Hillary´s Class
A FRONTLINE- Documentary (60 min.)

 

In 1969, Hillary Rodham Clinton and four hundred other smart, privileged, young American women graduated from Wellesley College into a world that for the first time was opening its doors to women. Hillary has gone on to be a national leader and an emblem of their generation. But what about her classmates who left college believing they could do anything? On the occasion of their twenty-fifth reunion, FRONTLINE profiles members of the Class of '69 as they look back and reflect on the choices they have made and how those choices have affected their lives. Through intimate interviews Frontline probes what has happened to them in the quarter century since they graduated from college believing they “could do anything” and wanting “to do good”.

They were considered the best and the brightest. One went out to become the most powerful woman in the country. But what about the others in the Wellesley College Class of 1969? How much does the pattern of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s life parallel the paths taken by her classmates? In addition to chronicling the class’ 25. reunion, this frontline report draws on interviews with over 150 class members and uses photos, videos and biographical updates written for reunions over the past 25 years to tell the story of this group of women who discovered almost overnight they were “pioneers”.