> 00:31:34,675
and ask tough questions.
674
00:31:35,371 --> 00:31:36,677
Do you want the lights down
a little bit
675
00:31:36,851 --> 00:31:37,896
do you think for fill?
676
00:31:39,245 --> 00:31:40,159
Speed.
677
00:31:41,334 --> 00:31:44,424
Dr. King, you said
that you saw white man's hatred
678
00:31:44,598 --> 00:31:46,252
for the Negro
more bitter than anything
679
00:31:46,426 --> 00:31:47,818
that you had seen
in Mississippi.
680
00:31:48,167 --> 00:31:49,559
What lies at the root
of that hatred?
681
00:31:49,777 --> 00:31:53,955
I think it is basically
a hatred born of fear.
682
00:31:54,738 --> 00:31:55,914
They fear each other
683
00:31:56,088 --> 00:31:57,480
because they don't know
each other,
684
00:31:57,654 --> 00:32:00,048
they don't know each other
because they fail
685
00:32:00,222 --> 00:32:01,745
to communicate with each other,
686
00:32:02,181 --> 00:32:03,486
and they fail to communicate
687
00:32:03,660 --> 00:32:05,445
because they are separated
from each other.
688
00:32:06,533 --> 00:32:08,404
Minister Malcolm,
I believe that you have called
689
00:32:08,578 --> 00:32:10,189
for self-defense units;
690
00:32:10,450 --> 00:32:13,583
rifle clubs ready
to execute on the spot
691
00:32:14,062 --> 00:32:15,455
those who threaten the Negro.
692
00:32:15,716 --> 00:32:17,805
In a country that spends
I think 50 billion dollars
693
00:32:17,979 --> 00:32:19,589
a year for defense alone,
694
00:32:19,981 --> 00:32:22,418
I'm shocked that there's
apprehension over Negroes
695
00:32:22,592 --> 00:32:24,290
trying to do something
to defend themselves.
696
00:32:24,464 --> 00:32:27,032
Are you the least bit afraid
of what might happen to you?
697
00:32:27,423 --> 00:32:29,643
Oh yes, I probably
am a dead man already.
698
00:32:32,602 --> 00:32:34,517
Anchor: Controversial leader,
Malcolm X
699
00:32:34,691 --> 00:32:36,215
was gunned down
while giving a speech.
700
00:32:37,868 --> 00:32:40,610
[crowd chanting] One man,
one vote. One man, one vote.
701
00:32:41,220 --> 00:32:42,961
Anchor: Mike Wallace is on
the convention floor
702
00:32:43,135 --> 00:32:44,658
with the Mississippi
delegate.
703
00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:45,964
Ed Bradley: Let me tell you
about the first time
704
00:32:46,138 --> 00:32:47,443
that I worked with you
705
00:32:48,009 --> 00:32:49,271
- at the Republican convention.
-Mike: Mm-hmm.
706
00:32:49,445 --> 00:32:50,707
Whenever you were going
to be on the air,
707
00:32:50,881 --> 00:32:52,448
I would stop what I was doing
708
00:32:52,622 --> 00:32:54,624
and leave my quadrant
to go watch you work.
709
00:32:54,798 --> 00:32:58,150
As you can see it's bedlam here,
Roger, Bob.
710
00:32:59,368 --> 00:33:01,980
I remember you climbing up
the steps.
711
00:33:02,197 --> 00:33:04,330
Everybody else was going up
the aisles.
712
00:33:04,678 --> 00:33:06,506
- You were the first one
to get to them.
- Mike: Mm-hmm.
713
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:07,898
Bradley: I mean it was
an amazing thing to watch.
714
00:33:08,073 --> 00:33:09,422
Mike: So what's the point?
715
00:33:09,770 --> 00:33:11,641
Bradley: The point
is I was just struck by that.
716
00:33:11,815 --> 00:33:13,904
That there are all of these
veteran reporters out there.
717
00:33:14,122 --> 00:33:15,428
No one else thought of that.
718
00:33:15,819 --> 00:33:17,691
Mike: Listen,
I would go after a story.
719
00:33:20,476 --> 00:33:24,263
[crowd chanting] No more war!
No more war! No more war!
720
00:33:24,437 --> 00:33:26,917
Mike: There was such ferment
in the country generally.
721
00:33:34,534 --> 00:33:37,319
Mike: Suddenly, 75-millimeter
recoilless rifle rounds
722
00:33:37,537 --> 00:33:38,929
began dropping in here.
723
00:33:40,931 --> 00:33:42,542
Interviewer: You went to Vietnam
for the first time.
724
00:33:42,977 --> 00:33:45,675
What did you see? What did you
smell? What did you hear?
725
00:33:46,241 --> 00:33:48,374
Mike: I was a hawk
when I went there.
726
00:33:49,331 --> 00:33:52,465
And it wasn't long
before I began to understand
727
00:33:52,682 --> 00:33:54,945
that wrong war, wrong time,
wrong place.
728
00:33:55,163 --> 00:33:58,514
Escalation is no shortcut
to peace in Vietnam.
729
00:33:58,688 --> 00:34:00,560
What is the enemy doing?
Are these major attacks or...
730
00:34:00,734 --> 00:34:01,604
[explosion]
731
00:34:03,258 --> 00:34:05,347
Television's presence
at that war
732
00:34:05,521 --> 00:34:08,481
is what turned
the American public against it.
733
00:34:08,655 --> 00:34:10,004
[gunfire]
734
00:34:10,483 --> 00:34:13,051
There was virtually
no censorship whatsoever.
735
00:34:17,359 --> 00:34:19,579
Mike: You call the Vietnamese
"gokes".
736
00:34:19,883 --> 00:34:20,797
Gooks.
737
00:34:21,494 --> 00:34:22,756
What had you been
briefed to do
738
00:34:22,930 --> 00:34:24,105
when you got to Pinkville?
739
00:34:24,801 --> 00:34:27,456
I was searching out the village
and gathering up the people.
740
00:34:27,717 --> 00:34:30,068
What kind of people? Men,
women, children?
741
00:34:30,459 --> 00:34:31,591
Men, women, children.
742
00:34:31,895 --> 00:34:32,766
- Babies?
- Babies.
743
00:34:32,940 --> 00:34:34,507
Made them squat down
744
00:34:34,942 --> 00:34:37,118
and Lieutenant Kelly
came over and said,
745
00:34:37,292 --> 00:34:38,467
you know what do with them,
don't you?
746
00:34:39,033 --> 00:34:40,687
So he stepped back about 10,
15 feet
747
00:34:40,861 --> 00:34:41,862
and he started shooting them.
748
00:34:42,645 --> 00:34:44,082
And he told me
to start shooting them.
749
00:34:44,343 --> 00:34:46,432
So I started shooting.
I fired about four clicks
750
00:34:46,606 --> 00:34:48,042
into the group.
751
00:34:48,564 --> 00:34:50,131
How many do you imagine
you killed?
752
00:34:51,132 --> 00:34:53,787
I might have killed about 10,
15 of them.
753
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,616
Mm-hmm.
Men, women and children.
754
00:34:56,790 --> 00:34:57,878
Men, women and children.
755
00:34:58,183 --> 00:34:59,053
And babies.
756
00:35:00,402 --> 00:35:01,229
And babies.
757
00:35:03,492 --> 00:35:05,929
Obviously, the question
comes to my mind,
758
00:35:06,539 --> 00:35:07,583
how do you shoot babies?
759
00:35:09,759 --> 00:35:11,413
I don't know,
it's just one of them things.
760
00:35:11,805 --> 00:35:13,459
[siren wailing in the distance]
761
00:35:13,633 --> 00:35:14,721
Mike: The question is
762
00:35:15,548 --> 00:35:17,593
what kind of country
is the United States?
763
00:35:18,246 --> 00:35:19,943
That, in just the last few years
764
00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:22,511
has killed a president,
President Kennedy.
765
00:35:22,685 --> 00:35:24,383
Has killed Martin Luther King.
766
00:35:24,861 --> 00:35:27,081
And now attempts to kill
Robert Kennedy,
767
00:35:27,734 --> 00:35:29,518
Malcolm X, the black militant
leader.
768
00:35:29,692 --> 00:35:33,305
What kind of curious strain
of violence is there
769
00:35:33,479 --> 00:35:34,480
in the American people?
770
00:35:39,876 --> 00:35:40,877
Announcer: 1968...
771
00:35:41,965 --> 00:35:44,229
the most pivotal year
since the end of World War Two.
772
00:35:44,707 --> 00:35:46,231
For the country, for politics,
773
00:35:46,970 --> 00:35:48,885
and also in the news business.
774
00:35:49,321 --> 00:35:53,238
The long dark night
for America is about to end.
775
00:35:55,675 --> 00:35:56,893
As soon as he gets toward
the car.
776
00:35:57,503 --> 00:35:58,460
Rolling?
777
00:35:59,069 --> 00:36:01,681
This was New Hampshire's
last hurrah to Nixon.
778
00:36:01,985 --> 00:36:03,726
There's only one name
on the Republican ballot
779
00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:05,554
next Tuesday; Richard Nixon.
780
00:36:05,728 --> 00:36:07,469
Mike: I was covering
Richard Nixon at the time.
781
00:36:08,296 --> 00:36:10,385
We were getting along so well
that Nixon wanted me
782
00:36:10,559 --> 00:36:13,736
to join his campaign
as press secretary.
783
00:36:14,911 --> 00:36:16,435
And at that time,
784
00:36:16,696 --> 00:36:18,001
Don Hewitt was a man
that everybody
785
00:36:18,176 --> 00:36:19,829
had decided had had it.
786
00:36:20,047 --> 00:36:22,963
He wasn't up
to the CBS News standard.
787
00:36:24,094 --> 00:36:26,184
So the folks at CBS News
put Hewitt in a room
788
00:36:26,836 --> 00:36:28,098
and said, "Come up with an idea.
789
00:36:28,316 --> 00:36:29,361
Perhaps, we'll put it
on the air."
790
00:36:29,883 --> 00:36:31,972
I stole
791
00:36:32,842 --> 00:36:34,192
the idea of 60 Minutes,
792
00:36:34,583 --> 00:36:37,586
lock, stock and barrel
from Lifemagazine.
793
00:36:37,891 --> 00:36:39,458
The Nixon campaign
in New Hampshire
794
00:36:39,675 --> 00:36:41,895
- has been smooth...
- And he came to me and he said,
795
00:36:42,069 --> 00:36:43,723
"Tell you what, I'm going
to give you a chance
796
00:36:43,897 --> 00:36:45,551
to do the kind of interviews
you used to do
797
00:36:45,725 --> 00:36:47,509
back at Channel 5
withNight Beat."
798
00:36:48,684 --> 00:36:51,296
And so I cast my lot
with Don Hewitt.
799
00:36:51,818 --> 00:36:52,688
Cut.
800
00:36:53,428 --> 00:36:54,429
[beep]
801
00:36:54,951 --> 00:36:57,389
60 Minutes,volume one.
number one.
802
00:36:57,737 --> 00:36:59,782
New opening, take one.
803
00:37:00,566 --> 00:37:02,785
[indistinct chatter]
804
00:37:03,438 --> 00:37:06,572
Well done for us fellows
out here in the trenches.
805
00:37:08,138 --> 00:37:09,096
Crew member: In five.
806
00:37:09,270 --> 00:37:11,272
[beeping]
807
00:37:11,925 --> 00:37:13,013
Dissolve, cue!
808
00:37:13,579 --> 00:37:16,103
Good evening.
This is 60 Minutes.
809
00:37:16,756 --> 00:37:18,801
It's a kind of a magazine
for television.
810
00:37:20,412 --> 00:37:23,023
Nixon acknowledges now
that he withdrew from the press,
811
00:37:23,197 --> 00:37:25,025
that he was afraid of them
and their questions.
812
00:37:26,113 --> 00:37:28,115
There's been so much talk
in recent years of style,
813
00:37:28,289 --> 00:37:29,464
and of charisma.
814
00:37:29,812 --> 00:37:32,162
No one suggests
that you have a good deal of it.
815
00:37:32,902 --> 00:37:36,079
Have you given no thought
to this aspect of campaigning?
816
00:37:36,341 --> 00:37:37,255
And of leading?
817
00:37:39,082 --> 00:37:40,214
Richard: Let me make this
one point.
818
00:37:40,519 --> 00:37:43,435
Some public men
are destined to be loved
819
00:37:44,392 --> 00:37:47,787
and other public men
are destined to be disliked.
820
00:37:48,135 --> 00:37:50,224
The most important thing
is not whether he's loved
821
00:37:50,398 --> 00:37:52,095
or disliked,
but whether he is respected.
822
00:37:52,835 --> 00:37:55,447
And I hope to restore respect
to the presidency.
823
00:37:57,362 --> 00:38:00,060
Larry: Did you know Mike,
that night, that you had
a winner?
824
00:38:00,756 --> 00:38:02,628
Mike: We didn't know
what we were up to.
825
00:38:03,281 --> 00:38:05,457
Anchor: A fan at the University
of Tennessee wrote
826
00:38:06,109 --> 00:38:07,589
"60 Minutes is wonderful.
827
00:38:08,024 --> 00:38:09,852
Does this mean that it
will be dropped in a few weeks?"
828
00:38:10,157 --> 00:38:12,420
We do think
this is sort of a new approach.
829
00:38:13,291 --> 00:38:15,031
We realize, of course,
that new approaches
830
00:38:15,205 --> 00:38:17,077
are not always
instantly accepted.
831
00:38:17,382 --> 00:38:21,429
Mike: We'd finish regularly 85th
out of 100 shows in the ratings.
832
00:38:21,647 --> 00:38:22,735
Mike: Tonight, on 60 Minutes...
833
00:38:23,126 --> 00:38:24,432
Mike: Nobody was paying
any attention.
