Overview
What we learned this week from 1988 is that everything old continues to be new. There are always so many parallels between our present and our past. For instance, Ron Paul was running for President, and now Rand Paul is running. Here is Congressman Paul in an interview in 1988 when he ran for the Libertarian ticket. Sarah Palin was also making her name known on a bigger stage. Sarah Palin as sportscaster, link below. If scandal is what you like, than read about the Judith Exner and Kennedy relationship, in light of other Kennedy mistresses coming forward the last couple of years. There was also developing issues of US intervention in Nicaragua and Iraq/Iran, the Presidential Election, the after glow of the Olympics, the Grammy's, and a discussion of AIDS on "Highway to Heaven". In election news, Michael Dukakis and Jessie Jackson were seemingly in a neck and neck battle for the Democratic Nomination. New York was dealing with the after effects of a Police Shooting. Also, the Likud Party in Israel was stopping Sec of State's Shultz "Land for Peace" deal in the West Bank.
What I already Know (K)(what you should know coming into this week)
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This Week's Magazine Rack
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TV schedule
| Network | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
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| ABC | Winter Olympics | |||||||
| CBS | 60 Minutes | Murder She Wrote "A Very Good Year for Murder" | Bluegrass: Part 1 (1988) | |||||
| Fox | 21 Jump Street "Orpheus" | Werewolf "To Dream of Wolves" | Married with Children "Im-Po-Dent" | The Tracey Ullman Show | Deut "Special Delivery" | synd. | synd | |
| NBC | Our House "Out of Step" | Family Ties "Spring Reminds Me" | My Two Dads "Michael's Sister comes over and Visits | Perry Mason "The Case of the Avenging Ace" (1988) | ||||
| Network | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
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| ABC | MacGyver "the Odd Triple" | Perfect People (1988) | local news | syndication | ||||
| CBS | Superman 50th Anniversary Special | Bluegrass: Part 2 (1988) | local news | syndication | ||||
| Fox | all syndication programming | |||||||
| NBC | Alf "You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog" | Day by Day "Birthday Presence" | Police Academy 2: Their 1st Assignment (1985) | local news | syndication | |||
| David Letterman guests | no guests-off | |||||||
| Johnny Carson guests | off | |||||||
| Network | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
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| ABC | Who's the Boss "Three Teens and a Tony" | Growing Pains "Dance Fever" | Moonlighting "Maddie Hayes got Married" | Thirty Something "Accounts Receivable" | local news | syndication | ||
| CBS | Candid Camera, The first 40 years (R) | Miss USA Pageant winner: Courtney Gibbs | local news | syndication | ||||
| Fox | syndication | |||||||
| NBC | Matlock (R) | Hunter "Bogota's Millions" | Crime Story "Pauli Taglia's Dream" | local news | syndication | |||
| David Letterman guests | Tom Brokaw, Belinda Carlisle | |||||||
| Johnny Carson guests | off | |||||||
| Network | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
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| ABC | Growing Pains "Dance Fever pt 2" | Head of the Class "For Better or Worse" | Hooperman | The Slap Maxwell Story | Dynasty "The Scandal" | local news | syndication | |
| CBS | Grammy Awards | |||||||
| Fox | >syndication | |||||||
| NBC | Highway to Heaven "Aloha" | Places in the Heart (1984) | local news | syndication | ||||
| David Letterman guests | Tim Reid | |||||||
| Johnny Carson guests | off | |||||||
| Network | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
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| ABC | Political Special | Sledgehammer "r" | Blue Thunder (1983) | Local News | Syndication | |||
| CBS | Tour of Duty "R" | Simon and Simon "Ties that Bind" | Knots Landing "A Fair Race" | Local News | Syndication | |||
| Fox | >syndication | |||||||
| NBC | The Cosby Show "Trust Me" | Day by Day "How to Succeed in Daycare" | Cheers "The Sam in the Grey Flannel Suit" | Night Court "R" | LA Law "Fetus Completus" | Local News | Syndication | |
| David Letterman guests | Isaiah Thomas, Terrence Trent d'Arby | |||||||
| Johnny Carson guests | no off | |||||||
| Network | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
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| ABC | Perfect Strangers "Pipe Dreams" | Full House "Just one of the Guys" | Mr Belvedere "Foxtrot" | The Thorns "First Date" | 20/20 | Local News | Syndication | |
| CBS | Beauty and the Beast "Everything is Everything" | Dallas "Crime Story" | Falcon Crest "Channing v Channing" | Local News | Syndication | |||
| Fox | syndication | |||||||
| NBC | The Highwayman "Road Lord" | Miami Vice "Honor Among Thieves" | Sonny Spoon "Who's Got Tonsillitas" | Local News | Syndication | |||
| David Letterman guests | Jay Leno, Roseanne Cash | |||||||
| Johnny Carson guests | off | |||||||
| Network | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 |
