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Archie.
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Make sure you come back now,
you hear?
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-You take care.
-All right, buddy.
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Tom 6, Tom 6, accident. No details.
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County road, State Highway 3 1.
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You forgetting a little something, Archie?
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This is Tom 6, Dispatch, ten-four.
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Tom 1 7 to Tom 9,
we got a family fight.
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Both sound intoxicated.
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Address 2 1 4 North Highway, 23 1.
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Tom 1 7 en route to site.
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Hey, hey!
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Wait, come back here now!
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Goddamn it, now.
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l told that fella
l didn't want Archie going out there...
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...to his mama's place in handcuffs.
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Don't nobody listen to me?
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What you doing?
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l'm changing your tie.
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Well, what's wrong with that one?
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Well, don't go with your suit.
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And it is out of style.
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Oh, yeah.
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l'm marrying
a goddamn fashion consultant.
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Yeah, silk ties, ltalian ties.
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-Yes, sir, wife of the governor of Alabama.
-Mm-hm.
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She's a real swanny gal.
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More high-tone
than the governor his own self.
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Be still, honey.
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-Course, you know...
-Be still.
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...the governor, he don't know.
He just a rough old country boy, now.
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l want to see my husband looking sharp.
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What the hell you doing?
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You know what they told me
before l married you?
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Cornelia is so fast, you're gonna
have to put a governor on her.
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lt's about all l can do
to just stay up with you, woman.
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Yeah, you are pluperfect,
hungry animal again.
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-Come on, that's enough, now.
-Oh, hardly.
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We are a starring duo,
George, aren't we?
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Yeah.
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Firecracker pair.
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Ooh.
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How you feeling now? Hmm?
What you wanna do?
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Come on.
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Well, well.
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Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Oh, hey, wait.
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-Wait a minute, now.
-No, no.
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-Cut that out now.
-No, no.
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Whoa. Come on, cut that out.
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Now, wait.
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-Yes, yes, yes.
-No, no, no.
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No, no, cut that out.
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Oh, damn.
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l gotta get on up there in Maryland.
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l'll be ready before you are, governor.
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l always am.
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Yeah.
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That is about the damn truth.
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Now, you hurry up.
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They can't wait all day, now.
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Good Lord, girl,
what are you gonna make of all this mess?
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You dust this every day, Eddie...
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...because Alabama loved this little girl.
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We all still miss her.
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This is everything.
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Oh, thank you, Jamison.
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Well, this is good for a start.
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Miami paper.
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''Wallace's political sun could reach
highest point at the primaries tomorrow.''
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Where's this thing in Maryland
supposed to be at exactly?
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At a place called Laurels,
big shopping center.
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Oh, yeah, l know.
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Jamison, how come you let that trooper
put those damn handcuffs on Archie...
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...just to drive him out to his mama's?
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Goddamn,
he been trustee here since the '50s.
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Get on out there
and put my bags in the car.
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-Morning.
Morning, governor.
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-Morning, boys.
Where the hell's Cornelia at?
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-We're running behind here, you know.
-She's still upstairs fixing herself.
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She'll be along soon.
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What kind of devil they calling me today,
Ricky?
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Well, sort of a different kind now,
governor.
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Chicago paper here.
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''Wallace could be a frontrunner
for Democratic nomination...
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...at the primaries tomorrow.''
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Heh, heh, heh. Let me see that.
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Give me the ketchup, Gerald.
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Never made much difference to you
what you're gobbling down.
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Could be eggs, steak, peas.
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Could be the end of your tie.
You're gonna put ketchup on it, ain't you?
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lt's a little late for you to start
worrying about dining etiquette, Odum.
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Here, governor.
Listen to this Los Angeles paper.
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''Wallace likely to win Maryland tomorrow.
Possible two other primaries...
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...could throw Democratic nomination
into a turmoil.''
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See what a good press secretary?
Ricky sure can read those headlines.
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Yeah. Heh, heh.
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-Yeah, he a talented man.
-Sure is.
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Says here, governor, you a ''pol....''
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''Poltergeist
in the presidential campaign.''
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Poltergeist?
What's that supposed to mean exactly?
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You're supposed to be able to tell me,
Odum.
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That's why l made you president
of that state college down there.
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Gerald, heard you threw another shindig
for your buddies...
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...at Jeff Davis Hotel the other night.
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Lookie here, George--
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Fifty-dollar-a-month
walk-up law office downtown...
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...ain't got no more sense than to live like
some millionaire goddamn Arab sheik...
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...out for everybody to see.
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You're my little brother,
but you gonna get me in trouble.
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l'm running for president now.
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-Quit getting on me about that, because l--
Shut up.
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-Can l tell you what?
-Shut up.
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-Can l tell you what?
-Gerald, strain.
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Hell.
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Strain.
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Lookie here, governor.
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-Even the Boston paper.
Let me see that.
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George, remember when
we first started on this thing?
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lt was like guerrilla raids up north
back in '64.
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Practically living off the land as we went.
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Barely enough money
to pay for a hotel room, man.
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Lot of them hotels wouldn't even take us.
Figured we'd short-sheet them.
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Gave off a hellacious ruction
in places, Wisconsin, Cleveland.
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Goddamn.
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Yeah, but by God, wound up almost
winning some of them primaries then.
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People started saying,
''Uh-oh. Them yahoos are loose again.''
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Yeah, we run again '68, what'd we get?
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-Ten million votes.
-Yeah, and after these primaries tomorrow...
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...governor,
you just win Michigan and Maryland...
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...you be leading McGovern, Humphrey
the whole darn load of them...
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...for the Democratic nomination
as president of these United States.
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lt's amazing. Now, just think about it.
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Them national political bigwigs
and liberal press crowd.
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We got them all crapping in their pants.
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They all the time
trying to call me a racist.
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Hell...
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...what none of them understand yet...
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...race is why all those people out there
come over to us.
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Without me even having to say
the word ''race'' ...
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...people getting what l'm talking about.
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Yeah, it'd be something, wouldn't it?
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We might actually haul off
and win this goddamn thing.
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You know where we are, Archie?
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The famous Edmund Pettus Bridge...
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...where Martin Luther King and his crowd
got their asses kicked.
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Did finally cross it, though.
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-Say what?
-Nothing.
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Well, is there someone
sitting back there beside you?
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Like somebody hadn't learned...
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...that long as George Corley Wallace
is governor of Alabama...
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...everything is gonna stay
just like it's always been.
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Of course,
always some a little slow to learn.
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Those handcuffs too tight for you,
Archie?
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No, sir.
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They're just about right.
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Go on in. l'll wait for you here.
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Uh-uh.
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Just because you're a trustee, don't mean
you ain't still a convicted murderer.
