Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: December 29, 19871 ARCHIVAL (CBS, EVENING NEWS, 9-1-94): CONNIE CHUNG: It’s the hottest psychiatric drug in history. ARCHIVAL (CBS, EVENING NEWS): DAN RATHER: Prozac. ARCHIVAL (ABC NEWS, NIGHTLINE, 3-17-94): REPORTER: Prozac. The wonder drug that works wonders… NARRATION: At the end of […]
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Transcript: The Surprising Technological Revolution Launched by the Air Bag
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: March, 18, 1970 ARCHIVAL (CBS NEWS, EVENING NEWS, 3-18-70):WALTER CRONKITE: The Transportation Department announced plans today to require installation of air bags starting in 1972. NARRATION: In an era when auto accidents were killing 1,000 a week, air bags were a high […]
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Transcript: Interpreting Forensic Evidence in the Crime Lab
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: May 4, 1988 ARCHIVAL (ABC NEWS, 5-4-88):NEWS REPORT: We have a story tonight about crime and unusually modern science. NARRATION: In the late 1980s, DNA testing brought a new level of scientific certainty to America’s courtrooms, convicting the guilty… ARCHIVAL (NBC NEWS, […]
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Transcript: Agent Orange: Last Chapter of the Vietnam War
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: January 10, 1962 ARCHIVAL (CBS, 5-23-78): WALTER CRONKITE: One of the most controversial American operations in Vietnam. ARCHIVAL (ABC, 5-7-84): PETER JENNINGS: Just the name of it evokes all sorts of horrible images. Agent Orange. NARRATION: During the Vietnam War, Americans were […]
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Transcript: Her Vegetative State Caused Congress, President Bush and Even the Pope to Weigh In
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: October 15, 2003 ARCHIVAL (CBS, 10-22-03): DAN RATHER: In the debate over a sick patient’s right to die, there has rarely if ever been a case like the one in Florida. NARRATION: In 2003, America watched as a private family’s struggle became […]
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Transcript: Earthquake Readiness: How the San Franciso 1989 Quake Shook Awareness
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: October 17, 1989 ARCHIVAL (NBC 10-17-89): NEWS ANCHOR: Good evening. Im Katherine Couric. A strong earthquake rocked the San Francisco Bay Area just moments ago. ARCHIVAL (NBC, NIGHTLY NEWS, 10-17-89): NEWS ANCHOR: 6.9 is what were hearing. ARCHIVAL (CBS, EVENING NEWS, 10-18-89): […]
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Transcript: The Shame of the Church
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: June 10, 1985 ARCHIVAL (CBS, EVENING NEWS, 6-10-85):DAN RATHER: The Catholic Church is facing scandals and being forced to pay millions of dollars. NARRATION: In the 1980s and 90s the press reported crimes that seemed inconceivable… ARCHIVAL (NBC, NIGHTLY NEWS, 2-24-88 ):TOM […]
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Transcript: The Preschool Sex Abuse Case that Changed How Molestation is Investigated
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: March 23, 1984 ARCHIVAL (NBC, 3-23-84): TOM BROKAW: In what may become one of the biggest child molesting cases ever on record, 7 nursery school teachers were arraigned today on more than 100 counts of child molestation. ARCHIVAL (NBC, 3-23-84): HEIDI SHULMAN: […]
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Transcript: The Minneapolis Bridge Collapse that Sounded the Alarm on US Infrastructure
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: August 1, 2007 NARRATION: It was a commuter’s worst nightmare. A major interstate bridge collapsed during rush hour… ARCHIVAL (KSTP, 8-1-07): ANCHOR: One of the main iconic bridges in the Twin Cities has collapsed. ARCHIVAL (KSTP, 8-1-07): HELICOPTER PILOT: The entire bridge […]
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Transcript: Stealing J.Edgar Hoover’s Secrets
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: March 8, 1971 NARRATION: It’s the greatest heist you’ve never heard of, and one of the most important. ARCHIVAL (ABC NEWS, 6-4-71):HARRY REASONER: Last March, someone broke into the F.B.I. offices in Media, Pennsylvania, stole some records, and mailed copies of them […]
