The Outer Limits (TV Series)

A Special Edition (1997)

Alan Thicke: Donald Rivers

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• Donald Rivers : When our chosen leaders turn against us, where do we turn? To the police? To the lawyers? Or to a gun under the pillow?

• Donald Rivers : How many times have our elected officials deceived us? Used us? - Alabama, 1932. The US government denies penicillin to black men infected with syphilis so that researchers can observe the disease run its course. The Tuskegee Experiment continues for the next 40 years as scientists watch their subjects' bones, hearts, and nerve tissue slowly disintegrate and do nothing to stop it. - 1946. As part of the Manhattan Project, the government secretly injects 12 patients in Rochester, N.Y., with uranium and plutonium to test the effects of radiation exposure on human beings. 50 years later the Department of Energy releases files that detail similar experiments on nearly 20,000 people, including prisoners, mentally disabled children, and pregnant women. - 1953. The CIA initiates MKULTRA, a series of experiments in advanced mind control techniques, including electroshock 'therapy' and psychoactive drugs, on a variety on often unsuspecting subjects. The project is spread out over a vast network of govermental and private institutions and continues in secret for nearly 20 years. - Time and again our government has openly confirmed our worst, most paranoid fears. And if that's what they are willing to admit, then what have they chosen to conceal?