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patternFRIENDSs OF WILL MEMBERSHIP MAGAZINE september 2017 THE LANDMARK DOCUMENTARY EVENT BEGINS SEPTEMBER 17 WILL-TV TM patterns Membership Hotline: 800-898-1065 september 2017 Volume XLV, Number 3 WILL AM-FM-TV: 217-333-7300 Campbell Hall for Public Telecommunication 300 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801-2316 Mailing List Exchange Donor records are proprietary and confidential. WILL does not sell, rent or trade its donor lists. Patterns Friends of WILL Membership Magazine Editor/Art Designer: Sarah Whittington Printed by Premier Print Group. Printed with SOY INK on RECYCLED, TM Trademark American Soybean Assoc. RECYCLABLE paper. Radio 90.9 FM: A mix of classical music and NPR information programs, including local news. (Also heard at 106.5 in Danville and with live streaming on will.illinois.edu.) See pages 4-5. 101.1 FM and 90.9 FM HD2: Locally produced music programs and classical music from C24. (101.1 is available in the Champaign-Urbana area.) 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Your guide to The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken facebook.com/WILLradiotvonline Burns and Lynn Novick @willpublicmedia Pages 1-3: The creation @willpublicmedia Moss Bresnahan, of the film President and CEO Get WILL eNews Pages 17: Local events Video previews, behind-the-scenes Twitter: @MossILMedia surrounding the release information, program schedule updates and of the documentary more, delivered every Wednesday to your email inbox. Pages 18-19: Episode descriptions for the go.illinois.edu/WILLsubscribe 10-day event PATTERNS • SEPTEMBER 2017 The long-awaited documentary is here WILL-TV september 2017 Volume XLV, Number 3 The Vietnam War, a new 10-part, 18- hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, will premiere at 7 pm Sunday, September 17. The first five episodes will air nightly at 7 pm from Sunday, September 17, through Thursday, September 21, and the final five episodes will air nightly at 7 pm from Sunday, September 24, through Thursday, September 28. Photo: Courtesy of AP In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. The Vietnam War features testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides. “The Vietnam War was a Photo: Courtesy of AP/Frank C. Curtin C. AP/Frank of Courtesy Photo: decade of agony that took the lives of more than s From top: Suspected Viet Cong 58,000 Americans,” Burns soldier awaits inter- said. “Not since the Civil rogation, August War have we as a country 25, 1965. College been so torn apart. There students march wasn’t an American alive against the war in Boston on October then who wasn’t affected in 16, 1965. Horst Faas, some way—from those who Associated Press chief fought and sacrificed in the of photo operations, war, to families of service Saigon, 1967. members and POWs, to those who protested the war Photo: Courtesy of AP/Horst Faas in open conflict with their government and fellow citizens. More than 40 years after it ended, we can’t forget #VietnamWarPBS Vietnam, (continued on page 2) PATTERNS • SEPTEMBER 2017 1 “We can’t forget Vietnam, (continued from page 1) and we are still Ten years in the making, the series arguing about why it went wrong, who was brings the war and the chaotic epoch it to blame, and whether it was all worth it.” encompassed viscerally to life. Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, produced by Sarah “We are all searching for some meaning in Botstein, Novick, and Burns, it includes this terrible tragedy. Ken and I have tried rarely seen, digitally re-mastered archival to shed new light on the war by looking at footage from sources around the globe, it from the bottom up, the top down and photographs taken by some of the most from all sides,” Novick said. “In addition celebrated photojournalists of the 20th to dozens of Americans who shared their century, historic television broadcasts, stories, we interviewed many Vietnamese evocative home movies, and revelatory on both the winning and losing sides, audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, and were surprised to learn that the war Johnson, and Nixon administrations. remains as painful and unresolved for them as it is for us. Within this almost The Vietnam War features new, original incomprehensibly destructive event, we music written and recorded by Academy discovered profound, universal human Award-winning composers Trent Reznor truths, as well as uncanny resonances with and Atticus Ross. The film also features recent events.” new music arranged and performed by Photo: Courtesy of Vietnam News Agency Photo: Courtesy of Charles O. Haughey Photo: Courtesy of AP Photo/Sal Veder s From top left, clockwise: Young North Vietnamese join the Youth Shock Brigades Against the Americans for National Salvation. Released POW, Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm is greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base, March 17, 1973. Civilians huddle together after an attack by South Vietnamese forces, Dong Xoai, June 1965. Soldier of the 25th Infantry Division, c. 1969. 2 PATTERNS • SEPTEMBER 2017 Photo: Courtesy of AP/Horst Faas and we are still arguing about why it went wrong“ -Ken Burns s South Vietnamese troops fly over the Mekong Delta, 1963. Grammy Award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma Mitchell, Nina Simone, The Temptations, and The Silk Road Ensemble. It is the Booker T. and the M.G.s, Pete Seeger, and first time Burns and Novick have worked more. with Reznor and Ross, as well as with Ma “Ever since The Civil War, Ken and and The Silk Road Ensemble. Additional Lynn have been behind some of the music in the film was composed by David most important documentary films ever Cieri and Doug Wamble, both of whom shown on television, films that have in are longtime collaborators with Florentine fact made television history and created Films. national conversations around who we The series also features more than are as Americans,” said Beth Hoppe, chief 120 popular songs that define the era, programming executive and general including tracks from The Beatles, The manager, General Audience Programming, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, PBS. “The Vietnam War stands out as an Simon & Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, Ben E. unmatched documentary achievement King, Phil Ochs, Donovan, Johnny Cash, about one of the most transformative Barry McGuire, Buffalo Springfield, periods in modern American history.” The Byrds, Otis Redding, Santana, Joni t Mary Ann Vecchio kneels over the body of fellow student Jeffrey Miller, who was killed by Ohio National Guard troops during an antiwar demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio, May 4, 1970. 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