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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio Break

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Speaker 1: the cover up of the Ice murder of Renee Good.

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Speaker 1: Investigate anyway on the state and county levels, Indict and

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Speaker 1: arrest the Ice shooter, Jonathan Ross and the Trump militia

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Speaker 1: members who were with him as accessories. Impeach Homeland Security

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Speaker 1: Chief Christy Nome, ICE Director Todd lyons and borders our

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Speaker 1: Tom Homan Representative Angie Craig says, now the Gnome impeachment

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Speaker 1: will proceed, and if Gnome or any other ICE or

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Speaker 1: DHS official continues to stonewall local investigators seeking justice for

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Speaker 1: the murdered woman, indict and arrest them for aubs instruction

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Speaker 1: of justice, although this may be unnecessary since Nome, an

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Speaker 1: idiot and Vice President JV Vance, another idiot, are the

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Speaker 1: ones who docks Ross as the shooter in the first place,

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Speaker 1: and while the leaders of his gestapo are vowing never

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Speaker 1: to cooperate with a Hennepin County or State of Minnesota investigation.

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Speaker 1: It was of course the shooter himself, Ross, who could

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Speaker 1: not help himself from leaking the video he took with

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Speaker 1: his phone of his crime because he is so deranged

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Speaker 1: and murderous. He thinks it will get him public support,

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Speaker 1: and the Cretans like Vance knowme, Lions and home and

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Speaker 1: think the video does anything besides proving he was at

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Speaker 1: no risk. And then he deliberately stepped in front of

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Speaker 1: her car, and while juggling the murder weapon in one

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Speaker 1: hand and his effing phone in the other, he shot

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Speaker 1: her because he wanted to shoot her, and because she

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Speaker 1: was not afraid of him, and because she was nice

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Speaker 1: to him.

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Speaker 2: Show your okay, we don't change our plates every morning,

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Speaker 2: just so you know it'll be the same plate when

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Speaker 2: you come talk to us later.

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Speaker 3: That's fine.

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Speaker 4: You have citizen for.

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Speaker 2: You want to come at us, you want to come

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Speaker 2: at us, I say, go get yourself some lunch, big boy.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead.

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Speaker 1: And then they celebrated, as we all heard. And then

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Speaker 1: two days later, other Ice scum threatened other Minnesotans because

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Speaker 1: they have clearly been told they are there to threaten,

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Speaker 1: to terrorize, and too if they can get away with it,

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Speaker 1: kill for Trump.

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Speaker 4: Shame on, you have y'all not learned from the past

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Speaker 4: couple of days. Have you not learned?

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Speaker 1: Learned?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 1: What's our lesson here?

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Speaker 5: What do you want us to learn? There is no

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Speaker 5: indication that these diseased, sadistic vultures of our society, Trump Vance,

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Speaker 5: Gnome homann Lions will stop, will even stop escalating this

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Speaker 5: until the rest of us force them to, until we

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Speaker 5: break ice.

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Speaker 1: Since the tragedy unfolded Wednesday, they have hidden like the

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Speaker 1: terrified video game villains they are now. They are hiding

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Speaker 1: behind this empty, corrupt demand that we all need to

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Speaker 1: improve the tone. And when they say we, they mean you,

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Speaker 1: and when they say tone, they mean any criticism of

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Speaker 1: them at all. Tom Homan went on Fox and actually

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Speaker 1: added to this bankrupt bromide new threats quote, there will

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Speaker 1: be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric. Translation

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Speaker 1: of this tautology, more civilians will be shot unless innocent

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Speaker 1: Americans stop saying such mean things about the fact trigger

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Speaker 1: happy PTSD addled criminals threatening and slaughtering Americans exercising their

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Speaker 1: constitutional rights to protest peacefully. Decrease the hateful rhetoric. Holman,

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Speaker 1: you fake tough guy, rube idiot. You know a good

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Speaker 1: way to decrease the hateful rhetoric. Baldy, stop shooting mothers

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Speaker 1: of five year old boys in the face for no reason.

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Speaker 1: In broad daylight, the acting Ice chief this Lions may

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Speaker 1: be even worse. He is daring Minnesota to enforce its laws. Quote.

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Speaker 1: My message to the sheriff is, try and arrest my folks.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. Unquote, mister Lyons, shove it up

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Speaker 1: your ass. Shove it up your ass. You want to

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Speaker 1: play the let's see what happens game. Governor Wallas has

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Speaker 1: already activated the National Guard, and Minnesota's citizens have shown

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Speaker 1: the kind of restraint never exceeded in American history. Get

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Speaker 1: the indictments. Get one for Nome and one for Lions,

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Speaker 1: and one for Home, and one for Ross, and one

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Speaker 1: for all the government issued Nazis who were on Portland

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Speaker 1: with the Minnesota National Guard standing behind them, weapons drawn.

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Speaker 1: And then, mister Lyons, let's see what happens. We know

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Speaker 1: what will happen. Your excuses for men will flee. This, however,

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Speaker 1: is a reminder that the battle here has to be

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Speaker 1: the state, the state of Minnesota. In this case, this

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Speaker 1: is the Trump dictatorship, the Trump dictatorship that has now

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Speaker 1: lost any remaining moral authority. To continue to rule this country.

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Speaker 1: The state of Minnesota, or the state of Illinois or

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Speaker 1: the state of California must act, especially since ICE has

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Speaker 1: already gone rogue, gone extra legal across the Rubicon past,

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Speaker 1: this dry, the state and not the citizens must act here.

