# List of Firing Line episodes (1966–1969)

Firing Line is an American public affairs show founded and hosted by conservative William F. Buckley Jr.
This is a list of episodes that aired originally from 1966 to 1969.

## Episodes
### Season 1 (1966)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Guest | Taping date |
| 1 | 1 | "Poverty: Hopeful or Hopeless?" | Michael Harrington | April 4, 1966 |
| 2 | 2 | "Prayer in the Public Schools" | James Pike | April 6, 1966 |
| 3 | 3 | "Vietnam: Pull Out? Stay In? Escalate?" | Norman Thomas | April 8, 1966 |
| 4 | 4 | "Capital Punishment" | Steve Allen | April 11, 1966 |
| 5 | 5 | "Where Does the Civil-Rights Movement Go Now?" | James Farmer | April 18, 1966 |
| 6 | 6 | "Should the House Committee on Un-American Activities Be Abolished?" | John Henry Faulk | April 21, 1966 |
| 7 | 7 | "The Prevailing Bias" | David Susskind | May 2, 1966 |
| 8 | 8 | "The New Frontier: The Great Society" | Richard N. Goodwin | May 6, 1966 |
| 9 | 9 | "Civil Disobedience: How Far Can It Go?" | Dick Gregory | May 16, 1966 |
| 10 | 10 | "McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future" | Leo Cherne | May 16, 1966 |
| 11 | 11 | "Vietnam: What Next?" | Staughton Lynd | May 23, 1966 |
| 12 | 12 | "The Future of States' Rights" | Harry Golden | May 23, 1966 |
| 13 | 13 | "The Future of the Republican Party" | Clare Boothe Luce | May 26, 1966 |
| 14 | 14 | "The Future of the American Theater" | David Merrick | June 6, 1966 |
| 15 | 15 | "Bobby Kennedy and Other Mixed Blessings" | Murray Kempton | June 6, 1966 |
| 16 | 16 | "The Future of Conservatism" | Barry Goldwater | June 9, 1966 |
| 17 | 17 | "Public Power vs. Private Power" | Albert Gore Sr. | June 9, 1966 |
| 18 | 18 | "Communists and Civil Liberties" | Joseph L. Rauh Jr. | June 10, 1966 |
| 19 | 19 | "The Role of the Church Militant" | William Sloane Coffin | June 27, 1966 |
| 20 | 20 | "Why Are the Students Unhappy?" | Theodore Bikel | June 27, 1966 |
| 21 | 21 | "Senator Dodd and General Klein" | Thomas J. Dodd | August 22, 1966 |
| 22 | 22 | "Extremism" | Dore Schary | August 22, 1966 |
| 23 | 23 | "Civil Rights and Foreign Policy" | Floyd McKissick | August 22, 1966 |
| 24 | 24 | "The President and the Press" | Pierre Salinger | September 12, 1966 |
| 25 | 25 | "Are Public Schools Necessary?" | Paul Goodman | September 12, 1966 |
| 26 | 26 | "The Playboy Philosophy" | Hugh Hefner | September 12, 1966 |
| 27 | 27 | "Do Liberals Make Good Republicans?" | John Chafee | September 15, 1966 |
| 28 | 28 | "Should Labor Power Be Reduced?" | Victor Riesel | September 19, 1966 |
| 29 | 29 | "Communist China and the United Nations" | Max Lerner | September 19, 1966 |
| 30 | 30 | "National Priorities and Disarmament" | Seymour Melman | October 3, 1966 |
| 31 | 31 | "LBJ and Evans and Novak" | Rowland Evans | October 3, 1966 |
| 32 | 32 | "Civilian Review Board: Yes or No?" | Theodore W. Kheel | October 7, 1966 |
| 33 | 33 | "Criminals and the Supreme Court" | Aryeh Neier | November 7, 1966 |
| 34 | 34 | "Open Housing" | John A. Morsell | November 7, 1966 |
| 35 | 35 | "The Failure of Organized Religion" | Paul Weiss | November 14, 1966 |
