FRONTLINE

A Hidden Life

Season 2006 Episode 16

In May 2005, Jim West, the once-popular mayor of Spokane, Wash., made headlines with rampant accusations of abuse. FRONTLINE takes a look at West’s two lives: the public and the private, the political and the deeply, disturbingly possible.

Aired: 11/13/06

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