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Become a member today and experience the SSSCU difference. 800.357.9654 silverstatecu.com Vegas PBS A Message from the Management Team General Manager General Manager Tom Axtell, Vegas PBS Educational Media Services Director Niki Bates Production Services Director Kareem Hatcher Communications and Brand Management Director Shauna Lemieux Business Manager Brandon Merrill Engineering, IT & Emergency Response Director Leave a Legacy of Learning George Molnar Content Director Cyndy Robbins n-air television programs like the long-running Nightly Business Report Workforce Training & Economic Development Director provide in-depth coverage of business and economic news as well as mar- Debra Solt Corporate Partnerships Director ket analysis to keep viewers informed of current financial trends. In addi- Bruce Spotleson Otion, television specials like Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You help viewers find Southern Nevada Public Television Board of Directors financial solutions that fit their unique situations and make them feel secure. Executive Director As an extension of the business and financial television programs you trust on Vegas Tom Axtell, Vegas PBS PBS, the Vegas PBS Planned Giving Council provides frequent seminars on a variety President of topics designed to strengthen financial literacy and encourage financial planning in Bill Curran, Ballard Spahr, LLP Vice President Southern Nevada. During the 2017 fiscal year, Vegas PBS held nine planned giving Nancy Brune, Guinn Center for Policy Priorities seminars and clinics attended by more than 450 individuals. Participants tell us these Treasurer and Chair, Planned Giving Council seminars have helped them make more informed financial decisions and feel more secure. Mark Dreschler, Premier Trust of Nevada Earlier this year, seminar topics included Guardianship and Long-Term Care, Pet Chair, Community Council Trusts, Power of Attorney Clinic, or Wills and Trusts / Charitable Planning. Our fall Charlotte Hill, Carlisle Collection seminar schedule kicks off on September 27 with Wills and Trusts (see page 19 for Chair, Desert Meadows AHEC Council Loretta Moses, Clark County Medical Society of Nevada details).The next two months will offer seminars on IRA/RMD & Reverse Mortgages and CCSD Liaison to SNPT Board a Beneficiary Clinic. We hope you can Carolyn Edwards, Clark County School District Trustee attend one or more of the planned giving During the 2017 Board Members seminars to learn how you may protect Vince Alberta, UNLV fiscal year, Vegas PBS your loved ones and advance your charita- “ Linda Ammons, Community Volunteer held nine planned giving Tracy Bower, National Security Technologies, LLC ble interests. 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Nora Luna, Nathan Adelson Hospice Vegas PBS offers our viewers the support and guidance of some of the valley's most Marydean Martin, Marydean & Associates respected estate planning attorneys and certified financial planners who advise Vegas John Restrepo, RCG Economics, LLC PBS supporters on a pro bono basis. Whatever methods you select, you will become a Geraldine Tomich, Marquis Aurbach Coffing Attorneys Irene Vogel, Community Volunteer member of Vegas PBS' Silver Legacy Society, which recognizes legacy donors with Thomas Warden, The Howard Hughes Corporation special events. All planned gifts are added to the Southern Nevada Public Television Endowment, Contact Vegas PBS with comments and suggestions: Vegas PBS & Southern Nevada Public Television which makes long-term planning possible, giving us the flexibility to pursue promising 3050 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89121 ideas and the capacity to commit to innovative new projects. Gifts to the endowment 702.799.1010 • Fax 702.799.2806 VegasPBS.org • email: [email protected] fund ensure our future as a public service media organization that thousands of Vegas PBS Source, Volume No. 9, 2017 Southern Nevadans rely on for television programming, online content, and classroom Vegas PBS Source Art Director and community services that educate, inspire and entertain. Our best works happens Anton Tielemans because of you and your support. Tom Axtell This magazine is printed on recycled paper SEPTEMBER 2017 5 NV ENERGY September 2017 Contents Cover Story 8 The Vietnam War After months of anticipation, we are proud to present the story of one of the most consequential, divisive and controversial events in American history. Departments 5 Message to Our Members Letter from General Manager Tom Axtell 14 Upcoming Member Events 22 A Message from Director of Workforce Training and Economic Development Features 10 Specials The Story of the Jews with Simon Schama and Third Rail with OZY 11 Spotlight Honoring our Vietnam Veterans 12 Spotlight Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month 8 13 What’s Cooking Cook’s Country with America’s Test Kitchen (Season 10), Chris Kimball’s Milk Street TV, Sara’s Weeknight Meals (Season 7) and more! 16 Drama Summer Drama Finales 18 Science The Power and Beauty of Science 19 Spotlight Remembering 9/11 32 Forces of Nature 33 Globe Trekker 34 Escape to Space 16 18 35 Paint This with Jerry Yarnell 37 Vegas PBS Rewind/Worldview/Jackpot! Program Menu 23 Weekdays/Children’s Lineup 24 Primetime Programming 32 Weekend Daytime Programming 36 Vegas PBS Create Programming Vegas PBS Channels 19 32 38 Vegas PBS Sponsors SEPTEMBER 2017 7 COVER STORY ilies of service members and POWs, to those who protested the war in open conflict with The Vietnam War their government and fellow citizens. More than 40 years after it ended, we can’t forget Sundays through Thursdays, Vietnam, and we are still arguing about why September 17–28 at 8 p.m. it went wrong, who was to blame and whether it was all worth it.” Vegas PBS brings to you epic programming that you cannot find anywhere else on television, “We are all searching for some meaning in and this month is no exception. After months of anticipation, we are proud to present the this terrible tragedy.” Novick said. “In addi- story of one of the most consequential, divisive and controversial events in American history. tion to dozens of Americans who shared their stories, we interviewed many Vietnamese on This landmark series is a 10 part, 18-hour both the winning and losing sides, and were documentary film series directed by Ken surprised to learn that the war remains as Burns and Lynn Novick. An immersive 360- painful and unresolved for them as it is for us.” degree narrative, the series tells the story of Featured in this special is new, original the Vietnam War as it has never before been music written and recorded by Academy told on film. It features testimony from nearly Award-winning composers Trent Reznor and 80 witnesses, including many Americans who Atticus Ross, along with new music arranged fought in the war and others who opposed it, and performed by Grammy Award-winning as well as Vietnamese combatants and civil- cellist Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road ians from both the winning and losing sides. Ensemble.The series also includes more than Ten years in the making, the film brings the 120 popular songs that define the era, war and the chaotic epoch it encompassed vis- including tracks from The Beatles, The cerally to life. It includes rarely seen, digital- Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, ly re-mastered archival footage from sources Simon & Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, Buffalo around the globe, photographs taken by some Springfield, Otis Redding, Santana, Joni of the most celebrated photojournalists of Soldier of the 25th Infantry Division Mitchell, The Temptations, Booker T. and the the 20th century, historic television broad- M.G.s, Pete Seeger and more. casts, evocative home movies and revelatory Americans,” Burns said. “Not since the Civil Encore broadcasts will air immediately audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, War have we as a country been so torn apart. following each of the original broadcasts. Johnson and Nixon administrations. There wasn’t an American alive then who Please check this guide for Sunday repeats “The Vietnam War was a decade of agony wasn’t affected in some way — from those that have been scheduled on September 24 that took the lives of more than 58,000 who fought and sacrificed in the war,to fam- and October 1 with various start times. Soldiers on a search and destroy operation near Qui 8 VEGAS PBS SOURCE Nhon. January 17, 1967 We are all searching “for some meaning in this terrible tragedy.” EPISODES: Déjà Vu (1858-1961) Sunday, September 17 at 8 p.m. After a long and brutal war, Vietnamese revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end near- ly a century of French colonial occupation. With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.