Tue, Mar 26, 1985
An expanded edition of William Peters's classic study of the unique eye-color lesson in prejudice and discrimination taught by Iowa schoolteacher Jane Elliott. This new edition continues the story of Elliott and her sixteen third-graders of 1970, eleven of whom returned to their hometown in 1984 for a reunion with their former teacher. Peters reports on that meeting and its evidence that the long-ago lesson has had a profound and enduring effect on the students' lives and attitudes.
Tue, May 7, 1985
In 1945, camera crews went with the American and British armies in the nazis death camps and filmed the horror they found there. A group of directors among whom was Alfred Hichcock developed a script to present these horrors and be sure that people remember. Forty-eight years later it came out from the cave of the Imperial War Museum and was edited as forecast.
Tue, May 28, 1985
The year 1984 had more bank failures in the US than any other time since the Great Depression. Judy Woodruff investigates one of the largest bank failures (Penn Square in Oklahoma City) and a near bank failure (Continental Illinois in Chicago) in an effort to shed some light on the nation's banking system.