ISSUES REPORT
Wyoming Public Television
2nd Quarter – 2011
April, May, June
ISSUE:
HEALTH
EDUCATION
Broadcast
Date
May 12th
Time
7pm
Length Source
½ hr
UW
Under Our
Skin: A Health
Care Nightmare
June 13th
9pm
1 ½ hr
PBS
The Civil War
April 3,
4, 5, 6, 7
7pm
2 to 2
½ hr
each
night
PBS
Program Title
Gray Matters:
Exploring the
Aging Brain
This University of Wyoming-coordinated documentary
focuses on the positive aspects of the aging brain. For
example, while younger people‟s brains may be quicker,
studies have shown that people become more capable of
complex thought as they age. The film also promotes
strategies for maintaining cognitive health over time.
In the 1970s, a mysterious and deadly illness began infecting
children in a small town in Connecticut. Today it's a global
epidemic.A gripping tale of microbes, medicine & money,
UNDER OUR SKIN: A HEALTH CARE NIGHTMARE
exposes the hidden story of Lyme disease. Following the
stories of patients fighting for their lives, the film reveals
with beauty and terror a natural world out of balance and a
human nature all too willing to put profits before patients.
3rd Beginning with an examination of slavery, this episode
looks at the causes of the war and the burning questions of
union and states' rights. Significant events include John
Brown's rebellion at Harper' s Ferry, the election of Abraham
Lincoln in 1860, the firing on Fort Sumter and the jubilant
rush to arms on both sides. Introducing the series' major
figures - Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Robert
E.Lee and Ulysses S. Grant - the episode concludes with the
disastrous Union defeat at Manassas, where both sides
realize it is to be a very long war.
4th "A Very Bloody Affair - 1862"--1862 saw the birth of
modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln's war to
preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the slaves.
Episode two begins with the political infighting that
threatened to swamp Lincoln's administration and then
follows Union General George McClellan's ill-fated
campaign on the Virginia peninsula. The episode follows
the battle of ironclad ships,camp life and the beginning of the
end of slavery. Ulysses S. Grant' s exploits come to a bloody
resolution at the Battle of Shiloh. The episode ends with
rumors of Europe's readiness to recognize the Confederacy.
"Forever Free - 1862"--Convinced by July 1862 that
emancipation was now morally and militarily crucial to the
future of the Union, Lincoln must wait for a victory to issue
his proclamation. But there are no Union victories to be had,
thanks to the brilliance of Confederate generals Stonewall
Jackson and Robert E. Lee. With Lee's September 1862
invasion of Maryland, the bloodiest day of the war takes
place on the banks of Antietam Creek, followed shortly by
the brightest - the emancipation of the slaves.
5th "Simply Murder - 1863"--This episode begins with the
nightmarish Union disaster at Fredericksburg and follows two
clashes that spring: at Chancellorsville in May, where Lee wins
his most brilliant victory but loses Stonewall Jackson; and at
Vicksburg, where Grant is prevented from taking the city by
siege. Also covered is the fierce northern opposition to
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, the miseries of
regimental life and the increasing desperation of the
Confederate home front. As the episode ends, Lee decides to
invade the North again to draw Grant's forces away from
Vicksburg. "The Universe of Battle - 1863"--The Battle of
Gettysburg was the turning point of the war. For three days,
150,000 fought to the death in the Pennsylvania countryside
culminating in Pickett's legendary charge. This extended
episode goes on to chronicle the fall of Vicksburg, the New
York draft riots, the first use of black troops and the western
battles at Chickamauga and Chattanooga. At the dedication
of a new Union cemetery at Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln
struggles to put into words what is happening to his people.
