List of Firing Line episodes (1966–1969)

Firing Line is an American public affairs show founded and hosted by conservative William F. Buckley Jr.

This is a list of episodes that aired originally from 1966 to 1969.

Episodes

Season 1 (1966) No.overall No. inseasonTitleGuestTaping date 1 1 "Poverty: Hopeful or Hopeless?" Michael Harrington April 4, 1966 2 2 "Prayer in the Public Schools" James Pike April 6, 1966 3 3 "Vietnam: Pull Out? Stay In? Escalate?" Norman Thomas April 8, 1966 4 4 "Capital Punishment" Steve Allen April 11, 1966 5 5 "Where Does the Civil-Rights Movement Go Now?" James Farmer April 18, 1966 6 6 "Should the House Committee on Un-American Activities Be Abolished?" John Henry Faulk April 21, 1966 7 7 "The Prevailing Bias" David Susskind May 2, 1966 8 8 "The New Frontier: The Great Society" Richard N. Goodwin May 6, 1966 9 9 "Civil Disobedience: How Far Can It Go?" Dick Gregory May 16, 1966 10 10 "McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future" Leo Cherne May 16, 1966 11 11 "Vietnam: What Next?" Staughton Lynd May 23, 1966 12 12 "The Future of States' Rights" Harry Golden May 23, 1966 13 13 "The Future of the Republican Party" Clare Boothe Luce May 26, 1966 14 14 "The Future of the American Theater" David Merrick June 6, 1966 15 15 "Bobby Kennedy and Other Mixed Blessings" Murray Kempton June 6, 1966 16 16 "The Future of Conservatism" Barry Goldwater June 9, 1966 17 17 "Public Power vs. Private Power" Albert Gore Sr. June 9, 1966 18 18 "Communists and Civil Liberties" Joseph L. Rauh Jr. June 10, 1966 19 19 "The Role of the Church Militant" William Sloane Coffin June 27, 1966 20 20 "Why Are the Students Unhappy?" Theodore Bikel June 27, 1966 21 21 "Senator Dodd and General Klein" Thomas J. Dodd August 22, 1966 22 22 "Extremism" Dore Schary August 22, 1966 23 23 "Civil Rights and Foreign Policy" Floyd McKissick August 22, 1966 24 24 "The President and the Press" Pierre Salinger September 12, 1966 25 25 "Are Public Schools Necessary?" Paul Goodman September 12, 1966 26 26 "The Playboy Philosophy" Hugh Hefner September 12, 1966 27 27 "Do Liberals Make Good Republicans?" John Chafee September 15, 1966 28 28 "Should Labor Power Be Reduced?" Victor Riesel September 19, 1966 29 29 "Communist China and the United Nations" Max Lerner September 19, 1966 30 30 "National Priorities and Disarmament" Seymour Melman October 3, 1966 31 31 "LBJ and Evans and Novak" Rowland Evans October 3, 1966 32 32 "Civilian Review Board: Yes or No?" Theodore W. Kheel October 7, 1966 33 33 "Criminals and the Supreme Court" Aryeh Neier November 7, 1966 34 34 "Open Housing" John A. Morsell November 7, 1966 35 35 "The Failure of Organized Religion" Paul Weiss November 14, 1966 36 36 "What to Do with the American Teenager?" Murray the K November 14, 1966 37 37 "Elections 1966 and 1968" Robert Novak November 21, 1966 38 38 "Sports, Persecution, and Christians" Arnold Lunn November 28, 1966 39 39 "The Warren Report: Fact or Fiction?" Mark Lane December 1, 1966

