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Miriam Weintraub
Miriam Weintraub is a contributing producer at Retro Report. She has over two decades of experience producing for network news, cable television and online news organizations. She spent more than a dozen years as a producer for CBS’s 60 Minutes, producing everything from feature stories to celebrity profiles to investigative pieces. Most recently, she developed and produced the documentary Life According to Sam for HBO, which won a Peabody Award, a Prime Time Emmy and was nominated for a Producers Guild of America award for best documentary motion picture.
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How an Underground Abortion Network Got Started
It started with one request. A friend's sister was pregnant and suicidal. Before long a clandestine group called Jane was created to help women in Chicago with illegal abortions. medicinecivil-rights
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Abortion Was Illegal. This Secret Group Defied the Law
We tell the story of a little known chapter in American history, before Roe v. Wade, when a clandestine group provided thousands of women with illegal abortions in Chicago. law-policymedicine
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Where the Debate Over "Designer Babies" Began
Genetic technology is advancing, and critics are warning of a slippery slope. We spoke with the scientists working at the forefront of the research, families who have benefited and the first-ever "test-tube" baby to understand the debate. science-technologymedicine
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Life as the World's First Test Tube Baby
On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown became the first ever so-called “test-tube baby.” Her birth was one of the biggest media stories of the 20th century, and she became famous just by being born. medicinescience-technology
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Conspiracy Theories and Fake News from JFK to Pizzagate
Retro Report explores decades of conspiracy theories -- from the John F. Kennedy assassination to Pizzagate -- and what they can tell us about how we view the world today. popular-culture
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The Doctor
The pediatric neurosurgeon who first identified shaken baby syndrome has a surprising take on the very syndrome he's credited with discovering. medicine
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The Lawyer
A mini-doc about the anatomy of a shaken baby case from the perspective of defense attorney Adele Bernhard. criminal-justice
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The Nanny Murder Case: Shaken Baby Syndrome on Trial
In 1997, a young British nanny charged with murder brought shaken baby syndrome into the national spotlight, and raised a scientific debate that continues to shape child abuse cases today. medicine
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