Dateline: Saigon

Dateline: Saigon

8 | 2017-03-07 | Documentary History

How does a nation slip into war? Dateline-Saigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists -The New York Times' David Halberstam, the Associated Press' Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and legendary photojournalist Horst Faas, and UPI's Neil Sheehan -- during the early years of the Vietnam War as President John F. Kennedy is secretly committing US troops to what is initially dismissed by some as 'a nice little war in a land of tigers and elephants.' 'When the government is telling the truth, reporters become a relatively unimportant conduit to what is happening,' Halberstam tells us. 'But when the government doesn't tell the truth, begins to twist the truth, hide the truth, then the journalist becomes involuntarily infinitely more important.'

Featured Crew

Thomas D. Herman Director
Lorie Conway Post Production Supervisor
David Bigelow Colorist
Pepijn Aben Sound Recordist
Amy Macd Associate Producer
Susan Grey Associate Producer
Dominique Siemens Sound Recordist
David Bigelow Online Editor
Mark Bakker Director of Photography
Abdulkarim Sabham Director of Photography

Cast

Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston
Narrator (voice)
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite
Self (archival footage)

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