6th "Valley of the Shadow of Death - 1864"--This episode
begins with a biographical comparison of Grant and Lee and
then chronicles the extraordinary series of battles that pitted
the two generals against each other from the wilderness to
Petersburg in Virginia. With Grant and Lee finally
deadlocked at Petersburg, the episode moves to the ghastly
hospitals in both the North and South, and follows Sherman's
Atlanta campaign through the mountains of northern
Georgia. As the horrendous casualty lists increase, Lincoln's
chances for re-election begin to dim and with them, the
possibility of Union victory. "Most Hallowed Ground 1864"--The presidential campaign of 1864 set Abraham
Lincoln against his old commanding general, George
McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of
the Union itself. Opinion in the North has turned strongly
against Lincoln and the war, but 11th-hour Union victories at
Mobile Bay, Atlanta and the Shenandoah Valley tilt the
election to Lincoln, and the Confederacy's last hope for
independence dies. In an ironic twist, Lee's Arlington
mansion is turned into a Union military hospital and the
estate becomes Arlington National Cemetery - the Union's
most hallowed ground.
7th "War Is All Hell - 1865"--William Tecumseh Sherman's
March to the Sea brings war to the heart of Georgia and the
Carolinas and spells the end of the Confederacy. Following
Lincoln's second inauguration, Petersburg and Richmond
finally fall to Grant's army. Lee's tattered Army of Northern
Virginia flees westward towards Appomattox, where the
surrender of Lee to Grant takes place. The episode ends in
Washington, DC, where John Wilkes Booth begins to dream
of vengeance for the South. "The Better Angels of Our
Nature - 1865"--On April 14, five days after Lee's surrender
at Appomattox, Lincoln is assassinated. After chronicling
Lincoln's funeral, the episode recounts the final days of the
war, the capture of John Wilkes Booth and the fates of the
FAMILY ISSUES
Freedom Riders
American
Experience
Special
May 16th
8pm
Exploring the
World of
Music,
Destino‟s,
Place of Our
Own
Various
Various
time
Ann.
Monday
through
Friday
12:30pm ½ hr
PBS
2hr
PBS
series' major figures. The series ends by considering the
consequences and meaning of a war that transformed the
country from a collection of states to the nation it is today.
FREEDOM RIDERS: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE is the
powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six
months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May
until November 1961, more than 400 black and white
Americans risked their lives -- and many endured savage
beatings and imprisonment -- for simply traveling together
on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep
South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom
Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the
way, sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism.
Veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson's documentary is the first
feature-length film about this courageous band of civil-rights
activists. Gaining access to influential figures on both sides
of the issue, Nelson chronicles a chapter of American history
that stands as an astonishing testament to the
accomplishment of youth and what can result from the
incredible combination of personal conviction and the
courage to organize against all odds.
Telecourses for Central Wyoming College and Casper
College
A PLACE OF OUR OWN is a series that is designed for
parents and anyone else who takes care of young children:
grandparents, nannies, babysitters and home daycare
providers. The series covers subjects such as tantrums,
literacy, preventing obesity, and speech and language delays.
These Peabody Award-winning series combine an
entertainment format -- the daytime talk/demonstration
information on how young children learn, and what adults
need to know to help them be prepared for kindergarten and
beyond.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
LOCAL
HISTORY
Hell Bent for
Victory
June 16th
7pm
1hr
Ind.
Wyoming
Chronicle:
Matteo Pistono
April 1st
7:30pm
½ hr
KCWC
Wyoming
Chronicle: Jeff
Lockwood
Etymologist
Author
Wyoming
Chronicle:
Harry Jackson
Wyoming
Chronicle:
Taylor Haynes
April 8th
7:30pm
½ hr
KCWC
April 15th
7:30pm
½ hr
KCWC
April 22rd
& April
29th
7:30pm
½ hr
KCWC
Wyoming
Perspectives
Coping with
Alzheimers
May 5th
7pm
1hr
KCWC
7:30pm
½ hr
KCWC
Wyoming
May 6th
Chronicle: TelePyschiatry
This documentary showcases the epic journey of the Casper,
Wyoming Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps as they rose to
world finalist status for the first time in twenty three years.
The historic event took place last summer at the annual
Drum Corps International World Championships held in
Indianapolis, Indiana. Produced by Michael D. Gough.
