'Best Of Enemies' Looks To 1968 Buckley-Vidal Debates

Published: Aug. 20, 2015, 5:35 p.m.

In 1968, ABC News was trailing miserably in the ratings and to offset its inability to provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Republican and Democratic conventions it came up with the idea of offering a series of debates between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal. The new documentary, "Best of Enemies" focuses on these debates.