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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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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 taken to a hospital fractured
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skull shattered legs possible brain
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damage
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20 years later Jim Meade is trying to
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find heroic nurse save his life in 1947
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a strange craft crashed in a remote New
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Mexico field the metal debris and
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sparkling property was covered with
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unusual markings witnesses claimed it
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was a UFO
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melet's era here at wazzle Army Air Base
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in New Mexico immediately announced that
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the object was a UFO within our change
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their story and said it was only a
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downed weather balloon the military
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conceal the most astounding discovery of
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the century join tonight the season
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premiere on the south
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last season 34 cases profile and
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unsolved mysteries were song thanks to
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information from our viewers
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one recent cases out of Charles Millay a
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10 year veteran of the Slidell Louisiana
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Police Department who disappeared over
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three years ago while free on bail on
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March 1st 1985 Neal a was arrested by
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fellow officers local motel room where
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he allegedly molested a 12-year old girl
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at the time of his arrest he was a
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sergeant in charge of sexual offenses
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for the Slidell Police Department his
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alleged victim was a young girl he was
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assigned to counsel if your honor please
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considering the serious gravity of
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September 27th 1985 Charles moulay was
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indicted on over 25 counts relating to
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the molestation and rape of six young
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girls he was released on 150 thousand
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dollars bail eight months later on the
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morning that his trial was to begin
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moulay was reported missing five days
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later a fisherman believed he saw moulay
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emerging from a swamp near Slidell this
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was closely followed by a second sight
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this witness was shot at by a man
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dressed in hospital clothing a favorite
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after the Malays we were convinced more
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than ever that Charles was alive that he
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was in his area and he did not move far
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from this area for more than three years
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Charles Millais whereabouts of remained
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a mystery
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Oh Charles Malay has been captured
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within minutes of our July broadcast the
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FBI received several calls from viewers
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who reported that Malay was living in
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Ocala Florida
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30 miles south of Gainesville under the
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assumed name Joseph John Tran scheana
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moulay had seen our broadcast left the
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Ocala area for approximately three weeks
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when he returned on August 3rd he was
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arrested by FBI agents and Marion County
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Florida sheriff's deputies
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a war in Vietnam for the first time
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helicopters played a pivotal role a
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crucial lifeline between base camps and
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the soldiers in the field a skill and
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bravery of a helicopter pilot meant the
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difference between life and death and
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freedom and captivity a POTUS chance of
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being killed was nine times greater than
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any other soldiers and one out of every
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eight helicopter pilots in Vietnam lost
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his life these pilots truly were heroes
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but there was another group of heroes in
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the get Nam war a group who remained
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largely unsung
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those heroes were the skilled and
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patient military nurses who dealt with
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the wreckage of young bodies brought
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back from the front and struggled to
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return those battered soldiers to a
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normal life this section of the National
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Cemetery in Arlington Virginia is
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dedicated to nurses slain in battle as
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one of the few memorials we have in the
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United States honoring them tonight we
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tell the story of an army helicopter
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pilot whose life was salvaged by a nurse
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Lieutenant Betty Stephens for 15 years
