Collection:LPB

Genre: Newsmagazine

Place Covered: New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 1985-11-01

Duration: 00:08:33

Subjects: TRIALS | Edwards, Edwin W.

Contributors:

• Johnson, Ken Host
• Myers, Laura Reporter
• Houck, Oliver Interviewee
• Hayes, James Interviewee
• Edwards, Edwin Speaker

This segment from the November 1, 1985, episode of the series “Louisiana: The State We’re In” features Laura Myers’ report on the seventh week of the trial of Governor Edwin Edwards and seven other defendants in New Orleans on fraud and racketeering charges related to the permitting process for building new hospitals and nursing homes. Her report focuses on the ongoing testimony by prosecution witnesses against defendants Gus Mijalis and Marion Edwards. It includes interviews with Oliver Houck, a professor at the Tulane University Law School, and James Hayes, witness. Host: Ken Johnson