Structured entries
- THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE
10/4/88
Debut: A 16-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)
10/11/88
A-Bomb.
- ERIC SEVAREID: NOT SO WILD A DREAM
10/25/88
The longtime CBS News oracle recalls his life and career. Arnold Eric Sevareid was born in 1912 in Velva, N.D., in a region populated by Scandinavian and German immigrant farmers. In the 1920s, when a drought started the area's economy, Sevareid's family moved to Minneapolis, where he enrolled in Central High School. There, Sevareid's ambition to be a professional reporter was whetted by his experiences as an editor of the school paper. Sevareid says his social awareness was honed during his ensuing years at the University of Minnesota. After covering a police ambush of striking truckers 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, writing about Nazi Germany at the outset of World War II. "The people of Germany were neurotically sick," Sevareid says. "They hated the world and they hated themselves." Sevareid's long association with CBS began in the summer of 1939, when Edward R. Murrow asked Sevareid to report on the war for CBS Radio. "I was flattered, 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
"I see great things in baseball," Walt Whitman wrote. Many great moments are splendidly recalled in this passion to the national pastime, which blends archival clips and the keen observations of authors, artists and others. Winter-narrator Irv Drasnin's essay celebrates the game's myths and miracles, its heroes and heartbreaks. "It's a game of leisure," John Updike says, "interspersed with these sudden electrical moments when you got to produce." There is footage of the legendary producers—Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Mathewson, Williams, DiMaggio, Page, Feller, Robinson, Mays, Aaron, Mantle. There is also rare film of the 1919 Chicago White Sox, who came to be known as the Black Sox. The hour also includes a clip from the 1899 Edison film "Casey at the Bat"; a recitation (circa 1922) of the poem by DeWitt Hopper, who is said to have performed it on-stage more than 10,000 times; and a replay of the "shot heard 'round the world"—Bobby Thomson's homer off the Dodgers' Ralph Branca in 1951 that sent the Giants to the World Series. (60 min.)
Transcription (raw)
## HEADING: The American Experience
## LEFT COLUMN
1276. The American Experience
THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE 10/4/88
Towering inferno:
the Call Building
Debut: A 16-part mosaic of
people and events that
shaped the U.S. opens
with a portrait of a city de-
stroyed and rebuilt.
The year was 1906. Ar-
chival materials and survi-
vor accounts chronicle the
devastation wreaked on
San Francisco by the pow-
erful earthquake that
struck on April 18 and the
raging fires that followed.
But as the ruins smol-
dered, 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 McCul-
lough. (60 min.)
2. RADIO BIKINI. 1946 A-Bomb. 10/11/88
3. ERIC SEVAREID: NOT SO WILD A DREAM 10/25/88
The longtime CBS News oracle recalls his life and career.
Arnold Eric Sevareid was born in 1912 in Velva, N.D., in a re-
gion populated by Scandinavian and German immigrant farmers.
In the 1920s, when a drought started the area's economy, Seva-
reid's family moved to Minneapolis, where he enrolled in Central
High School. There, Sevareid's ambition to be a professional
reporter was whetted by his experiences as an editor of the
school paper.
Sevareid says his social awareness was honed during his
ensuing years at the University of Minnesota. After covering a po-
lice ambush of striking truckers 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, writing about Nazi Germany at the outset of World
War II. "The people of Germany were neurotically sick," Sevareid
says. "They hated the world and they hated themselves."
Sevareid's long association with CBS began in the summer of
1939, when Edward R. Murrow asked Sevareid to report on the
war for CBS Radio. "I was flattered, scared, but willing to try," he
recalls. Try and succeed he did, becoming one of broadcasting's
most respected commentators. (60 min.)
Sevareid in 1943
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: 2.
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.)
## RIGHT COLUMN
1278. THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: 3.
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
FOREVER BASEBALL
"I see great things in base-
ball," Walt Whitman wrote.
Many great moments are
splendidly recalled in this
passion to the national past-
time, which blends archival
clips and the keen obser-
vations of authors, artists
and others.
Winter-narrator Irv Dras-
nin's essay celebrates the
game's myths and mira-
cles, its heroes and heart-
breaks. "It's a game of leisure," John Updike
says, "interspersed with these sudden electrical
moments when you got to produce." There is
footage of the legendary producers—Ruth, Geh-
rig, Cobb, Mathewson, Williams, DiMaggio,
Page, Feller, Robinson, Mays, Aaron, Mantle.
There is also rare film of the 1919 Chicago White
Sox, who came to be known as the Black Sox.
Kid Gleason and Connie Mack, circa 1929
AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE (CC)
8 PM ET
11/7/89
when some players con-
spired not to produce at
the World Series, setting
the stage for the "biggest
scandal in American
sports." A decade later Kid
Gleason, the manager of
that team, is seen banter-
ing with Connie Mack.
"Name me a few that
plays for fun," Mack asks.
Gleason: "I can't do that
right now, boss."
The hour also includes a clip from the 1899
Edison film "Casey at the Bat"; a recitation (circa
1922) of the poem by DeWitt Hopper, who is
said to have performed it on-stage more than
10,000 times; and a replay of the "shot heard
'round the world"—Bobby Thomson's homer off
the Dodgers' 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)
The American Experience
1280. 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