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Speaker 1: The state must act against the ICE murderers. The state

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Speaker 1: must act against the ICE terrorists. The state must act

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Speaker 1: against the ICE superstructure that is now covering up this

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Speaker 1: and other ICE crimes. Gnome, a virus with botox, secretly

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Speaker 1: of Congress, even though this order overrides federal law. Three

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Speaker 1: Minnesota representatives tried to see an ICE terror prison without

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Speaker 1: knowing of Nome's criminal act, and they were confronted, according

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Speaker 1: to one of them, by about twenty five menacing armed officers.

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Speaker 1: It is possible with the courts rigged and the propaganda

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Speaker 1: is possible that these forces of evil will delay the

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Speaker 1: prosecution of Jonathan Ross and Nome and the others. The

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Speaker 1: state and the county, though, are prepared for this exact scenario.

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison reminds us there are no

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Speaker 1: statutes of limitation on these crimes. Mister raw Us, Misnome,

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Speaker 1: mister Homan, the Lord's judgment cometh, and right soon you

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Speaker 1: will go to prison. And there is, for ones behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes, some doubt inside the Trump evil factory. An

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Speaker 1: anonymous Trump administration member to Politico, quote, I don't know

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Speaker 1: how we recover from this. This is highly problematic and

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Speaker 1: not a good look and not something our government should

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Speaker 1: be remotely engaged in. For a Trump isst this is

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Speaker 1: about as emotional a mea culpa as it can get. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: despite Dvance's claims there is no absolute immunity for these creatures,

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Speaker 1: there is no immunity at all for premeditated murder under

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Speaker 1: any circumstances, and so there must be in the interim

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Speaker 1: and Gnome as well and Home and every functionary in

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Speaker 1: this corrupt, sadistic, murderous gang. There is one more government

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Speaker 1: action to be taken now. The House voted Thursday to

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Speaker 1: Resolution expires. Now the Senate must act, and frankly, the

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Speaker 1: Senate must shut the goddamn government down period. Shut it down.

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Speaker 1: Not a dime until Trump is hamstrung on Venezuela and

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Speaker 1: a dime until Ice is neutered. We need border control,

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Speaker 1: We need immigration enforcement. We do not need paramilitary, unvetted,

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Speaker 1: You want the money Republicans trade, give us Noome Homan, Ross,

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Speaker 1: Ice the others, and the worst, by the way we

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Speaker 1: prosecute them. But Democratic senators have to stop what they

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Speaker 1: as the electoral and recall processes allowed to quote Theodore Roosevelt,

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Speaker 1: we are met at Armagaddon, and we battle for the

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Speaker 1: Lord Schumer. I don't care, do it, Fetterman. I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: for all your problems. I don't care. This is nut

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Speaker 1: cutting time. So far you have been on the wrong

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Speaker 1: side of this. History will not judge you well if

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Speaker 1: it bothers to judge you at all. And incidentally, the

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Speaker 1: approval rating has collapsed since Trump took office, from plus

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Speaker 1: Writes conducted on Wednesday, ICE's job approval came in at

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Speaker 4: We're setting by the tragedy that occurred yesterday in our

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Speaker 4: Minneapolis community in the loss of Renee and Nicole good.

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Speaker 4: Our thoughts are with her family and everyone affected, and

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Speaker 4: healing in Unixy and during this challenging time, Please join

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Speaker 1: this the retiring Episcopalian Bishop of New Hampshire, Bob Hirschfeld,

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Speaker 1: with one of the most chilling and sadly one of

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Speaker 6: Clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire that we

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Speaker 6: may be entering into that same witness, and I've asked

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Speaker 2: It may be that now is no longer the time

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Speaker 1: I hope the Bishop is wrong. I still think this

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Speaker 1: can be resolved with nothing approaching any of that. On

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Speaker 1: minimum standards of protesting renee Good. She thought this could

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Speaker 1: Gnome Vance, Trump, Holman Ellis Ross? These thugs in masks

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Speaker 1: they are somehow not terrorists. It may be the guns.

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Speaker 1: I don't mean the obvious part. I mean the obvious

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Speaker 1: should be assumed to be a threat, possibly a terrorist,

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Speaker 1: until proven otherwise. And the deliberate twisting of the Second

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Speaker 1: But that's not what I mean. I mean something even

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Speaker 1: more elemental than that. When I say it may be

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Speaker 1: the second time in the last three years, a study

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Speaker 1: has hit indicating that the simple act of firing a

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Speaker 1: modern gun, a weapon of police and war, does violent

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Speaker 1: damage to the shooter to their brain. You shoot, you

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Speaker 1: get concussed, or very nearly so. You shoot a hundred times,

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Speaker 1: Shooting indoors poses another hazard that has been almost entirely overlooked,

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Speaker 1: bearable than the screech of the train's breaking as they

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Speaker 1: stopped in a New York City subway station. And for

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Speaker 1: a year as he has run a one man campaign

431
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Speaker 1: to try to force a ground swell to get himself

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Speaker 1: taken seriously as a presidential possibility. No possibility is the

433
00:32:00,995 --> 00:32:03,755
Speaker 1: wrong word to get himself taken as anything besides one

434
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Speaker 1: of the dumbestas in the extremely dumb history of extremely

435
00:32:08,675 --> 00:32:13,195
Speaker 1: dumb American politics. And while doing this, he has tried

436
00:32:13,195 --> 00:32:15,915
Speaker 1: to pretend he didn't want the job and he didn't

437
00:32:15,915 --> 00:32:18,675
Speaker 1: have anything to do with the campaign. For years I

438
00:32:18,755 --> 00:32:22,435
Speaker 1: have been mildly critical of Stephen A. Smith.