Matteo Pistono, a Wyoming native and practicing Buddhist,
talks about his spiritual quest and political activism in over a
decade of travel in Chinese occupied Tibet. His new book is
“In the Shadow of the Buddha.
The author of “Locust”, University of Wyoming professor
Jeff Lockwood, describes the destructive insect clouds that
attacked the Great Plains and West over a century ago and
then abruptly and mysteriously disappeared.
Cody artist Harry Jackson, whose sculptures are displayed in
the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and around the world, talks
about a long life shaped by battle (in World War II) and art.
Taylor Haynes is a rancher, a doctor, and an unsuccessful
write-in candidate for governor Wyoming. Haynes talks
about the Tea Party movement, and his own vision of better
government at the state and federal level.
Wyoming Perspectives host Margaret Benson is joined by a
panel of experts including, Martha Stearn, MD. and Carol
Taylor, LCSW from the St. John‟s Institute for Cognitive
Health in Jackson, Wyoming, to discuss the physiological
aspects of “Alzheimer‟s” as well as resources and strategies
for caring for individuals impacted by this heartbreaking and
fatal disease.
Dr. O’Ann Fredstrom & Dr. Etta Lindenfeld:
Telepyschiatry” - Wyoming Chronicle host Dina Mishev sits
down with Dr. O‟Ann Fredstrom, a practicing psychiatrist
and the current president of the Wyoming Association of
Psychiatric Physicians and Dr. Etta Lindenfeld, a Jackson-
Gray Matters:
Exploring the
Aging Brain
May 12th
7pm
½ hr
UW
Wyoming
Chronicle:
School of
Energy
May 13th
7:30pm
½ hr
KCWC
Wyoming
Chronicle:
Glass Blower
May 20th
7:30pm
½ hr
KCWC
Wyoming
Chronicle:
Catholic
College
May 27st
7:30pm
½ hr
KCWC
based psychiatrist who sees patients both in face-to-face
situations and does telepsychiatry via Skype, to talk about
mental health in a state as rural as ours, the realities of
telepsychiatry, and what can be done to improve
Wyomingites‟ access to mental health care.
This University of Wyoming-coordinated documentary
focuses on the positive aspects of the aging brain. For
example, while younger people‟s brains may be quicker,
studies have shown that people become more capable of
complex thought as they age. The film also promotes
strategies for maintaining cognitive health over time.
Mark Northram: School of Energy” - Mark Northram
of the School of Energy Resources at the University of
Wyoming talks about the school‟s rapid growth, and its role
in cutting edge research that may determine the future of
Wyoming‟s abundant fossil fuels in a carbon-unfriendly
world. And a look at last year‟s spring floods, asking, „Can it
happen again?‟
“Laurie Thal: Glass Blower” - Artist Laurie Thal doesn‟t
have to look far for inspiration when working in her Wilson,
Wyoming studio. The window on the north wall of the
rectangular, hip-roofed, purple-doored building looks
directly out to the Tetons. Wyoming Chronicle couldn‟t film
in Thal‟s studio – the furnace is at 2,000 degrees – but she
sat down with host Dina Mishev to talk about Thal‟s being
the state‟s only professional glassblower, how it happened
that one of her pieces (done in collaboration with sandblaster
Lia Kass) was presented by President and Mrs. Obama to the
Prime Minister of India during his state visit to this country
in 2009, and what a furnace as hot as the one in her studio is
can do to eyelashes when you get too close.
“Rev. Robert Cook: Wyoming Catholic College” – Father
Cook grew up in Rifle, Colorado, and attended Regis
College, where he graduated magna cum laude with a
Classical Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958. He then attended
Wyoming
Chronicle:
Renny Jackson
MINORITY AND
CULTURAL
June 3rd
7:30pm
½ hr
KCWC
Wyoming
June 17th
Chronicle:
Mohanned
Waheed Chance
Phelps
7:30pm
½ hr
KCWC
Wyoming
Chronicle:
Muslim Living
in Wyoming
June 24th
7:30pm
½ hr
KCWC
Black in Latin
America
April 19th 7pm
and 26th
May 3 and
May 10
1hr
each
night
PBS
Stanford University Law School, receiving his LL.B. in
1962. He was appointed President of Wyoming Catholic
College in December 2005.
