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room is very cool and one of the things about it, there is no vents for the air conditioning. it was ratuating off the wall. when you touched the wall, it was cool and that was the most interesting thing that we experienced in that city. anyway, we'll put that online to take a watch and have a great night. night. anderson starts now, -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com deadeath op death ofdeathir outsip outsioutside atlanta tthe car by his p the chth harrt harris. p he was left in the sun i car and died. justpjustin harris is charg death of his son. tonigtonight we know about the of evidenc of evidenof evidenc them to arrest hill. polipolice seizep policep
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father's office. p savidge wsavidge wh savid atlanta. >> reporter: a source close to us said there was a number of computers seized and that source says on one of those computers there was a search that specifically was looking for how long it takes for an animal to die in a hot car. that would seem like an electronic smoking gun, however, it's quite clear to authorities they already felt that the father's excuse or explanation that this was an accident was unraveling. they felt that because one look at the route he claims to have taken, the day that the baby dies begins here, when the father and son are seen at this restaurant and the father is seen placing the 22 month old baby into the backseat of his car into a child seat.
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they don't say how investigators saw that, television or eyewitness. the clear point here is that father and son are interacting, the father knows he has the child. and he is going to drive to work. let me point out something. those white buildings just in the distance, that's work. so let's do the drive. so what i've done is reset the odometer to see how far a drive is it. all right. we're just about at his work space. we can't drive on the property. it's .6 miles, just over half a mile and less than five minutes. that's the building where justin
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harris works, and apparently, what police are trying to imply here is that, well, how did you know you had a child down the road but apparently less than five minutes later you forget you have a child? instead, the father goes into work. the next time authorities say that he is seen, they don't say whether on video or by an eyewitness, he is coming out and opens the driver's door of the car and goes back into work and the next reference they make to him is when he gets in the vehicle and leaves. we don't know the exact route he took after he left work but we know where he ended up, it's just a little down here. all right. so this is the last stop and this is really the horrible realization. we've gone 2.3 miles, again, we don't know the specific route but it's taken us a little over ten minutes to get here. this is the shopping center where according to authorities, the father pulls over. it's also where the witnesses say it became very obvious that
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something was terribly wrong. >> hopped out of the driver's seat, opened the backdoor, pulled his child out. laid him on the concrete. tried to resuscitate him. >> he screamed what have i done loudly? obviously, it was a bit dramatic, you know, hands in the air looking up towards the sky, what have i done type of thing. >> just horrible. martin, that computer that has allegedly been confiscated. how damaging could that evidence be if there is search history and he did search, this is based on one source but if he did search for how long it take it is an animal to die in a hot car? >> it certainly sounds very damming but i'll point out a couple things. we don't know if someone else had access to the computer, when the search was conducted, days before, weeks before, months before. then on top of that, the other thing is i should point out there are other famous cases in
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this computing searching has been used and hasn't necessarily worked out in a conviction and casey anthony would be would be example of that. >> stick around, i want to bring in sunny hostin and mark geragos, attorney and child's advocate reeva martin is joining us. sunny, again, this is one source but it certainly is not a good development for the father. >> well, it's not, of course. it gives me pause but we don't know enough about this case to really jump to conclusions and i know mark is shocked that i'm saying this but, you know -- >> do you work in cable news? >> somebody hacked into sunny's body. >> i know, i'm thank hem hostin. i need to hear motive in a case like this. i need to hear about a divorce or custody battle. i need to hear about perhaps an insurance policy, substance abuse, child abuse, prior child
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abuse. >> because this does -- >> it doesn't make sense. >> i looked up stats. mark will make fun of me because i have notes. if you look at this survey on kids.org, everybody should look at this. one in four parents of a child out of three has forgot a child in a car. i've done it. >> i did it. >> you did it, wow? >> i can't tell you the number of people that watch the the show last night and called me and said i've done the exact same thing. and it's -- >> it happens. >> you panic. you panic when it happens. i know martin did that piece, the setup piece and talked about the five minutes. you can forget that quickly. it's just -- >> i did. >> you get -- >> also, we'll have a woman oncoming up after this panel who actually had done this and her child died, and one of the things that a reporter who we're also going to have on with the washington post said you create false memories sometimes if you're really stressed and you
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think you've dropped off your child or done something but in fact you haven't and the child is still in the car. >> no question about it. >> the search history gives me great pause. i had, i can't tell you how many cases where it's been something has been reported about a search history and then when you go in and start cross-examining or look at it, it turns out it really wasn't a search history. when it comes to the search page, there may be those things that are at the bottom where they sponsor -- >> pop-ups or someone else could have done it. >> someone else could have done it. >> reeva, you're more skeptical of the father and this incident, why? >> i think there are issues we need to point out, anderson, and one is that in most of these cases, these are toddlers. you know, infants -- let me start over, infants under one years old. in this case, a 22 month old boy. at 22 months old, you're talking, making noise. so i have some concerns about what was going on in the car. often times, parents, we have the routines. we're singing with our child. we're engaging with our child.
