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| Peter Jennings: Reporter |
Peter Jennings: Reporter is a two-hour special reflecting on the remarkable life and career of the 'World News Tonight' anchor.
August 10, 2005 - ABC News
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Peter Jennings Reporting
UFOs: Seeing is Believing |
Drawing on almost 150 interviews with top scientists, investigators, those who claim to have witnessed UFOs, and those who claim to have encountered alien life forms, this two-hour program investigates and ultimately celebrates the possibility that we are not alone.
02/24/2005 - ABC
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Peter Jennings Reporting
No Place to Hide |
“No Place to Hide” looks at cutting-edge surveillance technologies, and examines the challenge of balancing security and freedom in the digital age.
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Peter Jennings Reporting
From the Tobacco File: Untold Stories of Betrayal and Neglect |
Tobacco is still the number one killer in our nation. But as Peter Jennings reveals in this examination of the “tobacco wars,” the responsibility lies not only with tobacco companies but also with the government and prominent public health advocates who squandered an historic opportunity to settle with the industry, regulate tobacco, and save millions of lives.
09/08/2004 - ABC
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Guantanamo |
In this primetime investigative documentary, Peter Jennings reports on one of the most controversial features of America’s war on terror – the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
06/25/2004 - ABC
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Peter Jennings Reporting
LAPD |
What happens when the nation’s most famous police officer takes over the nation’s most infamous police department? The result is a complex tale about the struggle for power—involving the top brass, the rank and file cops, and the gang members who plague the streets of Los Angeles.
06/01/2004 - ABC
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| Uprising: Afghanistan's Deadliest Battle |
The incredible story of the prisoner uprising in northern Afghanistan that exploded into the war's deadliest battle and led to the capture of the so-called American Taliban, John Walker Lindh.
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Jesus and Paul: The Word and the Witness |
This three-hour documentary examines how a tiny, marginal Jewish sect survived the crucifixion and spread across the Mediterranean to become the religion we know today as Christianity. The program seeks to shed light on the genesis of ideas that continue to inform and, in some cases, haunt the way we think and live in 21st Century America.
04/05/2004 - ABC
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Ecstasy Rising |
Peter Jennings tells the definitive story of how an obscure compound, discovered in 1912 and all but forgotten for over 60 years, became the drug of choice for a generation.
04/01/2004 - ABC
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Peter Jennings Reporting
How to Get Fat Without Really Trying |
While much of the public debate about obesity has focused on personal responsibility, this program reveals how federal government agricultural policies and food industry practices are contributing to America’s growing obesity epidemic.
12/08/2003 - ABC
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Peter Jennings Reporting
The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy |
Forty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, more than 80% of Americans still believe there was a conspiracy to kill the President and that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. This documentary attempts to separate fact from conspiracy theories to get to the truth, employing stunning forensic technology that makes it possible for the first time to see what happened that November day in Dallas.
11/20/2003 - ABC
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Peter Jennings Reporting
I Have a Dream |
Through the voices of Martin Luther King Jr. and the people who surrounded him - Andrew Young, Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Cotton, John Lewis and many others – this program tells the story behind what many consider the most important American speech of the 20th Century.
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| Peter Jennings Town Meeting
Answering Children's Questions
A year after the events of September 11th, Peter Jennings again moderates a “town meeting” exploring the aftermath of that shattering day. He brings together children, parents, teachers and experts to ask and answer questions.
09/11/2002 - ABC |
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In Search of America
Headquarters
Peter Jennings visits Frito Lay headquarters in Plano, Texas, to explore the idea so central to America: free enterprise. Why is the world becoming so “American”? How are essential American ideas about freedom and the right to work hard to earn a better life spreading to every continent? The answer may have a lot more to do with potato chips than with politics.
09/07/2002 - ABC |
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In Search of America
Streets
Gary, Indiana, is 88% black and was supposed to be a place where the promise of equality took on political reality for black Americans. But 35 years after electing the country’s first black mayor the promise remains unfulfilled. Peter Jennings reports from a city confronting the enduring legacy of slavery, America’s racial divide and the elusive promise of equality and prosperity.
