Ethics in America

Episodes

• "Anatomy of a Hostile Takeover "
• "Do Unto Others "
• "Does Doctor Know Best? "
• "The Human Experiment "
• "The Politics of Privacy "
• "Public Trust, Private Interests "
• "To Defend a Killer "
• "Truth on Trial "
• "Under Orders, Under Fire "
• "Under Orders, Under Fire "

  Panelists

• Floyd Abrams, American attorney and expert in Constitutional law
• R. W. Apple, Jr., associate editor at The New York Times
• Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
• Joseph A. Califano, Jr., former General Counsel of the U.S. Army, special assistant to the Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, among other government posts
• Stanley M. Chesley, Ohio trial lawyer
• Vincent T. DeVita, pioneer physician in the field of oncology
• Geraldine Ferraro, member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of New York
• Barney Frank, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts
• Stephen Gillers, professor at the New York University School of Law, considered an expert in legal ethics
• Newt Gingrich, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia, and Speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999
• Rudy Giuliani, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, businessman, and politician
• James Goldsmith, British billionaire, businessman and founder of the short-lived Referendum Party in the United Kingdom
• Ellen Goodman, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist
• Katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post
• Jeff Greenfield, television journalist and author
• Peter Jennings, television news anchor
• Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador and former foreign policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan
• C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General
• Arthur L. Liman, lawyer and partner at the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
• Robert R. Merhige, Jr., federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• Robert C. Maynard, journalist
• James F. Neal, defense attorney and former federal prosecutor
• Marilyn Hall Patel, judge presiding in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• T. Boone Pickens, oil businessman
• Arnold S. Relman, professor emeritus of medicine and social medicine at Harvard Medical School and editor of the New England Journal of Medicine
• Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Brent Scowcroft, U.S. National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush
• Alan K. Simpson, Republican U.S. Senator from Wyoming
• Louis Stokes, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio
• Lester Thurow, dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of numerous bestsellers on economic topics
• Mike Wallace, television journalist
• Faye Wattleton, the first African-American and youngest president ever elected to Planned Parenthood
• William C. Westmoreland, commander of American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968 and U.S. Army Chief of Staff from 1968 to 1972
• Tim Wirth, U.S. Senator from Colorado

  Moderators

• Arthur R. Miller
• Charles Ogletree
• Charles Nesson
• Lewis B. Kaden

  Awards

• 1989 Houston International Film Festival "Worldfest Houston" – Silver Award for the episode "Politics, Privacy, and the Press"
• 1989 International Association of Audio Visual Communicators – Special Achievement award to "Cindy" in Talent
• 1989 International Film and TV Festival of New York – Finalist Award for the episodes "To Defend a Killer" and "Under Orders, Under Fire Part I"
• 1989 National Educational Film and Video Festival – Bronze Apple Award for the episode "To Defend a Killer"
• 1990 Ohio State Award for the episode "Under Orders, Under Fire"