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FRONTLINE; AIDS: A National Inquiry
03/25/1986

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- Series
- FRONTLINE
- Program
- AIDS: A National Inquiry
- Program Number
408
- 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
This special 2 hour show features a film about AIDS patient Fabian Bridges that raises questions about public and personal responsibility, prejudice and fear. Bridges, a homosexual prostitute, bragged he had sex with six partners a night and refused to stop even though he knew he had AIDS. In a special broadcast, follows Bridges's tragic journey across the United States, and later, a panel of national experts, led by Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, discuss how Americans should respond to this urgent public health issue.
- Duration
00:61:00
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- News
- Citation
- Chicago: “FRONTLINE; AIDS: A National Inquiry,” 03/25/1986, GBH Archives, accessed January 22, 2021, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_844445B29EA1494D82410261BD5E4358.
- MLA: “FRONTLINE; AIDS: A National Inquiry.” 03/25/1986. GBH Archives. Web. January 22, 2021. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_844445B29EA1494D82410261BD5E4358>.
- APA: FRONTLINE; AIDS: A National Inquiry. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_844445B29EA1494D82410261BD5E4358