What’s more natural material for public television than the secret misdeeds of powerful people? If we expose corruption and engage the attention of a wide audience, we serve the public good. SUMMER OF JUDGMENT looks back ten years to the nationally-televised Senate Watergate hearings, which brought the daily disclosures of deep trouble in the White house to the homes of millions of Americans. 88 SECONDS IN GREENSBORO investigates the events which led to a fatal gunfight in a little town in North Carolina between demonstrating American communists and members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. The year is 1979. Substantial interviews with a paid police informer raise disturbing questions about the use of such persons inside militant political groups.
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