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00:32:23,635 --> 00:32:24,275
Speaker 4: That ends.

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00:32:25,155 --> 00:32:28,555
Speaker 1: He has now defended the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis,

441
00:32:28,555 --> 00:32:31,075
Speaker 1: the murder of an American mother picking up her kid

442
00:32:31,075 --> 00:32:35,155
Speaker 1: at school, because because Stephen thinks that may make him president,

443
00:32:36,235 --> 00:32:40,355
Speaker 1: without realizing apparently that the only people that that barbaric

444
00:32:40,515 --> 00:32:43,115
Speaker 1: in human point of view can appeal to are the

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00:32:43,155 --> 00:32:46,235
Speaker 1: same people who think Stephen A. Smith is a DEI

446
00:32:46,355 --> 00:32:51,795
Speaker 1: higher and he should not be on ESPN or television.

447
00:32:52,675 --> 00:32:54,875
Speaker 1: And these same people that he's trying to appeal to

448
00:32:55,195 --> 00:33:00,435
Speaker 1: want Disney burn to the ground. As it is. It's

449
00:33:00,715 --> 00:33:04,635
Speaker 1: the Tony de Koppel story, only involving somebody who actually

450
00:33:04,835 --> 00:33:09,115
Speaker 1: has viewers. You are appealing to the people who want

451
00:33:09,155 --> 00:33:13,875
Speaker 1: to see your career end. But that's his problem now

452
00:33:14,355 --> 00:33:18,475
Speaker 1: with this rubicon that he's passed rubicon Google it, Steve,

453
00:33:18,915 --> 00:33:20,635
Speaker 1: I speak on behalf of a lot of us who

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00:33:20,675 --> 00:33:25,275
Speaker 1: helped establish that place ESPN, including those who, unlike me,

455
00:33:25,435 --> 00:33:28,795
Speaker 1: actually did build it. They were actually there on day

456
00:33:28,835 --> 00:33:31,515
Speaker 1: one or year one or year five or year ten.

457
00:33:31,715 --> 00:33:33,995
Speaker 1: They didn't just come in on the second wave of

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Speaker 1: growth like I did in the nineties. We're talking about

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00:33:36,555 --> 00:33:40,555
Speaker 1: the originals, but all of us originals and second wave

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00:33:40,675 --> 00:33:43,995
Speaker 1: old timers have discussed this, and I'm sorry even I

461
00:33:44,035 --> 00:33:47,675
Speaker 1: believe that there's never been any room for overlapping partisan

462
00:33:47,715 --> 00:33:51,235
Speaker 1: politics and sports coverage on ESPN. And I never did

463
00:33:51,235 --> 00:33:53,635
Speaker 1: it there, and I vowed to never do it there,

464
00:33:53,755 --> 00:33:57,035
Speaker 1: and I never did it there, not once, well not

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Speaker 1: when I worked for them. And now they are letting

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00:34:00,275 --> 00:34:03,475
Speaker 1: him go on a satellite radio show and not only

467
00:34:03,595 --> 00:34:07,795
Speaker 1: constantly talk politics, and he knows less somehow about politics

468
00:34:07,835 --> 00:34:10,635
Speaker 1: than he knows about sports. So he's in negative numbers

469
00:34:10,635 --> 00:34:17,195
Speaker 1: on politics and spout fascism and spout murdering American civilians

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00:34:17,675 --> 00:34:22,515
Speaker 1: for the sake of Trump's war against people of color

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00:34:24,035 --> 00:34:26,475
Speaker 1: and the murdering of American citizens on the street by

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00:34:26,635 --> 00:34:32,035
Speaker 1: the Trump Gestapo. They let him go on a satellite

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Speaker 1: radio show and spout fascism Steven A. Smith is urinating

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Speaker 1: on the ESPN brand because who knows, maybe he actually

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00:34:41,795 --> 00:34:46,355
Speaker 1: believes this. It'd be the first time Steven Asmith is

476
00:34:46,355 --> 00:34:51,995
Speaker 1: actually believed in anything other than his own paycheck. But hey,

477
00:34:52,195 --> 00:34:58,395
Speaker 1: you know, could happen. Everybody has a loyalty somewhere, especially

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Speaker 1: if there's money attached to it. But to Jimmy Pittaro,

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00:35:01,555 --> 00:35:04,075
Speaker 1: the president of ESPN, and to Bob Eiger, the head

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00:35:04,115 --> 00:35:07,075
Speaker 1: of Disney, who I have known since nineteen seventy freaking nine,

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00:35:07,835 --> 00:35:10,715
Speaker 1: you have to stop this. You have to stop him.

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00:35:11,075 --> 00:35:16,275
Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith is destroying what we Jimmy, Bob and

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00:35:16,315 --> 00:35:20,155
Speaker 1: the real inventors of ESPN, what we have spent parts

484
00:35:20,155 --> 00:35:23,715
Speaker 1: of our lives trying to build. It is still one

485
00:35:23,755 --> 00:35:27,635
Speaker 1: of the great brand names in America. But if Steven A.

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Speaker 1: Smith will not drop the political show, you have to

487
00:35:31,115 --> 00:35:36,115
Speaker 1: drop him. Bob, Jimmy, you have to fire him. You

488
00:35:36,235 --> 00:35:39,995
Speaker 1: have to fire Stephen A. Smith right now because he

489
00:35:40,075 --> 00:35:44,875
Speaker 1: is on a path that ends with him destroying ESPN irrevocably.

