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A Class Divided is a 1985 episode of the ___MASK94___ series " Frontline ". Directed by William Peters , the episode profiles the Iowa schoolteacher Jane Elliott and her class of third graders , who took part in a class exercise about discrimination and prejudice in 1970 and reunited in the present day to recall the experience . William Charles Beutel ( December 12 , 1930  March 18 , 2006 ) was an American television reporter , journalist and anchor . He was best known for working over four decades with the ___MASK40___ , spending much of that time anchoring newscasts for WABC - TV in New York City . The ___MASK40___ ( ABC ) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Disney  ABC Television Group , a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company . The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan , New York City . There are additional major offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City , as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank , California . The Eye of the Storm is a 25 - minute 1970 American television documentary featuring schoolteacher Jane Elliott conducting her `` Blue eyes - Brown eyes '' exercise in discrimination , narrated by Bill Beutel and directed by William Peters . Jane Elliott ( born May 27 , 1933 ) is an American former third - grade schoolteacher , anti - racism activist , and educator , as well as a feminist and LGBT activist . She is known for her " Blue eyes  Brown eyes " exercise . She first conducted her famous exercise for her class the day after Martin Luther King , Jr . was assassinated . When her local newspaper published compositions that the children wrote about the experience , the reactions ( both positive and negative ) formed the basis for her career as a public speaker against discrimination . Elliott ' s classroom exercise was filmed the third time she held it with her 1970 third - graders to become " The Eye of the Storm ". This in turn inspired a retrospective that reunited the 1970 class members with their teacher fifteen years later in " A Class Divided ". After leaving her school , Elliott became a diversity educator full - time . She still holds the exercise and gives lectures about its effects all over the U . S . and in several locations overseas . WABC - TV , channel 7 , is the flagship station of the ABC television network , located in New York City . WABC - TV is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of the Disney - ABC Television Group division of the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of ___MASK96___ . The station ' s studios and offices are located near Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan , adjacent to ABC ' s corporate headquarters ; its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building .