WQED Brings the War Home

WQED Brings the War Home

Massive community campaign in conjunction with new PBS documentary

The War -- A Film by Ken Burns

PITTSBURGH, July 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania were called The Arsenal of Democracy during World War II. Pittsburgh produced more steel than Japan and Germany combined and employed hundreds of thousands in the war effort. Thousands of Pittsburgh men and women served their country in every war theater and on the home front.

WQED brings the local perspective of The War home to southwestern Pennsylvania by being the repository of stories from this region. Thousands of people, including veterans, war workers, children and grandchildren have stories and memories that are valuable. WQED is mounting an all-out effort through television, radio, the web, PITTSBURGH magazine and WQED's Education and Community Resource Center to collect these stories and share them with the community.

WQED's request for World War II stories can be found on its website http://www.wqed.org/ and accessing the link "The War -- A Ken Burns Film -- Share Your WWII Story." The public can also write their stories and send them to: THE WAR, c/o WQED, 4802 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213.

The War is a seven-night, 14 1/2 hour television event that showcases the people who fought, the people on the home front, and subsequent generations whose lives were also changed because of World War II. The War explores the horror of World War II from an American perspective by following the fortunes of the men and women in four American towns: Westbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota, who were caught up in the greatest conflict in history.

WQED Pittsburgh, honored with the Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for Station Excellence and eight other Emmy Awards in 2006, creates, produces and distributes quality programs, products and services to engage, inform, educate and entertain the public within its community and around the world. It is the parent company of WQED-TV (PBS); WQED-DT; The WQED Neighborhood Channel; WQED- HD; WQEX-TV (A Shop NBC affiliate); WQED-FM/Pittsburgh; WQEJ-FM/Johnstown; a publishing division that includes PITTSBURGH magazine; local and national television and radio productions; WQED Interactive (http://www.wqed.org/); and the WQED Education and Community Resource Center.

Source: WQED Pittsburgh

CONTACT: Rosemary Martinelli, +1-412-622-6433, rmartine@wqed.org, or
George Hazimanolis, +1-412-622-1366, ghaziman@wqed.org, both of WQED
Pittsburgh

Web site:

http://www.wqed.org/

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