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he's been searching for her but
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mysteriously there is no record of where
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she went but he wants to say her the
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simple but eloquent words thank you
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perhaps someone watching tonight can
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help him
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in 1965 18 year-old Jimmy jr. gave up a
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promising college career and volunteered
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to serve in Vietnam we tried to talk him
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out of it the professors at University
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of Oregon try to talk him out of it
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finished college and then go and the war
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will still be there after you finish
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college but he was determined and he
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went Jim won his wings as an army
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helicopter pilot in the winter of 1967
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it didn't surprise me to see him want to
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give time to his country and being in
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helicopters and being in the rescue
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mission and what happy these were all
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part of Jim
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Jim served in Vietnam for only three
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months transporting troops to and from
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combat missions twice Jim was shot down
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twice he went back on May the 8th 1967
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he was shot down for the third time this
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time Jim need would not be able to go
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back
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on May the 9th 1967 Jim's Paris received
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a vaguely worded telegram saying their
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son had been placed on the seriously ill
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list because of a fractured skull he was
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transferred to Madigan General Hospital
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in Tacoma Washington Jim's mother and
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father along with two of his brothers
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waited in the hospital lobby Jim had not
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yet been assigned the room his family
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had no idea what to expect it was quite
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difficult for me to just sit and relax
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and wait till they came and said to tell
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us that Jim had been put in a room so
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myself and two sons I got up I said I'm
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gonna walk down the hallway for a while
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I just can't sit here and wait and
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there's miles and miles of hallway and
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medical hospital
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and as I was walking down the hallway
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here in the hallway was a gurney was a
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soldier on the gurney and he had
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bandages all over him from bottles
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so I said to the other boys to sound
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like [ __ ] go to storage for all
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and after a while then the nurse came to
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us and said okay we have your son in a
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room come go with me
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we went into that room and here was that
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journey that guy that was tore all to
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hell was my son beyond recognition and
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there was nothing we could do that was a
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that was a terrible thing there was
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nothing that we could do Jim it's mom it
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was just unbelievable he didn't look
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like himself you know and of course he
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had all these tubes in him and all of
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these things I worked in an emergency
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room and I've seen a lot of things but I
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don't think I have seen anything as
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horrible as my son bus
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Jim was in a coma the helicopter rotor
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blade it fractured his skull he made
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only animal-like sounds and flailed his
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arms involuntarily both of his legs had
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been shattered and were riddled with
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gangrene the doctors feared that Jim
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would never come out of his coma as a
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last resort
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we assigned him to a ward an amputee who
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had served in Vietnam the doctors asked
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the man to talk to Jim and act as if he
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could hear him on the slim chance at the
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constant exposure to other people might
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trigger a response the experiment worked
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after 10 weeks in the world Jim came out
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of his coma he had no memory of his
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first 19 years Jim had even forgotten
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how to talk and how to move his arms and
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legs I didn't know that I've been a
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helicopter pod I didn't know I've been
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to Vietnam I didn't know that I've been
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injured so seriously I didn't know
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anything it was like a whole new world
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happily Jim Meade continued to heal
