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good evening. thank you for joining us. larry miller's life today is blessed. but that wasn't always the case. the high-powered nike executive spent years in prison as a young man for a crime that's haunted him for decades. now he's on the road to redemption, hoping his story can help others. here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: here in beaverton, oregon, on the campus that makes up the nike world headquarters, 72-year-old larry miller is headed to work. >> i still have to pinch myself sometimes that my life has turned out the way it has. >> reporter: throughout miller's office are little mementos of his milestones and a-list friends. >> this picture right here of m.j. with the rings, that was a part of our initial campaign. muhammad ali gloves are always my favorite. >> reporter: these items, photos, even miller's resume, once president of the portland

trail blazers, now chairman of the wildly successful jordan brand, it all suggests a life of success and privilege. but the glossy exterior, miller says, only tells part of his story. >> every day i think about the fact that i took the life of a young black man. >> reporter: it's a secret he's carried for more than 50 years, that as a teenager he pleaded guilty and served time for the murder of another teen. but miller is now coming clean as part of his road to redemption. >> i could have just continued to live my life. but i felt like i've been so blessed in my life, that if i didn't share this story, that i wasn't really showing my appreciation for the blessings that i've received over the years. >> reporter: in some ways his story is reopening old wounds and sparking controversy. his victim's sister now speaking out. >> he owed the family apology. he owed. he owed the family to correctly

say, this is not a stranger, this was edward white. >> reporter: miller hopes that telling his truth will inspire others to turn their lives around. >> it potentially or hopefully changed that perception of formerly incarcerated people so that folks will be willing to give people a chance. i know it's been a long time, but sometimes it feels like it was yesterday. >> reporter: it's been many years since larry miller has been on this street corner in philadelphia. but today he's facing the ghosts of his past. does it feel in any way you're coming back to the scene of the crime? >> it does. it feels -- it feels a little strange. it feels like -- almost kind of coming full circle. >> reporter: he's revisiting the place where 56 years ago, he took the life of 18-year-old edward white. when miller at the time, just 16 years old, was involved in a local gang.

>> i had family that supported me and told me that i could do anything i put my mind to. but i just chose not to listen. i chose to, you know, get involved in the streets. >> what made you join a gang? >> i think it's -- you know, a sense of belonging to something that's bigger than yourself. it's really difficult in some environments to not feel that attraction to the folks who -- in the neighborhood that are involved in gangs and violence. >> september 30th, 1965. corner of 53rd and locust. how do you end up there? >> i was 16 years old. drunk. one of my gang members had gotten killed a little while before that. and we were just angry and out to get somebody. and just -- unfortunately ran into mr. white, who had nothing to do with anything that i was involved in. he just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

i regret that every day. >> reporter: white became another innocent bystander who lost his life to gang violence. his death, his systems us, left the family heartbroken. >> he was a person. he had a mother, a father, two sisters. he was a twin. he was fun-loving. he was mischievous. he was the apple of my mother's eye. >> reporter: miller pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and served 4 1/2 years, but he continued to be involved in crime. at 26, after the birth of his first daughter, he found himself in jail again for a string of armed robberies. standing at a crossroad. what was the moment for you where you decided, this is it, i'm not going back anymore? >> when i got back to penitentiary, i realized they had this educational release program there. and started to feel a certain sense that, you know, maybe there is something here. so i got my associate's degree

while i was in that program. by the time i made parole, i was graduating from temple. >> reporter: miller graduated with an accounting degree and began to climb the corporate ladder. he found many jobs he applied for simply asked for his relevance may and didn't question any criminal history beyond five years. >> that was what kind of created the secret for me. because i was like, you know, i'm not going to say anything about this. if it comes out, it comes out. but i'm not going to say anything. >> reporter: miller soon found success in business, eventually leading the team that would immortalize michael jordan and his jump man logo beyond footwear. >> with everything michael had done and what he represented both on and off the court, we believed that we could take that logo, and who michael jordan is, and really build a brand around that. and when we started, the business was probably $140 million, $150 million.

