


Three weeks later, New York Times television columnist John J. On Monday evening at 7:30pm on October 20, 1975, public television viewers in New York City were treated to an experiment in television. Collage of NewsHour coverage of Angola, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Afghanistan. The Collection includes nearly 15,000 episodes of the NewsHour and its predecessor programs from October 1975 to September 2019, including The Robert MacNeil Report (1975 - 1976), The MacNeil/Lehrer Report (1976 – 1983), The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (1983 – 1995), The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (1995 – 2009), and the PBS NewsHour (2009 - 2019). In 20, the Internet Archive provided copies of episodes recorded off-air from 2009 - 2019. In 2016, the Council on Library and Information Resources awarded a grant to WGBH, the Library of Congress, and the Greater Washington Educational Television Authority (WETA) to digitize, preserve and make publicly accessible the PBS NewsHour Collection from 1975 - 2007.

‘Burning with a Deadly Heat’: NewsHour Coverage of the Hot Wars of the Cold War is the first in a series of AAPB exhibits that focuses on programs available in the PBS NewsHour Collection. The Cold War isn’t thawing it’s burning with a deadly heat.
