An untold story of the civil rights movement.
Miriam Weintraub
Miriam Weintraub is a Contributing Producer at Retro Report. She has over two decades of experience producing for network news, cable television and online news organizations. She spent more than a dozen years as a producer for CBS’s 60 Minutes, producing everything from feature stories to celebrity profiles to investigative pieces. Most recently, she developed and produced the documentary Life According to Sam for HBO, which won a Peabody Award, a Prime Time Emmy and was nominated for a Producers Guild of America award for best documentary motion picture.
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American Reckoning Collection
The investigation of a murder that took place 50 years ago uncovers an untold story of the civil rights movement and Black resistance to racist violence. “American Reckoning” is produced in collaboration with PBS Frontline. The Bombing After civil rights leader George Metcalfe was severely injured in a car bombing, the Black community in Natchez, […]
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Sexual Misconduct at Work, Again
The #MeToo movement is shedding renewed light on sexual harassment at work. The fight has a decades-long history.
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How an Underground Abortion Network Got Started
It started with one request. A friend’s sister was pregnant and suicidal. Before long a clandestine group called Jane was created to help women in Chicago with illegal abortions.
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Abortion Was Illegal. This Secret Group Defied the Law
The Supreme Court has reversed Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion. We tell the story of the Jane Collective, which provided thousands of illegal abortions from 1969 to 1973.
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Where the Debate Over “Designer Babies” Began
Genetic technology is advancing, and critics are warning of a slippery slope. We speak with the scientists working at the forefront of the research, families who have benefited and the first-ever “test-tube” baby to understand the debate.
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Life as the World’s First Test Tube Baby
On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown became the first ever so-called “test-tube baby.” Her birth was one of the biggest media stories of the 20th century, and she became famous just by being born.
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Conspiracy Theories and Fake News from JFK to Pizzagate
Retro Report explores decades of conspiracy theories – from the John F. Kennedy assassination to Pizzagate – and what they can tell us about how we view the world today.
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The Lawyer
A mini-doc about the anatomy of a shaken baby case from the perspective of defense attorney Adele Bernhard.
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The Doctor who Identified Shaken Baby Syndrome
The pediatric neurosurgeon who first identified shaken baby syndrome has a surprising take on the very syndrome he’s credited with discovering.
