Structured entries
- THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE
10/4/88
Debut: A 94-part mosaic of people and events that shaped the U.S. opens with a portrait of a city destroyed and rebuilt. The year was 1906. Archival materials and survivor accounts chronicle the devastation wreaked on San Francisco by the powerful earthquake that struck on April 18 and the raging fires that followed. But as the ruins smoldered, a massive recovery program was begun—one that culminated in 1915 when the city opened its Golden Gate to a world's fair. Host: David McCullough. (60 min.)
- RADIO BIKINI. 1946 A-Bomb.
10/11/88
- ERIC SEVERAUD: NOT SO WILD A DREAM
10/25/88
Severaud says his social awareness was honed during his ensuing years at the University of Minnesota. After covering a political campaign of striking students in 1934, he recalls, "I went home as close to becoming a practicing revolutionary as I would ever be." After graduation, he worked for the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune, writing about Nazi Germany at the outset of World War II. "The people of Germany were heartlessly sick," Severaud says. "They hated the world and they hated themselves." Severaud's long association with CBS began in the summer of 1939, when Edward R. Murrow asked Severaud to report on the war for CBS Radio. "I was frightened, scared, but willing to try," he recalls. Try and succeed he did, becoming one of broadcasting's most respected commentators. (60 min.)
- LIFE & TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER.
- DO YOU MEAN THERE ARE STILL REAL COWBOYS?
11/7/88
- KENNEDY v. WALLACE—A Crisis Up Close.
11/15/88
(Civil rights)
- GERONIMO & APACHE RESISTANCE.
11/22/88
(Concluded next tape.)
- THE GREAT AIR RACE.
10/3/89
The outstanding documentary series The American Experience begins its second season with a story about a little-remembered race by eight intrepid airmen to circle the globe in 1924.
- DEMON RUM.
10/10/89
- A FAMILY GATHERING.
10/17/89
American Experience scores again with "A Family Gathering," filmmaker Lise Yasui's Oscar-nominated account of how the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans affected her own family.
- MISSION OF DISCOVERY.
10/24/89
- THE GREAT WAR—1918.
10/31/89
- FOREVER BASEBALL.
11/7/89
close up. "I was great things in baseball," Hugh McHale wrote. Many great moments are especially memorable to the person to whom they happened, which claims another crop and the base personalities of authors, artists and others. Other members of Dreyer's essay celebrate the game's myths and misconceptions, its heroes and heartbreaks. "It's a game of failure," John Gosling says, "transposed with those sudden electrical moments when you get to produce." There is footage of the legendary pitchers—Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Mathewson, Williams, D'Agostino, Paige, Feller, Robinson, May, Aaron, Mays. There is also rare film of the 1916 Chicago White Sox, who came to be known as the Black Sox. The hour also includes a clip from the 1938 Edition No. "Casey at the Bat," a recitation circa 1920 of the poem by Ernest Thayer, who is said to have performed it onstage more than 15,000 times; and a replay of the "shot heard round the world"—Bobby Thomson's homer off the Dodger's Ralph Branca in 1951 that sent the Giants to the World Series. (60 min.)
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## HEADING: The American Experience
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1276. The American Experience
1. THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE 10/4/88
Towering inferno:
the Call Building
Debut: A 94-part mosaic of people and events that shaped the U.S. opens with a portrait of a city destroyed and rebuilt.
The year was 1906. Archival materials and survivor accounts chronicle the devastation wreaked on San Francisco by the powerful earthquake that struck on April 18 and the raging fires that followed. But as the ruins smoldered, a massive recovery program was begun—one that culminated in 1915 when the city opened its Golden Gate to a world's fair. Host: David McCullough. (60 min.)
