CBS Reports

“What Are We Doing to Our Children?,” 1973 March 9
Note: Producer: Isaac Kleinerman
Executive producer: Burton Benjamin
Correspondent: Daniel Schorr
Scope and Content Note: Examines the problems of troubled youths in America and role the government plays in handling low-income and damaged children, focusing on the juvenile detention systems. The documentary focuses on one child named Paul and his family's struggle against the courts system.

“A Boy Named Terry Egan,” 1973
Note: Director/producer: Isaac Kleinerman
Assistant producer: Phyllis Bosworth
Correspondent: Daniel Schorr
Scope and Content Note: Documentary film that shares one year in the life of nine year-old Terry Egan, an attractive, bright, likeable child who is autistic. The film follows Egan as he interacts with his family and the Loyola University Guidance Center, a school for the emotionally impaired, showing the changes in his social skills, language and academic skills.

“The Israelis,” circa 1973

“The Great Depression” , circa 1976

“Harvest of Mercy,” undated
Alternate Format: Digital access copy available

“99 Days to Survival,” undated
Note: Production: CBS in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution
Producer: Isaac Kleinerman
Director: Jim Jackson
Editor: Maurice Murad
Host: Walter Schirra
Voices of John Wesley Powell and George Bradley by E.G. Marshall
Scope and Content Note: In this Smithsonian Adventure, E.G. Marshall reads from Major John Wesley Powell's journal about the increasing peril of Powell's journey down the Colorado River in 1869 as twentieth-century adventurers traverse the same route and show that the unknown gorges and turbulent rapids pose dangers as great as ever.