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we're playing i spy -- >> they have just eaten and they fell asleep. >> think about how many times -- >> one at a time. >> think about how many parents i know will go into the car, put their kid in the car and drive up and down the driveway to put them to sleep because that's the way to get them to sleep. >> in this case, what is different is this dad went back to the car a second time. it wasn't just getting in the car one time and driving the short distance from the restaurant to work, he went back at lunch and went into that car. so i am just concerned. i'm concerned about the child in the case. 40 kids die a year. somebody has to stand up for these kids. that's too many kids dying. >> i don't think there is anybody who says this is a good thing or not standing up for the kids. >> and it happens far too often and the broader discussion needs to be what do we do about this? when this happened to me before, four years, this might not make
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sense, i drove without shoes. i put my shoes in the backseat with my children because i would never walk to work or walk anywhere barefoot. we need to talk about intervention -- >> perhaps just because you've done it doesn't make it not criminal. >> you don't think this rises to the level of flelony homicide? >> i think we're talking about child neglect, negligence that rises to some kind of criminal negligence. i don't think we can dismiss this as an accident. i get concerned about the people that say because this is so horrific, we should ignore it. the father has enough guilt. there are crimes where people are guilty after it occurs and i'm concerned about the kids in the cases and i think -- >> we have to -- >> i want to address that. >> wait, wait, we don't need to yell. we don't need to jump on each other. one at a time. >> i want to address that. as a former prosecutor, you want to put people in jail and hold them responsibility.
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if they can be rehabilitated. punishing a parent for an accident is never a deterrent. it's certainly not going to rehabilitate and nobody is going to say i'm not going to put my kid in a hot car and leave them accidently because i'm going to get put in jail. >> calling it an accident, is that the right word? an accident is something you cannot prevent. this is more than an accident. this is not an accident. >> legally an accident can still attach criminal liability to it. what they have charged here is an intentional act. they are not charging that it's accidental, could be a lesser, but they are proceeding and accidents can be criminal -- >> they have not determined motive. that's one of the things obviously investigators are looking at. >> right, and, you know, sunny brings up a key point, i wondered that. what is the motive? would be the motivation, if, in
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pact, this is a murder. who gains from that? that hasn't been explained. the chief of the cobb county police department put out his own message and you had it last night and that is he has apparently evidence and he has testimony that indicates to him this is more than just a tragic accident. and what that is we don't know but it's been indicated there is a whole lot more to this case yet to be revealed. >> mark -- >> you're a defense attorney but you're skeptical. you say a lot of it is based on the police officer's perception of this man. >> right, and i take great exception to the police putting out a tainting of this guy. you know, you arrested him, fine. i understand it. go take your case over to the da and make your case in court. you shouldn't be putting out this kind of slanderous stuff out there. it taints the jury pool. >> it is extraordinary given the number of kids this happens to each year. i read that upwards as 40 kids died this way last year alone.