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neither his leg was amputated today he's
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42 years old and has made a miraculous
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recovery Jim feels it is due in large
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part to the dogged determination of his
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nurse
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lieutenant Betty Stevens who literally
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brought him back to life and who for one
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crucial year it was the most important
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person in his life all right now start
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with this hand and this leg ready there
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you go good grip that man feel the match
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keep your legs straight keep your legs
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straight there you can learn how to walk
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I first had learned how to crawl
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lieutenant Stevens will get down on the
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mat with me and me right next to me
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because I didn't have any coordination
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between my arms legs and the commands
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from our brain and so at the beginning
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she would work on me and teach me how to
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crawl and and she was show me how to do
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it good
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I remember one time in particular there
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were some basic trainees who had
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sprained ankles or whatever and we're in
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the hospital and learned physical
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therapy and one time where I / series of
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sometimes falling on my face it served a
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laughing at me and I remember her
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getting so angry what gives you the
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right to laugh at him that is a person
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who has been at war he's trying to learn
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things that are very easy for you now I
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want you both out of here right now come
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on get up just the way she yelled at him
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and kicked him out maybe she was so mad
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meant alot to me
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just maybe want to do what she wanted me
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to learn to do when I was in so much
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pain that the people couldn't take me in
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a bed
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she would even come down and ask me how
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I was doing and I was in so much pain
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that I was very cross no you're hurting
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but you can't give up and she responded
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that she knew that I was hurting her the
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more you exercise the stronger you're
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gonna get and the less it's gonna hurt
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the most important thing that I remember
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she held my hand and we're just showing
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her concern they're caring that made me
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want to give better to want to learn to
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walk to want to learn to feed myself to
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want to learn things like how to shave
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how to comb my hair straighten it up
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come on work hard come on I don't know
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if I would have learned to do these
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things without her I might have
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eventually learned just out of the sheer
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survival factor
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but she made it important for me to
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withstand the pain and frustration
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straighten it out good push work good
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good good good job because of her
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patient load
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lieutenant evens could give gem physical
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therapy for only one hour each day she
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felt you would benefit from going home
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for 30 days to work with his parents
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around the clock we couldn't have gone
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as far as we did with him without her
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supervision there are certain things in
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physical therapy that you can do more
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harm than good and so there for her as
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the professional was showing us how to
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do it the right way we're going to play
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ball today but 12 grueling hours each
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day gyms Paris tried to improve his
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motor skills and teach him how to talk
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all under the guidance of lieutenant
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Stevens even when I wasn't in the
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hospital when I was home with my parents
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I'm calm bus and leave I always wanted
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to get better and learn things so I
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could go back to the hospital and show
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her how much it improved it was always
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important to me
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nearly one year after Jim had first
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arrived at the hospital
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lieutenant Stephens told him she was
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leaving the army she never saw Jim walk
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independently or had any idea that she