834
00:38:24,911 --> 00:38:27,130
We were on the air
we were off the air.
835
00:38:27,392 --> 00:38:28,697
- We were preempted.
- [beep]
836
00:38:28,871 --> 00:38:30,873
Anchor: From CBS News
in Washington.
837
00:38:31,309 --> 00:38:33,006
Nobody thought
it was going to last.
838
00:38:33,876 --> 00:38:35,269
Nobody thought
it was going to last.
839
00:38:36,966 --> 00:38:39,142
I think we first met
when Harry announced
840
00:38:39,317 --> 00:38:40,840
he was leaving
to go to ABC and...
841
00:38:41,101 --> 00:38:42,363
- That was right.
- ...I got the call.
842
00:38:42,537 --> 00:38:43,451
Mm-hmm.
843
00:38:43,756 --> 00:38:45,148
How did you feel
about me coming?
844
00:38:45,758 --> 00:38:48,500
Intruder?
Somebody you could push around?
845
00:38:48,674 --> 00:38:51,198
Oh, no, no, no, on the contrary
I was so far ahead you.
846
00:38:51,372 --> 00:38:52,504
I mean everybody knew me.
847
00:38:52,678 --> 00:38:54,244
Who the dickens
was Morley Safer?
848
00:38:54,941 --> 00:38:56,334
You know, big deal.
849
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,511
- I'm Mike Wallace.
- I'm Morley Safer.
850
00:38:59,815 --> 00:39:02,340
Those stories and more
tonight on 60 Minutes.
851
00:39:02,992 --> 00:39:04,342
I'm Morley Safer.
852
00:39:05,212 --> 00:39:06,953
Mike: We would try
and do anything
we could at that time.
853
00:39:07,127 --> 00:39:08,476
Really. We were experimenting.
We were trying to find out
854
00:39:08,650 --> 00:39:10,043
what worked
and what didn't work.
855
00:39:12,698 --> 00:39:14,613
And then suddenly
what happened?
856
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:16,876
Watergate came along.
857
00:39:17,964 --> 00:39:19,226
Mike: In the early days,
858
00:39:19,444 --> 00:39:20,967
The Post was all alone
on Watergate
859
00:39:21,315 --> 00:39:22,751
and the White House
was denying it
860
00:39:22,969 --> 00:39:24,579
and the rest of the press corps
ignoring it...
861
00:39:24,753 --> 00:39:26,059
Shabby journalism...
862
00:39:26,364 --> 00:39:27,800
Mike: There were
no other broadcasts
863
00:39:27,974 --> 00:39:29,671
that had the time to devote
864
00:39:29,845 --> 00:39:32,848
to some of the cast
of characters of Watergate,
865
00:39:33,022 --> 00:39:34,676
except60 Minutes.
866
00:39:35,068 --> 00:39:36,939
Of all the characters
in the Watergate drama,
867
00:39:37,113 --> 00:39:38,941
Gordon Liddy remains
the most mysterious.
868
00:39:39,115 --> 00:39:40,378
They called him
the dirty tricks artist.
869
00:39:40,552 --> 00:39:42,771
And because I had
a relationship
870
00:39:42,945 --> 00:39:45,034
with all of the people
in the Nixon administration...
871
00:39:45,208 --> 00:39:46,993
John Ehrlichman was closer
to the Oval Office...
872
00:39:47,210 --> 00:39:49,430
...as a result,
I began to do interviews
873
00:39:49,648 --> 00:39:51,867
with the entire top cast
of characters.
874
00:39:52,390 --> 00:39:54,304
Did you see Senator Weicker
enumerate a list
875
00:39:54,783 --> 00:39:58,308
of the illegal or unethical acts
of the White House?
876
00:39:58,483 --> 00:40:00,354
- No I didn't.
- Mike: Let me read them.
877
00:40:01,616 --> 00:40:02,487
Breaking and entering.
878
00:40:03,705 --> 00:40:04,619
Wiretapping,
879
00:40:05,794 --> 00:40:07,448
conspiracy
to foster prostitution,
880
00:40:08,841 --> 00:40:10,320
conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
881
00:40:11,365 --> 00:40:12,888
Destruction
of government documents...
882
00:40:13,106 --> 00:40:14,281
Did the president
ever tell you
883
00:40:14,455 --> 00:40:16,196
to get rid
of the taping equipment?
884
00:40:16,370 --> 00:40:17,980
...forgery of State
Department documents
885
00:40:18,154 --> 00:40:19,068
and campaign letters.
886
00:40:20,069 --> 00:40:21,201
Secret slush funds...
887
00:40:21,419 --> 00:40:22,724
Wait a second,
you mean Silbert knew
888
00:40:22,898 --> 00:40:24,726
about what Kallenbach
was doing for you?
889
00:40:24,944 --> 00:40:26,032
Paying you at that time?
890
00:40:26,293 --> 00:40:27,512
...perjury.
891
00:40:28,251 --> 00:40:30,776
Plans to audit tax returns
for political retaliation...
892
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:32,778
Have you done more than pray?
893
00:40:32,952 --> 00:40:34,780
Have you tried to make it up
to those you've hurt?
894
00:40:35,171 --> 00:40:36,564
...theft of psychiatric records.
895
00:40:37,522 --> 00:40:38,914
Plans to firebomb a building...
896
00:40:39,175 --> 00:40:41,090
You offered to have
yourself shot,
897
00:40:41,482 --> 00:40:42,788
assassinated,
898
00:40:43,266 --> 00:40:45,268
to reassure everybody
that you weren't gonna talk...
899
00:40:45,530 --> 00:40:48,097
All of this by the law
and order administration
900
00:40:48,271 --> 00:40:49,229
of Richard Nixon.
901
00:40:56,715 --> 00:40:58,107
Is there a question
in there somewhere?
902
00:41:01,067 --> 00:41:02,982
Mike: I mean, these things
hit front pages
903
00:41:03,330 --> 00:41:04,418
all across America.
904
00:41:04,636 --> 00:41:06,159
We've got a raft
of mail last week
905
00:41:06,333 --> 00:41:07,726
following our story about...
906
00:41:08,248 --> 00:41:09,597
And gave a certain,
"What is this60 Minutes?"
907
00:41:10,511 --> 00:41:11,730
Mike: Whenever and however
908
00:41:11,904 --> 00:41:14,036
Mr. Nixon's case is disposed of,
909
00:41:14,689 --> 00:41:16,952
the press' turn will come next.
What did he mean?
910
00:41:17,475 --> 00:41:18,998
The press is gonna be blamed
for it.
911
00:41:19,215 --> 00:41:21,217
And what can the press
do about it if anything?
912
00:41:21,566 --> 00:41:22,654
Hunker down.
913
00:41:23,306 --> 00:41:25,961
Hunker down
and go about our business
914
00:41:26,135 --> 00:41:27,310
which is not to be loved
915
00:41:27,528 --> 00:41:30,488
but to go after the truth.
916
00:41:33,316 --> 00:41:36,842
Mike: That's when we began to do
the real investigative stuff.
917
00:41:37,364 --> 00:41:39,061
The kind of stuff
you hadn't seen at all,
918
00:41:39,453 --> 00:41:40,628
in television.
919
00:41:41,150 --> 00:41:42,630
Standing from the back room
I could hear
920
00:41:42,804 --> 00:41:44,284
what was going on
in the front office;
921
00:41:44,632 --> 00:41:46,678
a pretty frank discussion
about kickbacks.
922
00:41:47,243 --> 00:41:48,854
So I could get five hundred
a week?
923
00:41:49,332 --> 00:41:50,856
Pardon me.
Yeah, just a second, fellas.
924
00:41:51,030 --> 00:41:52,292
And you know
that what you're offering to do
925
00:41:52,466 --> 00:41:53,380
is to break the law.
926
00:41:55,251 --> 00:41:56,252
Why?
927
00:41:56,818 --> 00:41:58,428
Tonight, a story
about the big business
928
00:41:58,603 --> 00:41:59,778
in mail order degrees.
929
00:41:59,995 --> 00:42:01,301
Land fraud and swindle.
930
00:42:01,693 --> 00:42:03,129
Kiddie Porn. Child pornography.
931
00:42:03,390 --> 00:42:05,218
I've seen them as young
as six years old in here.
932
00:42:05,392 --> 00:42:07,394
- Six years old?
- Six years old.
933
00:42:07,568 --> 00:42:08,917
Mike: At that point,
I came in.
934
00:42:09,309 --> 00:42:11,703
This time, our camera
was no longer hidden.
935
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,183
We have pictures of you
936
00:42:14,488 --> 00:42:15,924
- selling films...
- Man: No.
937
00:42:16,403 --> 00:42:17,709
- ...to my colleague here...
- No.
938
00:42:17,883 --> 00:42:19,232
Where did these come from?
939
00:42:19,537 --> 00:42:21,756
I don't know! He put over there!
This is my films.
940
00:42:22,235 --> 00:42:23,889
Of course, you're paying
income tax on this.
941
00:42:24,106 --> 00:42:26,195
- [man laughs]
- What are you laughing about?
942
00:42:26,761 --> 00:42:29,068
They called on the Miami Police
to get us off their property.
943
00:42:29,242 --> 00:42:30,983
Police: You have no right
to be here. I ask you to leave.
944
00:42:31,157 --> 00:42:32,593
You're interrupting
a business.
945
00:42:32,767 --> 00:42:34,464
- Don't. Don't. Don't.
- Come on in, fellas.
946
00:42:34,813 --> 00:42:35,640
No.
947
00:42:36,466 --> 00:42:38,381
Hey, wait a minute.
60 Minutesis in here.
948
00:42:39,165 --> 00:42:40,688
- Can you believe it?
- Mike: How are you?
949
00:42:40,862 --> 00:42:42,734
- 60 Minutes. Hold the phone.
- Nice to see you.
950
00:42:42,995 --> 00:42:45,911
Now this is my favorite one.
Gosh, what's your last name?
951
00:42:46,085 --> 00:42:47,608
- Wallace. Mike Wallace.
- Mike Wallace.
952
00:42:50,089 --> 00:42:51,569
- [distant siren wailing]
- [horn blaring]
953
00:42:53,396 --> 00:42:55,398
Don: One day somebody
came to me and said,
954
00:42:55,834 --> 00:42:57,575
"You know,
you're in the Top Ten."
And I said the Top Ten what?
955
00:42:57,792 --> 00:42:59,359
He will talk
to Arafat again today.
956
00:43:00,142 --> 00:43:01,622
I didn't know
what a rating point was.
957
00:43:02,014 --> 00:43:04,059
How much time do you think
Mike has for that thing
958
00:43:04,233 --> 00:43:05,583
following the mail?
959
00:43:05,887 --> 00:43:07,367
Mike: This thing took off
for reasons
960
00:43:07,541 --> 00:43:09,282
I still do not understand.
961
00:43:10,631 --> 00:43:12,459
We're not cutting the credits.
I think.
962
00:43:13,068 --> 00:43:15,723
We heard that more people
watch your show
963
00:43:15,897 --> 00:43:17,333
than Walter Cronkite.
964
00:43:17,551 --> 00:43:19,771
And people watch you
more than they watch him.
965
00:43:22,774 --> 00:43:24,558
You know something,
Walter is down the hall
966
00:43:24,950 --> 00:43:27,343
and you don't want to get Walter
angry at me, do you?
967
00:43:28,257 --> 00:43:30,999
Anchor: Its patented blend
of hero reporters
968
00:43:31,173 --> 00:43:34,176
and sweating villains
has redefined TV news.
969
00:43:34,524 --> 00:43:36,962
For better or for worse
is a question for debate,
970
00:43:37,266 --> 00:43:38,964
but you can't argue
with ratings.
971
00:43:39,138 --> 00:43:42,402
60 Minutes is the most watched
news program ever.
972
00:43:43,142 --> 00:43:45,797
Okay. We're very excited
about our first guest tonight.
973
00:43:45,971 --> 00:43:47,712
His dogged interviewing style...
974
00:43:47,886 --> 00:43:51,367
...singular brand
of browbeating charm...
975
00:43:51,759 --> 00:43:53,631
...who is highly respected
among his peers.
976
00:43:53,805 --> 00:43:55,720
It's my pleasure
to welcome Mike Wallace.
977
00:43:55,981 --> 00:43:57,199
[crowd applauding, cheering]
978
00:43:57,939 --> 00:43:59,245
- David Hartman: Mike Wallace!
- Merv Griffin: Mike Wallace!
979
00:43:59,419 --> 00:44:00,681
- Mike Wallace!
- Dinah Shore: Mr. Mike Wallace!
980
00:44:03,379 --> 00:44:04,250
Crew member: Rolling.
981
00:44:06,513 --> 00:44:07,514
Why are you doing this now?
982
00:44:07,949 --> 00:44:09,342
- Doing what?
- This.
983
00:44:09,821 --> 00:44:11,257
You walked out
on us once before.
984
00:44:11,605 --> 00:44:12,824
- Didn't walk out on us.
- Well...
985
00:44:12,998 --> 00:44:14,086
I understood
that you're paying me
986
00:44:14,260 --> 00:44:15,261
a large amount of money
for this.
987
00:44:15,478 --> 00:44:16,392
You're wrong.
988
00:44:17,306 --> 00:44:18,699
- You...
- Why are you doing this now?
989
00:44:18,873 --> 00:44:20,135
I'm not running
a boiler room operation.
990
00:44:20,309 --> 00:44:22,572
I have no phony
real estate scam.
991
00:44:22,747 --> 00:44:24,226
I'm not taking any kickbacks.
992
00:44:24,487 --> 00:44:26,011
Well, there's a stereotype
993
00:44:26,315 --> 00:44:28,143
- of Carson. You know there is.
- What is it? What is it?
994
00:44:28,491 --> 00:44:30,276
Ice water in his veins.
