Bert Schneider Giving Acceptance Speech During Academy Awards

A minor flap occurred at the 47th Annual Academy Awards presentations when Bert Schneider, coproducer of the winning documentary film Hearts and Minds reads a telegram reportedly from the North Vietnamese Provisional Revolutionary Government in Paris, in which they ask that all their friends in America should be recognized for all they have done in behalf of peace. Later in the show, Frank Sinatra said he had been asked to make a statement on behalf of the Academy.