The Movement and the “Madman” on PBS/KOCE

[Ma D'mann]

According to the second interview (at ~30 minute mark) in this episode of Letters and Politics, the 1960's peace movement was (crucially?) more successful at keeping the peace (nuclearwise) than previously known.

kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-march-23-2023/

PBS will air (and hopefully with several re-airings) the documentary discussed in that interview called The MOVEMENT and the “MADMAN” at 9pm on Tuesday (on KOCE and perhaps others) as part of their "American Experience" series.

www.movementandthemadman.com/

Tuesday March 28, 2023 at 9pm on KOCE (and streaming March 29?)

This documentary could help inspire and motivate today's calls for peace now that the world seems closer to nuclear armageddon than ever.

PEACE

[Brian]

Thank you so much, Ma D'mann!  I'm recording the documentary Tuesday night.

I enjoyed the interview of filmmaker Stephen Talbot on KPFA that you linked, especially the part of the story that he had to leave out of the film because of time constraints.  I either don't remember or never knew that Nixon bombed Cambodia before 1970, or that Kissinger's aide Morton Halperin leaked the news to the New York Times, which ran a front page story about the secret bombing in May 1969.  Halperin had quit his National Security Council post in protest.  That led to the Nixon administration's first illegal wiretap, followed by the Plumbers in 1971 and Watergate in 1972 -- it was the genesis of his downfall.

We protest yet seldom get to see the ripples that emanate from our actions, never mind any possible tangible results in the future.  And then there's Morton Halperin.

[Oss Rae]

I was listening to that Letters & Politics when it aired and had been meaning to post it here, but you beat me to it. Letters & Politics tends to be interesting. I need to go back and replay that installment.