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FRONTLINE; Battle for Eastern Airlines, The
12/12/1988

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- Series
- FRONTLINE
- Program
- Battle for Eastern Airlines, The
- Program Number
703
- Series Description
Premiered January 1983 Since January 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television's - PBS - flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature over 23 years is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience. Series release date: 1/1983
- Program Description
Correspondent Robert Kuttner chronicles the saga of Eastern's ongoing labor-management disputes and the behind-the-scenes struggles between Charlie Bryan, head of the machinists' union, and Texas Air's Frank Lorenzo, as well as the fate of the experiment in joint union and management ownership of Eastern under former astronaut Frank Borman.
- Duration
00:57:41
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- News
- Public Affairs
- Citation
- Chicago: “FRONTLINE; Battle for Eastern Airlines, The,” 12/12/1988, GBH Archives, accessed January 20, 2021, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_3DCCAB1378624D448437DCB91576658A.
- MLA: “FRONTLINE; Battle for Eastern Airlines, The.” 12/12/1988. GBH Archives. Web. January 20, 2021. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_3DCCAB1378624D448437DCB91576658A>.
- APA: FRONTLINE; Battle for Eastern Airlines, The. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_3DCCAB1378624D448437DCB91576658A