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A Matter of Survival

Date: 1970-05-28 Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center

A panel consisting of the top level statesmen and a noted journalist who attended the Conference on Survival at the United Nations assesses the effectiveness of the UN in bringing about international cooperation. Panelists are: Lester Pearson, former prime minister of Canada; Leo Mates, former ambassador of Yugoslavia to the United States; Carlos P. Romulo, former Philippine delegate to the UN and president to the UN Security Council; Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, who has bee......

This Week with Bill Moyers; 111; Farewell, Mouth of Wilson

Date: 1971-12-13 Producing Organization: NET Public Affairs

Bill Moyers discusses the government proposal to double the capacity of a proposed dam on the Mew River in Virginia and periodically flush the industrially polluted Kanawha River in Charleston, West Virginia. The larger dam would displace some 5000 people in two states. Moyers discusses the project with residents of Mouth of Wilson, Virginia.

Bill Moyers Journal; 106; Justice Delayed

Date: 1972-12-19

Thirty months after the Kent State University tragedy, the government still refuses to call a federal grand jury to investigate the killing of four students. The parents of a murdered student, the president of Kent State and anguished eye-witnesses want to know why.

Bill Moyers Journal; 108; The Americans

Date: 1973-01-02

Bill Moyers interviews Americans around the country about the nation’s present and future. Moyers talks with the father of the first GI killed in Vietnam; the fathers of a conscientious objector. And football’s famed Joe Namath.

Bill Moyers Journal; 114; Not My Child

Date: 1973-02-13

A two-block area in Philadelphia embodies the public vs. private schools debate. There, neighborhood children attend 26 private schools although there is a good public school in the area.

Bill Moyers Journal; 123; Times Square Sunday

Date: 1973-04-17

An anatomy of the seemingly random, motivation-less and savage murder of a retired New York policeman, Frank D'Onofrio. The program looks at D'Onofrio’s life as well as the background of the young suspect charged with the crime.

Bill Moyers Journal; 124; If Elected...

Date: 1973-04-24

This documentary focuses on Warren R. McGraw, Democratic senatorial candidate from Raleigh and Wyoming Counties in West Virginia, as he runs against incumbent Senator Tracy W. Hylton. Strip mining is a major issue in the district.

Bill Moyers Journal; 129; An Essay on Watergate

Date: 1973-10-31

Bill Moyers examines Watergate and asks whether immorality is intrinsic to American life today. Moyers traces his own ideals and discusses the skepticism created by Watergate, contending that a desire for power drove the illegal mission. Henry Steele Commager concurs. Incorporating film of Watergate testimony of Gordon Strachan, John Dean, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell, and others, Moyers analyzes the atmosphere of paranoia in the Nixon administration and concludes that althou......

Bill Moyers Journal; 131; The Oregon Attitude

Date: 1973-11-14

Oregon residents debate the issues of population, industrial growth and land-use planning. Afraid of turning their land into a California-type sprawl of shopping centers and housing tracts, but aware that their state must continue to develop economically and industrially, the citizens sought ways to limit growth through balanced planning. Bill Moyers talks with Republican Governor Tom McCall, local environmentalists, residents and land owners.

Bill Moyers Journal; 132; A Conversation with Maya Angelou

Date: 1973-11-21

Bill Moyers interviews Maya Angelou, playwright, lecturer, director, singer, dancer, actress, editor and political activist. Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, offers her perspective on Black and white in American culture.

Bill Moyers Journal; 134; This Neighborhood is Obsolete

Date: 1973-12-05

An examination of two Chicago communities locked in a struggle with their local savings and loan associations. Though the citizens of Austin and Rogers Park were determined to make their declining neighborhoods viable once more, they were encountering stiff resistance from the banking community. Bill Moyers examined banking policies which, he said, contribute wittingly and unwittingly to neighborhood decay in Chicago and throughout the rest of the country.

Bill Moyers Journal; 137; The Interpreter

Date: 1973-12-26

In the mountains of North Carolina, Bill Moyers captured a remarkable encounter between people who bare their souls to one another in search of ways to cope with modern life. At the center of the hour-long film is the commanding Baptist minister Carlyle Marney, who has led thousands of clergymen and lay people through an intense journey in search of self-understanding and moral courage.

