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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast tonight on unsolved mysteries
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a heartwarming story of a Vietnam
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veterans battle wounds nearly cost him
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his life and the Army nurse who healed
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him both physically and emotionally you
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may be able to help reunite them after
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20 years by all appearances Gertrude
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Pruitt seemed to be the kindly
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grandmother you would find in a normal
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Rockwell painting but in reality this
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sweet little old lady was a con artist
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who stole three million dollars from
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investors and in Missouri we would
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investigate a baffling case of
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kidnapping bank robbery and murder did a
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bank president die as the victim in a
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simple holdup or was his death a cruel
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and callous execution join me these
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fascinating stories perhaps someone
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somewhere has that one vital clue that
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can help solve a mystery
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perhaps that someone is watching perhaps
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it's you
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Jim Bukowski lives with his family in a
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small town of Grand Junction Colorado he
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and his wife Dolores have two son in
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1968 Jim was wounded by enemy action
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during the Vietnam War for over 20 years
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he and his family have had to cope with
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his injuries both physical and emotional
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during the war Jim was one of thousands
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of troops manning the constantly
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changing frontlines what he went through
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turned his life inside out but one
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memory of the war Jim still holds dear
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that memory has a name and a face
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Linda Sharpe captain Sharpe was the only
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good memory I had she had something
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about her that made you feel comfortable
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warm want to live and go back home when
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you were dying
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the hushed feels of gravestones here at
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the National Cemetery in Arlington
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Virginia are mute testimony to the
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tragic toll of the Vietnam War thousands
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of surviving Vietnam veterans have tried
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to put the war behind them summer
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succeeded many have not for them the war
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continues one of the few memories it can
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still inspire a smile among vets is a
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selfish devotion and kindness exhibited
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by the nearly 10,000 nurses who in many
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cases literally breathed the life back
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into their patients
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Jim Bukowski was one such survivor 20
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years ago an Army nurse named Linda
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sharp gave Jim the strength he needed to
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return home to his wife he feels that if
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he can reunite with captain sharp his
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private war will be much closer to
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ending Jim was drafted in December of
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1967 and after boot camp was sent for
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advanced training to Fort Polk Louisiana
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but he learned he was to be shipped to
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Vietnam
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he placed a late-night
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five years Flores five
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look I've been giving this a lot of
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thought I waited in line during the rain
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for over four hours and I told her that
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I was going to Vietnam and I said will
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you marry me I was 19 she was eight oh
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that's great she said yes I turned him
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down the first two times and then I
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decided after that it was time to say
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yes because I knew he was gonna leave so
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we got married before he left
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I wasn't sure when he was coming back I
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knew the time was the year I just know
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the year would have to hurry up and get
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by
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only a week after they were married Jim
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was shipped off to Vietnam
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we land and we're all scared see unknown
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didn't know what I was getting in it had
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no idea
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but I found out
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within three months Jim was wounded
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twice once in the jaw and once in his
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leg on August 29 2016 8 is two days
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before he is to be reunited with his new
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bride in Hawaii Jim's platoon was
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attacked by a group of North Vietnamese
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they blew us to smithereens we didn't
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even have a chance there were 60 of us
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somewhere between 250 and 300 of them
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and it wiped out my whole company at the
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time I was operating the radio for
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lieutenant because we were two people
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side by side he was dead
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and then the next thing I knew I was
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reaching for a weapon
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I went flying through the air I landed
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30 feet down the hill I picked up my leg
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that was blown off and I crawled back up
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the hill I think you better in addition
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to that telegram was sent to Delores his
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parents addressed to her it's stated
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James P Bukowski was wounded in Vietnam
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as a result of hostile action he
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received traumatic amputation of the
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right leg when engaged by hostile force