995
00:44:30,450 --> 00:44:32,452
- I had that taken out
years ago.
- Mike: Is that so?
996
00:44:32,626 --> 00:44:34,019
I went to Denmark
and had that done,
997
00:44:34,193 --> 00:44:35,760
- it's all over now.
- Shy.
998
00:44:36,238 --> 00:44:37,457
- Probably true.
- Mike: Defensive.
999
00:44:37,936 --> 00:44:40,112
Sometimes in a social situation,
or with people,
1000
00:44:40,503 --> 00:44:41,722
I feel a little uncomfortable.
1001
00:44:42,331 --> 00:44:43,593
See when I'm in front
of an audience,
1002
00:44:43,768 --> 00:44:45,291
- it's a different thing.
- Why?
1003
00:44:46,205 --> 00:44:48,163
I'm in control.
I can handle the audience,
1004
00:44:48,337 --> 00:44:50,252
and I can set the timing,
and I can set the pacing.
1005
00:44:50,470 --> 00:44:52,994
And then I can play with that.
There's Carson the performer,
1006
00:44:53,429 --> 00:44:54,735
then there's Carson
the private individual.
1007
00:44:55,214 --> 00:44:56,781
When the camera goes on...
1008
00:44:57,259 --> 00:44:58,870
- Yeah.
- ...they are your family.
1009
00:44:59,174 --> 00:45:01,046
- That's right.
- Man: Here's AB Roll...
1010
00:45:01,263 --> 00:45:04,571
Morley: People started
to tune in to us in big numbers
1011
00:45:05,050 --> 00:45:07,400
to see what Mike Wallace
was gonna be up to next.
1012
00:45:07,617 --> 00:45:08,836
Okay.
1013
00:45:09,402 --> 00:45:10,708
You're never gonna live it down,
Mike. I guarantee it.
1014
00:45:10,882 --> 00:45:13,754
I'll use it to show
just what the press is.
1015
00:45:14,233 --> 00:45:16,496
You're contemptible,
I mean this not for the camera.
1016
00:45:16,670 --> 00:45:18,803
I'd like you
to get out of here, immediately.
1017
00:45:20,326 --> 00:45:22,110
I hope you got it
and I hope you have the guts
1018
00:45:22,284 --> 00:45:23,155
to use it!
1019
00:45:25,418 --> 00:45:28,160
There is a new billionaire
in town. Trump's the name.
1020
00:45:28,464 --> 00:45:30,162
Donald Trump
is a major dealmaker,
1021
00:45:30,336 --> 00:45:31,250
a swashbuckler.
1022
00:45:31,554 --> 00:45:32,425
Donald,
1023
00:45:32,947 --> 00:45:34,470
you're in your late 30s.
1024
00:45:35,994 --> 00:45:37,865
You got 40 years to live,
minimum.
1025
00:45:38,910 --> 00:45:39,954
Well I hope you're right
about that.
1026
00:45:40,128 --> 00:45:41,042
What are you gonna do?
1027
00:45:41,216 --> 00:45:42,957
There are a lot of things to do.
1028
00:45:43,131 --> 00:45:45,220
You know, a fertile imagination
and a good fertile mind, Mike,
1029
00:45:45,394 --> 00:45:47,005
it's an amazing...
It's really amazing
1030
00:45:47,179 --> 00:45:49,137
what can be thought of,
there's so many things to do.
1031
00:45:49,485 --> 00:45:50,399
- Politics?
- There's so many...
1032
00:45:50,573 --> 00:45:52,184
No, not politics.
1033
00:45:52,532 --> 00:45:54,229
You've said that you could do
a better job at negotiating
1034
00:45:54,403 --> 00:45:55,927
an arms control
agreement with the Soviets,
1035
00:45:56,405 --> 00:45:57,711
than some of these professionals
1036
00:45:57,885 --> 00:45:59,365
who've been trying
to do it for years.
1037
00:45:59,539 --> 00:46:00,932
I didn't say me, Mike,
I said somebody has to do it.
1038
00:46:01,149 --> 00:46:02,237
If it were me, that'd be fine,
1039
00:46:02,411 --> 00:46:03,586
- I could do it.
- You...
1040
00:46:03,761 --> 00:46:05,414
Somebody has to help
this country
1041
00:46:05,675 --> 00:46:07,721
and if they don't,
the country and the world
1042
00:46:07,895 --> 00:46:08,853
are in big trouble.
1043
00:46:09,201 --> 00:46:10,985
Because within
a short period of time,
1044
00:46:11,159 --> 00:46:13,248
as sure as we're sitting here,
there's not gonna be a country
1045
00:46:13,422 --> 00:46:14,684
and there's not gonna be
a world.
1046
00:46:15,642 --> 00:46:17,600
Anchor: He could get
with a question,
1047
00:46:17,992 --> 00:46:20,995
- to the very core of the story.
- How much do you make?
1048
00:46:22,083 --> 00:46:23,432
[speaking in foreign language]
1049
00:46:23,824 --> 00:46:24,869
- What's your salary?
- [speaking in foreign language]
1050
00:46:32,224 --> 00:46:33,138
Hard question.
1051
00:46:34,139 --> 00:46:35,009
Simple question.
1052
00:46:35,793 --> 00:46:37,925
Morley: There was no off switch
1053
00:46:38,317 --> 00:46:41,320
If it was in his head,
it came out of his mouth.
1054
00:46:41,929 --> 00:46:44,889
You really believe
that you lived lives before?
1055
00:46:45,063 --> 00:46:46,455
- And...
- Oh, yes, Mike. I don't...
1056
00:46:46,629 --> 00:46:47,935
There is no doubt
in my mind about it.
1057
00:46:48,109 --> 00:46:49,371
Mike: Mm-hmm.
1058
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,417
And you really believe
in extraterrestrial...
1059
00:46:51,591 --> 00:46:53,245
Have they... Do they
come visit you on the porch?
1060
00:46:55,769 --> 00:46:57,771
"Now you're being unpleasant,
Wallace" is what you're saying.
1061
00:46:57,989 --> 00:47:00,295
Oh, yes. This is
what I was a little afraid of.
1062
00:47:00,469 --> 00:47:02,210
- Mike: Oh...
- You don't have
to be that unpleasant.
1063
00:47:02,384 --> 00:47:03,908
It doesn't become you, you know?
1064
00:47:04,169 --> 00:47:06,258
Morley: But Mike
would steal stories.
1065
00:47:07,215 --> 00:47:10,175
There is
that schoolboy competitiveness.
1066
00:47:10,436 --> 00:47:12,699
- [indistinct chatter]
- Maestro, tell me something...
1067
00:47:12,917 --> 00:47:14,396
Morley: Competitive
beyond belief.
1068
00:47:14,570 --> 00:47:16,268
Here we are
at Madison Square Garden...
1069
00:47:16,442 --> 00:47:18,531
Anchor: And at the same time,
unsure of himself.
1070
00:47:18,792 --> 00:47:20,402
Mr. Right...
1071
00:47:20,794 --> 00:47:23,101
Morley: That he had not paid
his dues as a journalist.
1072
00:47:24,189 --> 00:47:28,062
That uncertainty
or that even perhaps shame...
1073
00:47:28,933 --> 00:47:30,630
- haunted him.
- What is a racist?
1074
00:47:30,848 --> 00:47:32,197
Morley: He was going to go out
and prove
1075
00:47:32,371 --> 00:47:34,808
I'm as good as anybody
in this racket.
1076
00:47:34,982 --> 00:47:37,767
60,000 jobs have gone down
the drain. You've laid out...
1077
00:47:38,072 --> 00:47:39,813
Morley: And I once said to him,
I said,
1078
00:47:39,987 --> 00:47:41,684
"Mike, you don't have to prove
yourself, for God's sake.
1079
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:43,643
Everybody knows you're good.
You're terrific.
1080
00:47:43,817 --> 00:47:45,340
You're a big star."
1081
00:47:46,124 --> 00:47:48,604
You've had a reputation
as a very difficult guy.
1082
00:47:49,083 --> 00:47:49,997
For years.
1083
00:47:50,519 --> 00:47:52,304
Why? Where did that all
come from, Kirk?
1084
00:47:54,175 --> 00:47:55,742
It shows you
what a good actor I am,
1085
00:47:55,916 --> 00:47:57,439
because I really am
the sweetest.
1086
00:47:57,700 --> 00:47:59,615
Come on. Everybody says
1087
00:47:59,833 --> 00:48:01,835
that in the old days
you were an exceedingly...
1088
00:48:02,053 --> 00:48:03,619
Even your own kids said
that you were very difficult.
1089
00:48:03,924 --> 00:48:05,621
Oh, there's no doubt about that.
1090
00:48:06,144 --> 00:48:07,667
But I think most the things
that I did wrong
1091
00:48:07,841 --> 00:48:09,103
comes out of an insecurity.
1092
00:48:09,277 --> 00:48:10,757
What the dickens
are you insecure about?
1093
00:48:11,236 --> 00:48:15,327
Michael, I think that no one
is ever free of insecurities
1094
00:48:15,849 --> 00:48:18,069
whether maybe in the
relationship with their kids,
1095
00:48:18,460 --> 00:48:19,722
in the relationship
with their wife,
1096
00:48:19,897 --> 00:48:21,463
and in the relationship
with their work.
1097
00:48:21,986 --> 00:48:23,944
Twenty or 30 years
of psychoanalysis,
1098
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,382
I say to myself, what is it
that she's trying to find out
1099
00:48:27,556 --> 00:48:29,732
- that takes 20 to 30 years?
- I'm a slow learner.
1100
00:48:30,211 --> 00:48:32,431
For some reason
I feel like your father
1101
00:48:32,605 --> 00:48:34,302
- or your uncle or something.
- Barbra: Well, that's good.
1102
00:48:34,650 --> 00:48:36,130
At least you're feeling.
1103
00:48:36,696 --> 00:48:38,176
- That's good.
- Oh, I've got to tell you,
1104
00:48:38,350 --> 00:48:40,004
my feelings are as close
to the surface...
1105
00:48:40,178 --> 00:48:41,614
- Are they?
- ...as your own.
1106
00:48:41,919 --> 00:48:43,572
- So you put on this facade...
- You are damn right.
1107
00:48:43,746 --> 00:48:45,661
...in other words, you put on
this facade of toughness.
1108
00:48:47,185 --> 00:48:48,273
Crew member: Roll one, take one!
1109
00:48:49,274 --> 00:48:51,102
Don: Look, there's a lot
of temperament in Mike.
1110
00:48:51,319 --> 00:48:52,320
It's gonna be dull
as hell, please.
1111
00:48:52,494 --> 00:48:53,408
Crew member: Take three!
1112
00:48:53,974 --> 00:48:55,628
No, no, no. You're going
much too fast.
1113
00:48:55,845 --> 00:48:57,195
Crew member: Take five!
1114
00:48:57,586 --> 00:48:59,414
What the fuck are doing?
This is supposed to be here.
1115
00:48:59,588 --> 00:49:00,807
- Are you reading?
- Yes.
1116
00:49:01,286 --> 00:49:02,591
Here we go, this is the one.
1117
00:49:02,765 --> 00:49:04,637
God damn, could give me
a slightly shot...
1118
00:49:04,811 --> 00:49:06,204
slightly different shot?
1119
00:49:06,508 --> 00:49:08,510
But show me someone
with no temperament,
1120
00:49:08,728 --> 00:49:10,512
and I'll show you someone
with no talent.
1121
00:49:11,339 --> 00:49:14,038
Sweet shit, should we start
from the beginning again?
1122
00:49:15,474 --> 00:49:17,345
The journalist
as a household word,
1123
00:49:17,650 --> 00:49:18,825
Oriana Fallaci.
1124
00:49:19,434 --> 00:49:22,046
She is an Italian journalist.
Resourceful, ambitious,
1125
00:49:22,350 --> 00:49:23,656
arrogant.
1126
00:49:24,222 --> 00:49:25,745
Her revealing interviews
are merely conversations
1127
00:49:25,919 --> 00:49:27,051
to begin with, she says.
1128
00:49:27,486 --> 00:49:28,966
Then she transcribes
them herself
1129
00:49:29,140 --> 00:49:31,185
and turns them
into morality dramas.
1130
00:49:31,794 --> 00:49:34,754
She plays the role of judge;
the interviewee is on trial,
1131
00:49:35,885 --> 00:49:37,322
and few are found innocent.
1132
00:49:38,976 --> 00:49:41,500
I hate objectivity, you know.
I have told it many times.
1133
00:49:41,674 --> 00:49:43,545
I do not believe in objectivity.
1134
00:49:44,024 --> 00:49:47,158
I believe in what I see,
what I hear and what I feel.
1135
00:49:48,072 --> 00:49:50,509
- Power, you have power?
- Oh no, I have no power.
1136
00:49:50,813 --> 00:49:52,685
- No? None whatsoever?
- You are not one of those
1137
00:49:52,946 --> 00:49:54,774
who think that we journalists
have power.
1138
00:49:55,470 --> 00:49:56,515
- No?
- Ah.
1139
00:49:57,298 --> 00:49:59,344
We are like the dogs.
[mimics dog barking]
1140
00:50:00,736 --> 00:50:01,868
And nobody listens to us.
1141
00:50:02,129 --> 00:50:03,043
You're an entertainer?
1142
00:50:05,306 --> 00:50:06,394
I'm an historian.
1143
00:50:07,134 --> 00:50:08,570
- You're not an historian.
- Yes, I am.
1144
00:50:08,788 --> 00:50:10,137
- You're a journalist.
- No, sir.
1145
00:50:10,311 --> 00:50:12,226
- A journalist is an historian.
- No, no, wait.
1146
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:16,578
Listen, a journalist is a person
who writes history
1147
00:50:16,839 --> 00:50:19,625
in the same moment
that history happens.
