The news story about the rape and murder of Chicago nurses that terrifies Sally and Pauline was a true crime: on July 14, 1966, a drifter named Richard Speck broke into the residence of nine students attending the South Chicago Community Hospital School of Nursing. He methodically tied up all nine women, raped one, and then killed eight of them. The only surviving victim was able to identify Speck through an identifying tattoo. He was tried for and convicted of the murders and first sentenced to the death penalty, but after the US Supreme Court struck down the death penalty in 1972, his sentence was changed to eight consecutive terms of 50 to 150 years each. Speck died of a heart attack in 1991.
When Greg arrives home and sees Kevin for the first time, he asks Gail to get the "Brownie". The Brownie is a camera made by Eastman Kodak, first released in 1900. Considered one of the most important cameras invented, the last official Brownie model was made in the 1980's. Greg and Joan's camera was most likely a Brownie 127, as millions were sold from 1952 to 1967.
Although credited, Jared Harris (Lane Pryce), Rich Sommer (Harry Crane) and Robert Morse (Bertram Cooper) do not appear in this episode.
Mädchen Amick, of Twin Peaks (1990) fame, is the second lead from the horror movie Sleepwalkers (1992) to make an appearance, the first being Brian Krause, who had played an auto racer from California.
Capt Greg Harris wears an as yet unauthorized RVN Unit Gallantry ribbon. The medal upon which the ribbon is based reads (without diacritical markings) Quoc Gia Lao Tuong. Literally translated it means Nation Old (or Senior) General. The colloquial translation would be either Reward of the State or Remembrance of a Brave Deed.
Considering 2nd Field Force of MACV was activated only four months earlier it's hard to believe they would have seen sufficient combat to merit a Unit Gallantry citation. Certainly, two years later they would see significant combat but not in April - July 1966. More foreshadowing as noted here in other remarks or merely Harris's hogwash.
Considering 2nd Field Force of MACV was activated only four months earlier it's hard to believe they would have seen sufficient combat to merit a Unit Gallantry citation. Certainly, two years later they would see significant combat but not in April - July 1966. More foreshadowing as noted here in other remarks or merely Harris's hogwash.