remember, sky jacking seemed insuperable in this country once. we have now stopped t. i don't know how terrorism can be stopped, but history's rhythm is on our side. tonight, our topic will be murder as a growth industry. >> murder has become an epidemic in america. >> the last ten years, the homicide rate has increased by leaps and bounds. >> my god, somebody fired a shot. >> these tragedies keep getting closer and closer to home. i'm afraid to let my kids walk out the door. >> the urban crime wave has touched off a new round of gun buying. >> i'll plead not guilty right now. >> there has been a disturbing growth in cult phenomenon in this country.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> all the elements are present for one of the most sensational murder trials in american history. seven people brutally murdered in a rare hollywood publicity.

young girls supposedly under the spell of a svengali who allegedly mastered the murders. >> the '70s, just brutal violence on every front and anywhere that you look in america. >> at the time of a mass murder, there's a lot of media coverage, but usually after a brief period of time, the identity of the perpetrator tends to fade from the public's consciousness, but not so with the manson case. it was the biggest publicity case the d.a.'s office would ever have. >> the manson trial begins the 1970s on such an evil sadistic note. seven innocent people died. steve parent, a teenager, abigail foal ger abigail folger, folger coffee. and sharon tate. >> all of you know how beautiful she was. only few of you know who good

she was. >> and you had charles manson himself, the charismatic leader of the family, who didn't show any remorse or any respect for the system. >> are you happy with your course? >> yes. >> good. >> am i happy? your court, i wouldn't accept it. >> the problem is he did not physically participate in these murders, but only manson had a motive to commit these murders, and that motive was helter-skelter. >> manson envisioned that white people would turn against the black man if they thought the black man had committed these seven murders, and ultimately there would be a civil war between blacks and whites. manson foresaw that the black man would win this war, but later on he said the black man, because of inexperience, would simply not be able to handle the reins of power so we would have to look around at those white people who had survived, who had escaped from helter-skelter. in other words, turnover the

rair reins of power to manson. >> this is tantamount to his fingerprints being found at the murder scene. >> he sat saying nothing, but he had an "x" scratched in his forehead. it is his way of saying he has been x'd out of society. susan atkins and leslie van hout en sang as they went to court as if this show they are with manson and he is with them. >> the women were coached by charlie every morning. here's what i want you to do. they would do everything from sing mocking songs to the judge to when charlie is making one of his impassioned speeches, mouthing the words along with him. >> i don't have any guilt. i know what i've done, and nobody can judge me. i judge me. >> are you better? >> better?

no. >> price? you have eyes. open them. >> charlie manson is a great presenter, but vincent buyosi was better. and when he put these two antagonists into a courtroom, america thought, this is entertainment. >> people who are curious about the tate murders go to the los angeles hall of justice where they wait in long lines. some people are so interested that they get to the courthouse at 4:00 a.m. something else this trial has done is gathered together again those members of manson's family who are not in jail. >> the world is getting crazy. >> one read part of a letter that manson wrote the district attorney. >> i'm writing to you because i don't think i'm getting a fair trial. >> i'm an individual. one man standing alone defending myself. contrast this with the facilities you have available to you. >> i noted, for example, the coverage of the charles manson case. here is a man who is guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight

murders without reason. here is a man yet, who, as far as the coverage was concerned, appeared to be rather a glamorous figure. >> l.a. times next morning, nan son guilty, nixon declares. manson got hold of the paper, stands up in front of the jury with a silly little smile on his face. he shows the jury the headline. >> a tight ring of security surrounds the hall of justice today as the manson jury dlib rates. meanwhile, members of the manson klan continue their vigil outside the hall of justice. they've been there since the start of the trial. >> if charlie were convicted of these charges, what happens to the rest of the members of the family? >> there's no if. charlie will get out. all the people in jail will get out and we'll all go to the desert together. >> the jury, hearing the charges against charles manson and three girl members of his so-called family brought in its verdict this afternoon. >> and outside the court was

manson's girl followers got the news by radio. >> they convicted these people and you are next, all of you. there's a revelation coming very soon. >> today the judge formally passed sentence on charles manson and his girls. the death penalty, he said, for seven senseless murders. he said not only was the sentence appropriate, but almost compelled in this case, so death in the gas chamber, he said. >> the very name manson has become a metaphor for evil, catapulting him to almost myth logical proportions. and there is a side to human nature, for whatever reason, that is fascinated by pure unalloyed evil. >> if death is to mean anything in the state of california, this unquestionably was a proper case for the imposition of the death penalty a. he the california

