in the artificial cool of attorney john sutton's house, an intimate party was winding down early. it was susan sutton's birthday. attending, their son, his girlfriend, and john's law partner. daughter melissa, just off to college in north florida, couldn't be there. so she phoned her mother to say she missed her. interviewer: were you two close? extremely. it's my best friend. i was going to ask how old your mom was. 57? no, you can't put that on-- she was a nice 45. let's put it-- let's leave it at that. keith morrison: the guests left. the law partner went home. son christopher and his girlfriend went out to a movie. john settled in to watch tv in the master bedroom. susan, in another bedroom, talked on the phone with a close friend-- the quiet end to a pleasant evening. quiet, but not for a long. keith morrison: john sutton, a tough as nails take no prisoners lawyer, was barely conscious as he begged the 911 operator for help. he told the operator blood was gushing from his head wounds. he couldn't see. keith morrison: somehow, he made it out the front door on his own. he was me

sutton has continued teaching, he teaches courses in the johns hopkins program on the civil war in the american west. dr. sutton also has written a book on the civil war era in kansas, published in august of 2017. he and his son lee are editing an auto biography written by his father and lee's grandfather. with that i would like to introduce mr. robert k. sutton. >> thank you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> i can't tell you how excited i am to be here. this is -- i mean i'm sitting here with goose bumps while i'm hearing the names of the victims of quantrel's raid and you actually hear about them in this setting, it's actually quite moving. i have, before i get going here, my wife and my son came with me, they're in the back row, and two of my oldest, oldest friends from california, and i'm going to tell you, we were all like 5 years old when we got acquainted, sitting here on the second row, gary colter and rick anderson. so this is a very special day for me. one of the things that interested me in this topic, was that my great, i got to say -- sometimes you have trouble keeping

john killinger. machine gun kelly. willie sutton who when asked why he robbed banks said because that's where the money is. and of course, bonnie and clyde and portrayed on film by fay done away and warren beatty. what happened to america's famous bank robbers? career bank robbers, successful bank robber who is robbed a bunch of banks and got away with it before they ever got caught or gunned down? video cameras. that's what happened to them. video cameras ended bank robbery as a career. bullets weren't enough to scare bank robbers but video cameras? video cameras did it. video cameras in banks stacked the odds just a little too much in the cops' favor and so in the 21st century only the very stupidest criminals among us are willing to step in front of the video cameras at your local bank and try to withdraw more money than they have in their accounts. then came twitter. and then came donald trump. on twitter, donald trump is like a bank robber who looks up at the video camera to make sure the bank gets a really good picture of him.

johns hopkins senior adult program on the civil war in the american west. he will be the resident historian for viking ocean cruises as well. dr. sutton also has written a book on the civil war

johns hopkins senior adult program on the civil war in the american west. he will be the resident historian for viking ocean cruises as well. dr. sutton also has written a book on the civil war era in kansas published by sky horse publishing in august 2017, and he also -- he and his son, lee, are editing an autobiography written by his father and lee's grandfather. with that, i would like to introduce mr. robert k. sutton. [ applause ]. >> goblod morning. >> good morning. >> i can't tell you how excited i am to be here. this is -- i mean, i'm sitting here with goose bumps while i'm hearing the names of the victims of kwantrel's raid because i just wrote about many of them, and you actually hear their names in this setting. it's really quite moving. before i get going here, my wife and my son came with me. they're in the back row. and two of my oldest, oldest, oldest friends from california. and i'm going to tell you, we were all like 5 years old when we got acquainted sit ong the second row, nick and harry so, this is a really special day for me. one of the things that interested me in this topic was that my great -- i have to say som