Lando graduated from
Harvard University in 1961 and
Columbia University. He was a producer for
60 Minutes for over 25 years, most of those producing stories for
Mike Wallace. Lando produced the first interview with the
Ayatollah Khomeini after the 1979
Iran hostage crisis, which aired 14 days after the hostages were captured. Another famous story he produced was on the
1990 Temple Mount riots. Wallace said of Lando and another producer, "if it wasn't for [Marion Goldin] and Barry there would be no
60 Minutes." Lando pioneered the use of hidden cameras for investigative television reporting. Lando and Wallace won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award in 1990 for the segment "40,000 a Day." Lando also won two
Emmys at
60 Minutes. In 2004, Lando collaborated with Michel Despratx to produce a documentary for
Canal+ called "Saddam Hussein, the Trial the World Will Never See." Lando's 2007 book,
Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, From Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush, covered 85 years of Western intervention in
Iraq. Lando has written for
The Atlantic, the
Los Angeles Times, the
Christian Science Monitor, the
International Herald Tribune, and
Le Monde. ==
Herbert v. Lando ==