Andrew McGill

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: April 3, 1963 ARCHIVAL (CBS REPORTS, THE SILENT SPRING OF RACHEL CARSON, 4-3-63):ANNOUNCER: This is one of the nation’s bestsellers. Up to now, 500,000 copies have been sold, and ‘Silent Spring’ has been called the most controversial book of the year. NARRATION: […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: April 12, 1955 ARCHIVAL: (MYFOOTAGE.COM, 1962):NEWSREEL: An historic victory over a dread disease… NARRATION: When Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine. ARCHIVAL (MGM, 04-12-55):NEWSREEL: The Salk vaccine against crippling polio has proved to be a sensational success. NARRATION: He famously opposed the […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: July 13, 1985 ARCHIVAL (ABC, WORLD NEWS TONIGHT, 7-12-85): PETER JENNINGS: The idea is fairly simple. Entertainment for millions. Millions of dollars for the starving in Africa. ARCHIVAL (MTV, 7-13-85 and 7-14-85): MTV PROMOTIONAL CLIP: This is what they mean by once […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: December 3, 1969 ARCHIVAL (CBS, 12-3-69):NEWS ANCHOR: In the north, B52 bombers wiped out acres of dense jungle in an effort to destroy enemy artillery. ARCHIVAL (ABC, 8-13-68): NEWS ANCHOR: And the giant bombers’ giant footprints are all over the landscape. NARRATION: […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: June 6, 1978 ARCHIVAL (NBC, 6-16-78): WOMAN: People have to pay all these taxes, they don’t get nothing for it. ARCHIVAL (NBC, 6-16-78): MAN: I feel like screaming. ARCHIVAL (CBS 5-30-78): WOMAN: It’s kinda like a Boston Tea Party, that we’re saying […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: April 7, 2016 ARCHIVAL (ABC, 4-7-16): NEWS REPORT: A school officer throwing a middle-school student to the ground. ARCHIVAL (WUSA 10-27-15):NEWS REPORT: Cell phone video shows the deputy grabbing the student around the neck. ARCHIVAL (WJZ BALTIMORE, 3-1-16): NEWS REPORT: A school […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: Has the government done enough to stop housing discrimination? In the 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement, Congress banned discrimination in voting and employment. But when it came to housing, congress resisted, even though government policies had helped create […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: 1977 ARCHIVAL (PRO-LIFE RALLY, 11-19-77):PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY: We reject the anti-family goals of the Equal Rights Amendment. The American women do not want abortion. They do not want lesbian privileges and they do not want universal childcare in the hands of the government. […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. VICKY RIDEOUT (DIRECTOR OF SPEECHWRITING, 2004 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION): The first time I heard about him was when Jack Corrigan walked into my office and said, “I’m thinking about taking a chance with the keynote on this young guy out of Chicago.” CONVENTIONAL WISDOMTHE SPEECH: […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. Transcript in Spanish MICHAEL BURLINGAME (AUTHOR, “ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A LIFE”): If a particularly powerful issue grabs the public imagination, and you try to sweep it under the rug, that’s not going to work. Eventually push was going to come to shove. CONVENTIONAL WISDOMTHE SPLIT: 1860 […]