ABSTRACT
The film clips from the program in the promotional piece left no doubt about who led the deception. A hesitating, flustered Westmoreland was shown at his worst. For the first time-spliced between his own weak answers-he actually saw and heard his officers. Both Wallace and Crile appeared in the promo, emphasizing the malignity of what they had uncovered. At home Westmoreland read daily only the local paper and the Wall Street Journal. Hastily, Henderson set in motion the machinery for a counterattack. He and Westmoreland called on former officers from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the MACV command, asking them to rally around Westmoreland when he faced down the news media at a Washington press conference scheduled for two days later. Newspapers, news magazines, television networks and stations get hundreds of complaints, formal and informal, all the time. Newspapers across the country applauded CBS's public candor.
