Today on From the Vault we visit with one of the great American authors, essyists, historians, playwrights, screenwriters, political analysts, and activists, Mr. Gore Vidal. Vidal, besides being a prolific artist of the written word, is also an eloquent speaker, and uses his gift of oration and encyclopedic knowledge of American history to educate and entertainment. In this March 18, 2003 recording, broadcast in its entirety for the first time here, Gore Vidal and Laura Flanders discuss the implications of invading Iraq just one night before the start of America’s ‘shock and awe’ campaign. We present Gore Vidal’s On the Eve of War
From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.
Broadcast on Friday, August 12, 2011.
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