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had set him on the path to recovery and
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over the years I've thought about her
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many many times I'm not so naive to
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pretend that I'm the only soldier that
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she affected this way in fact she
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probably affected all of us is what all
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of us that she worked with but she was
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really important to me and she always
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will be
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building on the foundation lieutenant
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Stevens and his parents gave him Jim
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Miri learned how to walk and talk and
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made a nearly complete recovery today he
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is a clinical psychologist working in
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San Diego he would like to tennis
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Stevens to share in his triumph he would
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like to say thank you to the woman he
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will never forget if I saw her now I
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don't know what I'd do
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cry maybe maybe just laugh a lot I don't
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know I thought about a singer so many
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times it's like she never lives I never
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left whatever I don't know what I do I
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just know this it's always been
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important for me that she knows that I'm
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okay the morning after our broadcast
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Jimmy's 15 years search came to an end
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when he received a phone call from one
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of our viewers I was watching TV and I
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saw Jim at the beginning of the program
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and I said to my family I treated that
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fella when I was in the service and the
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next remark was that they were looking
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for lieutenant Stevens and I thought
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well that was my maiden name and at that
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point I realized that this was going to
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be more than just a program to watch
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on September 25th nearly 21 years after
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they said goodbye Jim and Karen
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really
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[Music]
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when Karen came to the door I went to
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know if somebody else are they might say
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the Karen's changed 200% and my heart
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Karen hasn't changed a bit
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[Music]
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and I'm glad to color thank you the
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reunion today has been everything I
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expected it to be
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it's it will stand out as one of the
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most exciting days of my life it's
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thrilling to see someone that has come
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back so far and made a success of their
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life but a lot of people had a lot to do
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with Jim Meade's recovery and I was just
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a small part
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[Music]
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you'll be very difficult for me to put
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into words what this day is meant to me
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it just makes the future that much
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brighter because I do know that now that
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dreams do come true
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[Music]
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in a moment we'll examine the
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extraordinary and controversial story of
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a strange craft that crashed in New
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Mexico in 1947
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[Music]
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the surf for space here in Roswell New
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Mexico
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the center of a controversy back in 1947
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but over 40 years later still remains
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unsolved remnants of a mysterious craft
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were found on a remote ranch allegedly
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stored here in hangar 84 to this day
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there are many who believe it was a UFO
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when we first heard of the incident at
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Roswell we assumed it was just another
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UFO sighting it could be easily
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explained a distant aircraft an errant
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missile or perhaps it was just a hoax
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however eyewitness accounts and
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disturbing evidence suggest as something
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strange happened here at Roswell
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something that cannot be easily
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dismissed
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July 2nd 1947 a violent electrical storm
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sweeps over the desolate plain in
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south-central New Mexico
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at this time of year these storms are
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almost nightly occurrences
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at his remote ranch house Mac Brazel
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patiently waits out the fury of the
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storm Mac was a he was just an old-time
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cowboy I guess you'd say and he was
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pretty pretty serious if he told you