| 36 | 36 | "What to Do with the American Teenager?" | Murray the K | November 14, 1966 |
| 37 | 37 | "Elections 1966 and 1968" | Robert Novak | November 21, 1966 |
| 38 | 38 | "Sports, Persecution, and Christians" | Arnold Lunn | November 28, 1966 |
| 39 | 39 | "The Warren Report: Fact or Fiction?" | Mark Lane | December 1, 1966 |

### Season 2 (1967)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Guest(s) | Taping date |
| 40 | 1 | "Rhodesia, the UN, and Southern Africa" | Conor Cruise O'Brien | January 12, 1967 |
| 41 | 2 | "LBJ and the Intellectuals" | Hans Morgenthau | January 12, 1967 |
| 42 | 3 | "Academic Freedom and Berkeley" | Harold Taylor | January 16, 1967 |
| 43 | 4 | "Presidential Politics" | F. Clifton White | January 16, 1967 |
| 44 | 5 | "The Role of the Advocate" | F. Lee Bailey | January 19, 1967 |
| 45 | 6 | "The Future of the UN" | Francis T. P. Plimpton | January 19, 1967 |
| 46 | 7 | "Do the States Have a Chance?" | Jesse M. Unruh | March 6, 1967 |
| 47 | 8 | "LBJ and Vietnam" | Vance HartkeC. Dickerman Williams | March 6, 1967 |
| 48 | 9 | "Politics and the President" | Tom Wicker | March 7, 1967 |
| 49 | 10 | "Black Power" | Nat Hentoff | March 7, 1967 |
| 50 | 11 | "Is There a Role for a Third Party?" | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. | March 8, 1967 |
| 51 | 12 | "U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia" | Clayton Fritchey | March 8, 1967 |
| 52 | 13 | "Do We Have Anything Left to Fear from Socialism?" | Sidney Hook | March 9, 1967 |
| 53 | 14 | "The World of LSD" | Timothy Leary | April 10, 1967 |
| 54 | 15 | "Censorship and the Production Code" | Otto Preminger | April 10, 1967 |
| 55 | 16 | "The Regular in Politics" | Carmine DeSapio | May 1, 1967 |
| 56 | 17 | "How to Protest" | Dwight Macdonald | May 1, 1967 |
| 57 | 18 | "The Liberals and LBJ" | John P. Roche | May 15, 1967 |
| 58 | 19 | "The Poverty Problem" | Joseph S. Clark Jr. | May 15, 1967 |
| 59 | 20 | "Is Ramparts Magazine Un-American?" | Robert Scheer | June 26, 1967 |
| 60 | 21 | "Vietnam Protests" | Benjamin Spock | June 26, 1967 |
| 61 | 22 | "The Mideast Crisis" | Alfred Lilienthal | June 29, 1967 |
| 62 | 23 | "The Decline of Anti-Communism [1967]" | Fred Schwarz | June 29, 1967 |
| 63 | 24 | "Is It Possible to Be a Good Governor? [1967]" | Ronald Reagan | July 6, 1967 |
| 64 | 25 | "Is the World Funny?" | Groucho Marx | July 7, 1967 |
| 65 | 26 | "Vietnam" | Robert Vaughn | July 8, 1967 |
| 66 | 27 | "The Ghetto" | Kenneth B. Clark | August 28, 1967 |
| 67 | 28 | "Municipal Government" | Sam Yorty | August 28, 1967 |
| 68 | 29 | "A Foreign Policy for the GOP" | Charles H. Percy | September 11, 1967 |
| 69 | 30 | "The Future of the GOP" | Richard Nixon | September 14, 1967 |
| 70 | 31 | "Vietnam and the GOP" | Thruston Ballard Morton | September 25, 1967 |
| 71 | 32 | "Medicare" | Wilbur J. Cohen | September 25, 1967 |
| 72 | 33 | "Is There a New God?" | John Robinson | October 6, 1967 |
| 73 | 34 | "The English Conservatives" | Peregrine Worsthorne | October 6, 1967 |
| 74 | 35 | "The Union in Modern Society" | Clive Jenkins | October 7, 1967 |
| 75 | 36 | "Is Socialism the Answer?" | Michael Foot | October 7, 1967 |
| 76 | 37 | "War Crimes" | Ralph Schoenman | November 13, 1967 |