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a boy was shot at the side of the car, and the girl apparently tried to run, and she was shot and found 28 feet further on. >> do you have any idea what the possible motive might be for this killing? >> we have no motive at this time. >> this unknown person committed dozens of murders in the 1960s, the 1970s. we really don't know the full dimensions of the case, but we know he's the zodiac because he started writing to the police. >> claiming credit in great detail, articulating and explaining what he did to these victims. >> the chronicle received two letters. they notified us immediately. the criminology was sent over to the newspaper as were inspectors, and the two letters were examined and opened. >> the zodiac is reaching out to

the police repeatedly, and in great length, was something new. >> the psychotic killer has already murdered five. one at a lover's lane at a lake north of san francisco. three others in nearby vallejo. the latest, a taxi driver in search. the zodiac killer seems to crave publicity. he sent letters and cryptograms to newspapers and the police, recounting his crimes, threatening more murders, and making bay area residents very edgy. >> in the '70s, there was a certain kind of killer who had the skill to get away with murder, long enough to assemble a body count where they would be classified as serial killer. >> in los angeles, a killer, the police are calling the hillside strange lette strangler, have killed ten young women and left their bodies along the highway. the police found another, number 11, they think. >> two young paper boys discovered the latest victim,

the body down an embankment in a residential neighborhood. the victim was a woman and the body was nude. >> the series of murders has had a chilling effect upon the people of the city. >> in los angeles, more women than ever before are learning how to defend themselves. susan ball skipped night school for a week. she said she can't sleep because of the murders. >> i guess i just want to learn how to give myself a few seconds so i can live. >> there have been enough bodies found over a whied enough area to strongly suggest more than one killer, but police say they really don't know. >> today the los angeles police say they have a suspect, a man in jail in another state. >> los angeles police say they have enough evidence to charge 27-year-old kenneth bianci, with 10 of the hillside stranglings. they focused on him when he was arrested for the murder of two college students in washington state. >> police didn't know there was not one strangler, but two. >> in the courtroom, kenneth

bianci in the hope of a death sentence, pleaded guilty. >> he was motivated because he was trying to show his older cousin, who he revered, that he was tough. and for angelo bono had his younger cousin listening to him and saw him as aimen tee. we've seen pairs of killers, urging each other on, and together they were extremely vicious and violent. >> is there any doubt this is a body? >> no doubt. skull bone and everything. >> when did you first get word there might be some bodies buried here? >> this morning. >> have you had any indication before? >> the man behind the killings was dean coral, 33 years old, or was. he was shot and killed wednesday evening by wayne henley, 17 years old. henley was one of two teenagers who lured young boys to coral's

home. >> d. coral would pick up kids and once he had them in his house, he would incapacitate them, and put them on what he called his death board, and rape and kill them. >> the texas sex and torture killings now have become the worst mass murders in american history. four more bodies of young boys were dug up today, and that brings to 27 the number of bodies discovered so far. >> some people trying to make it appear that the police department has not done all that it could or should have done in these cases. the police department feels that these parents are not exactly discharging their own responsibilities as far as raising and disciplining their children. >> shethese shocking murders fo on a problem, that of run away children and what can happen to them. >> the children that run away from home today are not being children we had run away in the '60s. in the '60s, we had flower children, and they ran away for

sociopolitical reasons. today children are running from a situation inted of stead of t situation. >> they were picked up by sexual saidists like john wayne gasy. >> a man who served time in prison for sex crimes was let out. today they found the bodies of at least three young boys buried under his house. >> police today found six more bodies under the john gacey house. >> illinois authorities today made their first positive identification of the 28 bodies unearthed so far. >> this grisly search ended tonight and will be resumed after christmas. >> prior to his arrest, garske acy was well known in the community. he frequently dressed in a clown outfit for the benefit of youngsters. he was generally seen as a man young people liked. >> the coroner of this county has seen nothing like it. >> it's frightening.