this year it will probably be somewhere around $5 billion. >> reporter: yet underneath his success, miller was haunted. >> i had for years this recurring nightmare of some situation where i'm back in custody or i'm being arrested. probably once a month or so, i would have that dream. and also had incredible migraines. i mean, i -- a couple of times i ended up going to the e.r., they checked me out, nothing wrong. >> reporter: he started confiding in his oldest daughter lila, who knew her father served time in prison but didn't know why. any backstory given to you when you were a youngster going to jail, to prison, to visit him? >> very limited. i didn't really know the details of why he was there. >> what was your reaction when you heard about what happened? >> it was difficult to hear. i'm a mother. i have a black son. i just had to really process it and sit with the fact that none of us are perfect, we've all

made mistakes. >> reporter: laila began pushing her father to write a book as a form of release, and over the course of 12 years, they cowrote the book "jump" finally coming clean to the world about miller's past. what message would you like readers to take away? >> none of us should be judged for the rest of their lives by the worst mistake we've ever made. have grace and leave people the space to redeem themselves. we should really, as a society, try to shift the way we perceive formerly incarcerated people. >> reporter: the book helping to strengthen their own relationship. >> i began to understand. and you know, it's just one of those things where you start to see your parents as human beings. it helped me kind of to forgive. >> reporter: many of the educational programs that helped larry get released from prison no longer exist, despite a study that shows inmates who participate in correctional education programs had a 43% lower chance of returning to prison than those who did not. >> that's one of the reasons

that i decided to do this as well, to maybe help to, you know, inspire and spur more programs like this, or the one that i was involved in. >> reporter: miller never names his victim, edward white, in his book. he says it was a deliberate decision. why did you make that decision not to name him? >> in hindsight, i know now that i should have probably reached out to mr. white's family before the book became public, or maybe even before starting to work on the book. but at the time, the way i looked at it was tht this was a way of protecting his family. >> reporter: it's a decision that edward white's sister, barbara mack, disagrees with. >> his name should be in the book. as respect. >> reporter: mack wants the world to know that her little brother was loved and has never been forgotten. >> this was a person loved by his parents and siblings.

and over the years, the impact of murder on a family when a life is taken with no regard, it hurts. >> reporter: but despite the pain, she's willing to extend miller grace. >> i've forgiven him. i had no choice. if i do not forgive him, i cannot be forgiven. >> have you reached out to the family? >> i have. i want to continue to connect with them and to talk with them and work with them to make sure that we memorialize him in a positive way and that they fell that i am remorseful and that they understand that, you know, i'm sorry for what i did. >> our thanks to linsey. up next, who is "jeopardy!'s" amy schneider and why is she so good? looking to get back in your type 2 diabetes zon once-weekly ozempic® can help. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh ♪

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♪ "jeopardy!" contestant amy schneider just keeps on winning. at last count her streak was 35. and she's shattering glass ceilings along the way. here's abc's will reeve. >> something that can cause itchy eyes and a place to view art. >> what is gallery and allergy. >> that's correct. >> reporter: whatever the question -- >> who is hired on? >> what is a yugo? >> what is preindustrial? what is "zoolander"? >> reporter: 35 wins in a row and counting, quickly becoming

game shore lore. >> $1,134,000 -- >> reporter: breaking glass ceilings, the winningest woman and the most high-profile transgender contestant in the show's history, rocketing her to third all-time in total wins. >> james holzhauer, congratulations. >> reporter: surpassing "jeopardy!" legend james holzhauer's 32-game streak along the way. >> what she has done has been in many ways unprecedented in terms of the statistics. >> only two other people have done this, it's just hard to wrap my mind around. >> reporter: in every way the 42-year-old engineer from oakland is dominating the show's tricky trivia. >> this is a person in front of you who's kicking ass on the show. >> who's smarter than you too. >> who's smarter than probably 95% of people watching, no offense to viewers. >> reporter: david oliver getting insight into how she plays and who she is. >> what word would you use to

