Armenia: Was It Genocide? [38min]

A federal lawsuit filed against education officials in Massachusetts is sparking a new debate about history and how the controversial events are presented to students. The event in question here is known by most historians as the Armenian genocide, who believe that Muslim Turks methodically killed 1.5 million Christian Armenians beginning in 1915. Turkey has said that the deaths were the unfortunate offshoot of war as Armenians sided with the invading Russians, bringing on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The lawsuit seeks to restore the Turkish point of view to curriculum guidelines. Guests: Bill Schechter, teacher of American history at Lincoln-Sudbury High School in Massachusetts; William Keylor, professor of history and international relations at Boston University and director of the International History Institute.