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''Confession'' is an ABC crime/police documentary which aired from June 19, 1958, to January 13, 1959, with interviewer Jack Wyatt questioning criminals from assorted backgrounds.〔Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'' (New York: Penguin Books, 1996), p. 178〕 The program was carried by videotape from WFAA-TV, the network affiliate in Dallas, Texas. ==Episode about the transvestite== Criminals contacted included prostitutes, drug abusers, sex offenders, and murderers. A 22-year-old transvestite named Darrell Wayne Kahler was interviewed late in 1957, when the program was local in scope, ran late on Sunday evenings on WFAA, and had not yet joined the ABC schedule. According to a news article in ''Time'' magazine, on December 30, 1957, Kahler was supplied to ''Confession'' by the police, who had arrested him as a drunken woman being molested by three men. The officers did not discover his sex until he reached the station house. The police permitted Kahler to get into a cocktail dress for a filmed re-enactment of his arrest. Wyatt used the film and then placed the camera on Kahler in a jail uniform behind bars. In a contralto voice, Kahler said that he earned his living as a nightclub B girl. Kahler said that he had never known his father and that his mother had "a lot of marriages." He said that schoolmates had long taunted him and that he was a chain smoker who used large quantities of alcohol in despair. The program was shocking by the television standards of the 1950s.〔 Methodist minister Walter Underwood joined the program to say that his denomination does not condemn transvestites but offers "its sympathy, its help, its counsel." A psychiatrist, John C. Montgomery, said that Kahler's conditions "can be helped if it can be gotten to soon enough. He's been trying to be like his mother all his life. Physically, organically, there's no reason in the world why this should be. He has all the attributes of the male—except for the fact that he doesn't want to be." Montgomery said that the "problem can be laid at the parents' doorstep."〔 As Kahler returned to jail on a vagrancy conviction, calls flooded the WFAA switchboard. One caller declared the transvestite episode a "disgrace," but 80 percent of the callers favored keeping ''Confession'' on the air.〔 The case became public enough to make ABC pick the program nationally late in the spring of 1958. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Confession (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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