| 77 | 38 | "The Struggle for Democracy in Brazil" | Carlos Lacerda | November 13, 1967 |
| 78 | 39 | "Do We Need Public Schools?" | Ernest van den Haag | December 11, 1967 |
| 79 | 40 | "Mobilizing the Poor" | Saul Alinsky | December 11, 1967 |
| 80 | 41 | "Is There a Need for Intelligence?" | Allen Dulles | December 14, 1967 |
| 81 | 42 | "Was Goldwater a Mistake?" | Mark Hatfield | December 14, 1967 |

### Season 3 (1968)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Guest(s) | Taping date |
| 82 | 1 | "The John Birch Society" | Slobodan M. Draskovich | January 8, 1968 |
| 83 | 2 | "The Economic Crisis" | Milton Friedman | January 8, 1968 |
| 84 | 3 | "Was the Civil-Rights Crusade a Mistake?" | Godfrey Cambridge | January 15, 1968 |
| 85 | 4 | "Student Power" | Robert Theobald | January 15, 1968 |
| 86 | 5 | "The Ghost of the Army-McCarthy Hearings: Part I" | James D. St. ClairRoy CohnLeo CherneEmile de Antonio | January 19, 1968 |
| 87 | 6 | "The Ghost of the Army-McCarthy Hearings: Part II" | James D. St. ClairRoy CohnLeo CherneEmile de Antonio | January 19, 1968 |
| 88 | 7 | "The Wallace Crusade" | George Wallace | January 24, 1968 |
| 89 | 8 | "Wiretapping--Electronic Bugging" | Edward V. Long | January 24, 1968 |
| 90 | 9 | "Philby and Treason" | Rebecca West | February 26, 1968 |
| 91 | 10 | "The Culture of the Left" | Malcolm Muggeridge | February 26, 1968 |
| 92 | 11 | "The Anti-Communist Left" | Melvin J. Lasky | February 27, 1968 |
| 93 | 12 | "English Youth and Vietnam" | Ian MartinHilary SearsGerry JohnsonBob Mathews | February 27, 1968 |
| 94 | 13 | "Robert F. Kennedy" | Hodding Carter | April 15, 1968 |
| 95 | 14 | "The Wallace Movement" | Leander Perez | April 15, 1968 |
| 96 | 15 | "The New Left" | David Dellinger | April 25, 1968 |
| 97 | 16 | "The Middle East [1968]" | Freda Utley | April 25, 1968 |
| 98 | 17 | "Can We Win in Vietnam?" | Herman Kahn | May 7, 1968 |
| 99 | 18 | "The Avant Garde" | Allen Ginsberg | May 7, 1968 |
| 100 | 19 | "Governing the Cities" | Carl Stokes | May 24, 1968 |
| 101 | 20 | "The Republicans and the Cities" | Seth Taft | May 24, 1968 |
| 102 | 21 | "Armies of the Night" | Norman Mailer | May 28, 1968 |
| 103 | 22 | "Journals of News and Opinion" | Otto Fuerbringer | May 28, 1968 |
| 104 | 23 | "Unrest on the Campus" | Allan BolesRoger RapoportJoel Kramer | June 20, 1968 |
| 105 | 24 | "Violence" | Fredric Wertham | June 20, 1968 |
| 106 | 25 | "The Rib Uncaged: Women and the Church" | Rosemary Radford RuetherMary DalySidney Cornelia Callahan | June 24, 1968 |
| 107 | 26 | "Obscenity and the Supreme Court" | Charles RembarRichard Kuh | June 24, 1968 |
| 108 | 27 | "Has the Republican Party Anything to Offer?" | Gerald Ford | July 8, 1968 |
| 109 | 28 | "The Washington Press" | Marianne MeansDavid KraslowDavid S. Broder | July 8, 1968 |
| 110 | 29 | "Liberalism and the Intellectuals" | Marya Mannes | July 10, 1968 |
| 111 | 30 | "The Socialist Workers' Party and American Politics" | Fred HalsteadPaul Boutelle | July 10, 1968 |
| 112 | 31 | "Capital Punishment" | Truman Capote | September 3, 1968 |
| 113 | 32 | "The Hippies" | Lewis YablonskyEd SandersJack Kerouac | September 3, 1968 |