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are there steps, i mean, sunny had an idea of she puts her shoes in the back and therefore she's checking in the back is a clever simple solution. are there other things to prevent this from happening? >> you know, anderson, i don't know why the automobile manufacturers or car manufactures haven't figured out how to put an alarm on. the car alarm goes off when we drive, if a kid is in a weighted car seat an alarm can't go off to tell the parent there is a kid in the back of this car that needs to be attended to. we can fix this. the technology as advance' as it is, there shouldn't be 40 -- >> that's a spectacular idea. >> we're having the writer from "the washington post" out but they recount a case in which a father was at work, the car alarm went off three times, he
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locked -- accidently locked his kid in the car, car alarm went off three times, motion detector and we looked out the window and didn't see anybody bothering and automatically turned it off. can you imagine what that person is going through? >> remarkable, given the alarm going off still didn't trigger his mind and trigger the memory. let me make it clear, if it is found that he intentionally left his kid in the car, and i'm not a proponent of the death penalty. >> hang them high hosti in. >> this would be a death penalty case. >> thank you. just a case that has a lot of people talking. set your dvrs to watch 360 whenever you want. you'll meet a woman who left her child in a car. sadly didn't notice in time and the prize-winning writer that came to the conclusion this can happen to anyone. iraq, details what life is like in the areas held by the extremist group isis. i make a lot of purchases for my business.
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have a child in the backseat? they are not house keys, cell phone but they are precious, especially in our heart. to our brains it's a different story. she went to work with her nine month old in the car mistakenly thicken he was with the babysitter. by the time she got back to the car after work, it was too late. jean wrote about landon and others that made terrible misstates. apologies to jean, i want to read you a highly condensed portion of his piece from march 200 that you should read. what kind of person forgets a baby? the wealthy do it turns out and the poor and middle class. it happens to the absent minded and organize needed to a dentist, police officer, soldier, a nurse, a mental health counselor. it happened to a pediatrician, a rocket scientists. jean wine garden and lynn join us now. lynn, you were a woman who served her country in iraq and bosnia and awarded a bronze star
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and yet, you forget your son and i've heard your situation described as the perfect storm. everything that could go wrong did go wrong that day. can you explain that? >> yes, normally during the day my husband or i, one of us dropped the baby off but we only had one stop, that was the drop the baby off. this particular week, my son had a bad cold and was fussy and not sleeping well and lethargic and i had been dropping my husband off at work and then dropping the baby off at daycare and then on the way to work, i got a phone call we were honoring a fallen soldier's family, a fallen soldier by bringing their family in for a ceremony here in charlottesville and the plane tickets had not been paid for like they were supposed to and the family was supposed to be on the flight. i immediately went to work mode. i made a stop thinking i dropped the baby off and went into work.
