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- b. Round Table Form, 15 Dec: Who Should Be Labelled a War Criminal?
- c. The Farm Hour: Crimes Against the Farmer.
- d. The Labor Hour: Crimes Against Labor.
- e. The Student's Hour: Crimes Against Students.
- f. The Women's Hour: Crimes Against Women.
- g. The Children's Hour: The Nature of a War Crime.
- h. Men-on-the-Street Program: Cross Section of Jap Opinion on War Crimes.
- i. Editorial Round-Up: What Jap Editors Have to Say On War Crimes and Criminals.
- j. Weekly Dramatic Show: "Now It Can Be Told", on the history of the war.
- 2. Trial Period
- a. Use of above-named sustaining programs will be continued to provide commentary framework for the trials. This will include comment by selected Japanese reporters covering the trials.
- b. Nightly news round-up as written by Press Section.
- c. Weekly 1/2 hour show featuring actual testimony recorded during trials using March of Time technique.
- d. Weekly Dramatic Show: "Now It Can Be Told", on the history of the war.
- C. Newsreels:
- 1. Pre-trial period
- a. Newsreels will cover the biographical backgrounds of those arrested, employing the "flash back" technique to recall past action of individuals and linking Japanese war-time leaders with the present plight of the nation.
- 2. Trial Period
- a. Complete newsreel coverage will be given trials, using Signal Corps or other official footage.
- Those will be edited and shown as a "must" in all theaters.
- D. Slidefilms:
- 1. Pre-trial period
- a. Slidefilms will show portraits of war criminal suspects, including biographical backgrounds. Diagrams will show the nature of a war crime.
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