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| ABC | Dolly Guests: Barbara Mandrell, Tom Selleck, Smokey Robinson and the Temptations | Ohara "X" | Spenser: For Hire "Substantial Justice" | local news | syndication | |||
| CBS | High Mountain Rangers "Ordeal" | Willie Nelson:Texas Style | W 57th | local news | syndication | |||
| Fox | Boys will be Boys "the Gang" | Women in Prison "R" | The New Adventures of Beans Baxter "Beans and the Satanical Backwards Masking Conspiracy" | Mr President "R" | syndication | |||
| NBC | Facts of Life "Present Imperfect" | 227 | The Golden Girls | Amen "The Fantasy" | America's Tribute to Bob Hope | local news | syndication | |
| SNL this week | SNL is over for the season, writer's strike starts on the 7th | |||||||
| Network | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | 10:30 | 11:00 | 11:30 |
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| ABC | Care Bears | My Pet Monster | Little Clowns of Happytown | Little Wizards | Pound Puppies | The Real Ghostbusters | Flintstone Kids | Bugs Bunny and Tweety | Animal Crackups | ABC weekend special |
| CBS | Furry Tale Theater | Muppet Babies | PeeWee's Playhouse | Mighty Mouse | Popeye and Son | Dennis the Menace | Teen Wolf | Kidd Video | ||
| Fox | syndication programs | |||||||||
| NBC | Gummi Bears | The Smurfs | Fraggle Rock | Alvin and the Chipmunks | Alf | The New Archies | Foofur | I'm Telling! | ||
| Charles in Charge "Dear Charles" | It's a Living (Returns April 23th) | We Got it Made "La Vie en Jay-Part 2" | She's the Sheriff "Hildy's First Kiss" | Bustin' Loose "Snow Place Like Home" | |||||
| Punky Brewster (returns on April 27th) | Webster (Returns March 14th) | Star Trek:The Next Generation (returns on March 14th) | Sea Hunt "The Phantom Strikes" | Friday the 13th "Vanity's Mirror" | |||||
| Tales from the Darkside "The Deal" | The Dom DeLuise Show | What's Happening Now! (returns April 25th) | The New Gidget (returns April 28th) | Small Wonder (returns April 30th) | |||||
| Mama's Family "Bubba's Double Date" | Out of this World (returns April 23rd) | Throb "Only the Lonely" | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (returns October 8th) | 9 to 5 "Felb's Big Secret" | |||||
| Jem (returns May 2nd) | ThunderCats (returns September 5) | WWF Superstars of Wrestling | Kids Incorporated | Max Headroom (returns in April 28th) | |||||
| Dennis the Menace "Menaced Marriage, Dennis of the Yukon, Seal of Approval" | Marblehead Manor "Chinny Chin Chum" | Finders Keepers | The Raccoons (return in October) | You Can't Take it With You (returns Feb 26) | |||||
| Austin City Limits (returns April 23) | Danger Mouse (New Episodes in 1991) | Mr Wizard's World (returns March 19th) | You Can't Do That on Television (would go on a retooling hiatus in 1988) | Star Search | |||||
| Doctor Who (Returns in October) | T and T (returns March 9th) | Hee Haw (returns April 23rd) | Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future "Freedom One" | The New Leave It To Beaver "Wrap Party" | |||||
| empty syndication spot | DuckTales (returns in Nov) | Soul Train Vanity, Kool Moe Dee,Angela Winbush,Ronald Isley | American Bandstand (Returns April 2nd) | DeGrassi Jr High "Dog Days" |
Media Links to take you back in time:
Primary ads
Superman’s 50th Birthday
Nightly News March 4th,1988
Michael Jackson performs at the Grammy’s
Sarah Palin’s Sports Cast from March 5, 1988
History (information gathered from The Milwaukee Sentinel, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Southeast Missourian, The Palm Beach Post, history.orb; Calvin and Hobbes, Doonesbury, and Peanuts strips used with permission, however we do not own the rights, please do not copy)
This is the first comic strip, where Charles Shultz moved away from his traditional 4 block strip
Thursday, March 3rd
- House defeats a Democratic led plan to provide humanitarian aid to the Contras
- Judge puts an injunction on Reagan Administration regulations to defund Planned Parenthood or abortion counseling programs
- Chrysler decides to keep Acustar parts, but announces it will be shutting down multiple factories
- Transportation Department announces random drug testing plans for airline workers
- Sikh gunmen open fire in Punjab killing 32 at Holi Festival, part of long term nationalist fight
- Dukakis and Gephardt confront each other about interest groups that support the campaigns after Dukakis criticizes "oil import tax" plan
- NSC member David Wigg testifies that Wallach told him that e was going to get rich on Meese's pipeline deal
- NATO debates the image that Gorbachev has been showing to the world with his new openness
- Ryan White speaks to the White House AIDS commission, says he "is living a normal life"
- George Lucas and Steven Spielberg go in front of a Senate Panel to ask for protection over the final product of artists ( in light of Ted Turner's colorization push)
- Bangladesh election leads to violence
- Sri Lankan rebels kill 16 during an ethnic village raid
- study finds that AIDS related suicides are at a much higher level than most of the population
- Obstetrics doctor found guilty of perjury and obstruction in his testimony in favor of AH Robbins (Dalkon Shield Birth Control)
- Jury orders Soldier of Fortune magazine to pay $9 million to the family of a woman whose killer was hired in the classified advertisements.
