Tue, Mar 15, 1994
Turning Point goes to Indianapolis to visit Becki and Keith Dilley who are the parents of sextuplets who were conceived with the help of the fertility drug Pergonal. It looks at the dangers of carrying so many children and talks to several other couples who experienced multiple birth pregnancies.
Tue, Mar 29, 1994
Turning Point examines the case of Adam Jeffery an Oklahoma City lawyer who promised to provided babies for twenty different couples who were looking for adoption. When he did not come through on his promise, he was arrested for fraud. Correspondent Meredith Vieira interviews the lawyer and talks to some of the people he defrauded.
Tue, Apr 5, 1994
Turning Point looks at some very young children are fighting life and death battles with cancer and leukemia. It talks to their families who are trying to support them and the doctors who are doing their best to save them. It also follows the children as they they try to live their lives while undergoing chemotherapy.
Tue, Apr 12, 1994
Turning Point examines the Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer Prize winning effort to offer front page coverage of every child murdered in the city during 1992. Correspondent Don Kladstrup looks at the heartbreaking cases talking to the reporters, families, and friends impacted by the deaths.
Tue, Apr 19, 1994
Turning Point goes to South Africa to investigate the murder of American Amy Biehl a 26-year-old Fulbright scholar who was stabbed to death by a mob last summer while traveling in Guguletu, a black township near Cape Town. Amy's family travels to South Africa in search of understanding, consolation, and reconciliation.
Tue, Oct 11, 1994
Retells the story of the appearance of E.coli bacteria in ground beef in California and Washington State in 1992 and 1993 during the landmark outbreak. Focuses on the families of four children who died and of others who became seriously ill, in most cases after eating undercooked hamburgers from Jack-in-the-Box fast-food outlets. In standard news magazine fashion, there are snapshots and home movies of the pretty children before they were stricken, followed by grim hospital and funeral scenes. The reporter, Meredith Vieira, goes on to accuse the Federal Department of Agriculture of not doing enough to protect consumers from contaminated meat.