Season 2 (1967) No.overall No. inseasonTitleGuest(s)Taping date 40 1 "Rhodesia, the UN, and Southern Africa" Conor Cruise O'Brien January 12, 1967 41 2 "LBJ and the Intellectuals" Hans Morgenthau January 12, 1967 42 3 "Academic Freedom and Berkeley" Harold Taylor January 16, 1967 43 4 "Presidential Politics" F. Clifton White January 16, 1967 44 5 "The Role of the Advocate" F. Lee Bailey January 19, 1967 45 6 "The Future of the UN" Francis T. P. Plimpton January 19, 1967 46 7 "Do the States Have a Chance?" Jesse M. Unruh March 6, 1967 47 8 "LBJ and Vietnam" March 6, 1967 48 9 "Politics and the Press" Tom Wicker March 7, 1967 49 10 "Black Power" Nat Hentoff March 7, 1967 50 11 "Is There a Role for a Third Party?" Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. March 8, 1967 51 12 "U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia" Clayton Fritchey March 8, 1967 52 13 "Do We Have Anything Left to Fear from Socialism?" Sidney Hook March 9, 1967 53 14 "The World of LSD" Timothy Leary April 10, 1967 54 15 "Censorship and the Production Code" Otto Preminger April 10, 1967 55 16 "The Regular in Politics" Carmine DeSapio May 1, 1967 56 17 "How to Protest" Dwight Macdonald May 1, 1967 57 18 "The Liberals and LBJ" John P. Roche May 15, 1967 58 19 "The Poverty Problem" Joseph S. Clark Jr. May 15, 1967 59 20 "Is Ramparts Magazine Un-American?" Robert Scheer June 26, 1967 60 21 "Vietnam Protests" Benjamin Spock June 26, 1967 61 22 "The Mideast Crisis" Alfred Lilienthal June 29, 1967 62 23 "The Decline of Anti-Communism " Fred Schwarz June 29, 1967 63 24 "Is It Possible to Be a Good Governor? " Ronald Reagan July 6, 1967 64 25 "Is the World Funny?" Groucho Marx July 7, 1967 65 26 "Vietnam" Robert Vaughn July 8, 1967 66 27 "The Ghetto" Kenneth B. Clark August 28, 1967 67 28 "Municipal Government" Sam Yorty August 28, 1967 68 29 "A Foreign Policy for the GOP" Charles H. Percy September 11, 1967 69 30 "The Future of the GOP" Richard Nixon September 14, 1967 70 31 "Vietnam and the GOP" Thruston Ballard Morton September 25, 1967 71 32 "Medicare" Wilbur J. Cohen September 25, 1967 72 33 "Is There a New God?" John Robinson October 6, 1967 73 34 "The English Conservatives" Peregrine Worsthorne October 6, 1967 74 35 "The Union in Modern Society" Clive Jenkins October 7, 1967 75 36 "Is Socialism the Answer?" Michael Foot October 7, 1967 76 37 "War Crimes" Ralph Schoenman November 13, 1967 77 38 "The Struggle for Democracy in Brazil" Carlos Lacerda November 13, 1967 78 39 "Do We Need Public Schools?" Ernest van den Haag December 11, 1967 79 40 "Mobilizing the Poor" Saul Alinsky December 11, 1967 80 41 "Is There a Need for Intelligence?" Allen Dulles December 14, 1967 81 42 "Was Goldwater a Mistake?" Mark Hatfield December 14, 1967

Season 3 (1968) No.overall No. inseasonTitleGuest(s)Taping date 82 1 "The John Birch Society" Slobodan M. Draskovich January 8, 1968 83 2 "The Economic Crisis" Milton Friedman January 8, 1968 84 3 "Was the Civil-Rights Crusade a Mistake?" Godfrey Cambridge January 15, 1968 85 4 "Student Power" Robert Theobald January 15, 1968 86 5 "The Ghost of the Army-McCarthy Hearings: Part I" January 19, 1968 87 6 "The Ghost of the Army-McCarthy Hearings: Part II" January 19, 1968 88 7 "The Wallace Crusade" George Wallace January 24, 1968 89 8 "Wiretapping--Electronic Bugging" Edward V. Long January 24, 1968 90 9 "Philby and Treason" Rebecca West February 26, 1968 91 10 "The Culture of the Left" Malcolm Muggeridge February 26, 1968 92 11 "The Anti-Communist Left" Melvin J. Lasky February 27, 1968 93 12 "English Youth and Vietnam" February 27, 1968 94 13 "Robert F. Kennedy" Hodding Carter April 15, 1968 95 14 "The Wallace Movement" Leander Perez April 15, 1968 96 15 "The New Left" David Dellinger April 25, 1968 97 16 "The Middle East " Freda Utley April 25, 1968 98 17 "Can We Win in Vietnam?" Herman Kahn May 7, 1968 99 18 "The Avant Garde" Allen Ginsberg May 7, 1968 100 19 "Governing the Cities" Carl Stokes May 24, 1968 101 20 "The Republicans and the Cities" Seth Taft May 24, 1968 102 21 "Armies of the Night" Norman Mailer May 28, 1968 103 22 "Journals of News and Opinion" Otto Fuerbringer May 28, 1968 104 23 "Unrest on the Campus" June 20, 1968 105 24 "Violence" Fredric Wertham June 20, 1968 106 25 "The Rib Uncaged: Women and the Church" June 24, 1968 107 26 "Obscenity and the Supreme Court" June 24, 1968 108 27 "Has the Republican Party Anything to Offer?" Gerald Ford July 8, 1968 109 28 "The Washington Press" July 8, 1968 110 29 "Liberalism and the Intellectuals" Marya Mannes July 10, 1968 111 30 "The Socialist Workers' Party and American Politics" July 10, 1968 112 31 "Capital Punishment" Truman Capote September 3, 1968 113 32 "The Hippies" September 3, 1968 114 33 "Money Troubles" September 9, 1968 115 34 "The McCarthy Phenomenon" Allard K. Lowenstein September 9, 1968 116 35 "The Cold War" Zbigniew Brzezinski September 23, 1968 117 36 "Some Problems of the Freshman Senator" Charles Goodell September 23, 1968 118 37 "Korean War Defectors" October 7, 1968 119 38 "Politics and Show Biz" Orson Bean October 7, 1968 120 39 "Why Do So Many Canadians Hate America?" October 21, 1968 121 40 "Is South Africa Everybody's Business?" November 4, 1968 122 41 "The Influence of TV on American Politics" November 4, 1968 123 42 "Cracking the Cities' Problem" Joseph Alioto November 13, 1968 124 43 "The Black Panthers" Eldridge Cleaver November 13, 1968 125 44 "Jerusalem and the Middle East" Teddy Kollek November 18, 1968 126 45 "The Republic of New Africa" Milton Henry November 18, 1968 127 46 "Does Science Emerge Supreme?" Christiaan Barnard December 9, 1968 128 47 "The American Challenge" December 9, 1968 129 48 "The Uses of Animals" December 12, 1968 130 49 "Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement" Muhammad Ali December 12, 1968

