Bernie's Time Machine: 48 Hours on Crack Street
A sneak peak for free subscribers!
Last week we launched the first installment of Bernie’s Time Machine, a new weekly feature for paying subscribers. It was so positively received that we decided to share it, this weekly only, with free subscribers as well.
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Later this week, on his next time-machine journey, Bernie will be going back to 2005… where he unexpectedly found himself the target of a five-on-one liberal-media ambush (the letters “N”, “B”, and “C” may have been involved). Much to his assailants’ dismay, the stunt returned Bernie to the top of the New York Times Bestseller list.
You won’t want to miss it.
Now, as promised, last week’s journey:
Today’s journey takes us back almost four decades to a show called “48 Hours on Crack Street” which aired on September 1, 1986 — a time when crack cocaine was a new, big problem… especially in urban America. The story was shot in Manhattan, in a part of the city that was pretty much an open drug market.
The show was a pilot, the first episode in what became 48 Hours, which began airing on CBS News in 1988 and has been on TV ever since, 36 years, making it one of the longest running shows on television.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes piece of information: At one point while we were shooting the story, I thought I was being attacked by some guy high on drugs. The producer told the cameraman, “Keep rolling.” The producer’s interest, seemingly was first for the story, and second (at best) for my safety.
The producer — wait for it — was (and still is) my wife.
Enter Bernie’s Time Machine, and fasten your seat-belt…