Date: Saturday, October 24, 1998 2:40 PM
The NBC website doesn't yet have a description of the Tuesday Dateline
program, but TV Guide says:
Scheduled: an hour-long report on the psychiatric treatment received by a suspected victim of multiple-personality disorder at a Chicago hospital. Included: interviews with the patient, her children and hospital representatives.
The patient is Pat Burgus, the hospital is Rush-Presbyterian and the chief psychiatrist was Dr. Bennett Braun.
The PBS website does have a description of the Tuesday Frontline program:
In the midst of a sudden willingness to believe that children were being ritually abused in day-care centers during the 1980s, parents, police, prosecutors, and the press turned Miami, Florida, into ground zero for a new way of convicting alleged child molesters. Led by Florida's then-prosecuting attorney, Janet Reno, alleged abusers were relentlessly pursued and convicted with a zeal unmatched in the nation. Today, as some of Reno's celebrated cases seem to be unraveling, FRONTLINE correspondent Peter J. Boyer examines the convictions that were a stunning triumph for the crusading prosecuting attorney and created an emerging political model that would be emulated by prosecutors across the country.
Most PBS stations show Frontline at 9pm Eastern, but there are those that delay it an hour (e.g. in Philadelphia). Check local schedules.