TV & VIDEO - July 24, 1987
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District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry and the welfare mother he publicly criticized as having too many children sparred over the issue of responsibility during taping of Thursday’s “Donahue” show in Stamford, Conn. On the show, Barry refused to apologize for telling Jacqueline Williams, a welfare mother with 14 children, “Why don’t you stop having all these babies?” Williams, who doesn’t believe in using birth control, responded: “You tell me which one of my kids I should have killed.”
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