Andrew McGill

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (ABC, 5-13-12):NEWS ANCHOR: Let the mommy wars begin… ARCHIVAL (THE JENNY JONES SHOW, 1991-1992):JENNY JONES: Full time job or full time mom, what is a mother to do? ARCHIVAL (NBC, 2-18-91):NEWS ANCHOR: Which comes first, the job – or the family? NARRATION: Since the […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: February 2, 1996 ARCHIVAL (THE JERRY SPRINGER SHOW):JERRY SPRINGER: Why don’t you want to go through with the wedding? You say you’ve been a dog. Who have you been a dog with?GUEST: Her best friend NARRATION: In the late 1980s and early […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: July 1, 1946 NARRATION: Less than a year after Hiroshima, the military began a series of classified experiments. ARCHIVAL (U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, 1955):ANNOUNCER: You are here to participate in an atomic maneuver. ARCHIVAL (U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, 1955):ANNOUNCER: The moment of […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: June 14, 1994 ARCHIVAL (CBS, 6-14-94): REPORTER: How many years have you gone without a job? MOTHER: I can’t think how long. It’s been a long time. NARRATION: By the mid-1990s, a drumbeat of media attention had convinced many Americans that people […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: December 2, 1982 ARCHIVAL (ABC, 12-2-82): FRANK REYNOLDS: Barney Clark, 61 years old, a retired dentist. Not long ago, he told a friend, “If I can do something for mankind, I will.” ARCHIVAL (CBS, 12-2-82):DAN RATHER: Today, he made medical history as […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: July 10, 1981 ARCHIVAL (ABC, 7-10-81):NEWS ANCHOR: The Mediterranean fruit fly today brought the federal government and the governor of California into direct confrontation. NARRATION: In the early 1980s, the Mediterranean fruit fly threatened California’s huge agricultural industry. ARCHIVAL (CBS, 8-11-81):NEWS REPORT: […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: November 7, 2000 ARCHIVAL (CNN, 11-7-00):NEWS REPORT: A big call to make, CNN announces that we call Florida in the Al Gore column. ARCHIVAL (CBS, 11-8-00):NEWS REPORT: Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder. ARCHIVAL (ABC, 12-14-00):NEWS REPORT: Florida goes […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: August 22, 1980 ARCHIVAL (ABC, 8-22-80): FRANK REYNOLDS: A major technological advance of great military significance. NARRATION: In 1980, the Pentagon caused a sensation by revealing a new futuristic aircraft technology – called Stealth. ARCHIVAL (NBC, 8-22-80): ANCHOR: An aircraft which will […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: June 1, 1998 ARCHIVAL (NBC, 6-1-98): TOM BROKAW: Is America the land of the heavy… ARCHIVAL (CBS, 7-28-76): DR. MARK HEGSTED: We should eat less meat, we should eat less fat. ARCHIVAL (NBC, 6-1-98): TOM BROKAW: …the hefty… ARCHIVAL (ABC, 2-1-77): NEWS […]