Bill Moyers Journal; 203; Kent State: Struggle for Justice

Date: 1974-01-16

A report revealing the new legal developments surrounding the May 4, 1970 slayings of four Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard. Bill Moyers talks with those who helped to keep the issue in front of the public: Peter Davies, author of THE TRUTH ABOUT KENT STATE: A CHALLENGE TO THE AMERICAN CONSCIENCE, and Assistant Attorney General J. Stanley Pottinger, the Justice Department official in direct charge of the government’s new investigation.

Bill Moyers Journal; 204; A Question of Impeachment

Date: 1974-01-22

In an examination of the case for and against the impeachment of Richard Nixon, Bill Moyers explores the complex political history and legal process of American impeachment. Moyers talks with the House Judiciary Committee and constitutional lawyers and scholars.

Bill Moyers Journal; 205; Harry Bridges

Date: 1974-01-29

In this rare television interview, Bill Moyers talks with the veteran labor titan Harry Bridges, long-time president of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union. They look back at the turbulent early days of unionism in the United States and the current state of the working man.

Bill Moyers Journal; 207; Living Free in the Rockies

Date: 1974-02-12

Bill Moyers visits the Rocky Mountain home of Stuart Mace, a genetic biologist who, 30 years ago, gave up the academic world for a life on 400 acres of land near Aspen, Colorado. Moyers follows Mace on a dogsled journey through the mountains, exploring the lifestyle and philosophy of this modern American pioneer.

Bill Moyers Journal; 208; A Conversation with Lillian Hellman-Part 1

Date: 1974-02-26

Bill Moyers talks with writer Lillian Hellman about her complicated life and her intellectual and political concerns. Hellman was a cultural emissary during World War II and visited the Russian front. She discusses her relationship with Dashiell Hammett, her politics, and the trauma of the McCarthy era which left her unable to write about the period. Part 1 of 2.

Washington Straight Talk; Pat Buchanan

Date: 1974-03-18 Producing Organization: NPACT

Bill Moyers talks with Pat Buchanan of the Nixon administration about the Watergate situation. Buchanan says the investigation of the alleged cover up is far reaching and the Judiciary Committee should review all the documents they requested before demanding more from the White House. Buchanan agrees that no one should be above the law but posits that Impeachment might be more harmful to the country than prosecuting the alleged crime. The conversation questions presidential power and the rule......

Bill Moyers Journal; 212; A Conversation with Henry Steele Commager

Date: 1974-03-26

Henry Steele Commager, professor of American history at Amherst College, discusses Alexis de Tocqueville's DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA. Commager says dangers predicted by de Tocqueville -- centralization and bureaucracy, tyranny of the majority and a fragile state of social, and political equality -- have become real. Commager describes the crucial struggle in America as the reconciliation of democracy with liberty and justice.

Bill Moyers Journal; 214; A Conversation with Lillian Hellman-Part 2

Date: 1974-04-09

Bill Moyers continues his conversation with writer Lillian Hellman, one of the most prominent playwrights in the history of American theater: author of THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, WATCH ON THE RHINE, THE LITTLE FOXES and ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. Hellman discusses her own temperament and her ambivalent attitude toward her success. Part 2 of 2.

Bill Moyers Journal; 218; Washington Notebook

Date: 1974-05-07

Bill Moyers provides a personal view of the Capitol and the people in it, who, although not household names, help keep the ship of state on an even keel. He discusses Watergate with: Senator Joseph R. Biden of Delaware; Richard Strout, correspondent for the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR; George Will of the NATIONAL REVIEW; and Barbara Sizemore, Superintendent of the Washington Public Schools and others.

Is there Hope for Man? Part 1

Date: 1975-03-08 Producing Organization: KUT Radio /Longhorn Radio Network

Bill Moyers speaks about journalists' task of covering the survival of the human race, part 1

Bill Moyers Journal; 301; Rosedale: The Way It Is

Date: 1976-01-18

Bill Moyers takes an in-depth look at Rosedale, a nearly all-white community of six thousand families in the borough of Queens, New York. Since the summer of 1974, some residents have been protesting against Black families moving into the area. Moyers talks with the Spencers, a Black family whose been met with hostility and members of R.O.A.R. (Return Our American Rights), a Rosedale real estate referral service dedicated to keeping Rosedale white.

