Friday Flashback: Sept. 21

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1992:

250 million households watched “Murphy Brown” to see a rebuttal to Vice President Quayle’s family values speech. The VP criticized Candice Bergen’s character, Murphy Brown, for “ignoring the importance of fathers” and raising a baby alone. The episode focused on diversity in modern American families.

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