60 MINUTES {HOW SAFE IS SAFE?; THE TOTAL WOMAN; WHERE ARE THEY NOW?} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of news magazine programs. This edition examines the resignation of Robert D. Pollard from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Pollard, responsible for reviewing nuclear plant safety measures, discusses the NRC's shortcomings and the inadequacy of back-up safety systems. Next, Marabel Morgan, author of "The Total Woman," is featured. Finally, a "then and now" look at Vivian Malone and James Hood, the first blacks to register at the University of Alabama. Clips from Gov. George Wallace's 1963 confrontation with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach are seen and the two men are interviewed. The show closes with a "Point- Counterpoint" on Daniel P. Moynihan's resignation as U.S. United Nations Ambassador and viewers' reactions to previous stories. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: February 8, 1976 Sunday 7:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:20
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T77:0487
- GENRE: News magazine; Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Atomic energy - Safety measures; United Nations; University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; U S - Civil rights; U S Nuclear Regulatory Commission; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1968-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Don Hewitt … Executive Producer
- Palmer Williams … Senior Producer
- Arthur Bloom … Director
- Mike Wallace … Reporter
- Morley Safer … Reporter
- Dan Rather … Reporter
- Vivian Malone
- Marabel Morgan
- George Wallace
- Jimmy Hood
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Nicholas Katzenbach
- Robert D. Pollard