American Experience: Roberto Clemente on PBS

BobaFett72

...watched it tonight, it was a good way to spend an hour. Good insights on a complicated person and amazing ball player. I'd strongly recommend it.

storm888

It should repeat in most markets, during late-night hours.

Not boring.

Post25

Nice. Gotta set Tivo for that! American Experience always has great episodes.

jimq112

You guys are lucky. My local PBS gave me a special about people dancing on the side of cliffs. It was nice but it wasn't Clemente. I guess kind of like opening a cold budweiser and taking a big ol gulp, and finding out it's orange drink.

saucywombat

Very interesting story. Hard not to like the guy. The circumstances surrounding his death were really unbelievable. From his involvement in Nicaragua with baseball and the people, the desire to help after the earthquake, the demand for him to be their personally to help bring order, getting a plane in San Juan that needed extensive repairs just to get off the ground, for him to get on that plane, then for the plane to crash about a mile from the airport in the sea and no one to know about it for hours, to the fact his body was never recovered. Very tragic.

Ironmanfan

I thought it was interesting how they just skimmed over how we went from the Dodgers organization to the Pirates.