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Anyhow, your family won't mind.
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Your mother won't notice.
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Thank you for saying a few words.
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Jim, come over here,
there's an opportunity....
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Excuse me, governor, People mag--
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Life magazine. Like to get
some photographs, right here.
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-Governor George Wallace here.
Good, very nice.
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Get in a little closer. Very good.
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l just love this music, don't you?
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Yeah, l do. lt's bluegrass.
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Good, let me get one more.
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All right, Jim, that's fine.
Thank you very much, thank you.
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Everybody, everybody, thanks.
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Everybody, he's here, y'all.
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l give y'all-- For just a little
while now, l want him back.
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--my husband and the next president
of the United States, George C. Wallace.
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Governor.
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We're with you all the way.
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lsn't she something?
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Yes, indeed.
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What'd l marry, huh?
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We're counting on you!
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Thank y'all, a wonderful crowd.
We're glad to be back here in Maryland.
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Amen to that.
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l'm happy to see
all our law enforcement folks...
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...out here with us today.
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The court's now turning loose
people who shoot and steal and kill.
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-People are getting sick of it.
That's right, that's right!
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We love you, governor. We love you.
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l tell you, when l'm your president...
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...l promise you, you'll be safe anywhere
in this country of ours from anybody.
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Listen, these here bigtime
national politicians...
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...like George McGovern...
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...and Richard Milhous
''Tricky Dick'' Nixon....
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They all complaining
that we gonna hurt them.
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But let me tell you something,
l wanna hurt them...
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...because they been hurting us
long enough.
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To them...
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...she was just another old,
unimportant nigger woman.
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Tended their children,
cooked their meals, cleaned their laundry.
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But not once,
through all her life on this earth...
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...did they pay her any dignity at all
as a human being.
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All she was...
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...was our mama.
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First Daddy.
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A 65-year-old man
trying to register to vote.
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First real proud, free thing
he ever did in his life.
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Shot to death
by them Klan Knight Riders.
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Mama worked to death by white folks.
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So they let you come out here
once more now she's dead.
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Tell her goodbye.
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And you are grateful to Governor Wallace
for that, ain't you?
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Oh, yeah.
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Grateful.
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But don't you know
that's still slave thinking?
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Something else
you ought to be feeling right now?
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l know what you're saying, Neal.
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You can strike the blow.
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l know.
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l've always known.
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George, George, George....
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George, George, George....
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l better shake some hands.
-Better go out there.
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-Don't go out there, governor.
-No, it's all right. l'll take responsibility.
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How are you?
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You got great crowd here today.
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Oh, thanks. How you doing over there?
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How are you?
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Hello, sweetie.
Thanks for coming out here today.
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All right, all right.
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Mr. Mayor, thank you so much
for coming out today.
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lt's always good to be here. Hi, darling.
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Ricky, can't you do anything?
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Oh, no. No, not when he's with people.
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No, this is when he's really living.
Take a look at him.
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Appreciate y'all being out here today.
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George, George, George....
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Good to see you, good to see you.
Appreciate y'all being out here today.
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-Hey.
Way to go.
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You boys think
we're gonna get any votes up here?
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Put this on your network, you hear?
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Come on in here, Jim.
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How are you? Thank you very much.
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Stay back!
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All right, we're gonna keep
these people back.
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Stand back.
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00:21:53,547 --> 00:21:57,125
-l repeat, stand back!
-George, live.
247
00:21:57,547 --> 00:21:59,489
-Live.
-l'm shot.
248
00:21:59,915 --> 00:22:01,507
Honey, we're gonna go home now.
249
00:22:01,674 --> 00:22:03,649
We're gonna go on back home now.
250
00:22:03,819 --> 00:22:05,761
-l'm in pain.
lt's gonna be okay.
251
00:22:05,931 --> 00:22:08,800
lt's gonna be all right.
Somebody get us out of here, please.
252
00:22:08,971 --> 00:22:11,392
Everybody, move back.
Somebody get us out of here!
253
00:22:11,563 --> 00:22:13,668
Give the governor some air.
-Leave me with him.
254
00:22:13,835 --> 00:22:16,137
-l gotta be with him now!
-lt's okay.
255
00:22:16,619 --> 00:22:19,041
Don't. What are you doing?
What are you doing?
256
00:22:23,723 --> 00:22:25,316
lt's gonna be all right, honey.
257
00:22:25,483 --> 00:22:27,141
l'm gonna take you home now.
258
00:22:27,211 --> 00:22:28,291
We gonna go back home.
259
00:22:28,875 --> 00:22:30,249
You're my whole life.
260
00:22:30,411 --> 00:22:33,062
l don't know
what l would do without you.
261
00:22:33,227 --> 00:22:36,675
You stay with me. Please hold on.
262
00:22:36,842 --> 00:22:38,947
l love you so much.
263
00:23:00,875 --> 00:23:03,974
What? Oh, yeah, heh-heh-heh.
264
00:23:05,003 --> 00:23:06,857
Come on inside.
Yeah.
265
00:23:07,019 --> 00:23:08,262
Hello, George.
Hi.
266
00:23:08,426 --> 00:23:10,117
Haven't seen you in a while.
-George?
267
00:23:11,242 --> 00:23:13,664
Oh, come on, Lurleen.
268
00:23:13,834 --> 00:23:16,551
-ls this all right?
-lt's astounding.
269
00:23:17,322 --> 00:23:21,119
My goodness, l didn't know
there was gonna be this many people.
270
00:23:21,291 --> 00:23:26,888
Well, with Big Jim elected governor now,
a lot more folks discovered they his friends.
271
00:23:55,435 --> 00:23:57,290
Hey, senator.
272
00:24:00,235 --> 00:24:01,642
-Oh, yeah.
-Right.
273
00:24:01,803 --> 00:24:03,428
Today, yeah.
274
00:24:12,811 --> 00:24:14,120
Hey.
275
00:24:14,410 --> 00:24:15,937
-Come on.
-Thank you, sir.
276
00:24:16,459 --> 00:24:17,833
Excuse me.
277
00:24:17,994 --> 00:24:19,369
Senator.
278
00:24:19,531 --> 00:24:21,124
Excuse me.
279
00:24:21,290 --> 00:24:22,949
Why, hi, George.
280
00:24:23,115 --> 00:24:24,708
Hello, Velma.
281
00:24:26,474 --> 00:24:29,321
Uh, this is my wife, Lurleen.
282
00:24:29,866 --> 00:24:30,848
-Hi.
-Yes.
283
00:24:31,019 --> 00:24:32,579
Well, how are you?
284
00:24:32,746 --> 00:24:33,826
-Good.
Hey, George.
285
00:24:34,443 --> 00:24:35,850
-Lurleen.
