Oct 01 Liberian Dallas residents worry about Ebola in their neighborhood By Stella M. Chávez and Dianna Douglas, KERA Ebola was the talk of Vickery Meadow in northeast Dallas Wednesday. It’s a refugee-rich neighborhood with a significant West African population – and it’s where a man was visiting before he became the first person in the United States diagnosed… Continue reading
Oct 01 Watch Dallas Ebola patient in “serious, but stable” condition By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 30 CDC’s Frieden confirms first U.S. case of Ebola is in Dallas By Ellen Rolfes The first ever case of Ebola in the U.S. has been diagnosed in Dallas. Continue reading
Sep 23 Dallas artist creates rainbows with 60 miles of thread By Alison Jardine, KERA Dallas artist Gabriel Dawe makes physically imposing and yet nebulous sculpture of thread stretched between points on the ceiling and points on the floor. He creates a multifaceted geometric shape, the color changing like a rainbow as the viewer’s eye… Continue reading
Jun 24 Remembering ‘Freedom Summer,’ the civil rights effort that changed America 50 years ago By Lyndsay Knecht, KERA Fifty years ago this summer, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. But that didn’t come without a price. It was the era of the Freedom Summer, a brave and bloody campaign to get blacks registered… Continue reading
Nov 22 Watch JFK’s life, legacy and leadership honored on 50th anniversary of his final day JFK's life, legacy and leadership honored on 50th anniversary of his final day… Continue watching
Nov 21 Watch 17:33 MacNeil and Lehrer remember the shock, special sorrow of JFK’s assassination On Nov. 22, 1963, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer were young reporters both covering President John F. Kennedy's visit to Texas. The NewsHour's founders share with Judy Woodruff their indelible memories of JFK's assassination as they recount their feelings of… Continue watching
Nov 20 Watch Covering JFK: Conspiracy or not? In 1976, the House of Representatives created the Select Committee on Assassinations to further investigate Kennedy’s shooting. In 1979, it reported the assassination was likely the result of a conspiracy. But after years of news coverage and investigations, NewsHour co-founders… Continue watching
Nov 20 Watch Covering JFK: How presidential security has changed Covering JFK: How presidential security has changed since 1963… Continue watching
Nov 20 Watch Covering JFK: A nation grieves the loss of Kennedy Covering JFK: A nation grieves the loss of the 35th U.S. president… Continue watching