In 1978, toxic chemicals leaking from an old landfill thrust an upstate New York community called “Love Canal” into the national headlines, and made it synonymous with “environmental disaster.”
Scott Michels
Scott Michels is a Senior Producer at Retro Report. His short - and long - form documentaries on topics including police reform, immigration and the war in Afghanistan have been shown by PBS, The New York Times, The New Yorker, ABC and Vice. He wrote and produced “Crisis on Campus,” about tensions on college campuses after the Oct. 7 attack and war in Gaza, for PBS Frontline. Scott was the senior series producer for “Extremism in America,” a five-part digital series and broadcast film for PBS World that examined the decades-long rise of violent hate groups in America. The series won the Online Journalism, Webby and EPPY awards. Scott is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and Columbia Journalism School.
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Richard Jewell: The Wrong Man
The 1996 Olympics in Atlanta were rocked by a bomb that killed one and injured more than 100. In the rush to find the perpetrator, one man became a target. There was only one problem. He was innocent.
