And this is the Thursday edition of Dateline NBC tonight new information
about the OJ Simpson case you haven't heard for the first time one of his
friends speaks out about OJ's violent side. Nicole lived in fear for a long time.
Plus a chilling voice from the grave.
Dateline reviews and enhances the 9-1-1 tapes so you can hear what's
really going on. When Nicole Simpson called for help did the system let her
down? But if you think the case against OJ is airtight. It was a premeditated
murder that it was done with deliberation and premeditation. Think again have
there been too many leaks? Is the case as strong as it seems? A bloody glove
that's found. How can that not be what it appears to be? Tonight could OJ beat
the rap? In the street, in the store, on the subway. That guy pickpocketed me. He
got me. He got me. Are you a victim waiting to happen? Ask the crooks who've
done the crimes. So you want to pick out somebody that's easy. Hidden cameras
capture what your eyes never see and look at what we cause. Is there any way
that I could pick out a pickpocket on the street? After tonight you might. Also
the mugshot heard around the world and the controversy over dueling magazine
covers. Is OJ being treated fairly by the media? A Dateline state of the art.
Plus snooze and you lose. Dateline's picture of the week. Dateline with
Jane Pauli in New York and Stone Phillips in Los Angeles. With Brian Ross,
Deborah Roberts, John Scott, Lee Thompson, Faith Daniels, Dennis Murphy and John
Larson. From our studios in New York, here is Jane Pauli.
Good evening. It's the story everyone is still talking about. Tonight we begin
with the latest developments in the OJ Simpson case. Stone? Jane, you're about to
hear from someone you haven't heard from before. A friend who spent time with OJ
and Nicole Simpson. A former football player who socialized with a couple.
Tonight he talks about OJ Simpson's dark side. The abuse, the violence, the
infidelity. And you're going to hear that frightening 911 call made by a distraught
Nicole Brown Simpson only eight months ago. Now we've had those tapes
electronically enhanced to give you a much clearer sense about what was really
going on that night. Tapes that raised questions about why more wasn't done for
a woman pleading for help. It began with the calm voice of a woman calling for
help trying to maintain her composure. Shortly after she hung up, OJ
apparently left. But minutes later, around 9 45 that night, he was back and
Nicole was back on the phone to police. 911 emergency. Someone over here now to
3 2 5 Gretna Green. He's back. Please. Okay. What does he look like? OJ
Simpson. I think you know his record. Did you just see over here? What is he
doing there? He just drove up. Wait a minute. What kind of car is he in? He's
in a white Bronco. First of all, he broke the back door down to get in. Wait a
minute. What's your name? Nicole Simpson. Okay. Is he the sports caster or
whatever? Yeah. Okay. Wait a minute. We're telling the police. What is he
doing? Is he threatening you? Going nuts. Has he threatened you in any way? Or
or is he just harassing you? You're gonna hear him in a minute. He's about
to get in again. Okay, just stay on the line. I don't want to stay on the line.
He's gonna beat the way to stay on the line so we can know what's going on to
the police. Get there. Okay.
Okay, Nicole. Just a moment. Does he have any weapons? I don't know. The man
she was describing barely resembled the charming personable sports caster who
the day before was giving football fans his pick of the week. I'm going with
Seattle 24 7 over New England. But Billy Taylor, a former NFL running back and
friend of OJ's in his first television interview, told Dateline the signs of
abuse were there, but no sign of remorse. Met Nicole for the first time
when she had sunglasses on. And that's the first time I noticed she had a
black eye. I didn't see that he showed any remorse. I was kind of shocked and
it took away a little respect that I had because she is a gorgeous lady. And
who would want to do so? I mean, what could she have done to him to make him
do that? He went home and now he's back. The kids are up there sleeping and I
don't want anything to happen. Okay, just a moment. One from a unit addition
on the domestic violence. 3 25 South Threatened Greenway. The suspect has
returned in a white bronco monitor comments. Incident 42 21. Okay, Nicole,
is he still outdoors or? He's in the backyard. He's in the backyard screaming
at my roommate about me and at me here. What does he say? Oh, something about
some guy I know and hookers and keys. I started this before and and it's all
my fault. And now what am I going to do? Get the police in on this whole thing?