| 114 | 33 | "Money Troubles" | Joseph W. BarrArthur Edward Burns | September 9, 1968 |
| 115 | 34 | "The McCarthy Phenomenon" | Allard K. Lowenstein | September 9, 1968 |
| 116 | 35 | "The Cold War" | Zbigniew Brzezinski | September 23, 1968 |
| 117 | 36 | "Some Problems of the Freshman Senator" | Charles Goodell | September 23, 1968 |
| 118 | 37 | "Korean War Defectors" | Morris WillsRichard TennesonVirginia Pasley | October 7, 1968 |
| 119 | 38 | "Politics and Show Biz" | Orson Bean | October 7, 1968 |
| 120 | 39 | "Why Do So Many Canadians Hate America?" | Larry ZolfDennis LeeAl Purdy | October 21, 1968 |
| 121 | 40 | "Is South Africa Everybody's Business?" | Stephanus SteynGeorge Houser | November 4, 1968 |
| 122 | 41 | "The Influence of TV on American Politics" | Alistair CookeRobert MacNeilF. Clifton White | November 4, 1968 |
| 123 | 42 | "Cracking the Cities' Problem" | Joseph Alioto | November 13, 1968 |
| 124 | 43 | "The Black Panthers" | Eldridge Cleaver | November 13, 1968 |
| 125 | 44 | "Jerusalem and the Middle East" | Teddy Kollek | November 18, 1968 |
| 126 | 45 | "The Republic of New Africa" | Milton Henry | November 18, 1968 |
| 127 | 46 | "Does Science Emerge Supreme?" | Christiaan Barnard | December 9, 1968 |
| 128 | 47 | "The American Challenge" | Jean-Jacques Servan-SchreiberEvan G. Galbraith | December 9, 1968 |
| 129 | 48 | "The Uses of Animals" | Barnaby ConradCleveland Amory | December 12, 1968 |
| 130 | 49 | "Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement" | Muhammad Ali | December 12, 1968 |

### Season 4 (1969)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Guest(s) | Taping date |
| 131 | 1 | "The Issues in the School Strike" | Albert Shanker | January 6, 1969 |
| 132 | 2 | "The Plight of the American Novelist" | Helen MacInnesLouis Auchincloss | January 6, 1969 |
| 133 | 3 | "The Walker Report" | Sidney ZionDonald Rumsfeld | January 13, 1969 |
| 134 | 4 | "The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson" | Eric F. Goldman | January 13, 1969 |
| 135 | 5 | "How Goes It with the Poverty Program?" | Bernard ShiffmanMajor Owens | January 27, 1969 |
| 136 | 6 | "The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy" | David HalberstamRalph de Toledano | January 27, 1969 |
| 137 | 7 | "The Ripon Society" | Tom PetriJosiah Lee Auspitz | February 24, 1969 |
| 138 | 8 | "The Fifth Amendment" | Harold J. RothwaxC. Dickerman Williams | February 24, 1969 |
| 139 | 9 | "Black Anti-Semitism" | Milton A. GalamisonNathan Perlmutter | February 25, 1969 |
| 140 | 10 | "Restructuring the University" | Allen GrossmanAlfred H. ConradJeffrey Hart | February 25, 1969 |
| 141 | 11 | "Police Power" | John J. HeffernanPaul G. Chevigny | February 26, 1969 |
| 142 | 12 | "Black Student Power" | John FelderDavid SwedanJohn R. Coyne | February 26, 1969 |
| 143 | 13 | "Vietnam and the Intellectuals" | Noam Chomsky | April 3, 1969 |
| 144 | 14 | "Urban Development and the Race Question" | Roy Innis | April 3, 1969 |
| 145 | 15 | "Modernism in the Catholic Church" | Maisie WardFrank Sheed | April 21, 1969 |
| 146 | 16 | "The Campus Destroyers" | Al Capp | April 21, 1969 |
| 147 | 17 | "The ABM Conflict" | Albert Gore Sr.James Burnham | April 28, 1969 |
