Word: buckeyes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drama is based on the trial transcripts and various videotapes as well as extensive interviews, though with an aggressively prodefense point of view. The film begins with the initial allegations leveled against McMartin's pasty-faced grandson Ray Buckey (Henry Thomas) by a mother later diagnosed as schizophrenic. Judy Johnson, portrayed in the film by Roberta Bassin as a dazed freak, insists that Buckey sodomized her 2 1/2-year-old...
...biggest villains in the movie, however, are the media, especially local TV newscaster Wayne Satz, who early on reported the ghastliest accusations against the McMartins with sensationalistic relish. From talk-show hosts to newspaper reporters, the media avidly portrayed the McMartins as torturers. Even Ray Buckey's lawyer Danny Davis-played intriguingly by James Woods as part camera-ready opportunist, part righteous upholder of justice-presumed the McMartins guilty at first...
...story. With the exception of Glyn Milburn, an elusive back who runs like a scalded whippet, there is little team speed. After some thought, Walsh converted 250-lb. defensive end Nate Olsen, son of former N.F.L. star Merlin, into a blocking back, and sometimes uses 290-lb. tackle Jeff Buckey as if he were a tight end. "I never would have thought of that," says Stanford running-back coach Bill Ring, who played for Walsh in San Francisco and suspended a successful career as a banker with Wells Fargo to learn to coach at the knee of the master...
...case began in 1983 when the mother of one of the children wrote police a letter accusing Buckey of sexually molesting her 2 1/2-year-old son. Not long after, police set off a panic among parents by sending letters to 200 of them stating that authorities were investigating charges of sodomy at the preschool. After videotaped interviews were conducted with 400 children, investigators decided that 369 had been abused. Later, the mother whose claims had initiated the case complained to prosecutors that someone had sodomized her dog and that her estranged husband and an AWOL Marine were also abusing...
...case has caused many to take a second look at the methods for investigating allegations of child abuse. It spurred a national debate about appropriate methods for eliciting testimony from children. It has left many of the children and their parents bitter. And it put Ray Buckey in jail for five years without a conviction. "I don't think anybody won in the McMartin case," Buckey says now. But quite a few people lost...