no more of the don juan of cleveland heights. no more sex, drugs. but the rock 'n' roll is still there. ♪ it's an evening with rush. four tickets. >> tonight, keenan is attending the concert he has waited 24 years to see. >> this will make me happy tonight. i'll be happy tonight. >> typical cleveland weather. it sucks. the people i was taking to the concert have cancelled on me. at the last minute, of course. now i'm displeased. there is something i'm displeased about. yeah, this really sucks. i really thought i was going to this concert with some people. 50, 60 -- >> 70. >> are you someone famous? >> i was on death row for 24 years. >> oh, thanks -- god bless you. >> thank you, sir. >> oh, it's going to be a good concert. now i sold the tickets. hello? it started at 7:30 and i just sold the tickets. >> how do you feel now? >> better. i got to bitch her out. >> have fun. >> thank you. >>> the hate obama party. let's play "hardball." ♪ ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. this hatred of the president h

. >> i was like in cleveland heights, lots of girlfriends, lots of pot. sex, drugs, rock and roll. >> convicted in the 1980s for murder, another inmate has spent 24 years on death row. >> that's all we can do is keep fighting. >> now he can leave his cell behind for good, but in this case, nothing is for certain. >> their plan is to convict me and sentence me to death again. >> state of ohio versus keenan. >>> overlooking lake erie in downtown cleveland, the cuyahoga corrections center is an imposing 11-story structure built to house 2,100 men and women. on most days that number is exceeded by 100 or more. while some have been convicted, most are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases. >> our current population changes daily. we book in 115 people a day, we release hopefully 115 or more. we have an average length of stay of about 45 days involving 30,000 bookings a year. >> all the way around. >> there is uncertainty with everyone. the inmate is in custody and he doesn't or she doesn't know what's happening to the

heights hospital. and from there i went to sun valley, idaho, for rehabilitation and then a marine hospital in cleveland, ohio. and there is no such thing as a marine hospital. this was a merchant marine hospital. and i recuperated there. because i was allergic to penicillin and had gang green on my legs, and my legs were broken, for three months i lived on a wheel. to keep the bed sores off me. and in those days their idea of therapy was a hot tub and a back rub with jergens lotion. people asked me would i do it over again, and i say, yes, i would. would i let my son do it? no. absolutely not. there's another question they invariably ask, and i answer it this way. i have three children. i have seven granddaughters. i have one great-granddaughter. they are all naturally born. there are no sperm donors. there's no artificial insemination. all that problem i had with the hand grenade was taken care of by the navy. [ applause ] >> every name that i mentioned outside of blackie, and every name that i give in the story, which i cut short, is dead. there's nobody alive. just two of them died of natural causes

cleveland browns. and walter beech said to me, i don't understand it, in the '60s at the height of the freedom struggle said, maybe because it was the height of the black freedom struggle that no one dared say the n-word and maybe it didn't hurt that jim brown was standing next to you. >> literally, the question i want to ask you is about john carlos and tommy smith and them standing there in that moment out anding up their fists at the 1968 mexico city olympics and the ways in which they were also policed. this notion that you are not supposed to talk about racism at home when you're the home team. so in this case, the locker room is the home team. is that what's happening? >> it's very similar. what john carlos and tommy smith did, and peter norman, the silver medalist wearing the solidarity patch, they talked out of turn. they brought it out of the olympic locker room. jesse owens said, don't take our business about racism out into the street. and they said, no, there's a bigger issue at play and we are going to do that. and i would argue that's what make jonathan martin the hero of this story. he d