Description: Dan Rather conducts confrontational live interview with George Bush who ducks Iran contra issue. Bush Mass. campaign chair Sen. Paul Cellucci reacts. Rather defends his approach.
Description: Star Search auditions dancers. Evolution of stage dancing styles through examples of Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson.
Description: Training expert says police more likely to shoot first because of increasing danger in drug raids. Francis Roache defends his force. Smashing door with sledgehammer. Sherman Griffiths funeral.
Description: Failure of juvenile justice system as seen through case of Daniel LaPlante, accused of triple murder in Townsend as well as previous violent offenses. Weaknesses of DYS detention - courts interface.
Description: Dante Johnson is committed to DYS and then set free again on his lawyer's appeal. Victim's mother sits in back of juvenile courtroom and in hallway.
Description: Dante Johnson, who as a juvenile killed a youth, is discharged from state custody because expert witnesses testify he is not mentally ill. Mother of victim listens in court, yells & throws purse at him.
Description: Dante Johnson, convicted of murder as a juvenile, is detained despite technicality which would set him free as an adult. Higher court then orders him released. Edward Loughran, Judge Mark Lawton.
Description: Families of mentally ill people plead at public hearing for Danvers State to remain open. Patients in vocational workshop. Hospital buildings and grounds. David Forsberg says institutional funds must be cut.