The Menendez Brothers Interview with Barbara Walters (1996)
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- Aired June 28, 1996 on ABC
Barbara Walters talks to Erik and Lyle Menendez, the brothers who were sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing their parents in 1989.
Erik Menendez Talking About Barbara Walters on His UA-cam Channel:
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Is it just me or are reporters like Barbara supposed to be unbiased? You can clearly see how she feels about the case
she was a witch.
and doesn’t that show her unbias? tue boys loved her and she felt sympathy for their situation
@@danabundy9541 she loved em but was sure focused on the abuse excuse
She’s just the worst “journalist” of all time. What a witch from hell.
@@quatiec9987Because that’s what the case was about. She didn’t invent the details. What on earth would you expect the focus to be on when she’s interviewing them in jail after they’ve been convicted and sentenced? She’s interviewing THEM. Of course they’re going to be focused on the abuse and trying to explain what happened and why. She asked them hard questions. She also cut them off mid sentence a couple of times and called bs on what they were saying. It seems to me (and I don’t mean this is a condescending way, it’s just an honest observation) that’s it’s actually your bias that’s accusing her of being biased. Being an unbiased reporter doesn’t mean you can’t show empathy to the person you’re speaking to. It means that you cover a story from both angles and she did that by challenging them throughout the interview and confronting them with the issues people have with believing their story.
This interview is so dehumanizing, and I realize not everyone will agree. But, I can say with certainty, I would not have been nearly as patient or understanding as either of them were with her.
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I thought the same. It's obvious that Barbara was biased in the interview. And, the way they responded to some of her questions spoke volumes about them. I thought she was rather rude for someone getting an exclusive interview. Not many people would have stayed so calm during that questioning.
@@SherryGoodwin-zj4oe AMEN❤️❤️🎉
@@SherryGoodwin-zj4oe exactly!! they’re truly kind people… I wish people understand that :(
10:10 you can tell Erik was getting irritated at her here.
I hate how the judges were talking to them, they were barely letting them get a word out or being patient at all. It’s disgusting they are still in jail for the crimes of his parents
💯 agree with you!
Lyle and Erik are both victims and the way they were treated in court and by MSM was unconscionable.
Had Lyle and Erik been young women I believe they would have been treated differently.
Child killer Eric Smith was recently released from prison.
Smith was 13 years old when he laid in wait for 3 year old Derrick Robie.
Smith lured little Derrick into the woods before sodomizing the toddler and beating his head in with a rock.
That wasn’t enough for Eric Smith.
He tore Derrick’s lunchbox apart and poured Koolaid into the victims wounds.
God forbid, it’s only a matter of time before child killer Eric Smith hurts another innocent child.
I’m NOT being dramatic in saying this;
If they were released I wouldn’t hesitate to befriend either Erik or Lyle if given the opportunity.
I believe the Menéndez brothers are innocent.
They aren’t a “danger” and their incarnation is a travesty of justice.
That lawyer that was questioning him about what happened was their lawyer, and she was fighting for them to get their story out to the jury. She did her job and she loved those boys
they're so patient and kind and respectful of this witch and i still think one of the reasons they got the sentence they did is because they were so honest to a fault of themselves to the point where people couldn't even realize how such a thing could occur. i can understand it and wasn't even in the courtroom. if eric was a female neither would be in jail right now and if this same case happened today they wouldn't get 1st degree with no parole and everyone knows it....
Gypsy Rose walked out of prison yesterday. It’s crazy to think this was actually a death penalty case. These two are the worst of the worst? Really?? You’re so right that this would not happen today.
@@KhalidMahmood-wm1qz Your question makes no sense given the context of this case. If “these greedy monsters” harmed me or my family, it would be an entirely different case. It wouldn’t be about two kids who killed their child abusing, rapist parents. You can’t compare what they did to their parents to them doing what they did to your parents. Your dad isn’t their dad and I assume your dad never raped them.
@@trickortrump3292 lol she deleted her projection/comment..... smart.
