THE BURNING BED

A True Story Teleplay

by Rose Leiman Goldemberg

Based on the book by

Faith McNulty

FINAL DRAFT April 1, 1981

The Burning Bed is a non-fiction book by Faith McNulty about battered Dansville, Michigan, housewife Francine Hughes. Screenplay by Rose Leiman Goldemberg. After thirteen years of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, James Berlin ("Mickey") Hughes, she set fire to the bed he was sleeping in on March 9, 1977. Mickey Hughes was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting inferno