. >> reporter: the papers contained a detailed confession written in longhand by the detective, even noting the black sweatshirt with chicago bulls and a pair of blue jeans with apartment. years later, dna evidence would tell a very different story. a team of lawyers, including peter newfeld and nina morrison with the innocence project, fought for years just to get permission to conduct dna tests on the rape kit and on that clothing entered into evidence. >> when that dna evidence came back and showed that you had not raped her, what was going through your mind? >> one of the happiest days of my life. i wanted my family to know that i was innocent. i wanted miss tally's family to know that anthony wright didn't commit the heinous crime against their loved one. >> reporter: you might think the story ends here. that with the magic bullet of dna, tony would be immediately released. you would be wrong. >> anthony wright still in state prison facing i can tell you a retrial -- >> the prosecutor decided, i don't care, i'm going to take it to trial, i'm going to invent a have no evidence to

they used to be the case back on people just wrote letters in longhand and put stamp on them.i think there was something called a mail watch. it would let the government tell the post office if you see anything coming here we want to keep track of the address and the return address and the postscript and the date. if they sought it getting a lot of mail from a well-known mop yet mafia figure it would take further steps. it strikes me that both which you deal with early in the book it something that you dealt with. and with respect there had been a lot of misunderstanding when you are keeping track of the government. they're also reading the message. can you help clear up what's been going on. the public got stampeded into what i call the darkest corner of the room. i blame a lot of that on how they covered it. we should embrace a little bit of that responsibility ourselves. we probably could've been more forthcoming and we should of been far more agile telling our story and explaining what we were doing. the outside of the envelope. that's a look at the outside of the envelope

kirk's letters -- and he loved to tube, he hated longhand which is great for a researcher, because i didn't have to decipher his writing, though it wasn't that bad. if you look at his letters, i mean, there are so many it's overwhelming. but maybe one out of every thousand had a typo. i'm not exaggerating. it's just stunning to look at this. this is how he wrote. and we know bill buckley said this repeatedly. you get something from russell kirk, it's ready. you publish it. there's nothing to really fix. but one of the things dr. kirk wrote at the beginning of his master's thesis, it's beautiful. why am i writing about john randolph, this person that everyone knows about but no one really knows? why would we do this? he says, well, for me, it's an act of piety to call him up from the shades. now, in every way that's beautiful. think about what this is. he's thrown in great mythological understanding with history, and i'm sure the people at duke on his master's thesis were rather confused. excuse me? what, mr. kirk? what are you trying to say here? kirk did that. that's what he did. he

i write everything longhand. i write the first draft longhand. gerald ford is a surprising figure. fact that he wasn't a party loyalist, but he started his career as an insurgent, and he ended his career as an insurgent. at the end of his life, he and mrs. ford were marooned in a republican party that was increasingly hostile to their pro-choice views, for example. he told someone not long before he died that people had better prepare themselves for the coming of same-sex marriage. he expected it to be the norm, and in relatively short order. he is the first american president to sign his name to a petition for gay rights. he, again, as we get older, our attitudes harden along with our arteries. we have more to conserve, we become more conservative. at the same time, nostalgia for yesterday, all those factors come into play. he wasn't like that. woodrow is too simple. he was remarkably open-minded. and compassionate. the schedule i am working on will allow me to basically re-create the ford presidency in something very close to real-time, a little over two years or so. but beyond t

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