Mar 16 Watch First Rock From the Sun: NASA Set to Explore Mercury’s Extreme Atmosphere Imagine traveling to a planet where the sun is 11 times stronger than on Earth, the temperature can swing 1,100 degrees and you have to maintain contact with headquarters back on Earth. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on NASA's tricky… Continue watching
Jan 20 50 Years Later, Indelible Images of Kennedy’s Inauguration LIFE presents rare and never-seen photos from the event, and from the star-studded parties before and after. Continue reading
Jan 05 Watch News Wrap: Administration to Drop Mentions of End-of-Life Counseling In other news Wednesday, the Obama administration will drop references to end-of-life counseling as a covered service under Medicare. Also, more rain is forecast for flood-ravaged Queensland, Australia, which is already coping with 80,000 square miles underwater and mass evacuations. Continue watching
Dec 14 Watch Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young Shares Life Lessons With New Generation Andrew Young, a top aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., and his godson/co-author Kabir Sehgal speak with Judy Woodruff about passing on life lessons and words of advice for a new generation, plus their new book "Walk in My Shoes."… Continue watching
Nov 23 Watch Frontline Examines Difficulty, Importance of End-of-Life Decisions The latest Frontline -- airing Tuesday on many PBS stations -- confronts the complicated end-of-life decisions that patients, families and doctors must face. This excerpt shows the tough decision-making surrounding one patient's grim prognosis at the Mount Sinai Medical Center… Continue watching
Nov 15 Watch Cleopatra Continues to Capture Imaginations, 2,000 Years Later The Egyptian ruler Cleopatra died more than 2,000 years ago, but still has a powerful presence today. Jeffrey Brown has a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff about her new book, "Cleopatra: a Life."… Continue watching
Oct 19 Watch Former World Bank President Reflects on ‘A Global Life’ Jeffrey Brown talks to James Wolfensohn about his memoir, "A Global Life," and his 10 years at the helm of the World Bank. Wolfensohn, who grew up in Australia, worked in London and on Wall Street, reflects on the increasing… Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch Walter Mondale’s Reflections on Political Life Former Vice President Walter Mondale talks to Judy Woodruff about his life in the political arena and his new autobiography "The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics."… Continue watching
Oct 05 Watch Shahzad ‘Extremely Defiant’ at Sentencing for Failed NYC Bombing Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American man who confessed to trying to set off a bomb in New York City's Times Square, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for the plot. Jim Lehrer talks to WNYC reporter Alisa Chang who was… Continue watching
Sep 23 Watch Author Examines Generations-Long Black ‘Defection from the Jim Crow South’ In her new book "The Warmth of Other Suns," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson digs into the "The Great Migration" that took place from 1915 to 1970, when 6 million African-Americans left the South to go north and… Continue watching