Okay, all my fault. I started this before.
Brother.
Okay, has he hit you today or no? No. Okay, you don't need any paramedics or
anything. Okay, you just want him to leave my door. He broke the whole back
door in
and then he left and he came back and he came and he practically knocked my
upstairs door down, but he pounded it and then he screamed and hollered and
I tried to get him out of the bedroom because the kids are sleeping in there.
Though seemingly in a violent temper, police would later explain that Simpson
could not be charged with spousal abuse because he was beating the doors, not
Nicole. Damaging property is something we often see that that men will damage
property before they damage the woman because it's a way of trying to
establish control over her. And Nicole refused to press charges on anything
else, a reluctance that's tragically common among battered wives.
What's this? That's all. Yeah. Yeah. Are you locked in a room or something? No,
he can come right in. I'm not going where the kids are because what does
he say?
What?
Yeah. Okay, the kids are too late. It's called too high. It's an important
2 to 1 98 25.
They were here.
Oh,
you do it.
Is he upset with something that you did a long time ago? It always comes back.
It is. Is your roommate talking to him? Oh, I couldn't talk. I don't know.
That's the paper.
Did you just please? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Please leave.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think she's probably fearing for her life. Um, and
she her survival instincts are are at the foremost, and she's, uh, in this
case, maybe worrying about shielding and protecting her Children. This picture
seen so often since OJ's arrest last week was taken at the opening of a New
York nightclub just six days before these frantic phone calls to police. And
according to police reports, it was a picture that triggered OJ's outburst.
Apparently he'd seen one of Nicole's former boyfriends in a photo album. But
he may also have been upset by an article in the tabloid press that week
that said Nicole was terrified he'd get AIDS from cheating with so many women
and that while OJ wanted to get back together, she was taking it slow. Hey,
I had to read this all week in a natural environment. How are you the only one
in there with him right now? Yeah. And he's talking to you. And he's also
talking to my guy that lives out back. It's just standing there. Okay. Has
this happened before or no? Okay. The police should be on the way. This seems
like a long time because it's kind of busy in that division right now. OJ's
friend Billy Taylor off the field. OJ didn't respect women as much as he
should. I don't think he was as faithful to his girlfriend or wife as he
should have been. He was a good looking guy and women kind of went his way and
it was it was kind of easy for him to pick and choose. I mean, he's OJ
Simpson. That night ended like so many others when violent arguments broke out
between OJ and Nicole. No arrest, no headlines, no real intervention to
resolve the problem. I think it's ridiculous.
For anybody ever to live in fear and Nicole lived in fear for a long time.
Regarding the abuse, OJ has said both he and Nicole were at fault. In fact, in
the note he wrote before his arrest, OJ said at times he considered himself a
battered husband. Meanwhile, every day you hear about another piece of
evidence allegedly linking Simpson to the murder scene. It almost seems like
an open and shut case. But is it the 911 tapes we just played may never be
heard in court? And as John Larson tells us, there are holes in this case that
may make you wonder about reasonable doubt. Two counts of murder were filed
today learning that there are two witnesses, blood type from the mystery
witness. It seems every news broadcast brings new revelations, details which at
first glance appear to implicate OJ Simpson in the murders of his ex wife,
Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. People were Simpson. The latest reports
come from inside the supposedly secret grand jury room, a stranger who says she
recognized Simpson here in Brentwood right near the murder scene at about
the time of the murders. She is expected to testify that Simpson was driving in
a rage. Will they be recalling you the police as the press has reported this
ever growing litany of seemingly incriminating evidence against OJ
Simpson, evidence that may or may not even exist. A public unofficial trial
began. Mr Simpson is charged alone because he is the sole murderer. A trial
without judge or jury. It was a premeditated murder in a court of public
opinion. With all of the questions we've been getting about the public symphony
sympathy for Mr Simpson, we should not forget the fact that we have two
victims who were brutally slain. Mr Simpson, you understand the charges as
I read them to you? But there was just one hitch. OJ said he didn't do it. He
wished you had her play guilty or not guilty. Not guilty. With those two
words, OJ Simpson's defense began. A defense headed by high priced, high
powered attorney Robert Shapiro, who defended baseball player Jose Canseco
on a weapons charge and got a murder charge against actor Marlon Brando's
son, reduced to manslaughter. This time Shapiro faces prosecutors whose case,
like other high profile Los Angeles cases before it, may ultimately play
much stronger to the general public than it ever will to a jury. Yesterday,
in just the second court hearing, the prosecution acknowledged that one piece
of evidence reported by the press does not really exist. And if there is a
ski mask with blood stains, we would like to be able to examine that today.
