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The pros and cons of peer pressure, Saturday in our lives.
I'm John Palmer. When most of us go to work each day, we expect to come home with a paycheck and satisfaction of a job well done.
We don't expect to risk our lives or change the world.
Alina Jemont took on a dangerous task. As one of the first women aquanauts chosen to live underwater, she refused to let male chauvinism keep her on shore.
L.J. Delsa put his life on the line because that was his job.
As a police officer, he helped save New Orleans from a senseless act of terror.
So stand firm. You're about to experience instant recall.
They dive into the ocean with a double mission.
The first is to survive, but the second is harder to prove that women can do the job.
I've never experienced anything since. This kind of pressure to perform as a female.
A murder investigation sparks an unprecedented shooting match.
An entire police force must face a deadly one-man army.
Shots that were made to kill policemen from across the street were like an Olympic shooter.
I mean, he was running around making shots that the ordinary man could never make.
Also ahead, California Dreamin' becomes a reality, the singing success of the mamas and the papas.
Our first story takes place on July 6, 1970. It's a time when the idea of equal rights for women has barely surfaced.
But on this day, a team of female aquanauts, five women who are referred to as aquagals, aquababes, and aqua-maids,
are about to deepen the feminist foothold in the name of science.
Journal of the Two-Week Tour to the Octopus's Garden, July 6, 1970.
Flashdown. Five women descend to the ocean floor. Their mission to help open a new frontier.
The project is Tektite 2. For two weeks, they will live 50 feet under the Caribbean in a high-tech habitat.
They will study the ocean floor while NASA studies them.
This will be the first time American scientists have worked isolated in this alien world.
People were talking about living underwater and underwater cities, and so this is like the beginning, possibly, of something new.
We could go diving at night and see the stars and the moon from a depth of 50 feet.
We could get to know individual fish and stay with them for hours and hours.
But before Alina Schmont and Sylvia Earle and their teammates broke the ocean surface, serious obstacles threaten to sink their efforts.
They took for granted that they meant what they said. They asked for scientists who had an interest in getting involved with this project.
When they saw that there were women who had applied who were at least as qualified as many of the men, they didn't know what to do.
The federal officials planning the project decide that women and men must not work together in the habitat.
American society was not ready to have people cohabitating underwater, even if they were married.
So I guess at that point they decided that if they were going to include women, it would have to be as an all-female team.
It was a major step forward to put down females at all.
And we had all of the male chauvinistic comments of the time, like, well, if they happen to have a menstrual period, they would attract sharks.
And that would be a disaster, of course, everybody thought.
Program Director James Miller doesn't budge. He's determined that one team of women will join ten teams of men.
His colleagues question his judgment.
They would say like, well, are you sure you want to do this? Are you sure you're going to get any scientific results out of this?
There was a little jealousy, I think, among some of the male aquanauts, that, gee, we're doing everything those girls are doing and they're getting all the publicity.
Flip Schuelke is one of the male aquanauts. He is also a photojournalist who will document all 11 missions.
To his dismay, news editors keep making the same request.
They wanted as skimpiest bathing suits as possible. And, you know, be sure they're wearing, if you can get them to wear light rubber suits so that their breasts will show from a profile.
No, it was very blunt.
It captured the imagination of people, but we were dead serious about what we were there to do.
They really didn't think that we were going to be able to handle the physically demanding parts of the mission.
All of the diving was with double steel tanks, which weigh about 60, 70 pounds.
Just lifting that up and putting it on your back is a bit of an effort.
But what we told them was that where we didn't have brawn, we had brains, and that by working together cooperatively, we'd figure out how to get it all done.
We would be so happy, you and me, no one there to tell us what to do.
July 6, 1970, the true test begins.
After months of skepticism and weeks of intense training, the women take their turn in the habitat.
The girls were all very happy to get down in the habitat and get on with what they came down to do.
So I think it was a feeling of relief.
By golly, we got them down.
