Okay is Friday October 27th at 11.25 a.m. and what are we going to be talking about today?

All right if you were a kid in the 1960s the very first episode of a very popular TV series began with this voiceover.

The name Dr. Richard Kimball, the destination Death Row State Prison, The Irony. Richard Kimball is innocent.

Proved guilty, what Richard Kimball could not prove, was the moments before discovering

his murdered wife's body, he saw a one-armed man running from the vicinity of his home.

Richard Kimball ponder his fate as he looks at the world for the last time

and he sees only darkness.

But in the darkness, fate moves its huge hand.

That's the opening scene of the very first episode of The Fugitive, which aired from 1963 to

1967.

And the show told the story of a doctor wrongfully convicted of his wife's murder.

He escapes from custody and searches for the real killer, a mysterious one-armed man. And the show was

allegedly inspired by a true life story, the trial of Dr. Sam Shepard. Now, Shepard was accused of having murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn Sheppard, in their home in Ohio

on July 4, 1954.

Sheppard told the police that he had struggled with a stranger he discovered in their bedroom and according to Shepard the stranger escaped

but the police always considered Shepard the prime suspect.

And while the TV series focused on the fugitives pursuit

of the mysterious one-arm man, in real life

it was Sam Shepard's trial that became the focus of attention.

And from the beginning of his trial,

there was intense media interest.

The coroner asked Shepard to reenact what he remembered

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