The author was the creator of four public television documentaries: "88 Seconds in Greensboro" (1984) was an inside look into the killings of civil rights protesters by Ku Klux Klansmen in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1983. It won the Ohio State Award for excellence in broadcasting; "The Real Stuff" (1985) about the risk astronauts face on the space shuttle; "The Mission of Discovery"(1988) was a WETA-BBC co-production about the preparations for first space shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster; and "Betting on the Lottery" 1990) on the state lottery phenomenon.