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Malte Ludin's "2 or 3 Things I Know About Him"
On today’s Underreported, we get the details surrounding recent arrests and indictments of former Black Panthers in the 1971 killing of a police officer. Then, we look at the intense competition between Boeing and Airbus. Later on, filmmaker Malte Ludin talks about making a documentary as a way of understanding his father—a Nazi who was executed as a war criminal in 1947. And journalist Susan Eaton shares her investigative report on the conditions inside one all-minority school in Hartford, Connecticut.
Underreported: Torture and Black Panther Indictments
Earlier this week, the arrests and indictments of former Black Panthers in the 1971 killing of a police officer were announced. But according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, torture had been used to build a case against these men in 1973--in 1974, a court ruled that ...
Boeing versus Airbus
John Newhouse shares his inside look at one of the biggest rivalries in business: the intense competition between Boeing and Airbus.
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A Father and a War Criminal
Malte Ludin’s father was a Nazi leader who administered the Third Reich’s Final Solution in Slovakia. In 1947, he was executed as a war criminal. In his documentary "2 or 3 Things I Know About Him,” Malte Ludin attempts to understand who his father was.
Poor School, Rich State
Journalist Susan Eaton spent four years in the one of the poorest elementary schools in the country's richest state. In The Children in Room E4, she reports on the conditions inside an all-minority school in Hartford, Connecticut.
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