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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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: December 10, 1993 ARCHIVAL (CBS NEWS, 12-10-93):WOMAN: It was bodies all over. Guys were shot in the head. NARRATION: In the early 1990s, TV news bombarded viewers with scenes of murder, mayhem, blood and guts. The war on crime, by then 20 […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: August 2, 1978 ARCHIVAL (CBS NEWS, 8-2-78): NEWS ANCHOR: From 1947 until 1952, the Hooker Chemical Company used the Love Canal section of Niagara Falls as a dumping site for toxic waste. ARCHIVAL (CBS NEWS, 5-21-80):NEWS ANCHOR: NEWS ANCHOR: President Carter declared […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: September 17, 2001 ARCHIVAL (CBS NEWS, 8-28-02):NEWS ANCHOR: Four Arabs are accused of providing support for attacks against American targets. ARCHIVAL (NBC NEWS, 5-20-03): NEWS REPORT: The Justice Department says the four were part of a sleeper operational combat cell. NARRATION: It […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: December 23, 1971 ARCHIVAL (ABC NEWS, 1-22-71): PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON: The same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. ARCHIVAL (CBS NEWS, 12-23-71):WALTER CRONKITE: President Nixon signed […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: August 14, 2003 ARCHIVAL (NBC NEWS, 8-14-03): BRIAN WILLIAMS: We are in the midst of what appears to be a colossal and history-making blackout. ARCHIVAL (ABC NEWS, 8-14-03):DAN HARRIS: …people trapped in elevators in buildings. They have activated the emergency command center. […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: August 29, 2005 ARCHIVAL (FOX NEWS, 8-29-05):REPORTER: Early Sunday morning, Katrina had built into a dangerous Category 5 hurricane, barreling towards New Orleans. NARRATION: On August 29th, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast. The world watched as the levees surrounding New […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: February 24, 1997 ARCHIVAL (ABC NEWS, 2-24-97): PETER JENNINGS: The headline on the other major news story today to which we intended to devote some time is very simple: Hello, Dolly. NARRATION: In February of 1997 a Finn-Dorset sheep named Dolly sent […]