- 3 day Congressional anti drug conference ends with deep criticisms of Reagan's actions
- Mary Cantrell caught in Arizona, after having escaped from a federal prison in WV ten years earlier
- Governor Mecham tries to bring down key witness by exposing sexual secrets, Senate refuses to hear the evidence
- government places federal regulations on trucks driving in urban areas
- China begins looking towards allowing free enterprise and market economics
- Presidential AIDS panel pledges $2 billion a year to fight AIDS by expanding drug treatment services and medical care
- IBM sets a superconductor record at -234 F
- National Assemblies of God Commission decide to investigate Jimmy Swaggart's punishments, believing they are too light
- Kelly Carner testifies about the counterfeiting operation "The Order" was using to aid their Aryan revolution
- Senate Bill prohibits most private employers from using lie detector test
Friday, March 4th
- Northwestern Department Store Chain Nordstrom opens its first store beyond the west coast in Virginia
- Stamp hike of .25 proposed
- US employment rate at 5.7%, lowest in 8 years
- Major General William F Burns is voted in a head of Arms Control
- FAA finds 139 areas of concern with the safety of Northwest Airlines
- House panel finds a Naval station and a Anti Central American intervention protester at fault in a Sept 87 incident in which the protestor had his legs amputated by a train while sitting on a track to block munitions shipments. House member Barbara Boxer dissented from the report
- Swiss financier to testify against Atty General Meese in the investigation about his involvement in a plan to build an oil pipeline from Jordan to Iraq
- Jeb Bush accused of using his father's influence to pedal federal dollars into a failing Miami HMO
- Judge rules that Pat Robertson can drop his libel suit, but only if he pays court fees
- Reagan Administration announces plans to stop the $7 million payments for the use of the Panama Canal until Noriega steps down, stopping short of a trade embargo and fearing anti US backlash
- Shultz hands over US peace plan on Israel to the parties, with a 10 day waiting period to recognize and accept.
- Iran agrees to look at ending the war against Iraq under the UN plan
- Reagan administration lets the Soviets know that the US will not stop arming guerillas until the Soviets stop arming the Afghani government
- 4 suspects arrested in last week's New York City cop killing
- Reagan administration criticizes the "White House Conference on Drug Free America" for undermining the President and First Lady's work on fighting drugs
- Tibetan Monk Lobsang Wangchuk dies in prison in 1987, the Chinese government finally admits it having feared riots
- British regional director of Oxfam and his Syrian assistant disappear in Lebanon
- The Contras raid a village and take hostages, including an American member of the Anti Central American interaction group Witness for Peace, Richard Boren
- Soviets report that 31 people were killed in Azerbaijani riots
- Reagan asks Congress to try again to build a Contra aid package, 5 Senators led by Richard Lugar take up the cause
- Panama orders all banks to close until all dollars can be regularized
- PLO takes credit for an attempted car bombing of Sec of State Shultz
- Israel begins banning journalists from reporting about the conflicts
- Nancy Reagan defends her choice to have a mastectomy, on 20/20
- Peggy Griffith testifies at the Mecham impeachment trial about the death threat towards a colleague that Mecham ignored and tried to cover up
- head of New Life Church and televangelist Michael Agnello resigns due to an affair---read about this man's future
- Garrison Keillor sues NPR for commercially using one of his speeches
- Michael Jackson to get Honorary Degree from Fisk
- panel investigating NASA concludes that NASA needs to use more critical judgement over who goes into space
- HHS publishes consumer guide on Nursing Homes
- Jurors visit the Central Park crime scene of the "Preppie Murder Case"
- Senate votes down plan to let Reagan not report covert activity
- Reagan and Gorbachev to meet in May for a four day summit
- House Republicans charge Costa Rican Ambassador Guido Fernandez with working to end Contra aid, ask Reagan to have him sent home
- Fatal Vision lawsuit dismissed
- Spain bans smoking in public places
- Austrian General resigns over Waldheim's suspected Nazi past
Saturday, March 5th
- Ruling party wins elections in Bangladesh, despite high levels of violence
- Bush wins the South Carolina Primary
- Soviets propose a system of free enterprise competition against state owned companies
- Desmond Tutu will travel to Moscow in June to celebrate the 1,000 birthday of the Orthodox Church
- Reagan uses NATO summit to demand the Soviets pull back from Europe in the face of NATO unity
- House Dems say that the Contra Aid issue is not going to happen in the next 4 months
- Panamanian economy grinds to a halt in face of bank closures and US sanctions
- Restoration of the Turks and Caicos Constitution
- Tibetan freedom protest hits a police station