T.Y., how you doing?
286
00:24:36,011 --> 00:24:37,505
Fine.
-You know, uh, Velma.
287
00:24:37,675 --> 00:24:39,562
-Velma, sure.
You know.
288
00:24:40,746 --> 00:24:42,153
Oh, come on over here a minute.
289
00:24:42,315 --> 00:24:44,322
There's something l need
to talk to you about.
290
00:24:44,491 --> 00:24:45,473
Come on, take it.
291
00:24:48,139 --> 00:24:50,506
Yes, ma'am, you gotta help out....
292
00:24:56,490 --> 00:24:58,497
Who was that?
-Huh?
293
00:24:58,666 --> 00:25:02,278
Oh, that's just some secretary
in the highway department, you know.
294
00:25:03,018 --> 00:25:05,123
You know all of these people, George?
295
00:25:05,290 --> 00:25:07,625
Well, not all of them. No, of course not.
296
00:25:07,787 --> 00:25:10,176
-Hey, Danny.
-George, George.
297
00:25:10,346 --> 00:25:13,543
-Look at who showed up.
-Goddamn, Billy Watson.
298
00:25:13,707 --> 00:25:15,911
-Oh, Billy, l'm so glad you're here.
-Hi, Lurleen.
299
00:25:16,362 --> 00:25:17,606
-Lovely to see you.
-Lurleen.
300
00:25:17,770 --> 00:25:20,356
Decided to leave off
running politics in Barbour County...
301
00:25:20,523 --> 00:25:22,213
...to come up to this hootenanny, huh?
302
00:25:22,378 --> 00:25:25,794
l ain't up here to party, Wallace.
Here to keep my eye on my investment.
303
00:25:25,962 --> 00:25:28,483
Go on, you celebrate.
Don't forget where you're headed.
304
00:25:28,651 --> 00:25:30,690
Yeah, well,
you ain't ever gonna let me, Billy.
305
00:25:30,858 --> 00:25:34,055
Where can you get a Coca-Cola
in all this liquor drinking?
306
00:25:34,219 --> 00:25:35,812
Hey, hey, boy. Here.
307
00:25:36,970 --> 00:25:39,970
-Goddamn, you ain't got no Cokes?
-l'll get you one right away, sir.
308
00:25:40,139 --> 00:25:42,179
-Leave it in the bottle, okay?
-Yes, sir.
309
00:25:43,178 --> 00:25:44,640
-Excuse us, gentlemen.
-Excuse me.
310
00:25:45,450 --> 00:25:47,076
All right.
311
00:25:50,570 --> 00:25:52,992
There's a lot of stuff out tonight.
312
00:25:53,163 --> 00:25:55,977
What you got,
gland trouble or something?
313
00:25:56,139 --> 00:25:59,684
Damn if you wouldn't hump a woodpile
if you thought there was a snake in there.
314
00:25:59,850 --> 00:26:02,338
Well, look at that snake over there,
heh-heh.
315
00:26:03,402 --> 00:26:05,507
How's that little gal
taking away your career...
316
00:26:05,674 --> 00:26:07,649
...that's been picking up
steam here lately?
317
00:26:07,819 --> 00:26:09,160
Who? Lurleen?
318
00:26:09,322 --> 00:26:10,566
God help that little woman.
319
00:26:10,730 --> 00:26:14,986
Oh, come on, she's happy enough.
She got the children, she got her fishing.
320
00:26:15,147 --> 00:26:17,602
You know she loves to go fishing
in that pond out there.
321
00:26:17,771 --> 00:26:19,145
You know it, she no trouble.
322
00:26:19,306 --> 00:26:20,680
Judge?
-Yeah.
323
00:26:20,842 --> 00:26:24,672
l'd like you to meet this young lady
over here, an admirer of yours.
324
00:26:24,843 --> 00:26:26,217
-Hi.
-Hi.
325
00:26:26,378 --> 00:26:27,905
-What's your name?
-Lisa.
326
00:26:28,394 --> 00:26:29,954
You all right, honey?
327
00:26:30,122 --> 00:26:32,544
Such a big crowd.
328
00:26:32,714 --> 00:26:36,326
Well, you better get used to looking
as beautiful as you do tonight, sweetheart.
329
00:26:36,459 --> 00:26:39,306
Because your husband
is on the climb to big things.
330
00:26:40,203 --> 00:26:44,840
All right, here he comes,
so we better batten down the hatch.
331
00:26:55,690 --> 00:26:56,672
Oh, yeah.
332
00:26:56,842 --> 00:26:58,947
Oh, Johnny,
l've known you from way back.
333
00:26:59,114 --> 00:27:01,634
Hold on, Big Jim.
334
00:27:09,450 --> 00:27:10,661
We love you, governor.
335
00:27:10,827 --> 00:27:12,899
The big galoot hisself.
336
00:27:13,066 --> 00:27:16,710
l'll tell you, Big Jim's the greatest thing
to come along since Andy Jackson.
337
00:27:16,874 --> 00:27:21,282
Now, listen, you mean to go for governor,
you better face some realities now.
338
00:27:21,450 --> 00:27:23,872
-Too liberal.
Congratulations, Big Jim.
339
00:27:24,042 --> 00:27:25,253
Who's the little one?
340
00:27:25,418 --> 00:27:28,485
Well, that's his sister's girl.
lt's another Folsom.
341
00:27:28,650 --> 00:27:31,301
Why, she rides his shoulders
like a princess already.
342
00:27:31,466 --> 00:27:33,288
A princess?
343
00:27:33,450 --> 00:27:36,036
lt's nothing that highfalutin
if it's a Folsom.
344
00:27:36,202 --> 00:27:38,242
See you later, baby.
345
00:27:38,411 --> 00:27:42,601
You deserve it.
-We got a lot to celebrate tonight, huh?
346
00:27:42,763 --> 00:27:45,632
That's right!
You bet we do!
347
00:27:47,530 --> 00:27:48,872
This is it, Jim. This is it.
348
00:27:49,034 --> 00:27:50,627
That big mule's running this state.
349
00:27:50,795 --> 00:27:54,242
Used to be that every four years, they'd
pick out two candidates for governor.
350
00:27:54,410 --> 00:27:56,996
And you could vote for one
or you could vote for the other.
351
00:27:57,163 --> 00:27:59,912
That was your God-given choice, ha-ha.
352
00:28:00,299 --> 00:28:03,812
But Big Jim's
changed that arrangement. Yeah!
353
00:28:07,178 --> 00:28:09,065
And none of this
would've been happening...
354
00:28:09,226 --> 00:28:12,161
...if it wasn't for my friend
and campaign manager, George Wallace!