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in a firefight
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you will be kept informed of any
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significant changes in his condition I
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just cried I couldn't believe it really
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happened did you hear things happened to
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everyone else but not to your own family
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I guess
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I just kept looking at like it can go
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away and it doesn't cause it just stays
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there and you have to learn to live with
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it Jim had been rushed by helicopter the
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67th evacuation hospital and quinion his
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prognosis was grim his fever hovered at
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105 degrees and his wound was badly
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infected
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it also left six pints of blood behind
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in the jungle
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[Applause]
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my first conscious memory was looking up
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and seeing this blonde lady in fatigues
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helping captain Lynn sharp
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[Music]
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I just woke up mo mais and she was
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looking over me I heard people talking
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him he ain't gonna make it and all I saw
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was her looking down to me she gave me
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the encouragement to live because of the
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extreme infection what was left of Jim's
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leg was amputated at the hip this was
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followed by frigid bass to lower his
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high body temperature at this time Jim
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began to become more aware of captain
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sharps constant attention hi Jim how you
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doing go for a little swim
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the lady was phenomenal you know every
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time I don't my eyes ladies blue eyes
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would be looking down at me looks like
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you're feeling better
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hey I promise if you get your
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temperature down I could take you out
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and go get a couple beers she told me
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when your temperature drops and you get
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into bed I'll pull you outside and I'll
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bring you a cold beer the process what
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I'm gonna do if you weren't cold before
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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over a period of six days captain Sharpe
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was always there and Jim slowly began to
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heal he'll be going home soon
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goodnight guy with her help agenda gate
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this former spirit because will to live
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to go Jim see what's your time late one
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night two days before Jim was scheduled
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to leave captain shark kept her word
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I keep my promises stars were out
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beautiful night and she brought two cans
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of beer pop them both sat on the edge
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your bed and smiled so you're gonna
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write your wife about your leg come on
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oh how now you started with one word at
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a time I just don't know what to say to
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her you were not allowed to leave the
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mass unit until you wrote a letter to
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your wife I didn't have the courage to
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write it she forced me to do it
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and then I didn't know she had sent a
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letter and a picture to my wife with it
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telling my wife would expect
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dear mrs. Bukowski I'm the head nurse on
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the ward where Jim is now it truly is
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not possible for me a poor letter writer
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to tell you how very much Jim loves you
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when he talks about you his lovely blue
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eyes sparkle and he gets a wide grin on
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his face in spite of his missing leg he
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is probably the most cheerful and
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optimistic patient I have ever had the
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pleasure of caring for his spirit
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determination are marvelous and with
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your hard work and he'll not pity he'll
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make rapid progress however both of you
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have a long difficult road ahead there
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will be days when Jim will be
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discouraged but don't you or any of your
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families ever feel sorry for him
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he needs understanding love and help not
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pity a missing limb doesn't make Jim
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less a person and it certainly doesn't
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lessen his love for you
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Jim leaves tomorrow for Japan and then
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home we shall all miss him god bless you
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both sincerely captain Linda sharp
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the letter helped me because nobody in
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my family has ever had anybody lose a
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leg or hurt in a war they didn't
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understand her letter just let you know
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what to expect
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I've always wondered why she wrote I
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guess that's kind of a question I'll
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always be there finally is September 5th
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1968 Jim began his long journey home
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when I left she pushed me out on my bed
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to the chopper she gave me a big hug
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I've thought about her since today I
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left Vietnam
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I just think about her
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[Music]
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the camaraderie when you make a friend
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in Vietnam is there until the person
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dies I lived
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I don't think that I would have came
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back to my wife without captain sharp
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she just gave me all the encouragement
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and the strength and the motivation to