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something you could pretty well depend
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on it
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[Music]
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apparently black brass were heard a
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thunderclap that might that somehow
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sounded different
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the story is that Mac Brazel supposedly
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heard a loud crash at some point during
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the storm and didn't know if it was
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related to the storm or not according to
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his son Mac was on the range the next
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day looking to see which fields may have
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gotten precipitation the night before so
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they could move the livestock to those
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fields because the grass would be better
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there and in his process of looking to
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see where the rain had come down he
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found the debris field spread out near
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his ranch house
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it was obvious is something had crashed
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in one of his pasture the night before
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whatever it was was broken up beyond
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identification
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the debris field was approximately 3/4
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of a mile long maybe as much as 2 or 300
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feet in with scattered alone there were
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bits and pieces of material we refused
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to call it metal because from the
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descriptions we have it was more of a
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plastic black material very strong very
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lightweight the pieces of it were
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described as being three or four feet
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long but as light as a feather stannis
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newsprint there were metal beams that
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were slightly flexible but very strong
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and it was spread out all over the field
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some of the metal pieces appeared to
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have strange qualities and unusual
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tensile properties
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[Music]
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later that day Mac drove over to his
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closest neighbors Floyd in a Rhetta
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Proctor who lived ten miles away
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afternoon Floyd already Mac what brings
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you all the way out here for Mike he was
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excited you know he just wanted somebody
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to go down and check it out and we
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should have had we didn't
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take a look at that
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light a match to it you see what I'm
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talking about and he brought a little
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sliver of good-looking stuff and him and
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my husband tried to cut it and burn it
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but it wasn't whittled and it wouldn't
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burn well myth that's pretty damn good
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now I would say it look like plastic but
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back then why you know we didn't have
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plastic and I guess it was more like a
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some kind of a lightweight wood the
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proctors urged Brazel to go to the
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authorities the following monday Brazel
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reported his discovery to the sheriff
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who informed nearby Roswell Army Air
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Base
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that afternoon Mac Brazel had two army
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intelligence officers to the crash site
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one of the officers was major Jesse
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Marcel senior an experienced combat
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pilot whose primary duty in peacetime
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was to investigate air accidents why did
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you stay there mr. brezel lieutenant
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even with his experience Marcel was
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unable to identify what kind of craft it
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was Marcel died in 1982 but before his
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death he gave the following interview
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for a documentary film about UFOs they
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were just fragments tuned all over the
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area in the area but three-quarters of a
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mile long and several hundred feet wide
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so we proceeded to pick up the parts
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said I tried to bend mr. says it will
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not Bend I even tried to burn that but
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not burn see stuff weighs nothing it's
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not in there thicker than 10 falling
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pack of cigarettes since we even tried
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making a dent in it with a 16 pound
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sledge hammer still no dead in it one
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thing I'm certain of being familiar with
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all our activities that it was not a
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weather balloon nor an aircraft nor a
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missile it was something else which we
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didn't know what it was
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late on the night of July 7th major
