adam was born and raised in whitley county. he was a sophomore at the local college and needed a job. the county's daily newspaper, the "times tribune," had an opening. and soon, adam had his first assignment and dangerous enemies. why did you feel compelled to buy a gun? >> sulfridge: you do have a credible threat against your life, and it seemed like a pretty reasonable thing to do. samantha also purchased a gun at the same time. >> pitts: samantha swindler, then 27, was managing editor of the "times tribune" and adam's boss. >> samantha swindler: we were reporting on people involved in the drug trade. and people who were all hopped- up on oxys, i don't know what they're going to do. i thought if something happened, i'd go down with a fight. >> pitts: samantha was exotic by whitley county standards-- born in new orleans, educated in boston. she'd tangled with public officials as editor of a small newspaper in east texas. she saw familiar signs in whitley county. >> swindler: there are problems in this community with the good

john whitley, a neurosurgeon, isn't backing down at all.d the birth certificate quote, a poorly reproduced forgery. how does he know this? he compared it to the hawaiian birth certificate of one of his staffers. he said there's a tremendous amount of smoke here. in fact, it's called a spoke screen. i could go through all the evidence on his birth certificate point by point, but this has been done so many times before. nevertheless, i wanted to talk to dr. whitley to see how he could continue to make disproving claims about president obama's presidentship. i spoke to him earlier. >> dr. whitley, you say you and your people confirmed president obama's birth certificate was forged. you say you've confirmed this on your own. are you a trained expert in historical legal documents on hawaii? >> no, i'm not. no. what we did was we took a bona fide original birth certificate from hawaii and we subjected it to the same scrutiny that the document experts hired by sheriff arpaio did. and we came up essentially with the same results that they did. we w

whitley who he could continue to make disproving claims about president obama's presidentship. spoke to him earlier. >> dr. whitley, you say you and your people confirmed president obama's birth certificate was forged. you say you've confirmed this on your own. are you a trained expert in historical legal documents on hawaii? >> no, i'm not. no. what we did was we took a bona fide original birth certificate from hawaii and we subjected it to the same scrutiny that the document experts hired by sheriff arpaio did. and we came up essentially with the same results that they did. we were just reproducing what his experts came up with with their evaluation. >> you say he hired -- first of all you say sheriff arpaio hired experts. he hired nobody. he had volunteers who were former investigators a volunteer posse allegedly working on this. do you know by name his document p experts? >> no, i do not. >> so you don't know he had document experts. >> i would say sheriff arpaio who's a great american would not ask someone who review a document who he did not feel they were expert and qual

different republican politicians on in the state have gone full on birth or the latest is dr john whitley running for a congressional seat the state's eighth district who called president obama's birth certificate a poorly reproduced forgery after whitley went on to say there is a tremendous amount of smoke here in fact it's called a smoke screen on the other hand simply call it a reeses and the very very ugly multimillionaire congressman paul ryan at a town hall meeting last friday representative ryan was asked point blank by a constituent if he supports closing corporate tax loopholes to prevent student loan interest rates from increasing here was ryan's answer. you. know. no well it shouldn't surprise most political observers who study the republican agenda over the last year it is telling that the top budget maker in congress would rather preserve unfair tax breaks for transnational oil corporations like exxon mobil the most corporate profitable corporation in the history of the world rather than make sure the next generation of young people in america aren't saddled with debt some mi

. >> reporter: kathleen whitley and rebecca clayton were high school juniors when the april 2007 shootingsnation. now they're part of the first graduating class that applied after the tragedy. >> the shooting does not reflect any part of my four years here. >> it could have happened anywhere. >> reporter: still, the event has become synonymous with their school, something first lady michelle obama talked about when she delivered the commencement address here. >> when you all are out there in the world and you meet someone and you tell them that you're from virginia tech and they say, isn't that the school where -- i want you to interrupt them right there and say, yes, it is the school where we have some of the best academic programs and professors in the country. you say yes, that is the school i attend. that is virginia tech. >> i feel like every year there's a little bit less connection for every class. >> reporter: rachel webb did not know the victims, but like many students told us, she remembers them often. >> it's a rhone to come out to school every day and be excited to be at school