I just didn't want to sleep. I just, given a chance, I would have been in the water all the time.
It was totally overwhelming, just the feeling of, wow.
The unfortunate part is that we were all very tired by the time we got there, and there was tension starting to build up.
We really had to start showing that we could not only meet but exceed the men's expectations.
Everybody's asking, how are you doing? How are you getting along down there?
They wanted us not to get along, I sometimes thought.
For two weeks, the scrutiny never stops.
NASA-sponsored psychologists study the women as the women study the fish.
Every six minutes, they would note what each of the five aquanauts was doing.
I've never experienced anything since, this kind of pressure to perform as a female.
It was not just a piece of cake being there underwater looking beautiful or anything like that.
Some people tried to sign it off to say, well, it's because they're playing on the stage.
It's because of the media attention.
In fact, it was in spite of all of that attention.
They put more time in the water collectively than any of the male teams.
They published good scientific papers and good scientific journals.
It was very well known at the end of the project that the women's mission was the most successful part of the whole thing.
After two weeks are up, the aquanauts enter a decompression chamber to bring the nitrogen level in their blood back to normal.
When they reenter the world above sea level, some things will never be the same.
It made me more aware, I guess, of the responsibility each of us has as professional women in making it easier for other women to have careers, to do the things they want to do.
Alina Jmont is now an assistant professor of marine biology at the University of Miami.
Dr. Sylvia Earle is the chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C.
She will soon be conducting research in an underwater habitat for the seventh time.
Dr. James Miller is the author of several books about underwater habitats.
Flip Schuelke won several awards for his film coverage of Tektite 2.
He has since done pioneering work in adapting lenses for underwater photography.
Scientific experiments with underwater habitats have come a long way since the Tektite 2 project.
Not only is it now routine for women to participate, but most missions are now co-ed.
Next, another moment, another time, on Instant Recall.
A suspected killer goes on a rampage and turns a New Orleans motel into a battle zone, and an entire police force into an unwilling army.
Also, how four flower children grew up to be the mamas and the poppers of the love generation.
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Sometimes the hardest thing about having a disability is that people meet it before they meet you.
You met everybody?
It's the month before Christmas and all through the town, creatures are stirred, including this clown.
Parties are going, filled with good cheer, alcohol is flowing, booze, wine and beer.
The thing that is special is the clock ticks past five, is the ones who are drinking are the ones that won't drive.
It's the holiday season, so go have some fun.
But when it comes to a driver, designate one.
The stars are on Arsenio.
Stop by, Pebbles will be here, Nell Carter will be here.
That's not all.
Delight will be here, Charlton Heston will be here.
More?
Shirley Ralph will be here, Katie Oslin will be here, Supermodel Paulina will be here.
No kidding.
The whole family, they'll all be here.
If they're hot, they're on Late Night Cool.
It's true, weeknight at 1130.
Beginning January 1st, Arsenio is on the one and only Channel 9.
Our next story takes place on January 7th, 1973.
That morning, it looked like a slow news day in New Orleans.
Some journalists gather in the Latin Quarter to cover a jazz festival.
Suddenly they see smoke billowing from the windows of a nearby hotel.
A routine fire, they think, but local policemen know better.
They warn a gathering crowd to take cover.
Within minutes, four of the officers have been shot.
Their comrades must stop a sniper who's already proven he has deadly aim.
January 7th, 1973 would probably be the most terrifying day I've ever spent.
The adrenaline was just pumping a thousand miles an hour.
It's like it was yesterday.
New Orleans, 1030 Sunday morning.
Officers investigating the New Year's Eve slaying of a police cadet
track suspected killer Mark Essex to the downtown Howard Johnson's motel.
Essex is enraged by what he considers racist treatment of him in the military service.
He runs from floor to floor, setting fires, shooting anyone who gets in his path.
Soon, Essex will train his gun on the people in the street below with terrifying accuracy.
Officers Earl Hardwin and L.J. Delsa are among the police who go in after Essex.