@Donna_Evilson thanks for your projection donna!
“Are you a homosexual?” OMG. 😣
Hannibal lecters wannabe's
How dare her ask that. (never liked her anyway) To her it was all about being controversial and famous.
@@ishp2 a lot of people were asking that question, her job is to deliver those tough questions to them, so they have a chance to defend themselves, it's not her personal questions, it's the public opinions, she did a great job in representing them
She’s asking bc she wanted to know if that’s why he killed the parents, fear he wouldn’t be accepted
@@ishp2please don't talk nonsense.. it's a fair enough question
Eric shows the signs of an abused child. He blames himself not only for the murders but for his brother being involved and for being molested. It's not his fault his father was a monster. If they had told the authorities back then, no one would have believed them. They would have been returned to the same awful parents. They were trapped. They didn't deserve the sentence they got.
Yea I got that to. The whole story is sad
"Why didn't you run away." Good lord. I have no idea if they are being honest about what happened but that is some typical victim blaming crap we saw so long ago. I'd forgotten how gross the 90's could be.
the 90s? just yesterday some dude posted a quote about pain being cooperation.
They were scared for their lives. They were in fight or flight and the body decides in a moment. With them dead they would not be abused if they ran away they could be forced back home dad was rich.
Have faith in Jesus alone to be saved @@LovedLamb
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@@IloveJesus777j77keep your delusions to yourself.
Barbara Walter’s Is the most horrific interviewer ever. Perpetually out of tune
Barbra & Oprah both lack basic empathy & come across emotionally Inept-almost narcissistic. Watching their interviews is draining.
Don't be silly.. it's a good interview... She's playing the part of strict aunty but it leads to interesting answers
Her voice is horrible and grating. She seems to have an impediment.
I think she is perfectly in tune with these men and what they bring to the interview. She is calm, incisive and remains empathetic. A far more compelling interviewer than many others.
@@Ben-jq5ooNope.
Wtf the reporter was very unprofessional, sounds like she was trynna provoke them. Disrespectful asf
I agree! She's definitely doing way more than "just asking questions"
They were so polite despite knowing how painful their past was.. Barbara witch was trying to spin something else instead of listening 😡😡
"Abuse excuse" FIRE THIS INTERVIEW LADY OH MY GOSH!!!!!
"DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD"
I see real remorse and genuine rehabilitation.
I cannot even begin to comprehend how an adult can molest a child. I can’t even begin to imagine the immense pain and emotional trauma that they had gone through by their father or any child for that matter.
I wish I could believe this two brothers! Nope! They’re criminals!
How do you know that they’re telling the truth? They’ll say anything in their behalf now that the parents are dead! Which they caused!
@@shirleysullivan586 How do I know that they are telling the truth? Because I believe that they are. I am also 💯 certain that they have remorse for what they did. They are paying the price for it. I have done some research about this case as well. I also have compassion. That’s why.
@@shirleysullivan586 There's a Menudo documentary that recently came out and their father was investigated for molesting a boy from the boy band, Menudo.
They suffered all that horrific abuse, now locked up for life 😢 so incredibly sad. I pray they get released, their parents were monsters
Barbra Walters is a completely disrespectful person. It angers me to hear her talk this way to them and yet, they treat her so patiently and respectfully. Regardless of her views on the brothers, they deserved to be treated with kindness, understanding and respect. I have no respect for her. This is unacceptable. She just victimised them again. It's so painful for them to recount their relationship with their parents and Barbra is so cruel in her attitude and language. Disgusting of her.
her job is to deliver "tough" questions from the public and giving them opportunity to defend themselves, they were aware of this and that's why they didn't take it personally, no matter how she feels about the boys her job is to represent the public, she did a great job
she was like that with everybody. Just snarky and nasty.
Agree she was a real piece of crap
Illuminati
they are respectfully to her cuz that was what they were to their abusive parents.
The way Lyle looks at eric.... wow!
Clearly in love
@@ryan-pf9ud what you mean??