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live in 1969 Jim was awarded to crippled
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hearts for wounds sustained in combat
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and a Silver Star for his bravery under
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fire but Jim's War raged on silently Jim
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blocked out Vietnam for years and years
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he didn't want people to know he was a
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Vietnam veteran he would just assume
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people thought his leg was lost in a car
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accident or something he really did not
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want people to know that he'd been to
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Vietnam
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a 20-year the gym has suffered from what
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has become known as post-traumatic
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stress disorder
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only recently has it begun to come to
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grips with his war experiences linda
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sharp helped him to transcend his
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physical wounds he wants to find her
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today so he can say thank you he's ready
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to look for now because now he's well
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enough mentally to look for and I think
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if he could meet her it might help him
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to heal Jim and Delores have recently
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celebrated their 21st wedding
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anniversary life together they feel
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might have been impossible without Linda
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sharp I would very much like to get in
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touch with captain Linda sharp if it's
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at all possible and thank her for what
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she did for me and all the other guys
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[Music]
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before this segment even aired
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Linda sharp saw a promotional
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announcement for Jim story on unsolved
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mysteries she immediately called our
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telecentre two weeks later she and Jim
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were reunited the door I was elated all
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I wanted to do is give her a great big
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hug
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and just hug her and thank her and kiss
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her on the cheek and just oh just try to
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show my appreciation I feel very blessed
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to be here to actually see him and talk
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with him and and hear his versions of
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what went on because sometimes what what
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nurses don't even don't realized that we
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have an impact on patients lives and I
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certainly didn't realize the impact I
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had on his life at all over the years
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I've thought about about Jim and Dolores
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and wondered how they were doing and if
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they were still together and seeing this
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show on TV and seeing them in this
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segment was just the best news that just
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made it all worthwhile it really pulled
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things together for me and it it
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reinforced that that what I did over
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there was important when dismiss on Cory
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moments after arriving Linda received an
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unexpected gift a portrait of a Vietnam
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nurse Jim had a frame for
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I think I had just made up for you when
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I [ __ ] you like that
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[Music]
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when he gave me the the plaque it was
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just such a special moment it's made
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this day very very special something
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that is like the culmination of a
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nursing career to be to be thanked in
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such a special way is very memorable
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something I'll never forget this meeting
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with Linda represents in my healing the
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final step knowing tonight in my own
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mind mentally physically and the way I
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feel right now
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all right I finally beat the battle we
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lost a few battles but I have won the
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war let me rephrase that I have won the
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war
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[Music]
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when we return we will meet a sweet and
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charming little only win realities of
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cunning and elusive crook most of us
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consider ourselves decent judges of
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character we think we know a crook if we
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saw one but cannot has come in all sorts
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of packages even a grandmother baking
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goodies could be out to take your money
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and run
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meet Gertrude Pruett for 1979 to 1981
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his grandmother a 70 year old con woman
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ran what appeared to be a flourishing
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investment business in Beverly Hills
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this crafty granny hit her simi business
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activities behind a facade of southern
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hospitality and homemade fruitcake while
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making off with three million dollars of
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her investors money you couldn't help
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but like her and when you looked at the
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woman she was so smooth and trusting and
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very soft sell that she you thought of
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his almost family she was a homey
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business woman even though you knew she
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had the business skills she also never
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lost her touch in the kitchen I mean I'm
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not a big fruitcake lover but they were
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delicious to be honest with you as you
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see this carpeting is so beautiful isn't
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it in all these lovely colors gertrude
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claimed that her investment
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opportunities came from special
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connections with carpet factories and
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textile mills in the south and we have
