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The only answer you need is, the authentic Cajun music of the "Louisiana Story" Movie (1948). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iR5sC3pgC4. Thompson's music arrangement and his musicology of fine folk, traditional and historical music, are first rate, ranking him with Joaquin Rodrigo and Ottorino Respighi.Thompson replied, "no I'm not" and walked out of the interview on the air.

Oh my God, I’ve made a bad impression already,” Dick Cavett says apologetically after I ever-so-gently correct his pronunciation of my name. When I suggest that I should be the one worried about interviewing one of the all-time great interviewers, he’s quick to put me at ease. “You’d better put that aside and out of your mind,” he tells me. “I can’t detect any faults in you so far. I’ve reached the 83-year-old talk show legend by phone at his home in Connecticut just a few days before the new documentary, Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes, is...

Dear Mr. Cavette, I saw you tell Virgil Thomson on your program of March 13, 1979, "You know, of course, that you are a third-rate composer". Here is Mr. Thomson's Louisiana Suite: Acadian Songs and Dances (1948).   youtube.com/watch?v=THDLkcm54F4I can't think what you might have meant by that remark, Mr. Cavett. I found the pieces lively, in some cases replete with pathos, and anything but third rate.I wonder if you, Mr. Cavett, had ever composed anything of comparabable quality? Perhaps Los Angeles Bishop Robert Barron can enlighten us as to what there is in human nature to account for such...

Today’s Jackass of the Day Award is given to one very deserving jackass, indeed. Mr. Dick Cavett, you should be proud. You, sir, are the biggest jackass I think I have awarded this to. I don’t know. It’s such a hard call, and “jackassishness” is such a hard thing to measure. I think we’ll have a vote at the end of the year to elect our top five over all jackasses of the year. You are sure to be elected in that poll.

Kerry’s March 13, 1969, “Medals” According to the records, Kerry claimed in the casualty report he prepared on March 13, 1969, that he was wounded as a result of a mine explosion. Within a short period, he presented his request to go home on the basis of three Purple Hearts. By March 17, 1969, Kerry’s short career in Vietnam was over. Regarding the action on March 13.1969, Kerry’s medals were once again a complete fraud. Notwithstanding the fake submission for his Bronze Star, Kerry was never wounded or bleeding from his arm. All reports, including the medical reports, make clear...

---------- The following transcript is taken from ABC's special June 30, 1971 broadcast of "The Dick Cavett Show," during which former Navy Lieutenant John Kerry represented Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He was opposed by fellow Navy veteran John O'Neill, representing Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. ---------- MR. CAVETT: The fact is I don't have an opening monologue tonight because the subject of the show is quite serious, and I figured why make it more serious with one of my monologues, so I thought I would just start in. You know, I guess, who my two guests are tonight:...

I have a question? While watching the Kerry-O'Neil debate on the Dick Cavett show yesterday, Kerry stated he had a letter there that they sent to Senator Stennis, requesting to ask that the Senate Armed Services Committee immediately convene public hearings to examine the testimony presented by these veterans, meaning the Vietnam Veterans Against the war. Kerry's quote from the Cavett show. "MR. KERRY: Well, I have often talked about this subject. I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense that I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free...

KERRY! O'NEILL! DICK CAVETT! THE RUMBLE STARTS SUNDAY! [08/12 02:01 PM] C-SPAN has announced it will show "The Dick Cavett Show" with the Kerry and O'Neill debate this Sunday, 8/15, at 6 p.m. EST.

The following transcript is taken from ABC's special June 30, 1971 broadcast of "The Dick Cavett Show," during which former Navy Lieutenant John Kerry represented Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He was opposed by fellow Navy veteran John O'Neill, representing Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. ---------- MR. CAVETT: The fact is I don't have an opening monologue tonight because the subject of the show is quite serious, and I figured why make it more serious with one of my monologues, so I thought I would just start in. You know, I guess, who my two guests are tonight: John...

It's a favorite tactic of the Kerry campaign. So in Albuquerque on Tuesday, John Kerry, war hero, was greeted by Vietnam veterans, his band of brothers. But 1,600 miles away in Washington, a different band played a different tune about the John Kerry they served with in Vietnam, reports CBS News Correspondent Byron Pitts. "The John Kerry that I know is not the John Kerry that everyone else is portraying," said veteran Steve Gardner. "He was aggressive, but vain and prone to impulsive judgment. He was a loose cannon," said retired U.S. Navy Adm. Roy Hoffman. For nearly an hour,...

More than 30 years after he returned to voluntary, and happy, obscurity as a Houston lawyer, 58-year-old John O'Neill is making a prime-time comeback. Who's John O'Neill? He was the Vietnam veteran — a former commander of a Patrol Craft Fast, better known as the Swift boat — who famously debated one John Kerry, a fellow Swift skipper, for 90 minutes on The Dick Cavett Show back in 1971. C-SPAN excavated this particular television gem a couple of weeks ago and re-broadcast it. In 1971, Kerry was leveraging his military experience for political gain (old habits die hard, eh?) and...

There he was, the 27-year-old John Kerry, hair spilling down over his eyes, Kennedyesque a's (as in "cahn't imagine") rolling off his tongue, and lanky legs seeking room on the cramped talk show set. C-SPAN was rebroadcasting an episode of "The Dick Cavett Show" from 1971. Opposing Kerry was a hard-charging, highly intelligent Vietnam veteran named John O'Neill, who gave the future senator no quarter. It was just two months after Kerry's pyrotechnic performance before the Senate Foreign Relations committee, in which he had famously declared that American soldiers in Vietnam had "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads,...

Started 6:30 EST, Interviewing Dick Cavett, now John O'Niell, by phone. Show will start soon.