Jules Feiffer’s United Nations Plaza Speech
On November 13, 1969, Vice President Agnew (1918–1996)delivered a speech that all three television networks carried live, rescheduling their evening newscasts to do so. In the speech, Agnew castigated the networks for biased press coverage of a recent speech on Vietnam by President Nixon (1913–1994) and called on citizens to respond. The next day, Jules Feiffer (b. 1929), speaking at the United Nations Plaza prior to the November 15 anti-war Mobilization demonstrations, delivered this speech in barbed response.
On November 13, 1969, Vice President Agnew (1918–1996)delivered a speech that all three television networks carried live, rescheduling their evening newscasts to do so. In the speech, Agnew castigated the networks for biased press coverage of a recent speech on Vietnam by President Nixon (1913–1994) and called on citizens to respond. The next day, Jules Feiffer, speaking at the United Nations Plaza prior to the November 15 anti-war (b. 1929) Mobilization demonstrations, delivered this speech in barbed response.