describe her playing strategy?p" she's very confident in her abilities. she knows what he's doing. >> fearless sounds like a good word to describe amy schneider the person. is that accurate? >> putting yourself out there like this, being on the show for this long when you know that you have such a platform, is a huge deal. >> reporter: schneider drawing inspiration from her mother, paying homage to her on the show. >> my mom was a college professor. so i was always very interested in learning. she really instilled that in me. >> reporter: throughout her run, she's built a massive fan base online with people posting about her every win. but she's also endured struggle, revealing she had been robbed at gunpoint, tweeting, i'm fine but i got robbed yesterday, lost my i.d., credit cards, and phone. i've been dragging myself around all day, trying to replace everything. undeterred, she's pushing forward on all cylinders, now setting her sights on the number two spot. >> for a total of $50800, you yu

are "jeopardy!" champion. >> i am so excited for her. she is awesome. i am a huge "jeopardy!" fan, first and foremost. i love seeing "jeopardy!" played at the highest level, and she's doing that right now. so it's just a thrill. >> reporter: it's been a season of thrills on the show. three champions, three streaks, each with more than 10 wins. a history-making turn for a show more than five decades into its run. >> i'm a big baseball fan. there are times when two of the best players ever are on the field at the same time. and then you go decades without somebody that good. i'm loath to try to interpret too much beyond that. >> reporter: for all the highs, the show has faced some devastating lows. the passing of singular host alex trebek. >> how serious of a thought was it that maybe you had hosted already your last episode of "jeopardy!"? >> that thought has never crossed my mind. never.

maybe because i'm not able to look into the future. with any degree of certainty. but -- no, it -- i just figure,, hey, if i'm around, if "jeopardy!" is still around, i'm going to be hosting it. >> alex's passing obviously was a sad moment for his family, for the game show world, and for our society. he was an icon of our society. and then "jeopardy!" went through some turbulent times. >> reporter: the abrupt firing of replacement host and former executive producer mike richards. >> the future of "jeopardy!" now in jeopardy. >> mike richards stepping down from hosting after accusations of past offensive comments surfaced. >> they've come out the other side, i think with tremendous success, enormous popularity pt >> reporter: current guest host behind the podium, the champion of champions ken jennings, whose

74-show winning streak remains unbroken. >> i can't wait for the next g.o.a.t. tournament, which i presume will involve matt and amy in some manner. i hope that ken gets to host it, because how wonderful would it be that the current g.o.a.t. gets to hand the trophy to the new g.o.a.t.? that's something as a viewer i can't wait for. >> today we mark the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year. and boy did our returning champion, amy, turn out the lights on the competition on yesterday's show. >> reporter: with just three wins standing between amy schneider and yet another record, her decade-long dreams are closer to reality than ever. >> i mean, it took her ten years. so i think that it speaks to the need to, if you really want to be on the show, or really anything, you know -- if you really want to do it, i guess just keep trying, don't give up, keepeading, keep paying attention to the world. >> our thanks to will.

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finally tonight, the boston bruins honoring willie o'ree, the first black man to play in the nhl. o'ree's number 22 hoisted to the rafters before the home game against the carolina hurricanes. on this day in 1958, o'ree took to the ice as a winger for the bruins, shattering the color barrier in the league. o'ree, who was 86, watched the ceremony from home. >> i will never forget how my teammates in the bruins locker room accepted me as one of their own. this was a time when some of the fans and opposing players were not ready to see a black man in the nhl. thank you for your tremendous love and support. this is an unforgettable day. i am overwhelmed and thrilled to be a part of the bruins forever.

>> i had the good fortune to interview mr. o'ree years ago, as kind a gentleman as he was a gifted athlete. besides battling racism, he told me, he had to manage a secret. willie o'ree is blind in one eye. i never told my teammates or coaches, he told me, dealing with racism was consuming %-p for myself and never allowed anyone to make them for me. congratulations, sir. and that's "nightline" for this evening. see you right back here same time tomorrow. thanks for the company, america. good night.