Investigators #5

Date1986

Can DescriptionsSee tape for content list: Pilgrim #4; Sales Cult - Moriene; Drugs, pt. 1-5 11pm version; Teen Prostitution, pt. 1-3; Nicaragua

Viewing NotesShot of cars on Route 3 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. A male reporter, in voiceover, talks about tourist crowds. Shots of people on Plymouth beaches. Interview with a local woman, who expresses concern that the additional crowds would make evacuating in the event of an accident at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant more dangerous. Shot of a meeting about the evacuation plan. Shot of a sign for: ‘Hanover Mall’. Aerial shot of Plymouth. Interview with Ed Thomas of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), who says evacuation plan is flawed, and Pilgrim power plant is the worst plant in the country. Interview with Charles Barry, Massachusetts State Secretary for Public Safety, who says the evacuation plan does not account for the population increase in recent years. Shots of the town. Reporter talking to the camera, saying the power plant’s company, Boston Edison, is responsible for the evacuation plans. Interview with a Boston Edison official, who says they will do better. Shots inside Boston Edison’s Emergency Operations Center in Plymouth. Reporter talks about other safety measures, like increases in staff and installation of a warning system. Shots of the emergency siren. Reporter says system did not meet federal standards in 1982. Interviews with people on the street, who say they did not hear the sirens when tested. Shot of Boston Edison’s ‘Emergency Public Information’ brochure. Interviews with people on the street in Plymouth, some of whom say they have never seen the brochure before. Congressman Gary Studds speaking into a microphone, saying he does not think people know what to do in the case of an emergency evacuation. [End of story, 00:00:00-00:04:49] Shots of a courtroom. Shots of [?] and [John Maurier] [human traffickers]. Police talking to teenage human trafficking victims in a motel parking lot. [Clips from earlier news stories, with native sound] [End of story, 00:04:49-00:05:14] A Boston Police officer leaning on a police cruiser. A female reporter (Pam Cross), in voiceover, reports that the body of a woman was found in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Shots of police officers. A covered body being loaded into the medical examiners van. A woman introduces herself as Donna, a 25 year old addict. Reporter gives her name as Donna [Halorin?], who was interviewed a few weeks before her death. Still of a graduation picture. Cut to an interview with a group of people struggling with addiction being interviewed by Channel 5. Interview with Donna. [Image cuts out] Reporter in voiceover talks about Donna’s drug use. Interviews with people who knew Donna. People gathered outside a funeral home. Interview with a man about the ease of buying drugs. [He also appears in the stories about drug use by school children]. Reporter speaking to the camera outside a doctor’s office in Arlington, Massachusetts, describing how Donna got prescription painkillers from doctors. Zoom in on the sign in the window: “David T. Casey M.D.” Cut to Donna’s interview. Reporter describes the pills found with Donna when she died, prescribed by Dr. Casey. Casey claims he “didn’t know she was a drug addict.” Interview with Donna’s family, who blame the doctor. Reporter talks about Donna’s children. [End of story, 00:05:14-00:10:26] [Same story as above, edited differently] A Boston Police officer leaning on a police cruiser. A female reporter (Pam Cross), in voiceover, reports on the body of a woman found in Charlestown. Shots of police officers. A covered body being loaded into the medical examiners van. A clip of a woman who introduces herself as Donna, a 25 year old addict. Reporter gives her name as Donna [Halorin?], who was interviewed a few weeks before her death. Still of graduation picture. Cut to interview with a group of people struggling with addiction being interviewed by Channel 5. Interview with Donna. Reporter speaking to the camera outside a doctor’s office in Arlington, Massachusetts, describing how Donna got prescription painkillers from doctors. Zoom in on the sign in the window: “David T. Casey M.D.” Donna’s interview in voiceover. Shots of the exterior of the doctor’s office. Reporter describes the pills found with Donna when she died, prescribed by Dr. Casey. Casey claims he “didn’t know she was a drug addict.” Stills of Donna. Shot of Donna’s two daughters. One of the girls having her hair brushed. Donna’s interview. Shot of the police cruiser. [End of story, 00:010:26-00:13:13] Shot of a vial of morphine. A female reporter (Pam Cross), in voiceover, discusses medical and recreation use of morphine. Close up of a package of: ‘5 mg Methadone Hydrochloride Tablets’. Panning shot of various narcotics. Reporter says thieves are stealing them from hospitals, and lists various crimes: 2000 Doses of Narcotics stolen from New England Medical Center in July 1986. 1000 Dilaudid pills go missing from Jamaica Plain VA Hospital in January 1985. 