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'''''Confession''''' is an [[ABC]] crime/police [[documentary]] which aired from June 19, 1958, to January 13, 1959, with interviewer John Francis Minford "Jack" Wyatt (1917-2008) questioning criminals from assorted backgrounds.<ref>Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'' (New York: Penguin Books, 1996), p. 178./ref> The program was carried by videotape from WFAA-TV, the network affiliate in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]].<ref name=erickson>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RXQNIs12SzQC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=jack+wyatt+of+%22Confession%22+TV+series&source=bl&ots=Pf0iaPKBMy&sig=nQD9wokLlasDUk5yNUTYfg9RV6g&hl=en&ei=Ajf8TKPRO8H_lgfI9eyMBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=jack%20wyatt%20of%20%22Confession%22%20TV%20series&f=false|author=Hal Erickson|title=Encyclopedia of Television Law Shows: Factual and Fictional Series about Judges, Lawyers and the Courtroom, 1948-2008|publisher=Jefferson, [[North Carolina]]: McFarland and Company, Inc.|date=2009|accessdate=December 5, 2010}}</ref>
'''''Confession''''' is an [[ABC]] crime/police [[documentary]] which aired from June 19, 1958, to January 13, 1959, with interviewer John Francis Minford "Jack" Wyatt (1917-2008) questioning criminals from assorted backgrounds.<ref>Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'' (New York: Penguin Books, 1996), p. 178./ref> The program was carried by videotape from WFAA-TV, the network affiliate in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]].<ref name=erickson>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RXQNIs12SzQC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=jack+wyatt+of+%22Confession%22+TV+series&source=bl&ots=Pf0iaPKBMy&sig=nQD9wokLlasDUk5yNUTYfg9RV6g&hl=en&ei=Ajf8TKPRO8H_lgfI9eyMBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=jack%20wyatt%20of%20%22Confession%22%20TV%20series&f=false|author=Hal Erickson|title=Encyclopedia of Television Law Shows: Factual and Fictional Series about Judges, Lawyers and the Courtroom, 1948-2008|publisher=McFarland and Company, Jefferson, [[North Carolina]]|date=2009|accessdate=December 5, 2010}}</ref>
==Episode about the transvestite==
==The episode about the transvestite==
Criminals contacted included prostitutes, drug abusers, sex offenders, and [[murder]]ers. A 22-year-old [[transvestite]] named Darrell Wayne Kahler was interviewed late in 1957, when the program was local in scope, ran late on Sunday evenings on WFAA, and had not yet joined the ABC schedule. According to a news article in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' [[magazine]], on December 30, 1957, Kahler was supplied to ''Confession'' by the police, who had arrested him as a drunken woman being molested by three men. The officers did not discover his sex until he reached the station house. The police permitted Kahler to get into a cocktail dress for a filmed re-enactment of his arrest. Wyatt used the film and then placed the camera on Kahler in a jail uniform behind bars.<ref name=time>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810213,00.html#ixzz17UPLNMTC|title=Television: ''Confession''|date=December 30, 1957|publisher=''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''|accessdate=December 7, 2010}}</ref>
Criminals contacted included prostitutes, drug abusers, sex offenders, and [[murder]]ers. A 22-year-old [[transvestite]] named Darrell Wayne Kahler was interviewed late in 1957, when the program was local in scope, ran late on Sunday evenings on WFAA, and had not yet joined the ABC schedule. According to a news article in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' [[magazine]], on December 30, 1957, Kahler was supplied to ''Confession'' by the police, who had arrested him as a drunken woman being molested by three men. The officers did not discover his sex until he reached the station house. The police permitted Kahler to get into a cocktail dress for a filmed re-enactment of his arrest. Wyatt used the film and then placed the camera on Kahler in a jail uniform behind bars.<ref name=time>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810213,00.html#ixzz17UPLNMTC|title=Television: ''Confession''|date=December 30, 1957|publisher=''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''|accessdate=December 7, 2010}}</ref>
In a contralto voice, Kahler said that he earned his living as a nightclub B girl. Kahler said that he had never known his father and that his mother had "a lot of marriages." He said that schoolmates had long taunted him and that he was a chain smoker who used large quantities of [[alcohol]] in despair. The program was shocking by the television standards of the 1950s.<ref name=time/>
In a contralto voice, Kahler said that he earned his living as a nightclub B girl. Kahler said that he had never known his father and that his mother had "a lot of marriages." He said that schoolmates had long taunted him and that he was a chain smoker who used large quantities of [[alcohol]] in despair. The program was shocking by the television standards of the 1950s.<ref name=time/>