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penalty is an expression of society's moral outrage at particular crimes. >> in the 1970s, we had a four-year moratorium on the death penalty. the u.s. supreme court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional. eventually in 1976, with new statutes, the u.s. supreme court said it's constitutional, and then we started seeing the death penalty back in place, death rows repopulated with new criminals like gary gilmore. >> it seems the people of utah want the death penalty, but they don't want executions. i took them literally and serious when they sentenced me to death. >> the cause was not especially extreme. it was two robbery murders. >> but when he was convicted, he wanted to die. he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory, so two years later he was put to death by a firing squad and became the very first person in america in this new era to be executed. and his words were, let's do tfrmt >> the order of the fourth

judicial court of the state of utah has been carried out. gary mark gilmore is dead. >> tonight, our topic will be murder as a growth industry. these are the national homicide figures. foft pa for the past ten years, every year has set a new high for murder in america. >> the statistics were stupendous. the spectacles people were seeing on their tv screen were unlike anything they had to absorb before. >> a small grocery store has been robbed. the owner of the grocery store, nathan hurt, has been shot and killed. >> as i understand, a man came into the store and had a gun and asked for the money. then my grandfather reached for a gun that he had and grabbed the man's gun and it went off. he shot him twice. my grandfather fell to the floor. >> why did he have a gun?

>> because there are so many robberies in this area and he felt he nooded it feeded it for protection. >> citizens who wouldn't have a gun are buying one because they're scared out of their wits. >> he owns a store outside washington, d.c. he's been robbed at gunpoint four times in the past two years. now william rubiak has bought a gun and says next time he will use it. >> i will shoot, and i will shoot to kill. >> here is the biggest seller of guns. a crime wave has touched off a new round of gun buying. >> the german lugers, small revolvers, magnums, some of the saturday night specials are small. they can be palmed in your hand. >> it was shortly after 10:00 california time when the president left his hotel. not seen by the following cameras, spotted by secret service agent was a hand with a gun in it coming through the

crowd. the commotion erupted. secret service agents forced the assailant to the ground and then handcuffed her. she was identified as 27-year-old lynette alice brown, one of the earliest followers of manson in 1969. >> about the same time gerald ford becomes president, charlie in prison writes that he's got new rules. they want to do one big thing that's going to get the nation's attention back on charlie. so squeaky, wearing a red robe, comes up to the president of the united states with a big gun, points the gun in his face. the secret service then wrestle her to the ground. her first words are, can you believe the gun didn't go off? >> following your own close brush with death in sacramento, i wonder if it's convinced you all we need tough gun control in the country. >> i prefer to go after the person who uses the gun for an illegal or criminal purpose.

that, to me, is a far better approach than the one where you require registration of the individual or the gun. >> just minutes after making those statements, gerald ford walked into the street and heard the sound of gunfire. >> yea! >> there's been a shot. there's a shot. push back on the police. somebody has fired a shot. we don't know if anybody's been hit. my god! somebody fired a shot. >> the president was not hit. witnesses heard the sound and saw a puff of smoke. the woman identified by police as sarah jean moore was immediately seized. >> sarah jane moore jumped out of the crowd, fired off a weapon and was tackled by another citizen. her background, it turned out,

was as a sort of eccentric kind of lower rung political figure. she was kind of an odd duck. >> when gerald ford became president within the space of one month were two attempts on his life. squeaky and sarah jane moore. both tried to shoot him. what's going on? why can't this be stopped? >> so, once again, this nation has narrowly escaped the tragedy, the trauma of assassination of our president. above all else, this points out the need for some additional measures, some additional precautions to protect the life of the highest elected official in the country. will it take another assassination in our lifetime to finally force some action? ♪ y the masculine fragrance. yves saint laurent. it's not what champions do.

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in the '70s, new york was really in danger. the whole social fabric seemed to have been torn in half and crime was just one of the many indications that we were lost. >> i would say the last ten years, the homicide rate has increased by leaps and bounds. we hit our peak probably in 1972 when the bronx had 430 homicides. >> in the '70s, the bronx looked like berlin after world war ii.

literally looked like berlin. >> 1 1/2 million people live in this borough. it once signified industry, progress, jobs. now it means someone is burning down a building. it has become the arson capital of the world. it happens 30 times a day, and the flames are the signal of a national disaster. >> is there anything that can change a situation? >> in the bronx, my own estimation is doom with a capital d. >> a lot of the gritty stuff went down in new york. and when you think of new york in the '70s, you, of course, think of the son of sam murders. >> christine fron, soon to be 26 years old, is dead today. of no apparent motive. >> in 1976, they transferred me to queens homicide. and the first victim i came across was a woman named christine fron who was sitting in a parked car with her boyfriend, coming from a movie. she got her head blown off.

