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Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

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Robert “Butch Cassidy” Parker and Harry “The Sundance Kid” Longabaugh represented a new breed of Wild West outlaws. They were smart, methodical, and unwilling to shed blood as they robbed banks and trains. In the 1890s, their criminal exploits made headlines across the country and were tangled up with myth. In a new PBS documentary, filmmaker John Maggio separates fact from the fiction in the lives of Butch and Sundance. He joins us Tuesday to tell their and how the duo was eventually undone by the force of increasingly organized modernity.

John Maggio's film Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid premiers on American Experience on PBS stations across the country on February 11. In Utah it airs at 8 p.m. on KUED 7. Visit American Experience's web site for more details and show times in your area.

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John Maggio is a writer, director and producer of documentary films. His work includes several films for FRONTLINE​ and American Experience, including his newest, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.

Doug Fabrizio has been reporting for KUER News since 1987, and became News Director in 1993. In 2001, he became host and executive producer of KUER's RadioWest, a one hour conversation/call-in show on KUER 90.1 in Salt Lake City. He has gained a reputation for his thoughtful style. He has interviewed everyone from Isabel Allende to the Dalai Lama, and from Madeleine Albright to Desmond Tutu. His interview skills landed him a spot as a guest host of the national NPR program, "Talk of the Nation." He has won numerous awards for his reporting and for his work with RadioWest and KUED's Utah NOW from such organizations as the Society of Professional Journalists, the Utah Broadcasters Association, the Public Radio News Directors Association and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.