If it is not in what has been produced to him, then we do not have anything
like that.
So are you saying that there is no ski mask? There is no ski mask. Errors in
what the press has reported as recovered evidence suggests the prosecution's
case may not be as ironclad as we've all been led to believe. Remember the
burden is upon the government. The burden is upon the police to prove
crime beyond a reasonable doubt. Defense lawyer J Albert Johnson helped defend
Patty Hearst and has handled dozens of murder trials. How can Mr Simpson prove
his innocence? He's not required to prove his innocence. Facing what the
press has reported to be a mountain of damning physical evidence, OJ's attorney
demanded that his experts, two of the very best, be allowed to examine the
forensic evidence for themselves. We request immediate access to Dr Henry
Lee and his team of criminologists. Dr Henry Lee, a world famous
criminologist, helped to quit William Kennedy Smith of rape charges and Dr
Michael Biden, the Quincy of all Quincy's. He's the man Congress asked to
take a second look at President Kennedy's autopsy and prosecutors called
to determine John Belushi's precise time of death. When a medical examiner
does an examination of a dead body and does an autopsy,
that body is talking to the person doing the autopsy and saying, this is
what happened to me. Why did Shapiro need this out of town talent? Because
evidence that appears damning may not be damning after all, and it's evidence
that could either send Heisman winner OJ Simpson to the gas chamber or save
him from it. It would be unfair to ask any defense attorney to accept what
the prosecution says on face value the way the media does. Based solely on
what he's heard reported in the press, Biden explored the kinds of questions
that, when asked and answered, could ultimately raise those critical doubts
about the evidence, evidence that continues to play so convincingly on
television. For example, it's been reported that a bloody glove was found
a blood soaked glove, according to the Los Angeles Times, found at OJ Simpson's
home and believed used during the killings. It depends whose blood is on
it. It depends who was the owner of the glove. It depends if somebody else had
access and could have thrown the glove there and supposedly blood matching OJ's
type was also discovered at the murder scene. Today a shocking revelation. Simpson's
blood type matches blood recovered outside his ex-wife's condo. Most people
have matching blood types. I mean, type A and type O are 30, 40 percent of the
population. I mean, the matching blood types aren't as unique as matching DNA
types. But there is a report of a tentative DNA matchup. Preliminary DNA
tests confirm that OJ Simpson's blood was found at the murder scene. We can't
tell by looking at the DNA how long it's been there. A DNA match will tell you who
but it won't necessarily tell you when. That's correct. That's correct. And
finally, there was a lot of speculation about scratches, scratches that may be on
OJ himself. Investigators say when OJ was questioned he had a cut hand and
scratches on his body. Now you were with OJ just hours before he was supposed to
give himself up. Yes. You looked at the cut hand? I looked at the injury. There
were very, whatever cuts, I think putting, saying cuts gives it a magnitude that
it doesn't have. There were tiny little marks in the body on the hands. Could
they have been the result of a struggle? They could, may or may not be consistent
with a struggle. Certainly it's not consistent with a lot of struggle. I mean,
there's no other marks in the body. Okay, let's say the blood is OJ's and a
bloody glove at the scene really does match one at OJ's house. And the
scratches were caused by a struggle. Does that mean it's an open and shut case? In
a case like this, you'd expect the defense attorney to stand up and say,
here's a man who's looking at a conviction for murder, two counts of
first degree murder, as serious a charge as we have on our books. And you people
should not be comfortable coming back and looking him in the eye and saying,
you are a murderer based solely on circumstantial evidence. There's
something very frightening about that, and it should worry you. What is the
prosecution lacking? They have said, at least it's been leaked to the press, that
there are no eyewitnesses to that murder, to that terrible crime. Seems
critical. Seems critical to me that no one heard this. No one understood that
it was going on at the time it was, even though it was described as a very
violent act. I don't understand that. It seems to me that's a missing link. Also
missing is the murder weapon. Police are searching for it, but finding it may do
