Professor of Communication and Journalism Michael Socolow pre-show Lecture
Bodwell Lounge Collins Center for the Arts, Orono, ME, United StatesThe talk will cover the ways in which television news evolved in the years that frame The Best of Enemies. The play dramatizes the famous televised confrontation between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal that occurred at the 1968 Democratic convention and was aired live by ABC News. Socolow will describe how the moment crystallized numerous social, […]