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S7.E1 ∙ The Real Life of Ronald Reagan

Tue, Jan 17, 1989

Frontline correspondent Garry Wills profiles career of Ronald Reagan, his legacy, and public life.

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S7.E2 ∙ The Spy Who Broke the Code

Mon, Jan 23, 1989

Was John Walker spy of century? Frontline investigates Walker spy ring and how it sold secrets about American military codes to Soviets.

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S7.E3 ∙ The Battle for Eastern Airlines

Mon, Jan 30, 1989

Donald Trump's recent purchase of Eastern Airlines' shuttle focused national attention once again on fight for this troubled airline.

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S7.E4 ∙ Running with Jesse

Mon, Feb 06, 1989

An inside look at historic 1988 presidential campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson. Frontline profiles Jackson strategy.

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The story of Iain Brown, who at thirteen left the comfortable world of a middle-class family in Walnut Creek, CA, for the life of a male hustler in San Francisco. Iain committed suicide in December 1987 at the age of nineteen. His story highlights the disturbing and growing national problem of teenage runaways and suicides.

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S7.E6 ∙ Who Profits from Drugs

Mon, Feb 20, 1989

Frontline investigates how American economy uses profits from illegal drug trade. The program documents a network of lawyers, real estate developers, stock brokers, and bankers who launder drug proceeds.

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S7.E7 ∙ Prescriptions for Profit

Mon, Mar 27, 1989

An investigation into the billions spent on housing the poor, and why so few get the help they need. With NPR, the film examines the politics, profits and problems of an affordable housing system in crisis.

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S7.E8 ∙ The Dallas Drug War

Mon, Apr 03, 1989

Frontline correspondent Bob Ray Sanders profiles struggle of one neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, to combat drugs and violence threaten lives of its citizens and future of community.

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S7.E9 ∙ Murder in the Amazon

Mon, Apr 10, 1989

Chico Mendes was an environmentalist and a leader of seringueiros, Brazilian rubber tappers.

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S7.E10 ∙ The Shakespeare Mystery

Mon, Apr 17, 1989

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Sigmund Freud, and Charlie Chaplin all doubted William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon was true author of dramatic masterpieces that bear his name.

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S7.E11 ∙ Extraordinary People

Mon, May 01, 1989

Over 25 years ago, scores of Canadian women gave birth to badly malformed children because of a prescription drug called thalidomide.

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S7.E12 ∙ Yellowstone Under Fire

Mon, May 08, 1989

President Reagan's Interior secretaries, James Watt and Donald Hodel, may have altered landscape of Yellowstone Park area more dramatically than fires ravaged it in summer of 1988.

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S7.E13 ∙ Israel: The Covert Connection

Mon, May 15, 1989

The Iran-contra scandal revealed a glimpse of US government's secret relationship with Israel.

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S7.E14 ∙ Remember My Lai

Mon, May 22, 1989

In 1968, American soldiers massacred over 500 adults and children in a Vietnamese hamlet called My Lai.

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S7.E15 ∙ Babies at Risk

Mon, May 22, 1989

The infant mortality rate in some Chicago neighborhoods is higher than that of many third-world countries.

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S7.E16 ∙ Death of a Terrorist

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Mairead Farrell was three Irish Republican Army terrorists gunned down by British security forces on Gibraltar in March 1988.

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S7.E17 ∙ Who's Killing Calvert City?

Mon, Jun 19, 1989

Calvert City, Kentucky, is at war with itself over legacy of pollution and toxic waste from chemical plants are heart of its economy.

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S7.E18 ∙ Tracking the Pan Am Bombers

Mon, Nov 27, 1989

A Frontline special report investigates bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

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S7.E19 ∙ The Right to Die?

Tue, Dec 12, 1989

Frontline and Fred Friendly's Media and Society series join forces to examine complex legal and moral issues involved in US Supreme Court's first right-to-die case, Cruzan vs.

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