Sreenivasan Many Americans are headed to the mall tonight after finishing thanksgiving dinner. We examine how black friday has morphed into gray thursday. Jeffrey brown has another thanksgiving day story about a turn of the century photographer who documented the lives of native americans. He ended up being the largest traffic odyssey in american history. He ended up doing 2,200 pages of text telling life stories, diets habits, sex lives. Its documentaries of lives and nations and people and one man did it all. Sreenivasan and we close with an encore look at a story about chinas moves to satisfy a growing demand for meat. Thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan it was a day of calm in the middle east,
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