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“I sat up in my bed and I was immediately engulfed in fear."
3:20

“I sat up in my bed and I was immediately engulfed in fear."

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"I’d be willing to trade you this old guitar for a bottle of whiskey."
2:59

"I’d be willing to trade you this old guitar for a bottle of whiskey."

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“You don’t often have two hydrogen bombs falling out of aircraft onto U.S. property.”
3:27

“You don’t often have two hydrogen bombs falling out of aircraft onto U.S. property.”

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“Being in a place like that, I didn’t feel like we was human.”
3:00

“Being in a place like that, I didn’t feel like we was human.”

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“One reason I love you so much is you know what I went through and you don’t feel threatened.”
2:54

“One reason I love you so much is you know what I went through and you don’t feel threatened.”

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“You have to go back. And you’re going back to train for the Olympics.”
3:29

“You have to go back. And you’re going back to train for the Olympics.”

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“I opened up the back door of that church to see these hundreds of eyes all staring back at me, knowing where I had been.”
2:43

“I opened up the back door of that church to see these hundreds of eyes all staring back at me, knowing where I had been.”

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“In that moment that I took those pills, I wasn’t thinking of you and that’s hard to accept.”
2:46

“In that moment that I took those pills, I wasn’t thinking of you and that’s hard to accept.”

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“Everything was so quiet like somebody had shut the volume control off on the world.”
2:32

“Everything was so quiet like somebody had shut the volume control off on the world.”

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“It’s like a part of my heart is gone.”
2:43

“It’s like a part of my heart is gone.”

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“I remember him shaking my hand and, as he let go, somebody shot him.”
3:24

“I remember him shaking my hand and, as he let go, somebody shot him.”

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“I remember thinking that if I had a magic wand this is where I would use it.”
2:31

“I remember thinking that if I had a magic wand this is where I would use it.”

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“I could stand in my backyard and listen to Ku Klux Klan meetings.”
2:40

“I could stand in my backyard and listen to Ku Klux Klan meetings.”

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“The next time you and I saw each other was in the middle of the Vietnam War.”
2:48

“The next time you and I saw each other was in the middle of the Vietnam War.”

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“His decades of abuse — it was the funeral pyre to the old ways.”
2:43

“His decades of abuse — it was the funeral pyre to the old ways.”

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“I’m speaking with the man who killed my son.”
5:17

“I’m speaking with the man who killed my son.”

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“I had a child to raise and I just could not die right then.”
3:33

“I had a child to raise and I just could not die right then.”

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“Everybody was very quiet when they buried Mr. Spanish.”
3:06

“Everybody was very quiet when they buried Mr. Spanish.”

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“The school's mascot was a Confederate colonel...”
3:22

“The school's mascot was a Confederate colonel...”

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“My father did what no black man at the time was supposed to do, he allowed his car to run out of gas.”
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“My father did what no black man at the time was supposed to do, he allowed his car to run out of gas.”