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After each interview, as with Kahler, Jack Wyatt discussed each case with a clergyman, psychiatrist or [[psychologist]], an [[attorney]], and a [[sociologist]] or a penologist. The program attempted to determine the root causes of crime and to recommend remediation for the offenders. At times, Wyatt said that the "authorities tell me that we've actually helped criminals change their ways."<ref name=erickson/>​

After each interview, as with Kahler, Jack Wyatt discussed each case with a clergyman, psychiatrist or [[psychologist]], an [[attorney]], and a [[sociologist]] or a penologist. The program attempted to determine the root causes of crime and to recommend remediation for the offenders. At times, Wyatt said that the "authorities tell me that we've actually helped criminals change their ways."<ref name=erickson/>​

Before he relocated to Dallas in 1954, Wyatt had been an advertising executive on [[Madison Avenue]] in [[New York City]].<ref name=erickson/><ref name=time/> A native of [[Kansas City]], [[Missouri]], Wyatt was reared in Forest Hills in the [[borough]] of [[Queens]], New York. In 1967, at age of fifty, Wyatt began studying for the [[Episcopalian]] priesthood. He died of [[cancer]] at the age of ninety at his home in the [[resort]] city of Rockport in Aransas County on the Texas Gulf Coast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/obituaries/stories/DN-wyattob_12met.ART.West.Edition1.46da998.html|title=The Rev. John "Jack" Francis Minford Wyatt, Adman Hosted Local TV's 'Confession' Prior to Priesthood|publisher=dentonrc.com|accessdate=December 8, 2010}}</ref>​

Before he relocated to Dallas in 1954, Wyatt had been an advertising executive on Madison Avenue in [[New York City]].<ref name=erickson/><ref name=time/> A native of [[Kansas City]], [[Missouri]], Wyatt was reared in Forest Hills in the [[borough]] of [[Queens]], New York. In 1967, at age of fifty, Wyatt began studying for the [[Episcopalian]] priesthood. He died of [[cancer]] at the age of ninety at his home in the [[resort]] city of Rockport in Aransas County on the Texas Gulf Coast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/obituaries/stories/DN-wyattob_12met.ART.West.Edition1.46da998.html|title=The Rev. John "Jack" Francis Minford Wyatt, Adman Hosted Local TV's 'Confession' Prior to Priesthood|publisher=dentonrc.com|accessdate=December 8, 2010}}</ref>​

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==Scheduling==​

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''Confession'' began as a summer replacement series for ''The West Point Story'' and was retained by ABC during the first half of the 1958-1959 schedule. It aired on Tuesday evenings opposite the first season of the revamped ''The Garry Moore Show'' on [[CBS]] and the second season of the drama series with a western setting, ''The Californians''. ''Confession'' also appeared at times as a filler program on Thursday evenings opposite ''You Bet Your Life'', hosted by [[Groucho Marx]]. ''Confession'' was replaced at mid-season by a paranormal anthology series, ''Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond.''<ref name=erickson/> ''Confession'' followed the half-hour version of ''The Naked City'' police drama on ABC and preceded ''John Charles Daly and the News''.<ref>McNeil, ''Total Television,'' appendix.</ref>​

''Confession'' began as a summer replacement series for ''The West Point Story'' and was retained by ABC during the first half of the 1958-1959 schedule. It aired on Tuesday evenings opposite the first season of the revamped ''The Garry Moore Show'' on [[CBS]] and the second season of the drama series with a western setting, ''The Californians''. ''Confession'' also appeared at times as a filler program on Thursday evenings opposite ''You Bet Your Life'', hosted by [[Groucho Marx]]. ''Confession'' was replaced at mid-season by a paranormal anthology series, ''Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond.''<ref name=erickson/> ''Confession'' followed the half-hour version of ''The Naked City'' police drama on ABC and preceded ''John Charles Daly and the News''.<ref>McNeil, ''Total Television,'' appendix.</ref>​