Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
Lawmakers 2/23/1984 - Missing Children
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
Paul Duke introduces report on Congress taking up issue of missing children.
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
DO NOT USE Clip of NBC TV "ADAM".
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
DO NOT USE Still of ADAM WALSH in little league uniform
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
John Walsh, host of "America's Most Wanted", and Reve Walsh testifying to a Senate Committee in 1981. Senator Paula Hawkins (R - Florida)
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
Washington DC looking down street with Capitol dome in the distance.
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
October 12, 1982 President Ronald Reagan giving press conference outside White House, The Missing Children Act will reassure parents that every effort is being made to find, or in more tragic circumstances, to identify their children. Reagan signing document. John Walsh, host of "America's Most Wanted", in the audience for the sigining.
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
Linda Otto, producer of the television program "ADAM", It s fine that the Missing Children Act passed which allows local law enforcement to use the system but it doesn t mandate them to use the system. And so, you know what, they don t use it.
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
Senator Arlen Specter (R - Pennsylvania) in Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on missing children, There is no more heart-rendering event anywhere than to have a child missing. And there needs to be a concerted national effort to aid parents and law enforcement officials who are faced with this very difficult and terrible situation.
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on missing children. Pearla Kinsey Peterson, a mother testifying about her daughter's disappearance from the State Fair. It was approximately 2:30. I noticed a police car on the grounds. So I approached the policeman, I told him my problem. I told him we had walked the grounds 4 to 5 times and we were tired and we were scared and what could we do. His response to me was, Lady, the only thing I know for you to do is walk them one more time.
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
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Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on missing children. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on missing children. Pearla Kinsey Peterson, a mother testifying about her daughter's disappearance from the State Fair. Sometimes it would take them (the FBI) as much as 6 days, or as long as 6 days, to check out a sighting on Charlotte and send it because of the paperwork involved. That it would sometimes take that long to get it processed.
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on missing children. A tote board with photos of missing children.
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on missing children. Linda Otto, producer of the television program "ADAM . Senators watch the end trailer of "ADAM", which had pictures of 55 missing children and a hotline number. Linda Otto on the missing children hotline, What we had to take the telephone calls for those 50 million people were 10 people. How many hundreds or thousands of calls did we miss? How many other children could have been found if only we had had more telephones?
Lawmakers Feb 23 1984 Missing Children
Senator Arlen Specter (R - Pennsylvania) on missing children issue, There are so many issues which are confronting us on the deficit and unemployment, the defense budget, and nuclear arms reduction. But once we attract the attention of the Senate, as we have on about a third of the Senators that are co-sponsors of the bill, then I think we ll get the action.