nothing to bolster the case against O. J. If you find the knife that was used
in a stabbing, unless there's something to connect it to the defendant, it
doesn't do you any good at all to have found the murder weapon. Something to
connect it. What do you mean? Well, if there are fingerprints on the knife that
would connect you to with the defendant. 911. What are you reporting? This is
A. C. I have O. J. in the car. Okay, where are you? Please, I'm coming up the five freeways.
And then there's the issue of flight. Millions of Americans were transfixed
Friday when O. J. broke his agreement to surrender to authorities and then led
Los Angeles police on a 60 mile chase. He's still alive, but he's got a gun through his head.
But was O. J. really making a break for it? Watching O. J.'s last dash down the
highway may tell us more about whether one believes O. J. is innocent or
guilty than about what was really going on on that California highway. If you're
going to flee, you don't go to a place where you know there's going to be police.
People flee all the time from prosecution. Not because they're guilty,
but because they are afraid. They're afraid that the system will
unfairly accuse them of crimes they did not commit. Now if there's a question about
what O. J. was doing in the back of that white Bronco, there's no question about
what he pled in 1989 when he pleaded no contest to charges that he battered
Nicole. The prosecutors have suggested publicly that the murder of Nicole
Simpson was the tragic culmination of a pattern of spousal battery. Let's stop
domestic violence before more and more people get hurt.
Someone over here now to 325 Gretna Green. He's back. Yesterday, police
released a chilling 911 call made by Nicole Simpson back in 1993. Though the
prosecution says it will introduce this tape as evidence of O. J.'s motive, it's
not certain that a jury will ever hear Nicole Simpson or even be told the
details of O. J.'s alleged battery of Nicole. To admit prior bad acts, to show
that a particular act occurred simply because one may have had the inclination
toward violence is wrong. It's statutorily wrong, it's morally wrong, and
it's legally wrong, and it should not be admitted. But I mean the prosecution
would say, but come on, we've got a we've got a history here. It's the same man,
it's the same woman, there's there's a history here of violence. But it's not a
history of first-degree murder. The defense is now faced with another seemingly
daunting set of challenges. Testimony that appears to contradict O. J.'s alibi,
that he was home during the murders waiting on a limo to the airport.
Testimony believed delivered to the grand jury. But even that evidence might
not hold up in court. In the court of public opinion, that might sound like
it's an awful lot, but you still have to end up in a court of law. And what
happens there is very different from what happens in the court of public
opinion because there's somebody there to challenge the prosecution at each and
every step. So witnesses that might have sounded very good when there was nobody
there challenging their story might not sound as good afterwards. Evidence that
seemed terribly compelling might not seem as important when their defense
attorney is there to challenge it. But even if the stories hold up, they may be
irrelevant. You certainly can't be comfortable saying to him you're a
killer and basing it on the fact that he was late for his limousine or that he's
an erratic driver on the highway. So the defense is going to try to make that
seem like minimal types of testimony. Something that truly is not significant
when they have to decide the greater question and that is is O.J. Simpson a
killer? In the actual trial, it's possible the prosecution will be able to
introduce evidence of O.J.'s past acts. The murder weapon may be discovered. The
other forensic evidence may fit the prosecution's case. Even an eyewitness
could come forward. Is there a point at which the evidence is so overwhelming
that you just have to say, of course he did it? I would so advise Mr. Shapiro and
Mr. Shapiro would incorporate that into his evaluation of how he can best
proceed to protect O.J.'s rights and to defend him. But even if Shapiro's expert
were to believe O.J. committed the killings, that would not necessarily mean
O.J. will be convicted. Even when you have videotape of the happening of an
alleged crime, as we recently saw here in Los Angeles, that is not conclusive of
guilt or innocence. It is not sufficient that you show that a certain act took
place. What is important is that you show the intent. But is it possible that O.J.
