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Item Title
A Look at the Hillside Stranglers
Collection TitleFiring Line broadcast records
Guest
O'Brien, Darcy
Guest
Watkins, John G. (John Goodrich)
(1913-)
Host
Buckley, William F., Jr.
(1925-2008)
Date CreatedNovember 12, 1985
Description
An absorbing show but painful, both because of the grisly subject matter (the 1977 rape-murders of ten young women in Southern California) and because of the controversial role played by Dr. Watkins in the investigation and trial, and the merciless interrogation of him here by Mr. O'Brien on the question whether one of the Stranglers had a multiple personality. Mr. O'Brien: "Later on, [Kenneth] Bianchi was able to confess in great detail, which could be corroborated by outside evidence, to all the murders in his personality as Ken without ever bringing in this 'Steve' business. Nor had 'Steve' ever been seen before you [Dr. Watkins] talked to him, nor has he ever come out afterwards."
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Language(s)
Country of Origin
Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 60 minutes
FormatText
Medium
television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0671
Record Number80040.913
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Collection Guidehttps://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.
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