and shawn buckner had no reason to help tim hennis. >> he came home empty handed hoping that bucknerould eventually change his mind. the retrial of timothy hennis began on january 27th, 1989, almost four years after the brutal murders of gary eastburn's wife and daughters. >> the state had a re-trial, but the defense had an entirely different case. >> we were going to drill him and film him and let him watch it. >> did you kill these three people? >> no, i did not kill these people. i have a daughter of my own, and i could not hurt any children at all. >> did you do this crime? >> no, i did not. >> and we felt that if he showed rage or emotion, the jury would say, there, you see, he could get to this point. >> how does this all make you feel? >> extremely upset and angry. >> on cross-examination, the prosecutor confronted hennis with the alleged motive for the murder. >> the prosecutor says that you lost your cool, and went in there and tried to have sex with her, and when she refused you snapped and killed her. >> and they were trying to provoke him on the stand and he had to calmly

so i will turn this over to sergeant buckner to cover the highlights. >> president turman: sergeant buckner before you begin, i would like to address the commission on general order 3.01. it was my pleasure to see through this order with some of the stakeholders, including the dpa and the department in its final drafting where we went through line by line and decided on some specific language, worked out some details. and also within the packet is what i have -- what we've included which is what should be attached to the dpa which is a five year rolling schedule of view of each dgo. this one is organized by year -- dgo in year, and then by year. this will be reviewed as attachment a. b has the very same order, but then it will also list the dgo. we'll start with the year one, which will be 2018, and it'll be march 4th for the first 20 years. but this is the proposed schedule we'll be voting on tonight. any different or proposed order the department wishes to bring forth, we will have to considerate another time, but this is the order that's going forward tonight. >> good evening. >> good ev

i learned a lot at camp buckner. this is what a patrol is. this is how you do stuff. >> do you feel that west point prepared you adequately for when you got into the army and went to the basic course/ --? >> absolutely. as you went through west point and became temperatures of. what were you interested in and why? >> armor for the first couple of years. that is the combat arm, looked pretty exciting to me. there is no place for armor and. so i'm going to go infantry. getas vietnam starting to ramped up? >>mhmm. >> what were you hearing about vietnam as a cadet? not much other than the communists were invading the place and we were trying to protect them and save them and stuff. we were there for the noble cause. ok. how was graduation for you? >> it was wonderful. >> were your folks able to come up? >> my dad was. that was neat. >> what did he think about it, when was the first time your dad came up to west point? >> graduation. >> what did he think of the place? >> he was impressed. he doesn't say a lot about being impressed, but he was. , t

. >> so i said, look, it was buckner i made that decision that i want god armor because i was learning all these infantry skills but they put us in a big concrete trench one day and they showed us a tank attack that was coming at us, a platoon of tanks, one would appear, another would appear and pretty soon all five of them and they come up and drive right over the ditch. and they tell everybody get your head down, right over the ditch. and i said, you know, when i'm commissioned i want to be the guy in the tank, not the guy in the ditch. and that's why i want god -- wanted to go armor. >> and you were high enough that you got it? >> yes. >> were there any other classmates higher. >> wesley clark was the number one man in our class. and usually the top guys go engineers, with some exceptions. sometimes there's a guy that's number one that he wants go infantry. but wes stood up and said armor. i went oh, my gosh, there goes my chance to go to berlin where i desperately wanted to go on an experience that i had had there earlier. and so tend of all of this i said where are you thinking ab

. >> so i said, look, it was wuknwu buckner i decided to go army. but they put us in ha big concrete trench and showed us a tank coming at us, platoon of tanks, all five of them and drive right over the ditch and tell everyone get your ahead down right over the ditch. i said when i'm commissioned i want to be the guy in the tank not the guy in the ditch that's why i wanted to go armor. >> and you were high enough you got it? >> oh, yeah. >> any other classmates that went higher. >> yes, wesly clark number one in the class. usually top guys engineers. some guys number one man in class wants to go infantry. wes stood up and said armor. i said oh, my gosh there goes my chance to go to berlin. so at the end of all this i said where are you thinking of going, wes, he said, well i'm choosing between munich and berlin. >> you do not want to go to m munich, it's all girls. and of course he chose munich. and i was next to pick and i was berlin. >> how was berlin? >> berlin was 90 miles behind the iron curtain. there was the berlin brigade, three in fanty bat

so i said, look, this was at buckner that i made this decision. they put news a concrete trench and shown us a tank attack and pretty soon all five of them they come up and drive over the ditch and they tell you get your head down. over the ditch. when i'm commissioner, i want to be the guy in the tank not the guy in the dish and that's why i wanted to go armor. >> and you were high enough that you got it. >> oh, yeah. >> any other classmates were higher? >> wesley clark was the number one man in the class. and the top guys go engineers. with some exceptions, well sometimes there's a guy number one who wants to go infantry. and he stood specifically said armor. and i said oh my gosh, there goes my chance to go to berlin where i desperately wanted to go. at the end i said where are you thinking about going wes, and he said well, i'm choosing between -- and berlin. i said think quick. i said you don't want to go to mu nick, you will not learn to be a platoon leader if you go there. and i was the extra guy to pick and i went to berlin. >> how was ber