On Her Trail

Meet the trailblazing Nancy Dickerson, the first female member of the Washington TV news corps. She covered many iconic events of the sixties, including being the first reporter to speak to President Kennedy after his inauguration and being on the Mall with Martin Luther King Jr. during the march on Washington. Her son, John Dickerson, shares his memoir of his freewheeling childhood and the discovery of the mother he never knew until her death in 1997. "On Her Trail" is a fascinating look at early television and Washington society, chronicling a son's honest search for the mother he came to admire and love.