Seminar: American Civilization on the American Broadcasting Network records, 1952-1953.

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In 1972 television reporter and talk show host Geraldo Rivera, then a budding journalist working for WABC-New York's Eyewitness News, conducted a series of investigations at the Willowbrook State School for the Mentally Retarded, on Staten Island. His work resulted in a televised documentary entitled "Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace" which exposed the deplorable conditions and the rampant abuse and neglect of the residents. The report won a Peabody Award and led to changes in state law and ...

Columbia University in the City of New York.

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Bigelow, Donald N. (Donald Nevius)

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Donald Nevius Bigelow was a key administrator in dozens of significant programs within the U.S. Department of Education in a government career of more than forty years. Bigelow was born in Danbury, Conn., on August 19, 1918. He was educated at Danbury High School, Amherst College (B.A., 1939; M.A., history, 1945), and Columbia University (Ph.D., history, 1950). As an education administrator beginning in 1961, Bigelow's work focused on campaigns to improve the quality of ...

American Broadcasting Network. Public Affairs Department

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED In 1952, the Communications Materials Center of Columbia University Press and the American Broadcasting Network collaborated on a public service series that was one of 300 television classes offered to the general public. Franklin Dunham, Chief of Radio of the U.S. Department of Education, spearheaded the effort which included 80 colleges and universities, and 30 public and parochial schools throughout the United State of America. Seminar was patterned on the American Civilizat...