 A prolonged attempt to set the fractures on his right arm, done without anesthetic, was unsuccessful; he received an operation on his broken leg but no treatment for his broken left arm.He was temporarily taken to a clean room and interviewed by a French journalist, François Chalais, whose report was carried on the French television program "Panorama" in January 1968 and later in the U.S. on the "CBS Evening News".The film footage of McCain lying in the bed, in a cast, smoking cigarettes and speaking haltingly, would become one of the most widely distributed images of McCain's imprisonment.