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pre-sold a large order to hotel chain
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what impressed me the most was that
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although the returns seemed almost too
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good to be true
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Gertrude seemed like such a loving
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sincere person that it was a legitimate
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investment and that she could do no harm
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to her investors well of course you
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should give it some thought I think
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it'll be nice if you would talk to
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seasonal about a little more even when
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Gertrude didn't feed people her own home
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cooking she insisted that they be fed
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take Mike out for lunch it's a Brown
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Derby it's just around the corner it got
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awfully good food awfully nice meeting
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and you'll be hearing from me soon
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nothing was too good for Gertrude
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Pruitt's clients she often hired
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limousines to pick up potential
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investors and bring them to her posh
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office building one of those investors
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is a woman who had soon discovered that
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she had a weakness for charm and
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fruitcake she has requested that her
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identity be kept secret we will call her
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Myrna thank you Gertrude selected a
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really magnificent outlay for just
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selling carpets I mean this was two
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storeys high
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mrs. Pattison well my first impression
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of Gertrude was that she was standing
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there sizing me up and then because she
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was so cordial she was southern and so
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forth warm that I forgot all about the
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fact that I was being sized up and just
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entered into her world of house bright
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she was and how able she was I
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originally invested about twenty
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thousand but as I watched the operation
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from the sheets of the balance sheets
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that were coming out monthly and and
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watched the fact that people were
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getting their interest I invested more
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this is my secretary Jennifer well
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Gertrude really was the office she was
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out working every day early in the
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morning until very late at night
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handling the customers handling the
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money and Harold was in his office but
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what he was doing I never knew virtues
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40 year old son Harold was her partner
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in the bed but he had very little
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contact with the clients he was a
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glowering unfriendly man in sharp
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contrast to his sweet southern mother
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even though I was Gertrude and Harold's
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banker for two and a half years I never
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really met Harold for almost the first
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year and a half he was the kind of a
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person who you would not have trusted
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our bought a car from you might say
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Myrna invested $100,000 before she had
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her first inkling that something was
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wrong
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Gertrude Gertrude you know that check
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you gave me it bounced I just came from
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the bank they said insufficient funds
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believe me well I do I just came from
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the bank I know what happened
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oh hell just deposit a large check sick
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as I was inside I was still playing it
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like a friend which I thought she was it
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was impossible from runner to believe
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that this charming adorable woman could
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be conning her so instead of pressing
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the issue she took home a fruitcake and
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accepted a lunch date Mona's bad check
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was not the only one
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the prude switchboard was jammed with
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angry calls both Gertrude and Harold
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made themselves scarce thank you very
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much for holding no finally employee
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Cecil true shell secretly contacted the
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Pruitts accountant and received a rude
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shock the financial statements Gertrude
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had been showing investors were
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completely different from the
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accountants records most even can only
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mean that statements are fraudulent it
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was at that particular period of time no
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I knew that there were serious problems
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and I just didn't know where they had
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been stashing money so at night
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sometimes between the wee bitty hours of
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1:00 and 3:00 I made midnight raids I
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found every canceled check every
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statement that had been paid everything
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that I could remove out of that office
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and by the end of the time I had about
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four cardboard boxes full of stuff
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because his friends and family had
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invested heavily with the Pruitts Cecil
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confronted Harald with his evidence
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Harold
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I've got enough evidence to prove that
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this whole company's a phony and you've
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got two days to come up with the money
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or I'm gonna go to the authorities are
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you threatening me I'm not threatening
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you Harold I'm telling you the truth he
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told me all of the people had done