490
00:35:45,675 --> 00:35:48,475
Speaker 1: And if you don't think this is wrong somehow, just

491
00:35:48,555 --> 00:35:53,315
Speaker 1: think about the money. Stephen A. Smith, And I'm sorry,

492
00:35:53,395 --> 00:35:57,635
Speaker 1: I have to go there now and henceforth, Stephen a Shit,

493
00:35:58,235 --> 00:36:23,275
Speaker 1: today's worst person in the world, Sit back and relax,

494
00:36:24,595 --> 00:36:28,395
Speaker 1: if relax is the right word for it. For the

495
00:36:28,475 --> 00:36:35,435
Speaker 1: greatest man in the World by James Thurber. Looking back

496
00:36:35,475 --> 00:36:37,955
Speaker 1: on it now from the vantage point of nineteen forty

497
00:36:38,155 --> 00:36:40,635
Speaker 1: one can only marvel that it had not happened. Long

498
00:36:40,675 --> 00:36:43,795
Speaker 1: before it did. The United States of America had been

499
00:36:44,275 --> 00:36:49,635
Speaker 1: ever since Kitty Hawk blindly constructing the elaborate petard, by which,

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00:36:49,675 --> 00:36:55,315
Speaker 1: sooner or later it must be hoist. It was inevitable

501
00:36:55,315 --> 00:36:57,555
Speaker 1: that someday there would come, roaring out of the skies

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00:36:57,995 --> 00:37:02,675
Speaker 1: a national hero of insufficient intelligence, background and character, successfully

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00:37:02,715 --> 00:37:06,115
Speaker 1: to endure the mounting orgies of glory prepared for aviators

504
00:37:06,435 --> 00:37:09,635
Speaker 1: who stayed up for a long time or flew a

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00:37:09,675 --> 00:37:15,155
Speaker 1: great distance. Both Lindbergh and Byrd, fortunately for national decorum

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00:37:15,195 --> 00:37:19,315
Speaker 1: and international amity, had been gentlemen, So had our other

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00:37:19,435 --> 00:37:23,915
Speaker 1: famous aviators. They wore their laurels, gracefully, withstood the awful

508
00:37:23,955 --> 00:37:28,355
Speaker 1: weather of publicity, married excellent women, usually fine family, and

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00:37:28,475 --> 00:37:31,395
Speaker 1: quietly retired to private life and the enjoyment of their

510
00:37:31,475 --> 00:37:37,395
Speaker 1: varying fortunes. No untoward incidents on a worldwide scale marred

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00:37:37,435 --> 00:37:40,435
Speaker 1: the perfection of their conduct on the perilous heights of Fame.

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00:37:41,835 --> 00:37:46,875
Speaker 1: The exception to the rule was, however, bound to occur,

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00:37:47,715 --> 00:37:51,395
Speaker 1: and it did in July nineteen thirty seven, when Jack

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00:37:52,155 --> 00:37:58,395
Speaker 1: Pal Smirch erstwhile mechanics helper in a small garage in Westfield, Iowa,

515
00:37:58,795 --> 00:38:04,355
Speaker 1: flew a second hand single motored BREASTHABN Dragonfly three monoplane

516
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Speaker 1: all the way around the world without stopping. Never before

517
00:38:11,875 --> 00:38:13,955
Speaker 1: in the history of aviation had such a flight as

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00:38:13,955 --> 00:38:17,515
Speaker 1: Smirches even been dreamed of. No one had even taken

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00:38:17,675 --> 00:38:21,795
Speaker 1: seriously the weird floating auxiliary gas tanks invention of the

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Speaker 1: mad New Hampshire professor of astronomy, doctor Charles Lewis Gresham,

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00:38:26,075 --> 00:38:30,475
Speaker 1: upon which Smirch placed full reliance. When the garage worker,

522
00:38:30,755 --> 00:38:35,275
Speaker 1: a slightly built, surly unprepossessing young man of twenty two,

523
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Speaker 1: appeared at Roosevelt Field early in July nineteen thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: slowly chewing a great quid of scrap tobacco, and announced

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Speaker 1: nobody ain't seen no flying yet. The newspapers touched briefly

526
00:38:49,315 --> 00:38:53,755
Speaker 1: and satirically upon his projected twenty five thousand mile flight.

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00:38:54,595 --> 00:38:59,035
Speaker 1: Aeronautical and automotive experts dismissed the idea, curtly implying that

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00:38:59,075 --> 00:39:03,075
Speaker 1: it was a hoax, the publicity stunt. The rusty, battered

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00:39:03,395 --> 00:39:10,715
Speaker 1: second hand plane wouldn't go, the Gresham auxiliary tanks wouldn't work.

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00:39:11,675 --> 00:39:18,355
Speaker 1: It was simply a cheap joke smirch. However, after calling

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00:39:18,395 --> 00:39:20,835
Speaker 1: on a girl in Brooklyn who worked in the flap

532
00:39:20,915 --> 00:39:24,235
Speaker 1: folding department of a large paper box factory, a girl

533
00:39:24,475 --> 00:39:29,555
Speaker 1: whom he later described as his sweet Pittuti, climbed nonchalantly

534
00:39:29,595 --> 00:39:33,435
Speaker 1: into his ridiculous plane at dawn the memorable seventh of

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Speaker 1: July nineteen thirty seven, spit a curve of tobacco juice

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00:39:37,675 --> 00:39:40,715
Speaker 1: into the still air, and took off, carrying with him

537
00:39:40,995 --> 00:39:45,555
Speaker 1: only a gallon of bootleg gin and six pounds of salami.

