This is a 1950’s era, black and white tv show produced by National Educational Television entitled “The Criminal Man” which featured an examination of the minds of criminals and deviants. The show was hosted by Dr. Douglas Kelley. This in fact is Lt. Colonel Douglas McGlashan Kelley (11 August 1912 – January 1, 1958) who was a United States Army Military Intelligence Corps officer who served as chief psychiatrist at Nuremberg Prison during the Nuremberg War Trials. He worked to ascertain defendants’ competency evaluations before standing trial. Upon honorable discharge in 1946, Kelley was appointed Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in North Carolina. In 1949 he was appointed Professor of Criminology at the University of California at Berkeley. Shockingly, Kelley committed suicide in front of his wife, father and oldest son on New Year’s Day 1958 during a family gathering to watch the Rose Bowl game on television. He died by ingesting potassium cyanide as had Nazi leader Hermann Göring, whom Kelley had come to know during his psychiatric evaluation at Nuremberg. According to Psychology Today, Kelley was alcoholic and despondent by that time and had a “history of dark moods”; he had also expressed admiration “for Göring’s control over his own death”.
The program was produced by KQED San Francisco. Marijuana leaves are shown, 1:04. Dr. Kelley displays various forms of narcotics and describes the effects of each, 2:00. An opium pipe is displayed with a demonstration on its use, 13:11. Dr Kelley shows a video of an addict going through withdrawal symptoms, 16:10. Dr Kelley reads from a medical book, 19:00. Dr Kelley puts a gun to his head to illustrate the danger of using drugs, 23:00. A chart is shown on how or if drugs are related to crime, 26:50.
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