Utah NOW: Viewing THE MORMONS-May 4, 2007-With Doug Fabrizio And Many Guests, Including Helen Whitney, Responding To "The Mormons."

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A new PBS series profiling the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will again bring Mormonism into the national spotlight. On an hour-long edition of Utah NOW, we’re talking about the series and gauging the reaction to this latest portrait of the faith. Find out what Utahns say after viewing the documentary.

Did it clear up misconceptions or reinforce them? Join us for a balanced, considered response to the national broadcast. In a unique collaboration between KUED and KBYU, Utah NOW: Viewing THE MORMONS will be simulcast on both channels Friday at 8 pm.

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Satellite interview with filmmaker Helen Whitney, who--over the course of three years--wrote, produced and directed both segments of the American Experience/Frontline Documentary: THE MORMONS.


Interview with Ken Verdoia and Terryl Givens, who are both featured in the documentary. Ken Verdoia is the director of production at KUED -TV Channel 7 and was one of the first experts contacted by Helen Whitney when she began her work more than three years ago. Terryl Givens is a Mormon author and a professor of Literature and Religion at the University of Richmond, Virginia.


One-on-one interview with LDS Church Historian and Recorder Elder Marlin K. Jensen, of the First Quorum of the Seventy, who is also the executive director of the Family and Church History Department.


Roundtable discussion with Jack Newell, emeritus professor at the University of Utah and a former co-editor of Dialogue Magazine; Elizabeth Sewell, associate director of BYU's International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Bob Goldberg, History professor and director of the University of Utah's Tanner Humanities Center, and Robert Millet a professor of Ancient Scripture and past dean of Religious Studies at BYU.

Doug Fabrizio Interviews Helen Whitney, The Writer, Director And Producer Of The PBS Documentary "The Mormons."

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Doug Fabrizio interviewed Helen Whitney regarding her documentary entitled "The Mormons", which appeared on PBS on April 30 and May 1, 2007. This interview aired on April 30, 2007.

The documentary can be watched on PBS.org/Mormons for absolutely free. There is also a discussion board where you can leave comments and join in the discussion. They've also included the full transcripts of many of the interviews that they conducted for the documentary, including Gordon B. Hinckley himself.

I also recommend that everyone visit my Mormon Truth Uncensored Podcast in order to hear the response that I recorded with "Demon of Kolob" on May 2, regarding this documentary.

We recorded the podcast in order to sort out the truth from the fiction and make sure that all of the facts were out there and that everyone knew the "real truth" about "The Mormons."

Samuel the Utahnite