Remembering Gore Vidal
4,632 views · Published 2 August 2012 · 2:25 · Indexed 27 September 2026
Channel: CBS News · 2012 · News & Politics
Gore Vidal has died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 86. Martha Teichner looks back at the author who was able to use his words and wield them as swords to cut down the powerful, and often, other writers and intellectuals.
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