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Search results for "Sam Donaldson" ...
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Kiss and not tell
In the wake of the presidential sex scandal, many people believe it's okay to lie under oath in a civil suit, even if they are caught. ABC News 20/20 interviews three women who did just that -- lied under oath about sex in civil suits -- and paid the ultimate price: time incarcerated.
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Hollywood's Unlikely Hero
This story is about the murder of a Philadelphia policeman in 1981, the man convicted of the crime, and the movement that has sprung up around him. The movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal has developed an impressive worldwide following of celebrities, politicians, anti-death penalty crusaders, writers and others who believe he is innocent. 20/20's investigation finds that a close reading of trial transcripts, post-conviction relief hearing transcripts and numerous other documents and evidence reveals that the case to free Mumia is built on half-truths, misstatements, exaggeration and even false information.
Tags: TAPE
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Message from Mir
This story featured a report on the dangerous conditions on the 12-year-old Russian space station. Investigation of the US & Russian Shuttle/MIR program. Reporters obtained confidential documents written by the astronaut in charge of NASA's safety office, criticizing the agency and its Russian partners for turning a blind eye to problems. The segment also featured an interview of Astronaut Jerry Linenger in his first prime-time magazine appearance. Linenger told of his five and a half harrowing months aboard the Russian Mir, puctuated by the ignition of a near-fatal fire.
Tags: TAPE
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An Abuse of Power
20/20 investigates cases where military personnel allegedly sent to psychiatric wards for blowing the whistle on purported waste, fraud and abuse. Though Congress passed a law specifically outlawing such a practice in 1992 the Army has been slow to comply.
Tags: VIDEOCLIP TAPE TRANSCRIPT Federal government Fraud Mental health
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Kiss and Not Tell
In the wake of this year's scandal in Washington, many people may believe it's okay to lie under oath in a civil suit, even if you get caught. Sam Donaldson interviewed three women who did just that, lied under oath about sex in civil suits, and paid the ultimate price, time incarcerated.
Tags: TAPE; federal; fraud; justice system
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N.A.A.W.P.
The story looks at a large underground of virulent white supremacist groups networking under the guise of a mainstream "civil rights" group. The story infiltrated the organization for more than a year, and learned that while its members were actively getting involved in politics and furthering their racist agenda, the NAAWP also had a militia. This militia was pooling resources with neo-Nazi and Klan groups, recruiting membership from these organizations, taking part in hate rallies, and illegally buying weapons to arm themselves for a race war.
Tags: TAPE
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A Bloody Day in Georgia
This story is a classic illustration of abuse of power. In this instance by a former funeral home director with no hands-on law enforcement experience who won a political appointment to lead Georgia's burgeoning prison system. Within weeks of assuming the job, Wayne Garner was leading SWAT-like teams of prison guards on shakedowns throughout the state. With each shakedown came prisoner allegations of abuse, escalating with the bloody shakedown at Hays prison in July 1996. The violence of that day remained a secret until last year, when testimony taken in conjunction with a prisoner lawsuit began leaking out.
Tags: TAPE
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April 4, 1968
This investigation presents compelling evidence that James Earl Ray did not act alone in assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. The story contains an interview with Lloyd Jowers, the proprietor of a restaurant below the rooming house where Ray stayed on April 4, 1968, and where the government maintains he fired the shot that killed King. According to Jowers, a now-deceased Memphis businessman, Frank Liberto, asked Jowers to hire someone to kill King. Jowers says he found a killer, who fired from the bushes across the street from the Lorraine Hotel. Dexter King, MLK's son, says that he does not think Ray killed his father.
Tags: TAPE
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A report on the migration of Nazi war criminals to Argentina, with the discovery of a former Gestapo chief of Rome, responsible for the execution fo 335 civilians in the Ardeatine caves of Rome. ABC News found Erich Priebke living in a resort village in the Argentine Andes, 40+ years after his escape from post-war Europe.
Tags: Sam Donaldson; Harry Phillips; tape; 7 pages
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Pan Am 103 Investigation
ABC PrimeTime Live reports on the terrorist activities and sloppy airport security that culminated in the bombing of Pan American flight 103.
Tags: VIDEOCLIP; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Iran; Libya; FAA aviation; safety; airlines; plane crash