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The above critique covers most of the defects of the CBS 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom of October 23, 1994. The documents below typically discuss topics covered in the above critique, although in some cases, the letters introduce significant new material. An external link to an InfoUkes page on the topic appears at the bottom of the present page.

@ Transcript of 60 Minutes' "The Ugly Face of Freedom"

Historical Background:

@ Symon Petliura: Morley Safer got him wrong too
@ de Zayas: The Lviv Massacre

Recent Developments:

@ Judge Ginsburg   U.S. Court of Appeals 11-Aug-1998 Serafyn vs. FCC
@ Jeannine Aversa Associated Press       12-Aug-1998 FCC must review 60 Minutes Segment

Statements Made by Others:

@ Rabbi Lincoln Ukrainian Weekly   30-Oct-1994   A New York rabbi's response

Gullibility of the media:

@ Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991)        Grand Calumniator of Poland
@ T.R. Reid      Washington Post      09-May-1997 60 Minutes gullibility
@ Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair        Sep 1998 Old Liars, young liar

Related media fabrications:

@ Jeffrey Goldberg Globe and Mail     06-Feb-1993 Fabricating history
@ Mark Steyn        National Post      15-May-2000 CBS fabricates news

Letters to Mike Wallace, host of Sharks Don't Get Cancer:

#01 01-May-2000 Broadcasting Jewish stereotypes
#02 04-Jun-2002 Eating the shark god
#03 04-Jul-2002 Mike Wallace's Dark Secret

Material concerning Mike Wallace:

Ed Coll: Does Mike Wallace have a sloppy streak?
NewsMax.com: Mike Wallace used fake memo

Letters to Don Hewitt, Executive Producer of 60 Minutes:

#01 24-Apr-2002 A Car Possessed by Demons
#02 17-Jul-2002 Canada's REAL Dark Secret

Letters to 60 Minutes Protégé, Steven Rambam:

#01 13-Mar-2002 Steven Rambam shakedown for $25,000
#02 25-Mar-2002 The Jewish show trial of Julius Viel
#03 22-Jul-2002 Smart to lie to the LA Superior Court?
#04 06-Aug-2002 Top 25 Investigators of the Century Hoax
#05 23-Aug-2002 Should Edmund Pankau be off the list too?
#06 31-Aug-2002 The Invisible Ink of the Internet

Letters to Morley Safer, host of The Ugly Face of Freedom:

#01 28-Dec-1994 Please explain silence
#02 19-Mar-1996 Contempt for the viewer
#03 24-May-1998 Your name inevitably comes up
#04 05-Dec-1998 Press responsibility and accountability
#05 09-Apr-1999 Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?
#06 20-Apr-1999 What kind of people run 60 Minutes?
#07 21-Apr-1999 Does drinking wine promote longevity?
#08 26-Apr-1999 One out of 40 escaped shooting
#09 15-May-1999 Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?
#10 17-May-1999 Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?
#11 30-Jun-1999 Who murdered Vadim Boyko?
#12 01-Jul-1999 Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?
#13 04-Jul-1999 The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny
#14 25-Jul-1999 Who did Israel Roitman murder?
#15 27-Jul-1999 Who did Leonid Wolf murder?
#16 23-Oct-1999 Fifth anniversary commemoration
#17 28-Oct-1999 CBS must produce its evidence
#18 05-Apr-2000 Flip side of French drinking
#19 22-Aug-2000 Revolution in information technology
#20 07-Nov-2000 Poison in your mouth

Correspondence with Raul Hilberg, leading historian of the Jewish holocaust:

#01 15-Sep-1997 Invitation to deny the Lviv Massacre
#01 reply 15-Dec-1997 Lviv Massacre implicitly denied

Letters to Michael H. Jordan, Chairman of Westinghouse Electric Corporation:

#01 06-Mar-1996 Answering 16,000 pieces of mail
#02 07-May-1996 Confusion concerning the Lviv Massacre
#03 14-May-1996 Nowhere is the SS so openly celebrated
#04 12-Jul-1996 Levitas letter to Za Vilnu Ukrainu
#05 18-Jul-1996 Genetic anti-Semitism
#06 19-Jul-1996 Allowing fabulists on 60 Minutes
#07 19-Aug-1996 Loud laughter greeted this ingenuous objection

Letters to Yaakov Dov Bleich, Hassidic rabbi of Kyiv, witness on The Ugly Face of Freedom:

#08 23-May-1998 Please substantiate or retract

Letters to Simon Wiesenthal, Grand Calumniator of Ukraine:

#14 04-Sep-1997 The Forgotten Bodnar
#15 08-Sep-1997 The Elusive Lviv Massacre
#16 09-Sep-1997 Shifting Date for the Lviv Massacre
#18 11-Sep-1997 Questions Concerning the Waffen SS
#19 12-Sep-1997 Testimony of Erwin Schulz
#20 13-Sep-1997 Jews Killing Ukrainians in Lviv
#21 14-Sep-1997 Altered Dates of Death
#23 23-Sep-1997 The Pious Executioners
#24 18-Jan-1998 Reversing victim and victimizer

External Links:

@ InfoUkes page:   CBS 60 Minutes Program: The Ugly Face of Freedom

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