09/07/2002 - ABC |
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In Search of America
God's Country
In the God-fearing town of Aiken, South Carolina, a group pushing to teach creationism in schools, a calendar created for charity featuring some of the town’s grand dames posing naked, and the mayor’s campaign for character building have turned Aiken into a microcosm of the American dilemma over godliness, values, and morality.
09/06/2002 - ABC |
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In Search of America
Homeland
Who gets to be an American? In a country that defines itself by ideals, not by shared blood, who should be allowed to come here, work here, and live here? In the wake of 9/11, Peter Jennings finds the immigration dilemma has made its way into even the most unexpected parts of the country – in this case very white, very Mormon, Salt Lake City.
09/05/2002 - ABC |
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In Search of America
The Stage
This film is a poignant look at what happens to a high school class in Boulder, Colorado, that decided to put on a production of the Broadway musical Hair…about rebellion, the Vietnam era, and their parents’ generation. Rehearsals began while the country was at peace …and then came September 11th. Suddenly patriotism, protest, and the strength of American ideas took on a new and greater meaning.
09/04/2002 - ABC |
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In Search of America
Call of the Wild
What role do we want government to play in our lives? This film looks at the reintroduction by the federal government of the once nearly extinct grey wolf to Idaho. For ranchers the reintroduction of wolves is seen as sentimental idiocy that threatens livestock, human beings and a way of life. For conservationists it is the government looking to the future and preserving a natural treasure. It is a struggle over power, land and liberty.
09/03/2002 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Bitter Medicine: Pills, Profit and the Public Health
Amid the debate on the ever-rising price of prescription drugs, Peter Jennings asks just how valuable are all the new, expensive drugs coming on the market. Jennings finds that often new and expensive drugs are no better -- and sometimes worse -- than the drugs they replace.
05/29/2002 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Minefield: The United States and the Muslim World
With a large map as a backdrop, Peter Jennings takes viewers on a ‘tour’ of the political, religious and strategic minefields of the Islamic world, providing a country-by-country risk assessment of the current crisis.
10/11/2001 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Town Meeting
Answering Children's Questions
September 11th explores questions that children have and how parents, teachers and other adults might help them better understand what has happened and what lies ahead.
09/15/2001 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
The Gunfight
Peter Jennings exposes the inner working of the most powerful grassroots organization in America: The National Rifle Association. The program, which aired just a month before the 2000 elections, explores the NRA's staggering influence on elections and public policy, and revealed the Association's strategy for defeating Al Gore.
10/09/2000 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Family Business
In this two-part film, Peter Jennings takes a comparative look at the lives and characters of the two principal candidates vying for the presidency in 2000. Al Gore and George W. Bush led lives that are eerily similar, and in other ways could not be more different. By talking to family and lifelong friends, and examining each candidate’s triumphs and failures, Jennings finds important contrasts in Governor Bush and Vice President Gore’s temperaments, philosophies and characters.
09/15/2000 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
The Search for Jesus
Peter Jennings goes in search of Jesus, retracing his steps and searching for clues about the life of the social and spiritual revolutionary who changed our world.
06/26/2000 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Dark Horizon: India, Pakistan and the Bomb
At a time in which India and Pakistan are on the brink of their fourth full-scale war in the past 50 years, Peter Jennings travels to both countries and the war-torn, disputed territory of Kashmir to report on how close the adversaries have come to nuclear war.
03/20/2000 - ABC |
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The Century
The Evolution of Revolution: Facing the New Millennium
The great thinkers of our day put the 20th century into perspective and offer their wisdom, philosophy and vision for the future.
04/10/1999 - ABC |
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The Century
The Evolution of Revolution: Live From Tehran
The story of the Iran hostage crisis is a dramatic saga about a far-away revolution that quickly became as close as the television set when the American Embassy in Teheran was attacked and Americans were taken hostage. For the first time, Americans would see, live in their living rooms, the effects their actions and policies had on the global village.