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00:39:47,835 --> 00:39:50,435
Speaker 1: When the garage boy thundered out over the ocean, the

539
00:39:50,475 --> 00:39:53,755
Speaker 1: papers were forced to record in all seriousness that a mad,

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00:39:54,155 --> 00:39:58,875
Speaker 1: unknown young man his name was variously misspelled, had actually

541
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Speaker 1: set out upon a preposterous attempt to span the world

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Speaker 1: in a rickety one engine contraption, trusting to the long

543
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Speaker 1: distance refueling device of a crazy schoolmaster. When, nine days later,

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Speaker 1: without having stopped once, the tiny plane appeared above San

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00:40:15,035 --> 00:40:18,555
Speaker 1: Francisco Bay, headed for New York, spluttering and choking, to

546
00:40:18,555 --> 00:40:22,795
Speaker 1: be sure, but still magnificently and miraculously aloft the headlines

547
00:40:22,995 --> 00:40:26,515
Speaker 1: which long since had crowded everything else off the front page.

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00:40:26,595 --> 00:40:29,115
Speaker 1: Even the shooting of the Governor of Illinois by the

549
00:40:29,195 --> 00:40:34,275
Speaker 1: Valetti Gang swelled to unprecedented size, and the news stories

550
00:40:34,315 --> 00:40:39,435
Speaker 1: began to run to twenty five and thirty columns. It

551
00:40:39,635 --> 00:40:44,755
Speaker 1: was noticeable, however, that the accounts of the epoch making

552
00:40:44,875 --> 00:40:50,795
Speaker 1: flight touched rather lightly upon the aviator himself. This was

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00:40:50,835 --> 00:40:53,315
Speaker 1: not because the facts about the hero as a man

554
00:40:53,395 --> 00:40:59,635
Speaker 1: were too meager, but because they were too complete. Reporters

555
00:40:59,675 --> 00:41:02,355
Speaker 1: who had been rushed out to Iowa when Smirch's plane

556
00:41:02,395 --> 00:41:04,955
Speaker 1: was first sighted over the lidge little French coast town

557
00:41:04,995 --> 00:41:07,715
Speaker 1: of Serlee Lemaire to dig up the story of the

558
00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:11,475
Speaker 1: great man's life had promptly discovered that the story of

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00:41:11,515 --> 00:41:15,315
Speaker 1: his life could not be printed. His mother, a sullen

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00:41:15,475 --> 00:41:17,915
Speaker 1: short order cook and a shack restaurant on the edge

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00:41:17,915 --> 00:41:21,675
Speaker 1: of a tourist's camping ground near Westfield, met all inquiries

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00:41:21,675 --> 00:41:24,075
Speaker 1: as to her son with an angry and the hell

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00:41:24,115 --> 00:41:27,995
Speaker 1: with him. A hoppy drowns. His father appeared to be

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00:41:28,035 --> 00:41:32,515
Speaker 1: in jail somewhere for stealing spotlights and lap robes from

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00:41:32,595 --> 00:41:37,395
Speaker 1: tourists automobiles. His young brother, a weak minded lad, had

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00:41:37,395 --> 00:41:40,435
Speaker 1: but recently escaped from the Preston, Iowa Reformatory, and was

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00:41:40,475 --> 00:41:43,355
Speaker 1: already wanted in several Western towns for the theft of

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00:41:43,435 --> 00:41:48,515
Speaker 1: money order blanks from post offices. These alarming discoveries were

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00:41:48,515 --> 00:41:51,275
Speaker 1: still piling up at the very time that pal Smirch,

570
00:41:51,595 --> 00:41:55,675
Speaker 1: the greatest hero of the twentieth century, lear eyed dead

571
00:41:55,755 --> 00:41:59,795
Speaker 1: for sleep, half starved, was piloting his crazy junk heap

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00:41:59,875 --> 00:42:02,275
Speaker 1: high above the region in which the lamentable story of

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00:42:02,315 --> 00:42:05,355
Speaker 1: his private life was being unearthed, headed for New York

574
00:42:05,515 --> 00:42:08,355
Speaker 1: and a greater glory than any man of his time

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00:42:08,475 --> 00:42:15,635
Speaker 1: had ever known. The necessity for printing some account in

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00:42:15,715 --> 00:42:18,755
Speaker 1: the papers of the young man's career and personality had

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00:42:18,835 --> 00:42:22,355
Speaker 1: led to a remarkable predicament. It was, of course, impossible

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00:42:22,395 --> 00:42:26,355
Speaker 1: to reveal the facts, for a tremendous popular feeling in

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00:42:26,475 --> 00:42:28,835
Speaker 1: favor of the young hero had sprung up like a

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00:42:28,835 --> 00:42:31,755
Speaker 1: grass fire when he was halfway across Europe on his

581
00:42:31,835 --> 00:42:35,595
Speaker 1: flight around the globe. He was therefore described as a modest,

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00:42:35,675 --> 00:42:41,595
Speaker 1: chap taciturn blonde, popular with his friends, popular with girls.

