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What’s on TV This Week: ‘The People vs. Agent Orange’ and Macy’s Fireworks PBS airs a documentary about the enduring effects of Agent Orange. And the Macy’s annual fireworks display returns to New York in full force. A scene from “The People vs. Agent Orange,” a documentary about the defo.Credit...National Archives and Records Administration June 28, 2021, 1:00 a.m. ET Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, June 28-July 4. Details and times are sub...

Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange sprayed by the U.S. continue to suffer but have never been adequately compensated.

The name Agent Orange became synonymous with the horrors of modern chemical warfare. Between 1961 and 1971 the U.S. military used an estimated 20 million gallons of the toxic cocktail to destroy the dense foliage of the Vietnamese rainforest, with devastating results for the people who lived there. But its use did not end there. Surplus from the Agent Orange stockpile was used back home in the U.S. even after Congress banned its use in Vietnam....

“Philly D.A.”, “The Donut King” join ‘Independent Lens’ spring slate PBS’s ‘Independent Lens,’ presented by ITVS, has laid out its spring slate of documentary programming, including the premiere of Ted Passon and Yoni Brook’s eight-episode docuseries Philly D.A. This spring will ... April 8, 2021 PBS’s ‘Independent Lens,’ presented by ITVS, has laid out its spring slate of documentary programming, including the ...

By ROBERT ABELE | Los Angeles Times | Published: March 4, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — The name Agent Orange has become synonymous with the destructive legacy of the Vietnam War. The U.S. military's use (12 million gallons) of the toxic herbicide not only did lasting ecological damage to a nation's jungles and crops, but it left human victims on both sides with corrosive health effects that have been passed on to subsequent generations. Accountability for its deployment — by our government and the chemical companies (Dow, Monsanto) that continue to spray one of Agent Orange's key, ...