Bill Moyers Journal; 302; A Conversation with James Dickey

Date: 1976-01-25

Bill Moyers talks with poet and novelist James Dickey near his home in Columbia, South Carolina. Dickey’s novel DELIVERANCE was adapted into a popular movie. Their conversation ranges from Camus to southern cooking. Dickey reflects on the contradiction between the South’s reputed tradition of civility and "that skeleton in the closet," slavery.

Bill Moyers Journal; 303; Cowboys

Date: 1976-01-30

Bill Moyers talks with three cowboys in northwestern Colorado. The lifestyles of these men, a segment of the population which helped build this nation, seems to have little place in its future.

Bill Moyers Journal; 304; The People Against Redlining

Date: 1976-02-08

Bill Moyers follows the banking policy of redlining, in which borrowers in certain geographic areas are denied loans and mortgages on the basis of race and class. The practice is credited with perpetuating inequality in housing. A panel discussion follows with: Ralph Goetze of the Boston Redevelopment Association; Gale Sincotta, an outspoken critic of redlining; and William B. O’Connell of the United States League of Savings Associations.

Bill Moyers Journal; 306; Reflections on a Revolution

Date: 1976-02-22

In a personal essay, Bill Moyers reflects on the relevance of the American Revolution to the 1970s. Bill talks about current state of America on the eve of the historical celebration of its birth. Guests include: Henry Steele Commager, George Gallup and Daniel Bell.

Bill Moyers Journal; 306; Reflections on a Revolution; Part 1

Date: 1976-02-22

A personal essay on the relevance, if any, of the American Revolution to the 1970s, as Bill Moyers examined the nations ambivalence on the eve of the historical celebration of its birth. Guest were: Henry Steele Commager, George Gallup and Daniel Bell.

Bill Moyers Journal; 307; The New Equality: How Much and for Whom?

Date: 1976-02-29

Scholars offer their views on the American Dream: Frances Fox Piven, a political scientist and urban planner at Brooklyn College; Nathan Glazer, Harvard University professor of education and sociology; and Vivian Henderson, former president of Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia, and former member of the U.S. National Commission to UNESCO and author of several books on the economics of Black communities.

Bill Moyers Journal; 308; A Conversation with Archibald MacLeish

Date: 1976-03-07

Bill Moyers interviews 83-year-old poet and public servant Archibald MacLeish. The poet speaks of his love for his rural home, the value of manual labor, and the joys of old age. MacLeish recalls his career as a law student, poet, librarian of Congress, his six-year stay in Paris, and the fall of France in 1940. The three-time Pulitzer prize-winner reads from his work and discusses his search for an understanding of God and for a solution to the feeling of powerlessness in the modern world.

Bill Moyers Journal; 309; Aaron Copland

Date: 1976-03-14

Bill Moyers talks with composer Aaron Copland about his early years and his use of jazz and ragtime in creating ballets and film scores.

USA: People and Politics; A Conversation With Jimmy Carter

Date: 1976-05-06 Producing Organization: WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), WETA-TV

"'A Conversation With Jimmy Carter' is an hour-long discussion between the then-candidate and Bill Moyers, principal reporter of the public television series 'USA: People and Politics', which was broadcast as a special edition of that series. "In an informal talk filmed at a friend's living room in Washington, D.C., Moyers and Carter discussed the forces that affected the candidate's character and his development. These two men with similar backgrounds and motivations covered a range of subje......

Bill Moyers Journal; 401; Harvest

Date: 1979-02-05

Bill Moyers follows modern pioneers George and Hansine Fisher, former New Yorkers now living on a North Dakota farm where they grapple with the anxieties of their first harvest and the home birth of their second child.

