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6 Days War - Almost the true version-Must See
Posted on August 22, 2007
198 min 10 sec
http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2007/06/versions_of_a_war.html
Versions of a War
By Michael Getler
June 8, 2007

One of the good things about being an ombudsman is that you learn, at least I do, new things all the time. Last week's lesson in how television and PBS work came to me in the form of e-mails and phone calls from viewers, but mostly from a news article in Canada's The Globe and Mail newspaper. Since I didn't know these things, I assume that many viewers didn't know them as well, hence this passing along.

The e-mails and the article were about a documentary titled "Six Days in June," about the 1967 war between Israel and its surrounding Arab neighbors. It was produced as an international film by Instinct Films in Canada, under the direction of a well-known Israeli director, Ilan Ziv, and in conjunction with film companies in France and Israel. There is also a German language edition of the film, and a version that was prepared for PBS by WGBH in Boston. The PBS version aired nationally for two hours on Monday night, June 4. The film was intended to mark the 40th anniversary of the war; a seminal battle that has shaped the Middle East ever since and that ended almost as fast as it began with a lightning strike by Israel that demolished the Egyptian air force ? and then a massed and threatening Egyptian army in the Sinai ? and Syrian and Jordanian forces as well.

What first called my attention to the film were e-mails and phone calls from a handful of PBS viewers who complained that the documentary failed to include any mention of a dramatic moment on June 8, 1967, the second day of the war, when Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty, a U.S. Navy intelligence vessel operating in international waters just off the coast of the Sinai Peninsula. The attack killed 34 and wounded more than 170 aboard the ship and, at the time, was the deadliest attack on a U.S. Navy vessel since World War II. I'll come back to this.
'Five Takes on Six Days'

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