Renny Jackson is a climber with first ascents under his belt,
but he is best known, and gratefully known, as the longtime
leader of the Jenny Lake Climbing Rangers, who every year
save lives by rescuing injured or trapped climbers off the
faces of the Grand Tetons. Also, a short feature on the
history of the Riverton Rendezvous Balloon Rally.
Mohammed Waheed: A Muslim Living in Wyoming”
(Part 1 of 2) - Host Geoff O‟Gara visits with Mohammed
Waheed about his religion, the issues between Islam and
Christianity and tolerance. Also, a feature on Kevin Bacon‟s
effort in Wyoming to support the Chance Phelps Foundation
helping veterans returning from Iraq.
Mohammed Waheed and Geoff O‟Gara continue their
conversation about what it means to be a Muslim and an
American citizen living in Wyoming. Also, a look at the
growing number of farmers markets in Wyoming, what they
add to the economy, and how health officials regulate them.
19th In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores
how race has been socially constructed in a society whose
people reflect centuries of inter-marriage, and how the
country's troubled history with Haiti informs notions about
racial classification. In Haiti, Professor Gates tells the story
of the birth of the first-ever black republic, and finds out how
the slaves's hard fought liberation over Napoleon Bonaparte's
French Empire became a double-edged sword.
26th In Cuba, Professor Gates finds out how the culture,
religion, politics and music of this island are inextricably
linked to the huge amount of slave labor imported to produce
its enormously profitable 19th century sugar industry, and
how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro's
Communist revolution in 1959.
3rd In Brazil, Professor Gates delves behind the facade of
Carnival to discover how this 'rainbow nation' is waking up
to its legacy as the world's largest slave economy.
Roads to
Memphis:
American
Experience
MILITARY & WAR Secret of the
ON TERRORISM
Dead escape
from Auschwitz
May 2nd
8pm
1 and
½ hr
PBS
April 27t
7pm
1hr
PBS
10th In Mexico and Peru, Professor Gates explores the almost
unknown history of the significant numbers of black people - the two countries together received far more slaves than did
the United States -- brought to these countries as early as the
16th and 17th centuries, and the worlds of culture that their
descendants have created in Vera Cruz on the Gulf of
Mexico, the Costa Chica region on the Pacific, and in and
around Lima, Peru.
"We were never concerned with who killed Martin Luther
King but what killed Martin Luther King," says Andrew
Young, former aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in
ROADS TO MEMPHIS. From Emmy Award-winning
director Stephen Ives, this film tells the wildly disparate yet
fatefully entwined stories of an assassin, James Earl Ray, and
his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., against the backdrop
of the seething and turbulent forces in American society that
led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in
Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. ROADS TO
MEMPHIS features eyewitness testimony from King's inner
circle and the officials involved in Ray's capture and
prosecution, and Hampton Sides, author of the upcoming
book "Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther
King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin."
The truth about the Auschwitz death camp was one of the
most closely guarded secrets of the Third Reich. Prisoners
who tried to escape were executed in public as an example to
other inmates, and very few ever made it out alive. "Escape
From Auschwitz" tells the story of two young Slovak Jews,
Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who managed to escape
by hiding in a woodpile for three days, then fleeing across
Main Street
Wyoming
Honor Flight
Wyoming
May 12th
7:30pm
½ hr
KCWC
American Road
to Victory
May 26th
7pm
1hr
PBS
American Road
to Victory
June 6th
7pm
1hr
PBS
enemy territory, determined to tell the world about the
atrocities being committed by the Nazis at the camp. Hoping
to stop the deportations and put an end to the constant stream
of victims transported to their deaths, Vrba and Wetzler
wrote a detailed account of their experiences in the camp.
