TV Eye - The Atlanta killings

Title

TV Eye - The Atlanta killings

Genre

News report; Interview; Documentary; Vox pop

TX Date

19 Mar 1981

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:25:58

Description

Recording of ITV (Thames Television) TV Eye current affairs programme broadcast on 19/03/81. Entitled, The Atlanta Killings, and presented by Denis Tuohy, the programme examines the search for bodies in Atlanta, Georgia, following the killing of twenty black children. Includes discussion on race relations within the city and and the local reaction to the crimes. Speakers include: Camille Bell, Committee to Stop Children’s Murders; Don Laken, police tracker; Mayor Maynard Jackson; Tom Hamall, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; Dan Sweat, Central Atlanta Progress for Black Leadership. Includes excerpts from memorial services, speeches and local opinion. Programme producer: Anne Tyerman; editor: Mike Townson.

Contributors

Thames Television; ITV; Maynard Jackson; Denis Tuohy; Camille Bell; Don Laken; Tom Hamall; Dan Sweat; WLTA Atlanta; Anne Tyerman; Mike Townson

Keywords

USA; Deaths; Crime; Law; Interethnic relations; Police; Homicide; Children (age group); Policing practice; Missing persons; African-American peoples; Black peoples; Family; Parents; Racially motivated crime; Georgia; Pressure groups; Atlanta; STOP

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