[miss marmelstein]

I don’t suppose you’re old enough to remember the fine tv series of the 60s called ‘Profiles in Courage’ based, I guess, on Kennedy’s book. The episode about Harriet enthralled me as a child! And just when the most climatic moment occurred, she fainted due to the head wound!

I still don’t agree with taking Jackson off but she was a hell of a broad.

[Rockingham]

Alas, I am old enough to vaguely remember Profiles in Courage. Our family did not watch it though because my father habitually controlled the choice of TV programs in the evening, and by 1964, he was an adamant Goldwater supporter. Anything on TV based on a book by JFK was not going to enter our household, thank you very much.

Anyway, the show you had in mind was probably The Great Adventure, which broadcast an episode about Harriet Tubman on Friday, November 1, 1963. Supposedly, Steven Spielberg is working on an account of Harriet Tubman for HBO. With such great source material, if they can avoid political correctness and ideological ax-grinding, it should make for quite a show.