October 27,1959-
Documentaries produced by CBS Television usually telecast as Specials.
Fred Friendly produced the series for the first several years. Most notable broadcast that put this iconic documentary series of specials on the map was Edward R. Murrow reporting HARVEST OF SHAME (NOVEMBER 25, 1960) about the plight of the American farm worker and the shocking conditions in which farm laborers live, travel and labor in American fields and orchids
CBS News presents a special report: "Sabotage in South Africa."
A look at life in South Africa under the controversial apartheid policy and on the activities and opinions of proponents and opponents of the segregationist policy and of recent decrees that make the act of speaking out against apartheid one of sabotage and punishable by death.
Walter Cronkite reports.