ABC Scope was a public affairs program that appeared on the ABC

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from November 11, 1964 to March 2, 1968, hosted by Howard K. Smith, the future

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of the ABC Evening News. News reporters Louis Rukeyser, Frank Reynolds and John Scali also appeared. The program provided its viewer with an in-depth look at the important

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and social issues that the

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faced in the mid-to-late 1960s. Although Smith hosted the show, the program provided its audience with one-on-one

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s of important newsmakers,

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on various subjects and roundtable discussions between a group of

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s. Many editions dealt with a review of the week in the Vietnam War.

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