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nothing but made investments and there
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was a risk to be made and I looked at
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him and I said to him I said Harold
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they made an investment on a pack of
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lies that you have presented to them and
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that's called fraud Cecil reported both
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Harold and Gertrude Pruitt to the
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authorities but the two of them had
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disappeared taking their investors money
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with them three years later the FBI
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tracked down Harold Pruitt and in 1986
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brought him to trial
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none of the investors money was
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recovered sweet motherly Gertrude Pruitt
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was nowhere to be found it was really
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amazing that Gertrude would leave Harold
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behind to take the rap everybody thought
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that Harold was a little bit of a hard
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character but Kurt Rude still was the
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sweet loving mama and when she failed to
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show up and became a fugitive everybody
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was surprised I've read every one of the
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letters based on the trial testimony of
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ten victims Harold was convicted on 20
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counts of mail fraud he is currently
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serving an eight-year sentence at a
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California state prison
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his mother was never apprehended
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update Gertrude Pruett has been captured
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just minutes after this story originally
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aired the Sacramento California FBI lab
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has received several calls from viewers
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who recognize Pruitt five days later she
00:27:20
was arrested at a Bakersfield California
00:27:22
residence where she was working as a
00:27:24
live-in housekeeper under the assumed
00:27:26
name
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Martha gray on May 29th 1990 good truth
00:27:31
proof pleaded guilty to seven counts of
00:27:33
mail fraud she was sentenced to eight
00:27:35
years in prison and is currently serving
00:27:37
her term at a federal penitentiary
00:27:39
Pruitt was also ordered to pay
00:27:41
restitution to her former investors
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00:27:55
next a baffling story of the murder of a
00:27:58
popular bank president was robbery the
00:28:00
motive or was it a brutal execution at
00:28:14
8:30 a.m. the morning of October 6 1989
00:28:17
an employee of an ol Missouri State Bank
00:28:20
arrived as usual to open the door
00:28:24
strangely one of them was unlocked
00:28:30
anybody here what she saw inside
00:28:34
shakhter the vault was wide open during
00:28:37
the night the bank had been robbed
00:28:42
the FBI along with three different
00:28:44
police forces investigated they
00:28:46
discovered two 45 caliber bullet casings
00:28:49
$70,000 is missing from the vault some
00:28:52
of it and coin tried and short again
00:28:56
repeated attempts were made to contact
00:28:58
the bank president ban short but he was
00:29:00
nowhere to be found
00:29:04
he sits three people began to walk
00:29:07
around Dan short had robbed his own Bank
00:29:11
Dan short was 51 years old and separated
00:29:15
from his wife of 23 years he had been
00:29:17
president of the State Bank of Laurel
00:29:19
since 1983 and was popular with people
00:29:21
in town on October 11th 1989 five days
00:29:29
after the run then shorts body was
00:29:32
finally found floating in Grand Lake 20
00:29:34
miles to the bank a Cabra troops at Dan
00:29:37
short had been alive he was thrown into
00:29:40
the water
00:29:42
he was tied to a chair which had a
00:29:45
concrete block taped to it with duct
00:29:48
tape with no apparent wounds to the
00:29:52
extent to cause death it appeared at
00:29:55
that point that he had indeed been
00:29:57
drowned being thrown from the bridge it
00:30:01
was appalling to think that any human
00:30:03
being would do this to another
00:30:05
particularly with the obvious motive
00:30:09
being just to conceal a robbery the
00:30:12
identities of the perpetrators if Dan
00:30:15
shorts murder was simply part of a bank
00:30:18
robbery why would the robbers choose
00:30:20
such a deliberately cruel way of killing
00:30:22
their hostage people no longer wondered
00:30:25
if Dan short had robbed his own bank but
00:30:27
they did begin to wonder if he might
00:30:28
have had enemies bent on revenge padana
00:30:32
shorts bizarre death had been an
00:30:33
execution when the bank robbery used
00:30:36
merely as a cover
00:30:38
no Missouri population 1200 is located
00:30:42
just a few miles from the Oklahoma and
00:30:44
Arkansas borders its economy centers
00:30:46
around chicken farming when Dan short
00:30:51
took over the State Bank presidency in
00:30:53
1983 the local economy was in bad shape
00:30:56
dan had the tricky job of balancing the
00:30:59
needs of local people over the banks
00:31:01
need to turn a profit in the process you
00:31:03
naturally alienated some people he had
00:31:08
some difficulties that he had to
00:31:10
straighten out in order for the bank to
00:31:12
function properly
00:31:13
there was repossessions restructuring
00:31:16
denial of credit but even though he had
00:31:20
a difficult position he was able to win
00:31:23
the people over he became a friend of
00:31:25
Stevie he wasn't particularly outgoing
00:31:28
he wasn't a backslapper but people
00:31:32
accepted him for what he was and that
00:31:33
was just a genuinely nice person
00:31:38
dan short lived eight miles outside of
00:31:41
NOLA and an extremely isolated location
00:31:43
on the night of the robbery he had a
00:31:45
guest who left just before 11 p.m. the
00:31:49
FBI is attempted to reconstruct what
00:31:52
happened once Dan short was alone in his
00:31:54
home they believe his abductor showed up
00:31:59
sometime between the hours of 11:00 p.m.
00:32:01
at 1:30 a.m. my car broke down at the
00:32:08
road may I use your telephone
00:32:09
probably the perpetrators went to his
00:32:11
front door armed
00:32:13
when mr. short answers the door they
00:32:16
immediately restrained him and later
00:32:18
took him to the bank according to the
00:32:25
FBI
00:32:25
Dan short and his abductors arrived at
00:32:27
the bank around 2:00 a.m. indications
00:32:34
are that the perpetrators forced him to
00:32:36
turn the alarm off to unlock the front
00:32:40
doors and after gaining entry into the
00:32:42
bank dealt with the surveillance camera
00:32:45
to some extent and spray-painting the
00:32:46
lens and turning the camera around
00:32:49
backwards hey where's the money
00:32:53
opening it come on the perpetrators took
00:33:01
only what cash they saw in the vault
00:33:04
which was approximately seventy thousand
00:33:06
dollars including coins leaving behind
00:33:11
approximately a hundred thousand dollars
00:33:13
that mr. short was aware of led us to
00:33:16
believe he was not willingly involved
00:33:18
and probably did not volunteer that the
00:33:22
extra currency was there at the time of
00:33:25
the robbery as the robbers left the bank
00:33:28
one of them fired at the surveillance
00:33:30
camera disconnecting it people who live
00:33:32
nearby heard the shots the time was
00:33:35
shortly before 3:00 a.m.
00:33:40
a few minutes later on the outskirts of
00:33:45
town a caravan of three vehicles was
00:33:47
sighted by a local trucker the first
00:33:50
vehicle looked like dan short's pickup
00:33:56
as I was driving south through town I've
00:33:58
seen no red pickup but two vehicle
00:34:01
spotted crossing bridge I didn't pay
00:34:04
that much attention to the ones behind
00:34:06
me I went on South and the little blue
00:34:10
pickup passed me about a half a mile
00:34:12
south cut me short and as he cut me
00:34:16
short I looked he looked back out of the
00:34:18
back glass I seen his face
00:34:20
he is heavyset guy was a long hair and a
00:34:23
beard brown hair only the killers know
00:34:29
exactly what happened during the next
00:34:30
three hours at some point they ditched
00:34:32
dan short's pickup and put it in the van
00:34:34
there they chained him to a kitchen
00:34:37
chair with weights attached it's very
00:34:42
possible that mr. short was even
00:34:44
unconscious as they put him into the
00:34:46
chair due to the fact that chair was not
00:34:48
a strong piece of furniture
00:34:51
with a weight already on it you mean
00:34:54
kind of struggle would have likely
00:34:56
broken the chair up prior to even
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00:34:59
arriving at the bridge we know that mr.
