When a TV series is a period piece I always hope they have historians on staff to verify the accuracy of the stories and plots.
I wonder how accurate the historical details in the ABC series Pan Am are. In the episode, the Pan Am stewardesses are in West Berlin for President Kennedy's speech on June 26, 1963. Did the series writers look up the record of that time period? Did they read Kennedy's speech when preparing the scripts?
According to Wikipedia, "a Pan Am stewardess from 1968 to 1976, is one of the show's executive producers and is credited as the series developer. Her research for the series was conducted at the Pan Am Historical Foundation and the University of Miami, the location of Pan Am's archives. In addition, the actors, props department, production designers and costumers are advised in making details of the show as accurate as possible."
Fantastic!
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