Simpson brutally killed his ex-wife and Ron Goldman, but didn't intend to do it?
The defense could argue in this case that because of this extreme emotional
disturbance that he was suffering from at the time, based upon his relationship
with his wife, the breakup of that relationship perhaps suggests that
there are other factors that contributed to it. Because of that, he didn't have the
requisite mental state. He didn't intend to kill her. He didn't intend to kill the
other man there. It just happened. It was an emotional explosion. And a final
wild card in O.J.'s defense may be the city in which the crimes were committed.
Ultimately, no case, no matter how seemingly unwinnable, appears completely
hopeless in Los Angeles, a city where illusion and reality collide. Please, we
can get along here. Where videotapes of beatings fail to
convict the perpetrators, or fail to convict on the most serious crimes, and
where two men who admitted to killing their parents have not been found guilty
of anything. In the end, O.J. Simpson's fate may still rest in facts we don't yet
know. But until the matter is resolved by the courts, the presumption about him
must remain the same.
After a week of dueling news conferences by the prosecution and the defense in
this case, late today the district attorney here in Los Angeles, Gil Garcetti,
vowed to stop the media trial of O.J. Simpson by withholding every bit of new
information, including any other 9-1-1 tapes. And we'll have more on the O.J.
Simpson case later in this broadcast.
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consider this. These light-fingered hit-and-run artists carry off a
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This is the world of a pickpocket. We're everywhere. We are everywhere.
This is what he sees. Person that carries a pocketbook is an easy mark. Here, police
demonstrate how they work. Hit you real fast and ease your wallet out your pocket.
And this is how successful he can be. How many pockets have you picked in your
career? Thousands. Thousands. Thousands. Daryl Stukes and Isaac Torres say they're
retired from pickpocketing, though it was lucrative right from the start. Daryl,
how old were you when you picked your first pocket? 14. 14 years old? Yeah. He
just looked like an easy mark, you know, so I didn't want to trade them too close,
so I played them from afar, you know, just to see what his moves were going to
be. You know, so I just eased up on him and bumped him and dug my hand in his
pocket and I came out with his wallet. I was fascinated because it was easy. So I
walked off and there was 15 $100 bills in there. Wow. That's what I said. Wow.
Isaac, what's the first time you picked a pocket? How old were you? Must have been
my mother's pocket. The government statistics show pickpockets strike
about every seven minutes. Average loss, $430. I think this is one of those
things that you think it always happens to someone else. It's not going to happen
to you, but it did happen to Diane Coro, who got pickpocketed in the Boston
subway before she realized what happened, she says. Thieves made off with
their bill fold and credit cards. While I was at work earning my salary, they
were off having a good time with my credit card. They went to store after
store after store eight and all racking up a bill of over $2000. Diane wasn't
liable for the charges, but it was an embarrassment. It makes me feel like an
idiot. I guess it's kind of an initiation. Welcome to the world. You
want as less complications as possible. So you want to pick out somebody
that's easy. And what's easy mean to you? Somebody who is naive. A lot of
times when you're shopping, that's what happens. You're so, you know, caught up
in shopping, you know that you're not conscious of where you lay your bag or
where you put your belongings. I've gotten a lot of people like that a lot.
Okay, if you'll watch the subject's eyes, she's looking around for targets.