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Marcel drove back to Roswell
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his car loaded down with the unusual
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remains found on the ranch before going
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on to the base he stopped by his home he
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wanted to show his family what he had
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found when he came back to the house he
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had had a bunch of wreckage with the
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with him at the time and he brought the
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wreckage into the house actually awaking
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my mother myself out so we could view
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this because it's so unusual it's about
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two o'clock in the morning as I recall
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right and spread it out so he could get
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some basic idea of what it looked like
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what it was Jesse Marcel jr. was 11
00:26:43
years old at the time and remembers the
00:26:45
incident vividly he is one of the few
00:26:49
people still alive known to have handled
00:26:51
pieces of the debris no son I don't know
00:26:54
what this stuff is we're all were amazed
00:26:57
by this debris that was there probably
00:27:00
err cuz we didn't know what it was you
00:27:02
know just the unknown the most
00:27:07
remarkable fragment was a short piece of
00:27:10
eye beam which was covered with strange
00:27:12
symbols and embossed markings looks like
00:27:14
some kind of hieroglyphics this writing
00:27:16
could be described as like hieroglyphics
00:27:19
Egyptian type car gloves but not really
00:27:22
the symbols are in the eye beams were
00:27:24
more of a geometric type configuration
00:27:27
in various designs
00:27:29
it had a violet purple type of color and
00:27:32
was actually an embossed part of the
00:27:34
metal itself
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years after this instant happened we
00:27:40
would talk privately among ourselves
00:27:42
about what the possibilities of this
00:27:45
what this thing was and I feel that we
00:27:48
well I know that we came to the
00:27:50
conclusion it was not of earthly origin
00:27:55
if I had not actually told pieces of in
00:27:58
my hand I would not think there would be
00:27:59
possible but because I have to see this
00:28:02
that's the only reasonably major Marcel
00:28:07
took the wreckage to the Roswell base or
00:28:09
he was stationed Roswell was home to the
00:28:14
509th Bomb Squadron the Air Force's sole
00:28:17
atomic bomb group at the time it was a
00:28:20
close base and personnel stationed there
00:28:23
required a high security clearance
00:28:27
the following morning that is believed
00:28:29
that some of the pieces were flown to
00:28:31
Wright Field near Dayton Ohio with a
00:28:33
short stop at Carswell Air Base at Fort
00:28:35
Worth Texas that same morning Colonel
00:28:40
William Blanchard the commanding officer
00:28:42
made a crucial decision he went public
00:28:46
with the story of the discovery made by
00:28:48
Mac Brazel pas office was tenor loss
00:28:56
speaking this is Colonel Blanchard
00:28:58
Colonel Blanchard yes sir what can I do
00:29:00
for you sir second lieutenant Walter
00:29:03
Haught was a public information officer
00:29:06
for the 509th at the time flying discs
00:29:10
colonel Blanchard ordered him to issue a
00:29:13
press release telling the country how
00:29:15
the armory had found a flying saucer
00:29:17
I never questioned it yes in 1947 when a
00:29:23
colonel told the first lieutenant to do
00:29:25
something the first lieutenant did that
00:29:27
I'm sure that had I asked Colonel
00:29:31
blancher to see it he would have said no
00:29:32
and that would have been the end of the
00:29:34
subject there's a little bit of
00:29:37
difference who he didn't have any
00:29:39
democracy back in 1947 in the military
00:29:42
establishment the press release read in
00:29:48
part the many rumors regarding the
00:29:51
flying discs became a reality yesterday
00:29:53
when the intelligence office of the 5:09
00:29:56
farm squadron was fortunate enough to
00:29:58
gain possession of a disc through the
00:30:00
cooperation of a local rancher
00:30:03
I took the releases in the town that was
00:30:11
one of the things that Blanchard told me
00:30:13
to do take it in the town because if
00:30:15
there's any validity to this he didn't
00:30:17
want to lose me too to feel that we had
00:30:20
jumped over their heads and were not
00:30:21
cooperating with that same day it was
00:30:25
reported that an engineer for the Soil
00:30:27
Conservation Service made another
00:30:29
remarkable discovery Barney Barnett of
00:30:34
Socorro New Mexico died in 1969 but he
00:30:38
may have been the person who discovered
00:30:39
what was perhaps the first positive
00:30:41
proof that there was other life in our
00:30:43
universe
00:30:49
Barney was just a real straightforward
00:30:51
just what you would call a real straight
00:30:54
guy he would wouldn't tell you one story
00:30:56
out of color or nothing that's why I was
00:30:59
really surprised when he related this
00:31:01
information to me about Christ Azmi he
00:31:07
told me that he come onto this spaceship
00:31:08
who was during the daytime was an
00:31:11
oval-shaped similar to what had been
00:31:13
identified you know in different
00:31:15
settings and so on
00:31:16
and it had crashed and it had broken
00:31:19
open
00:31:27
there was beings laying about for beings
00:31:29
laying on the ground not in the not in
00:31:31
the spaceship laying in there on the
00:31:33
ground he did describe that the heads
00:31:37
were larger than the bodies by
00:31:39
proportioned and they had some type of
00:31:41
clothing on that looked a little bit
00:31:43
different not exactly like our
00:31:45
spacesuits or that sort of thing but the
00:31:47
four were laying on the ground and they
00:31:52
were scattered not too far from the
00:31:53
object Barney told Verne that he reached
00:31:59
the crash site about the same time as a
00:32:01
group of archaeology students who had
00:32:03
seen the wreckage from their nearby dig
00:32:16
the military had also apparently
00:32:18
discovered the second crash site after
00:32:20
an aerial search but they arrived too
00:32:22
late to secure the area sergeant get
00:32:26
those people out of there and in front
00:32:27
of this Jeep now Barney Barnett of the
00:32:30
students had a clear and the tail look
00:32:32
at the craft and its occupants when the
00:32:37
army showed up they immediately escorted
00:32:39
these people from the scene and then at
00:32:42
that time they give them a warning not
00:32:43
to relate any information to anybody
00:32:46
from that time on Barney never mentioned
00:32:49
it to anybody until the time that he
00:32:52
told me about the thing ladies and
00:32:56
gentlemen it is my duty to inform you
00:32:59
all efforts to track down members of the
00:33:02
archeology digger be unsuccessful this
00:33:05
is a restricted area
00:33:06
and from this moment on the Barnett
00:33:08
story has only been toe second hand many
00:33:11
believe there is just too much
00:33:12
supporting circumstantial evidence to
00:33:14
completely dismiss it when he first told
00:33:20
me I was sort of flabbergasted I didn't
00:33:22
know what to say but I believed it
00:33:24
because of his integrity
00:33:28
I'd stake my life on his reliability
00:33:31
he would never concoct any story
00:33:35
that's why I believed it to be true
00:33:44
on July 8th 1947 newspapers across
00:33:48
America published accounts in a UFO had
00:33:51
supposedly crashed in New Mexico that
00:33:55
same day according to some investigators
00:33:58
a cargo plane carrying a debris from the
00:34:00
crash site arrived at an air base in
00:34:02
Fort Worth Texas but almost the same
