Firing Line
Psychiatry and the Law
S18 • E43 Dec 1, 1983 60m
In 1970 the wife and daughters of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald--a Green Beret stationed at Fort Bragg--were killed. The chain of evidence eventually led to MacDonald himself, and despite testimony at the pre-trial hearings by Drs. Sadoff and Halleck to the effect that it was all but inconceivable that he was the murderer, he was tried and convicted.