DEMOCRACY NOW : APRIL 16 : 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF JACKIE ROBINSON'S FIRST GAME.FBI CRIME LAB

DEMOCRACY NOW : APRIL 16| 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF JACKIE ROBINSON'S FIRST GAME.FBI CRIME LAB/ Pacifica Foundation| Produced by Julie Drizin and Amy Goodman| hosted by Amy Goodman. - CONTENT: pt.1. News headlines (4:00) -- pt.2. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the end of segregation in baseball| here to talk about Jackie Robinson, the struggle against Jim Crow, and the media attention given to the 50th anniversary| Gerald Horne, director of the Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina and Bill Mardo, a sports editor and columnist in the 1940's and early 1950's with the Daily Worker. (16:00) -- pt.3. FBI Crime Lab| a scathing internal report released yestersay on the FBI's vaunted crime lab criticized the lab and its leadership for flawed reporting and inaccurate testimony| Ronald Kessler, a former Wall Street Journal and Washington Post reporter and the author of the book, The FBI and Dennis Cunnigham, an attorney from San Francisco working on the Earth First bombing case. (19:00) -- pt.4. Environmental Prizes-- the seven winners of the awards| guests are two of the winners, Terri Swearingen, a nurse from East Liverpool and Juan Pablo Orrego, Director of the group Save the Bio. (17:00) - Broadcast on April 16, 1997.