P.J. O'Connell
Production
Biography
Patrick John O'Connell was an American journalist and filmmaker. He received a Bachelors in Journalism from Iowa State Univeristy in 1956 and a Masters/PhD from Penn State Univeristy in 1988. During his career, he produced over 100 documentary television programs.
Known For
Looking at life in rural Pennsylvania in an ongoing project by Penn State Television / WPSX-TV / WPSU-TV.
Rural America Documentary Project
The filmed account of a poor woman, Darlene Musselman Myers, and her family in the Appalachian region of Pennsylvania.Begins with 1971 scenes from "Notes on an Appalachia county: visiting with Darlene" and "A day with Darlene", and continues the chronicle of almost twenty-five years in the lives of this poverty-stricken Pennsylvania Appalachian family through interviews conducted from 1983 to 1994 with Darlene, her children, her husband, and her companion.