MSNBC Special Edition 20:00 hour anchored by Soledad O:Brien

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Event Date(s): 07/15/1999 | Event Location(s): New York City, New York;Moon;Oklahoma City, Oklahoma;Chicago, Illinois; | Description: 20:02:08 MSNBC Special Edition anchored by Soledad O'Brien - Hate Crimes. 20:02:54 NBC News correspondent John Seigenthaler reports on hate crimes. Alleged white supremacist Benjamin Smith comments courtesy of NBC's "Today" show. Video of a teddy bear with flowers beside it. Inset still of Smith with two of his deceased shooting victims. Chicago, Illinois police department's William Hayes comments. Video of former Northwestern University basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong seated in a basketball auditorium during a game. Various videos of police investigators walking outdoors while examining a crime scene. Northwestern University's Shon Morris comments on the drive-by shooting. Video of a police officer speaking to a resident. Exterior shot of a synagogue where a drive-by shooting was committed. Clip of resident Kevin Wilk commenting on the drive-by shootings. Video of a vehicle surrounded with police tape. Inset stills of Smith. Close-up of a street where a drive-by shooting was committed. Stills of guns. Still of Byrdsong. Video of a sign near a Jewish synagogue. Video of flowers placed on a lawn where a drive-by shooting was committed with a picture of the victim. Video of police investigators walking outdoors while examining a crime scene. Still of Smith. Clip of a newsletter from the World Church of the Creator organization. World Church of the Creator founder Matt Hale comments. Video of Hale handing out pamphlets about his organization. Video of Hale walking across a towel with the Star of David on it. Hale comments. Video of a World Church of the Creator website. Video of an arm badge with a swastika on it. Video of people on the side of the road with signs displaying support for the White race. Video of a "RAHOWA" sticker on a desk. Simon Wiesenthal Center Mark Weitzman comments. Hale comments. Still of Smith. Video of Smith's boyhood home in Illinois. Video of the high school Smith attended. Vox pop from a man wishing to remain anonymous. Still of Smith with a latin phrase which appeared in his yearbook. Video of convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh. Video of the University of Illinois. Video of Indiana University. Still of Smith. Smith comments. Weitzman comments. Video of people taking part in a white supremacist parade. Still of former Aryan nation member Scott Britt (ph). Britt comments. Video of a cross burning. Still of college student Matthew Shepard who was beaten and left for dead because of his sexual orientation. Video of the fence where Shepard was tied to and left for dead. Video of alleged killers David and Brian Freeman (ph) in a courtroom. Stills of Freeman's parents and little brother who were killed. Video of the Freeman home. Vox pop from the Freeman's grandfather. Stills of the Freeman's with tattoos. Black and white video of civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King making his "I Have a Dream" speech. Black and white video of the Ku Klux Klan with burning crosses. Video of a hate group marching down a street. Video of hate group web pages. Weitzman comments. Southern Poverty Law Center Mark Potok comments. Video of a Whites Only sign. Video of a hate group marching down a street. Video of alleged killers in police custody. Video from 1995-04-19 of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Video of a funeral. Video of a body on the ground. Video of a damaged vehicle. Video of police at the scene of shootings. Video of alleged killers in police custody. Potok comments. Video of a yellow ribbon. Video of people attending the funeral for victim James Byrd who was killed after he was dragged behind a truck and dismembered. Byrd's daughter Renee Mullins comments. Video of three men in police custody. Still of Byrd. Video of people at the funeral for Byrd. Still of Byrd. Video of a wooded area. Video of three men in police custody for the murder of Byrd. Mullins comments. Potok comments. 20:14:56 NBC News correspondent Gulstan Dart reports on special effects in movies. Clips from "Lake Placid" courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox, "Deep Blue Sea" courtesy of Warner Brothers, "Inspector Gadget" courtesy of Walt Disney Productions, "Star Wars: Episode One: The Phantom Menace" courtesy of Lucasfilm Limited / Twentieth Century Fox, "The Matrix" courtesy of Village Roadshow Productions / Warner Brothers and "A Bugs Life" courtesy of Walt Disney Productions / Pixar Animation. Video of Digital Domain Chief Executive Officer Scott Ross. Video of movie posters on a wall. Ross comments. Clip from "Star Wars: Episode One: The Phantom Menace." Video of "Star Wars: Episode One: The Phantom Menace" being filmed. ILM Visual Effects artist Rob Coleman comments. Video of the "Star Wars" character "Jar Jar Binks." Split screen of actor Ahmed Best (ph) who portrays "Jar Jar Binks" and the character "Jar Jar Binks." Ross comments. Video of the crocodile used in the movie "Lake Placid." Video of someone using a computer for imaging. Ross comments. Clip from "The Matrix." Video of people in a graphic studio. Clip from "Toy Story" courtesy of "Walt Disney Productions / Pixar Animation. Video of "Star Wars: Episode One: The Phantom Menace" being filmed."Star Wars: Episode One: The Phantom Menace" producer Rick McCallum comments. Clip from "Star Wars: Episode One: The Phantom Menace." Clip from "The Matrix." Clip of "Star Wars: Episode One: The Phantom Menace." Clip from "Titanic" courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox / Lightstorm Entertainment Paramount Pictures. Clip from "There's Something About Mary" courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. Clip from "Jaws" courtesy of Universal Pictures. Video of director Steven Spielberg. Clip from "Deep Blue Sea." Clip from "Lake Placid". 