James Dobson

===Ted Bundy Interview===
Dobson interviewed [[serial killer]] [[Ted Bundy]] on-camera the day before Bundy's execution on January 24, 1989. The interview became controversial because Bundy was given an opportunity to attempt to explain his actions (the [[rape]] and [[murder]] of 30 young women). Bundy claimed in the interview (in a reversal of his previous stance) that violent [[pornography]] played a significant role in molding and crystallizing his fantasies. In May 1989, during an interview with John Tanner, a Republican [[Florida]] prosecutor, Dobson called for Bundy to be forgiven. The Bundy tapes gave Focus on the Family revenues of over $1 million, $600,000 of which it donated to [[Opposition to pornography|anti-pornography]] groups and to anti-abortion groups.<ref name=WaTimes>{{cite news |last=Aynesworth |first=Hugh |title=Bundy lore lives decade after killer was put to death |newspaper=[[The Washington Times]] |date=January 24, 1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Blumenthal |first=Max |title=Republican Gomorrah Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party |year=2009 |publisher=Nation Books |isbn=978-1-56858-398-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/republicangomorr00blum_0/page/77 77] |url=https://archive.org/details/republicangomorr00blum_0/page/77}}</ref>