This panel will discuss the importance of television documentary during the 1950’s and 1960’s. The panel will also include a discussion of the importance of documentary as an historical resource and as an important program format, most recently demonstrated by Ken Burns.
Moderator: Mary E. Beadle, John Carroll University
Panelist: Gary R. Edgerton, Butler University; Ken Burns Reconsidered: Mainstreaming History for Millions on PBS
Mary Ann Watson, Eastern Michigan University; Adventures in Reporting: Documentary Chronicles of the 1960s
Mike Conway, Indiana University; Reuven Frank and NBC's "The Tunnel"
Tim P. Vos, University of Missouri; The FCC, Positive Liberty and the Golden Age of Network Documentaries