Panel Discussion of the Korean War as a Cold War Conflict (1995)
In this video clip from The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, presidential historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Beschloss, along with author and journalist David Frum and historian Bruce Cumings, discuss the details and legacy of the Korean War. They discuss how the Korean War, often called “America’s Forgotten War,” should be assessed in terms of later Cold War history.
The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour | NewsHour Productions | July 26, 1995 This video clip and associated transcript appear from 23:14 - 29:32 in the full record.
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