Col. Potter’s war

Though it was about Korea, the TV series M*A*S*H did little to hide that it was a show with a message about Vietnam, a war that was raging during the series. It gave anti-war sentiment a popular cultural voice at a time of nasty public demonstrations against the war.

No moment in the highly decorated series was more powerful, perhaps, than this one:

Harry Morgan, the fine actor who played Col. Sherman Potter, died this morning. He was 96.