She's shopping for a victim. Miami's Metro Dade police offer a rare look at
suspected pickpocket in action captured on a store surveillance tape. Here you
can see our subject or pickpocket. She's picked out the target again. She's
gotten to it. Now she's holding up to close for the cover. The arm is in
between the clothing and she's working the purse. If you watch real close, you
can see how her right shoulder drops down just a little bit. Her hand is in
this lady's purse. And then suddenly the lady realizes that something isn't
right. She's been, she's been bumped. The victim feels a bump and doesn't react.
Doesn't check her purse. He just kind of pulls away and lets it go. What people
need to do is react, hold their purse, check their wallet and scream or make a
large commotion. These people don't want to be in the middle of a scene. She was
later apprehended, but police say because the victim would not testify,
the case was dropped.
Cruz and Shabonia, you've got the 60 Avenue line from Rockefeller Center
down to 14th Street. Lieutenant Charles Irving heads up the New York City
Transit Police Department's pickpocket squad. Happy hunting and have a safe
tour. For two decades, he's pursued what police refer to as picks. I arrested a
pick back around 1980. He had a phony arm in a cast and he had his actual arm
under his overcoat and he was working on somebody's pants pocket with the arm
that wasn't in the cast. We're artists. This is what we do. This is our livelihood.
This is how we eat and we're retired. All we need is 15 seconds to talk.
After that, you're up for grabs.
That a fact? It's a fact. The best pickings often take teamwork. Lieutenant
Irving's officers show Dateline one of the most complicated scenarios. It's
called the stall and pick. Watch how fast it happens. Did you catch it? Let's
watch it in slow motion. Crime choreographed like a ballet, the stall,
the bump and grab
and a pirouette to the handoff.
Every part played to perfection.
Now see if you can catch it.
All right, I got it. And as police showed us, pickpockets work just about
anywhere people congregate. Their favorite haunts include escalators and
especially crowded street corners. New York City's transit police send out 18
undercover pickpocket officers two shifts a day. Officers who have been
specially trained to catch a thief. It is the ultimate cat and mouse game. Very
difficult. Sneaky business. Very, very sneaky.
Dateline was given unusual access to the officers undercover hunt. Watch as
our hidden cameras follow the officers into the sea of rush hour commuters. At
the 59th Street station, a man catches the officer's attention. I noticed him
looking suspicious. He was standing behind the crowd where he could look
and everybody's backside getting on the train. Well, actually, he's watching the
wallets and the people's bags hanging where he could reach in. The officers
stay with him on the train for one stop. As the train stops, suddenly there's a
commotion.
Excuse me.
An arrest. Police say they caught him in the act. Hold that train. No doubt in
my mind. I saw his hand go into the pocketbook and remove the blue wallet
from the pocketbook, cradle it to his chest in behind the notebook that he
was using to shield the lady's view from what he was doing and then attempt
to exit the train with the wallet. While the suspect is searched, an officer
recovers the wallet from the subway tracks where it had fallen and the
victim, who asked that we not show her face, never felt a thing. Somebody
started scrambling for someone else and they said a wallet was stolen. Did
anybody lose a wallet? And I happen to look in my purse and realized it was
mine. Until then, I had no idea that I had even been pickpocketed. Blending in
is the name of the game. If you're on a train, you're holding on, you know, to,
you know, and I'm behind you, you know, on this side like this, you know, and
I'm like this here reaching in your pocketbook, you know, you might just
think that the train is crowded and that I'm trying to jockey for position, you
know. Now, if he was behind you and he was reaching the railing like this, you
know, like this, you have the right to consult an attorney before speaking to
the police. As for the pickpocket, the police nabbed in the subway. He later
pleaded guilty to grand larceny. Michael Colbert was sentenced to 1.5 to three
years in prison. You would look for someone who's concentrating on
someone's pocketbook. So how to foil a pickpocket Sergeant Stuart Holmes. You
got a couple of purses in your hand here. Okay, this one nice purse. You don't
like it. No, I don't. It's a pickpockets delight. It's very accessible to a
pickpocket. There's no zipper on top. It's hanging at your side very low. It's
hard to close your property just lays in there and it's just waiting for
someone to come along and take it out. You like this one better. This is much
better. It has a flap, a clasp on it. There's a zipper inside. You can zip up
your property, close the zipper, close the flap and as you wear it, you can keep
the flap up against your body. It's much more difficult for a pickpocket to get
in there. If I'm a man, is there one pocket versus another that's better to
put my money in? Yeah, you can put your money in your shirt pocket because it's
impossible almost for me to get to you. Like if I had a pocket in here and I
took my money and I put it in here, how are you gonna jostle me? You can't go
this way. You can't go this way. You can't go up my sleeve. How are you gonna
take my money? Get a scissor and cut it. It's impossible. Tell me the
personification of the great Mark, the person that you really want to be a Vic.
