Description
Michael Maclear was the first Western television journalist admitted into wartime North Vietnam. He found himself caught in a terrible contradiction: Hanoi didn't censor his reporting, but a nervous CBC distrusted him, the RCMP and the Pentagon interfered, and President Nixon said he was "duped."
Author: Michael Maclear
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 10/08/2013
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.10w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9781459709409
ISBN10: 1459709403
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- History | Wars & Conflicts | Vietnam War
Author: Michael Maclear
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 10/08/2013
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.10w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9781459709409
ISBN10: 1459709403
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- History | Wars & Conflicts | Vietnam War
About the Author
Michael Maclear was a foreign correspondent for CBC-TV in the 1960s and early 1970s. His weekly CTV documentary series Maclear earned him an ACTRA Award as Best Broadcaster. In the early 1980s he wrote the television series and book Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War. In 2013 he was presented with the Canadian Journalism Foundation's lifetime achievement award. Maclear lives in Toronto.