police arrested thomas anthony george and dewitt ralph hall about an hour after the heist southeast apartment. they found a black suburban there, black handgun and after george waived his right to silence a wealth of information about the black hat bandit. after his arrest george admitted to robbing all nine banks the fbi was investigating linked to the group. the robberies stretched back to january. in each case spread across northern virginia, maryland and the district one or two men dressed in black usually with a black hat and some kind of disguise demanded money at gunpoint and threatened violence. >> it looked like they were both carrying duffel bags of some sort or another. >> reporter: in early march court documents describe the bandits robbing this falls church wells fargo of $35,000. witnesses couldn't provide investigators with much to go on they. >> they had ski masks on. i didn't get a good look at their faces and they didn't appear to be hustling that much. >> reporter: in court documents, george is described as a career bank robber, albeit not a very good one. the documents sho

people would see me and i would say i'm ralph hall, and they would say i want to see your dad. i had a woman at baylor hospital tell me one time -- i was on my way, and they had me page and she asked if i was judge hauled. i said i was, and she said she was going to tell the judge i was the safest one out here. mr. raburn died, and our state senator ran for congress, and i ran for his place. then when our congressman decided to quit, iran for congressman. i have had very good breaks all my life. people that help me and people that i care about -- that's what makes it easy. people have been overly good to me. collects when you were in the military, where did your wife stay? rep. hall: she went back to texas. she stayed with me on the west coast until we shipped out. >> how long were you gone at one time? rep. hall: a matter of months. for 72 weeks, we trained. from the time we had been struck to an airplane and go back on board a carrier, the navy did a good job of training us. i never thought about the danger. all i thought about was what a powerful airplane i had that i was st

of our look at congressmen congressman who served in the military, we hear from representative ralph hall of texas. he discusses his world war ii enlistment in the navy and his experiences as an aircraft carrier pilot. this 30-minute interview was conducted in 2003. >> what branch of service were you in? rep. hall: i served in the navy. >> what rank did you start with? >> you were a cadet when you into the program. when we graduated, we got our wings one morning and our commission that afternoon. i got my wife that night. we got married the same day i got my wings. first promotion was lieutenant grade and the second promotion was full lieutenant. i always wanted to stay until i got to be commander, that way my wife would get to call me commander, but i did not get to stay that long and i doubt she would have called me commander if i had. >> being in the navy, when did you in list -- a list? rep. hall: i joined in december 1942. they had had some of the major battles by that time, and actually i started out at the university of texas in roberts hall. we were stationed there, so i guess tha