You. Me. Why? Because you were easy. Would you believe us if we told you we
stuck you? No, you wouldn't. But if I pull, reach in here and pull this out,
then you wouldn't know. All right. You did it. No, he didn't do it. I did it. I didn't do it. He
did it. No, you did it. You guys are good. You're very good. We just wanted to
prove a point that anybody can be a potential victim. No matter how hard you
are. Obviously Darryl and Isaac are good. So good in fact that Isaac says he's
never been arrested for pickpocketing and records show Darryl has been
arrested at least 17 times, but only once for pickpocketing. But both Darryl
and Isaac say they're retired now. We met them at a program where they're
performing community service coming up. The story's been covered from cover to
cover. So what's different about this one? Get the picture in a Dateline
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events happened during this the third week of June. Do you know what the year
was? Congressman John Genrette was indicted on charges of bribery and
conspiracy. 30 people were killed in clashes between police and
demonstrators in Cape Town, South Africa. Here's Johnny! The Shining was a big
movie draw. The Dukes of Hazzard was in TV's top 10 and the hit song was
Funky Town by Lips Incorporated. All right, what year was it? 1980, 1981, or 1982?
The answer when Dateline continues.
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So what year was it? Jenrette was indicted. 30 died in South Africa and
Funky Town led the charts. It all happened the third week of June 1980.
From Los Angeles here again is Stone Phillips. Most of us will never forget O.J.
Simpson's dramatic chase and arrest by police last week because we saw it with
our own eyes on live television. But can you really believe your eyes? That's
what some people are wondering after seeing a prominent magazine cover this
week that raises the question is O.J. Simpson being treated fairly by the
media? Dennis Murphy has the story in a Dateline state-of-the-art.
At newsstands across the country O.J. Simpson's eyes seem to be peering from
every conceivable corner and cover. But it is these two covers that may make
readers think twice about whether seeing really is believing. Both Newsweek and
Time at first glance appear to carry the same photo of Simpson. Newsweek
features the Los Angeles Police Department mugshot while Time sent the
photo to an artist who altered it to make the picture darker and more
sinister. Major newspapers soon entered the fray comparing Newsweek's police
photo to Time's photo illustration. Time noted the difference inside the
magazine and told Dateline the cover was an original work of art and not a photo
manipulation. Everyone I've talked to has found this to this Time picture to be
misleading offensive and totally unnecessary. Washington Post media
reporter Howard Kurtz says call it what you will but the reasons news magazines
alter photos are the wrong reasons. They like to say that perhaps they didn't
just want to run the same picture that everybody else did they wanted to do
something that would stand out they certainly succeeded in that.
Ironically one magazine is widely seen as opening the floodgates of photo
manipulation. In 1982 National Geographic moved the Great Pyramids of
Egypt closer together to fit on a cover. Then TV Guide put Oprah Winfrey's head
on Anne Margaret's body. Spy magazine made altering photos its tantalizing
trademark. Newsweek sapped the color from a photo of LA police officer Lawrence
Powell and New York Newsday combined two photos to accomplish what had not yet
occurred. Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan skating side by side. All right
let's tighten up on our face. And this is how it's often done with a stroke of a
stylus and a million dollar system called a graphic paint box. Dave Dugal's
company alters and retouches photos for some of America's best-selling magazines.
