Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20111229:11:26:00
>> the theme to the tv show "alfred hitchcock presents." which brings us to our final story. the mystery behind one of hitchcock's greatest movies. >> in "the birds," the violent title characters attack just about everyone. so the question is where did hitchcock get the idea? here is abc's dan harris. >> reporter: what we have known all along about the psychotic winged killers with their malignant screeching and flapping, dive-bombing tippi hedren in the movie, "the birds," is that they were based on a real-life event. that event happened in 1961, when thousands of deranged sea birds descended...