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b. Round Table Form, 15 Dec: Who Should Be Labelled a War Criminal?
c. The Farm Hour: Crimes Against the Farmer.
d. The Labor Hour: Crimes Against Labor.
e. The Student's Hour: Crimes Against Students.
f. The Women's Hour: Crimes Against Women.
g. The Children's Hour: The Nature of a War Crime.
h. Men-on-the-Street Program: Cross Section of Jap Opinion on War Crimes.
i. Editorial Round-Up: What Jap Editors Have to Say On War Crimes and Criminals.
j. Weekly Dramatic Show: "Now It Can Be Told", on the history of the war.
2. Trial Period
a. Use of above-named sustaining programs will be continued to provide commentary framework for the trials. This will include comment by selected Japanese reporters covering the trials.
b. Nightly news round-up as written by Press Section.
c. Weekly 1/2 hour show featuring actual testimony recorded during trials using March of Time technique.
d. Weekly Dramatic Show: "Now It Can Be Told", on the history of the war.
C. Newsreels:
1. Pre-trial period
a. Newsreels will cover the biographical backgrounds of those arrested, employing the "flash back" technique to recall past action of individuals and linking Japanese war-time leaders with the present plight of the nation.
2. Trial Period
a. Complete newsreel coverage will be given trials, using Signal Corps or other official footage.
Those will be edited and shown as a "must" in all theaters.
D. Slidefilms:
1. Pre-trial period
a. Slidefilms will show portraits of war criminal suspects, including biographical backgrounds. Diagrams will show the nature of a war crime.

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