Andrew McGill

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: February 28, 1993 ARCHIVAL (NBC, NIGHTLY NEWS, 2-28-93):NEWS ANCHOR: It happened outside Waco, Texas. A heavily armed compound. A religious cult. ARCHIVAL (CBS, EVENING NEWS, 2-28-93):NEWS ANCHOR: Four law-enforcement agents are dead. ARCHIVAL (CBS, Evening News, 2-28-93):NEWS ANCHOR: Federal Agents prepared for […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: January 28, 1993 ARCHIVAL (NBC NEWS, 1-28-93):TOM BROKAW: A fast food nightmare may be getting worse. ARCHIVAL (NBC, 1-28-93):NEWS REPORT: Hundreds of hospitalizations have been traced to contaminated hamburgers. ARCHIVAL (ABC, 2-1-93):NEWS REPORT: Two children have died and dozens are hospitalized. NARRATION: […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: July 18, 1971 ARCHIVAL (NBC NEWS, 7-18-71):NEWS REPORT: This test shows what can happen to almost every piece of children’s clothing sold in America. ARCHIVAL (CBS NEWS, 2-24-72):MOTHER: At least one child dies every day of fabric related burns. NARRATION: In 1973, […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: December 9, 2014 ARCHIVAL (CNN, 12-08-14):NEWS REPORT: The Obama Administration braces for an explosive report on the Bush Administration’s use of torture. NARRATION: More than a decade after instituting new harsh interrogation techniques, extensive details about their use were revealed… ARCHIVAL (CBS, […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. DATE: August 17, 1989 ARCHIVAL (NBC NIGHTLY NEWS, 8-17-89):TOM BROKAW: They have a lot to talk about tonight in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida neighborhood. This was the day of the snake. NARRATION: It was the snake that made national news – 20-feet, 250 pounds – […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: June 6, 1990 ARCHIVAL (PBS, FRONTLINE, THE KEVORKIAN FILE, 4-5-94):JACK KEVORKIAN: I’m Dr. Jack Kevorkian, licensed doctor in Michigan. Do you want to go on?JANET: No I don’t want to go on.JACK KEVORKIAN: You don’t want to go on living?JANET: I don’t. ARCHIVAL […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: March 7, 1965 NARRATION: It happened half a century ago: Bloody Sunday, a massacre on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama – Blacks getting beaten for daring to demand the right to vote. A recent movie called “Selma,” dramatized the prominent […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: November 9, 1987 ARCHIVAL: (ABC, EVENING NEWS, 11-9-87): PETER JENNINGS: We have a report tonight about an unattractive part of the country’s landscape that may also be hazardous to your health. NARRATION: In the late 1980s, news reports that electromagnetic fields from […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: November 14, 1976 ARCHIVAL (SYBIL TV MOVE, 11-14-76):SALLY FIELD: Dr. Wilbur it’s getting worse. Who does those drawings?JOANNE WOODWARD: You do, but you do them as other people, do you understand? You do them as other parts of yourself who are still […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: January 12, 1995 ARCHIVAL (CBS NEWS, 1-13-95):CONNIE CHUNG: The pack is back. ARCHIVAL (ABC NEWS, 1-9-95):PETER JENNINGS: The wolves are coming. ARCHIVAL (ABC NEWS, 1-24-96):BARRY SARAFIN: Restoring a long missing link to America’s oldest national park. NARRATION: In 1995, the federal government […]