@@kimbu580I hope they mean that Lyle loves his brother so dearly and cares about him and just wants him to be free
Well, we know whose side Walter’s is on!
That is wonderful news! Thank you for sharing.
I'm happy they were put in the same prison together again finally
I always felt this was self-defence, and that these poor boys had suffered such abuse that they should be free.
Shame on you Barbara.
it was revenge rather than self-defence. It was not a loss worth grieving over so it's not really a loss for society just for the boys who went in prison for a crime they wouldnt have comitted if they parents were "parents" instead of the monsters they were.
Why do people keep calling them boys? These men 18+ when they used SHOTGUNS to shoot their parents multiple times. I will never understand people trying to victimize these guys.
@@SoSillyWilly26 because they were the victims. They killed the people who raped, made child pornography of them, blackmailed them and abused them all their childhood long. To add to that these parents were so cold they even erased them from their will a year prior to this and never had any intention be "parents". Why should I gaf that someone who was looking for a new child to assault is being unalived by the ones who he already assaulted? Why should I be cold and heartless towards them two boys for not being able to move on from that severity of abuse? I was abused too. I know how it is to be full of anger and feel helpless to the point that someone had to die either suicide or murder and they wanted to take revenge which they were fully justified to.
@@LovedLamb💯
This interview does annoy me, but Barbara actually became very very good friends with Erik and they corresponded for years until she died and Tammi spent a lot of time with Barbara and they became really good friends, so she went from being very judgemental about their case and then actually supportive of Erik
They freed gypsy rose now free these guys
I genuinely think if it was the Menendez sisters instead, they would be free already. Society doesn't care about male sexual abuse victims
after seeing hundreds of clips of them, watching their entire trial, supporting them and knowing about them and their story for years my heart continues to ache for them every single day. their parents destroyed them. and it breaks my heart that there are still people who continue to paint them as some kind of monsters when they are so far from it. knowing erik now has a wife and a daughter he cares so much about, it genuinely hurts knowing these brothers will likely not ever be able to just live a normal life, in a normal house, and just be at peace for once. they were completely failed.
You can see the Brothers love each other i dont think there are monsters they were abused come on people
This reporter is constantly accusing them.. she is supposed to interview them and not take a clearly side when doing it. Gosh! People were so ignorant, even in their professions.
Gen X here. People are FAR less competent now than in that era, and it isn't even a close contest. Watch Idiocracy to see where we are now...or, just watch the nightly news.
I remember when this happened and my first thought was “what did their parents do to them” I innately knew they were abused. Travesty of justice this case
One child killing their parents is a bad child. Two children killing their parents…. Is a bad family. The parents obviously did something to make their children so miserable and angry, they felt the need to do this. I believe they were abused badly.
@@pommiebears💯💯👍🏻
@@pommiebearsthe father abused his two sons and the mother didn’t do anything
I understand, i lived with a mother that deeply abused (not sexually) us, and no one who hasn't experience that cannot imagine what it feels like
💯💯right
WHAT WOULD IT EVEN MATTER IF HE WAS GAY????!!!! That was a sickening question for her to even ask him!
He wasnt. It was disrespectful of her to assume
This interview is horrid. She is rude and frankly unprofessional
She constantly interrupts and won’t let them finish their answers. She is pushy, rude, and abrasive.
As always.
They shouldn’t be in prison. They need lots of help, support and love.
Barbara what do you think about we don't want you on TV anymore
Umm she passed away a few years ago. She really can’t control what’s out online but u can choose to not watch
@laurenhoffman2751 I know that read my others comments and if God can save you for sharing a picture on fb why she can't read this.
Exactly hermosa
Such an unprofessional display of interviewing technique; I’m surprised they continued with the interview.
Why do I feel like if these were two sisters . Barbara would give them a pass.
Wow I can even believe Barbra Walters treated them really unfairly
27:13 it's so sad to hear Erik blame himself for ruining his brothers future.