Bill Moyers Journal; 402; Carter and Country

Date: 1979-02-12

Bill Moyers reports on the 1978 conference on America and the Carter Presidency, examining the cultural and moral significance of Carter's presidency. Among the conference participants were: Nicholas von Hoffman, political critic and author of MAKE BELIEVE PRESIDENTS: ILLUSIONS OF POWER FROM McKINLEY TO CARTER; James Fallows, former Carter chief speechwriter; and William Miller, author of YANKEE FROM GEORGIA.

Bill Moyers Journal; 403; Poet at Large: A Conversation with Robert Bly

Date: 1979-02-19

Minnesota poet Robert Bly published his first book of poems in 1962 after living in solitude for three years. Bly was one of the first American writers to publicly attack the U.S. government's involvement in Vietnam. In a candid interview with Bill Moyers, Bly talks about his poetry of the unconscious, protests against the Vietnam War, and his new interest in fairy tales for men.

Bill Moyers Journal; 404; Trance: Wallace LaBaw

Date: 1979-02-26

Bill Moyers interviews Dr. Wallace LaBaw, a Denver, Colorado child psychiatrist who advocates the use of self-hypnosis or trance therapy as a means of relieving chronic pain, insomnia, hypertension, hemophilia and anxiety-related illnesses.

Bill Moyers Journal; 405; The People of Nes Ammim

Date: 1979-03-05

THE PEOPLE OF NES AMMIM is a portrait of a unique Christian community in Northern Israel. The community is grappling with Christian guilt over the long history of Jewish persecution and the Holocaust.

Bill Moyers Journal; 406; No Easy Walk to Freedom

Date: 1979-03-12

Famed actor James Earl Jones reads the writings of Nelson Mandela, the Black patriot imprisoned by the South African government for his revolutionary activities against apartheid.

Bill Moyers Journal; 409; Andrew Young Remembers Martin Luther King

Date: 1979-04-02

United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young honors his close friend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. The program follows the civil rights movement from Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 to the growth of the movement in northern cities, and Dr. King's controversial stand against the Vietnam War.

Bill Moyers Journal; 410; Death of a Family

Date: 1979-04-09

On November 28, 1976, Harry De La Roche, Jr. murdered his two brothers and his parents. DEATH OF A FAMILY examines the motives and events behind the violent family crime that shocked a small New Jersey town.

Bill Moyers Journal; 413; Keep Out of the Reach of Children? Part 2

Date: 1979-04-30

American children watch as many as 20,000 commercials per year. Annual spending for commercials on children's products is six hundred million dollars. Moyers outlines new rules proposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulating commercials aimed at children, including a ban on all television commercials aimed at children under eight. Another proposed change would require that sponsors pay for "counter-advertising" of a nutritional nature in order to counter television commercials for s......

Bill Moyers Journal; 415; A Conversation with Ronald Reagan

Date: 1979-05-14

Bill Moyers talks with former governor of California and undeclared candidate for president, Ronald Reagan, at his California ranch. Reagan lays out reasons for wanting to become president and his presidential qualifications. Moyers queries Reagan about his early support of New Deal politics and subsequent shift to conservatism, his anti-communist work as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and his philosophies of government and welfare and tax reform.

Bill Moyers Journal; 417; Faith in Politics

Date: 1979-05-28

Bill Moyers talks with British theologian Rev. Edward Norman and Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Jr. of the Riverside Church in New York City about the role of religion in modern society.

Bill Moyers Journal; 418; How to Get a Job

Date: 1979-06-04

HOW TO GET A JOB looks at the methods used by Self-Directed Placement Corporation, a government-sponsored employment program in San Diego, California. Chuck Hoffman heads the business which has outstanding success teaching people thought to be “unemployable” how to get a job.

Bill Moyers Journal; 420; Women Inside

Date: 1979-06-18

Bill Moyers examines the realities of an often ignored segment of society. Moyers talks with inmates at the Dade Country Women's Detention Center in Miami, Florida about their incarceration, their future and their children on the outside.

Bill Moyers Journal; 423; The Other Dissident

Date: 1979-07-09

Georgi Vins arrived in the United States in April, 1978, two days after being released from a Siberian prison. Vins, a Baptist minister, spent the last ten years in jail for his public activities on behalf of Christianity. Bill Moyers talks with him about his experiences working for freedom of conscience and what it means to be a dissenter in exile.

