1997 Jamboree on PBS

To all PBS viewers in the Tulsa, Oklahoma viewing area. OETA channel 11
will air the PBS Special on the 1997 BSA Jamboree.

We will air it Monday, January 12 at 9 p.m.
Susie
Dowdy

All other Oklahoma Viewing Areas check this web site for the viewing
times or contact the local station:
http://www.oeta.onenet.net/

For all others see the PBS index web site at:
http://www.itvs.org/PTV1.html

Here is the Press Release as I received it through the Jambo 01 List:

Subject: PBS Jamboree special
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:04:09 -0500
X-Priority: 3

THE SCOUT JAMBOREE

Rappelling off a 40-foot tower, kayaking, scuba diving, skeet shooting,
fishing and meeting President Clinton are just a few of the activities
enjoyed by more than 35,000 Boy Scouts after they set up camp for 10
days at the 60th anniversary of the National Boy Scout Jamboree.
THE SCOUT JAMBOREE, airing on PBS in January 1998 (check local
listings), takes viewers to the event in nearly every way minus smelling
the campfire and the backache from sleeping on a cot. The one-hour
program also features interviews with Scouts about the impact of
Scouting on their lives. Ron Schara and Fred Bartzen host.
The National Boy Scout Jamboree is held every four years, making it
a "once in a lifetime" event for the Scouts who come from all over the
United States and from 28 countries around the world. "Character Counts
Be Prepared for the 21st Century" was the theme of this year's National
Scout Jamboree. The program explores the magnitude of the event with a
look at the history of the Jamboree and highlights visits by
dignitaries, including President Clinton, Cardinal Keeler of Baltimore,
Maryland, and Secretary of the Army Togo West.
From July 28 to August 5, 1997, Scouts gathered with 7,000 adult
volunteers at Fort A.P. Hill in the rolling, forested hills of Virginia
just south of Washington, DC. When the Scouts moved in, they instantly
created Virginia's sixth largest city, complete with its own mass
transit, radio station and newspaper. Once they pitched camp, Scouts set
about building "gateways" to their camps that symbolized their city of
origin, such as a replica of the wall in Chicago's Wrigley Field or the
Boston Scouts' re-creation of the U.S.S. Constitution.
THE SCOUT JAMBOREE features the many exhibits made available to
Scouts. These include the Jamboree's Conservation Trail, the Scout's
re-creation of founder Robert Stevenson Smythe Baden-Powell's first Boy
Scout camp at Brownsea Island and the Merit Badge Midway. ESPN's Ron
Schara talks with Scouts at the various exhibits and is also on hand as
Scouts learn scuba diving and snorkeling. Fred Bartzen joins Scouts on
the rappelling tower, in the Army action center and exploring career
opportunities.
The first Scouting activity took place in August 1907 in England.
Scouting's founder Baden-Powell took 22 boys to an island off the coast
of England called Brownsea. Over the course of the next week,
Baden-Powell tested his idea of a youth organization called Boy
Scouting. Chicago publisher William D. Boyce encountered Scouting while
lost in the London fog and became so impressed with Baden-Powell's ideas
that he decided to bring it to America. The Boy Scouts of America was
founded in February 8, 1910, by Boyce, Earnest Thompson Seton and Daniel
Carter Beard.
THE SCOUT JAMBOREE is part of PBS' commitment to showcase America's
varied traditions.
Day & time: check with your local PBS station
(http://www.pbs.org/whatson/locallistings.html)

Underwriter: General Motors Pontiac Division
Producer: Marz, Inc.
Producer/director: Chris Brock
Camera: John Koskinen, Chuck LeRoi and Tom O'Connor
Editor: Curtis Nichols
Format: Closed Captioned / STEREO
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"Thanks"
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