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William Sloane Coffin and Jim Bowman discuss history, religion, and the impact of the Vietnam War. Content Warning: This conversation includes racially and/or culturally derogatory language and/or negative depictions of Black and Indigenous people of color, women, and LGBTQI+ individuals. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion.
Discussing Vietnam and interviewing Robert Scheer.
Discussing Thailand and interviewing journalist Louis Lomax. Includes passage from book.
Discussing "How the Good Guys Finally Won : Notes from an Impeachment Summer" and interviewing Jimmy Breslin.
Members of John F. Kennedy's administration are featured in David Halberstam's book, "The Best and the Brightest". Halberstam points out the title of his book is actually irony because the men were not the best or the brightest but rather as a result of their bad decisions, America got tangled up in the Vietnam War.