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getting out of my vehicle, got to work and went on to work. i had no child care communication system in place with my home care provider and her knowing that the baby, that i must have stayed home with him that day because he had been fussy and not feeling well with a bad cold, she just assumed he was with me at home. and she missed my -- i missed her call because i was dealing with the emergency in the morning around 10:30. then she missed my return call around 1:00 and final recalled me back at 4:00 and asked me about how brice was doing. and she asked me two or three times and i had to respond what do you mean? did jarrett pick him up early not realizing he wasn't there. and finally after the third time she's trying to explain to me, she said no, lynn, you didn't drop him off. that's when i -- >> you really created a false memory of having dropped him off? >> absolutely. absolutely. and i did it every day. it was part of my routine and
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because i had a change in my routine, and i had already made one stop that i didn't normally make, i thought he was already at daycare. i even remember which is something that memory specialists now coin a misremembering, i remember dropping him off. i remember having a conversation with her that i never had. >> wow. >> because it was part of the routine every day. >> jean, i mean, in your research on this top pick, the article you published in the washington post is ex ordinary and i recommend everybody we'll put a link to it because it's incredible reading. she formed this kind of false memory she thought she dropped brice off at daycare. the father in atlanta is claiming the same thing. in your research, how common is that? >> basically, this is extensively looked at by neuro scientists and what seems to be the case in almost all of these cases is that this turns out to be a failure of memory, not of
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love, not of bad parenting. it's something that happens under a certain set of circumstances. they tend to be the same. lynn's case was very much like this. there is stress involved. there is a change in routine. you're not doing the things the way you usually do and it creates this horrifying memory. >> and you wrote about, i believe, it was a father who the alarm in the car went off three times when hes at work and he just from his desk turned it off, correct? >> absolutely. >> i mean -- >> he had had -- he hadn't -- he was so distant from the notion that he hadn't dropped his child off at daycare that that didn't even give him a clue. imagine having to live with that for the rest of your life. >> just incredible. and lynn, how do you, i mean, i don't know how to ask this question but how do you survive something like this as a parent? >> well, i will tell you that
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it's something that you -- it's not like the death of a child where it was an accidental death or, you know, something happened like cancer or a family member when it was your fault, it's something you live with every day and i've -- i've within the support group that other parents have formed under these circumstances, first time parents that deal with this, i tell them straight out, it never goes away. it will -- the pain will never go away. it never gets any less. it's something that you live with every day. you just learn to live with it, and then you try and figure out why and how it's possible and then often these parents, if they feel compelled to talk, they become advocates for educating people. i'd like to add that, you know, i heard during the earlier discussion one person say well, this could rise to a criminal negligence, but i argue that
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plenty of domestic accidents happen every day, every year all across the country. a child gets out the backdoor that was supposed to be locked and accidently drowns in the pool. a child falls down their stairs and breaks their neck and dies or becomes paralyzed. those parents are not charged because it was an accident. but people do not understand or can't conceive and within jean's article that it could happen to them. i was one of those parents. i heard of stories of this happening before my son died and first thing i said, that's an irresponsible parent. there is no way to forget your child until it happened to me. when i looked at the research and talked with, i found a memory specialist out of florida, dr. david diamond, and started wanting to know more or less holding myself accountable. i managed $47 million in iraq with every penny accounted for, awarded a bronze star for it and
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i can forget my child? how is that possible? i understand medically and understand logically how it's possible but it still doesn't mean that i don't believe it myself that i could forget him in the car? >> jean, it seems like prosecutors, it really depends on the local prosecutor, whether or not a parent is charge in a case like this. >> yeah, absolutely. in fact, in most jurisdictions, the laws are essentially the same. and in most of these cases, you have almost identical fact patterns but turns out roughly half the cases are prosecuted as a crime and half are dismissed as what they really are, a terrible, terrible accident. >> lynn, just briefly, do you have recommendations for parents to prevent this from happening? >> absolutely. one thing we're educating a lot of parents, thanks to organizations and corporations like pets mart provide little
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toys or stuffed animals that we put cards on and tie around their neck and give them to newborn parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles who don't have them of the and has a set of rules on how to ensure that you don't accidently forget your child. but what i learned was that when my children were born, i baby proofed my house like everybody. you learn, you put plastic safety devices in the electrical outlets. you put a baby gate up so they don't fall down the stairs but we don't baby proof the vehicles. outside of domestic accidents within the home, non-vehicular accidents are the highest of any other death of children. >> right. >> accidental backovers, accidental front overs, accidental window strangulations, these things can be prevented if we would have only known. when i became an advocate for
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kids in cars, i went to the website and learned tips and ideas to make sure that my car was baby proof. >> is that's kids in cars.com? >> yes. >> all right. >> kids in cars.org and we'll put a link on the website. appreciate you being here. >> reporting is extraordinary. a link to gene's article. for more go to cnn.com. why the stop mom of the missing boy found alive in his basement is in custody and on the ground in iraq, a look what life is like now where isis is in control. kid: hey dad, who was that man? dad: he's our broker. he helps look after all our money. kid: do you pay him? dad: of course. kid: how much? dad: i don't know exactly. kid: what if you're not happy? does he have to pay you back? dad: nope. kid: why not? dad: it doesn't work that way. kid: why not? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab.
