The Thin Blue Line

00:01:39 In October, my brother and I left Ohio. We were driving to California.

00:07:23 I do not like being threatened.

00:11:18 He had his flashlight. It hit the flashlight and went into his arm.

00:15:58 It was getting awfully close to Christmas.

00:19:02 There was a sock under water. He said, "There it is."

00:22:59 And I think he handed me the pistol, and I put it under the driver's seat.

00:27:59 He admits driving the car and taking a right on Inwood Road...

00:32:05 Later on, he finally found one place...

00:35:23 and had told the people in Vidor that I was...

00:39:01 They'd had a 28-year-old man.

00:43:24 Just before he went into the motel...

00:47:28 Something happened. What?

00:51:10 "You're too nosy. You don't even know what's going on."

00:55:05 including assault with knives, and all kinds of stuff.

00:58:51 The officer, he walked up to the vehicle.

01:02:25 A guard walks up to the door...

01:05:38 And as far as we know, he never had any history of violence whatever.

01:09:27 Fifteen times, 20 times a day, I hear this same story...

01:12:46 I don't even recall ever asking him, or my having told me...

01:16:10 it's all gotten messed up and derailed again.

01:19:36 You're taking a guess.

01:24:03 I understand one other witness did pick out the man at the lineup.

01:28:01 When we went to retrieve the pistol...

01:31:45 I was 3 years old...