Video: 'Dr. Jack Kevorkian on the Assisted Suicide of Janet Adkins'

(Monday, June 4, 1990, afternoon EDT) — “Dr. Death” Jack Kevorkian, using a “suicide machine” he developed, carried out his first publicly assisted suicide this afternoon, helping Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old Alzheimer’s patient from Portland, Oregon, end her life in Oakland County, Michigan.

Video: 'Jack Kevorkian and the Right to Die | Retro Report | The New York Times'