60 MINUTES {I REMEMBER DADDY, RUSH, PUBLIC SCHOOL OR PRIVATE SCHOOL = CHOICE} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of news magazine programs. In the first segment, "I Remember Daddy," Leslie Stahl reports on a high-profile murder case built around a woman's sudden realization that she had been repressing the memory of witnessing a grisly crime for twenty-some years. Although authorities were initially skeptical of the claim of Eileen Franklin that she had an epiphany while uncovering repressed memories in therapy, a subsequent investigation revealed that much of her story checked out. The fact that elevated the case to media attention was that the killer was the woman's father. As Franklin continued her therapy, more details began to emerge: the father had apparently sexually abused her and exposed her to more violent crime at a young age. When the police finally searched the apartment of George Franklin, Jr., they uncovered a library of violent pornography as well as items linking him to several crimes. In the second segment, "Rush," Steve Kroft profiles outspoken conservative Rush Limbaugh, whose drive-time talk-radio program is the most successful show of its kind in the United States. Limbaugh is categorically and self-admittedly "anti-feminism" and "anti-peaceniks," and his comments deriding gay politics have established him as a perennial enemy of the gay-rights movement. Kroft reveals much about the behind-the-scenes attitude at the blockbuster show. For example, callers on cellular telephones are given priority treatment as the host assumes that they are wealthy. Kroft discusses Limbaugh's astronomical fee for public appearances and screens footage of Limbaugh at a fan convention telling sexist jokes (which Limbaugh dismisses by insisting that detractors simply lack a sense of humor). Kroft speaks with attorney Gloria Allred, who says that Limbaugh's commentary "would get big applause at a Nazi rally." In the third segment, "Public School or Private School = Choice," Mike Wallace investigates a plan that takes money away from public schools to give to children who are trying to go to private school. Although Wallace speaks with a number of African-American parents who applaud the plan, politicos like Jesse Jackson and Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) call the plan racist and backward. In the fourth segment, Andy Rooney talks about political correctness and the politics of hypersensitivity. Commercials deleted.
Cataloging of this program has been made possible by the Bell Atlantic Foundation, 2000.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: October 6, 1991 7:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:55:21
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:64491
- GENRE: News magazine
- SUBJECT HEADING: Education - Finance; Memory; Radio personalities
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1968-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Don Hewitt … Executive Producer, Writer
- Philip Scheffler … Senior Producer
- Pauline Canny … Producer, Writer, News Writer
- Robert G. Anderson … Producer, Writer, News Writer
- Richard Bonin … Producer, Writer, News Writer
- Merri Lieberthal … Producer
- Arthur Bloom … Director
- Allen Mack … Direction (Misc.), Associate Director
- Alicia Tanz Flaum … Direction (Misc.), Associate Director
- Mike Wallace … Reporter
- Ed Bradley … Reporter
- Harry Reasoner … Reporter
- Morley Safer … Reporter
- Steve Kroft … Reporter
- Lesley Stahl … Reporter
- Andy Rooney … Reporter
- Gloria Allred
- Eileen Franklin
- George Franklin
- Jesse Jackson
- Ted Kennedy
- Rush Limbaugh