MSNBC The News with Brian Williams 21:00 hour

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Event Date(s): 03/28/1997 | Description: 21:00:22 Anchor Brian Williams. 21:01:28 NBC News correspondent George Lewis(BW:0197) reports on the investigation into the suicide of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Video of coroners wheeling the bodies into a building. Medical examiner Dr. Brian Blackbourne comments. Video of leader Marshall Applewhite or"Do". Video of the Heaven's Gate web site. Police video of the crime scene. Apparently some of the men in the group were castrated. Police video of the crime scene. Sheriff's department deputy's Laura Gacek and Robert Brunk comment on what they saw when they entered the home. The two deputies were the first on the scene. Aerial video of the home. Deputy medical examiner Ken Bell comments. 21:04:05 NBC News correspondent Bob Faw (BW:0193) reports on the background of the cult leader, Marshall Applewhite or"Do" as he was known to his followers. Video of Applewhite in a recruitment video.Childhood photo of Applwhite. Applewhite's sister, Louise Winant comments on her brother. Photos of Applewhite. Friend June Terry comments. Photos of Applewhite. Newpaper clippings of Applewhite. Video of Applewhite being arrested for car theft."Psychi Phenomena" author Hayden Hewes comments on his involvement with the group. Clip of Applwhite in cult recruitment video. Former cult member"Will" comments on how persuasive Applewhite was. Sociologist Rob Balch comments. Clip from a 1982 made for television movie. Clip of good bye video made by Applewhite. 21:07:03 NBC News correspondent Kelly O'Donnell (BW:0192) reports on how many cult members have no contact with their families, as per the cult's rules. Video of Heaven's Gate member, Yvonne McCurdy whose family found about where she was when they received the call notifying them of her death yesterday from the coroners office. McCurdy family minister Reverend H.L. Harvey reads a statement from the family. Photos of cult leader Marshall Applewhite. Applewhite's sister Louise Winant comments. Clip of the cult's goodbye video tape, courtesy of"EXTRA". Clip of police crime scene video. Aerial of the home. Clip from the Paramount Pictures film"Star Trek" with actress Nichelle Nichols, whose brother was one of the cult members. Video of David Geoffrey Moore. Video of the McCurdy family. 21:12:22 Clip of the cult members goodbye video. Cult members comment on how excited they are that"this" is happening. Cult members comment about"what they are about to do".(BW:0214) 21:14:33 Clip of Marshall Applewhite or"Do" in a recruitment video for Heaven's Gate. 21:18:52 NBC News correspondent Jim Avila (BW:0187) reports on use of the Internet by cults and religous organizations. Video of the Heaven's Gate web site. Watchman Fellowship's James Walker comments how the Internet has become the main recruitment center for cults. Video of famed cult leader Charles Manson. Video of a Japanese web site. Vox pops. Video of a web site. Video of a computer center. University of Chicago psychiatrist Dr. Bennett Leventhal comments. Video of the Higher Source web site, Heaven's Gate business web site. 21:21:06 Williams crosstalks with technical managing editor of"The Site" Leo Laporte live from San Francisco, California regarding how to make the Internet safer for children. Laporte states that no one is watching over the web sites, to determine content. Laporte states that there are several programs for parental guidance on the Internet. 21:24:06 Williams interviews Watchman Fellowship, Inc.'s Robert Waldrep live from Birmingham, Alabama regarding his involvement in cults. 21:26:22 Williams continues his interview with Waldrep regarding his experience with Heaven's Gate. Waldrep states that he was tricked into believing a meeting was taking place about aliens. The meeting turned into the background and belief's of Heaven's Gate. Waldrep states that he heard about the deaths and checked out the web site to find out it was the same group that he met with three years ago. 21:30:28 NBC News correspondent David Gregory (BW:0201) reports on the Los Angeles, California sheriff's department showing up this morning at the home of former football player O.J. Simpson with seizure papers on behalf of the Goldman and Brown family's. Aerial video of Simpson's belongings. Goldman attorney Gary Caris comments. Clips of some of the items being seized: Simpson's 1968 Heisman trophy, football jersey shirt and Chevy Suburban van. Goldman's attorney Peter Gelblum. Civil attorney Larry Feldman comments. 21:32:14 William voices over lawyers representing the man who is accused of allegedly killing Ennis Cosby, Michael Markhasen in a courthouse in Los Angeles,California. A mug shot of the alleged killer. (BW:0211) 21:33:10 NBC News correspondent Pete Williams (BW:0212) reports on the man accused of bombing a United States Military building in Saudi Arabia in April 1996. Williams voices over clips of the wreckage after the bombing. A bulldozer cleans up peices of the bombed building. Clips of a maxium secuity wing in a detention center in Ottowa, Canada, where the alleged bomber, Al Sayegh is being held. Aerial shots of cheering Iranians. Sayegh's lawyer Joyce Kedid comments. 21:35:13 Williams reports on a United State Military pilot that was killed in a plane crash. Williams voices over an aerial shot of the wreckage left behind after the pilot's plane crashed at Willow Grove Air Reserve Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (BW:0205) 21:38:09 NBC News correspondent Ned Colt (BW:0203) reports on the hostile situation between the Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East. Colt voices over clips of Palestinian men throwing rocks at Israeli police in Hebron, West Bank. Israeli police shoot rubber bullets at the raucous crowd. Palestinian Police trying to hold back demonstrators. The construction site of the Jewish settlement being built. Aerial shot of the area and building where a suicide bombing took place on 1997-03-21. Clips of people being taken out of the building, receiving medical attention and ambulances driving away. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat comments. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comments. Mideast Analyst Chemi Shelev comments. Middle East Envoy Dennis Ross sitting and talking with Netanyahu. Ross comments. Israeli police lined up on the streets. Israeli tanks. 21:40:33 Williams voices over people walking the same road as Jesus Christ in Jerusalem to mark Good Friday. Clips of guns and Israeli police. (BW:0210) 21:41:10 NBC News correspondent Keith Miller (BW:0207) reports on the Church of England decline in parishoners and what they are doing to stop it. Miller voices over a church Mass on Good Friday at a Saint Luke's Church in London, England. A cathedral in England. An advertisment being played in England. Vicar Bill Heald comments. Christians in Media Chas Bayfield comments. Clips of Queen Elizabeth II at a church Mass. The first female priest being ordained. Women priests. Children in a English church waving blue streamers and singing. 21:46:16 Williams crosstalks with CNBC's Terry Keenan about the stock market. 21:53:08 NBC News correspondent Robert Hager (BW:0213) reports on the cultists who believed that a unidentified flying object was cloaked behind the Hale-Bobb commet to take them to their version of heaven. Hager voices over photos of comments. Author and physicist Charles Panati comments. A Roman picture with a comment. A simulation of a twirling rock with fumes spewing out of it in space. National Aeronautics Space Administration's Donald Yoeman comments. Drawings of prehistoric dinaosaurs and commets steaming behind in the twilight. Commet founder Alan Hale comments.