1148
00:50:20,147 --> 00:50:22,323
And it is the damn best way
to write history.
1149
00:50:29,287 --> 00:50:33,943
[crowd chanting in Persian]
1150
00:50:38,252 --> 00:50:39,601
Good evening. In Tehran tonight,
1151
00:50:39,775 --> 00:50:41,212
the American embassy
is in the hands
1152
00:50:41,386 --> 00:50:43,257
of several hundred
Iranian students
1153
00:50:43,475 --> 00:50:45,564
who took control
after a three-hour skirmish
1154
00:50:45,738 --> 00:50:48,349
with U.S. Marines.
They are holding hostages.
1155
00:50:48,523 --> 00:50:50,351
One report says
as many as a hundred.
1156
00:50:50,525 --> 00:50:54,094
Muslim students in Iran
spurred on by Ayatollah Khomeini
1157
00:50:54,268 --> 00:50:56,836
today escalated their war
against what he calls
1158
00:50:57,010 --> 00:50:58,620
the Great Satan America.
1159
00:50:59,012 --> 00:51:01,058
I'm really infuriated because...
1160
00:51:01,884 --> 00:51:03,016
this is not Islam.
1161
00:51:03,712 --> 00:51:04,974
Islam doesn't teach at all
1162
00:51:05,410 --> 00:51:08,848
what this man...
Such a lunatic like this man.
1163
00:51:12,460 --> 00:51:14,114
Mike: I was standing
in a toxic waste dump
1164
00:51:14,288 --> 00:51:15,724
in Stockton, California.
1165
00:51:16,508 --> 00:51:17,857
When all of a sudden
the word came:
1166
00:51:18,466 --> 00:51:19,815
Khomeini will see you.
1167
00:51:29,129 --> 00:51:30,348
Morley: Did you have
any concern
1168
00:51:30,522 --> 00:51:31,914
about going over there
at that time?
1169
00:51:32,524 --> 00:51:34,439
Mike: What are they going to do
Take you hostage yourself?
1170
00:51:34,917 --> 00:51:37,006
Morley: Maybe. They took
the other Americans hostage.
1171
00:51:39,052 --> 00:51:40,532
You never thought...
It never crossed your mind?
1172
00:51:40,706 --> 00:51:42,664
Mike: Honest, if you got
a hell of a story
1173
00:51:42,838 --> 00:51:44,362
on your hands, no.
1174
00:51:54,937 --> 00:51:56,548
Morley: What was
the atmosphere in the room like?
1175
00:51:56,809 --> 00:51:58,202
Mike: I was immediately told
1176
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,334
you have to give us
the questions ahead of time.
1177
00:52:00,769 --> 00:52:02,249
Morley: Was there a lot
of tension in the room
1178
00:52:02,423 --> 00:52:03,424
when you went in there?
1179
00:52:03,903 --> 00:52:05,122
Mike: He had
his own cameras there.
1180
00:52:05,818 --> 00:52:08,125
Everybody had to be satisfied
with the questions.
1181
00:52:11,345 --> 00:52:12,564
[speaking in foreign language]
1182
00:52:27,013 --> 00:52:28,710
Well, let's... let us begin.
1183
00:52:29,668 --> 00:52:30,843
Do you still say, Imam,
1184
00:52:31,757 --> 00:52:34,629
that if the Shah
is not returned to Iran
1185
00:52:35,587 --> 00:52:39,286
that those American hostages
in the American embassy compound
1186
00:52:39,808 --> 00:52:40,983
will not be freed?
1187
00:52:42,681 --> 00:52:46,467
[speaking in foreign language]
1188
00:52:52,691 --> 00:52:55,650
But that is not an answer
to whether the hostages
1189
00:52:55,955 --> 00:52:57,174
will be freed.
1190
00:52:57,348 --> 00:52:58,740
His Eminence prefers
that you put up
1191
00:52:58,914 --> 00:53:00,438
the rest of the questions
and then later on,
1192
00:53:00,612 --> 00:53:01,874
I'll translate for you
so that...
1193
00:53:02,091 --> 00:53:03,571
his Eminence can be faster.
1194
00:53:03,919 --> 00:53:07,706
Unless I know what he is saying,
it will not make sense.
1195
00:53:08,228 --> 00:53:10,099
I must understand as we go.
1196
00:53:10,274 --> 00:53:12,711
Otherwise it is not
an interview
1197
00:53:12,885 --> 00:53:14,539
and I will have no way
of understanding.
1198
00:53:16,062 --> 00:53:19,587
[speaking in foreign language]
1199
00:53:23,025 --> 00:53:25,202
Imam, President Sadat of Egypt,
1200
00:53:26,246 --> 00:53:28,161
a devoutly religious man,
1201
00:53:28,988 --> 00:53:30,163
a Muslim,
1202
00:53:30,903 --> 00:53:36,082
says that what you are doing now
is quote, "A disgrace to Islam."
1203
00:53:37,301 --> 00:53:38,911
And he calls you, Imam,
1204
00:53:39,564 --> 00:53:41,479
forgive me, his words, not mine,
1205
00:53:42,306 --> 00:53:43,176
"A lunatic."
1206
00:53:44,003 --> 00:53:46,005
I know that you have heard
that comment.
1207
00:53:46,658 --> 00:53:48,094
I'm not sure if I can get
the answer
1208
00:53:48,268 --> 00:53:49,748
because this was not
in the questions.
1209
00:53:49,922 --> 00:53:51,663
Please ask him. I'm sure...
It's a very simple,
1210
00:53:51,837 --> 00:53:53,012
straightforward question.
1211
00:53:53,404 --> 00:53:56,494
I heard that the Imam
is a disgrace to Islam.
1212
00:53:56,929 --> 00:53:58,800
And he used the word a lunatic.
1213
00:53:59,148 --> 00:54:02,848
[speaking in foreign language]
1214
00:54:05,242 --> 00:54:09,115
[speaking in foreign language]
1215
00:54:17,863 --> 00:54:20,518
Then he is a traitor to Islam,
Sadat?
1216
00:54:20,735 --> 00:54:24,435
[speaking in foreign language]
1217
00:54:32,834 --> 00:54:34,358
He calls upon
the Egyptian people
1218
00:54:34,923 --> 00:54:37,012
- to overthrow Sadat.
- Translator: Exactly.
1219
00:54:55,335 --> 00:54:56,467
Interviewer: It's the first time
I remember you
1220
00:54:56,641 --> 00:54:57,903
asking a question that way.
1221
00:54:58,817 --> 00:55:00,122
"Forgive me."
1222
00:55:00,471 --> 00:55:01,820
It's a very artful way
to ask the question.
1223
00:55:04,953 --> 00:55:06,738
Mike: In effect, he called
for the overthrow
1224
00:55:07,260 --> 00:55:08,392
of Anwar Sadat.
1225
00:55:09,567 --> 00:55:10,829
That was interpreted
1226
00:55:11,003 --> 00:55:12,961
as calling
for the assassination.
1227
00:55:13,614 --> 00:55:15,312
[gunfire]
1228
00:55:15,616 --> 00:55:17,618
And of course,
that's exactly what happened.
1229
00:55:19,664 --> 00:55:21,405
Anchor: The celebration turned
to terror.
1230
00:55:21,883 --> 00:55:23,885
President Sadat and others
on the reviewing stand
with him,
1231
00:55:24,321 --> 00:55:25,322
raked with gunfire.
1232
00:55:29,151 --> 00:55:30,065
President Sadat,
1233
00:55:30,327 --> 00:55:32,241
62 years old is dead.
1234
00:55:45,646 --> 00:55:46,473
Charles: Mr. Wallace.
1235
00:55:48,475 --> 00:55:50,259
Are you aware
that what you are doing
1236
00:55:50,608 --> 00:55:52,479
is seriously endangering people?
1237
00:55:53,219 --> 00:55:54,699
That's the way you're going
to educate the public,
1238
00:55:54,873 --> 00:55:56,309
- through your questions?
- Through the questions
1239
00:55:56,483 --> 00:55:57,919
and the answers, yes.
1240
00:55:58,311 --> 00:56:00,357
Are you tempted
during those interviews,
1241
00:56:00,531 --> 00:56:01,488
to usurp
1242
00:56:02,271 --> 00:56:04,273
the powers of our secretary
of state
1243
00:56:04,709 --> 00:56:06,493
and go right for "I'll...
1244
00:56:07,015 --> 00:56:08,365
Mike Wallace will settle this!"
1245
00:56:09,627 --> 00:56:11,063
Television journalism
has been coming
1246
00:56:11,237 --> 00:56:12,543
under recent criticism.
1247
00:56:12,934 --> 00:56:14,980
Some polls have shown
that public confidence
1248
00:56:15,154 --> 00:56:16,373
is eroding.
1249
00:56:16,851 --> 00:56:20,289
We have heard increasingly
talk about news glut.
1250
00:56:20,551 --> 00:56:23,684
Information is becoming
certainly a bigger business.
1251
00:56:23,989 --> 00:56:26,470
- Is it bad?
- It's hard to cope with,
I guess.
1252
00:56:27,079 --> 00:56:28,385
You used the word "business",
1253
00:56:28,646 --> 00:56:30,865
and let's face it.
It is a business.
1254
00:56:31,039 --> 00:56:32,780
The business of network news
1255
00:56:32,954 --> 00:56:35,000
has become one of the highest
stakes games in television.
1256
00:56:35,957 --> 00:56:37,132
Interviewer:
1257
00:56:41,267 --> 00:56:42,921
I think there are too many
news magazines
1258
00:56:43,095 --> 00:56:44,662
on the networks now, sure.
1259
00:56:44,836 --> 00:56:47,665
Good evening. I'm Hugh Downs
and this is 20/20.
1260
00:56:47,882 --> 00:56:49,362
Announcer:
On the ABC News Magazine.
1261
00:56:49,536 --> 00:56:51,016
Anchor: Dateline Monday.
1262
00:56:51,451 --> 00:56:52,713
- Anchor 1: Day One.
- Anchor 2: This is Nightline.
1263
00:56:53,758 --> 00:56:55,499
Mike: I think the reason
they're there
1264
00:56:55,673 --> 00:56:57,370
is because there has been
a thirst in the audience.
1265
00:56:57,718 --> 00:57:00,721
How to turn news
into a primetime ratings hit.
1266
00:57:00,895 --> 00:57:03,855
I think the magazine programs
outside of the network purview
1267
00:57:04,029 --> 00:57:05,465
have helped journalism
tremendously.
1268
00:57:05,726 --> 00:57:07,075
Like Bonnie and Clyde,
1269
00:57:07,249 --> 00:57:09,164
they crossed the country
in a crime rampage.
1270
00:57:09,687 --> 00:57:12,211
Maury Povich: Pitbull terriers.
Kids' pets or killer dogs?
1271
00:57:12,472 --> 00:57:15,214
I'm Maury Povich.
Tonight on A Current Affair.
1272
00:57:15,562 --> 00:57:16,781
Crew member: Take two!
1273
00:57:17,085 --> 00:57:18,522
- All right, here we go.
- Crew member: Standby.
1274
00:57:19,218 --> 00:57:20,524
- Rolling?
- You gotta be back, buddy.
1275
00:57:20,698 --> 00:57:21,916
You gotta be out of the shot.
1276
00:57:23,483 --> 00:57:25,267
So Keigel Vay, who himself stood
1277
00:57:25,485 --> 00:57:27,444
to profit handsomely
when his clients expand...
1278
00:57:27,618 --> 00:57:30,838
You reach people
very well that way in a very...
1279
00:57:31,056 --> 00:57:34,276
I'm not ashamed to use the word
in a very dramatic way to say,
1280
00:57:35,016 --> 00:57:36,714
- wait a minute.
- Charles: Mr. Taylor,
1281
00:57:37,192 --> 00:57:39,673
is what Mr. Wallace does
good journalism?
1282
00:57:41,414 --> 00:57:43,982
[all laughing]
1283
00:57:45,853 --> 00:57:48,552
I think it's marvelous drama,
1284
00:57:49,988 --> 00:57:52,904
and has very little to do
with journalism.
1285
00:57:53,295 --> 00:57:55,820
I can't believe
that I'm hearing this from you.
1286
00:57:55,994 --> 00:57:57,517
I really cannot believe it.
1287
00:57:57,822 --> 00:57:58,997
Mr. Wallace.
1288
00:57:59,432 --> 00:58:01,390
Do you think that the way
he reports on business
1289
00:58:01,608 --> 00:58:03,131
- is good journalism?
- Yes.
1290
00:58:04,959 --> 00:58:06,570
Why won't you say the same
for him? I mean that's...
1291
00:58:06,744 --> 00:58:09,007
Taylor: Because I don't,
I don't think it's journalism.
1292
00:58:09,181 --> 00:58:10,312
I think it's show business.
1293
00:58:11,139 --> 00:58:12,576
Bring it back down,
let's do it again.
1294
00:58:13,620 --> 00:58:16,754
Mike: We were the number one
broadcast in America.
1295
00:58:17,319 --> 00:58:20,409
But I don't care who you are
and how lucky,
1296
00:58:21,019 --> 00:58:22,237
you realize that...
1297
00:58:23,021 --> 00:58:26,154
life is going to even up
somehow.
1298
00:58:26,546 --> 00:58:27,547
Perfect, let's go home.
1299
00:58:27,808 --> 00:58:29,680
[overlapping conversations]
1300
00:58:29,984 --> 00:58:32,596
Life is gonna turn around
and bite you in the back.
1301
00:58:39,777 --> 00:58:41,343
Interviewer: When60 Minutes
was at the peak
1302
00:58:41,518 --> 00:58:43,432
of its power in the early '80s,
1303
00:58:43,824 --> 00:58:47,872
CBS News and you
personally are sued
1304
00:58:48,133 --> 00:58:50,439
by General William Westmoreland,
1305
00:58:50,831 --> 00:58:52,659
the commander of American Forces
1306
00:58:52,833 --> 00:58:54,095
in the lost American war...
