PBS Program Club
Meets every 3rd Wednesday at Minnetrista
2:00-4:00pm
Free to the Public
Contact Lori Georgi for more information lgeorgi@bsu.edu or 285-2982
Picks of the Month:
January 2008
Prayer in America (airs January 19 & 26 at
8:00pm)
Prayer in America asks the question, what role has prayer played in
shaping the development and history of America? The two-part documentary
explores contemporary debates about the role of prayer through the
lens of history. By asking rhetorically, ''How did we get here?'' the
show examines the ways in which prayer has contributed to and continues
to shape the American experience.
February 2008
American Experience: Oswald's Ghost (airs January 14)
''How could someone as inconsequential as Lee Harvey Oswald have killed someone as consequential as John F. Kennedy?''
More than forty years after his death, seventy percent of Americans continue to believe that the forty-six-year-old President's murder was the result of a conspiracy. Did Lee Harvey Oswald, a twenty-four-year-old former marine and communist sympathizer, act alone? Using a wealth of archival material, much of it never before publicly seen or heard, ''Oswald’s Ghost'' chronicles America's forty-year obsession with the pivotal event of a generation.
March 2008
Andrew Jackson Good, Evil, and the Presidency (airs January 2)
A biography of the War of 1812 hero and populist 7th president of the U.S. ''Old Hickory,'' as he was known, soon found his presidency mired in controversies over a national bank and tariffs.
April 2008
American Experience: The Great Fever (airs March 24)
In June 1900, Major Walter Reed, Chief Surgeon of the U.S. Army, led a
medical team to Cuba on a mission to investigate yellow fever.
This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE production documents the heroic efforts
of Reed's medical team, some of whom put their own lives on the line to
verify Finlay's theory. Eventually, their discovery enabled the United
States to successfully eradicate the disease among workers constructing
the Panama Canal, making possible the completion of one of the most strategic
waterways in the world.
When yellow fever struck New Orleans in 1905, an aggressive mosquito eradication campaign successfully ended the epidemic. It was the last yellow fever outbreak in the United States, and the first major public health triumph of the 20th century.
