Date: Saturday, October 24, 1998 2:40 PM
The NBC website doesn't yet have a description of the Tuesday Dateline
program, but TV Guide says:
Scheduled: an hour-long report on the psychiatric treatment received
by a suspected victim of multiple-personality disorder at a Chicago
hospital. Included: interviews with the patient, her children and
hospital representatives.
The patient is Pat Burgus, the hospital is Rush-Presbyterian and the
chief psychiatrist was Dr. Bennett Braun.
The PBS website does have a description of the Tuesday Frontline
program:
In the midst of a sudden willingness to believe that children were
being ritually abused in day-care centers during the 1980s, parents,
police, prosecutors, and the press turned Miami, Florida, into
ground zero for a new way of convicting alleged child molesters. Led
by Florida's then-prosecuting attorney, Janet Reno, alleged abusers
were relentlessly pursued and convicted with a zeal unmatched in the
nation. Today, as some of Reno's celebrated cases seem to be
unraveling, FRONTLINE correspondent Peter J. Boyer examines the
convictions that were a stunning triumph for the crusading
prosecuting attorney and created an emerging political model that
would be emulated by prosecutors across the country.
Most PBS stations show Frontline at 9pm Eastern, but there are those
that delay it an hour (e.g. in Philadelphia). Check local schedules.
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