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"The Children's Story"

"Faith Based Initiative"

"The Wave"

General Interest

The Wave
July 9, 1991

An ABC Afterschool Special, this program was designed to explain to kids how the Nazi party came to power in Germany.   It answers the question of how bright, intelligent people get involved in a group that uses mind control. 


The Children's Story

A classic story from James Clavell written in 1963 tells a chilling tale of a what could happen when a totalitarian system takes over.   


The Power of Belief
September 6, 1998

An ABC news special looking behind various supernatural beliefs with James Randi as the skeptical guide.


Mission Mind Control
1979

An ABC News Special about the human mind and experiments in mind control.


In the Name of God
1984

The Hare Krishna's and the Moonies are featured in this look at cults.


Kids, Cults and You
1984

An Eyewitness News documentary.


The Freeman Report "Cults or Religions"
May 24, 1983

"There are more members in cults today than at the time of Jonestown."  Steve Hassan is one of the guests on this show about determining when a group is a cult.


Beyond the News - Fox News
May 27, 2000

Why do people join destructive groups?  Steve Hassan argues that people don't join cults...they get recruited.


The Screen Savers
April 24, 2001, 2000

Dave Touretzky talks about Scientology's war against the internet as well as other web topics.


Moon Organization / Unification Church

P.M. Magazine
1981

Author Steve Kemperman talks about his "Escape from the Moonies."


Greater Boston
December 1, 1997

Steve Hassan appears on this show about the Moonies.

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Rev. Moon Buys Property in Brazil
December 10, 1999

Moon buys an enormous amount of land in Brazil.  This Fox News piece features Steve Hassan.

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NBC News "Moon Focuses on TV"
August 1990

Moon plans a cable TV network.

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The Today Show - "Catherine's Story"
November 1993

The Today Show does a piece on one family attempting to contact their daughter who had been recruited into the Moon Organization.  With camera crews in tow, they locate the house where Catherine is staying and try to make contact.

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A few months after that broadcast, Catherine left the Moonies and returned to her family.  She then appeared on the Today Show to discuss the experience.

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Steve Hassan Gives His Book to Travolta
April 26, 2000

While being interviewed about his new book, "Releasing the Bonds", Steve Hassan encounters John Travolta and hands him a copy of the book though Travolta's limo window.

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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Fear is the Master 
1987

Fascinating (if sometimes over-wrought) program about the Bhagwan and how he took over a small Oregonian city.


The Brethren / Garbage Eaters

Prime Time Live
August 1998

As a family searches for their son, lost in "The Brethren," the news crew stumbles upon the cult's leader, Jim Roberts.

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The Kabbalah Learning Center

News Report

A look at the latest Hollywood fad, Rabbi Berg's Kabbalah Learning Center.

Brother Julius

Who is Brother Julius?

New England Cable News Network report on a cult leader who died in 1996.


Rama

A Current Affair

This "channeler" makes his fortune from computer programmers.


Investigative Report

KCBS in Los Angeles did this two part series on the news.


Potter's House/Victory Chapel

Blind Faith

A three part series from a Massachusetts News Show.


Heaven's Gate

Dateline NBC 
April 1, 1997

A week after the suicide of the Heaven's Gate cult, Dateline aired this piece.


Waco

Harvard Lecture
February 27, 1994

Steve Hassan speaks at Harvard.


The Group
March 29, 1993

Two panel shows discussing the Waco Stand-off.


Da Free John / Adi Da

The Today Show

 from the Today Show detail the sexual and psychological abuses the members of this cult faced while trapped on an isolated tropical island.


Aum Shinrikyo

60 Minutes

This segment from a 60 Minutes report features Steve Hassan's comments on mind control.


Church Universal and Triumphant

Oprah Winfrey Show

Two daughters of the cult's leader appear.  One daughter has left the group, the other remained in.


Satanism

20/20

A report on Devil Worshipping in America.


The Eternal Flame

20/20

A preacher in a retirement community says you don't have to die.


The Love Family

The Home Show

Steve Allen and his son appear to discuss the son's involvement in this cult.


The Way

Investigative Report

An Eyewitness News series about The Way and the Moonies.


Maranatha Campus Ministries

Bob Tedford Interview

Bob Tedford sat down to tell the story of his involvement with this evangelical group very popular on college campuses in the 70's and 80's.


Suicide Cults

Nightline
October 5, 1994

Over 50 people on two continents committed suicide, following cult leader Luc Jouret of the Order of the Solar Temple.


Geraldo Live "They Were Happy"
March 20, 2000

Mass suicide in a Ugandan Christian cult.


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