Anthony Summers - Television Work

Television Work

In addition to the coverage listed above, Anthony Summers sent reports on subjects as varied as:

  • The civil war between royalists and republicans in Yemen. He broke the story that the Egyptians were using gas bombs against civilians.
  • Interviews with members of the Charles Manson family while they were still at large after the Tate-Labianca murders.
  • Interviews with figures as contrasted as Chile’s President Salvador Allende – soon to die in a bloody right-wing revolution – and Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
  • Summers made two visits to Cuba, where he suffered the fate of many before and after him – waiting for but not getting the promised interview with Fidel Castro.
  • In Bolivia, defying a government ban on journalists, he travelled over rugged country to the site of Che Guevara’s death.
  • The Tupamaro guerilla movement in Uruguay.
  • The tension in Argentina between the Catholic hierarchy and “worker priests.”
  • The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s operations on the Mexican border.
  • A reflection on the Americans who returned from the Vietnam War.

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