00:35:05
Shore was alive when he was thrown into
00:35:07
the lake what we don't know is if he was
00:35:10
conscious or unconscious but the fact
00:35:14
that he was not gagged leads us to the
00:35:18
belief that he was unconscious for
00:35:20
astronomy duty
00:35:23
[Music]
00:35:31
at 6:00 a.m. witnesses cited a dark van
00:35:34
stopped on the bridge and sped away
00:35:36
before they could get a license number
00:35:41
why had dan short's abductors killed him
00:35:44
in such a cruel manner it was a question
00:35:47
no one could answer but there were
00:35:49
theories it seemed to lead back to the
00:35:51
banking business I'm sorry I have to
00:35:55
turn you down I'm certain that there are
00:35:58
some people out there that has some real
00:36:00
animosity some hatred towards the state
00:36:02
bank of Nolan Dan short he had deny
00:36:05
people deny credit to people and the
00:36:08
denial of credit probably broke others
00:36:12
Dan had worked in I think three other
00:36:16
banks maybe something followed him here
00:36:18
from someplace else maybe he stumbled
00:36:21
across something in this area he
00:36:23
shouldn't have maybe a drug deal maybe a
00:36:26
lot of money laundering there's any
00:36:30
number of things that could have
00:36:31
happened that none of us are aware of
00:36:33
and that's where the confusion comes
00:36:35
from there just was no reason police
00:36:39
have few clues to go on
00:36:40
but they believe the medium blue Chevy
00:36:42
love may be vital to solving the case
00:36:44
one week before the robbery love and his
00:36:47
driver was cited at a local gas station
00:36:49
the same trucker who saw them on the
00:36:51
night Dan short was murdered why is an
00:36:54
older model blue Chevrolet know when it
00:36:57
had a white toolbox in the back they had
00:37:00
the Oklahoma tags
00:37:01
and I looked at the tag gonna look back
00:37:03
up at the guy you know he turned around
00:37:05
I just heavyset guy big through the
00:37:09
chest
00:37:10
big neck big face and lots of hair and
00:37:13
lots of beard
00:37:14
[Music]
00:37:16
the love was seen again four days before
00:37:18
the robbery near dan short's house dan
00:37:21
had told his brother that he felt he was
00:37:23
being staked out but on one occasion his
00:37:25
home had actually been broken into
00:37:28
because of this authorities believe that
00:37:30
Dan's killers had planned everything in
00:37:32
advance the bank robbery may have been
00:37:36
only a cover-up for his execution
00:37:38
robbers amateur behavior supports this
00:37:41
theory they left behind numerous
00:37:43
fingerprints they stole heavy bags of
00:37:47
coins and they fired unnecessary shots
00:37:52
[Music]
00:37:56
I want them to find the people that did
00:37:58
this and to explain to me why they had
00:38:03
to kill my brother over 50 or $60,000
00:38:07
now I want to know why that happened
00:38:12
[Music]
00:38:34
when we return the incredible tale of a
00:38:36
Loch Ness type monster that just might
00:38:38
exist in British Columbia filmed footage
00:38:41
shown for the first time on television
00:38:42
appears to reveal his creature that has
00:38:45
eluded searchers for decades
00:38:48
[Music]
00:38:56
for the last century renowned scientists
00:38:59
and amateur investigators have grappled
00:39:01
with a mystery of the Loch Ness monster
00:39:03
that elusive Lake creature in Scotland
00:39:05
sighted more than three thousand times
00:39:08
over the last 50 years but never so far
00:39:10
adequately explained
00:39:14
some zoologists now actually theorized
00:39:17
at the monsters home Loch Ness may be
00:39:19
connected by underwater channels to the
00:39:21
sea and that the Loch Ness monster is in
00:39:24
fact a sea serpent of some kind
00:39:25
travelling back and forth between the
00:39:27
lake and the ocean
00:39:29
the zoologists also theorized at
00:39:32
hundreds of other lakes located in the
00:39:34
same approximate latitude band as Loch
00:39:36
Ness could have similar connections to
00:39:38
the sea and could today also be home to
00:39:40
mysterious sea creatures
00:39:44
there have been reported sightings of
00:39:47
creatures like the Loch Ness monster and
00:39:49
approximately 60 other lakes around the
00:39:51
world for example here at lakes door
00:39:53
jean suite
00:39:54
they Club in here in the Soviet Union
00:39:56
and Lake qu char Japan all these lakes
00:40:00
bull into the same latitude band as Loch
00:40:02
Ness in Scotland so far there's been no
00:40:07
scientific verification for any of the
00:40:09
sightings the recent photographic
00:40:11
evidence Canadian Lake in the same
00:40:13
latitude band suggests the bizarre was
00:40:15
somehow enchanting thought that here in
