Nation Nov 17 Where were you when you heard JFK had been shot? Londoners buying newspapers and reading about details of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Credit: Terrence Spencer/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images As part of our continuing coverage of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, PBS NewsHour…
Nation Nov 10 INFOGRAPHIC: U.S. pensions in peril Tonight on NewsHour Weekend, the debut of "The Pension Peril," a public television initiative looking at the nation's more than trillion dollar shortfall in funding for public employees' retirement benefits. We begin our series with a report from the…
Nation Sep 12 Join Hari Sreenivasan for #AnchorHours Last weekend, NewsHour Weekend debuted on stations across the country on Saturday and Sunday. This week, we begin Anchor Hours with NewsHour Weekend's Hari Sreenivasan (@hari). Hari will be joined by NewsHour Weekend…
Arts Sep 08 Art for Art’s Sake: A Conversation with Michael Chabon // Celebrated author Michael Chabon speaks with NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about the artists colony community in Peterborough, N.H. The first time author Michael Chabon came to the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H., it was 1996 and he was the…
Nation Sep 05 Google+ Hangout On Air: A First Look at NewsHour Weekend On Sept. 6 at 11 a.m. EDT, PBS NewsHour Weekend anchor Hari Sreenivasan will host a Google+ Hangout On Air. The conversation will feature a first look at NewsHour Weekend's signature field-reported pieces, premiering on air Sept. 7 and 8…
Arts Aug 16 Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite Create ‘All-Purpose Blues’ // Blues musicians Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite performed the acoustic guitar-harmonica duet, "You Found Another Lover (I Lost Another Friend)" for Art Beat at the Gibson showroom in Washington, D.C. The song is off the duo's recent album, "…