AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "RACHEL CARSON"
PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
It was 55 years ago that Rachel Carson published her bestselling book, Silent Spring, that sparked a national debate about the adverse affects of pesticides, and is widely credited with giving birth to the modern environmental movement. (I’m of the minority but stubborn belief that Walt Disney’s early nature film shorts, seen in theaters and on TV in the 1950s and 1960s, were an even earlier spark.) Tonight, American Experience presents a biographical profile of Carson, whose life is much less familiar than her 1962 book and its legacy. For a full review, see Gerald Jordan’s Crossing Jordan. Check local listings.