Their mission? Drive him to the roof.
We grabbed some shotguns and a bandolero filled with ammunition.
We started taking the stairwell instead of elevators.
We're running into smoke floors, we're running into bodies on the stairwells,
you know, of people that he was killing at the time.
We were going on a room-to-room search and it turned out that we had a lot of people
that had barricaded themselves in the rooms.
They had no idea what was going on.
They thought a revolution had broken out some of them.
They were just in a crazed state.
We engaged him a couple of times on the floors.
It was smoke, smoked up areas.
So you didn't actually see Essex.
What you saw was a shadow.
It was terrifying.
I got numerous times, I remember one time laying on my stomach in the hallway
watching one of the entrances just continually asking myself,
what are you doing here?
Across the street, someone sees smoke and calls the fire department.
Fire Lieutenant Tim Erson arrives on the scene responding to what he thinks
is a routine call.
We looked up, there was smoke coming out of about the ninth floor of the building.
I saw four or five people out on the balcony screaming, howling.
Well, I started up the ladder.
Between the sixth and seventh floors, I was getting a little tired,
I was having problems with my equipment.
So I stopped for a few seconds and when I reached up for the rung,
pulled myself up, boom, everything went blurry.
Erson has been spotted by the sniper and shot.
It hit me on my left forearm.
I looked back down and I could see the blood running out of my raincoat,
like tomato juice.
It was just pouring out, you know, and then I realized then if I didn't get down,
I was going to bleed to death or fall.
Fireman Huey Brown climbs up to Erson and carries him down.
Photographer Jerry Arnold hears about the fire and drives over to take a look.
When I got there, they had a fireman.
The first thing I saw was a fireman laying on the ground
and a police officer leaning up against a fire engine with a rifle.
Then somebody hollered, there's a policeman injured in the building.
So I went over and a priest and crash truck people were bringing out a police officer.
Shots rang out again and I looked over and there was two policemen against a tree.
It was like World War II.
An ambulance driver had been shot right up in front of me,
but at that time I was too scared to move.
Shots were made to kill policemen from across the street.
Like an Olympic shooter.
I mean, he was running around making shots that the ordinary man could never make.
With sharpshooters in position, officers inside the hotel finally drive Essex to the roof,
sealing off his only route to escape.
Within the hour, police order a marine helicopter to the scene to help dislodge the killer.
Something to the police got into the helicopters with the marine colonel.
We laid bulletproof vests on the floor of the helicopter to protect the men
because as they went over a couple of times,
Essex came out of the stairwell and fired at the helicopter.
After nightfall, the helicopter begins a series of passes over the roof of the motel,
exchanging gunfire with the sniper.
Police sharpshooters on nearby rooftops flush Essex from hiding.
As he runs across the roof, he's hit by a barrage of bullets and dies instantly.
The siege is over.
Police are stunned by the unprecedented bloodbath.
Mark Essex has killed nine people and wounded 19.
Fireman Tim Erson will lose a hand.
For all those swept up in the tragedy, the carnage is seared into their memories forever.
January 7th, 1973, that's when my career ended.
The thing I love to do the most.
We realized that we weren't a superman we thought we were.
January 7th, 1973, I grew up.
L.J. Delsa and Earl Hardwin are still with the New Orleans Police Department.
Tim Erson was forced to retire from the fire department after his injuries.
In 1973, most local police had no comprehensive strategy for dealing with hostage situations.
As a result of the Howard Johnson's incident,
New Orleans and other cities have since trained special SWAT teams to deal with snipers and terrorists.
Next, the musical blossom of four flower children.
They shared the free-loving, free-wheeling dream of the 60s and turned it into a song.
The mamas and the papas and the true story behind California Dreamers.
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And what have you done
And I'll be your old boy
And the new one just begun
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Music
They were young musicians inspired by the rhythm of the 60s.
They lived on love and an American Express card.