>> there was a series of these random shootings and the list is comparison to determine there was indeed the same killer using the same gun, a .44 caliber weapon on these homicides. therefore the police named it the .44 caliber killer. >> he struck again on april 17 at 3:00 in the morning, killing 18-year-old valentina and her fiance 20-year-old alexander as they sat in a parked car in the bay chester section of the bronx. >> we get the shooting in the bronx, valentina. but at that scene where that shooting occurred left a notah dressed to my supervisor. and he called himself the son of sam. >> well, he talked about being possessed by a man he refers to as sam, and the man he refers to as his father. he said that his father requires blood. >> this got people's attention. i think it was just a sheer randomness of it. the fact that you could be doing something as simple as sitting in a car talking to a friend and

someone would come behind you and open fire. it was pretty terrifying. it was frightening. >> i was in charge of the nighttime operation on the task force that wanted to shoot him on-site. that was our job, take him out on the street. we flooded the streets of new york. >> there are people dying and we're trying to stop it, okay, my man? it's everybody. it's not you, it's everybody. that's what we're trying to do. >> in terms of the victim count, that doesn't place him at the top of the list in terms of the most deadly serial killers. but it was new york city, and what happens in new york city, well, that's international news. >> good evening. harry is on vacation. here are our top stories. 1 unmore police join the hunt for the son of sam killer in new york. >> the search continues for the .44 caliber killer who has come to be known as the son of sam. >> he warned in one of his sick and threatening letters to the press and to the police, sam is

a thirsty lad and he won't let me stop killing until he's had his fill of blood. >> it was a really hot summer in new york, and everything went dark. i heard someone on the street go, it's a black out! the looters were out almost instantly. and it felt apocalyptic. i remember going to bed that night thinking it was the end of the world. >> new york city in the early morning, after a night of no electric power, what it did have in the dark streets was a wild outburst of crime. >> when the greatest city in the world goes black, it showed a crumbling america. then you have the son of sam on the loose. >> we always look for parents in the victims. there was a belief he was only killing women with long, dark

hair. >> i know the .44 killer is going after -- when me and my friends go out at night, we put our hair up. >> my hair is down to my shoulder. >> i cut it short because of the .44 caliber killer. >> well, his last victim was actually blonde. >> a 20-year-old new york city girl died this evening, a day and a half after she and her companion were shot by the son of sam. he is the nighttime killer who has stalked new york residential boroughs for a year. >> a postal worker walked out of his yonkers apartment last night, turned the ignition key in his car and found himself surrounded by police. well, he said, you've got me. police say those words ended the biggest manhunt in new york city history with the capture of the son of sam. and this is what they say tripped up the .44 caliber killer, a parking killer. david berkowitz drove this cream colored ford galaxy from his home in yonkers to benson hearst

brooklyn. then he went to stalk his 12th and 13th victims. but in the place he parked was this fire hydrant and police had the lead they needed. >> when we get him, and i interrogate him, my attitude at this time, i want to take him into a window. this guy was so pathetic. it was like talking to a s zucchini. never blinked. after awhile i start today feel sorry for the guy. he's done, right? >> i feel great. i think the people of our city will feel great relief. >> praise the lord, it's over. we're very, very happy. that was the first thing i heard this morning. it was fantastic. it was great. >> serial killers tend to be cunning. that allows them to stay at large. when they get caught it's usually because of luck. good luck for us, bad luck for them. >> when we caught him, we searched his car. the bag in the seat is the .44 caliber gun that did the shootings. what more do you need?

then we found a machine gun fully loaded in the back seat. the night of the interrogation that i directed, i said, what were you going to do with the machine gun? >> he said i was on my way to the hamptons and i was going to spray the place and kill as many people as i could. alright, i brought in ensure max protein... ...to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. [grunting noise] i'll take that. 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. ensure max protein. in two great flavors.

