July 2011 PBS Quarterly Program Topic Report Category: Abortion NOLA: MLNH 010101 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 7/1/2011 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: News Segment Length: 00:02:42 News Wrap: Minnesota's Government Shuts Down After Failed Budget Deal: In other news Friday, Minnesota's state government was closed for business. The shutdown began after Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican leaders failed to reach a budget deal. Also, new abortion laws are being challenged in Kansas and South Dakota. Category: Agriculture NOLA: NBRT 031010 Series Title: Nightly Business Report Length: 30 minutes Airdate: 7/15/2011 5:30:00 PM Service: PBS-PLUS Format: Magazine Segment Length: 00:00:00 Fate of Farmers in Debt Ceiling Dealing; Citi's Earnings Report Filled with Ups and Downs; Cong. Tom Graves on Tax Increase Tug of War; President Obama Demands Action on Debt Ceiling; Market Focus with Tom Hudson; Market Stats for July 15, 2011; Politics are Hurting the Stock Market. Category: Alcohol, Drug Abuse/Addiction NOLA: MLNH 010104 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 7/6/2011 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: News Segment Length: 00:07:54 Legendary Pitcher Clemens Faces Opening Day of Perjury Trial: Jury selection began Wednesday in the federal perjury trial of former pitching star Roger Clemens. The record-setting major leaguer was charged with lying to Congress about the use of steroids and human growth hormones. Ray Suarez discusses the charges and what to expect in the trial with Sports Illustrated's David Epstein. Category: Alcohol, Drug Abuse/Addiction NOLA: PPRH 000000 Series Title: PBS Previews: Prohibition Length: 30 minutes Airdate: 7/17/2011 9:30:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 This program goes behind the scenes with filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick in this sneak preview of their new film PROHIBITION, premiering in fall 2011. Discover the true story of America’s “Great Experiment” and go beyond the oft-told tales of gangsters, rum runners, flappers and speakeasies to experience the rise, rule and fall of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Category: Alcohol, Drug Abuse/Addiction NOLA: AMMS 002306 Series Title: American Masters Episode Title: Lennon NYC Length: 120 minutes Airdate: 7/23/2011 1:30:00 AM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 Lennon NYC is the story of one of the most famous and influential artists of the 20th century and how he found redemption not in the public adoration he craved as a youth, but in the quiet and simple pleasures of fatherhood. It is also a New York immigrant’s tale. Lennon came to New York City in 1971 seeking what every other immigrant has sought: freedom - the freedom to be himself and not "Beatle John", the freedom to live a normal life. Category: Alcohol, Drug Abuse/Addiction NOLA: FRON 002917 Series Title: Frontline Episode Title: The Pot Republic Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 7/26/2011 9:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 FRONTLINE's primetime monthly newsmagazine returns with three new stories, leading with a timely report from the frontlines of marijuana legalization in California. The bulk of the marijuana consumed in the United States used to come across the border from Mexico, Canada, and elsewhere. Now, more than half of it is believed to be home grown in California, where an enormous black market has emerged under the cover of the state's medical marijuana law. With more than a third of all states now experimenting with some form of legalization and decriminalization--and several California counties attempting to openly regulate pot production--FRONTLINE and The Center for Investigative Reporting team up to investigate the country's oldest, largest, and most wide-open marijuana market. Is the federal government now moving to shut it down? Also this hour: New Yorker writer and surgeon Atul Gawande reports on a doctor in Camden, New Jersey, who actually seeks out the community's sickest-and most expensive-patients. Dr. Jeffrey Brenner and his team are pioneering a practice called "hotspotting," in which medical care is focused on the hardest-to-treat to improve their health and dramatically reduce costs. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: ABML 000103 Series Title: Abraham and Mary Lincoln, A House Divided: American Experience Episode Title: Part III: Shattered Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 7/11/2011 9:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 Elected president only to see the nation fracture in two, Lincoln led a confused and frightened people through the most terrible war in their history. At the same time, his own household mirrored the fissures that split the nation: the great emancipator was married to the daughter of a slave owner from Kentucky. Mary Todd Lincoln was an aristocratic southerner who met Lincoln when he was still a backwoods politician lacking in experience and sophistication. Although she remained fiercely loyal to her husband and the Union cause, two of her brothers fought for the South. Their marriage was long and turbulent, and knew many trials, including the loss of two children. Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided weaves together the lives of the two Lincolns, drawing us into their long-vanished world. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: COSE 017136 Series Title: Charlie Rose Episode Title: Charlie Rose - 17136 Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 7/4/2011 11:00:00 PM Service: PBS-PLUS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:52:13 A rebroadcast of an hour with author David McCullough. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: HIDE 000902 Series Title: History Detectives Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 7/3/2011 5:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:00:00 World War II Leaflets: Going through her brother’s belongings in El Paso, TX, a History Detectives fan came across a leaflet with Japanese writing and startling war images. Tiffany Window: Our contributor cherishes a small, framed watercolor handed down from his great-great grandmother, Anne Weston. But he has reason to believe the value of this painting may extend beyond his family bond. Spanish Civil War Eulogy: War traumatized Sol Fellman. He rarely discussed his Spanish Civil War experience until shortly before his death when he passed on his mementos. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: MLNH 010108 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 7/12/2011 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: News Segment Length: 00:06:57 Remembering Betty Ford, Who Broke the Mold for First Lady's Role: One of the nation's most-admired first ladies, Betty Ford, died Friday at her home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at the age of 93. Gwen Ifill introduces an excerpt of a documentary that examined the life, work, struggles and advocacy of President Gerald Ford's wife. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: SKYI 000000 Series Title: Sky Island Length: 30 minutes Airdate: 7/11/2011 1:30:00 AM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 In Northern New Mexico a range of mountains rises up from the high desert, a wild, rugged land of the Faraway Nearby. The volcanic Jemez Mountains are isolated from all other ranges -- an island in the sky, surrounded by a desert sea. In Sky Island, filmmaker John Grabowska profiles this enchanting landscape and our place within it, with climate change effects already dramatically altering the desert and alpine ecosystems. The film features narration by Pulitzer Prize winner N. Scott Momaday and acclaimed actress Meryl Streep, with a sweeping orchestral score by Academy Award winner Todd Boekelheide. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: ABML 000103 Series Title: Abraham and Mary Lincoln, A House Divided: American Experience Episode Title: Part III: Shattered Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 7/11/2011 9:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:00:00 Elected president only to see the nation fracture in two, Lincoln led a confused and frightened people through the most terrible war in their history. At the same time, his own household mirrored the fissures that split the nation: the great emancipator was married to the daughter of a slave owner from Kentucky. Mary Todd Lincoln was an aristocratic southerner who met Lincoln when he was still a backwoods politician lacking in experience and sophistication. Although she remained fiercely loyal to her husband and the Union cause, two of her brothers fought for the South. Their marriage was long and turbulent, and knew many trials, including the loss of two children. Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided weaves together the lives of the two Lincolns, drawing us into their long-vanished world. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: COSE 017148 Series Title: Charlie Rose Episode Title: Charlie Rose - 17148 Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 7/20/2011 11:00:00 PM Service: PBS-PLUS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:09:41 Anthony Summers discusses the book he co-authored, The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: MLNH 010112 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 7/18/2011 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: News Segment Length: 00:08:09 Piano Virtuoso Fleisher on Overcoming Disability That Nearly Silenced Career: In the 1960s, piano virtuoso Leon Fleisher lost the use of his right hand due to a condition called focal dystonia, but he focused on teaching and continued to play pieces designed for one-handed pianists. Jeffrey Brown and Fleisher discuss how he overcame the disability that nearly ended his playing days.