it was born in many ways in the mind of one individual who had a vision, general william donovan, wild bill thomas and was appointed the chief is something called the oss at that time can the coi information. this is the time when american intelligence was stovepipes. nothing went to the president. the state department had some activities for intelligence gathering, but the coordinator of information was to sort of collate that and put it into one package for the president. didn't completely work that way, but the oss was dynamic and pioneering amazon renaissance man and that is what the book is about taking some extraordinary things overnight. they had to build the first navy seals. the entire washington area was turned into a specialized training ground. for instance, congressional club, the fairways they are, explosives, combat, knife fighting et cetera was conduct that they are by the oss special operations groups. this group was called the maritime unit, but they didn't have a spy base at the time, said they had to make it overnight. what is quite interesting and a place called ar

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donovan. >>> still ahead on "eyewitness news" it appears robin williams suffered from more than just parkinson'snow insider's louie agear says what triggered his hallucinations and may have ultimately led to his suicide, next. >>> we letter about two entertainment icons joan rivers and robert williams. >> louie agear joi us from los angeles with more. >> chris and jessica, are uncovering circumstances surrounding their deaths and in the case of joan, those fine goes caused melissa rivers to feel disappointed about medical care their mother received. >> just the the words multiple, avoidable failures, they think about melissa. more heart break for her daughter. >> epic breach of protocol which could have attributed to the late icon of comedy according to a federal report matt mad on's evenscopy failed to dot following. provide timely invention shall get consent for each procedure performed, record her weight prior to sedation, and failed to correctly document the the dose of the anesthesia propofol, the same medications that caused michael jackson's death. >> well, suicide is a permanent solution

the convention argument that william julius wilson made, that it was the lack of economic opportunity that led to crime and other problems of the inner city, i think mr. donovan has started to rebut that. and i would add that what we saw in the great depression was an economic catastrophe that fortunately we still have not repeated to that full extent. but horrible joblessness, worklessness, poverty. and crime was very low. whereas in the 1960s, you had a very robust economy, and crime started going through the roof. so crime really is a cultural issue. it's about the rule of law, whether people have been given the values to respect the rule of law, whether they have the family orientation of that self-control and deferred gratification and the family structure that will say, no, you do not steal just because you want something. so i -- you know, we're all agreeing very heavily on this panel. but i still think the message is not out there enough that family structure is the most important thing. and america is suffering from it more than other european countries. and i think that unless we can figure out a way to rebuild the family at all income structures, w