Leaving an abusive relationship, whether romantic or familial isn't easy, especially when you've been groomed your whole life
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Heartbreaking
Erik lyle 😔❤❤❤
What an awful woman - she is so stuck up and judging 🤯🤬
She's playing strict aunty but it gets interesting answers out of these strange calm dudes
I hope they get freedom soon and finally prove the whole ppl who gave the guilty verdict feel so ashamed for also abusing them i was 8 yrs old and I knew they were innocent ive followed the case ever since and here i am old inuff to know the system failed them and so did those impeccable jury 😢
Their family failed them too, as well as the doctors, therapist and "friend" who literally is recorded and yet still claims "he doesn't remember" having the conversation but admits it's his own voice. I've always wondered what the reasoning was, for pretending he didn't remember.
@@whitewavegsd4479yes me too I am wondering why he did this but maybe because the boys used his ID card to buy the guns, maybe he was angry the boys got him involved in the whole case
Free the Menendez Brothers!!!
Please set these men FREE!!!! Sheesh
The two brothers are so close
I can’t watch how this women demonizes these men. I’m disgusted by this lady no ounce of sympathy whatsoever.
She has ZERO business asking Erik if he’s gay!! What network ran this interview? Is everyone afraid of Barbra Walters? Somebody needs to fire her a*s.
I think they paid the price of 30 years of their lives in jail. They should be released
Barbara walter was the best reporter
That 90s Show brought me here!
How so? I don’t watch this show?
Is it any good ?
She was so rude, yet her and Erik become actually quite good friends over the years…
This reporter is horrible! I have never seen worse! Unlike her, the brother are so respectful towards her! I cried watching this interview. So angry at this inhumane woman!
Barbara Walters was terrible in this interview. I know it was 1996 and journalistic style has changed in 28+ years but she is not holding back her judgement. She should, her own words, do her job and simply ask questions and not impart her emotions towards them and how they should feel.
If being tortured repeatedly is not an excuse for killing their parents let's ask the other way round: would they have killed their parents if they had not been tortured repeatedly?
They HAD tried to run away. They were brainwashed, they were very afraid of their father and they did not know better at that time. I'm not saying they should be free, but other criminals have been in prison less time for worse things...
They took out an evil man. Shame on him for putting these kids in that spot.
They finally got to feel "free". They were no longer being abused by the ppl that were supposed to protect them. Being such a high wealthy family, they must have felt no one would believe them. I mean, their own family knew something was going on but never said a word until now! Even the therapist and doctors didn't say anything.
True 💯💯
If they were sexually abused they should be free
@@brianping3105Wtf are you on about?! That's not what happened at all. It's people like you who defend child mol*sters that are sick af.
I love what you just said cause I agree and I don't understand why thus Gipsy character is free
@@margaretkulabako8098 Gypsy is free cuz she didnt do the killing and because she had good behaviour in prison ntm the mother deserved it and her grandfather sa her so there is a probability that she wont do it again. At least not to innocent people, if she does kill the grandfather I am on her side cuz this man literally said that a 4 year old provocated the sa.
@@LovedLamb She planned the whole murder though. The brothers didn't.
@@lena_1994 Planning ≠ being the murderer. Ntm she was also a victim, I feel sorry for all of them. The Menendez have to be let free and Marty Puccio as well. They don't deserve being locked up cuz they killed some child abuser / rapist.
wtf is wrong with that lady? Lyle and Erik deserve to be freed. they have served enough time. barbara walters is the worst, she didn't have to be rude to them tf.
I’m going to say it and I don’t care. Barbara Walters only gets the recognition she does because she’s a journalism dinosaur. She’s the only journalist who has always sounded like she’s stuck in the 40’s with that TA accent she’s got. Her morals and beliefs are antiquated, her demeanor has soured over the years and frankly, there’s no room for “70’s journalism” in an ever changing world.
These two men suffered unimaginable consequences that stemmed from daily emotional and physical pain. They’ve paid their price. They’ve done their time. Let them be.