1307
00:58:54,269 --> 00:58:55,096
- Mm-hmm.
- ...in Vietnam.
1308
00:58:56,358 --> 00:58:58,752
I have been subjected
to a vicious, scurrilous
1309
00:58:58,926 --> 00:59:00,406
and premeditated attack
1310
00:59:00,580 --> 00:59:02,669
on my character
and personal integrity.
1311
00:59:04,149 --> 00:59:07,152
The sham was perpetrated
by the unscrupulous
1312
00:59:08,327 --> 00:59:10,808
and arrogant, Mike Wallace.
1313
00:59:11,069 --> 00:59:15,073
With distorted false
and specious information
1314
00:59:15,334 --> 00:59:18,511
an attempt to execute me
on the guillotine...
1315
00:59:19,512 --> 00:59:20,469
of public opinion.
1316
00:59:21,427 --> 00:59:23,647
Retired U.S. Army General
William Westmoreland today
1317
00:59:23,821 --> 00:59:25,736
filed suit against
CBS Incorporated.
1318
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:28,086
He charged in federal court
that he was libeled
1319
00:59:28,260 --> 00:59:29,783
in a CBS News documentary
1320
00:59:30,001 --> 00:59:31,568
about enemy
troop strength reports
1321
00:59:31,742 --> 00:59:32,699
during the Vietnam War.
1322
00:59:33,961 --> 00:59:36,224
You couldn't ask
for more troops.
1323
00:59:36,747 --> 00:59:38,531
Therefore,
you couldn't let the enemy
1324
00:59:38,923 --> 00:59:40,228
be perceived as larger.
1325
00:59:40,533 --> 00:59:42,404
Well, that is absolutely
fallacious.
1326
00:59:42,579 --> 00:59:44,842
It has no validity, whatsoever.
1327
00:59:45,016 --> 00:59:47,453
I'm absolutely amazed
that you would come out
1328
00:59:47,627 --> 00:59:48,889
with a statement like that.
1329
00:59:49,063 --> 00:59:50,587
- It's not a statement...
- It has...
1330
00:59:50,761 --> 00:59:52,153
- It's a question.
- It has no basis, whatsoever.
1331
00:59:52,632 --> 00:59:54,242
Didn't you make this clear
in your August 20th cable...
1332
00:59:54,416 --> 00:59:55,679
William: No, no, yeah, no.
1333
00:59:55,983 --> 00:59:57,202
I have a copy
of your August 20th cable...
1334
00:59:57,376 --> 00:59:58,551
Sure, okay, okay.
1335
00:59:58,725 --> 00:59:59,857
Spelling out
the command position
1336
01:00:00,031 --> 01:00:01,423
on the self-defense controversy.
1337
01:00:01,902 --> 01:00:03,904
As you put up in the cable,
you say the principle reason
1338
01:00:04,122 --> 01:00:06,472
why the South Defense Militia
must go, quote,
1339
01:00:06,777 --> 01:00:08,256
"Was press reaction."
1340
01:00:08,430 --> 01:00:11,172
I made the decision.
It was my responsibility.
1341
01:00:11,477 --> 01:00:13,697
I don't regret making it.
I stand by it.
1342
01:00:14,088 --> 01:00:16,221
And the facts prove
that I was right.
1343
01:00:16,613 --> 01:00:18,397
- Now, let's stop it.
- All right, Sir.
1344
01:00:20,617 --> 01:00:21,487
It was all there.
1345
01:00:22,749 --> 01:00:25,665
The arrogance, the color,
the drama, the contrived plot,
1346
01:00:26,318 --> 01:00:27,275
the close shots...
1347
01:00:28,581 --> 01:00:30,539
everything but the truth.
1348
01:00:31,105 --> 01:00:32,672
[camera shutters clicking]
1349
01:00:32,890 --> 01:00:35,283
Mike Wallace
and his boy George Crile
1350
01:00:35,849 --> 01:00:36,850
in my view...
1351
01:00:37,721 --> 01:00:39,853
are a disgrace
to American journalism.
1352
01:00:40,898 --> 01:00:41,899
[horns blaring]
1353
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:45,076
Anchor: Opening arguments
began today
1354
01:00:45,250 --> 01:00:47,034
in the 120 million-dollar
libel case
1355
01:00:47,208 --> 01:00:48,949
by William Westmoreland
against CBS.
1356
01:00:49,384 --> 01:00:52,257
Many journalists worry
that the immediate accusations
1357
01:00:52,561 --> 01:00:55,434
could damage public trust
in all the media.
1358
01:00:55,695 --> 01:00:57,088
There have also been accusations
1359
01:00:57,262 --> 01:00:59,525
that Wallace only played
the part of a reporter.
1360
01:01:00,091 --> 01:01:01,832
Anchor: TV Guide called it
a smear
1361
01:01:02,006 --> 01:01:04,748
and that triggered a top-level
internal investigation.
1362
01:01:05,487 --> 01:01:07,489
I want to talk
about the Westmoreland case.
1363
01:01:07,707 --> 01:01:09,013
The TV Guide article
1364
01:01:09,230 --> 01:01:10,623
that originally caused
so many questions
1365
01:01:10,797 --> 01:01:12,712
about the whole
Westmoreland case says,
1366
01:01:12,886 --> 01:01:16,194
"George Crile, the producer
of the Westmoreland Hour,
1367
01:01:16,716 --> 01:01:18,892
wrote virtually
all of your questions."
1368
01:01:20,067 --> 01:01:22,591
- True?
- He wrote a lot of questions.
1369
01:01:23,288 --> 01:01:25,377
Don Cowet said "Mike Wallace,
1370
01:01:25,594 --> 01:01:28,162
America's most feared
investigative reporter
1371
01:01:28,554 --> 01:01:31,644
had merely been a puppet
on George Crile's knee."
1372
01:01:32,776 --> 01:01:33,820
Do you think so?
1373
01:01:34,299 --> 01:01:35,866
- What do you think?
- Oh, of course not.
1374
01:01:36,127 --> 01:01:37,258
Is that the way
you usually work,
1375
01:01:37,432 --> 01:01:38,346
with two thirds
of your questions
1376
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:39,478
written by someone else?
1377
01:01:40,784 --> 01:01:42,481
I was at that same time
trying to do
1378
01:01:42,655 --> 01:01:44,962
a good many pieces
on 60 Minutes.
1379
01:01:45,136 --> 01:01:46,528
- And so...
- So why do they need you?
1380
01:01:46,703 --> 01:01:47,878
I mean if somebody else
is writing...
1381
01:01:48,052 --> 01:01:49,314
Well, that's a perfectly
good question.
1382
01:01:49,793 --> 01:01:51,403
Not to have something to do
with the so-called...
1383
01:01:52,143 --> 01:01:53,797
star system or the...
1384
01:01:54,014 --> 01:01:55,494
- Or the... Heavy System.
- You don't want to be thought
1385
01:01:55,668 --> 01:01:57,104
of as an actor who comes in
and reads questions.
1386
01:01:57,322 --> 01:01:58,236
- And I think that you're...
- And you're not.
1387
01:01:59,063 --> 01:02:00,412
- And you're not.
- That's right, okay.
1388
01:02:00,804 --> 01:02:02,022
So, what's the question?
1389
01:02:02,414 --> 01:02:04,938
Doesn't it trouble you
to be called a puppet?
1390
01:02:07,027 --> 01:02:08,463
[camera shutter clicking]
1391
01:02:10,030 --> 01:02:12,598
Winston Churchill
called it "The Black Dog".
1392
01:02:12,903 --> 01:02:15,079
Abe Lincoln was so anguished
by it he cried,
1393
01:02:15,514 --> 01:02:17,690
"I am now the most miserable man
living.
1394
01:02:17,864 --> 01:02:19,866
If what I feel
were equally distributed
1395
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:21,389
to the whole human family,
1396
01:02:21,607 --> 01:02:23,740
there would be not one
cheerful face on earth."
1397
01:02:24,610 --> 01:02:26,264
It is mental depression.
1398
01:02:27,091 --> 01:02:29,049
George: Fear is something
that I've never known.
1399
01:02:29,310 --> 01:02:31,008
I've never been afraid
of anything.
1400
01:02:31,530 --> 01:02:34,968
But here was this damnable
kind of annoying fear that...
1401
01:02:35,534 --> 01:02:38,015
- that maybe I was losing
my grip...
- Well, now wait a minute.
1402
01:02:38,189 --> 01:02:39,886
Former Assistant Secretary
of Defense,
1403
01:02:40,147 --> 01:02:43,237
head of successful company,
a millionaire and...
1404
01:02:44,151 --> 01:02:45,370
then all of a sudden?
1405
01:02:45,979 --> 01:02:47,589
That's right.
These things started to happen.
1406
01:02:47,807 --> 01:02:49,243
Now, you must understand...
1407
01:02:49,766 --> 01:02:52,986
that this is a gradual onset.
It's an insidious thing.
1408
01:02:53,595 --> 01:02:55,162
I got to the point
where this thing
1409
01:02:55,336 --> 01:02:57,512
preyed on my mind
so and I was filled
1410
01:02:57,730 --> 01:02:59,558
with such agonizing fear
that I couldn't...
1411
01:03:00,254 --> 01:03:02,256
hardly bring myself
to answer the phone
1412
01:03:02,474 --> 01:03:04,258
for fear it'd be somebody
I'd have to talk to.
1413
01:03:04,606 --> 01:03:08,349
Total continuing, unrelenting,
unremitting depression,
1414
01:03:08,567 --> 01:03:09,829
24 hours a day.
1415
01:03:11,831 --> 01:03:14,486
Morley: A lot of people who...
who suffer from depression
1416
01:03:15,226 --> 01:03:17,489
say they really had it
1417
01:03:17,750 --> 01:03:20,666
a long time before
it was actually diagnosed.
1418
01:03:20,884 --> 01:03:21,928
Is that true?
1419
01:03:24,844 --> 01:03:28,500
Mike: I had no idea what it was
when it hit me.
1420
01:03:28,935 --> 01:03:30,937
The battle goes
on in Federal court
1421
01:03:31,111 --> 01:03:32,591
over CBS's documentary
1422
01:03:32,809 --> 01:03:34,767
on enemy troop strength
during the Vietnam War.
1423
01:03:34,941 --> 01:03:36,334
[indistinct chatter]
1424
01:03:36,551 --> 01:03:38,336
Mike: I had been asking
nasty questions
1425
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:40,251
of all kinds of people
for some years
1426
01:03:40,425 --> 01:03:42,340
and now you are afraid
that they're gonna start
1427
01:03:42,601 --> 01:03:44,559
asking those questions of you.
1428
01:03:45,125 --> 01:03:47,649
[indistinct chatter]
1429
01:03:47,824 --> 01:03:49,695
Mike: And day, after day,
after day,
1430
01:03:49,913 --> 01:03:52,959
you were called
every dirty name imaginable.
1431
01:03:53,917 --> 01:03:55,570
You begin to wonder
if you haven't...
1432
01:03:55,832 --> 01:03:57,834
done something dishonest.
1433
01:03:59,618 --> 01:04:00,749
You don't want to eat.
1434
01:04:01,315 --> 01:04:02,839
You find it difficult to sleep.
1435
01:04:03,665 --> 01:04:05,798
[sighs] It's never out
of your mind.
1436
01:04:08,018 --> 01:04:09,367
Anchor: The trial
has already produced
1437
01:04:09,541 --> 01:04:11,978
more than 6,000 pages
of testimony...
1438
01:04:12,587 --> 01:04:14,198
Mike: Went on
for years and years.
1439
01:04:16,026 --> 01:04:17,157
Morley Safer:
And you worked through it.
1440
01:04:18,245 --> 01:04:19,768
Mike: I had no idea
what I was doing.
1441
01:04:20,639 --> 01:04:21,945
I would ask a question.
1442
01:04:22,336 --> 01:04:24,208
Couldn't hear
or understand the answer.
1443
01:04:24,556 --> 01:04:26,906
Didn't know what question
was supposed to come next.
1444
01:04:28,299 --> 01:04:30,257
Look, I was ashamed
of having a depression.
1445
01:04:30,431 --> 01:04:32,042
That's one of the things
that's so awful about it.
1446
01:04:32,259 --> 01:04:34,087
But there are some...
there is some blot.
1447
01:04:34,696 --> 01:04:36,220
[elevator dings]
1448
01:04:37,003 --> 01:04:38,483
- Morley Safer:
It was such a dirty word.
- Mike: That's correct.
1449
01:04:39,179 --> 01:04:40,050
That's correct.
1450
01:04:40,789 --> 01:04:41,703
You whispered.
1451
01:04:43,749 --> 01:04:46,404
All you focus on is yourself...
1452
01:04:47,057 --> 01:04:48,449
and how bad you feel.
1453
01:04:49,015 --> 01:04:50,974
You... You're wrapped up
in here...
1454
01:04:51,583 --> 01:04:52,845
in your own petty...
1455
01:04:53,933 --> 01:04:56,022
monumental selfishness...
1456
01:04:56,631 --> 01:04:57,981
self-absorption.
1457
01:04:58,416 --> 01:04:59,721
- [camera shutters clicking]
- [indistinct chatter]
1458
01:04:59,896 --> 01:05:02,115
Mike: Pains and spaciness...
1459
01:05:03,421 --> 01:05:05,814
and feelings of fraud
and feelings of...
1460
01:05:06,337 --> 01:05:08,643
that I was a fake and... and...
1461
01:05:09,644 --> 01:05:11,733
and self-esteem
that just plummeted.
