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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“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
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