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a lot happening in iraq tonight. u.s. military advisers arrive in a town south of baghdad killing 13. a separate bomb blast killing 19. syria is killing out air strikes targeting isis. the prime minister welcomes that. cnn obtained video what life is like under isis in mosul. here is arwa damon. >> reporter: isis is distributing much needed cooking gas to families, even selling it at a cheaper price than the iraqi government used to. in a nation where the day to day basics are a necessity for survival, acts like this do garner goodwill but isis is implementing law. prayers for all and banning women from movements outside their home without a male guardian. >> arwa joins me from baghdad and in new york, a former fbi supervisor special agent.
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iraqi military officials are claiming they have been able to make gains today against isis. is that for real? because they seem to make a lot of claims that are hard to actually verify. >> reporter: and that is still the case, anderson. very difficult to actually obtain accurate independent information about what is taking place on the ground. now, according to state television, according to the government, they have managed to make sole gains in takreet and air dropped special commandos into the university premises. in all they are claiming to have killed 40 militants when it comes to the military, the government claiming to have control over it but at this stage conflicting reports about that and the front lines in the province to the west of the capital existing there. at this stage, the government wanting to present an image of being an entity that is under
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control whose security forces are actually beginning take the fight to isis, to those who are fighting alongside isis rather than the image portrayed thus far of an army that abandoned weapons. >> whether that's happening or not we'll see. you said that the threat from these foreign fighters is unlike any jihad threat that the united states and western europe faced. how so? >> now in the situation between iraq and syria, we have 12,000 foreign fighters, most from about 81 different countries. unlike other jihad wars that happened before, most of these people went knowing exactly who isis are, knowing exactly who al qaeda affiliates -- >> not like someone went to afghanistan pre9/11 with some other idea. >> exactly and recruited using social media tools, they have their own bubbles in social heed media. the situation in iraq is different there are foreign
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fighters from england and stuff like that and syria and iraq fighting with isis. the situation in iraq is more complicated. isis was able to build that strength in the sunni areas because of the sectarian policies of maliki government. most sunnis feel they are not involved in the political process and the very first thing that need to be done in iraq today is to bring them to the fold. bring them to the presence of iraq and make them feel that they are part of the future. >> that can only be done with the change of leadership in iraq? >> absolutely. maliki is not going to be the guy to do this. maliki won the election. his coalition political coalition won the election but there is many different politicians in his coalition that can take over and it seems to me that he who holds significant power among the shia, the equivalent of the pope
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to the catholics indicated his willingness for maliki to be changed. >> arwa, in terms of life in mosul under isis, we saw a little bit in that piece but have they already, they posted new rules women can't go outside, no smoking, no drinking, no music. have they actually started to enforce that or i've read that often, you know, there is a honeymoon period where they are consolidating gains and don't reveal themselves as they ultimately will become. >> they have begun to a little bit and you hear from people living mosul that more and more women are wearing the full on black covering, but also interestingly, anderson, is that they have opened these centers, certain mosques as designated centers where people can go in and repenalt. so if you're a member of the iraqi security forces, affiliated you can go in and repent and given a piece of pipe
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there clears you when you go out into the streets just in case you run into another member of isis. what they have done is taken areas where people used to go out and have fun. the pain entertainment district in mosul, this main street that used to be filled with caves and restaurants, now isis turned into a stage where they can launch their public preachings, so they really are beginning to implement their own version of what they want to see the city become. >> arwa damon, appreciate it. stay safe. >> the stepmother of missing michigan boy found safe last night is in custody. the mother is in custody. the latest ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] if you can't stand the heat, get off the test track. get the mercedes-benz you've been burning for at the summer event, going on now at your authorized mercedes-benz dealer.
