| In 1993 Yorkshire Television sent a documentary crew to Omaha, Nebraska to investigate, document, and interview those close to the Franklin Case. Throughout the following few months the crew collected hours of interviews, spending nearly half a million dollars in the process.
The documentary had been contracted by the Discovery Channel, and was to air in the spring of 1994 on American Television. However, the title of the documentary spoke its fate. Conspiracy of Silence was scheduled to air May 3, 1994, with the date published in the TV Guide. But when audiences tuned in from around the country they found that the ground-breaking documentary had been pulled off the air.
Later informants told John DeCamp that the documentary had been pulled after Congress struck a deal with cable companies. While other Washington officials claimed the documentary contained pornographic material and should not be aired.
Though the Discovery Channel made a deal to destroy all copies of the documentary a cutting-room copy of the expose was anonymously mailed to John DeCamp in 1995. Click on the High Speed or Dial-Up to view the shocking documentary, Conspiracy of Silence.
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