00:40:18
North America we may have a loch ness
00:40:19
monster of our very own Lake Okanagan
00:40:25
located in the Canadian province of
00:40:27
British Columbia as for more than 300
00:40:29
years been the reputed home of a water
00:40:31
Beast which seems to resemble a sea
00:40:32
serpent the lake is 79 miles long and in
00:40:36
places 800 feet deep an ample home for a
00:40:39
large creature
00:40:42
in the 1700s local Indians called a
00:40:44
beast night taco or Lake demon they
00:40:47
routinely sacrificed small animals in
00:40:49
order to appease the demon today 300
00:40:54
years later the local population still
00:40:56
fervently believes in the existence of
00:40:58
the creature which they have dubbed
00:40:59
Ogopogo I saw it back in 1937 we were
00:41:04
facing the lake at the time and there's
00:41:06
this head of something-or-other swimming
00:41:10
around out there and we were all
00:41:13
convinced that it was the Ogopogo very
00:41:17
big very it was very scary Oh about two
00:41:20
feet out of the water the head part and
00:41:23
the head itself was browned and then it
00:41:27
the kind of a neck part went down the
00:41:31
water and it had a great big long tail
00:41:33
like all you could see there was just
00:41:35
the just a little bit of a hump sort of
00:41:38
just coming out of the out of the
00:41:41
splashes and stuff and it went on for a
00:41:43
little bit and like we we saw it and
00:41:45
then we didn't know what to do a minute
00:41:46
when I heard you so we just got out of
00:41:48
there just we were like scared in that
00:41:49
canoe
00:41:50
[Music]
00:41:51
hundreds of sightings of Ogopogo have
00:41:54
been reported but no film footage was
00:41:57
ever captured until 1968 that year a saw
00:42:03
mill worker named art Fulton was driving
00:42:05
beside the lake with his wife when he
00:42:07
noticed something odd
00:42:10
we were on our way back from holidays
00:42:12
and we seen something in the lake near
00:42:17
the shore and I said hey look just
00:42:21
jokingly there's Ogopogo and she saw it
00:42:24
looks like a bunch of ducks anyway I
00:42:26
said I'm gonna stop and see if we can
00:42:27
get a picture
00:42:28
I stopped filling every time it dove
00:42:31
under the water and as it reappeared I
00:42:35
began to film again
00:42:37
[Music]
00:42:39
the film shows a dark object diving
00:42:43
reappearing in a sequence of moves that
00:42:46
indicates that it's moving out from
00:42:48
shallow water into deeper water for a
00:42:52
large dive into deeper water it then did
00:42:55
not reappear
00:42:58
because the pine trees on shore are
00:43:00
approximately 25 feet tall the dark mass
00:43:03
in art fortin's film is estimated to be
00:43:05
40 feet long about the same size as a
00:43:08
creature in the Loch Ness sightings in
00:43:15
1980 12 years after the Folden film was
00:43:17
made a group of vacationers thought they
00:43:19
too had sighted olga Pogo one of them
00:43:23
Larry Thal had a home movie camera I was
00:43:27
taking pictures of the kids and their
00:43:29
wife and bingo all of a sudden Neoga
00:43:31
Pogo supposedly whatever it may have
00:43:33
been appeared on Lake Okanagan and I was
00:43:36
right there with my camera it was a
00:43:39
strange sight in the water
00:43:43
[Music]
00:43:45
played in slow-motion Athol film reveals
00:43:48
intriguing details
00:43:50
Larry's film shows how the animal swims
00:43:54
it shows the speed and the the mass of
00:43:58
waves that it creates it actually shows
00:44:00
that it has some form of appendage that
00:44:02
seems to pump up every now and then but
00:44:06
the interesting thing again is that the
00:44:08
animal let art fold and shot on the
00:44:10
animal that Larry thought shot they're
00:44:12
basically the same size they're very
00:44:14
large creatures and in Larry's film
00:44:17
we're seeing a creature at least forty
00:44:20
to sixty feet from head to tail no doubt
00:44:24
nine years later on July 18th 1989 78
00:44:29
year old Clem Chaplin showed his son
00:44:31
Kenan Inlet where he thought he had seen
00:44:32
Ogopogo the creature was going to and
00:44:35
from a boom of logs at the mouth of a
00:44:37
nearby creek ken took his video camera
00:44:40
and staked out the area it paid off and
00:44:44
this is the first time as videotape has
00:44:46
ever been seen on television but Ken
00:44:48
Chapman tape was a creature that
00:44:50
appeared to be hairless greenish in
00:44:51
color spotted and about 15 feet long
00:44:54
less than half the size measured in the
00:44:57
Folden and of all films I was probably
00:45:01
75 to 100 feet away
00:45:03
I saw its features very clearly
00:45:06
being sneaker lizard-like no fur hair
00:45:08
