Coma Mom

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
A women goes into the hospital to have her 4th child, something happens during the birth and she goes into a coma. After being in the coma for 16 years, the mother wakes up after being given a flu shot. She sees her now grown-up children, and meets her youngest child for the first time.
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The Woman Whose DNA Did Not Match Her Children
Lydia Fairchild was pregnant with her third child, when she and the father of her children, Jamie Townsend, separated. When Lydia applied for welfare in 2002, she was asked to provide DNA evidence that Jamie was the father of her children. While the results showed Jamie was the father of the children, the DNA tests showed that she was not their mother. Lydia ended up being taken to court for fraud for claiming benefit for other people's children. Hospital records of her prior births were ignored. Prosecutors called for her two children to be taken into care. When it came for her to give birth to her third child, the judge ordered a witness be present at the birth. This witness was to ensure that blood samples were immediately taken from both the child and Lydia. Two weeks later, DNA tests showed that she was not the mother of that child either.
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Alcor Life Extension Foundation
Remember the notion that you could freeze a loved one when they died, so that they could be resuscitated in the future, when a cure for their disease has been found? Welcome to Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the real LIFE, cryogenics freezing facility in Scottsdale, Arizona, that started this industry in 1972.
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Fat Woman Traps Tourists in Cave
The Cango caves of South Africa's Western Cape is a popular attraction, especially a small cave known as the 'Tunnel of Love'. On New Year's Day 2007, twenty-three people were trapped for nearly twelve hours when a 350 lb woman got stuck in the entrance. Rescuers had to grease the walls of the caves and use a winch and pulley to pull her out and free the others.
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17 Year-Old Kickboxer
17 year old kick boxer, Pamela, is in the ring sparring with her opponent, when repeated blows to the abdomen causing her stomach cramps. After further examination ring side by the team doctor, it is discovered that she is 30 weeks along in pregnancy.
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Gale St. John: The Psychic Who Solved a Murder
In Tempe, Arizona in 1992 a young woman, Stacey Hendrickson, was reported missing and her apartment door was found kicked in. A neighbor across the hall looked through his peephole when he heard commotion and saw a man in front of her apartment, banging and kicking on her door, but the neighbor didn't call the police. For the next few days, the police search for Stacey, but she is nowhere to be found. Stacy's Father, Raleigh Hendrickson, who lives in Toledo, Ohio, joins up with local psychic, Gale St. John. Her visions lead police to their primary suspect, John Barry Adams, who later admits that he was trying to commit suicide but Stacey got shot accidentally. Gale St. John's psychic gifts lead police to the body and the murder weapon, but the discovery of the weapon leads police to suspect Adams' story and forensic evidence paints a very different picture of the events leading to Stacey's Death.
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John Wayne Gacy
The hunt is on for John Wayne Gacy, as a number of murders in the Chicago area bring in police and detectives to solve the crimes. As the clues pour in, more and more background information on John Wayne Gacy's life is revealed, leading to both a shocking and surprising ending.
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Conspiracy in Dallas: The JFK Assassination
November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas was a fateful day, when an assassin's bullet killed President John F. Kennedy. However, many questions whether suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was acting alone remain in the minds of the American Public. This episode deals with the tragic events of that fateful Friday Nov 22nd, the police investigation, the Warren Commission, and the conspiracy theories that persist to this day.
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Enduring Democracy: The Monterey Petition

Enduring Democracy: The Monterey Petition

Led by John Steinbeck's editor, a group of women activists protest Japanese American incarceration and resist racism in WWII California. Recently in a dusty filing cabinet in Monterey, California a local historian made the amazing discovery of a 16mm film from 1938 showing the local Japanese American Community having fun at the wharf and playing baseball. Along with this remarkable never-before-seen film of a community about to be destroyed was a trove of signed petitions demanding the restoration of civil rights to those same Americans. As historian Tim Thomas dug deeper into the origins of both the film and the petition drive he discovered a story that stands as a lesson for all Americans interested in preserving our democracy. At a time when the fear of WWII gripped our nation, kitchen table conversations led to a door-to-door petition drive motivating citizens of the Monterey peninsula to resist economically motivated racism and welcome back fellow citizens held in concentration camps for 3+ years solely due to their Japanese ancestry. Toni Jackson-who worked as an editor for John Steinbeck and was Ed Ricketts' common-law wife-wrote the petition, A Democratic Way of Life for All, in 1945. It stands as the only organized public resistance to the well-funded hate campaign waged against Japanese-Americans as they began the painful return home to suspicious communities. "Enduring Democracy: the Monterey Petitions" explores the motivations of the wealthy individuals who financed hate campaigns as well as the daring women who spearheaded the carefully thought out response. A twitter war before mobile phones, the battle was fought in the editorial pages of several local newspapers as racists emboldened by Anti-Japanese war propaganda posted full page ads to discourage Japanese Americans from returning to their homes and businesses. Inspired by Mollie Sumida's letter to the editor written while imprisoned in camp and impervious to threats of violence, residents banded together to get their community to sign Toni Jackson's petition pledging "The Democratic Way of Life for All." The petition drive and subsequent posting in The Monterey Herald effectively put a stop to the public efforts of several well funded fear campaigns against California Japanese American Citizens.

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