355
00:28:17,323 --> 00:28:19,177
Come on up here, son. lt's your day too.
356
00:28:19,339 --> 00:28:21,924
-Oh, no.
-Go on, go on.
357
00:28:24,810 --> 00:28:27,592
Yes, sir. A big hand for George.
358
00:28:28,170 --> 00:28:29,861
Yes, sir.
359
00:28:33,482 --> 00:28:38,087
BlG JlM: Now, me and George both know
that the big mules and the got-rocks crowd...
360
00:28:38,250 --> 00:28:41,545
...are still trying to stop us
by stirring up suspicion among the races...
361
00:28:41,706 --> 00:28:43,267
...the same as they always done.
362
00:28:43,434 --> 00:28:45,223
But listen in.
Now, come up here, George.
363
00:28:45,386 --> 00:28:48,866
Listen, all God's children,
red, yellow, black, white...
364
00:28:49,034 --> 00:28:53,344
...they all just alike and all precious
in the sight of the Lord.
365
00:28:53,514 --> 00:28:56,383
And that's the way it's gonna stay
in Alabama while l'm governor.
366
00:28:58,026 --> 00:28:59,008
Yes, sir.
367
00:28:59,178 --> 00:29:02,920
l call to everybody. Y'all come, now.
368
00:29:04,682 --> 00:29:06,886
Let's have a little of that music.
369
00:29:13,994 --> 00:29:15,969
-George looks good.
-Yeah, George.
370
00:29:16,139 --> 00:29:17,415
-Yeah.
-George looks great.
371
00:29:17,578 --> 00:29:20,229
There you are, little woman.
Give us a kiss, huh?
372
00:29:20,394 --> 00:29:22,914
Oh, you're too good for any of us here.
373
00:29:23,498 --> 00:29:24,643
Billy Watson?
374
00:29:24,810 --> 00:29:27,331
-Political bishop of Barbour County.
-Yeah, that's right.
375
00:29:27,498 --> 00:29:29,287
l'm just loaning you George for a while.
376
00:29:29,450 --> 00:29:32,385
-Don't you be giving him any trouble.
Don't you worry about that.
377
00:29:32,555 --> 00:29:34,464
We were fighting
the good fight a long time.
378
00:29:34,634 --> 00:29:36,325
-Ain't we, George?
That's right.
379
00:29:36,490 --> 00:29:37,473
-Big Jim?
-Yes, ma'am.
380
00:29:37,642 --> 00:29:39,552
-She's such a beautiful girl.
Thank you.
381
00:29:39,722 --> 00:29:42,024
-What's her name?
-Darling, sugar dumpling?
382
00:29:42,186 --> 00:29:45,121
l want you to remember this man's
name right here, George Wallace.
383
00:29:45,291 --> 00:29:48,008
Start remembering names
for when you move into public life...
384
00:29:48,171 --> 00:29:49,993
...which you will, because you a Folsom.
385
00:29:50,154 --> 00:29:51,910
Ain't that right, sugar dumpling? Yeah.
386
00:29:52,074 --> 00:29:54,791
So remember, this is George Wallace,
okay?
387
00:29:54,954 --> 00:29:56,896
George, l need to talk to you
for a second.
388
00:29:57,067 --> 00:29:58,528
Would you excuse us for a minute?
389
00:29:58,698 --> 00:29:59,974
John, you wanna help me here?
390
00:30:02,666 --> 00:30:05,252
-Y'all excuse us a second?
Good job, Big Jim.
391
00:30:05,354 --> 00:30:06,336
Next stop, White House.
392
00:30:06,826 --> 00:30:08,386
Make way, make way for Big Jim.
393
00:30:08,554 --> 00:30:10,627
Folks, can we have this room
for a few minutes?
394
00:30:10,794 --> 00:30:13,249
-George and l need to talk. Thank you.
Excuse me.
395
00:30:13,418 --> 00:30:15,971
Lock the door on your way out.
Shut the door.
396
00:30:16,138 --> 00:30:17,545
l swear, all this campaigning...
397
00:30:17,706 --> 00:30:20,968
...working up the crowds,
is gonna ruin my voice.
398
00:30:31,627 --> 00:30:33,056
Now, George....
399
00:30:33,643 --> 00:30:36,709
l've known you since you was that
skinny little giblet-assed kid...
400
00:30:36,874 --> 00:30:40,322
...back in the legislature, in them
chartreuse pants and cowboy shirts.
401
00:30:41,323 --> 00:30:43,526
Oh, introducing about 80 bills a week...
402
00:30:43,690 --> 00:30:46,473
...trying to help out
just everybody who had a pulse.
403
00:30:46,634 --> 00:30:49,448
Some people was even calling you
a dangerous left-wing radical.
404
00:30:49,611 --> 00:30:52,927
Yeah, well, that's that country-club,
high-hoi-polloi crowd.
405
00:30:53,099 --> 00:30:54,921
They always giving us trouble,
ain't they?
406
00:30:55,082 --> 00:30:57,057
l know, but what l'm saying is--
407
00:30:57,226 --> 00:30:59,943
George, sit down here. Sit down.
408
00:31:00,106 --> 00:31:03,521
Now, it ain't too early
to be talking about this...
409
00:31:04,394 --> 00:31:07,394
...because l know there's this law
that says l can't succeed myself.
410
00:31:07,562 --> 00:31:10,311
And l know that you gonna be wanting
to run for governor then.
411
00:31:11,786 --> 00:31:13,193
Now, when that time comes....
412
00:31:13,354 --> 00:31:15,591
George, look at me here, look at me.
413
00:31:15,754 --> 00:31:17,477
When you make your go for governor...
414
00:31:17,642 --> 00:31:20,293
...l'm gonna be behind you
1 00 percent, all-out.
415
00:31:20,458 --> 00:31:21,800
All right?
416
00:31:23,178 --> 00:31:25,065
Only thing is, l'm counting on you...
417
00:31:25,226 --> 00:31:28,096
...to still be battling for all those things
we always been for.
418
00:31:28,267 --> 00:31:29,990
Equal deal for the common folk...
419
00:31:30,154 --> 00:31:32,543
...just like you did back in the legislature.
420
00:31:33,930 --> 00:31:36,897
Well, l ain't ever gonna be forgetting
none of what we been for.
421
00:31:37,066 --> 00:31:40,164
But l'm talking about the Negroes too,
George, the Negroes too.
422
00:31:40,874 --> 00:31:43,689
l know the weather out there's
getting a little bit stormy...
423
00:31:43,850 --> 00:31:46,021
...but we got to keep holding on
to what's right.
424
00:31:46,410 --> 00:31:48,035
You hear me, George?
425
00:31:48,490 --> 00:31:50,345
Sure, you know....