I think what it boils down to is that images like words can be twisted. He can
take any photo use an expensive version of the scanners you can buy for your
home computer and turn the picture into millions of electronic dots called
pixels. Every inch you see there's probably about a thousand to two thousand
dots. Every dot has about a million options that it could be of density and
color. We asked him to dazzle us. So first he and graphic artist Christopher
Moshioki got to work changing the models lip color and shape. Then. All right let's
just get our nose just make it a little bit shorter. Next well why not a new eye
color. Then put her in a new dress. And you've made subtle changes that leave
no trace even to the expert eye. And what we do today you'll go to your local
Photoshop and you know five years from now and maybe be able to get that over
the counter. Maybe ten years from now you know everybody will have this on their
desk at home. Maybe. But should respected news magazines like Time be altering
images like so many others. New York University photography professor Fred
Richen says no. And I think at some point we have to look around and say well what
are we losing with all this control. Are we losing some form of a document that
we can all have some kind of degree of trust in. So don't call it reality. Call
it digital reality. An illusion crafted so skillfully the naked eye will be
fooled almost every time. If you were to find something. We would be doing our
job. We spoke with the artist who did the Time magazine cover Matt Mahurin and
he said he's surprised by all the attention his work has received.
Professor Richen meantime is campaigning for a universal symbol to be stamped on
all photo alterations. Letting readers know instantly that the picture they're
seeing has been changed. What do you think about news magazines altering
photos. Give us some feedback. If you're over 18 you can call us at 900-678-6221
which will cost you 95 cents a minute. And you can send us a fax at 212-664-3330
or by email. Our new address is dateline at news dot NBC dot com. We'll have your
reaction on Tuesday's Dateline. In a moment Dateline feedback. Your reaction
to two stories. The dangers lurking in your child's computer and a woman with a
warning about delaying motherhood. Also ahead Gatorade. Dateline's picture of the
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that think that they are. We'll take a look at a congressional hearing. Plus
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Saturday on NBC. And now your feedback to two recent Dateline stories. First our
report on kids using computers. Some have been getting sexual propositions from
pedophiles on their bulletin boards. Many of you said this. The responsibility of
protecting children lies not with the computer servers, but the parents. And
there was this by phone. Make a law that says children under the age of 18 cannot
purchase computers. This is an outrage. These programs should be censored to
protect children. Then Ann Taylor Fleming, a writer who waited too long to have a
baby until it was too late. Many of you suggested this. Adoption has been
successful for many couples trying to have children. But some of you said this.
She gives the poisonous impression that if you don't have children, your life is
empty and meaningless. And our phone calls went like this. I was a career woman. I made a very bad decision not to have children. There will be no children. There will be no grandchildren. And a job cannot love you back. Here's a look ahead at one of the
stories we're working on for next Tuesday's Dateline.
They're born champions, bred and trained for only one thing to fight to the death.
This dog will die for you. It's a brutal, illegal blood sport and it's fast
becoming a booming business. We'll take you inside the dangerous underground
world of dogfighting. That's Tuesday on Dateline. Finally an answer to that age
old question, why did the alligator cross the road? Well in this case, to take a
nap. Here's our picture of the week. Traffic was tied up for about an hour
when this 12-foot, 1,000 pound gator decided to catch a few Z's in the middle
of a North Carolina road. Sheriff's deputies blasted sirens and poked him
in the nose. We don't recommend you try this at home before he finally woke up
and went on his way, giving fresh meaning to the phrase, see you later alligator.
Stone? Okay, good night Jane. I'm Stone Phillips. Tomorrow on today Nelson
Mandela, South Africa's new president, takes questions from people on the
street at today's new window on the world at Rockefeller Center, plus the
hottest summer sport rollerblading, how to stay safe. And of course NBC News will
continue to cover all new developments in the O.J. Simpson story and we'll be
back next Tuesday at 10 p.m. Eastern Time, 9 Central. For all of us here at
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