That's so true about Barbara 🤣
I feel so sorry for them. I'm so glad I found this channel because I literally thought that they were just spoilt kids who turned on their parents. I had no idea about the horrific abuse behind it. They deserve a retrial. I know people will say they're good liars but I don't feel that. I feel they've told the truth from what I've watched today, their body language etc. Just horrific stories.
Why a retrial? The jury heard about the abuse. It isnt new. Dont get me wrong, I dont believe they should have got life WITHOUT parole but I cant see any grounds for a retrial.
@@Linz86the judge limited so many evidence of the abuse and witnesses in the second trial it was NOT fair at all
@@Linz86some of the jurors in the second trial came out and said if they heard the abuse the boys went through they wouldn’t give them life in prison
This interviewer isn’t very nice it’s pissing me off.
Barbara Walters is completely callous, cruel and disrespectful in this interview. When she yells out you’re a normal kid who killed their parents !! I am like Jesus Christ woman, have some class & compassion. Clearly see where her opinion stands. She acts like she’s not a rich woman herself.
FREE THE MENDENEZ BROTHERS!
Something else!!!!
Never liked this woman
me either
I never liked her either
If gyspys can be free, they should have been freed years ago !!!!
He looks like Ben Stiller
Why did the same judge work both cases?
Free them!
Walter’s was so biased … so often. She was a bully.
8:32 and he was right we dont feel that way
Typical Barbara interview....watch the interview with Dahmer's father next...same treatment and assumptions. Dahmer's father was the same, very patient, very respectful throughout the interview.
They were so abused it’s horrible
Hey Barbara they've already been prosecuted and sentenced,drop the bravardo lady!
eric was protecting his brother during this interview, i can’t believe the way she treated them in this interview just ugly!!
If this trial happened in the 2020's they will never be convicted and in jail😢
I would think if there had been physical abuse (including sexual) there would be evidence. Did they get inspected? I’m genuinely asking. I believe this would’ve helped their case. Listen, none of us were there and their parents are not there to defend themselves. But… if these two were lying in court… they did a pretty convincing job. I mean, Eric’s forehead vein was almost about to pop out of his head.
I have a playlist called Evidence of Abuse. You can watch some videos about it there. Their mother kept faceless nude photos of them as children and they had a lot of medical records of injuries and symptoms caused by SA.
Piggybacking off of the channel’s reply: their father was an entertainment executive and he had other allegations of abuse against him (from teens/young men) within his industry. Some of the Menendez family members had vague knowledge of abuse allegations coming from the boys, but one of the cousins produced a letter from years before the murders where either Eric or Lyle confided that the abuse was “still happening” and he was struggling to cope.
Aside from the medical records from their childhood, there wouldn’t be anything to “inspect” on their bodies after the murders that could corroborate the abuse. Even if they had rectal scarring or healed injuries, there wouldn’t be a way to definitively say it came from their father and not a consensual adult relationship with someone else. Furthermore, there was still an enormous bias against male abuse victims. It was believed that, even if a male said no, their getting an erection or climaxing was evidence of either consent or enjoyment. It just meant that many men/ boys not only felt embarrassed or discouraged to come forward, but they (and those they confessed to) didn’t always know what “counted” as abuse. They didn’t know what to look for or how to deal with it. There was also still a huge bias against homosexuality at the time, especially at the height of the AIDS epidemic. A lot of male abuse victims opted to stay silent rather than risk being accused of being gay (Barbara herself asked about it in this interview).
Long story long, there IS some evidence of their abuse. There also wasn’t a ton of precedence, though, to enable the boys (or the justice system) to know how to document or report it. “Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence”.
I genuinely appreciate your asking the question. It takes a lot of courage and intelligence to seek answers for what you’re unclear about, rather than rush to judgment. ✌🏻
There was so much abuse evidence (family testifying they knew about the sa, cp pictures, medical records, expert testimonies, tape recordings, letters...). Even an uncle testified he witnessed the father punching a 5 year old Lyle in the stomach after he barged into his room. There was so much that corroborated their claims of abuse but none of that was admitted to court in 2nd trial cuz the DA was desperate to get a conviction after the OJ trial. And now there's another victim of the father saying the same thing happened to him in the 80s. So it's not hard to believe the abuse happened to them
evidence is there, I mean there were guest who said that the father shown child pornography and there was a cousin who spoke up last year about it as well. The thing is that the justice system does not take rape cases seriously especially not if the victims were male.
