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Are there any oldies who saw the fiery TV debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Junior, when they were first broadcast in America in 1968?

Nowadays the footage is all over the internet but until YouTube came along, they were difficult to track down.

How fresh they are, even after all these years. This gripping play takes us behind the scenes of Vidal and Buckley's verbal

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