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In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| Lie Detector | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Ralph Andrews |
| Developed by | Mark Philips |
| Directed by | Rick Davis |
| Starring | Rolonda Watts Ed Gelb |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Mark Philips [1] |
| Production companies | Mark Phillips Philms & Telephision |
| Original release | |
| Network | Pax TV |
| Release | March 8 – June 28, 2005 |
Lie Detector is a television series broadcast in 2005 on Pax TV.[2] Hosted by Rolonda Watts with assistance from polygraph administrator Dr. Ed Gelb, the show claims to "[examine] the truth behind real-life stories ripped from the headlines."[3] It premiered on March 8, 2005 and ended after one season. Other versions under the same title have aired under various arrangements in the past, as described further below.
Its first episode featured a polygraph examination of Paula Jones, a woman who had accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.[4]
Two earlier versions of the shows were hosted by Ralph Andrews in 1961 on KHJ-TV and later on KTTV, and produced by Andrews-Spears Productions[5][6] and then hosted by F. Lee Bailey in syndication in 1983, produced by Ralph Andrews Productions, Columbia Pictures Television and Sandy Frank Film Syndication,[7] also involving Gelb,[8] which included appearances by Caril Ann Fugate,[9] Melvin Dummar and Ronald Reagan's barber.[10]
| Series # |
Guests | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paula Jones with Clinton allegations; a man who possibly profited from a donated kidney | March 8, 2005 |
| 2 | Enoch Lonnie Ford with allegations of having a homosexual affair with televangelist Paul Crouch; a man accused of killing three men; and a woman possibly suffering from Munchausen syndrome | March 15, 2005 |
| 3 | A man who believes that government records support the existence of UFOs; a woman who allegedly pushed an elderly patient; a woman accused of robbing a woman at gunpoint | April 19, 2005 |
| 4 | Man accused of pushing wife; two hunters | April 26, 2005 |
| 5 | Former doctor who wants medical license back; a woman with a money laundering scam; Matthew Lesko, who writes books on how to get free money from the government | May 3, 2005 |
| 6 | Man with prescription marijuana; woman accused of stealing; woman who claims that baseball's Gary Sheffield is the father of her daughter | May 10, 2005 |
| 7 | Employee wants to prove that her pay was legitimate; a man who wants to prove he did not murder his girlfriend; a man who claims he was in a gorilla suit in 1967 Bigfoot short film | May 17, 2005 |
| 8 | A man who argues Congress could have prevented the 9/11 attacks; man claims mistaken identity; woman wants to know if 10 year girlfriend ever will marry her | May 24, 2005 |
| 9 | Jeff Gannon defends White House briefings; man wants to prove to girlfriend he no longer smokes pot; man threatened by police operative | May 31, 2005 |
| 10 | Man wrongfully sentenced for having crack; owner of Mickey Mantle's Deli; college roommate of Wal-Mart heiress Elizabeth Paige Laurie tries to show that she was paid to write her school papers | June 7, 2005 |
| 11 | Ben Rowling wants to show that he is the real-life inspiration for the famous character from Harry Potter; a woman who wants to show that her lover confessed to murdering his ex-wife; woman wants to prove she was not involved in a kidnapping | June 14, 2005 |
| 12 | David Lander wants to prove that his reputation as a drunk is unfounded; school teacher claims she never threatened to kill principal; man who wants to prove he was falsely convicted of cocaine possession. | June 21, 2005 |
| 13 | A woman who claims to have had contact with extraterrestrials; a woman who wants to prove that former Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez is the father of her daughter. | June 28, 2005 |
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Lie Detector is a television series broadcast in 2005 on Pax TV. Hosted by Rolonda Watts with assistance from polygraph administrator Dr. Ed Gelb, the show claims to "[examine] the truth behind real-life stories ripped from the headlines." It premiered on March 8, 2005 and ended after one season. Other versions under the same title have aired under various arrangements in the past, as described further below. Its first episode featured a polygraph examination of Paula Jones, a woman who had accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. Two earlier versions of the shows were hosted by Ralph Andrews in 1961 on KHJ-TV and later on KTTV, and produced by Andrews-Spears Productions and then hosted by F. Lee Bailey in syndication in 1983, produced by Ralph Andrews Productions, Columbia Pictures Television and Sandy Frank Film Syndication, also involving Gelb, which included appearances by Caril Ann Fugate, Melvin Dummar and Ronald Reagan's barber.
Lie detector is the popular term for a polygraph, a device that measures and records physiological indices, under the belief that these are useful for lie detection. Lie Detector may also refer to: Silent Talker Lie Detector, an alternative to the polygraph, invented between 2000 and 2002 Lie Detector (TV series), a 2005 show on PAX TV Lie Detectors, an American game show "Lie Detector" (song), a song by Reverend Horton Heat "Lie Detector", a song by the Dead Kennedys from Bedtime for Democracy "Lie Detector", a song by Sleeper from The It Girl (album) Lie Detector, a 1960 board game originally published by Mattel
The Silent Talker Lie Detector is an attempt to increase the accuracy of the most common lie detector, the polygraph, which does not directly measure whether the subject is truthful, but records physiological measures that are associated with emotional responses. The Silent Talker gives the evaluator access to viewing microexpressions by adding a camera to the process. The creators claim that microexpressions are actual indicators of lying, while many other things could cause an emotional response. Since microexpressions are fleeting, the camera allows the examiner to capture data that otherwise would have been missed. However, the scientific community is not convinced that this system accomplishes what it claims and some call it pseudoscience.
A polygraph, often incorrectly referred to as a lie detector, is a device that measures and records several clinical biomarkers, such as blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate, and skin conductivity, and it is used while a person answers a series of questions to purportedly detect lies. Polygraphic assessments rely on the discredited assumption that some physiological mechanisms or functional state, and their variations thereof, could reliably account for psychophysiological phenomena supposedly invoked by (the act of) lying, though polygraphy is considered pseudoscience by the scientific community. The belief underpinning the use of the polygraph is that deceptive answers will produce physiological responses that can be differentiated from those associated with non-deceptive answers; however, there are no specific physiological reactions associated with lying, making it difficult to identify factors that separate those who are lying from those who are telling the truth. In some countries, polygraphs are used as an interrogation tool with criminal suspects or candidates for sensitive public or private sector employment. Some United States law enforcement and federal government agencies, as well as many police departments, use polygraph examinations to interrogate suspects and screen new employees. Within the US federal government, a polygraph examination is also referred to as a "psychophysiological detection of deception examination". Assessments of polygraphy by scientific and government bodies generally suggest that polygraphs are highly inaccurate, may easily be defeated by countermeasures, and are an imperfect or invalid means of assessing truthfulness. A comprehensive 2003 review by the National Academy of Sciences of existing research concluded that there was "little basis for the expectation that a polygraph test could have extremely high accuracy", while the American Psychological Association has stated that "most psychologists agree that there is little evidence that polygraph tests can accurately detect lies." For this reason, the use of polygraphs to detect lies is considered a form of either pseudoscience or junk science.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.