And yet one of the boy band members from Menudo said he was raped in the menendez home that Jose drugged him. Believe what you want but the proof is out there.
She asks good questions
No.
Sad
Barbara cut him off when he said "I don't know if anyone can be portrayed fairly in the media". He hurt her little feelings lol.
I don’t like the way she handles this
How horrid she treated these men , Barbara got just what she deserved in the end long lingering althzhemer
ahaha alzheimer I don't feel bad for her at all.
My heart breaks for the brothers 💔
They don’t feel remorse their parents are dead… and why should they?
they have been imprisoned for 3 decades and I believed them that they were molested since child..what they have done was wrong but I can imagine how it started it all since their childhood...no one respected them in the family and all the pain and anger mounted up until that tragic night... I for one does not believed them in trials and seems like just making a alibi, bec the media has pictured them as spoiled disrespectful brats.. i hope they will be released from the imprisonment that now new evidence has surface with regards the father's molesting another young man.
I feel they've been in there long enough and I dont believe they are dangerous in general or that they'd hurt or kill anyone else if they got out. Their dad was a monster. I believe them.
That horrible woman 🧙♀️
Stop talking about yourself and please let a journalist do her work
@@ulrichgerhardosterloh6069 Yawn💤
SNL has ruined me forever with Barbara Walters voice.
If that was me in their shoes... I would have done the exact same thing they did. but I would've done it a lot earlier... not the age they did it
Their a lot more genuine then gyspie rose,now another person come forward that their father abuse him as child too ,so these beothers were victims ,mother didnt protect them...they need to be freed
" I'm the public let me tell you how you should grieve " DISGUSTING
Why was she even considered? Where they normal kids with all this going on in there home?
It’s crazy how there isn’t any love in this interview for them being survivors I’m happy that he’s not being hurt anymore! He said he shouldn’t have told his brother! But no he definitely needed to n how could he be gaslighted to believe his parents actually loved them when they didn’t n they deserved to suffer the way they caused their kids to suffer
Walter’s is soo annoying! They handles themselves well
Honestly I could relate to the menedez brothers because my family has this person in their life that keep torturing me and all I want to do is escape HELP
Hey, you need to talk to a safe family member you can’t let this person overpower you, if it doesn’t help, talk to an outsider (a friend or a social worker). You got this. God loves you.
@@tesfayesss I still feel like I’m destroying my life I just move out and my neighbor are jealous that I move in their friend apartment
@@Misthapiehave you tried talking to a social worker ?
Free the Melendez brothers, they were robbed of their innocence, suffered sexual & physical abuse. They have been in jail many years. They deserve a 2nd chance.
This woman is the worst interviewer. Did not sounded like she was interviewing, more like interrogating the brothers. No empathy at all.
Walters had the most annoying face
Is the reporter still alive?
Barbara Walters passed away December 30, 2022 @ the age of 98. She Judge Judy’s older sister lol mean
Well now there r other young men that came out that said the Menendez brother's father molested them 2 when they were young and in the group called Menudo. Hopefully now they will get a chance 2 get out. It's 2 bad that those other kids didn't come forward then maybe the brother's wouldn't have gotten that many years, but they're speaking out now, so we'll see. Good luck Kyle and Eric
Savagery more like justice
I can’t finish watching this. Shame on you, Barbara Walters!
wow I couldn't get through this. DID NO ONE CARE THAT THEY WERE RAPED BY THEIR PARENTS??????????
So much for client privalege oaths with his shitty doctor.
this interviewer is so mean and disrespectful
How disgusting is this interview!! Shame on you Barbara!!!