04/10/1999 - ABC |
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The Century
Coming Apart: Picture This
The movies reached the height of their propaganda power just as a new epic struggle began between the East and West. The resulting battle to control the content of the century’s most influential art form is a high-pitched drama which puts both the anxieties of the Cold War and the extraordinary influence of Hollywood into fresh perspective.
04/08/1999 - ABC |
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The Century
Coming Apart: Nothing to Fear
On Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s inauguration day in March of 1933, federal troops were on alert to prevent the violence many anticipated. FDR’s calm reassurances saved that day, but most of his efforts over the following four years failed miserably. The real story of those desperate years paints a picture of America rarely seen or told -- America on the edge of chaos.
04/08/1999 - ABC |
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The Century
Memphis Dreams: Searching for the Promised Land
Martin Luther King did not want to go to Memphis when first asked in 1968 -- the strike by the sanitation workers seemed like a distraction. But old friends insisted and so he went, discovering the cause of the garbage men was as basic as civil rights itself. This is the dramatic and emotional but little-known story of the final days of one of the greatest Americans of the century, and the struggle that led to his death.
04/05/1999 - ABC |
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The Century
Memphis Dreams: Innocence and Rebellion
“Before Elvis there was nothing,” or so said John Lennon. When a 19-year-old truck driver walked into Sun Studios on Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, on July 5, 1954, no one knew how quickly everything would change. Elvis Presley harnessed the forces of sex, money, youth, music, technology and race, transforming our culture, the country and much of the world.
04/05/1999 - ABC |
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The Century
No Man's Land: The Fall
The enduring lessons of the limits of America's power unfolded during the last months of the Vietnam War. America had begun the century fighting to save democracy; by 1975 it had taken a tragic turn. This film tells the story of those final dramatic days, with stunning tales of heroism, rescue, and escape.
04/03/1999 - ABC |
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The Century
No Man's Land: The Great War
It was the event that dragged America onto the world stage. And for the soldiers in the trenches it was the bloodiest, most brutal war ever, where the values of honor in battle and decency under fire gave way to lawless terror. This is the story of the first time America fought to “save the world for democracy,” and lost its innocence along the way.
04/03/1999 - ABC
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The Century
Ultimate Power: The Race
The story of the atom bomb is one of suspense, intrigue, setbacks, triumphs and morality. It started in 1938 when a German chemist split the atom and scientists around the world realized it was possible to build the ultimate weapon. Whoever did it first could control the world. The Germans got a head start as refugee Jewish scientists in America struggled to convince Roosevelt to get involved. But after Pearl Harbor the race was on, and the outcome would change the world forever
04/01/1999 - ABC |
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The Century
Ultimate Power: Evil Rising
In a fiercely cautionary tale, a down-and-out drifter turned demagogue worked his way from prison to ultimate power by employing a beguiling combination of lying, luck, clever political maneuvering and murder. We all know what Adolf Hitler did once in power, but few remember or understand the tale of his evil rise.
04/01/1999 - ABC |
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The Century
Heaven and Earth: First Step
Lindbergh’s legacy of adventure, courage and discovery set the stage for the Americans who designed, built and flew the missions that culminated in Neil Armstrong’s most famous first step on the moon. This is the untold story of political infighting, technical near-disasters, and personal dramas that took place behind the scenes.
03/29/1999 - ABC |
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Heaven and Earth: Lindbergh's Journey
Accomplishing the unthinkable by crossing the vast ocean alone in a plane he designed himself, Charles Lindbergh’s flight stands through the century as a peerless act of individual daring. It is the story of a moment, told by the men and women who lived it, which changed our civilization, shrank our world, and expanded our notion of the possible.
03/29/1999 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
The American Game
A look at Little League baseball and American life. Peter Jennings follows a Hagerstown, Maryland, Little League team as they pursue a World Series championship. It is an emotional summer journey about the pursuit of dreams and the loss of innocence. “In short,” says Jennings, “the program is about the difference between what we say we want for our children and how we really act.”
