A Wilderness of Error English Subtitles

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Errol Morris
interview, take one.

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Soft sticks. Mark.

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So, what brings you here today?

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All right, I want to start
with your story

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inside the story,
like you do in the book.

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Christmas 1991...
Could we start there?

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Can you remember that day?

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I do remember the day.

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Early that morning,

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This is the evening edition of

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CBS News with Walter Cronkite.

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Captain Jeffrey MacDonald
is a man under a cloud.

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He lost his family
under horrible circumstances,

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and he's fighting
for his honor.

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His ordeal began last winter
at his residence

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in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

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Bob Schieffer has the story.

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It appeared to be
a grim rewrite

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I said, "Well,
were you there? Did you do it?"

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You know.
And she said, "I was there,

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you know, but I didn't
do nothin'."

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She said, "Then I went
from one room to the next...

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"and I saw the children

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in each bedroom, and
they appeared to be dead."

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We caught her for
possession of drugs.

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On the way down to booking,
she said that

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Go right ahead, Ted.

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Helena, Judge Franklin Dupree

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of Raleigh, North Carolina,
U. S. District court

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said that you are, quote,

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"One of the most tragic figures
he has ever seen,

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"simply cannot attach
any credibility to you.

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You are in a constant
state of hallucination."

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Yes, I'm a fabricator.

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Let's see, what else?

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Randall Dale Adams,
the subject of the film.

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The Thin Blue Line,
was released on bail today

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for a crime he says
he didn't commit.

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It's a curious way to have come
to where you are tonight.

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I mean, to be freed,
in effect, because of a movie.

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There's the old saying,

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"There's no guilty people
in prison."

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Luckily, I had one
that would listen to me.

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