The report was sent to Allies around the world, but to Vrba's
horror, some took ages to arrive in the right hands and the
most urgent copy was suppressed by the head of the
Hungarian Jewish underground, who worried it would
destroy a deal he himself was trying to make with Adolph
Eichmann. Ultimately, the delays cost thousands of lives and
caused a controversy that raged long after the Holocaust was
over. Even so, Vrba's and Wetzler's heroic efforts saved
many thousands from the gas chambers and crematoria of
Auschwitz.
This special episode of Main Street, Wyoming brings World
War II veterans from Wyoming to the Washington DC
Memorial built in their honor. In the
Fall of 2010, Greg and Debbie Hammons with Cloud Peak
Productions traveled with the veterans to capture the journey
for Wyoming PBS viewers.
For the first time ever, we have an in depth explanation of
how all American objectives in this campaign were achieved,
even though the operation in it's entirety failed, and the
British 1st Airborne at Arnhem were cut to shreds. The
lightning actions of the two American airborne divisions
come to life though blended archival footage, re-enactment
and special effects. We hear how they parachuted in daylight
on September 17th, 1944, seized and held their targets.
These brave Americans fought battle hardened Germans who
were committed to a ferocious fight on the borders of their
Fatherland.
Join battlefield historian Ellwood von Seibold in his 1943
Dodge Command car as he takes us on a tour of the
American D-Day landings in real time. Listen to the men
ENVIROMENTAL
Earth: The
Operator‟s
Manual
April 17th
11pm
1hr
PBS
NOVA Power
Surge
April 20th
8pm
1hr
PBS
who were there, land in Saint Mere Eglise with the 82nd
Airborne, scale the cliffs at La Pointe du Hoc with the
Rangers, wade through the surf on Omaha Beach with the
Big Red One and the 29th Infantry Division, and take the
guns at Brecourt Manor with Easy Company of the 506th
Parachute Infantry Regiment. See the uniforms they wore,
the weapons they fired, and the equipment they carried. Live
that "Day of Days."
"War Is All Hell - 1865"--William Tecumseh Sherman's
March to the Sea brings war to the heart of Georgia and the
Carolinas and spells the end of the Confederacy. Following
Lincoln's second inauguration, Petersburg and Richmond
finally fall to Grant's army. Lee's tattered Army of Northern
Virginia flees westward towards Appomattox, where the
surrender of Lee to Grant takes place. The episode ends in
Washington, DC, where John Wilkes Booth begins to dream
of vengeance for the South. "The Better Angels of Our
Nature - 1865"--On April 14, five days after Lee's surrender
at Appomattox, Lincoln is assassinated. After chronicling
Lincoln's funeral, the episode recounts the final days of the
war, the capture of John Wilkes Booth and the fates of the
series' major figures. The series ends by considering the
consequences and meaning of a war that transformed the
country from a collection of states to the nation it is today.
When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, every living thing
in the blast zone was buried beneath 300 feet of avalanche
debris, covered with steaming mud and, finally, topped with
a superheated layer of frothy rock from deep within the
earth. It seemed as though Mount St. Helens might remain a
wasteland forever. When biologist Charlie Crisafulli first
flew over the disaster zone, finding no sign of life,little did
he realize that his own life would be forever changed.
Crisafulli has remained at the site for 27 years, documenting
the dramatic return of plant and animal life to the barren
landscape and pioneering a new understanding of the
Beyond the
Light Switch
April 24th
11pm
1hr
PBS
interaction between geologic forces and the life surrounding
the mountain. NOVA brings viewers on a journey of a
landscape brought back from the dead.
Beyond the Light Switch begins by laying out the challenges
and considering the tradeoff of carbon capture and storage,
hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, and the possibility of a
nuclear renaissance. Hosted by Scientific American's David
Biello, Beyond the Light Switch adds a much needed
balanced perspective to a national energy debate that will
surely become more heated and more critical that anything
since healthcare.