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there are so many miracles in this place, it is hard to tell without telling two or three because they run together and make a beautiful pull of miracles. for 30 years i prayed to a sky god and i got nothing but disappointment and heartache. now we have a father who loves each and every one of us. how thankful we are. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ >> the '70s, were very fertile period for these new religious movements. what was so interesting about the rise of cults in our country is how many people wanted to ally themselves with these stigmatized and fanatical organizations. >> i must say there is a great

effort. no one else has the faculty that i do. when they do, i will be glad to hold their coat. in the meantime, i shall be god, and beside me there shall be no other. >> yeah. >> jim jones was an extraordinary figure. he was a community leader, social worker, and then a minister. he carried his ministry to california. ♪ walk with me, walk with me ♪ >> what was particularly distinctive about him at that time is that he created a community that was united between white ands blacks. this came at a time when the country was still very racially divided and churches were not integrated. >> some leading society say we have to have euthanasia. oh, no, oh, no. who is going to decide who and when a person is going to die? we must never allow that because this is the kind of thing that ushers in the terror of a hitler's germany. we must not allow these kind of

things to enter our consciousness. [ applause ] >> i wonder very much about this guy and his power and the reach he had. so i began to contact ex-members and they said that all was not so good inside, that there were beatings if you got out of line. there was a lot of sex abuse and the story took on a new life at that point. very soon afterwards, the church members began leaving san francisco for guyana. >> he figures, if i'm in guyana, it really doesn't matter what's said or written. nobody is going to get me here. ♪ we're a happy family, weary happy family, yes, we are ♪ ♪ >> it was an escapade, almost unparalleled in the history of religious movements. they had very little communication with their loved ones at home, and naturally there was concern about where they had gone and what was

happening out there in the jungle. >> i think that jim jones took this group down there because he was afraid to face the publicity and answer the questions here in this country. >> he was talking immigration, he was talking helping people, he was talking better this and better that. >> what about now, what's your impression now? >> my impression now that those are fronts for him. i think he's gone crazy. >> congressman leo ryan started hearing the name jim joennes mo regularly. and he wanted to expose what he believed was going on down there, that was wrong. and he thought it was certainly worth inviting members of the press to join him. >> very glad to be here. i'll tell you right now, whatever the comments are, there are some people here who believe this is the best thing that ever happened to them their whole life. >> so, it's towards the end of

the evening. don harris, who was the nbc reporter, had been walking around the pavilion, and two people slipped him a note and he hands the notes over to congressman ryan who opens them and says, oh, my god, it's true. everything we've been told is true. >> and then the word spread, and more and more people wanted to leave. >> do i both understand you to say that you want to leave jones town on this day? >> yes. >> and then i remember seeing this couple with a child between them. >> you get back here! you bring them back! don't you take my kids! >> you could feel the tension. >> last night, someone came and

passed me this note. >> people play games, friend. they lie, they lie. what can i do about liars? you people are going to leave us. i beg you, please leave us. >> instead of just letting that plane take off, with minimal damage to his movement, jones snapped. >> good evening. for about the last 30 hours, we here at nbc news have been trying to establish what happened last night at the air strip at a place called port kaituma. we do have a particular interest. two nbc news men were shot to death there. >> don harris was killed. bob brown was killed. congressman ryan was shot 45 times. >> every time somebody would fall down wounded, they would walk over and shoot them in the head with a shotgun. >> i was shot five times. i was lying on my side with my

head down pretending i was dead, and then all of a sudden they just came and, um, shot me at point-blank range. >> they're shooting, people die including leo ryan. and back in jonestown, jim jones is calling for a revolutionary suicide where we're all going to kill ourselves and make a statement to the world. >> i first learned of jones's town last evening around sunset. there was absolute silence. nothing living was around. jonestown last evening was the city of the dead. >> they found tremendous quantities of potassium cyanide. it killed quickly within five minutes.

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there were a lot of strange people who committed a lot of strange crimes in the 1970s, but none of them was as media-genic as ted bundy. >> are you surprised you with entitle to jail? >> surprised? i didn't know what to expect. never been to jail before, never been arrested before. >> theodore bundy was a prolific serial killer. we don't know exactly how many he killed. it was dozens. he was handsome, involved in politics, high school. didn't seem like the glassy eyed

