Posted on 08/03/2010 6:50:57 AM PDT by KeyLargo
I watched William Shatner's new TV show on the BIO channel last night. Bernhard Goetz was his guest on the show. For those freepers not old enough to remember, Bernie Goetz was praised as a hero back in 1984 for shooting four thugs threatening him on a New York subway car.
AFTERMATH with William Shatner
"William Shatner takes an in-depth look at what happens when people are tragically or infamously transformed from unknown citizens into household names overnight, taking viewers back to ... the dramatic events that dominated the American news cycle as he gains exclusive access to the newsmakers at the heart of each story - heroes, villains, perpetrators, victims, family members and law enforcement officials - to dig deep and separate the fact from the fiction. In each one-hour episode, new and often surprising information emerges, not only about the events themselves but about how people's lives have changed in the years since"
Aftermath
“01 - Bernhard Goetz” Tuesday, August 03 @ 11 pm ET
Rated: TVPG Running Time: 60 Minutes Genre: Closed Captions: Yes
Upcoming Showings: Tuesday, August 03 @ 11 pm ET
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William Shatner sits down with Bernhard Goetz, known to many as the Subway Vigilante. After years of silence on the subject, Goetz now talks openly of the day in 1984 when he shot four African American teenagers on the New York City subway -- but with a bizarre emphasis on the mechanics of how he was able to fire off five shots at four people in such a short burst of time. Hero or criminal? Victim or perpetrator? Goetz wonders whether he would have lived a normal life of marriage and family if fate and notoriety hadn't intervened.
“But I will also say that he has “weirdo” and “loner” written all over him, and I very much doubt that he would have ever gotten married and had children no matter what.”
According to Goetz he told Shatner that he was in fact married but it was only for the “fun and sex” and they divorced.
Anyway, I always looked at Goetz as a wierdo too.
The funny part of the show at the end Shatner had a clip of Goetz playing with his pet squirrel, that he takes out to the park to eat nuts.
Why would I have thought any different of him!
LOL
Goetz Squirrel VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjF5ccIrP8Q
This is a very solid idea for a TV show, because there are an endless number of “15 minutes of fame-ers” to interview. The show could be serious, or it could be punctuated with American silliness and excess.
For example, Jessica McClure “baby Jessica”, who was trapped in a well in Texas, and became international news. Next year, she is due to receive a trust fund payout of $1m. Yet the two men most responsible for saving her? One suffered from PTSD and committed suicide. And the other was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, sexual assault, and improper storage of explosives.
Brian “Kato” Kaelin? Houseboy of the Simpsons.
Jessica Hahn, Monica Lewinsky or Linda Tripp or Paula Jones or Gennifer Flowers, Elizabeth Smart, Captain Chesley Sullenberger (pilot), Lorena Bobbitt, Mike Melvill (private astronaut), etc., etc.
Denny Crane!
Can't we all just get along?
Hey, I just got a great deal on a hotel from Priceline.
bfl
If I remember correctly, Jessica Hahn is working with a ministry of some sort, and SHE WAS HOT...
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