2. RADIO BIKINI. 1946 A-Bomb. 10/11/88
3. ERIC SEVERAUD: NOT SO WILD A DREAM 10/25/88
Severaud says his social awareness was honed during his ensuing years at the University of Minnesota. After covering a political campaign of striking students in 1934, he recalls, "I went home as close to becoming a practicing revolutionary as I would ever be." After graduation, he worked for the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune, writing about Nazi Germany at the outset of World War II. "The people of Germany were heartlessly sick," Severaud says. "They hated the world and they hated themselves."
Severaud's long association with CBS began in the summer of 1939, when Edward R. Murrow asked Severaud to report on the war for CBS Radio. "I was frightened, scared, but willing to try," he recalls. Try and succeed he did, becoming one of broadcasting's most respected commentators. (60 min.)
4. LIFE & TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER.
5. DO YOU MEAN THERE ARE STILL REAL COWBOYS? 11/7/88
6. KENNEDY v. WALLACE—A Crisis Up Close. (Civil rights) 11/15/88
7. GERONIMO & APACHE RESISTANCE. (Concluded next tape.) 11/22/88
1277. The American Experience
7. GERONIMO (Concluded)
8. LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN. 11/29/88
9. THAT RHYTHM, THOSE BLUES. 12/6/88
10. THE RADIO PRIEST. 12/13/88
11. HEARTS & HANDS. Quilt History. 12/20/88
12. EUDORA WELTY. 1/3/89
13. THE WORLD THAT MOSES BUILT. 1/10/89 (Concl. epi. end of AM. ADV. Tapes.)
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1278. The American Experience 3, 10/3/89
THE GREAT AIR RACE.
The outstanding documentary series The American Experience begins its second season with a story about a little-remembered race by eight intrepid airmen to circle the globe in 1924.
DEMON RUM. 10/10/89
A FAMILY GATHERING. 10/17/89
American Experience scores again with "A Family Gathering," filmmaker Lise Yasui's Oscar-nominated account of how the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans affected her own family.
MISSION OF DISCOVERY. 10/24/89
THE GREAT WAR—1918. 10/31/89
FOREVER BASEBALL. 11/7/89
close up
FOREVER BASEBALL
"I was great things in baseball," Hugh McHale wrote. Many great moments are especially memorable to the person to whom they happened, which claims another crop and the base personalities of authors, artists and others.
Other members of Dreyer's essay celebrate the game's myths and misconceptions, its heroes and heartbreaks. "It's a game of failure," John Gosling says, "transposed with those sudden electrical moments when you get to produce." There is footage of the legendary pitchers—Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Mathewson, Williams, D'Agostino, Paige, Feller, Robinson, May, Aaron, Mays. There is also rare film of the 1916 Chicago White Sox, who came to be known as the Black Sox.
The hour also includes a clip from the 1938 Edition No. "Casey at the Bat," a recitation circa 1920 of the poem by Ernest Thayer, who is said to have performed it onstage more than 15,000 times; and a replay of the "shot heard round the world"—Bobby Thomson's homer off the Dodger's Ralph Branca in 1951 that sent the Giants to the World Series. (60 min.)
1279. THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: 4.
Mr. SEARS CATALOGUE. (2nd half) 11/14/89
YOSEMITE: THE FATE OF HEAVEN. 11/21/89
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL Jr. 11/28/89
BALLAD OF A MOUNTAIN MAN. 12/12/89
JOURNEY TO AMERICA. (Immigrants) 12/13/89
IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE.
ORPHANS OF THE STORM. 12/26/89
The American Experience chronicles the little-remembered and often touching story of some 10,000 British children sent overseas—most of them to the U.S.—during WWII. (8 PM 7)
1280. The American Experience
FORBIDDEN CITY, U.S.A. 1/2/90
THE BATTLE FOR WILDERNESS. 1/9/90
ROOTS OF RESISTANCE. 1/17/90 (Slave underground Railroad)
INSANITY ON TRIAL. (Garfield assassin)
THE SATELLITE SKY. 11/4/90
THE CRASH OF 1929. 11/19/90
