>> backstage with sammy davis jr.made the front page, that's future mayor kasim reed. >> i remember that. that's so cool meeting frank sinatra. >> as a young child, reed would help the volunteers searching atlanta's woods every saturday. >> we literally would walk through wooded areas chaperoned and we would walk for a period of time until about an hour before nightfall. >> but now a new twist in the murders. patrick baltazar, the 20th victim, would be the last child to turn up in a wooded area. a day or two later, an official would tell reporters fibers and dog hairs were being collected from the victim's clothing. the next child to die would be found in a river wearing nothing but underpants. fewer clues now for larry peterson. >> we're talking maybe a dozen or dozens of fibers as opposed to hundreds or potentially a thousand fibers. >> the 13-year-old victim was found beneath this bridge over the south river in atlanta's suburbs. a driver crossing that bridge earlier in the week saw a man leaning over the railing.

. >> it is a time when sammy davis had said, you nknow, i'm happy that you are the president and i want president in the future, and he was the president. those are awkward moments that define a candidate in the way, off of the cuff remark and how they respond to it gives you insight to the candidate, because they are guarded and we have a calculated image of them, and this is a little bit of fun. and richard nixon there trying to be cool with sammy davis, jr., trying to be cool, and painful. >> painful. and you know, the long ones and the short ones and the great ones and the really, really long ones, and remember how the audience cheered after bill clinton's long speech after his party's convention in 1988. watch this. >> don't you ever forget it. michael dukakis will never, never, never forget it. in closing -- [ applause ] >> and that is so great. remember when he said in closing you could hear the crowd erupt. >> that is a bronx cheer. if i go for the last joke and the audience is cheering my set has not gone well and most people think that bill clinton is a good speaker, and he is

richard nixon trying to be cool with sammy davis jr.y painful. >> we know there are so many speeches, the short ones, long ones, the bad ones, the great ones and the really, really long ones. remember how the audience cheered after bill clinton's long speech at his party's convention in convention in 1988? let's watch this. >> don't you ever forget it. michael dukakis will never, never, never forget it. in closing -- [ cheer and applause ] >> that is so great. remember? as soon as he said this closing, you could hart crowd erupt. >> that was a bronx cheer. as a comedian, if i go for my last joke and the audience is cheering, i would know it has not gone well. bill clinton is a good speaker. he is. that speech went an hour. it was supposed to go for 20 minutes. it droned and droned on. barack obama gave a speech, 16 minutes and is viewed as one of the best key notes of the modern day. shorter is better in these speeches. >> let's talk about the lip lock that lasted too long, al gore's kiss with tipper in 2000. what do you make of that? >

. >> that was a time when sammy davis said, i'm happy you're president. want you to be president in the future as well. he was president. those are the awkward moments that define a candidate in a way, his off the cuff remark and how they respond to it gives you an insight into how they were. they are always so guarded. this is the kind of thing being fun. richard nixon trying to be cool. >> we all know there's so many speeches during a conventions, short ones, long ones, bad ones, really, really long ones. remember how the audience cheered after bl clinton's long speech in 1998. >> don't you ever forget it. michael dukakis will never, ever, ever forget it. in closing -- [ cheers and applause ] >> that is so great. remember, as soon as he said in closing, you could hear the crowd erupt. >> that's a bronx cheer. as a comedian, if i go for my last set and cherg cheering. most of the time bill clinton is a good speaker. he is. that went for an hour. it was supposed to go 20 minutes. barack obama gave a speech in 2004, keynote, 16 minutes and viewed as one of

>> backstage with sammy davis jr. page, that's future mayor kasim reed. >> i remember that. that's so cool meeting frank sinatra. >> as a young child, reed would help the volunteers searching atlanta's woods every saturday. >> we literally would walk through wooded areas chaperoned and we would walk for a period of time until about an hour before nightfall. >> but now a new twist in the murders. patrick baltazar, the 20th victim, would be the last child to turn up in a wooded area. a day or two later, an official would tell reporters fibers and dog hairs were being collected from the victim's clothing. the next child to die would be found in a river wearing nothing but underpants. fewer clues now for larry peterson. >> we're talking maybe a dozen or dozens of fibers as opposed to hundreds or potentially a thousand fibers. >> the 13-year-old victim was found beneath this bridge over the south river in atlanta's suburbs. a driver crossing that bridge earlier in the week saw a man leaning over the railing. it turned out

. >> a week later, sammy davis, jr. and frank sinatra came to do a concert.tographer up on stage? that's wayne's father with the black newspaper, atlanta world. >> how come you've got no tuxedo on there on the stage looking like that there. >> reporter: backstage was sammy davis, jr. in a photo that made the front page. that's a future major. as a young child, reed would help the volunteers searching at lan that's woods every saturday. >> we generally would walk through wooded areas, chaperon and we would walk for a period of time until about an hour before niekt fall. >> but, now, a new twist in the murders. patrick baltazar, the 20th victim, would be the last child to turn up in a wooded area. in a day or two later, an official would tell reporters sfieb fibers would be collected. fewer clues now for larry peterson. >> we're talking maybe a dozen fibers as opposed to hundreds or a thousand fibers. >> the 13-year-old victim was found beneath this braj over the south river in atlanta suburbs. a driver crossing that bridge earlier in the week saw a man leave e

her big claim to fame, well, you'll love this, jackie robinson was a republican and sammy davis jr.ought she had permission on civil rights ground to vote for nixon. >> you bring up an interesting issue which is the law and order issue which was so central in alliance with the racial issue in 1968 to the rise of the republican party. i spent last night reading the parts of the republican party draft platform that are available on the web and what was most interesting to me in that entire document that i managed to read was the section on law and order was this was the blood and the guts of the rise of the modern conservative movement. it really drove things. if you read the document today, it could have been written by the sorus institute. it is so bland, so bloodless. >> this is progress, though, isn't it? you say it sort of -- >> no, but my point being is that it shows you the diminishing power of those republican -- >> i want to disagree with that because we have matt drudge and rush limbaugh and race war over there. >> the question is, how far can they take it, though? >> the dr