Interview with Les Profitt (Frontline out takes)

Les Profitt as a cameraman for Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) Television News describes going up river with the South Vietnamese junk fleet; the American adviser shooting up Vietnamese villages because it was a 'Free Fire Zone'; the boat being hit and disabled; opinion that Wilfred Burchett was a great Australian; filming Tony Ferguson interviewing Wilfrid Burchett and the destruction of the film by the ABC; role of the cameraman; politics in the Vietnam war; the Vietnam war in the media; the Australian way of thinking; a futile war the United States could not win; opinion the styles of journalists Don Simmons and Tony Ferguson; an instance of cameraman Peter Leyden risking his life to get action footage.