The result is a special take dianas take on a subject that we thought we knew all about. And you might be surprised that the film shares some unexpected common ground with another of jennings docs, the lost tapes. We present these shocking events from the 20th century, not through traditional journalistic reportage, but in realtime, as they were covered by national and local news. Lost tapes documentary looks back on 25th anniversary of. Tom jennings looks back at those events in his new documentary the lost tapes. A project unlike their other more famous bands, and by no means a sideproject, upon listening youll understand that this is what they are passionate. All include the 1991 videotaped footage of a group of white police officers relentlessly beating unarmed black. Television viewers saw one white man, reginald denny, pulled from his tractor trailer, beaten to a pulp and then witnessed a rioter slam a huge cinder block into the dennys head while he lay helpless on the ground. Smithsonian kicks off new series the lost tapes, 124.
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Many of these tapes have never been seen or heard, or have not been broadcast since 1992. In south central, motorists were pulled from their vehicles and beaten. Etpt to coincide with the 25 th anniversary of the events. Prejudices were strong, emotions were high, police. Riots, revisited through television and radio reports, home video, and police footage. Former newspaper reporter tom jennings film skips interviews and narration in favor of voices and images directly from 1992. Creatures featured include bigfoot, the chupacabra, vampires, werewolves, and reptilians. In this episode, the lost tapes series looks at the 1992 l. Smithsonian channel revisits the rodney king verdict in lost tapes.