University Daily Kansan, February 12, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
Page 12
Film miffs residents of Atlanta
By United Press International
ATLANTA — Many Atlanta residents yesterday reacted with anger to the CBS movie "The Atlanta Child Murders," saying that the docu-drama was more fiction than fact and that it gave a false, racist picture of the city's black leadership.
The first segment of the two-part movie that deals with the 29 murders of young blacks from 1979 to 1981 was aired on CBS Sunday night. The final three-hour segment will be shown tonight.
The movie casts doubt about the guilt of Wayne Williams, who was convicted of two murders and who was held responsible for 20 more.
"The majority of them were complaining about the movie going on at all," said Kevin Dunn, assistant news director. "There was a smaller number complaining about the characterization of characters, especially white reporters being portrayed as country bumpkins."
was held responsible for
WAGA-TV, the CBS affiliate
Atlanta, received 190 calls late
Sunday and early yesterday.
George Schweitzer, BCS vice president of communications, said the network received about 50 calls complaining about the broadcast. But he defended the dramatization as a legitimate way to present the story.
A magnificent. Most city leaders had seen the movie earlier and had expressed their outrage then. A delegation led by Mayor Andrew Young traveled to New York and pressured CBS into running a disclaimer that said parts of the film were fiction.
Llangarfond the movie was 20 percent fact and 80 percent fiction. He also said he was concerned because of what he called a racist portrayal of the city's black leadership.
State Sen. Arthur Langford, who in the film was shown organizing searches for the missing youths, watched the movie at a hotel with about 40 guests, all of them former searchers.
"My real problem . . . is the way blacks and leadership were portrayed — that we could not govern without white police officers coming to the aid of the city leadership." Llangford said. "And that was not
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Teenage suicide film applauded by experts
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Experts yesterday generally praised "Surviving," ABC TV's Sunday night movie on teenage suicide, but some said it wasn't true to life.
Teenage suicide tends to be a solitary act and occurs almost spontaneously, the critics said. The show, however, featured a double suicide that was carefully deliberated.
But the movie prompted floods of grateful calls to some teenage suicide hotlines.
Jorge Arocha, at the crisis-suicide phone line for Dade County, Florida, clocked 30 calls the hour after the show. Most of them had been erasing suicide but thought again after the film.
"The movie had made them think that maybe they shouldn't do it." Arocha said. "A lot of people
expressed concern about what would happen to their relatives if they were to commit suicide.
"We think movies like this are helpful. They get the subject in the open. Many people think if you talk to them about suicide, that will drive them to suicide, and that's not true."
In the last 15 years, the suicide rate for adolescents 15 to 19 rose 44 percent, compared to a 2.5 percent increase for the nation as a whole. The National Institute of Mental Health reported that about 6,000 youths killed themselves last year — an average of 15 a day, or one every 90 minutes.
Before the telecast, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child Psychiatry had warned that parents should not let children and adolescents watch the program alone.
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