Awesome

I've been looking for this since I started reading Gore Vidal novels in 1999. It took 8 years, but the Internet has finally provided. I finally found a clip of the famous 1968 Vidal/Buckley debate in Chicago.

To be honest, it's not quite as mind-blowing as I had hoped. Eight years of looking for a few minutes of video will probably distort its importance in one's mind. But you have to have goals in life, and this was one of mine.

I'm not even the one who found it. The credit belongs entirely to Michael Oates Palmer of Los Angeles, California, who has again proved himself a true friend.


Last modified: April, 2007

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