Bill Moyers Journal; 426; Looking For India

Date: 1979-07-30

To close season four of BILL MOYERS JOURNAL, Bill Moyers revisits stories from around America. He muses, "While reading a biography of Christopher Columbus the other day, it occurred to me that Columbus' experience qualified him to be a television producer. When he set forth on his voyage he didn't know where he was going. When he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he returned he wasn't sure where he had been."

Bill Moyers Journal; 502; The World of David Rockefeller

Date: 1980-02-07

Bill Moyers travels and talks with David Rockefeller, one of the "world's best known capitalists." The discussion covers Marxist Nicaragua's ability to repay its debts, the economic management of Italy and Rockefeller’s views on the concept of a ruling class. Moyers joins Rockefeller as he meets with clients in the Vatican and visits West German President Karl Carstens, a charter member of Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission.

Bill Moyers Journal; 504; A Reporter's Notebook

Date: 1980-02-21

Bill Moyers talks with John Anderson on the 1980 campaign trail in New Hampshire and about the book, DIARY OF A DARK HORSE: THE 1980 ANDERSON PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. Later, media critic Ron Powers analyzes campaign commercials and THE JOURNAL covers the presidential race in Dayton, Ohio.

Bill Moyers Journal; 509; The Black Agenda

Date: 1980-03-27

Bill Moyers travels to Richmond, Virginia for a conference on the Black Agenda for the 80's. The program features Andrew Young, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Vernon Jordan, Mayor Coleman Young, Mayor Marion Barry and others.

Bill Moyers Journal; 510; The Detroit Model

Date: 1980-04-03

Bill Moyers examines Detroit’s struggle to survive. The city is a metaphor for the way our economy is being radically altered by American plants closing down and moving overseas. Moyers talks with auto industry workers about their concern for the welfare of their families. The program follows efforts of public and private sector to find solutions. The report also documents how Chrysler began to flourish again after Lee Iacocca and other CEOs convinced Congress to fund a massive bailout.

Bill Moyers Journal; 511; A Texas Notebook

Date: 1980-04-10

Politics Texas style, Bill Moyers takes a looks at the Texas Railroad Commission election between incumbent James Nugent and his "populist" challenger Jim Hightower. And Moyers returns to his alma mater for a conversation with noted University of Texas economics professor, Clifton Grubbs.

Bill Moyers Journal; 512; Big Business: Doing Well or Doing Good?

Date: 1980-04-17

During Big Business Day activities in Washington, organizer Alice Tepper Marlin and conservative economist Herbert Stein debate policy. The program also includes a report on Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden’s "economic democracy” tour and an interview with Malcolm Forbes, editor-in-chief of FORBES magazine.

Bill Moyers Journal; 513; The MX Debate

Date: 1980-04-24

Bill Moyers moderates a live debate among private citizens, scientists and government officials about the MX missile launching system to be built in the deserts of Utah and Nevada.

Bill Moyers Journal; 514; Voices on Iran-Part 1

Date: 1980-05-01

Panel discussion with Mansour Farhang, the Iranian ambassador to the U.N.; Professor Edward Said of Columbia University, an expert on Islam and the Middle East; and Eqbal Ahmad of the Institute for Policy Studies. And Professor William Dorman reviews press coverage of the Iran crisis. Part 1 of 2

Bill Moyers Journal; 514; Voices on Iran-Part 2

Date: 1980-05-08

Bill Moyers continues his conversation with Iranian Ambassador Mansour Farhang and Professor Farhad Kazemi about the role of Islam in the Iranian revolution. And Dr. Catherine Bateson, anthropologist, linguist and educator talks about her seven years in Iran. Part 2 of 2

Bill Moyers Journal; 516; Within Our Power

Date: 1980-05-22

THE JOURNAL reports on an alternative energy program in Franklin County, Massachusetts. Moyers talks with Hazel Henderson, author and economist; and discusses federal funding for energy projects with Congressman Richard Ottinger.