Jay Cooper
April, 1973
Setting: Interior, East Harlem hospital. Time: Now. Subject: Infant drug addiction. This scenario doesn't describe a film shown for a few legislators at some closed-door drug-abuse investigation but a sequence seen by millions of metropolitan New Yorkers on ABC's Eyewitness News. Hardly the standard TV news fare. But then, Geraldo Rivera, the scene's writer-producer, isn't your standard broadcast journalist. He is 29, bilingual, Puerto Rican, long-haired and, by his own admission, "the best...
