Reel 1759D

Joe McGinnis's meticulous best seller about the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case remains an absorbing dramatization in this two-part 1984 TV-movie. In the middle of the night of Feb. 17, 1970 the pregnant wife and two young daughters of the respected Green Beret physician were brutally slain in the family's apartment at Fort Bragg, N.C. Three months later the Army charged MacDonald with the homicides but the final verdict in the case was not to come for nine years. The first part of Fatal Vision traces MacDonald's case up through the initial Army hearings. He maintains that four crazed hippies burst into his apartment, rendered him unconscious and in the manner of the Charles Manson murders, butchered his family. The crime is re-created through MacDonald's eyes in such a way as to send his story. But discrepancies arise that raise grave doubts in the mind of one of his staunchest defenders, his father-in-law. Also On Aired: Scott MacDonald; MacDonald Garry Cline Mapped Kessab; Eva Marie Saint Segal Burns Newman Co rette MacLinnard Wendy Schaal Abby Sloan Fulton Grebner Barry Corbin 12 hrs.)

Injustices in Jeffrey MacDonald, M.D. case (Fatal Vision).