Forget the smoking gun

Published: July 31, 1987, 12:23 p.m.

The hearings have been led astray by the red herring of a 'smoking gun' - it's the constitution which has been mortally wounded. This archive edition of Letter from America was recorded by one of two listeners, who between them taped and labelled over 650 Letter From America programmes from 1973 to 1989. It was restored by the BBC in 2014.