Investigates, Discovers, Questions
This week: I Call it Murder
The garbage dump of Middle
America '- that's what they call
Chicago's ghetto. It's a vivid and desperate place where the murder rate is far higher than Northern
Ireland's, where half the population is on drugs or alcohol, where the most common fatal complication of pregnancy is gunshot wounds - and where the only free hospital is facing closure. Cuts have already shut down three of America's surviving free hospitals, more are under pressure, now it's the turn of Cook County -
'County' as everyone calls it.
In this filmed report, Jack Pizzey and a Man Alive film team go to the threatened lifeline of tne ghetto and meet the people who are fighting to keep it open, the patients who have already been rejected by other hospitals because of the darkness of the r skins or the thinness of their wallets, and the doctor who says ' I call it murder
Film editor DICK PULL
Film recordist GEOFF TOOKEY Film cameraman GODFREY JOHNSON
Producer PAUL HAMANN Editor TIM SLESSOR