20:26:09 Preview of the second half of "Special Edition." 20:30:58 NBC News correspondent Lea Thompson reports on fortune tellers. In New York City, New York various shots of signs for fortune tellers including palm readers and tarot card readers seen. Slow-motion of psychic closing door superimposed over psychic store front sign seen. Undercover footage of psychic telling unseen customer money is the root of all evil and has the strongest power of all seen as black and white footage of a wagon train and color footage of a tarot card reader's hands making a cross out of money are superimposed. Wagon train full screen and superimposed with tarot card and psychic's hands counting money near customer seen. Tarot card and superimposed "Tarot Card Reader" sign seen. At night lit exterior of house with sign "Psychic Card Crystal Readings," and neon psychic symbols seen as in voice over a psychic says she's going to speak nine languages like the Devil and evil. Thompson and another person are greeted at door by psychic for a reading. Hidden camera footage of the psychic saying (the person she's reading for) is like a roller coaster, and the psychic talking to Thompson seen. Close up of "Psychic Card Crystal Readings" neon sign becomes blurry out of focus. At night lit and cardboard signs for psychic readings seen. Panning shot of tarot cards with superimposed neon psychic sign seen. At night police car sounding siren moving down street, New York city skyline including Twin Towers, police cars outside a police station, person walking down sidewalk past a psychic reading store, and car driving past a psychic reader store seen. At night psychic reading sign, the Moon, psychic reading sign panning to person walking past, neon "ESP Tarot Cards" sign, fast and then slow moving point of view shot of people on sidewalk and street, close up of policeman's hat, and various psychic signs seen. Insert mug shots of arrested alleged psychics who ripped off their clients for money including "Mrs. Grace" (real name is Patricia Miller (ph)) seen. Smoke blows past apartment building. Commander of the NYPD Special Fraud Unit, Lt. Robert Growth (ph) works at desk in his office. In interview Growth says (part voice over) each victim has a tale of woe and how they were ripped off from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Panning shot of hundred dollar bills and superimposed "Palm & Tarot" neon sign seen. Panning shot of hundred dollar bills with graphic crystal ball over them seen. Grainy mug shot of Mrs. Grace and super (how much she pled guilty to ripping off her clients) "233,000.00" seen. Close up of newspaper article headline about Mrs. Grace now charged with bilking another client out of 500 thousand dollars, and another article "Fortune Teller's Future Hazy After 500G Scam: Cops" (can't read entire headline) seen. Growth says this one fortune teller gained 750 thousand dollars from two clients, and says the fortune teller has been around for a while. Thompson reports on-camera from the Upper West Side in New York City. 1995 hidden camera footage of Mrs. Grace greeting customer seen. In silhouetted interview client of Mrs. Grace's, "Anna" (ph), says she thought she'd go in for a quick read. Neon signs including palms (for palm reading) seen. The silhouetted Anna says Mrs. Grace told her there was a curse against her and she (Mrs. Grace) could help her. Black and white grainy undercover footage of Mrs. Grace giving a reading seen. The silhouetted Anna says Mrs. Grace told her to rub an egg over her body at night before bed and wrap in it a white cloth, pin money on her and carry it with her, and bring the egg with her for the next day's visit, says she was amazed when Mrs. Grace had her break the egg open and there was a crystallized blood clot in it, says she gave Mrs. Grace 5200-dollars, and adds she watched Mrs. Grace tear up the money. Extreme close up of silhouetted Anna during interview seen. Close up of silhouetted Anna in interview and split screen of egg wrapped in white cloth and money being placed in a cross shape seen. 20:38:10 Thompson continues report on fortune tellers. Undercover footage of Associate Producer Jamie Paksima entering Mrs. Grace's apartment building and apartment, and super during reading "Mrs. Grace: At this point you are still carrying something inside of your body. I was working for you very strong to draw this negativity from your body" seen. Fifty dollar bills are placed in a cross pattern. Hidden camera footage of Paksima's visit with Mrs. Grace and supers "Did you manage to put the holy cross (of the fifty dollar bills) upon yourself? O.K. Then set it down here, because I have to bless it for you with the holy water. But if there's a sign in this egg, any kind of sign, that this egg appears