Turning Point was an ABC News

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 program that aired from 1994

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 to 1999

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Turning Point was an hour-long program on a single topic, making it similar to CBS

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' 48 Hours

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, which it ran directly opposite for some of its run. The program tended toward sensational topics, such as former members of Charles Manson

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's "Family" and much coverage of the O. J. Simpson murder case

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, which was current for much of the program's run. Major ABC News figures appearing regularly on the program included Diane Sawyer

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, Forrest Sawyer

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, Meredith Vieira

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, Peter Jennings

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 and Barbara Walters

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This Turning Point is not to be confused with an ABC dramatic anthology series of the same title which ran during the 1952-53 television season.