| 148 | 18 | "Problems of a Chief Executive" | Ray PricePat Buchanan | April 28, 1969 |
| 149 | 19 | "Cornell and the Conflict of Generations" | Walter BernsErnest van den Haag | May 19, 1969 |
| 150 | 20 | "The Trouble with Enoch" | Enoch Powell | May 19, 1969 |
| 151 | 21 | "ABM" | Hans BetheDonald G. Brennan | June 2, 1969 |
| 152 | 22 | "Afro-American Studies" | C. Eric LincolnDavid Brudnoy | June 2, 1969 |
| 153 | 23 | "The Decline of Christianity" | Billy Graham | June 12, 1969 |
| 154 | 24 | "Labor Unions and American Freedom" | James B. Carey | June 12, 1969 |
| 155 | 25 | "Violence in America" | Hugh Davis GrahamTed Robert Gurr | June 23, 1969 |
| 156 | 26 | "The Population Explosion" | Colin ClarkAlan Sweezy | June 23, 1969 |
| 157 | 27 | "Marijuana--How Harmful?" | Robert BairdDavid E. Smith | July 7, 1969 |
| 158 | 28 | "The Conservative Party and the Future of the GOP" | J. Daniel Mahoney | July 7, 1969 |
| 159 | 29 | "The Irish Problem" | Denis DonoghueTerence O'Neill | July 22, 1969 |
| 160 | 30 | "The Decline of Anti-Communism [1969]" | Constantine Fitzgibbon | July 22, 1969 |
| 161 | 31 | "Monarchy and the Modern World" | Otto von Habsburg | July 23, 1969 |
| 162 | 32 | "The UN and World Affairs" | Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon | July 23, 1969 |
| 163 | 33 | "Is There a Place for the Old Order?" | Brigid BrophyJohn Hanbury Angus Sparrow | July 24, 1969 |
| 164 | 34 | "American Popularity Abroad" | Anthony Lewis | July 24, 1969 |
| 165 | 35 | "Post Office Reform" | Winton M. Blount | September 9, 1969 |
| 166 | 36 | "Where Should the Nixon Administration Go?" | Barry Goldwater | September 9, 1969 |
| 167 | 37 | "Biafra and English Foreign Policy" | Auberon Waugh | September 22, 1969 |
| 168 | 38 | "Looking Back on de Gaulle" | Jacques Soustelle | September 22, 1969 |
| 169 | 39 | "The Making of the President 1968" | Theodore H. White | September 22, 1969 |
| 170 | 40 | "The Welfare-Reform Proposal" | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | October 7, 1969 |
| 171 | 41 | "Race and Conservatism" | John E. MossJohn ConyersEd Koch | October 7, 1969 |
| 172 | 42 | "Conservative vs. Progressive Republicanism" | Jacob K. Javits | October 24, 1969 |
| 173 | 43 | "Abortion" | Frank AydAlan Frank Guttmacher | October 24, 1969 |
| 174 | 44 | "What Have We Learned from Socialism?" | Gunnar Myrdal | November 4, 1969 |
| 175 | 45 | "Salvation, Rock Music, and the New Iconoclasm" | C. C. CourtneyPeter Link | November 4, 1969 |
| 176 | 46 | "The Selling of the President 1968" | Joe McGinniss | November 10, 1969 |
| 177 | 47 | "Negotiating for Peace" | Eugene V. RostowJ. Robert Moskin | November 10, 1969 |
| 178 | 48 | "Vietnam" | Harlan Cleveland | December 6, 1969 |
| 179 | 49 | "Reflections on the Current Scene" | Clare Boothe Luce | December 6, 1969 |
| 180 | 50 | "The Future of the Democratic Party" | Pat Brown | December 9, 1969 |
| 181 | 51 | "Why Don't Conservatives Understand?" | Roger RapoportHarvey H. HukariWes Nisker | December 9, 1969 |
| 182 | 52 | "Tariffs" | Henry WallichO. R. Strackbein | December 18, 1969 |
| 183 | 53 | "The Kennedy Years" | John Kenneth Galbraith | December 18, 1969 |