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Crime Story

Regular viewers of "Crime Story," a panel discussion type television show presented in the Los Angeles area late Sunday nights at 11:00 by station KTLA, channel 5, may have been gratified, if surprised, by the unexpectedly friendly attitudes toward homosexuality expressed on the program July 20th. The show focuses attention upon such questions as narcotics, law enforcement, prisons and prison reform, international crime, and sex crime, and perversion under which latter headings they classify homosexuality.

Past programs have been decidedly anti-homosexual whenever

that has been the subject of discussion, but always, fortunately, rather ineffective productions due, perhaps, to an amateur high school de-

bate quality about them, and to the fact that the panel of "experts," as they are known, is often desperately recruited from among members of the program's own staff.

But the July 20th program in the absence of its regular moderator Sandy Howard, presented a most reasonable picture of the homosexual. The members of the qualified panel made effective, intelligent observations, and many positive and constructive points. The whole show was guided carefully by the guest moderator. Credit for the success of the program must go to Herbert Selwyn, attorney for the Los Angeles Chapter of the Mattachine Society who was a member of the panel.

"Part III-Sex Crimes: One of the Nation's Problems"

The Panel: Dr. Isidore Ziferstein, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst-worked at lowa State Penitentiary for four years. Attorney, Herbert Selwyn, Los Angeles, California. Dr. Wm. Graves, Psychiatrist-an assistant at San Quentin; member of Friends' Subcommittee for legislation (on the California Penal Code). Mr. Fred Otash, Private Detective-former Los Angeles Policeman, one-time investigator for "Confidential Magazine," and "An authority on all types of crime," according to Bill Bradley the moderator.

Bill Bradley began by asking the panel to define "sex crime."

Dr. Ziferstein said that a sex crime is a sexual act that does harm to another individual. He did not consider a sex act between consenting adults that causes no harm a sex crime.

Mr. Otash began by explaining Sec. 288A of California's Penal Code. This, he said, involved "sex perversion" and more precisely, copulation by mouth. It was Mr. Otash's "opinion" that this particular sex crime was the most prevalent in the nation. In most cases the police have to deal with, where the

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