Interview with Dennis Warner (Frontline out takes)

Dennis Warner as a correspondent for John Fairfax & Sons Ltd and Herald & Weekly Times, the Melbourne Herald, London Daily Telegraph, Reporter Magazine and Look Magazine describes inadequate Australian media coverage of the Vietnam war; his years spent in Vietnam as a correspondent 1949-1975; coping with fear in a war zone; first time under fire is acutely disturbing; being a passenger on an aircraft under fire at Khe Sanh during the Tet offensive; experiencing a mortar attack in Cambodia, and Kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa during the Second World War; challenge of being a war correspondent; withholds opinion of Wilfrid Burchett due to ten years of libel suits; news from North Vietnam reported by 'trained seals'; being expelled from Vietnam by the French for predicting their defeat; the 'termite theory' of Communist expansion in South East Asia and its confirmation at SEATO in 1955. [Sound drifts slightly out of sync as the item progresses due to fault with the audio tape recorder pilot tone at the time the original recording was made. Film runs out and interview continues as sound only . See Sound Recording S03282.]