426
00:31:50,506 --> 00:31:52,294
Hell, they just like everybody else.
427
00:31:52,458 --> 00:31:55,754
You know, l always believed like you
on the colored issue.
428
00:31:58,250 --> 00:32:00,421
-Oh, excuse me, governor.
-Oh, yes, ma'am. Hello.
429
00:32:00,586 --> 00:32:02,080
Judge Wallace.
430
00:32:02,250 --> 00:32:04,519
Here it is.
431
00:32:07,274 --> 00:32:10,437
-Congratulations, governor.
-Oh, thank you kindly.
432
00:32:13,994 --> 00:32:17,572
Oh, George, you really do remind me
of my own self starting out.
433
00:32:20,458 --> 00:32:24,135
George, there's only one thing
that sort of worries me...
434
00:32:24,298 --> 00:32:26,470
...is you believe
in the common folk so much.
435
00:32:26,634 --> 00:32:29,568
l mean, it's almost like
you're in love with them, all right.
436
00:32:29,738 --> 00:32:32,259
Well, this need of yours
to be at one with the folks...
437
00:32:32,426 --> 00:32:34,215
...you might need a little bit too much.
438
00:32:34,378 --> 00:32:37,313
See, it's almost like
your connection to the folks...
439
00:32:37,482 --> 00:32:40,417
...is all you feel
gives you any personal meaning.
440
00:32:40,586 --> 00:32:42,626
Like it's all you really feel
you are yourself.
441
00:32:45,482 --> 00:32:49,126
Will of the people. That's where
everything comes from, don't it?
442
00:32:49,290 --> 00:32:52,454
Majority of folks ain't ever gonna
wanna do anything that ain't right.
443
00:32:52,618 --> 00:32:55,433
Oh, well, l don't know, George.
Sometimes they can go both ways.
444
00:32:55,594 --> 00:32:57,088
See, they just like you and me.
445
00:32:57,258 --> 00:33:00,607
They got goodness and meanness in them.
Angel and a demon.
446
00:33:01,482 --> 00:33:03,817
A leader can't just be a reflection.
447
00:33:04,842 --> 00:33:08,704
A leader got to encourage them sometimes
to listen to that angel.
448
00:33:08,874 --> 00:33:10,914
l only trust
that you won't ever be scared...
449
00:33:11,082 --> 00:33:15,174
...to risk that connection to the people
in order to do what's right.
450
00:33:15,978 --> 00:33:17,866
Do you hear me, George?
451
00:33:22,954 --> 00:33:24,809
Well, Big Jim...
452
00:33:27,114 --> 00:33:30,147
...there ain't nobody stronger for you
than me.
453
00:33:31,050 --> 00:33:33,057
l don't have any doubts
about you, George.
454
00:33:33,226 --> 00:33:34,273
You gonna be a good one.
455
00:33:37,898 --> 00:33:39,305
Here you go.
456
00:33:39,466 --> 00:33:44,256
-T.Y., don't let him drive, all right?
That's it, Jim.
457
00:33:44,426 --> 00:33:45,703
Here.
458
00:33:46,314 --> 00:33:48,867
-What's your name?
-Archie, sir.
459
00:33:49,514 --> 00:33:52,710
-Well, thank you, Archie.
-You're welcome, sir.
460
00:33:52,873 --> 00:33:54,629
You ought to get yourself one of these.
461
00:33:54,793 --> 00:33:56,070
Lurleen, come on, let's go.
462
00:33:56,778 --> 00:33:58,600
We gotta get back to Clayton now.
Come on.
463
00:34:02,634 --> 00:34:04,935
-Good night, George.
-Good night, Billy.
464
00:34:05,738 --> 00:34:08,967
-What you doing over there with Billy?
-He's good to me.
465
00:34:09,130 --> 00:34:11,497
Just one last second, George.
466
00:34:14,250 --> 00:34:15,908
Hello, sweetheart.
467
00:34:16,330 --> 00:34:18,152
l never did get your name,
you know that?
468
00:34:18,890 --> 00:34:21,989
-lt's Cornelia.
-Cornelia.
469
00:34:22,154 --> 00:34:25,470
What a lovely name
for such a lovely little girl.
470
00:34:25,898 --> 00:34:26,880
Lurleen, come on.
471
00:34:27,050 --> 00:34:30,050
Bye-bye, sweetheart.
Now, you be good, you hear?
472
00:35:00,170 --> 00:35:04,360
George, the surgeon said that
everything went just fine, darling.
473
00:35:04,521 --> 00:35:06,344
What are you feeling?
474
00:35:07,594 --> 00:35:12,166
Feeling nothing down here. Just pain.
475
00:35:16,810 --> 00:35:19,843
Y'all, the surgeon said
that everything went just fine.
476
00:35:20,010 --> 00:35:23,785
-Who was that shot me?
-lt was some fella named Bremer.
477
00:35:24,714 --> 00:35:26,372
-White, wasn't he?
-Yeah, but nobody--
478
00:35:26,538 --> 00:35:28,426
-He ain't nothing.
-They've questioned him.
479
00:35:28,586 --> 00:35:30,920
He'd been following you around
for weeks. He's a....
480
00:35:31,082 --> 00:35:32,391
You know yet how it's going?
481
00:35:33,130 --> 00:35:36,479
-How's what?
-Maryland, Michigan.
482
00:35:37,226 --> 00:35:39,811
Oh, yeah, l just heard.
You taking Michigan and Maryland.
483
00:35:39,978 --> 00:35:42,433
Just like when you was talking
in the kitchen yesterday.
484
00:35:42,602 --> 00:35:44,609
-You're leading them all now, sir.
Oh, honey.
485
00:35:44,778 --> 00:35:47,429
Honey, isn't that fantastic?
Darling, you're wonderful.
486
00:35:49,002 --> 00:35:51,042
lt's good news.
487
00:35:58,537 --> 00:36:02,945
Well, looks like we got ourselves
an FDR candidate on our hands, huh?
488
00:36:03,114 --> 00:36:06,562
Ain't you kind of leapfrogging ahead
of the situation we have here, Cornelia?
489
00:36:06,730 --> 00:36:08,835
My brother has just been shot,
almost killed.
490
00:36:09,002 --> 00:36:11,457
Yes, but he is alive.
491
00:36:11,625 --> 00:36:13,895
And he's not gonna die.
492
00:36:14,058 --> 00:36:16,392
That's the only thing
that could ever stop that man.
493
00:36:16,554 --> 00:36:20,067
-He's stronger than any damn....
-lt's all right, it's okay.
494
00:36:20,234 --> 00:36:22,438
-lt's all right.
Mrs. Wallace.
495
00:36:29,802 --> 00:36:32,039
l'm afraid you gentlemen
will have to wait outside.