5 ounces of cocaine and 845 doses of other narcotics disappear from Massachusetts General Hospital in October 1985. Shot of Mass. General Hospital. Shots of pill manufacture. Report speaking to the camera. Shot of filling a pill bottle. Interview with a doctor. Shot of EMTs bringing a patient into the hospital. Reporter discusses difference between hospital value of drugs and street value. Interview with a man. [End of Story, 00:13:13-00:15:34 Shot of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. A female reporter (Pam Cross), in voiceover, discusses a case of a case of morphine going missing from the hospital in spring of 1985. Shot of a nurse treating a patient. Interview with a person, whose face is obscured, discussing their substance abuse problem. Reporter speaking to camera, says federal officials claim nurses are responsible for 70 percent of “drug diversion in hospitals”. Interview with a man who says most people start out taking drugs as medicine, not with the intention of getting high. Shot of a man on a hospital gurney. [Did he consent to be on camera?] Interview with a man [Navonicks?] who stole prescription drugs while working as a pharmacist. Shots inside the hospital. Drugs being locked in a safe. [End of story, 00:15:34-00:17:54] Shot of the exterior of Glover Memorial Hospital, in Needham, Massachusetts. A female reporter (Pam Cross), in voiceover, reports on a case of drug substitution. Interview with a hospital employee. Shot of a nurse taking prescription drugs out of a safe. Reporter discusses thieves stealing prescription drugs and replacing the drugs with water. The reporter speaking to the camera. Interview with a woman with her face obscured, who admits stealing drugs while working as a nurse. Interview with a public health official. Close up of a pill package that had been tampered with. Shot of a package of Wyeth Morphine Sulfate. Health official says replacing drugs with potentially harmful other substances is a form of assault or patient abuse. [End of story, 00:17:54-00:20:17] Shot of a man, identified as neurosurgeon Thomas Schultz, of Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts. A female reporter (Pam Cross), in voiceover, says he has been accused of practicing medicine while under the influence of drugs, and faces getting his medical license revoked. Shot of the cover of ‘The New England Journal of Medicine”. Reporter says the journal reports one third of doctors surveyed used narcotics in the past year, and ten percent use narcotics regularly. Interview with a man. Shot of doctors in gowns and masks. Report on nurses using drugs. Interview with a man who says medical professionals are more likely to become addicted. Reporter speaking to the camera, discussing drug addiction and medical professionals who sell drugs illegally. Police arrest a pharmacist for unlawful distribution of codeine. Shots of the arrest at the pharmacy. Interview with a man, who says a small percent of medical professionals are diverting drugs. [End of story, 00:20:17-00:23:00] An ambulance with sirens blaring. Shots of a street at night (the “Combat Zone”, Boston, Massachusetts). Two people getting in a physical altercation. A female reporter (Susan Warnock) speaks to the camera, discussing teenagers in the Combat Zone. Shot of a woman on stage wearing a bikini and carrying a feather fan. Shot of a neon sign: “Live Nude XXX”. Various shots of lights, the street, and performers. Shots of women on the street, presented as sex workers. Interview with a woman who says young girls become “addicted to the dangerousness of street life.” A girl interviewed facing away from the camera. She talks about being sold from one pimp to another. Shot of a police officer on a motorcycle. Reporter discusses arrests of teenage “street walkers”. [rape victims] Interview with a man who says it is difficult for “prostitutes” [rape victims] to return to school and normal life. The reporter interviewing a girl who is facing away from the camera. Exterior shot of a building in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, a rehab center for girls who have escaped human trafficking. Interview with a staff member of the facility. [End of story, 00:23:00-00:27:29] Shots of a girl walking down the street. A female reporter (Susan Warnock), in voiceover, describes the girl as a “prostitute”. [rape victim] Girls getting into cars. Interview with a woman, who describes girls as young as 13, 14 and 15. Interview with a girl facing away from the camera. Reporter describes girls as having low self-esteem. Stills of girls on the street. The reporter, speaking to the camera, says girls may have suffered abuse at home, and do not trust police and other adults. [End of story, 00:27:29-:00:30:49] Shot of a girl standing on a dark street. A female reporter (Susan Warnock), in voiceover, describes the girl as 15 years old “prostitute” [rape victim]. Shot of a girl getting into a car. Black and white stills of the street, while people talk in voiceover talk about prostitution. Shot of people waiting at a bus station. Interview with a man who talks about pimps. The report speaking to the camera. [End of story, 00:30:49-00:33:32] Shot of soldiers marching in a military parade. A male reporter (Jorge Quiroga), in voiceover, describes the parade in Managua, Nicaragua, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Sandinista National Liberation Movement. Tanks and other military equipment in the parade. Black and white footage of Anastasio Samoza dancing. Shots of fighting in the street, apparently from the 1979 revolution. Sandinista soldiers marching in parade. Shot of a sign: ‘…”Mas De Un Batallon De Los Vuestros, Invasor Rubio, Habra Morido El Polvo De Mis Agrestes Montañas”’. Shot of a military parade. Interview with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Shot of Managua. Shot of helicopters. Interview with Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez. Parade of military jeeps. Shot of an open air market. People waiting at a bus stop. Interview with Alejandro [Vengaña?]. Soldier relaxing on stairs. Shot of a building with the sign: ‘Topkapi’ and graffiti on the wall saying: ‘Yankees, en Nicaragua Sandinista sus avioncitos Hasen…fuuuss’ with image of a bomb dropping. Shots of the market. Reporter speaking to the camera in front of a bus stop. Shots of the market. A speech by Ronald Regan. Interview with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Interview with Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez. Interview with Honduran Secretary of State [Silvio Arias?]. Shots of food cooking. Shots of soldiers. Interview with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Shots of soldiers and military equipment [some from the Vietnam War?] Contra soldiers crossing a river. [End of story, 00:33:32-00:39:46]