1462
01:05:16,042 --> 01:05:18,088
Did you ever contemplate
suicide, Mr. Pike?
1463
01:05:19,959 --> 01:05:23,006
I... I felt like a dead man.
And I wished I were dead.
1464
01:05:25,182 --> 01:05:27,401
Interviewer:
1465
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:29,099
Oh, I hit bottom, yeah.
1466
01:05:30,274 --> 01:05:32,232
- Interviewer:
- Yes.
1467
01:05:33,364 --> 01:05:34,756
- Interviewer:
- No.
1468
01:05:36,671 --> 01:05:39,283
Interviewer:
1469
01:05:40,110 --> 01:05:42,112
I know that, uh...
1470
01:05:42,764 --> 01:05:44,723
articles have been written
about that but...
1471
01:05:45,115 --> 01:05:47,291
And I... I really don't want
to particularly discuss it.
1472
01:05:50,163 --> 01:05:51,251
Mike: When you don't sleep,
1473
01:05:51,512 --> 01:05:53,558
hour after hour,
night after night,
1474
01:05:53,775 --> 01:05:54,951
day after day...
1475
01:05:56,604 --> 01:05:58,563
and you are obsessed...
1476
01:05:59,825 --> 01:06:02,480
with what a fourth-rate
individual you are,
1477
01:06:02,741 --> 01:06:05,309
you contemplate anything
to get out of it.
1478
01:06:08,399 --> 01:06:09,704
But, thank God...
1479
01:06:10,618 --> 01:06:13,447
there was enough common sense
so that I didn't really...
1480
01:06:14,448 --> 01:06:15,493
try anything.
1481
01:06:17,364 --> 01:06:18,757
Interviewer:
1482
01:06:18,975 --> 01:06:20,498
- Yeah.
- Interviewer:
1483
01:06:24,284 --> 01:06:26,504
[indistinct chatter]
1484
01:06:26,678 --> 01:06:28,158
Interviewer: Did you
think about killing yourself?
1485
01:06:28,332 --> 01:06:30,464
Mike: Of course.
Of course you do.
1486
01:06:31,291 --> 01:06:32,510
To get out of it?
1487
01:06:34,773 --> 01:06:36,209
Damn right.
1488
01:06:36,601 --> 01:06:38,559
That'll be a shock to people.
I mean, Mike Wallace,
1489
01:06:38,777 --> 01:06:40,300
the man on top of the world.
1490
01:06:42,128 --> 01:06:45,088
Morley Safer: All of the fame
and the glory
1491
01:06:45,262 --> 01:06:47,003
and the accolades
and everything,
1492
01:06:47,351 --> 01:06:50,180
really kind of didn't mean
anything to you anymore?
1493
01:06:50,789 --> 01:06:53,009
It was just dust
like everything else?
1494
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:00,059
Mike,
1495
01:07:01,147 --> 01:07:04,063
did you try to commit suicide
at one point?
1496
01:07:04,542 --> 01:07:06,979
I thought very seriously
about it.
1497
01:07:08,328 --> 01:07:09,503
I've never...
1498
01:07:11,288 --> 01:07:13,725
I promise you, anybody
who's in a deep depression...
1499
01:07:16,119 --> 01:07:17,729
thinks about suicide.
1500
01:07:20,471 --> 01:07:21,428
Uh...
1501
01:07:22,299 --> 01:07:23,691
I've never said this before.
1502
01:07:24,518 --> 01:07:25,563
Yeah, I tried.
1503
01:07:26,868 --> 01:07:28,087
And Mary found me.
1504
01:07:34,441 --> 01:07:35,616
I wrote a note...
1505
01:07:37,053 --> 01:07:38,576
and Mary found it.
1506
01:07:39,794 --> 01:07:43,059
She found the pills
that I was taking on the floor.
1507
01:07:44,495 --> 01:07:45,539
I was asleep.
1508
01:07:47,106 --> 01:07:48,064
You got lucky.
1509
01:07:48,629 --> 01:07:50,066
Yes, I did get lucky.
1510
01:07:52,677 --> 01:07:54,722
I don't know why the hell
you asked me that question
1511
01:07:54,896 --> 01:07:56,637
cause other people have...
and I've...
1512
01:07:56,985 --> 01:07:59,292
It's the first time
I've answered it honestly.
1513
01:08:01,294 --> 01:08:02,252
Cut.
1514
01:08:06,169 --> 01:08:08,649
[somber music playing]
1515
01:08:13,741 --> 01:08:15,656
Good evening,
this is the CBS Evening News,
1516
01:08:15,917 --> 01:08:17,136
Dan Rather reporting.
1517
01:08:17,571 --> 01:08:18,964
One of the New York
newspaper headlines reads,
1518
01:08:19,182 --> 01:08:20,835
"Westy Raises White Flag".
1519
01:08:21,140 --> 01:08:22,794
This after William Westmoreland
1520
01:08:23,055 --> 01:08:25,188
suddenly dropped his 120
million-dollar libel suit
1521
01:08:25,362 --> 01:08:26,580
against CBS.
1522
01:08:26,885 --> 01:08:28,539
Westmoreland will get no money
from CBS.
1523
01:08:28,713 --> 01:08:30,628
The documentary
about which he complained
1524
01:08:30,802 --> 01:08:32,064
will remain intact,
1525
01:08:32,325 --> 01:08:33,892
without apology
and without any retraction.
1526
01:08:34,414 --> 01:08:36,634
Reporter: CBS agrees to sign
a statement saying,
1527
01:08:36,808 --> 01:08:39,289
"CBS respects General
Westmoreland's long
1528
01:08:39,506 --> 01:08:40,942
and faithful service
to his country."
1529
01:08:41,117 --> 01:08:43,249
Oh, I consider that I won.
1530
01:08:44,294 --> 01:08:45,556
By... by virtue
of that statement.
1531
01:08:45,773 --> 01:08:47,340
When a plaintiff wants
to drop a lawsuit
1532
01:08:47,514 --> 01:08:48,994
without any money
and without any apology,
1533
01:08:49,168 --> 01:08:51,388
- I think we ought to let him.
- [all laughing]
1534
01:08:51,605 --> 01:08:53,564
The war between the General
and the network
1535
01:08:53,781 --> 01:08:54,739
officially ended today...
1536
01:08:56,219 --> 01:08:58,264
but there are serious questions
that remain.
1537
01:08:58,830 --> 01:09:00,832
I think the greatest risk
we have...
1538
01:09:01,441 --> 01:09:03,922
is that these suits
will intimidate
1539
01:09:04,183 --> 01:09:05,663
many news organizations,
1540
01:09:06,098 --> 01:09:09,928
because the cost
of doing aggressive journalism
1541
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:12,017
is going to be exorbitant.
1542
01:09:12,409 --> 01:09:14,759
What it comes down to,
if you listen to the media,
1543
01:09:14,976 --> 01:09:17,283
is a question of how tough
journalism will be.
1544
01:09:18,197 --> 01:09:20,330
It's what journalists call
the "chilling effect".
1545
01:09:26,031 --> 01:09:28,251
Tell me what you think
of investigative journalism
1546
01:09:28,512 --> 01:09:29,426
these days.
1547
01:09:30,340 --> 01:09:31,602
It's lousy, isn't it?
1548
01:09:32,037 --> 01:09:33,256
- No.
- Well, come on.
1549
01:09:33,604 --> 01:09:34,953
They go after the guy
who runs the pizza place
1550
01:09:35,127 --> 01:09:36,824
in the corner
because he charges too much
1551
01:09:37,042 --> 01:09:38,826
for pepperoni, but they won't go
after the Pentagon
1552
01:09:39,087 --> 01:09:41,394
because things
like the Westmoreland suit
1553
01:09:41,568 --> 01:09:43,962
has scared corporations
to death.
1554
01:09:46,617 --> 01:09:50,664
Last year, American's smoked
582 billion cigarettes.
1555
01:09:50,838 --> 01:09:52,318
The Surgeon General
of the United States
1556
01:09:52,579 --> 01:09:53,885
says that cigarettes
cause lung cancer.
1557
01:09:54,059 --> 01:09:56,061
More deaths,
than the combined total
1558
01:09:56,235 --> 01:09:58,455
of Americans killed each year
by auto, fire,
1559
01:09:58,629 --> 01:10:01,632
and other accidents,
by alcohol, murder, and suicide,
1560
01:10:01,806 --> 01:10:03,460
by AIDS, cocaine, and heroin.
1561
01:10:03,677 --> 01:10:05,984
Do you consider tobacco
a health hazard?
1562
01:10:06,245 --> 01:10:08,291
No, I think
that when the secret
1563
01:10:08,508 --> 01:10:10,075
to cancer is finally discovered,
1564
01:10:10,249 --> 01:10:13,121
that we're gonna find,
that it's brought on by a virus.
1565
01:10:15,733 --> 01:10:17,082
Interviewer: Are we ready?
1566
01:10:17,430 --> 01:10:19,650
You have chronicled the demise
of the cigarette.
1567
01:10:19,954 --> 01:10:21,695
And unfortunately,
one of the biggest scandals
1568
01:10:21,869 --> 01:10:23,001
to hit 60 Minutes,
1569
01:10:23,175 --> 01:10:25,046
was the case
of Jeffrey Wigand.
1570
01:10:30,356 --> 01:10:34,055
Mike: We have been trying
for years, to talk to the CEO
1571
01:10:34,230 --> 01:10:35,318
of the tobacco companies.
1572
01:10:36,014 --> 01:10:38,321
And all of a sudden,
we heard that we were set
1573
01:10:38,538 --> 01:10:40,497
to learn what this insider
had to offer.
1574
01:10:40,801 --> 01:10:42,542
The head of research
and development
1575
01:10:42,847 --> 01:10:45,719
for a major tobacco company
who wants to lay it on the line.
1576
01:10:47,939 --> 01:10:48,940
Dr. Wigand...
1577
01:10:49,723 --> 01:10:53,423
you're the first tobacco
executive
1578
01:10:53,684 --> 01:10:55,599
as far as I know
to come forward.
1579
01:10:55,860 --> 01:10:57,731
The element in cigarettes,
that make them attractive,
1580
01:10:57,992 --> 01:11:00,081
- is the nicotine, right?
- Most certainly.
1581
01:11:00,256 --> 01:11:01,605
And that's what cigarettes
are for?
1582
01:11:01,909 --> 01:11:03,520
It's a delivery device
for nicotine.
1583
01:11:03,694 --> 01:11:04,956
Put it in your mouth,
light it up,
1584
01:11:05,783 --> 01:11:07,828
- and you're gonna get your fix.
- You get your fix.
1585
01:11:08,394 --> 01:11:10,527
Are you worried
about going public this way?
1586
01:11:11,179 --> 01:11:12,224
Somewhat.
1587
01:11:12,572 --> 01:11:14,748
- I had life threats on my kids.
- What?
1588
01:11:15,140 --> 01:11:17,316
It says, "Leave tobacco alone
or else...
1589
01:11:17,795 --> 01:11:19,231
you'll find your kids hurt.
1590
01:11:19,623 --> 01:11:20,841
They're pretty girls now."
1591
01:11:22,190 --> 01:11:23,235
Then why are you doing it?
1592
01:11:26,412 --> 01:11:27,413
Because I believe it's right.
1593
01:11:30,721 --> 01:11:31,896
Okay, we got it?
1594
01:11:33,201 --> 01:11:34,551
Jeffrey Wigand: I just want
to make sure that
1595
01:11:34,725 --> 01:11:36,030
until I get a lot of things
in order...
1596
01:11:36,204 --> 01:11:37,554
Oh, don't worry about that.
1597
01:11:37,815 --> 01:11:39,120
We're not going to go
forward with any kind
1598
01:11:39,295 --> 01:11:40,687
- of broadcasting on this?
- Absolutely.
1599
01:11:43,037 --> 01:11:44,430
Mike: We had the story cold.
1600
01:11:45,083 --> 01:11:46,693
We know that it's true.
1601
01:11:46,954 --> 01:11:49,696
And all of a sudden,
we were told by our lawyers
1602
01:11:49,914 --> 01:11:52,612
that we had induced
the breaking
1603
01:11:52,786 --> 01:11:54,440
of a confidentiality agreement
1604
01:11:54,614 --> 01:11:56,181
between Jeff Wigand
and the Brown
1605
01:11:56,355 --> 01:11:57,530
and Williamson Tobacco Company.
1606
01:11:58,575 --> 01:12:00,054
Don Hewitt: We've got a gun
pointed at our head,
1607
01:12:00,228 --> 01:12:01,447
of 15 billion dollars.
1608
01:12:02,666 --> 01:12:05,277
We may opt to get out
of the line of fire.
1609
01:12:07,410 --> 01:12:09,455
Mike: Put it on the air.
Let them sue.
1610
01:12:10,064 --> 01:12:12,458
I cannot believe that any court
1611
01:12:12,719 --> 01:12:15,722
would have come down
against us.
1612
01:12:15,940 --> 01:12:17,594
In your office or Phil's?
1613
01:12:17,811 --> 01:12:18,899
Interviewer: I'm sure
that this was your argument
1614
01:12:19,073 --> 01:12:20,336
to CBS, to Don.
1615
01:12:20,771 --> 01:12:22,468
They did not want to hear
that argument.
1616
01:12:22,990 --> 01:12:24,905
The management didn't want
to hear that argument.
1617
01:12:26,211 --> 01:12:28,387
- [sighs]
- Interviewer: Even between you
and Don?
1618
01:12:28,996 --> 01:12:31,259
Mike: Don didn't want
to hear it.
1619
01:12:31,434 --> 01:12:33,131
Yes, we did! You agreed!
1620
01:12:33,349 --> 01:12:35,176
No, I just disagree
with you totally.
1621
01:12:35,655 --> 01:12:38,484
Mike: He was on
the company's side
and I and a couple of others...
