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Article: Hoover Institution Houses Broadcast Archive of William F. Buckley Jr.'s Show Firing Line.
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- February 28, 2008
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STANFORD, Calif. -- The broadcast archive of William F. Buckley Jr.'s television show Firing Line is housed in the Hoover Institution Archives. In addition to the television show he hosted, Buckley, who died today, was a columnist, author, and founded National Review in 1955.
On his show, one of the longest-running in television history, his varied guests included President Ronald Reagan, Nobel laureate Friedrich von Hayek, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, author Noam Chomsky, boxer Muhammad Ali, and poet Allen Ginsberg, among others.
Firing Line was broadcast from 1966 to 1999, first as an hour-long program and ...