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Previous Reports: 1992


BY ORIGINAL AIRDATE

Nov. 24, 1992

In Search of Our Fathers
(60 minutes) Marco Williams was 24 years old when he learned his father's name. It was the first of many things he would discover about himself and ... (more)

Nov. 17, 1992

JFK, Hoffa, and the Mob
(60 minutes) Frank Ragano was an intimate friend and lawyer to Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa and attorney to Santo Trafficante, one of the most feared Mafia bosses. ... (more)

Nov. 10, 1992

Monsters Among Us
(60 minutes) Wesley Allan Dodd's 1989 arrest in Washington State for the murder of 3 young boys ended his 15 year career of violent sex crimes. Through ... (more)

Oct. 27, 1992

The Best Campaign Money Can Buy
(60 minutes) In 1992, a year when the presidential campaigns cost $400 million, Frontline, in a co-production with the Center for Investigative Reporting, investigates the behind-the-scenes money ... (more)

Oct. 21, 1992

The Choice '92
(120 minutes) In this Election '92 Special Report, Frontline presents political biographies of the two leading candidates for the presidency-Republican George Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton. Correspondent ... (more)

Oct. 20, 1992

The Politics of Power
(60 minutes) Frontline, in a co-production with the Center for Investigative Reporting, examines the story of our nation's failed energy policy. Journalist Nick Kotz investigates the role ... (more)

Oct. 13, 1992

Thomas and Hill: Public Hearing, Private Pain
(60 minutes) Frontline expolores how Clarence Thomas's bitter Supreme Court nomination hearing, replete with charges of sexual harassment, reached deep into the psyche of black America. Through ... (more)

Jun. 23, 1992

Your Loan Is Denied
(60 minutes) Peter and Dolores Green, African-American professionals, are suing a Chicago-area bank for refusing to finance their purchase of the home they have lived in for ... (more)

Jun. 16, 1992

A Kid Kills
(60 minutes) When 15 year old Damien Bynoe and two friends took a gun and went to settle a dispute, 15 year old Korey Grant and 11 ... (more)

Jun. 02, 1992

Dear FRONTLINE
(30 minutes) Frontline airs reactions to some of the controversial broadcasts in its tenth season. The program contains excerpts from viewer letters, responses from the subjects of ... (more)

Jun. 02, 1992

China After Tiananmen
(90 minutes) In June 1989, Chinese students defied their government and held pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Their voices of protest were silenced with tanks and guns. ... (more)

Apr. 28, 1992

Who Cares About Children?
(60 minutes) With 410,000 children in foster-care and over half a million expected by 1995, child advocates across the country say nearly every state is in, or ... (more)

Apr. 21, 1992

The Bank of Crooks and Criminals
(60 minutes) Frontline examines the global banking scandal surrounding the Bank of Credit & Commerce International by tracking the aggressive investigation of the case by New York ... (more)

Apr. 15, 1992

The Betrayal of Democracy
(120 minutes) Journalist William Greider examines what he calls 'the deepening divide between the governed and the governing' in this PBS Election '92 Report. Drawing upon Greider's ... (more)

Apr. 07, 1992

Investigating the October Surprise
(60 minutes) At the start of an official Congressional inquiry into allegations that the 1980 Reagan-Bush presidential campaign delayed the release of 52 Americans held hostage by ... (more)

Mar. 31, 1992

Saddam's Killing Fields
(60 minutes) One year after the fateful Kurdish uprising, Frontkine charts dissident Iraqi writer Kanan Makiya's secret return to Iraq to investigate rumors of an official extermination ... (more)

Mar. 24, 1992

The Death of Nancy Cruzan
(90 minutes) In 1984, a near-fatal automobile accident left Nancy Cruzan in a 'persistent vegetative state.' To permit the removal of Nancy's life support, the Cruzan family ... (more)

Mar. 03, 1992

Who Is David Duke?
(60 minutes) Correspondent Hodding Carter investigates the life and political career of presidential candidate David Duke-exploring Duke's troubled childhood, his intellectual journey into the extremist idealogy of ... (more)

Feb. 25, 1992

After Gorbachev's USSR
(60 minutes) Frontline correspondent Hedrick Smith, the award-winning host of "Inside Gorbachev's USSR," revisits the former Soviet Union to investigate how the institutions and people he filmed ... (more)

Feb. 18, 1992

Coming from Japan
(60 minutes) The Matsushita Electric Company is one of the largest corporations in the world, with a controversial history in the US stretching back more than 30 ... (more)

Feb. 11, 1992

The Last Communist
(60 minutes) The Cuban Revolution has turned into a struggle to feed its people. To understand what has happened to Cuba, Frontline tells the story of Cuba's ... (more)

Jan. 21, 1992

The Resurrection of Reverend Moon
(60 minutes) Frontline investigates the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who after serving 13 months in prison in the early 1980s for conspiracy and false tax returns, has ... (more)