496
00:36:32,202 --> 00:36:33,609
No, no, let them in.
497
00:36:33,705 --> 00:36:36,127
-l'm his brother, damn it.
-Mrs. Wallace first.
498
00:36:36,522 --> 00:36:39,206
GERALD: You hear me? l wanna see him.
ODUM: Come on, Gerald, easy.
499
00:36:39,306 --> 00:36:41,346
Let's go back to the waiting room.
500
00:36:42,474 --> 00:36:46,630
Nurse, could you give us
a moment, please? Thanks.
501
00:36:49,482 --> 00:36:53,256
Governor, l thought you'd wanna
hear it all straight-out now, instead of....
502
00:36:53,418 --> 00:36:56,287
Yeah, how bad is it?
503
00:36:57,898 --> 00:37:00,233
You were shot five times.
504
00:37:01,930 --> 00:37:05,923
Right arm, left shoulder, abdomen.
505
00:37:06,634 --> 00:37:08,838
The problem is with the fifth bullet.
506
00:37:10,122 --> 00:37:14,116
lt penetrated the spinal column
and severed a bundle of nerves.
507
00:37:15,306 --> 00:37:17,280
As a result....
508
00:37:21,546 --> 00:37:23,521
Do you wanna hear this now?
509
00:37:26,698 --> 00:37:30,593
Governor, l'm afraid you're not
gonna be able to walk again.
510
00:37:34,633 --> 00:37:37,633
Well, neither could FDR either.
He even went on--
511
00:37:37,802 --> 00:37:39,711
Just a minute, Mrs. Wallace. l'm sorry.
512
00:37:41,706 --> 00:37:45,568
Also, governor, you're not gonna
be able to control bodily functions.
513
00:37:46,761 --> 00:37:50,591
That means bladder and bowel.
514
00:37:51,402 --> 00:37:52,864
l'm sorry.
515
00:38:06,473 --> 00:38:10,467
-Well, what about--?
Sex?
516
00:38:28,586 --> 00:38:33,801
All this pain, can't you do something
about it? lt's killing me here.
517
00:38:34,665 --> 00:38:36,094
Of course.
518
00:38:41,226 --> 00:38:43,365
But that's another thing, governor.
519
00:38:45,962 --> 00:38:48,864
l'm afraid you're not gonna have
another day without pain.
520
00:38:49,034 --> 00:38:52,711
Well, l ain't accepting all of this yet.
521
00:38:52,874 --> 00:38:55,721
Can you just give me another doctor?
522
00:38:56,202 --> 00:38:57,990
None of us mean to just accept it.
523
00:39:00,137 --> 00:39:03,399
We're doing and are gonna continue to do
everything we possibly can.
524
00:39:03,561 --> 00:39:05,601
All right, go on.
525
00:39:18,186 --> 00:39:21,960
l ain't out of this campaign yet,
goddamn it.
526
00:39:22,122 --> 00:39:24,096
Of course you're not.
527
00:39:24,266 --> 00:39:26,852
lt's gonna take a hell of a lot more
than this to stop you.
528
00:39:27,017 --> 00:39:30,083
That's goddamn right.
529
00:39:31,018 --> 00:39:33,025
Well, there's hundreds of press
downstairs.
530
00:39:33,194 --> 00:39:35,016
l've gotta go down there
and tell them something.
531
00:39:38,281 --> 00:39:39,842
Well....
532
00:39:43,945 --> 00:39:45,407
You go tell them....
533
00:39:46,473 --> 00:39:49,190
Tell them you're still running
full-force for president?
534
00:39:50,474 --> 00:39:51,456
Yeah.
535
00:39:52,585 --> 00:39:55,847
You're only wounded in the abdomen.
Nothing's changed.
536
00:39:56,009 --> 00:39:58,562
You're running just as strong as ever.
537
00:40:01,610 --> 00:40:02,854
That's right.
538
00:40:04,618 --> 00:40:07,268
God, l am so proud of you.
539
00:40:17,833 --> 00:40:20,997
l just wish old Billy was here.
540
00:40:25,929 --> 00:40:27,304
Old Billy.
541
00:40:41,385 --> 00:40:47,495
Oh, goddamn. This is it, Wallace.
You made it to the big leagues now.
542
00:40:47,786 --> 00:40:50,885
Your first campaign for governor.
This is what we've been waiting for.
543
00:40:51,049 --> 00:40:53,668
Since that Trailways bus
brought you back from the war...
544
00:40:53,834 --> 00:40:56,354
...and dropped you off
looking like a skinned rabbit.
545
00:40:56,522 --> 00:41:00,712
Yeah, after getting here finally...
546
00:41:00,970 --> 00:41:03,010
...a little nervous, you know?
547
00:41:04,042 --> 00:41:08,232
What the hell are you talking about?
Of course you're nervous.
548
00:41:08,394 --> 00:41:11,492
A racehorse is always nervous
when it gets in the gate.
549
00:41:12,298 --> 00:41:16,008
But the bugle's blowing now.
You go get running.
550
00:41:17,834 --> 00:41:19,492
All right.
551
00:41:20,874 --> 00:41:22,914
Hi, George.
-Hi, Patsy, honey, how are you?
552
00:41:23,081 --> 00:41:25,253
-Fine.
-You still working at the beauty parlor?
553
00:41:25,418 --> 00:41:27,873
Good, you're coming
to hear my speech, now, right?
554
00:41:31,690 --> 00:41:34,439
You're gonna make
a wonderful governor.
555
00:41:34,601 --> 00:41:37,449
How are you?
l saw your daddy the other day.
556
00:41:39,370 --> 00:41:42,272
-Billy's your campaign manager, ain't he?
-No.
557
00:41:42,442 --> 00:41:43,848
Billy's not my campaign manager.
558
00:41:44,010 --> 00:41:45,984
You all are
the only campaign managers l got.
559
00:41:46,153 --> 00:41:48,193
l'll see you, Marvin.
Come hear my speech, now.
560
00:41:48,362 --> 00:41:53,096
The fighting little judge,
George Corley Wallace.
561
00:42:12,714 --> 00:42:15,528
You see how popular he is
with the folks here.
562
00:42:23,817 --> 00:42:26,021
Thank you. Hey, how y'all doing?
563
00:42:26,185 --> 00:42:28,487
Etta Jane, you got so big. How are you?
564
00:42:28,649 --> 00:42:30,275
-lt's a great day, y'all.
-Yeah.
565
00:42:30,441 --> 00:42:33,125
-We all known each other all our lives.
We love you, George.
566
00:42:33,578 --> 00:42:35,465
l grew up in this county.