- Masters and Johnson study declares that AIDS is rampant among heterosexuals, causes massive controversy
Music
This week saw the continued success of George Michael’s Father Figure as the #1 song in America
This week saw Michael Jackson perform his first solo shows in New York City (hard to believe he had never been a solo act by 1988)
This week was also the Grammy’s (celebrating the hits of 1987), hosted by Billy Crystal (here is a great summary with video highlights on the Grammy's website)
- Record of the Year
- Paul Simon for Graceland single released in 1987
- Paul Simon for Graceland single released in 1987
- Album of the Year
- Brian Eno, Daniel Lanoi & U2 for The Joshua Tree
- Brian Eno, Daniel Lanoi & U2 for The Joshua Tree
- Song of the Year
- Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil & James Horner (songwriters) for Somewhere Out There performed by Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram…you know you want to hear it, so here it is
- Best New Artist
Literature
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What I would like to know more about? (W)
Specific Questions to think about
- Would you say this was a good or a bad week for the Reagan Administration?why?
- What did it mean to be a citizen of the USA this week?
- What did it mean to be a citizen of another nation of your choosing this week?
- What issues were the biggest concerns this week?
- What cultural events would have drawn you in this week? why?
- What are your observations about this week?
- What do you feel like you need to learn more about in order to understand this week?
Demonstrating What I Learned (L)
ACTIVITIES FOR THE WEEK, CHOOSE 1
1. Choose 1 story from each day of the week and follow it further (read about it in the 1988 newspapers provided)... why is the story important? what happened in the end? Does this story still relate to us today? Is this still an ongoing story? (logical intelligence)
2. Examine the TV schedule, find one of the episodes on any number of streaming sites. Use the Library of Congress reflection guide to Observe, reflect, and question the information/culture being presented to you. How does this episode tie into the larger themes of the week (IE, Miami Vice and its reliance on drug trafficking themes) (visual intelligence)
3. Diagram the relevance of this week's events/culture to one of our guest interviews, how does hearing from a 1988 voice enhance the information presented? (intrapersonal intelligence)
4. Create and craft a mock news broadcast following several of this week's stories, or design a week summary skit (both will need to be performed) (bodily intelligence)
5. Listen to the music of this week and assess its relevance and importance to the issues and events or craft a song about the events of the week (musical intelligence)
6. Write a mock journal entry from someone of your age in 1988, telling their journal about his/her week in 1988, OR write a series of poems about the week, OR write a report about how this week shaped 1988, OR read one of the top selling books and report about what you read (linguistic intelligence)
BONUS ACTIVITIES TO ENHANCE THE 1988 ARCHIVES (use 1988project format)
1. Choose 1 story from each day of the week and follow it further (read about it in the 1988 newspapers provided)... why is the story important? what happened in the end? Does this story still relate to us today? Is this still an ongoing story? (logical intelligence)
2. Examine the TV schedule, find one of the episodes on any number of streaming sites. Use the Library of Congress reflection guide to Observe, reflect, and question the information/culture being presented to you. How does this episode tie into the larger themes of the week (IE, Miami Vice and its reliance on drug trafficking themes) (visual intelligence)
3. Diagram the relevance of this week's events/culture to one of our guest interviews, how does hearing from a 1988 voice enhance the information presented? (intrapersonal intelligence)
4. Create and craft a mock news broadcast following several of this week's stories, or design a week summary skit (both will need to be performed) (bodily intelligence)
5. Listen to the music of this week and assess its relevance and importance to the issues and events or craft a song about the events of the week (musical intelligence)
6. Write a mock journal entry from someone of your age in 1988, telling their journal about his/her week in 1988, OR write a series of poems about the week, OR write a report about how this week shaped 1988, OR read one of the top selling books and report about what you read (linguistic intelligence)
BONUS ACTIVITIES TO ENHANCE THE 1988 ARCHIVES (use 1988project format)
- Choose an age appropriate 1988 film and review it for our film reviews
- Choose an TV episode from 1988 and review it for our television reviews
- Choose an album, artist, or song from 1988 and review for our music section
- Choose a game to play (board, video, etc) from 1988 and review it for our game section
- Choose a 1988 book and review it for the literature section