that it's not normal, that means that I have drawn your curse, your bad luck, your sickness, your pain, your grief, your sorrow from your body" seen. Mrs. Grace rubs egg over Paksima (Paksima not seen) and says (supered) "Mrs. Grace: Now excuse me that I got to do this. You say, God." Excuse me that I got to touch you. You say, "Clean me." Open your jacket."Clean my body. For me to be strong. In the name of the Holy Spirit. You say, Break it." Paksima voice over repeats what Mrs. Grace wants her to repeat. Mrs. Grace breaks open the egg (with bloody mass inside) seen. Slow panning shot of people outside building and cars seen. Gloved hands open egg with bloody mass inside and super "$500,000" seen. New York City skyline seen from grounds of Riker's Island near barbed wire fence. Close ups of the barbed wire seen. Mrs. Grace's attorney Mel Sacks (ph) walks outdoors with Thompson. In indoor interview and voice over Sacks says Mrs. Grace is a spiritual adviser, says Mrs. Grace is there to perform a service, and says Mrs. Grace never told him she appeared on Dateline before. Sacks watches Grace in undercover footage during a reading from Dateline. Sacks says the session appears to be used for the purpose of making a person feel a certain way, says it's an allusion, agrees with Thompson that an allusion is a trick, and adds he doesn't know the purpose of it. In silhouetted interview former fortune teller who instructs police on how scams work, "Zelda," says clients walk in blindly.; Zelda rubs object on Associate Producer Maria Bland's forehead and opens the object to show what appears to be a bloody mass inside. Zelda wraps an egg in white linen. Zelda demonstrates the egg trick (used by Mrs. Grace) on Bland and opens egg to show a reddish mass inside. Close up of the reddish mass inside seen. Slow-motion of Zelda doing the egg trick showing Zelda pushing the reddish object under the egg so it appears to be in the egg when the egg is opened seen. Zelda says it's brown bread used to scare people out of their money. Zelda wraps the bread in human hair and says it looks evil. At night lit neon signs including "Tarot" becoming blurry and out of focus seen. Hands shuffle tarot cards. Tarot cards are overturned. Hidden camera footage of client watching psychic's (face not seen) hands counting money seen. Anna says she didn't pay Mrs. Grace until the end when Mrs. Grace tore it up into little pieces, adding she thinks Mrs. Grace really got that money. Zelda demonstrates the money ripping trick on Bland (money to be destroyed is placed in a white handkerchief and a second packet of money, with paper in-between money on both sides) is exchanged for the client's handkerchief of money). Slow-motion of money falling seen as in voice over Mrs. Grace says "...money is the root of all evil." Neon sign of palm of hand seen. Zelda seen in silhouetted interview. At night slow panning shot of lit building exterior seen. Zelda says people should be wary of returning to a psychic a second time if they're instructed to bring items such as handkerchiefs, eggs, and tomatoes, adding that's starting to set up for a scam. At night lit palm reading and tarot card reading sign pans up to show silhouetted skyscrapers and stars in sky as in insert footage Mrs. Grace saying she has the power to help and she charges 210-dollars, and insert neon palm of hand seen. 20:50:25 NBC News correspondent Laurie Dhue reports on magazine publisher Martha Stewart. Video of a flower arrangement. Clip of Stewart explaining how to use a hot glue gun. Clip from NBC's "Today" show with Katie Couric speaking with Stewart. Video of Stewart holding a basket of flowers. Video of Stewart designing a cake. Video of Stewart walking past Christmas trees. Clip from "Holiday Entertaining" with Martha Stewart. Split screen videos of Stewart performing on her various television shows. Still of Stewart's magazine "Martha Stewart Living." Video of Stewart preparing food. Video of a table of food. Clip of www.msnbc.com's Jeannette Walls commenting on Stewart. Video of Stewart being photographed. Video of Stewart signing autographs. Black and white still of Stewart. Still of Stewart eating with chop sticks. Video of Stewart handling a piece of meat. Video of Stewart spooning food while standing next to a man. Still of Stewart's book "Entertaining." Video of people holding Stewart's book. Video of Stewart speaking on the telephone. Video of Stewart walking through a garden. Still of the exterior of one of Stewart's homes. Clip of Stewart commenting on her lavish lifestyle. Video of Stewart trimming a small tree. Video of Stewart seen trimming a small tree through a window. Still of Stewart standing in a kitchen. Clip of Walls commenting on how difficult it is to work with Stewart. Clip of Stewart commenting on her reputation. Video of Stewart cooking on a beach. Video of Stewart seen eating with others through a window. Video of Stewart eating with others. Clip of Walls commenting on the end of Stewart's marriage. Clip of Stewart commenting on not having a husband. Clip of Stewart explaining how she freezes pesto. Stills of Stewart. Clip of a "Kmart" television commercial featuring Stewart. Video of Stewart feeding chickens. Video of eggs. Clip of Stewart commenting on her household chores. Video of Stewart digging in her garden. Clip of Walls commenting on Stewart's appeal. Video of Stewart arranging flowers.