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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.

This Week with Bill Moyers; Nicholas Johnson

Date: 1971 Producing Organization: NET News and Public Affairs

This episode is identified in the opening slate as “Pilot 1”.

Bill Moyers Journal; 102; In Land We Trust

Date: 1972-11-21

Georgia’s commune New Communities, Inc., is the largest piece of Black-owned property in the U.S. It now faces economic ruin.

Bill Moyers Journal; 103; No Tears for Rachel

Date: 1972-11-28

NO TEARS FOR RACHEL follows the ordeal of victims of rape — victims who are often made to feel a sense of guilt and shame when they report the crime.

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; 107; Listening to America

Date: 1972-12-26

Folksingers Jean Ritchie and Jeff Warner join youngsters in singing about the holiday season and life in America.

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; 109; An interview with Barbara Tuchman

Date: 1973-01-09

Bill Moyers talks with Barbara Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE GUNS OF AUGUST and the best-selling STILWELL AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA.

Bill Moyers Journal; 110; Waiting for Peace

Date: 1973-01-16

The wife and family of a returning Vietnam POW struggle to relate to the husband and father they have not seen for years.

Bill Moyers Journal; 112; An interview with George F. Kennan

Date: 1973-01-30

Bill Moyers talks with diplomat and historian George F. Kennan. Kennan’s expertise in Russian affairs and his skill in foreign policy have influenced U.S. international relations for decades.

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; 115; Dorothy Day: Still a Rebel

Date: 1973-02-20

An interview with Dorothy Day, the founder of the CATHOLIC WORKER movement and newspaper.

Bill Moyers Journal; 122; Samuel E. Morison

Date: 1973-04-10

Samuel E. Morison, historian, educator, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and retired rear admiral looks back on his career.

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; 126; Walter Cronkite

Date: 1973-05-22

Walter Cronkite, television's most influential newsman, looks back on his life and career in an informal conversation with Bill Moyers.

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; 130; A Conversation with Alistair Cooke

Date: 1973-11-07

Alistair Cooke, the BBC’s long-serving U.S. commentator, offers an Englishmen's perspective on our country, its politics, people and the traumatic events of its recent history.

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.

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