A mall TV show?
But where’s the Orange Julius? PBS broadcasts the documentary, “The National Mall: America’s Front Yard,” at 9 tonight (The Clicker, Page D6).
If you don’t tell your pre-teens it’s not that kind of mall, we won’t either.
More trouble for the Duke boys: TV Land has dropped reruns of the 1980s comedy, “The Dukes of Hazzard,” from its lineup because of the series’ use of the Confederate flag, notably visible on the roof of the 1969 Dodge Charger driven by the main characters (Page D6).
Concerned that PBS might follow with its own ban of the Confederate flag, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is digitally erasing the flags from the photos in his series, “The Civil War,” and replacing them with other banners of Southern heritage: Chik-fil-A and Waffle House.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1913, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Civil War veterans re-enacted Pickett’s Charge, which ended with embraces and handshakes between the former enemies (Today in History, Page D6).
The former Confederate soldiers then stowed their flags until the next historical re-enactment, because they were Americans.
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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