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Trial attorneys will tell you that
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when you have an actual witness
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they're maybe 50% accurate at best.
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You know, four people can see an incident
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and every one of them
will describe it differently.
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And it's not just their perceptions
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that they're reporting.
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It's also their biases.
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This is Bob.
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Yeah, Mr. Rackstraw,
my name is Tim Evans.
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I'm a reporter
with the Indianapolis Star newspaper.
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I'm sorry to call you
out of the blue like this,
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but I've been contacted
by a guy named Colbert.
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He's alleging that you are, uh,
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the guy who did
the D.B. Cooper hijacking and--
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I have no idea.
But Colbert has been attacking me
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for a number of years,
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resulting in a big massive lawsuit.
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So now what he's doing is
he's sending out six pages of information
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to a whole bunch of small-town newspapers,
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and then we'll do the old Nazi Blitzkrieg
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and hammer Rackstraw once again.
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So that's where it is.
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And have you filed
a lawsuit against him?
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- It's coming.
- It's coming? Okay.
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Do not print anything about me.
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-I will sue the crap out of you.
- Mm-hmm.
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So are you, are you not…
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Are you denying that you're--
what he's saying is true?
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Don't get to the bottom line.
That's a $40 million question.
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-Let him answer it. What did he say?
- He says you are,
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and that's why I'm trying to give you
an opportunity to say you're not.
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Well, opportunity to dig
into whether he's telling the truth.
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Do you know anything about the guy
in Indiana that he had supposedly
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decoded the messages, or…?
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Yeah. His name is Sherwood, is that it?
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Yeah, I think. Yeah, yeah.
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It was a hurrah moment,
I guess, eureka moment for Colbert,
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grasping at the last straw.
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There was a correlation between
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what he used in Southeast Asia
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and then what was found
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and decrypted
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from the D.B. Cooper letters.
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That's a pretty strong correlation.