1622
01:12:39,050 --> 01:12:39,877
were not.
1623
01:12:40,791 --> 01:12:44,185
The sense is that you lost
1624
01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:46,666
your dedication
to getting the truth out.
1625
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:49,234
That happened at one point
for a period
1626
01:12:49,452 --> 01:12:51,628
of about 12 to 15 hours.
1627
01:12:53,804 --> 01:12:55,196
And that was all of it.
1628
01:12:55,458 --> 01:12:57,460
We at 60 Minutesare proud
of working here
1629
01:12:57,677 --> 01:12:58,983
and at CBS News,
1630
01:12:59,549 --> 01:13:02,160
and so we were dismayed
that the management at CBS
1631
01:13:02,334 --> 01:13:05,250
had seen fit to give in
to perceived threats
1632
01:13:05,468 --> 01:13:08,514
of legal action against us
by a tobacco industry giant.
1633
01:13:08,906 --> 01:13:11,169
Woman: I can't believe that
there wasn't something else
1634
01:13:11,387 --> 01:13:12,562
that you could have done.
Is there not?
1635
01:13:12,736 --> 01:13:14,259
No, no.
1636
01:13:14,607 --> 01:13:16,870
Mike went as far as you...
Mike went further than I did.
1637
01:13:17,088 --> 01:13:19,395
-Mike raised hell about it.
- 60 Minuteshas been to court
1638
01:13:19,612 --> 01:13:22,702
or has been sued,
not infrequently over the years
1639
01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:23,877
and we've never lost one.
1640
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:26,184
Because we've been willing
to go to court.
1641
01:13:26,402 --> 01:13:29,230
This is the first time
that they said no.
1642
01:13:29,448 --> 01:13:31,842
Today, it was revealed
that CBS's 60 Minutes
1643
01:13:32,059 --> 01:13:34,192
had decided to back off
a tough investigative report
1644
01:13:34,410 --> 01:13:35,759
on the powerful
tobacco industry.
1645
01:13:35,933 --> 01:13:37,238
...raising new questions
tonight about
1646
01:13:37,413 --> 01:13:39,502
corporate power
and what's acceptable
1647
01:13:39,676 --> 01:13:41,155
in journalism, what's not.
1648
01:13:41,417 --> 01:13:42,722
This is part of what's so sad
1649
01:13:42,940 --> 01:13:44,855
because Mike Wallace
and Don Hewitt
1650
01:13:45,290 --> 01:13:47,988
are pioneers
of aggressive investigative
1651
01:13:48,162 --> 01:13:49,381
television journalism
1652
01:13:49,642 --> 01:13:52,515
and the fact
that they are intimidated
1653
01:13:52,993 --> 01:13:54,430
is very disturbing.
1654
01:13:56,214 --> 01:13:58,390
Woman: Why don't you stand up
and say "I'm Mike Wallace.
1655
01:13:58,825 --> 01:14:00,348
I've got a reputation.
1656
01:14:00,566 --> 01:14:02,829
Either this piece goes on air
or I'm walking?"
1657
01:14:04,004 --> 01:14:05,832
Mike: If I'm outside, that piec
would never...
1658
01:14:06,442 --> 01:14:08,226
Would never gotten
on the air, period.
1659
01:14:10,054 --> 01:14:11,969
CBS Management
wouldn't let us broadcast
1660
01:14:12,186 --> 01:14:13,927
our original story,
and our interview
1661
01:14:14,101 --> 01:14:15,102
with Jeffrey Wigand.
1662
01:14:15,886 --> 01:14:17,496
But now, things have changed.
1663
01:14:18,932 --> 01:14:20,934
Last week, the Wall Street
Journal got hold of,
1664
01:14:21,195 --> 01:14:24,547
and published a confidential
deposition Wigand gave
1665
01:14:24,721 --> 01:14:25,809
in a Mississippi case.
1666
01:14:26,810 --> 01:14:29,073
And while a lawsuit
is still a possibility,
1667
01:14:29,290 --> 01:14:32,076
not putting Jeffrey Wigand's
story on60 Minutes,
1668
01:14:32,293 --> 01:14:33,381
no longer is.
1669
01:14:34,905 --> 01:14:37,864
The hope would be
that no matter who owns
1670
01:14:38,125 --> 01:14:39,823
the network
or who owns the paper...
1671
01:14:42,303 --> 01:14:43,566
they'll have the courage
1672
01:14:44,088 --> 01:14:45,916
and the sense of obligation
1673
01:14:46,830 --> 01:14:48,527
to let the truth be told.
1674
01:14:48,701 --> 01:14:51,095
You very carefully said
the hope, the confidence?
1675
01:14:55,665 --> 01:14:56,753
The hope.
1676
01:14:59,146 --> 01:15:00,452
People ask why I didn't quit.
1677
01:15:01,497 --> 01:15:04,282
I really do believe
that I would've walked away...
1678
01:15:04,848 --> 01:15:06,980
and they would have said,
"Well, it's a pity.
1679
01:15:07,764 --> 01:15:09,113
Well, he was getting old,
anyway."
1680
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:12,856
They would've said,
"Fine. So long."
1681
01:15:14,074 --> 01:15:15,206
Crew member: Take ten.
1682
01:15:16,773 --> 01:15:17,991
Sound goes by.
1683
01:15:19,079 --> 01:15:21,473
- It was my first...
- I'll ask the question please.
1684
01:15:21,647 --> 01:15:23,040
I beg your pardon.
1685
01:15:23,519 --> 01:15:26,652
Tell me this. You really said,
"It has been my experience
1686
01:15:26,826 --> 01:15:29,089
that one cannot
in any shape or form
1687
01:15:29,394 --> 01:15:32,397
depend on human relations
for any lasting reward.
1688
01:15:32,571 --> 01:15:35,313
It is only work
that truly satisfies?"
1689
01:15:35,879 --> 01:15:38,272
Yes, that stands by you.
1690
01:15:38,708 --> 01:15:40,274
It isn't that many people
don't...
1691
01:15:41,014 --> 01:15:43,103
um, add a great deal
to your life...
1692
01:15:43,887 --> 01:15:46,454
and I'm talking
about as a permanent thing.
1693
01:15:48,195 --> 01:15:51,024
That's the least disappointing
relationship you can have.
1694
01:15:51,503 --> 01:15:53,331
- Is work?
- Mm-hmm.
1695
01:15:54,114 --> 01:15:55,681
And really, that's the way
you've lived your life.
1696
01:15:56,987 --> 01:15:58,554
Unfortunately, yes.
1697
01:16:01,382 --> 01:16:03,994
Contract is running down.
Everybody wants to know
1698
01:16:04,168 --> 01:16:05,561
- if you're going to retire.
- Contract is not running down.
1699
01:16:05,735 --> 01:16:07,214
Contract will be up
a year from now.
1700
01:16:07,388 --> 01:16:08,955
Well, that's running down
in my book.
1701
01:16:09,129 --> 01:16:10,870
Are you going to quit
or are you going to keep going?
1702
01:16:11,088 --> 01:16:12,611
Larry King: Mike Wallace,
the stories keep appearing
1703
01:16:12,785 --> 01:16:14,221
that you're cutting back.
1704
01:16:14,439 --> 01:16:16,615
How much so and how much longer
with the program?
1705
01:16:16,789 --> 01:16:18,530
I don't think it's any
of your business, Larry.
1706
01:16:18,704 --> 01:16:19,966
- The, uh...
- [all laughing]
1707
01:16:20,184 --> 01:16:21,925
Mike could slow down.
Mike could stop.
1708
01:16:22,316 --> 01:16:24,449
Mike can do anything
he wants to do,
1709
01:16:24,710 --> 01:16:26,625
and yet he continues to work
just as hard.
1710
01:16:26,843 --> 01:16:28,192
Why?
1711
01:16:28,627 --> 01:16:31,804
Why still the same need,
and push, and drive?
1712
01:16:32,500 --> 01:16:35,547
Why... What does he think
he hasn't accomplished?
1713
01:16:37,244 --> 01:16:38,550
Interviewer: Tell me
your dreams, Mike.
1714
01:16:40,117 --> 01:16:41,684
If I were your psychiatrist,
and I said,
1715
01:16:41,858 --> 01:16:43,250
"Did you dream last night?
1716
01:16:43,424 --> 01:16:44,730
Or what's the last dream
you remember?"
1717
01:16:46,123 --> 01:16:47,167
Where am I?
1718
01:16:48,299 --> 01:16:49,126
Where am I?
1719
01:16:50,214 --> 01:16:51,345
Mike?
1720
01:16:52,172 --> 01:16:52,956
Mike Wallace?
1721
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:55,088
What are you doing here?
1722
01:16:55,654 --> 01:16:57,613
Why, I'm interviewing you.
We're on television.
1723
01:16:58,831 --> 01:17:00,964
I'm giving you a chance
to defend yourself
1724
01:17:01,138 --> 01:17:02,487
before all my viewers.
1725
01:17:04,532 --> 01:17:06,404
- Defend myself?
- [all laughing]
1726
01:17:06,709 --> 01:17:10,277
- I mean, what... what did I do?
- What are you trying to prove?
1727
01:17:11,496 --> 01:17:13,672
Prove? Nothing!
1728
01:17:14,151 --> 01:17:16,544
- [all laughing]
- Then why don't you quit?
1729
01:17:20,505 --> 01:17:21,549
Mike: Father Kirsch...
1730
01:17:22,246 --> 01:17:24,465
I want to read you
what Susan Sandoval
1731
01:17:24,770 --> 01:17:25,771
says about you.
1732
01:17:26,293 --> 01:17:28,426
She was 15 years old
when she woke up
1733
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:30,341
with Father Robert
Kirsch's tongue
1734
01:17:30,515 --> 01:17:31,559
in her mouth...
1735
01:17:32,952 --> 01:17:35,128
- You guys are bastards.
- ...in a small New Mexico town,
1736
01:17:35,694 --> 01:17:37,304
she lost her virginity that day.
1737
01:17:37,609 --> 01:17:39,698
Now, why would she say that
about you, Father Kirsch,
1738
01:17:40,133 --> 01:17:41,439
if it were not so?
1739
01:17:45,748 --> 01:17:46,923
Why would she say that?
1740
01:17:47,880 --> 01:17:49,316
Interviewer:
1741
01:17:51,710 --> 01:17:54,321
Do I worry about death?
I'm getting closer.
1742
01:17:54,582 --> 01:17:56,759
I think about it
every now and then, I confess.
1743
01:17:57,020 --> 01:17:58,543
Look, when you're 75
and you see people
1744
01:17:58,717 --> 01:18:00,719
around you dropping, sure.
1745
01:18:02,155 --> 01:18:04,418
How much
in the retirement packages
1746
01:18:04,592 --> 01:18:06,638
of the people who have voted
okay on this,
1747
01:18:07,030 --> 01:18:09,554
- how much are they getting?
- Civilian: Answer the question.
1748
01:18:10,381 --> 01:18:13,210
Mike: It's a very
simple question, Mr. Silverman.
1749
01:18:13,384 --> 01:18:15,734
Why are you so reluctant...
1750
01:18:15,908 --> 01:18:17,170
- Why are you so reluctant...
- Aide: Excuse me. You gotta
get over here, Mike.
1751
01:18:17,344 --> 01:18:19,042
Go on, just get right over here.
1752
01:18:20,739 --> 01:18:25,526
You're kind of the last man
standing in this line of work
1753
01:18:25,788 --> 01:18:27,354
- of your generation.
- [Mike scoffs]
1754
01:18:28,355 --> 01:18:29,748
Morley: You have some
tough questions left?
1755
01:18:30,531 --> 01:18:31,837
Mike: Sure.
1756
01:18:32,272 --> 01:18:34,710
- Morley: Haven't run out?
- [birds chirping]
1757
01:18:40,803 --> 01:18:42,152
You're in good shape, yes.
1758
01:18:45,024 --> 01:18:46,199
- That's remarkable.
- You, too.
1759
01:18:47,461 --> 01:18:49,725
- You too, yeah, really.
- Well, for...
1760
01:18:50,682 --> 01:18:52,162
87.
1761
01:18:52,597 --> 01:18:54,642
Could somebody please tell me
what's going on with the...
1762
01:18:54,904 --> 01:18:57,036
Crew member: It's not working.
They're doing a test for you.
1763
01:18:57,210 --> 01:18:59,212
- What's that?
- Crew member: They're doing
a sound test before we...
1764
01:18:59,386 --> 01:19:00,518
I can barely hear.
1765
01:19:01,258 --> 01:19:03,390
I'm deaf. I can't see very well.
1766
01:19:05,131 --> 01:19:06,002
- Oh!
- [claps hands]
1767
01:19:06,437 --> 01:19:07,568
There we go.
1768
01:19:08,134 --> 01:19:11,529
Corruption is every place
in Russia.
1769
01:19:12,791 --> 01:19:14,401
To get anything done...
1770
01:19:16,186 --> 01:19:16,969
money.
1771
01:19:17,143 --> 01:19:18,536
Is Russia a democracy?
1772
01:19:18,710 --> 01:19:20,277
[speaking in Russian]
1773
01:19:21,060 --> 01:19:23,976
In order to be a journalist
today in Russia...
1774
01:19:25,891 --> 01:19:27,327
do you have to, in effect...
1775
01:19:29,242 --> 01:19:32,202
bow the head
and bend the knee to Putin?
1776
01:19:32,855 --> 01:19:33,856
[chuckles]
1777
01:19:34,682 --> 01:19:37,294
[speaking in Russian]
1778
01:19:45,389 --> 01:19:48,348
Your people run
these news channels.
1779
01:19:48,740 --> 01:19:52,048
One channel even begins
each newscast with,
1780
01:19:52,657 --> 01:19:55,094
"What did Putin do today?