567
00:42:35,625 --> 00:42:39,651
My granddaddy, he planted
most of these pecan trees around here.
568
00:42:39,817 --> 00:42:44,160
ln fact, while he was a doctor,
he delivered a lot of y'all too.
569
00:42:47,690 --> 00:42:51,138
Well, Lurleen and me been raising up
our three children here.
570
00:42:51,305 --> 00:42:55,778
And now, from this town of ours,
out of Barbour County, as of today...
571
00:42:55,945 --> 00:42:58,847
...l am running for governor
of this whole great state of Alabama.
572
00:43:05,609 --> 00:43:08,676
Of course, the last four years,
been Folsom up there in Montgomery...
573
00:43:08,841 --> 00:43:11,078
...but he can't run again this time.
574
00:43:11,241 --> 00:43:14,307
So let me tell y'all
what l'm gonna do when l get up there.
575
00:43:14,473 --> 00:43:18,597
Tell us.
-Your children gonna have free textbooks.
576
00:43:19,337 --> 00:43:20,799
We're gonna build more schools...
577
00:43:20,969 --> 00:43:23,653
...and more junior colleges
and trade schools too.
578
00:43:25,769 --> 00:43:30,559
And nursing homes and medical clinics
and TB hospitals and mental hospitals.
579
00:43:30,730 --> 00:43:34,920
Gonna throw the public welfare program
open to anybody needing it.
580
00:43:36,042 --> 00:43:37,449
He's just getting started, Paul.
581
00:43:37,610 --> 00:43:39,333
-Just give him a second.
-Yeah, yeah.
582
00:43:39,753 --> 00:43:43,648
There's gonna be more for social security,
more for the crippled children in this state.
583
00:43:43,818 --> 00:43:47,560
All l been fighting for since y'all
first sent me up to the legislature.
584
00:43:47,721 --> 00:43:50,209
Doing for the people
is what government's for, right?
585
00:43:50,377 --> 00:43:52,287
Yeah.
586
00:43:55,498 --> 00:43:57,986
He's not just a liberal,
he's worse than that.
587
00:43:58,153 --> 00:44:01,382
Now, listen, this fellow over here
wants to talk to you here in a second.
588
00:44:01,545 --> 00:44:03,204
Soon as your brother gets through.
589
00:44:03,370 --> 00:44:05,890
This is the Klan, and they can
do your brother some good.
590
00:44:06,058 --> 00:44:07,519
Well, that ain't me.
591
00:44:07,689 --> 00:44:11,846
Whatever it takes to build you
more roads and bridges, let them fuss.
592
00:44:12,010 --> 00:44:14,824
You elect me,
l'll borrow as many millions as l have to...
593
00:44:14,985 --> 00:44:18,531
...and l'll build y'all a bridge
straight up in the air, if you want.
594
00:44:20,585 --> 00:44:22,047
Tell them, George!
595
00:44:25,929 --> 00:44:31,199
That slick-haired national-press crowd
up there in New York and Washington...
596
00:44:31,370 --> 00:44:34,785
...they started calling us
Dogpatch folks down here.
597
00:44:35,241 --> 00:44:38,984
Talking like me and you
ain't got the sense to tie our shoes.
598
00:44:39,146 --> 00:44:41,317
When l'm your governor,
l'm gonna let them know...
599
00:44:41,481 --> 00:44:44,296
...that the people l represent
are just as fine and cultured...
600
00:44:44,458 --> 00:44:46,945
...as anybody in this country.
601
00:44:48,329 --> 00:44:50,118
l'm gonna make them
respect us down here.
602
00:44:50,281 --> 00:44:51,558
l'm gonna make y'all proud...
603
00:44:51,722 --> 00:44:54,755
...that you were raised right here
in the great state of Alabama.
604
00:45:09,449 --> 00:45:11,205
Thank you.
605
00:45:12,394 --> 00:45:13,888
lt was a wonderful day, George.
606
00:45:14,058 --> 00:45:16,097
-Yeah.
-A wonderful evening.
607
00:45:16,553 --> 00:45:18,528
l love this place so much.
608
00:45:18,697 --> 00:45:21,959
Yeah, well, we gonna be
moving on soon, honey.
609
00:45:22,537 --> 00:45:25,766
l think it went pretty good today,
don't you?
610
00:45:25,930 --> 00:45:28,417
You know it did.
lt always does with you.
611
00:45:28,585 --> 00:45:32,895
Well, it always goes good.
l've got you helping me.
612
00:45:33,066 --> 00:45:34,854
l want you to know that, here and now.
613
00:45:35,017 --> 00:45:37,603
You got a way with the people
of your own that l just--
614
00:45:37,769 --> 00:45:40,387
Oh, it's suddenly like a dream, almost.
615
00:45:40,553 --> 00:45:43,619
Only that we might be leaving
everything here.
616
00:45:43,785 --> 00:45:46,818
And for what, hm? Scares me a little.
617
00:45:46,985 --> 00:45:49,287
Well, we going on to bigger
and better things now.
618
00:45:49,449 --> 00:45:50,496
-George.
-Yeah.
619
00:45:50,665 --> 00:45:52,672
-George, you remember--
Al Lingo.
620
00:45:52,841 --> 00:45:55,110
-Another Barbour County boy, heh-heh.
Thank you, Susan.
621
00:45:55,273 --> 00:45:58,208
For a short-term state trooper
turned building-supplies salesman...
622
00:45:58,378 --> 00:46:01,247
...you sure been getting around
a lot here lately.
623
00:46:01,417 --> 00:46:04,068
l've been out here
working for you on my own, judge.
624
00:46:04,234 --> 00:46:09,569
ln fact, uh, those fellas
like to see you a minute, if you can.
625
00:46:10,537 --> 00:46:12,326
Oh, George....
626
00:46:12,489 --> 00:46:15,904
Sorry, it's been such a long day.
Don't you think we should just--?
627
00:46:16,073 --> 00:46:19,521
T.Y., you wanna do me a favor
and take Lurleen and the kids home?
628
00:46:19,689 --> 00:46:20,802
-All right.
-Honey....
629
00:46:20,969 --> 00:46:22,878
Come on, kids,
l gotta do some business now.
630
00:46:23,049 --> 00:46:25,799
-George, l really think--
-T.Y.'s gonna take you home now.
631
00:46:25,962 --> 00:46:28,133
-Bye, Daddy.
-Bye, Daddy.
632
00:46:28,297 --> 00:46:29,279
GlRL:
Bye.
633
00:46:29,450 --> 00:46:32,679
Lurleen, l'll be home in a while.
Go on, now.
634
00:46:35,977 --> 00:46:38,977
AL: Judge, those fellas are with the Klan.
-Why did l figure that?
635
00:46:39,145 --> 00:46:40,771
But they're good old boys.