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00:42:42,355 --> 00:42:45,835
Speaker 1: The only available snapshot of Smirch, taken at the wheel

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Speaker 1: of a phony automobile in a cheap photo studio at

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00:42:48,635 --> 00:42:51,555
Speaker 1: an amusement park, was touched up so that the little

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00:42:51,635 --> 00:42:57,435
Speaker 1: vulgarian looked quite handsome. His twisted leer was smoothed into

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00:42:57,475 --> 00:43:01,235
Speaker 1: a pleasant smile. The truth was in this way kept

588
00:43:01,235 --> 00:43:04,995
Speaker 1: from the youth's ecstatic compatriots. They did not dream that

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00:43:05,035 --> 00:43:09,195
Speaker 1: the Smirch family was despised and feared by its neighbors

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00:43:09,195 --> 00:43:12,275
Speaker 1: in the obscure Iowa town, nor that the hero himself,

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00:43:12,795 --> 00:43:16,515
Speaker 1: because of numerous unsavory exploits, had come to be regarded

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00:43:16,515 --> 00:43:22,195
Speaker 1: in Westfield as a nuisance and a menace. Pal's Smirch had,

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00:43:22,235 --> 00:43:26,035
Speaker 1: the reporters discovered, once knife the principle of his high school,

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00:43:26,675 --> 00:43:29,595
Speaker 1: not mortally, to be sure, but he had knifed him,

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00:43:29,675 --> 00:43:33,435
Speaker 1: and on another occasion, surprised in the act of an

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00:43:33,555 --> 00:43:36,795
Speaker 1: stealing altar cloth from a church, he had bashed the

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00:43:36,875 --> 00:43:39,795
Speaker 1: sexton over the head with a pot of Easter lilies.

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00:43:40,795 --> 00:43:44,035
Speaker 1: For each of these offenses he had served a sentence

599
00:43:44,075 --> 00:43:49,115
Speaker 1: in the reformatory inwardly. The authorities, both in New York

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00:43:49,155 --> 00:43:53,955
Speaker 1: and in Washington, prayed that an understanding providence might, however awful,

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00:43:54,195 --> 00:43:58,635
Speaker 1: such a thing seemed, bring disaster to the rusty, battered

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00:43:58,675 --> 00:44:01,995
Speaker 1: plane and its illustrious pilot, whose unheard of flight had

603
00:44:02,035 --> 00:44:07,715
Speaker 1: aroused the civilized world to Hosanna's hysterical praise. The authorities

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00:44:07,755 --> 00:44:10,835
Speaker 1: were convinced that the character of the renowned aviator was

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00:44:10,915 --> 00:44:14,275
Speaker 1: such that the limelight of adulation was bound to reveal

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00:44:14,395 --> 00:44:19,315
Speaker 1: him to all the world as a congenital hooligan, mentally

607
00:44:19,715 --> 00:44:23,395
Speaker 1: and morally unequipped to cope with his own prodigious fame.

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00:44:24,875 --> 00:44:27,395
Speaker 1: I trust, said the Secretary of State, at one of

609
00:44:27,435 --> 00:44:31,395
Speaker 1: the many secret cabinet meetings called to consider the national dilemma.

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00:44:31,955 --> 00:44:37,555
Speaker 1: I trust that his mother's prayer will be answered, by

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00:44:37,595 --> 00:44:40,555
Speaker 1: which he referred to missus Emma's smirch's wish that her

612
00:44:40,555 --> 00:44:44,875
Speaker 1: son might be drowned. It was, however, too late, for

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00:44:44,915 --> 00:44:47,915
Speaker 1: that Spurch had leaped the Atlantic and then the Pacific

614
00:44:47,955 --> 00:44:50,915
Speaker 1: as if they were mill ponds. At three minutes after

615
00:44:50,915 --> 00:44:54,235
Speaker 1: two o'clock on the afternoon of July seventeenth, nineteen thirty seven,

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00:44:54,395 --> 00:44:58,275
Speaker 1: the garage boy brought his idiotic plane into Roosevelt Field

617
00:44:58,275 --> 00:45:03,275
Speaker 1: for a perfect three point landing. It had, of course

618
00:45:03,715 --> 00:45:06,035
Speaker 1: been out of the question, and to arrange a modest

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00:45:06,075 --> 00:45:08,875
Speaker 1: little reception for the greatest flier in the history of

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00:45:08,875 --> 00:45:11,955
Speaker 1: the world. He was received at Roosevelt Field with such

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00:45:11,955 --> 00:45:17,515
Speaker 1: elaborate and pretentious ceremonies as rocked the world. Fortunately, however,

622
00:45:17,835 --> 00:45:21,475
Speaker 1: the warren and spent hero promptly swooned, had to be

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Speaker 1: removed bodily from his plane, and was spirited from the

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00:45:24,435 --> 00:45:27,795
Speaker 1: field without having opened his mouth once. Thus he did

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00:45:27,835 --> 00:45:31,635
Speaker 1: not jeopardize the dignity of his first reception, a reception

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00:45:31,835 --> 00:45:35,315
Speaker 1: illumined by the presence of the Secretaries of War and

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00:45:35,395 --> 00:45:38,355
Speaker 1: the Navy, Mayor Michael J. Moriarty of New York, the

628
00:45:38,395 --> 00:45:42,435
Speaker 1: Premier of Canada, Governors Fannomine Groves, mcpheeley and Critchfield, and

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Speaker 1: a brilliant array of European diplomats. Smirch did not, in

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00:45:46,595 --> 00:45:49,395
Speaker 1: fact come too in time to take part in the

631
00:45:49,435 --> 00:45:52,475
Speaker 1: gigantic hullabaloo arranged at City Hall for the next day.

