Recently by Justin Scuiletti
A Look Back at the Senate Watergate Hearings
May 17, 2013 | The Watergate hearings began on May 17, 1973. Public Television aired all 250 hours of testimony that summer. Here are some of the highlights. Video edited by Justin Scuiletti The Watergate scandal began with a burglary...
Ten Years After Baghdad's Fall, a Look Back at the Iraq War
April 9, 2013 | Watch a video synopsis of the Iraq war. Edited by Justin Scuiletti. (Warning: Some video footage is graphic.) On March 17, 2003, President George W. Bush addressed the nation: "All the decades of deceit and cruelty...
The Hidden Lives of Wolves
February 26, 2013 | From 1990 to 1996, Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived in a tented camp on the edge of Idaho’s Sawtooth Wilderness, where they observed and studied the behavior and social hierarchy of a pack of gray wolves,...
Bradley Cooper Joins Effort to Find 'Silver Lining' in Mental Health Future
February 23, 2013 | WASHINGTON -- "Silver Linings Playbook" isn't just receiving good reviews from the critics. At a press conference at the Center for American Progress, in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, many were singing the movie's praises for...
Turkey Day Talking Points with Shields and Brooks
November 22, 2012 | Need some talking points to get through your holiday dinner? Need a comeback for your uncle who has wildly different views on health care and the fiscal cliff, or your brother-in-law, who had the other guy's...
Venus Transit: A Planet's Day in the Sun
June 5, 2012 | In the 18th century, astronomers used the solar transit of planet Venus to calculate the distance from the Earth to the sun. After the 1882 Venus transit, John Philip Sousa scored a march in its honor....
Viewing the Venus Transit: What's the Safest Way to Stare at the Sun?
June 1, 2012 | As the sun sets on June 5 in North America, a last-in-a-lifetime astronomical event will be visible to those who wish to look. Just don't do it with your naked eye. A transit of Venus, wherein...
RedditGifts Hopes to Unwrap Guinness Record for Largest Secret Santa Swap
December 26, 2011 | If you think organizing a secret Santa exchange for your office is tricky, try organizing one for the entire globe. As people across the world finish unwrapping Christmas gifts, almost 40,000 people have also been unwrapping...
NewsHour Connect: Heat Wave Imperils Midwest Agriculture
July 28, 2011 | Temperatures have been rising in the Midwest this summer -- and with them, food prices may also be heading upward. As heat waves have been blanketing much of the nation in temperatures over 100 degrees, agriculture...
One Can Still 'Rock' Out to 'Fireworks,' 35 Years Later
July 4, 2011 | Fireworks have become synonymous with Fourth of July celebrations, from large explosions of colors that light up the night sky over your town to small sparklers that can be enjoyed from your own yard. Songwriter Lynn Ahrens discovered in 1976...
Fredericksburg Battlefield Memorial Lights Up, 150 Years After Civil War
May 30, 2011 | Fredericksburg, Va. | As part of a Memorial Day tradition, more than 15,000 luminaries were set up over the weekend at Fredericksburg Battlefield to represent each of the 15,300 Union soldiers from the Civil War buried...
2018 World Cup Bid Goes to Russia, 2022 to Qatar
December 2, 2010 | _pap_embeddable; While 2018 and 2022 may be eight and 12 years away, respectively, they were very much on the mind of 11 countries Thursday morning. After days of waiting and watching, FIFA announced that Russia will host...