00:34:06
moment the army received the news of a
00:34:08
second crash site where alien bodies may
00:34:11
have been found Brigadier General Roger
00:34:16
Ramey as the ranking commander of the
00:34:18
8th Army Air Force at Fort Worth
00:34:21
within hours Raimi's office issued a new
00:34:23
press release stating with the material
00:34:26
recovered in New Mexico was not a UFO
00:34:28
but in reality the wreckage of a US Army
00:34:31
weather balloon
00:34:33
my dad said obviously it was a cover-up
00:34:36
story it was not a weather plume he was
00:34:39
a little disturbed about that but he had
00:34:41
his own intelligence classification
00:34:46
security classifications to protect he
00:34:48
could not really go public with hey this
00:34:50
is not the real thing I mean this is not
00:34:53
a weather balloon so he had to keep that
00:34:55
to himself
00:35:00
but the UFO incident was still very much
00:35:02
alive from Mac Brazel at the time rumors
00:35:06
surfaced that Brazel was held at the
00:35:08
Roswell base until after the new cover
00:35:10
story had been circulated and generally
00:35:12
accepted in Roswell
00:35:18
Floyd Proctor and a friend saw Brazel
00:35:21
but he appeared to be unwilling or
00:35:23
unable to acknowledge his friend Floyd
00:35:29
and a neighbor was in Roswell and saw
00:35:33
Mack surrounded by some of the Air Force
00:35:36
people and they walk right mom and Mike
00:35:43
wouldn't speak to them they you know
00:35:47
kind of thought it was kind of kind of
00:35:49
funny I guess really wondered what he
00:35:52
got into and Mike he wouldn't talk about
00:35:57
it after he'd come back home but he did
00:36:01
say that he ever found something else he
00:36:03
wouldn't report
00:36:08
by the time Brazel returned to his ranch
00:36:10
all traces of the Roswell incident had
00:36:13
apparently been removed from the area
00:36:14
and taken the Wright Field in Dayton
00:36:16
Ohio everything went to right field
00:36:21
that's where the art technical
00:36:22
Intelligence Center was that was where
00:36:24
they could make the studies subsequent
00:36:26
to that we think that the material has
00:36:28
been sent elsewhere we think one of the
00:36:30
bodies has gone to Langley CIA
00:36:32
headquarters we think another has gone
00:36:34
to MacDill which is an Air Force Base in
00:36:36
Florida where they have an aerospace
00:36:38
medicine facility we don't know where
00:36:40
other stuff is gone we think some of it
00:36:42
is still left at Wright Field
00:36:47
I think the reasons for the initial
00:36:50
cover-up are pretty straightforward you
00:36:51
stop to think about remember this is two
00:36:54
years after the worst war the planet had
00:36:56
ever seen you didn't think in terms of
00:36:58
nice guys here to say hello kind of
00:37:00
thing they didn't know how to deal with
00:37:03
them what could you tell the public it
00:37:07
would have been totally irresponsible to
00:37:08
say by the way we thought you'd like to
00:37:10
know that they're alien visitors to
00:37:12
Planet Earth that we can't do a darn
00:37:14
thing to prevent them from flying over
00:37:15
the country we don't know what they want
00:37:17
or where they're from but we thought
00:37:18
you'd like to know for this group of
00:37:21
people at that time to do that would
00:37:22
have been totally irresponsible in spite
00:37:26
of the circumstantial evidence there was
00:37:28
no real proof to dispute the Army's
00:37:30
contention that the wreckage was in fact
00:37:32
a weather balloon then more than 30
00:37:36
years later UFO researchers obtained a
00:37:39
document which many contend proves the
00:37:42
Roswell incident actually occurred in
00:37:46
1984 this top-secret document known as
00:37:50
the mj-12 memo was mailed anonymously to
00:37:53
a UFO researcher operation majestic 12
00:37:57
or mj-12 as it's called was a group of
00:38:01
12 people apparently established by the
00:38:03
President to deal with the wreckage from
00:38:06
Roswell and the whole problem that that
00:38:08
created what how did these things work
00:38:11
where did they come from how can we get
00:38:13
more information how can we analyze the
00:38:16
wreckage in the bodies and so forth and
00:38:18
how do we interact with the rest of
00:38:20
society having that knowledge
00:38:25
the contents of the report stunned
00:38:27
researchers in part get read on oh seven
00:38:32
July 1947 a secret operation was begun
00:38:37
to assure the recovery of the records
00:38:40
aerial reconnaissance discovered that
00:38:42
poor small human-like beings had
00:38:44
apparently ejected from the ground about
00:38:47
two miles east of the wreckage site all
00:38:50
four were dead civilian and military
00:38:53
witnesses in the area were debriefed and
00:38:56
news reporters were given the effective
00:38:58
cover story that the object had been a
00:39:01
misguided whether the government has
00:39:06
consistently refused to comment on the
00:39:08
mj-12 memo and there was still no proof
00:39:10
of its origin
00:39:14
but if we are to believe the mj-12
00:39:17
document and the other accounts then we
00:39:20
must ask ourselves a fantastic question
00:39:23
did our government in 1947 Guidi
00:39:27
discover evidence that there is life in
00:39:29
the universe outside our own atmosphere
00:39:36
apart from Barney Barnett there is only
00:39:38
one man who has ever admitted to having
00:39:40
seen these aliens my husband
00:39:45
Oliver Henderson otherwise known as
00:39:47
Pappy in the Air Force he was entrusted
00:39:50
with many of this country's top secrets
00:39:53
and they were safe with him he never
00:39:56
told anything that he wasn't supposed to
00:39:58
and therefore it was 34 years after this
00:40:03
incident happened that I heard about it
00:40:07
captain Pappy Henderson was the man who
00:40:09
piloted the plane that took the first
00:40:11
pieces of wreckage out of Roswell in
00:40:15
1981 two years before he died he told
00:40:18
his wife that in spite of military
00:40:20
denials the Roswell incident really
00:40:23
happened
00:40:24
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my husband told me the bodies were small
00:40:30
smaller than human bodies the heads were
00:40:35
larger and the eyes were rather sunken
00:40:38
and a little slanted clothing was of
00:40:42
material unlike anything he'd seen
00:40:44
before they were strange they were not
00:40:49
not of this earth
00:40:58
when my husband he was a man of truth
00:41:02
who was trusted with 29 different army
00:41:08
aircraft planes first pilot aircraft
00:41:11
commander tells me this story I believed
00:41:14
him if this happened is the most
00:41:17
significant event of the 20th century
00:41:20
and probably the millennium it would be
00:41:22
akin to Columbus discovering the new
00:41:24
world in Queen Isabella deciding not to
00:41:26
tell the rest of the world about the
00:41:28
discovery of the new world
00:41:34
more than 40 years of passes at hot
00:41:36
summer night and violent thunderstorm
00:41:38
swept over the Brazel ranch the military
00:41:43
declared that the remnants found on that
00:41:45
remote fief
00:41:46
came from a downed weather
00:41:50
but the people who actually saw and held
00:41:53
the wreckage disagreed perhaps it was an
00:41:57
experimental aircraft that the military
00:41:59
wanted to keep top secret at all costs
00:42:02
but perhaps just perhaps it was
00:42:07
something else
00:42:22
next week on unsolved mysteries will
00:42:25
feature a special appearance by the
00:42:26
director of the FBI
00:42:27
William sessions will ask for your help
00:42:30
in tracking down several the most
00:42:31
dangerous fugitives in the United States
00:42:33
we will visit Ambridge Pennsylvania
00:42:36
where several parishioners of the Holy
00:42:37
Trinity Church claim they witnessed a
00:42:39
miracle above the altar during a
00:42:41
religious service and will profile a
00:42:44
clever con man who was targeted nudist
00:42:46
camps across the country for his devious
00:42:49
scams for every mystery there is
00:42:52
something somewhere who knows the truth
00:42:54
perhaps it's you
00:43:00
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