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00:45:52,795 --> 00:45:56,435
Speaker 1: He was rushed to a secluded nursing home and confined

633
00:45:56,475 --> 00:45:59,675
Speaker 1: in bed. It was nine days before he was able

634
00:45:59,715 --> 00:46:02,075
Speaker 1: to get up, or to be more exact, before he

635
00:46:02,235 --> 00:46:07,635
Speaker 1: was permitted to it up. Meanwhile, the greatest minds in

636
00:46:07,675 --> 00:46:11,395
Speaker 1: the country in solemn assembly, had arranged a secret conference

637
00:46:11,675 --> 00:46:14,875
Speaker 1: of city, state and government officials, which Smirch was to

638
00:46:14,955 --> 00:46:19,435
Speaker 1: attend for the purpose of being instructed in the ethics

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00:46:19,515 --> 00:46:24,595
Speaker 1: and behavior of heroism. On the day that the little

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Speaker 1: for the first time in two weeks, took a great

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Speaker 1: chew of tomacco, he was permitted to receive the newspaper

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Speaker 1: men this by way of testing him out. Smirch did

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Speaker 1: not wait for questions. Use guys, he said, and the

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Speaker 1: Times Man winced. Use guys can tell the cock eyed

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Speaker 1: world that I put it over on Lindberg. See yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: an assid I'm two frogs. The two frogs. It was

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Speaker 1: a reference to a pair of gallant French flyers who,

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00:46:58,435 --> 00:47:00,995
Speaker 1: in attempting to flight only halfway around the world, had

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Speaker 1: two weeks before unhappily been lost at sea. The Times

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Speaker 1: Man was bold enough at this point to sketch out

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Speaker 1: for Smirch the accepted formula for interviews in cases of

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Speaker 1: this kind. He explained that there should be no arrogant

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Speaker 1: statements belittling the achievements of other heroes, particularly heroes of

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Speaker 1: foreign nations. Ah the hell with that, said Smirch. I

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Speaker 1: did it. See I did it, and I'm talking about it,

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Speaker 1: and he did talk about it. None of this extraordinary

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Speaker 1: interview was, of course printed. On the contrary, the newspapers,

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Speaker 1: already under the discipline direction of a secret directorate created

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Speaker 1: for the occasion and composed of statesmen and editors, gave

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Speaker 1: out to a panting and restless world that Jackie, as

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Speaker 1: he had been arbitrarily nicknamed, would consent to say only

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Speaker 1: that he was very happy and that anyone could have

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Speaker 1: done what he did. My achievement has been I fear

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Speaker 1: slightly exaggerated. The Times Man's article had him protest with

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Speaker 1: a modest smile. These newspapers stories were kept from the hero,

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Speaker 1: a restriction which did not serve to abate the rising

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Speaker 1: malevolence of his temper. The situation was indeed extremely grave

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Speaker 1: for Palell. Smirch was, as he kept insisting, raring to go.

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Speaker 1: He could not much longer be kept from a nation

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Speaker 1: clamorous to lionize him. It was the most desperate crisis

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Speaker 1: the United States of America had faced since the sinking

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Speaker 1: of the Lusitania. On the afternoon of the twenty seventh

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Speaker 1: of July, Smirch was spirited away to a conference room

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Speaker 1: in which were gathered mayors, governors, government officials, behaviorist, psychologists,

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Speaker 1: and editors. He gave them each a limp moist paw,

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Speaker 1: and a brief, unlovely grin hi, he said. When Smirch

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Speaker 1: was seated, the Mayor of New York arose, and, with

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00:48:57,915 --> 00:49:01,675
Speaker 1: obvious pessimism, attempted to explain what he must say and

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Speaker 1: how he must act when presented to the world, ending

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Speaker 1: his talk with a high tribute to the hero's courage

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Speaker 1: and integrity. The mayor was followed by Governor Fannman of

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Speaker 1: New York, who, after a touching declaration of faith, introduced

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Speaker 1: Cameron Spottiswood, second Secretary of the American Embassy in Paris,

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Speaker 1: the gentleman selected to coach Smirch in the amenities of

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Speaker 1: public ceremonies. Sitting in a chair with a soiled yellow

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Speaker 1: tie in his hand and his shirt open at the throat, unshaved,

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Speaker 1: smoking a rolled cigarette, Jack Smirch listened with a leer

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Speaker 1: on his lips. I get you, I get you, he

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Speaker 1: cut in nastily. You want me to act like a softie? Huh?

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Speaker 1: You want me to act like that bemny memty baby

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00:49:48,355 --> 00:49:53,075
Speaker 1: face lind big huh, Well nuts to that. See. Everyone

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Speaker 1: took in his breath sharply. It was a sigh and

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Speaker 1: a hiss. Mister Lindbergh began. A United States senator purple

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Speaker 1: with rage, and mister bird Smirch, who was paring his

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Speaker 1: nails with a jackknife, cut in again. Boyd, he exclaimed, Oh,

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Speaker 1: for God's sake, that big somebody shut off the blasphemies

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Speaker 1: with a sharp word. A newcomer had entered the word

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Speaker 1: the room. Everyone stood up, except Smirch, who was still

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Speaker 1: busy with his nails, and he did not even glance up.

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Speaker 1: Mister Smirch, said someone sternly. The President of the United States.

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Speaker 1: It had been thought that the presence of the Chief

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Speaker 1: Executive might have a chastening effect on the young hero,

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Speaker 1: and the former had been, thanks to the remarkable cooperation

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Speaker 1: of the press, secretly brought to the obscure conference room.

