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Please indulge and look at the timing of this episode. We can learn something from the timing.
Today, on “Astonishing Tales of We Wuzzery” ...
1)Veterans Day - November 1992 on PBS’s “The American Experience,” the faux documentary directed by Bill Miles and Nina Rosenblum falsely claimed Black soldiers liberated Buchenwald and Dachau.
2)Dec. 17, 1992, Jackson,New York City Mayor David Dinkins, and Rep. Charles Rangel, hosted a screening of “Liberators” at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem.
3)Ruddy’s first myth-shattering article, “PBS Documentary Lies About Liberation of Concentration Camps,” was published in The New York Guardian in mid-December 1992.
4)Jackson arranged a screening at Harvard University on Feb. 8, 1993, just three days before public broadcasting finally pulled the plug.
5) Feb. 11, 1993, the indomitable reporting of a small group of conservative journalists in New York City, led by 27-year-old Chris Ruddy, forced PBS to yank the odious work of racial and religious agitprop from the public airwaves.
6) While a Jewish Telegraphic article on Feb. 19, 1993 found Jackson unavailable to comment on this shocking development, his plan for showing “Liberators” to Black and Jewish audiences in 25 other American cities was abruptly cancelled.
7)Chris Ruddy published two more superb investigative articles in March.
Ok people. The racism charge worked back then, not now. These people can’t be shamed. Think the ambush tactics in “60 Minutes” from years back. Do we have the researchers to do this in a timely, mostly effective manner?
The Brave Rifles (not a black unit) liberated the Death Camp at Ebensee, Austria. My Dad was there commanding a tank. He wouldn’t talk about it and left it out of his written account of his service, but other guys in his outfit told me the horrific story.
This is one of 1000 reasons to hate PBS
I remember this and still use it as a media example.
He mentions Jimmy Carter with the list of WWII veterans but Carter was in college the entire time with a graduation scheduled date of 1947.
Carter signed up for college instead of the military when Pearl was attacked, and in time got into the Naval academy with his 1947 graduation date which the war accelerated to 1946, technically that counts as military service during WWII, but.....
“””””if you attended a United States Service Academy for four years, graduated, and then served five years in the military honorably, those nine years will count toward your federal retirement, even though the four years at the service academy do not count toward time served if accepting a twenty year retirement for military service.”””””
According to Purlitzer winner, Walter Duranty, all articles on the USSR had to be cleared by Stalin.
It’s important not to dress up history to make the audience feel good about it. Guernica is another example out there. The casualties reported by the Allies was insanely higher than the official amounts.