They turned on, tuned in, and when their credit dropped out, they didn't give up.
After several years of roaming, they found their voice.
And the mamas and the papas became the sound of a generation.
Music
Their debut album, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, hits the top of the charts in May of 1966.
It produces two hit singles and a Grammy.
Work on the album began a few years earlier.
John and Michelle Phillips and their singing partner, Denny Doherty, were spending several months in the Virgin Islands looking for musical inspiration.
It was there they ran into Cass Elliott, an old friend of Denny's.
The four decided to sing together and later took the name the mamas and the papas.
When their money ran out, they headed north to the mainland.
The Caribbean is beautiful. It's paradise.
The blue is the green. We get back to New York and it was...
Michelle had never seen snow in her entire life and had never been cold because she lived in Southern California.
I went to go out and walk in it and we went out and walked in it and all she had were California clothes.
We walked for a while and talked into a church to get warm because we were cold and not to pray.
That evening, John got inspired. He asked Michelle to help him write a song.
She said, leave me alone. Leave me alone. I'm trying to sleep. I've had a terrible day.
There's stuff falling out of the sky and I'm walking around and it was, you know, no socks.
And I said, well, I'll help you write it tomorrow. He said, no, come on. Help me write it now.
I said, just write this down. You'll never regret it.
You can ask Michelle to do this. She never regretted it.
There aren't enough songs to complete an album and Denny began pushing John to write some more.
Okay, I'm going to sit down and write his song tonight. It's about a universal subject.
Monday night, what is this? This little song about a day of the week.
I just said, God, John, you know, I hate to be so negative, but this song is really pretentious.
It's shot to the top of the charts faster than any record we ever had and is to this day still the biggest record of the Mamas and Papas ever had.
Who knew? Who knew? This is another number one record. Well, I guess I was stupid me. What do I know?
I like it. I like it a lot.
The Mamas and the Papas broke up in 1968. Cass Elliott died in 1974 at the age of 32.
There were rumors she choked on a ham sandwich, but an autopsy showed obesity led to a massive heart attack.
Denny Doherty went on to become an actor in Canada.
Michelle Phillips is now starring in the television series Not Slanding.
She and her ex-husband John recently published individual autobiographies.
Their daughter, Chyna, now sings in her own band, Wilson Phillips.
The entire story of the Mamas and the Papas called Straight Shooter is available on Rhino Home Video.
Next, a controversial prize Pulitzer.
Monday on Instant Recall, she can swim circles around anybody, even the island of Manhattan.
Also, From Hollywood Saint to Fallen Star, the passionate love affair that nearly brought Ingrid Bergman to ruin.
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So don't hold back. Everybody agrees. Take that softness and give it a squeeze.
So don't hold back. Everybody loves a little squeeze.
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The holidays are a time for reflection on the year past and the opportunities for the year ahead.
As this year ends, we find ourselves wishing just a little heart at peace.
And our hearts go out to those who cannot be together.
To you, we hope the coming year brings realized dreams and ancient prayers.
We at WSA pledge to continue serving you with quality news, information and entertainment programming you've come to expect.
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We end with a moment from eight years ago today, December 28th, 1982.
There are charges of drug use, incest, death threats, adultery and lesbian affairs.
It's a Palm Beach divorce trial that's making national headlines.
Even too sensational for a family used to being in the news.
A 25 million dollar fortune and custody of twin sons are at stake.
And after 19 days of lurid testimony, publishing air, Peter Pulitzer wins the case.
Eight years ago today, a Florida judge rules that Pulitzer's third wife, Roxanne, is guilty of gross misconduct.
He awards her a 48 thousand dollar settlement and lets her keep only her jewelry and a black Porsche and a three foot trumpet.
We leave you now with the top ten song from that day, Man Eater by Hall and Oats.
Until other moments and other times, I'm John Palmer.
I wonder if I were you.
I know she can't do.
She's better than that.
She could really rip your heart apart.
Might not matter.
The beauty.