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i want to ask you about a documentary you did, telling the story of leonard peltier, an activist, a native american accused in the murder of two fbi agents. and this was in 1992. you were the narrator, and you produced the documentary. (redford) i came out of that whole thing, after i researched it carefully, met with him, that it would be a dangerous thing to take a position that this man is absolutely innocent. i just didn't know. i felt he was, but i didn't know, so therefore it would be a mistake for me to go on a crusade about, "this man is innocent; he shouldn't be there," rather than, "what is verifiably wrong here?" and what was verifiably wrong to me was that he did not get a fair trial. and it raised the issue of how minorities are treated by our system of justice. so i thought, "what can i do about that?" well, i was going to make a film about it. then i decided that probably a better way to go about it would be to make a documentary, 'cause you could have more factual, that a film always could be a little bit too much fiction and that the public or people needed to know-- 'caus