1781
01:19:55,268 --> 01:19:56,661
Who did he see?
1782
01:19:57,053 --> 01:19:59,055
What does..."
and so forth and so forth.
1783
01:19:59,229 --> 01:20:02,493
[speaking in Russian]
1784
01:20:09,326 --> 01:20:10,327
Where?
1785
01:20:11,023 --> 01:20:13,417
Your English is really very,
very good, isn't it?
1786
01:20:14,331 --> 01:20:16,289
You understand every word
that I'm saying.
1787
01:20:17,725 --> 01:20:19,466
You don't need the translation.
1788
01:20:20,293 --> 01:20:22,992
What would you like to say
to the American people?
1789
01:20:24,297 --> 01:20:28,127
All the best to every family
in America.
1790
01:20:33,393 --> 01:20:34,394
Good luck.
1791
01:20:39,965 --> 01:20:43,012
Do you feel it's time to...
1792
01:20:44,013 --> 01:20:45,797
maybe pack it in and reflect?
1793
01:20:46,232 --> 01:20:47,930
- Or is...
- Reflect about what?
1794
01:20:48,713 --> 01:20:49,757
- All of...
- Gimme a break.
1795
01:20:50,236 --> 01:20:51,542
What am I gonna reflect about?
1796
01:20:52,369 --> 01:20:53,979
About the fact
that I'm not workin'?
1797
01:20:56,982 --> 01:21:00,420
- Do you hate getting old?
- No, I feel good.
1798
01:21:01,769 --> 01:21:04,337
I feel fine.
I don't hate getting old.
1799
01:21:04,947 --> 01:21:06,600
- You still work...
- I don't even hate to die.
1800
01:21:06,774 --> 01:21:08,472
- I don't give a damn.
- What do you mean?
1801
01:21:08,646 --> 01:21:09,777
I don't care.
1802
01:21:11,344 --> 01:21:12,780
You mean when your toes turn up.
1803
01:21:13,129 --> 01:21:14,130
That's it.
1804
01:21:14,957 --> 01:21:16,697
That don't ever bother me.
1805
01:21:18,482 --> 01:21:20,353
And I want you to give
if you will the answer
1806
01:21:20,571 --> 01:21:22,703
- to just one more question.
- Frank Lloyd Wright: Go ahead.
1807
01:21:23,269 --> 01:21:25,271
Do you believe
in your personal immortality?
1808
01:21:26,098 --> 01:21:29,972
Yes. To me,
young has no meaning.
1809
01:21:30,146 --> 01:21:33,497
It's something you can do
nothing about, nothing at all.
1810
01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:35,891
But youth is a quality.
1811
01:21:36,152 --> 01:21:38,632
And if you have it,
you never lose it.
1812
01:21:39,198 --> 01:21:40,547
And when they put you
into the box,
1813
01:21:40,765 --> 01:21:42,071
that's your immortality.
1814
01:21:43,942 --> 01:21:45,683
If I die tomorrow...
1815
01:21:46,597 --> 01:21:49,905
I've accomplished far more
than I ever thought
I was going to accomplish.
1816
01:21:50,296 --> 01:21:51,994
And far more than anyone else
ever thought
1817
01:21:52,168 --> 01:21:55,649
I was going to accomplish.
So, I'm proud of myself...
1818
01:21:56,389 --> 01:21:57,825
for hanging in there,
1819
01:21:58,130 --> 01:22:02,047
persevering, working
unbelievably hard and winning.
1820
01:22:02,961 --> 01:22:05,398
Winning the game
of broadcast journalism.
1821
01:22:05,833 --> 01:22:06,965
I've won it.
1822
01:22:07,835 --> 01:22:10,447
Anchor: Do you understand
why some people feel...
1823
01:22:11,100 --> 01:22:13,580
such disaffection
from the mainstream media?
1824
01:22:14,407 --> 01:22:18,237
Oh, yeah, no.
They think we're wild-eyed...
1825
01:22:19,064 --> 01:22:21,153
commies, liberals.
1826
01:22:21,806 --> 01:22:22,763
Yes?
1827
01:22:23,286 --> 01:22:24,330
That's what they think.
1828
01:22:24,591 --> 01:22:26,419
We're in a fairly cynical,
1829
01:22:26,593 --> 01:22:28,465
almost hostile
public environment.
1830
01:22:29,379 --> 01:22:32,512
Nobody believes anything
anymore, to generalize.
1831
01:22:33,426 --> 01:22:35,298
And it's very important
that they believe us.
1832
01:22:35,515 --> 01:22:37,517
And if they don't believe us,
we're useless.
1833
01:22:37,822 --> 01:22:40,477
Is this nation getting better
or getting worse?
1834
01:22:40,781 --> 01:22:42,783
Oh, I think this nation
is getting worse.
1835
01:22:46,831 --> 01:22:49,268
We're not as straightforward...
1836
01:22:50,530 --> 01:22:52,184
a people, as we used to be.
1837
01:22:52,445 --> 01:22:55,057
Interviewer: Do you think
the public is less interested
1838
01:22:55,274 --> 01:22:58,408
in news than it used to be?
Less trusting what they hear?
1839
01:22:59,191 --> 01:23:01,237
Mike: I think they're probably
less trusting you know,
1840
01:23:01,411 --> 01:23:03,021
because there are
so many voices...
1841
01:23:03,717 --> 01:23:06,459
- That is not fair.
- Mike: So many voices,
so many...
1842
01:23:07,112 --> 01:23:08,070
who do you trust?
1843
01:23:09,027 --> 01:23:10,855
Anchor: Whether it's too much
or made up,
1844
01:23:11,073 --> 01:23:12,596
all of this strikes
at the heart
1845
01:23:12,770 --> 01:23:14,250
of the most important
product journalists
1846
01:23:14,424 --> 01:23:16,513
have to offer:
their credibility.
1847
01:23:16,904 --> 01:23:18,906
Anchor: Our job
is to ask those questions
1848
01:23:19,081 --> 01:23:20,908
and you know something,
this is not new.
1849
01:23:21,170 --> 01:23:22,649
This is the relationship
we have
1850
01:23:22,867 --> 01:23:24,347
with all levels of power.
1851
01:23:24,608 --> 01:23:28,003
A narrow and distorted picture
of America often emerges
1852
01:23:28,220 --> 01:23:29,526
from the televised news.
1853
01:23:30,396 --> 01:23:33,573
The views do not represent
the views of America.
1854
01:23:33,965 --> 01:23:36,272
Everybody back there.
The fake news media,
1855
01:23:36,489 --> 01:23:38,187
- look at all of them.
- [audience cheering]
1856
01:23:39,275 --> 01:23:40,928
The government
at its highest levels
1857
01:23:41,364 --> 01:23:42,669
with its powers over us,
1858
01:23:43,018 --> 01:23:45,455
criticizes us so strongly,
so emotionally
1859
01:23:45,629 --> 01:23:47,935
and with such
self-serving purposes.
1860
01:23:49,241 --> 01:23:50,851
The temptation
is for television news
1861
01:23:51,069 --> 01:23:52,940
to go easy,
to duck controversies,
1862
01:23:53,115 --> 01:23:55,726
stay out of trouble,
please the government.
1863
01:23:56,596 --> 01:23:57,641
But that would be fatal.
1864
01:23:58,381 --> 01:23:59,773
Or as Walter said,
1865
01:24:00,078 --> 01:24:02,080
"We're not defending
a precious right of our own,
1866
01:24:02,298 --> 01:24:03,908
of freedom of speech and press.
1867
01:24:04,387 --> 01:24:06,867
What we're defending
is the people's right to know.
1868
01:24:13,483 --> 01:24:15,267
- [camera beeps]
- [birds chirping]
1869
01:24:18,662 --> 01:24:19,793
Mike: You ever think
about an epitaph?
1870
01:24:20,664 --> 01:24:21,708
Epitaph?
1871
01:24:24,102 --> 01:24:26,235
Never gave it
a moment's thought.
1872
01:24:26,539 --> 01:24:27,497
Mike: Give it a moment.
1873
01:24:33,590 --> 01:24:37,333
I've had a fine, various,
not so fine life.
1874
01:24:38,029 --> 01:24:41,337
And there comes a time
when you say, "What's left?"
1875
01:24:42,860 --> 01:24:43,774
It's time to go.
1876
01:24:45,950 --> 01:24:49,910
Interviewer:
1877
01:24:50,215 --> 01:24:51,173
Uh...
1878
01:24:52,957 --> 01:24:54,132
The fellow who...
1879
01:24:54,959 --> 01:24:56,265
The fellow who did...
1880
01:24:57,440 --> 01:24:59,703
The fellow who investigated,
who muckraked,
1881
01:24:59,877 --> 01:25:02,532
who asked some tough questions
and who...
1882
01:25:03,272 --> 01:25:04,316
Uh, bullshit.
1883
01:25:05,578 --> 01:25:06,666
Come on. I don't know.
1884
01:25:07,841 --> 01:25:09,452
Interviewer:
1885
01:25:09,887 --> 01:25:11,410
Well, fine,
but I don't have to answer them.
1886
01:25:11,584 --> 01:25:13,020
- I think it's a lousy question.
- Well, you're a legend!
1887
01:25:13,195 --> 01:25:14,413
I think it's a lousy question.
1888
01:25:14,935 --> 01:25:18,243
Interviewer:
1889
01:25:20,332 --> 01:25:22,073
Yeah. Tough, but fair.
1890
01:25:22,856 --> 01:25:23,857
[grunts]
1891
01:25:25,468 --> 01:25:27,165
The guy who enjoyed immensely
what he did.
1892
01:25:27,383 --> 01:25:29,733
Did it honestly,
straightforwardly,
1893
01:25:30,255 --> 01:25:32,301
perhaps, moved the dialogue
ahead...
1894
01:25:32,779 --> 01:25:34,259
that much in certain areas.
1895
01:25:36,305 --> 01:25:37,828
Used his life sensibly.
1896
01:25:41,745 --> 01:25:43,138
Basically, a decent guy.
1897
01:25:44,704 --> 01:25:46,271
That's... that would be fine.
1898
01:25:48,926 --> 01:25:50,884
- Arthur: Epitaph.
- [crickets chirping]
1899
01:25:51,624 --> 01:25:53,583
I'll leave the first thought
that occurs to me is,
1900
01:25:53,974 --> 01:25:55,367
he worked awful hard.
1901
01:25:56,499 --> 01:25:57,456
Mike: And you're still working.
1902
01:25:58,153 --> 01:26:00,459
Arthur: Oh, yeah.
Life without work to me
1903
01:26:00,633 --> 01:26:02,809
would be incredible,
unbelievable.
1904
01:26:03,070 --> 01:26:04,289
I couldn't imagine it.
1905
01:26:06,944 --> 01:26:08,032
Like breathing.
1906
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:10,121
And what did he work for?
1907
01:26:12,776 --> 01:26:14,734
Oh, some little...
1908
01:26:16,301 --> 01:26:17,302
moment of truth.
1909
01:26:17,737 --> 01:26:18,651
[crickets chirping]
1910
01:26:30,707 --> 01:26:32,143
Mike: All right.
If that's it, then.
1911
01:26:32,317 --> 01:26:34,798
Crew member: Oh, yeah.
He can hear us.
1912
01:26:35,364 --> 01:26:36,191
Ready?
1913
01:26:44,286 --> 01:26:46,201
Mike: Are we goin'? Cut a sec.
1914
01:26:52,642 --> 01:26:54,731
All right, one last run,
and that is it.
1915
01:26:57,647 --> 01:27:00,606
If I put this on the air,
I'm gonna look like a damn fool.
1916
01:27:00,867 --> 01:27:02,956
You deserve to look
like a damn fool
1917
01:27:03,130 --> 01:27:04,349
at least once.
1918
01:27:14,403 --> 01:27:16,187
- Johnny Carson: What do you
make a week?
- I'd be ashamed
1919
01:27:16,361 --> 01:27:17,406
- to tell you.
- [chuckles]
1920
01:27:17,623 --> 01:27:19,016
You better learn
to sing and dance.
1921
01:27:19,190 --> 01:27:20,147
Yeah. [chuckles]
1922
01:27:21,584 --> 01:27:23,063
Man: You got it, perfect.
All right, good.
1923
01:27:30,070 --> 01:27:31,028
Man: Seven rolling, take one.
1924
01:27:40,342 --> 01:27:42,387
Oh, yeah. You're smiling,
why are you smiling?
1925
01:27:42,561 --> 01:27:45,912
I feel something is coming up
that I'm going to get angry.
1926
01:27:55,618 --> 01:27:56,619
Man: Seven rolling, take one.
1927
01:28:05,584 --> 01:28:07,891
Man: Roll 12 A, sound, take 11.
1928
01:28:22,949 --> 01:28:25,561
When I see people saying
purposely negative things,
1929
01:28:26,126 --> 01:28:28,259
they have problems, not me,
they have problems.
1930
01:28:28,738 --> 01:28:29,956
Man: We just ran out of film.
1931
01:29:01,031 --> 01:29:02,685
- You go from 40...
- [phone rings]
1932
01:29:03,076 --> 01:29:04,991
- Oh, we forgot to turn off
the phone.
- It's all right. Yes.
1933
01:29:05,252 --> 01:29:06,428
[Barbara laughs]
1934
01:29:06,819 --> 01:29:08,299
- You know something?
- Barbara: Mm-hmm?
1935
01:29:08,647 --> 01:29:11,998
I like you a lot better than
I remembered feeling about you.
1936
01:29:12,564 --> 01:29:15,219
I hate you with a venomous
passion right now.
1937
01:29:15,393 --> 01:29:16,786
- That's a good place to stop.
- [Barbra sniffs]
1938
01:29:16,960 --> 01:29:17,961
[beeps]
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