and you can see the body thrashing
00:45:10
behind it and then brought its tail
00:45:14
section out of the water
00:45:19
dad and I were stunned in into silence
00:45:22
and then dad turned to me and he said
00:45:24
you know if that tail hit a man and
00:45:26
probably kill him and I agreed that was
00:45:28
our impression as to size ken took his
00:45:32
camera back to the inlet a few days
00:45:34
later along with his daughter Cory and
00:45:36
his father once again Ken videotape the
00:45:39
creature
00:45:43
it appeared swimming parallel to the
00:45:46
shore and swam right past us at maybe
00:45:49
sixty to seventy-five feet away and I
00:45:52
got that on video and dad and Cory and I
00:45:54
saw it very clearly
00:45:56
[Music]
00:46:00
it has a long long snake-like body I
00:46:02
asked who mated about the size of a long
00:46:04
car maybe 15 feet definitely like a
00:46:07
snake its head poking straight out and
00:46:09
then its body swimming and starts to
00:46:11
undulate through the water
00:46:13
[Music]
00:46:18
Kent Chaplin's video caused a media
00:46:20
sensation Time magazine as well as
00:46:22
several newspapers in the United States
00:46:24
carried the amazing story of what
00:46:26
appeared to be a new Loch Ness monster
00:46:28
however opinion was widely divided and
00:46:30
experts were called in to analyze the
00:46:32
video there was not a hoax there was
00:46:37
nothing in there that he was the
00:46:39
impression this was fabricated in any
00:46:41
way it was a live living animal the
00:46:43
discussion revolved around the two
00:46:45
species most likely and that is a river
00:46:48
otter and a beaver logo Pogo could exist
00:46:52
elsewhere in Okanagan Lake but in our
00:46:54
view this particular video was of a
00:46:57
beaver you know the largest recorded
00:47:00
beaver in the interiors four and a half
00:47:02
feet long now it's 75 to 100 feet away I
00:47:05
guess can't see dad and I'd be very very
00:47:07
impressed a beaver one two slaps its
00:47:10
tail the head is either leveled to the
00:47:12
water or else it's already starting to
00:47:14
go down now in the sequence here the
00:47:17
video that I did it's dark in its head
00:47:20
up while the tail comes down on this
00:47:25
side we have a still photograph from
00:47:27
taken from the video recording by mr.
00:47:29
Chaplin on this side we have a color
00:47:32
photograph of a beaver with his tail
00:47:34
held vertically in the air just prior to
00:47:37
a tail slap the two photographs seem for
00:47:41
the most part to be mirror images of one
00:47:44
another closer comparison of the
00:47:46
photographs however does appear to
00:47:48
substantiate Ken Chaplin's point at the
00:47:50
creature he saw raises head prior to
00:47:52
slapping its tail or as a beavers head
00:47:54
is at water level also Ken says the
00:47:58
creature he and his family saw was 15
00:48:00
feet long not for like a beaver and had
00:48:03
a long snake-like body he also said it
00:48:05
did not have fur and was green in color
00:48:08
I've asked myself thousands of times is
00:48:12
there a possibility I could be mistaken
00:48:14
and I just can't see where I could be
00:48:16
for those who want to call it a beaver
00:48:19
I'll say no way an otter
00:48:21
I can't buy it
00:48:23
manager over polo and all probability
00:48:28
is it possible that there are several
00:48:29
creatures living in the lake each of
00:48:31
varying size but all belonging to the
00:48:33
same unknown zoological family experts
00:48:37
may disagree on the Chaplin footage but
00:48:39
there is still been no adequate
00:48:40
explanation for the large creatures seen
00:48:42
surfacing an art foldings film or
00:48:45
clearly churning up awake in the Larry
00:48:47
Thawne footage
00:48:50
in addition hundreds of other sightings
00:48:52
over the years attest to the presence of
00:48:53
something unusual in Lake Okanagan I
00:48:56
would be delighted to find that Ogopogo
00:49:00
really existed in Ocala and I would
00:49:03
encourage everybody to keep their not
00:49:07
only their minds open but their eyes
00:49:09
open when they're in the Okanagan who
00:49:12
knows what really exciting wildlife
00:49:14
encounter that they may enjoy this
00:49:21
Ogopogo real well the Canadian
00:49:24
government has declared Ogopogo an
00:49:26
endangered species and hunting it is
00:49:27
against the law most of the people who
00:49:30
live on the shores of Lake Okanagan need
00:49:32
no further proof for them oh go Togo is
00:49:35
very real indeed
00:49:38
[Music]
00:49:44
for every mystery there is someone
00:49:46
somewhere who knows the truth perhaps
00:49:49
that someone was watching perhaps
00:49:51
[Music]
00:50:19
[Applause]
00:50:22
[Music]
