by Dean Rusk
DEAN RUSK is remembered by most Americans as the Secretary of State who for eight years was saddled with the bitter conflict of the war in Vietnam. In a series of four exclusive interviews, he talks to Kenneth Harris about the role America and he played in foreign affairs over the last 50 years.
Born a poor farm boy in the deep South of the United States, he reflects on coming to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in the 1930s, his war-time service in India under Mountbatten's command, the start of the Cold War, and the McCarthy witch-hunts of the 1950s. From first-hand knowledge he relates how the war in Korea started and, when Britain thought that the USA intended to end the war in Korea by using the atomic bomb, Prime Minister Attlee dashed to see President Truman in the White House.
Film cameraman BRIAN HALL
Sound DAVE BRINICOMBE , ROBERT COX Research MONA ADAMS Film editor JOHN KENT Producer JOHN WALKER