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Poverty, hopeful or hopeless? / produced by Robert Kline ; directed by Al DeCaprio ; an RKO General Productions presentation.
LIBRA DVD 018 738
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989--Interviews.
- Harrington, Michael.
- Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989.
- Poor--United States.
- Poor.
- Poverty--Government policy.
- Poverty.
- United States.
- Poverty--Government policy--United States.
- Welfare recipients--United States.
- Welfare recipients.
- Economic assistance, Domestic--United States.
- Economic assistance, Domestic.
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Video Library, Stanford University, 2008.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- President Johnson had just declared war on poverty, and Mr. Harrington, an avowed socialist who had started out on the staff of Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker, had been among the first to enlist. On this show (the first Firing Line taped, though not the first aired), Mr. Harrington begins by describing the despair and consequent lack of initiative engendered by poverty; WFB engages him on the issue of whether we can hope to alleviate either material or emotional poverty through government action. MH: "Being kicked around and being pushed down, living in dense, miserable housing, and dealing with cockroaches and rats are not the kinds of things that make one a balanced, content, normal, and adjusted healthy personality." WFB: "I couldn't agree with you more. But I'm trying to raise the following question: To what extent... can we count on [a poverty program] to alleviate all these concomitant miseries?"--Container.
- Participant:
- Presenter William F. Buckley Jr. ; moderator, Lester Smith ; guest, Michael Harrington.
- Credits:
- Executive producer, David Yarnell ; associate producer, Neal Freeman.
- Notes:
- Title from disc surface and container.
- Originally broadcast as an episode of the television program Firing Line on Apr 4, 1966.
- OCLC:
- 310402487
- Publisher Number:
- 883629671925
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