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more breaking news, the strange reappearance of a 12-year-old boy in detroit. his stepmother is in custody. charlie baffle has been gone 11 days when he was found alive in the basement. his father learning the news last night from nancy grace on tv. >> charlie, we're getting reports that your son has been found in your basement.
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sir? mr. bothel -- >> what? >> we are getting reports that your son has been found alive in your basement. >> what? >> if you can hear me, very quickly, we're getting that right now from, from -- how could you son be alive in your basemen basement? >> [ bleep ]. i have -- i have no idea. >> bizarre to say the least. police have talked to the boy. we're learning details about some of the physical evidence and of course the arrest of the stepmother. susan candiotti is reporting on it and joins us now.
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what is the deal here? happened? >> that's what they are still trying to sort out. police however were able to talk to and interview charlie today and he told them what happened. >> charlie the child? >> charlie the child, that's right. this was after he was checked out at the hospital. he's okay. and a child psychologist also spoke with him, as well. but now investigators are saying that because of what charlie told them, they are making progress and they are taking that information, they are not done yet to the prosecutors to decide whether charges will be filed. >> but that basement, i understand, was served multiple times by police. >> that's what is so strange about this. they went down there several times on different days. they found this weird contraption down there. it was either like a trap, a makeshift trap, maybe a hiding place. they don't know. a big 55 gallon drum. he was behind that as well as a dresser and boxes. >> they don't think he was there the whole time and they don't think he built that contraption.
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>> yeah, because it's just so big it doesn't make sense but they are trying to figure it out. he wasn't there before. they were in the middle of a search just yesterday afternoon and in the middle of it, they won't tell me why but something may them stop and go back down to the basement. >> why is the stepmother arrested? is that known? >> they are saying it's unrelated. >> they are saying it's unrelated to this? >> at this point, at this point because it's a to roparole violation and there nofs rush to pick her up on monday. there might be a connection, we just don't know for sure yet. >> bizarre to say the least. a preview of the special series the sixties, the decade that changed the world. this is a great episode tonight and we're joined in a moment by a remarkable man that joined martin luther king. he was 15 years old when he heard martin luther king decide he would get involved. i'll talk to him ahead.
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burning them in the present situation of segregation? >> i may not be able to do it, but i'll die trying. >> bill conner has a well known identity as one of the hardest headliners in defensive segregation. he hired the klansmen on the police force. >> he assumes he'll provide the footage they need to outrage the country. >> the commissioner has has arrests, police dogs to break up the demonstrations. >> the civil rights leader john louis was a key part of the movement and featured in the episode of the "sixties." the georgia congressman joins me. great to have you on. for a lot of young americans watching that, it's hard to imagine a world where conner can say he died trying to uphold segregation. is there a moment that propelled you to join the movement? there a movement, you were a
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young man that decided i've got to get involved? >> i made a decision very early to get involved in the civil acts movement. i was 15 years old in 1955. when i heard the words of martin luther king jr. on the radio, i heard about rosa parks and seen martin luther king jr. was speaking directly to me saying john louis, you, too, can do something. you can make a contribution. i grew up 50 miles from montgomery and growing up there, i saw the signs that said white men, colored men, white women, colored women. i didn't like it and dr. king provided a way out for me. it was not easy. we were beaten. yes, we were jailed and we lost some friends, lost some relatives, some colleagues, but we didn't give up. we didn't give in. we kept the faith. >> what is it like to confront hate? i mean, it's one thing to, you
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know, talk about it. it's one thing to kind of see hate on a massive scale but individual hate, someone looking you in the eyes and, you know, punching you, looking you in the eyes and saying horrible things to your face, how -- what is that like? >> well, during the '60s, i had people who would pour hot water, hot chocolate, hot coffee on many of us. put lighted cigarettes out in our hair or down our backs. pull us off the stool and spit on us, but we were trained to look straight ahead and be as ordinarily and peaceful as possible. when i was beaten on a bridge by a state trooper, i thought i was going to die. i thought i saw death, but i was prepared and i was ready but to do all i could to end
