i drink tonight to him and to all of us. [ applause ] >> i'm kurt volcker.n vietnam i was a cbs camera man. if burt quint thinks i'm going to talk about tv correspondents now, i won't. i want to talk about the little people. i think, if you would ask any cameraman in vietnam who was the most important person he had, he would say it was my vietnamese sound man. and i was very lucky, i had a young guy, his friends, not i, called him boom boom ri. i know he was not an explosive expert. he was strong and he was careful. he was protective. and he saved my lives many times over. the only problem is he spoke as much english as i spoke vietnamese. i have to say one time we went to -- it was '68. we went to a place called fu bai that was a good place compared to dungaha and it was a good place compared to others. we were caught in a rocket barrage and you have to remember that a sound man is really the prisoner of a cameraman. because we were connected by an umbilical cord. and whatever i had to do, he had to do it whether he liked it or not, and in this case, i jump

for more on what's going on inside syria or the united today, i spoke with kurt volcker, formerly the ambassador to nato. talk about the spikes in the attacks on damascus. will it be inevitable once the cease-fire was in place that the syrian government would take advantage of it. >> look at the strategic picture here. he's using force to attack and kill his own population to re-establish full control over the country. hep's going to try to use every military means possible to do that. if he feels he have done enough, we may see a cease-fire implemented. if he feels he's not successful, we may see delays and problems. he's intent on establishing his control rather than implementing the plan. >> do you think the west has any tools at its disclosure, any pressure it can use to make sure the syrians stick to the cease-fire. >> it comes back to the question we faced before the annan mission. the annan mission is a phase that we created and we have to ride through. we faced the question, was there more to be done to apply pressure on assad. and i think ruling out any military options was a

. >>> cbs news film cameramen, keith kay, engineer rad pea, john smith, karl sorenson, kurt volcker, and cbs news sound men. this has been a cbs news special report. the or de"the ordeal of con th." this brafts hoadcast has been b to you by western electric. as part of their continuing coverage of important news events. the preceding program was a cbs news special report, programs regularly scheduled at this time will return next sunday. >>> this week on the civil war, a panel discussion from the lincoln forum symposium in gettysburg. the panel addressed the question why didn't the war end in 1861? several lincoln and civil war scholars participated and lincoln forum vice chairman moderated. this is a little under 90 minutes. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm harold holtzer, vice chairman of the lincoln forum. i want to welcome you to this year's historians' panel and the topic, why didn't the civil war end in 1861. in a sense, that may seem like a strange question to anchor our discussion today. think about it. in the spring of 1861 the north held tremendous advantages over the south.