07/30/1998 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Dangerous World: The Kennedy Years
A two-hour special, “Dangerous World” is a co-production with Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. It explores the complicated life and the secrets of President John F. Kennedy and what it was like at the center of power during some of the darkest days of the Cold War.
12/04/1997 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Unfinished Business: The CIA and Saddam Hussein
This primetime special investigates the Central Intelligence Agency’s efforts to eliminate the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein.
06/26/1997 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Who is Tim McVeigh?
Nearly two years after the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, Tim McVeigh goes on trial, accused of the most deadly act of terrorism in the history of the United States. The program contains additional material updating a previous broadcast: “Peter Jennings Reporting: Rage and Betrayal -- The Lives of Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols.”
04/10/1997 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Town Meeting
Kids, Parents and Straight Talk on Drugs
What is the worst thing or the best thing a parent can say to a kid when trying to have a real conversation about drugs? Peter Jennings hosts a special forum for parents and kids to talk about this important subject. “Our job is to make it crystal clear to parents what they and their kids are facing,” Jennings says, “And there is no one better to tell parents the cold, unvarnished truth than the kids themselves.” The studio audience includes teenagers, teachers, parents, and experts on drug addiction and its consequences.
03/30/1997 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Pot of Gold
Ounce for ounce, marijuana is worth as much or more than gold. So, no wonder so many Americans are growing marijuana for profit. By many estimates it is the country’s number one crash crop. Peter Jennings examines America’s multi-billion dollar underground marijuana economy.
03/13/1997 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Jerusalem Stories
Every ancient king and conqueror wanted Jerusalem. Nearly every army in the ancient world, and some in the modern world, has made its presence known here. Peter Jennings, who has been reporting on Jerusalem for almost 30 years, returns to explore the city sacred to Muslims, Christians and Jews. “We’ll take viewers places tourists don’t go,” Jennings says, “It’s a place where past and present are always bumping into each other, and for people from all over the world, there is something about Jerusalem that’s irresistible.”
12/19/1996 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Never Say Die: How the Cigarette Companies Keep on Winning
Despite the assaults on the tobacco industry from regulators and politicians, Peter Jennings reveals how through clever marketing, aggressive lawyering and big-money lobbying the tobacco industry not only survives, but even thrives.
06/27/1996 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Rage and Betrayal
An intimate portrait of the relationships and events which shaped the lives of Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the two men accused of the single worst act of terrorism in U.S. history. Bill McVeigh traces his son’s devolution from “comic book collector” to drifter, gun dealer and “patriot.” The story of Terry Nichols is recounted through the observations of his father, his brother, his son, and his first wife.
04/11/1996 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Hiroshima: Why We Dropped the Bomb
Using contemporaneous records left by participants, such as diary entries, memoranda, minutes of meetings, intelligence reports, decoded diplomatic cables, as well as interviews with historians, Peter Jennings addresses the most controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan at the end of World War II. Were there alternatives? Did we need to be the first and only nation to use the atomic bomb? Did the bomb shorten the war?
07/27/1995 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
The Peacekeepers: How the U.N. Failed in Bosnia
Three years ago in Bosnia, the United Nations launched the largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation in its 50-year history. Despite thousands of troops and billions of dollars, the UN has done little to stop the brutal aggression and slaughter of innocent civilians. In this third special on the war in the former Yugoslavia, Peter Jennings examines why.
04/24/1995 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
In the Name of God
While mainline Protestant denominations have been declining since the 1950s, America’s hunger for spiritual meaning seems to be intensifying. Some of the nation’s evangelical churches are answering those needs through controversial forms of worship that are having a wide-ranging impact throughout mainline Christian denominations. “This is not a program about the religious right or errant televangelists,” says Peter Jennings. “It is a program about the changing face of church in America.”