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Speaker 1: A great painful silence fell. Smirch looked up, waved a

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Speaker 1: hand at the president. How you coming, he asked, and

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00:50:57,195 --> 00:51:06,355
Speaker 1: began rolling a fresh cigarette. The silence deepened. Someone coughed

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00:51:06,675 --> 00:51:11,475
Speaker 1: in a strained way. Jesus hot, ain't it, said smirch.

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00:51:13,155 --> 00:51:17,075
Speaker 1: He loosened two more shirt buttons, revealing a hairy chest

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Speaker 1: and the tattooed word sadie enclosed in a stenciled heart.

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00:51:23,115 --> 00:51:26,315
Speaker 1: The great and important men in the room, faced by

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00:51:26,355 --> 00:51:30,915
Speaker 1: the most serious crisis in American history, exchanged worried frowns.

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Speaker 1: Nobody seemed to know how to proceed. Come on, come on,

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00:51:36,115 --> 00:51:39,075
Speaker 1: said smirch. Let's get the hell out of here. Why

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Speaker 1: do I start cutting in on the parties? Eh? And

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00:51:41,915 --> 00:51:46,875
Speaker 1: when is there gonna be this in it? He rubbed

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Speaker 1: a thumb and forefinger together meaningly. Money, exclaimed a state

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Speaker 1: senator shocked Pale. Yeah money, said pal, flipping his cigarette

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00:51:57,595 --> 00:52:01,155
Speaker 1: out of the window. And big money. He began rolling

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Speaker 1: a fresh cigarette. Big money, he repeated, Frowning over the

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Speaker 1: rice paper. He tilted back in his chair and leered

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Speaker 1: at each gentleman separately. The leer of an animal that

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Speaker 1: knows its power, the leer of a leopard loose in

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00:52:17,595 --> 00:52:22,115
Speaker 1: a bird and dog shop. Ah, for God's sake, let's

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Speaker 1: get someplace where it's cool. He said, I've been cooped

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00:52:25,715 --> 00:52:29,915
Speaker 1: up plenty for three weeks. Smirch stood up and walked

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Speaker 1: over to an open window, where he stood staring down

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Speaker 1: into the street nine floors below. The faint shouting of

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Speaker 1: newsboys floated up to him. He made out his name,

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Speaker 1: hot Dog, he cried, grinning ecstatic. He leaned out over

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Speaker 1: the sill. You tell of babies, he shouted down, Hot

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Speaker 1: Diggity Dog. In the tense little knot of men standing

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Speaker 1: behind him, a quick, mad impulse flared up. An unspoken

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Speaker 1: word of appeal of command seemed to ring through the room.

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Speaker 1: It was deadly silent. Charles K. L Brand, secretary to

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Speaker 1: the Mayor of New York City, happened to be standing

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Speaker 1: nearest Smirch. He looked inquiringly at the President of the

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Speaker 1: United States. The President, pale grim, nodded shortly. Brand, a tall,

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Speaker 1: powerfully built man wants to tackle at Rutgers University, stepped forward,

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Speaker 1: seized the greatest man in the world by his left

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Speaker 1: shoulder and the seat of his pants, and pushed him

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Speaker 1: out the window. My god, he's falling out the window,

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00:53:34,275 --> 00:53:36,555
Speaker 1: cried a quick witted editor. Get me out of here,

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Speaker 1: cried the President. Several men sprang to his side, and

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Speaker 1: he was hurriedly escorted out of a door toward a

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Speaker 1: side entrance of the building. The editor of the Associated

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Speaker 1: Press took charge, being used to such things crisply, He

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Speaker 1: ordered certain men to leave, others to stay quickly. He

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Speaker 1: outlined a story which all the papers were to agree on,

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Speaker 1: sent two men to the street to handle that end

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Speaker 1: of the tragedy, commanded a senator to sob and two

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Speaker 1: congressmen to go to pieces nervously. In a word, he

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Speaker 1: skillfully set the stage for the gigantic task that was

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Speaker 1: to follow, the task of breaking to a grief stricken

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Speaker 1: world the sad story of the untimely accidental death of

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Speaker 1: its most illustrious and spectacular figure. The funeral was, as

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Speaker 1: you know, the most elaborate, the finest, the solemnest, and

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Speaker 1: the saddest ever held in the United States of America.

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Speaker 1: The monument in Arlington Cemetery, with its clean white shaft

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Speaker 1: of marble and the simple device of a tiny plane

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Speaker 1: carved on its base, is a place for pilgrims in

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Speaker 1: deep reverence to visit. The nations of the world paid

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Speaker 1: lofty tributes to little Jackie Smirch America's greatest hero. At

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Speaker 1: a given hour, there were two minutes of silence throughout

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Speaker 1: the nation. Even the inhabitants of the small, bewildered town

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Speaker 1: of Westfield, Iowa observed this touching ceremony. Agents of the

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Speaker 1: Department of Justice sow to that one of them was

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Speaker 1: especially assigned to stand grimly in the doorway of a

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Speaker 1: little shack restaurant on the edge of the tourists camping

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Speaker 1: ground just outside the town. There, under his stern scrutiny,

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Speaker 1: missus Emma Smirch bowed her head over two Hamburger steaks

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Speaker 1: sizzling on her grill. Bowed her head and turned away

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Speaker 1: so that the secret serviceman could not see the twisted,

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00:55:36,235 --> 00:55:55,155
Speaker 1: strangely familiar leer on her lips. I've done all the

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