LINKTV Witness February 21, 2013
Hello, im john lithgow. Welcome to american cinema. In the man who shot liberty valance, john fords great film a newspaperman says, when the legend becomes fact, print the legend. That may not be Good Journalism but it makes a good western. The history of the western is often a history of legends, billy the kid, wyatt earp, the gunfight at the ok corral. Not the real west, but a mythical place full of images that are uniquely american the open frontier, the outlaw, the solitary, often reluctant hero. The western is also landscapes; a unique stage on which dramas from the American Experience ge...