03/16/1995 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
House on Fire: America's Haitian Crisis
It has neither aggressive designs on its neighbors nor a burgeoning nuclear weapons program. Instead, Haiti is a small, impoverished nation of no strategic value. And yet, the United States is increasingly viewing an invasion as a feasible way of deposing the military government, stemming the flow of refugees and restoring President Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.
07/27/1994 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
While America Watched: The Bosnian Tragedy
For genocide to happen, you don't need Nazis or ovens. You need only killers and victims. And those who stand by and let it happen. Could the Bush and Clinton administrations have saved any of the hundreds of thousands who have died in the former Yugoslavia? Peter Jennings returns to the Balkans for this second prime-time special, and looks at how U.S. leaders made the decision to stand aside for so long while scenes of mass murder and genocide revisited Europe.
03/17/1994 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
The Land of the Demons
Peter Jennings tells some of the personal stories of survival in the former Yugoslavia, as he reports on the global implications of the death and destruction. "I wanted to go to Sarajevo,” says Jennings, “because a great many people were being slaughtered in a manner which was altogether too reminiscent of World War II -- a war from which we thought we were going to learn more -- and after which the world said, 'Never again’."
03/13/1993 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
The Cocaine War: Lost in Bolivia
The U.S. government is spending millions of dollars each year on interdiction efforts, but will adding more guns, more helicopters, and more border patrols ever make a difference? Peter Jennings examines America's war on drugs, focusing on Bolivia, a country that produces a third of the world's cocaine and where one in every five people owes his economic survival to traffickers.
12/28/1992 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
The Missiles of October: What the World Didn’t Know
Peter Jennings goes behind the scene of the Cuban Missile Crisis. "After 30 years we finally understand how close we were to nuclear disaster," he says. "The leaders of all three countries involved were operating with little or no idea of what the other was planning, which put the world closer to the brink than anyone either knew or was willing to admit."
10/27/1992 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Who is Ross Perot?
While undeclared Presidential candidate Ross Perot has captured the nation's attention and risen to the top of the national polls, what do Americans really know about him? This film looks beyond the political phenomenon of Ross Perot to focus on Ross Perot the man -- how he got where he is today and what has kept him there.
06/29/1992 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Men, Sex and Rape
This one-hour special examines rape, focusing on the male point of view. Through interviews with rapists and their victims, Peter Jennings discusses how men perceive women, why men rape, the boundary between rape and consensual sex -- and whether men actually understand it.
05/05/1992 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
From the Heart of Harlem
An investigation into the financial troubles of the Dance Theater of Harlem, this program traces the dance company from it’s beginnings in a Harlem basement, to success on the world dance stage, to the brink of bankruptcy.
07/25/1991 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
A Line in the Sand: War or Peace?
An analysis of the Middle Eastern political environment, which led to the August 1990 Iraqi attack on oil-rich Kuwait. Peter Jennings looks at Saddam Hussein's relationship with Western countries and America’s decision to become involved in the highly volatile situation.
01/14/1991 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
The New Civil War
In this election season, Peter Jennings reports from the front lines of the abortion war - “the most explosive social and political issue in America” - and illustrates just how polarized and politicized the debate is.
11/01/1990 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
A Line in the Sand
Documenting the beginning of the Gulf War, this program details what American military forces encountered in battle and what many people view as the underlying cause of the six-week-long war: oil.
09/11/1990 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
From the Killing Fields: Beyond Vietnam
Peter Jennings anchors an in-depth investigative report from inside the war-torn country of Cambodia, and hosts a discussion with prominent individuals, including General William Westmoreland, about Vietnam and Cambodia 15 years after the "end" of the war. Is the U.S. assisting the Khmer Rouge directly or indirectly? Is America still fighting the Vietnam War--in Cambodia?
04/26/1990 - ABC |
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Peter Jennings Reporting
Guns
Peter Jennings goes to Stockton, California, where Patrick Purdy killed five children and wounded 30 with an AK-47 assault rifle, to report on national debate on gun control.
01/24/1990 - ABC |
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