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segregation and racial discrimination and gain the right for all of our citizens to participate in a democratic process. >> i heard you say you hope this next generation will be inspired to get in trouble, good and necessary trouble. explain what you mean by that. >> himy mother and my father, especially my mother told me over and over again when asked about the signs that i saw growing up saying white waiting, colored waiting, white men, colored men, white women, colored women. she would say don't get in trouble. don't get in trouble. don't get in the way. that's the way it is. but martin luther king jr. inspired me to get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble. it's my hope and my prayer that the next generation of young people will stand up and speak up and speak out and confront the injustice, confront the
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evils that we see around us and be bold and be courageous. >> it is important, i think, to have documentaries like this and to remember the stories and remember the names and remember the struggle because i mean, this was in our lifetime. this was not some distant past of america. this was -- this is, you know, the 60s, the 70s and the ramifications are still being felt. >> well we have today in america come to the right to vote, the right to participate in a democratic process. trying to pa toing to make it h difficult so another generation must stand up and push. i knew two of the young men and had met one of the third young men that was beaten, murdered in mississippi, two young white men and one young black man, went out to investigate the burning
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of a church just 50 years ago and i tell young people and students all the time, these three young people didn't die in vietnam. they didn't die in the middle east or eastern europe or in africa, they died right here in our own country. that's why it's so important for young people, for young children to understand that when they become 18 they must register, they must go out and vote in every election. >> representative john louis, always a pleasure to talk to you. >> thank you, sir. >> if you don't know what he did, you should tune into the '60s, he's a hero of the movement. remarkable man and others will be focused tonight in the installment of the '60s, the decade that changed the world area at 9:00 p.m. we'll be back at 11:00 another edition of 360 and we'll be back in just a moment "the ridiculis ridiculist". ♪
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time now for "the ridiculist." we're adding anyone that doesn't love older ladies. you might recall over the years especially during my reality show we showcased some music videos i can't believe i just did this. the music videos from real house wooif wives. along comes a video that truly deserves our support. ♪ i'm not 20 either and i don't
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care either and my hair isn't gray ♪ >> we're just getting started. the song is called older ladies and in all seriousness, it is wonderful owe to ageing and self-confidence. it was written by donna lou stevens and let's just say rihanna does her thing, these ladies do theirs. ♪ i got saggy breasts drooped from my chest and fts f that's the reason you don't love me, maybe that's not love ♪ >> catching, right? we have a ban here, gentlemen's band on drums available for birthda birthdays, weddings, resepgszs and do a total e cliclipse of t heart. that last verse was great. >> now if you'll excuse me i'm going to go take a long, hot
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steamy bath with just enough water to barely cover my perky boosims. >> you're only going to sit in an inch of water? >> zing. back now to the singing older ladies. ♪ i got aching feet and my thighs jiggle when i giggle or wiggle and if that's the reason you don't love me, maybe that's not love ♪ >> maybe that's not love. i love this song. i love this band. at one point they use the word hoochie coochie. one person they might want to consider adding to the group. >> i'm sally omally i'm proud to say i'm 50 years old and i'm not afraid to tell her real age and i like to kick, stretch and kick. 50 years old. >> i can't tell you, you know, there is probably not a day that goes by that i do not quote
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sally omally. i could watch that clip for the rest of my life. congratulations to donna lou stevens, anyone that doesn't love them will top the charts on "the ridiculist" that does it for us. see you again at 11:00 p.m. see you again at 11:00 p.m. good edition of 360. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com all people should obey just laws, but i would also say that an unjust law is no law at all. >> i say segregation loud and segregation forever. >> america is not living up to the dream of liberty and justice for all. >> primarily with a politician. >> we're willing to be beaten for democracy. >> they would give anything in the world if we have trouble