lunatic many believed serial killers would be. >> we still don't believe it, just can't be. i keep shaking my head day after day, saying, how can this be? because our son is the best son in the world. >> what the press wrote about bundy, his crimes, wasn't the full details. the full extent of the barberism, the fact that he would have sex with their corpses, mutilate the victims, that didn't quite fit with this image of the boy next door. >> you wish to say you feel that everything will turnout all right, that you are innocent? do you still feel that? >> you bet, yeah. more than ever. >> do you think about getting out of here? >> well, well, legally, sure. >> bundy was to stand trial on the charge of murdering a young woman in aspen. that trial never completed. during the court hearing break, he was left alone in the law library. bundy bailed out of the second floor window and escaped. >> he high tailed it up into the

hills where they chased him around nearly a week. he got lost up there and he probably would have died of exposure if they hadn't arrested him. so they caught him and he was put back in jail. and at christmastime 1977, he escaped again. >> bundy, starved down to less than 140 pounds, slipped through a hole in the ceiling of his cell and was free again. >> the fbi responded by putting bundy on its ten-most wanted list, pictures were circulated throughout the nation. >> ted did not have a plan when he escaped. he just wanted to get as far away from where he might be identified as he could. so he stole a car and went to florida. >> his new quarters are cramped. he is under 24 hng hour guard and he faces intense questioning. he is theodore bundy jailed in florida. >> bundy was living in tallahassee at the time when five florida state university coeds were attacked on or near the campus. two of the young women died adds a result of the attacks.

>> the police in pensacola, florida, stopped a man driving a stolen car and found to their surprise, and perhaps pleasure, it was bundy. >> step out, mr. bundy. what do we have here, ken? let's see, you owe us an indictment. >> why don't you read it to me. you're up for election, aren't you? >> mr. bundy -- >> you told they have you were going to get me. he said he was going to get me. you got the indictment. that's all you're going to get. >> bundy, having had some law training and a great deal of arrogance, decided to represent himself. for him he was the star in the courtroom. >> since i have been in dade county -- >> state your name. don't shake your finger at me, young man. >> inside the courtroom, the trial will be covered by one still photographer. there are technicians from around the country. >> bundy's personality is fascinating to a lot of people the. he doesn't fit the usual profile

of a criminal. when he defends himself in court, it's fascinating for people to watch. >> each day the courtroom is filled with spectators drawn by a fascination with thee door bundy himself or the gruesome details of the crimes. what many don't see is many of the women are women, young women. >> he doesn't look like the type to kill somebody. you try to imagine yourself in his place, to see how he's feeling. >> the bizarre expect cal really bummed out feminists, as you can imagine. i mean, he became a folk hero. there were t-shirts because he was handsome. but, on the other hand, his violence was so incredibly woman hating and his -- we wound up being pretty depressed. >> i have a broken arm and pressed finger. >> i have five skull fractures and multiple contusions in my

head. >> is that man in the courtroom today? >> yes, he is. >> would you pint him out for us, please? >> are you prepared for a guilty verdict? >> i think so, but you never know. i've never had to go through this. >> after 6 1/2 hours of deliberation, the jury had a verdict. 32-year-old theodore bundy remained composed as he listened. guilty of first degree murder in the strangling deaths of two florida state university sorority sisters 19 months ago. >> it is, therefore, the senten sentence of this course that you be sentenced to death by a current of electricity and such current of electricity shall continue to pass through your body until you are dead. >> in some ways, ted bundy is an icon of the '70s. he mixed kind of show biz and violence in a way that had never been done before. >> at the end of the '70s, we've

had a destruction of our innocence that we had at the beginning of the '70s. >> it became a year when americans began to expect the worst. >> america certainly had lost its way. criminals were lauded and killers were romanticized. >> it was the news media that helped carry this message that america is a dangerous place, america had a love affair with violence. actually it was much more like a marriage, and that marriage for some people was till death do them parliament. >> for a time social scientists describe the wave of violence that struck our cities as an epidemic. and they identify some of the causes. poverty, broken homes, for some violence has become a permanent part of the fabric of life. sociologists call it a subculture of violence. the current wave of violent crime is well into its second decade. while we have deplored violence, we have not done much about it. perhaps this is because

confronting the problem of violence forces us to confront the most serious defects of our society. it's probably the most culturally important event in america. it's one of a whole new generation of freaks. >> it's what guys seem to get off on, revenge. >> it's the sound, your soul, pleasure, you can bet your bottom we have them, baby. >> unless you've been living in a cave, you notice america's greatest craze is disco dancing. >> its purpose is to promote violence, sex and destruction in that order. >> you are rock and roll. pure stamina. ♪ ♪