Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL:ANNOUNCER: Suppose for a moment that the lights of this theater of ours went dark. What then? What would serve instead? NARRATION: Covid 19 isn’t the first time Hollywood has been disrupted by a pandemic – the 1918 flu influenced the strategy of studio titan […]
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Transcript: How the Korean War Changed the Way the U.S. Goes to Battle
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (ASSOCIATED PRESS, 1953):NEWS REEL: South Korean villages awoke to a world suddenly filled with noise and flame. The Communists had finally launched their undeclared, all-out war of conquest! NARRATION: In the summer of 1950, the U.S. watched with alarm as North Korean Communists invaded […]
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Transcript: Why the Cold War Race for Nuclear Weapons Is Still a Threat
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (CIVIL DEFENSE FILM, 1957):[Sirens] This is not a test. The United States is under nuclear attack. NARRATION: In the 1950s and ‘60s, a government campaign made sure that Americans were prepared for the possibility of a nuclear attack from our main adversary, the Soviet […]
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Transcript: The Cold War on TV: Joseph McCarthy vs. Edward R. Murrow
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (WPA FILM LIBRARY, 1950s):JOSEPH MCCARTHY: This fight to expose those who would destroy this nation will go on and on. GEOFFREY KABASERVICE (AUTHOR, “RULE AND RUIN”): Populism is a force that is as old as the American republic. It tends to become very much […]
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Transcript: How the Cold War Arms Race Fueled a Sprint to the Moon
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (NASA):Nine. Ignition sequence start. Six, five, four…. NARRATION: We remember the science and engineering that first put a man on the moon. ARCHIVAL (APOLLO 11 LIFT OFF, 7-16-19):NASA ANNOUNCER: We have lift off! NARRATION: But there was also another story. DAVID MEERMAN SCOTT (CO-AUTHOR, […]
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Transcript: Shamed by Sex, Survivors of the Purity Movement Confront the Past
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. LINDA KAY KLEIN: We are the legacy of the purity movement, the people who grew up in it, who grapple with its impacts every day. NARRATION: As a Christian teenager growing up in the Midwest in the 1990s, Linda Kay Klein got swept up in […]
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Transcript: Racial Health Disparities Didn’t Start With Covid: The Overlooked History of Polio
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: Black Americans are dying from Covid at twice the rate of whites, as long-standing racial disparities in health are made more apparent by the pandemic — disparities with deep roots in the nation’s past. STACEY D. STEWART: If you’ve been generationally denied access to […]
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Transcript: Burden of Richmond Evictions Weighs Heaviest in Black Neighborhoods
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: In his first days as President, Joe Biden issued a flurry of orders and announcements on a range of issues – immigration, pandemic relief, education. Less noticed were his administration’s moves to deal with another national problem, that of evictions. ARCHIVAL (C-SPAN, 1-22-21):PRESIDENT JOSEPH […]
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Transcript: We’re Catching More Diseases From Wild Animals, and It’s Our Fault.
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. JONATHAN EPSTEIN: There’s really two fundamental questions that we ask when we’re looking at epidemics. How did this happen? And how can we prevent it from happening again? ARCHIVAL (PBS NEWSHOUR, 3-20-20):JUDY WOODRUFF: More of the country is closing down tonight. ARCHIVAL (CBS, CBS THIS […]
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Transcript: How Decades of Housing Discrimination Hurts Fresno in the Pandemic
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (ABC30, 11-30-20):DALE YURONG: Fresno county’s hospitalization rate is approaching levels we haven’t seen since July and August. AMBER CROWELL (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, FRESNO STATE UNIVERSITY): When the pandemic first started, what they told us was to shelter at home. So, that emphasizes how […]
