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1991 Navy Tailhook.
NARRATOR VO:
Breaking news at this hour, the navy appears to be facing a huge sex scandal. Details
are still coming in.
ANNOUNCER VO:
From ABC, this is world news tonight with Peter Jennings.
PETER JENNINGS:
Good evening, we’re going to being tonight by putting a human face on the worst
case of sexual harassment in the navy’s history. At an annual naval aviators
convention called the Tailhook convention. Senior officers have known since 1985
that the convention included the so called, ‘gauntlet’, set up for the specific purpose
of targeting and sexually molesting women.
[00:40:11]
PAULA COUGHLIN:
I got off the elevator on the third floor. You could see maybe 200 men. It was just a
few steps into the hallway before they closed ranks all around me. And then it
happened very quickly, from both sides and behind, many came in and started
reaching in my shirt. I was getting pushed down to the floor and someone was
reaching under my skirt pulling my underwear off, and it was about maybe 30 or 40
feet of 200 guys trying to pull my clothes off, like I was a high valued target. The next
morning I met with my boss for breakfast and I said, you know, what happened
here? And he said, well that’s what you get for walking down a hallway full of drunk
aviators. And I said, I don’t think so.
[00:41:02]
PETER JENNINGS VO:
An investigation was finally begun but 1500 interviews later the Navy’s inspector
general reported that his investigators were being stone walled. A great wall of
silence had gone up to protect the guilty.
[00:41:17]
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1996 Army Aberdeen Proving Grounds
NEWS ANCHOR VO:
The US army today is trying to establish the extent of a new and growing rape and
sexual harassment scandal. It all took place at the army base at Aberdeen Proving
Ground where 30 women have filed complaints of sexual advances ranging from
unwanted touching to rape and forcible sodomy.