Season 4 (1969) No.overall No. inseasonTitleGuest(s)Taping date 131 1 "The Issues in the School Strike" Albert Shanker January 6, 1969 132 2 "The Plight of the American Novelist" January 6, 1969 133 3 "The Walker Report" January 13, 1969 134 4 "The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson" Eric F. Goldman January 13, 1969 135 5 "How Goes It with the Poverty Program?" January 27, 1969 136 6 "The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy" January 27, 1969 137 7 "The Ripon Society" February 24, 1969 138 8 "The Fifth Amendment" February 24, 1969 139 9 "Black Anti-Semitism" February 25, 1969 140 10 "Restructuring the University" February 25, 1969 141 11 "Police Power" February 26, 1969 142 12 "Black Student Power" February 26, 1969 143 13 "Vietnam and the Intellectuals" Noam Chomsky April 3, 1969 144 14 "Urban Development and the Race Question" Roy Innis April 3, 1969 145 15 "Modernism in the Catholic Church" April 21, 1969 146 16 "The Campus Destroyers" Al Capp April 21, 1969 147 17 "The ABM Conflict" April 28, 1969 148 18 "Problems of a Chief Executive" April 28, 1969 149 19 "Cornell and the Conflict of Generations" May 19, 1969 150 20 "The Trouble with Enoch" Enoch Powell May 19, 1969 151 21 "ABM" June 2, 1969 152 22 "Afro-American Studies" June 2, 1969 153 23 "The Decline of Christianity" Billy Graham June 12, 1969 154 24 "Labor Unions and American Freedom" James B. Carey June 12, 1969 155 25 "Violence in America" June 23, 1969 156 26 "The Population Explosion" June 23, 1969 157 27 "Marijuana--How Harmful?" July 7, 1969 158 28 "The Conservative Party and the Future of the GOP" J. Daniel Mahoney July 7, 1969 159 29 "The Irish Problem" July 22, 1969 160 30 "The Decline of Anti-Communism " Constantine Fitzgibbon July 22, 1969 161 31 "Monarchy and the Modern World" Otto von Habsburg July 23, 1969 162 32 "The UN and World Affairs" Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon July 23, 1969 163 33 "Is There a Place for the Old Order?" July 24, 1969 164 34 "American Popularity Abroad" Anthony Lewis July 24, 1969 165 35 "Post Office Reform" Winton M. Blount September 9, 1969 166 36 "Where Should the Nixon Administration Go?" Barry Goldwater September 9, 1969 167 37 "Biafra and English Foreign Policy" Auberon Waugh September 22, 1969 168 38 "Looking Back on de Gaulle" Jacques Soustelle September 22, 1969 169 39 "The Making of the President 1968" Theodore H. White September 22, 1969 170 40 "The Welfare-Reform Proposal" Daniel Patrick Moynihan October 7, 1969 171 41 "Race and Conservatism" October 7, 1969 172 42 "Conservative vs. Progressive Republicanism" Jacob K. Javits October 24, 1969 173 43 "Abortion" October 24, 1969 174 44 "What Have We Learned from Socialism?" Gunnar Myrdal November 4, 1969 175 45 "Salvation, Rock Music, and the New Iconoclasm" November 4, 1969 176 46 "The Selling of the President 1968" Joe McGinniss November 10, 1969 177 47 "Negotiating for Peace" November 10, 1969 178 48 "Vietnam" Harlan Cleveland December 6, 1969 179 49 "Reflections on the Current Scene" Clare Boothe Luce December 6, 1969 180 50 "The Future of the Democratic Party" Pat Brown December 9, 1969 181 51 "Why Don't Conservatives Understand?" December 9, 1969 182 52 "Tariffs" December 18, 1969 183 53 "The Kennedy Years" John Kenneth Galbraith December 18, 1969

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