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Waiting for the world to change / ABC News.
LIBRA DVD 023 238
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Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD F144.C2 W35 2007
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--New Jersey--Camden.
- Poverty.
- Poor--New Jersey--Camden.
- Poor.
- Poor--Education--New Jersey--Camden.
- Poor--Education.
- Camden (N.J.)--Economic conditions.
- Camden (N.J.).
- Moorestown (N.J.)--Economic conditions.
- Moorestown (N.J.).
- New Jersey--Camden.
- Genre:
- Television programs.
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 22 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on disc : Waiting on the world to change
- Place of Publication:
- New Hudson, MI : ABC News, 2007.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Moorestown, New Jersey, has been designated "the best place to live in America." Ten minutes away is Camden, the poorest city in America, also known as Murder City, USA. During a period of 18 months, Diane Sawyer follows the lives of three youngsters who are used to seeing drug deals on street corners and hearing gunfire at night. What is it like for kids to live with no electricity, rushing to finish homework before sundown? To have no food to eat before school? To sleep on the floor with roaches, grateful just to have a roof overhead? Four-year-old Ivan is homeless and hungry, but looks forward to learning to read in kindergarten. Seventeen-year-old Billy Joe is determined to graduate from high school and get an honest job to help his family. Six-year-old Moochie lives in a dysfunctional family and dreams of getting a good education. All they need is the opportunity to prove themselves.
- Participant:
- Host: Diane Sawyer ; interviewees: Camden mayor Gwendolyn Faison, high school principal Davida Coe-Brockington, Urban Promise executive director Bruce Main.
- Credits:
- Editors, Jack Pyle, Ed Delgado, Bram Harris.
- Notes:
- Originally broadcast January 26, 2007, on the television news program "20/20."
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.
- OCLC:
- 85763960
- Publisher Number:
- T070126-51 ABC News
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