636
00:46:40,937 --> 00:46:43,173
lt won't hurt to listen
to what they got to say.
637
00:46:43,337 --> 00:46:46,272
The Klan's been rising up strong again
all over the state, George.
638
00:46:46,441 --> 00:46:48,481
All over the South for that matter.
You got--
639
00:46:48,650 --> 00:46:50,559
Gerald, strain. l know that.
640
00:46:50,729 --> 00:46:53,598
You know, Wallace,
l sort of got a feeling...
641
00:46:53,769 --> 00:46:57,544
...it might be better to have this
particular chat in the back of my store.
642
00:46:58,025 --> 00:47:01,953
Lingo, fetch your friends,
meet us there in a few minutes.
643
00:47:02,121 --> 00:47:03,550
All right.
644
00:47:04,905 --> 00:47:09,727
Judge, all those things
you was saying out there today...
645
00:47:09,897 --> 00:47:13,891
...didn't hear a single word
about the real trouble now.
646
00:47:14,793 --> 00:47:18,306
What's that?
-The nigger trouble.
647
00:47:18,921 --> 00:47:21,255
That's the real test for any candidate...
648
00:47:21,417 --> 00:47:24,199
...running for anything
in Alabama these days.
649
00:47:24,361 --> 00:47:28,387
You need to let folks know you backing us
in the war for white civilization, judge.
650
00:47:29,641 --> 00:47:32,226
The fella you running against,
John Patterson...
651
00:47:32,393 --> 00:47:34,848
...he got a little bit ahead of you
on the nigger issue.
652
00:47:35,017 --> 00:47:37,832
Here, listen to what he's saying.
653
00:47:39,465 --> 00:47:42,215
''Patterson promises that
as governor of Alabama...
654
00:47:42,377 --> 00:47:46,436
...he'll permit absolutely
no mongrel-mixing of the races...
655
00:47:46,601 --> 00:47:50,879
...in any way, at any time,
now or tomorrow.
656
00:47:51,050 --> 00:47:54,497
His opponent declines
to make that promise.''
657
00:47:54,665 --> 00:47:57,894
-Here.
-You read what all he's saying.
658
00:48:01,833 --> 00:48:05,215
Yeah, well, lookie here, boys.
659
00:48:05,833 --> 00:48:11,201
As far as this particular issue is concerned,
l'm for the same thing he is...
660
00:48:11,369 --> 00:48:15,427
...only we got to have
decent order about it.
661
00:48:15,593 --> 00:48:20,678
-Now, we can't go raring off--
-Judge, let's get one thing straight.
662
00:48:20,841 --> 00:48:26,242
We talking about saving the white race
by any means necessary.
663
00:48:26,826 --> 00:48:29,989
Not about order and decency.
664
00:48:32,489 --> 00:48:35,489
We just want you
to keep it in mind, judge.
665
00:48:38,057 --> 00:48:40,872
Be seeing you on down the road.
666
00:48:57,449 --> 00:49:00,929
Thought you should hear that, judge.
Only trying to help you.
667
00:49:01,097 --> 00:49:04,610
When you get up there to Montgomery,
maybe you can find something for me to do.
668
00:49:04,777 --> 00:49:07,362
Yeah, well, we'll cross that bridge
when we get there, Al.
669
00:49:07,529 --> 00:49:09,056
-That's fair enough.
-All right.
670
00:49:09,225 --> 00:49:12,159
-Well, l'm going home.
-Good night, gentlemen.
671
00:49:12,329 --> 00:49:13,922
-Good night.
-Good night.
672
00:49:16,745 --> 00:49:20,902
Billy, what's started breaking loose here
all of a sudden?
673
00:49:21,065 --> 00:49:23,815
Hell, we grew up among colored folks.
We got along fine.
674
00:49:23,977 --> 00:49:27,686
Yeah, but that was back when
they was just happy-go-lucky niggers.
675
00:49:27,849 --> 00:49:30,086
The government's set out
to make us live with them.
676
00:49:30,249 --> 00:49:33,544
Folks ain't gonna stand for that.
lf you're hoping to whup Patterson...
677
00:49:33,705 --> 00:49:36,520
...you just got in the governor's race with,
you better listen.
678
00:49:36,681 --> 00:49:39,234
Those fellas don't represent
hardly nobody but themselves.
679
00:49:39,401 --> 00:49:43,296
They just like wolves
running around on the edges of things.
680
00:49:43,465 --> 00:49:45,473
l never did trust the Klan, anyhow.
681
00:49:45,641 --> 00:49:47,397
Can't control them. They close to wild.
682
00:49:47,561 --> 00:49:50,114
They go upsetting everything
with violence.
683
00:49:50,857 --> 00:49:54,599
Yeah, but lots of folks coming
to feel an awful lot like they do, Wallace.
684
00:49:54,761 --> 00:49:57,281
People getting awful hot
on this race thing.
685
00:49:57,449 --> 00:50:00,035
And that's why
you gotta cut loose from Big Jim.
686
00:50:00,201 --> 00:50:01,183
Yeah, well....
687
00:50:01,353 --> 00:50:05,892
Hey, everybody's thinking
Folsom appointed you as his political heir.
688
00:50:06,057 --> 00:50:07,650
And that's the real trouble, George.
689
00:50:07,817 --> 00:50:10,152
He's as liberal as he ever was
on the nigger issue...
690
00:50:10,313 --> 00:50:12,647
...like he don't even realize
what's begun happening.
691
00:50:12,809 --> 00:50:16,158
Now there's this highfalutin young
nigger preacher up there in Montgomery.
692
00:50:16,329 --> 00:50:19,427
This Martin King Luther,
whatever the hell his name is...
693
00:50:19,593 --> 00:50:21,862
...carrying on that bus boycott mess.
694
00:50:22,025 --> 00:50:24,262
Race fever's just spreading
all over the state now.
695
00:50:24,425 --> 00:50:27,556
Yeah, but folks in Alabama,
they don't want this Klan kind of ugliness.
696
00:50:27,721 --> 00:50:30,023
They want it all worked out orderly.
697
00:50:30,185 --> 00:50:34,113
Anyhow, it's just one of them hot winds
that's gonna blow past.
698
00:50:34,281 --> 00:50:38,078
Folks still care a heap more
about an even chance to live decent.
699
00:50:40,649 --> 00:50:42,656
Well, there's one thing l know...
700
00:50:42,825 --> 00:50:44,614
...it's the folks.
701
00:51:11,529 --> 00:51:13,384
No way, he isn't.
702
00:51:13,545 --> 00:51:15,039
Looking sort of hopeless.
703
00:51:15,625 --> 00:51:17,632
Well, didn't help none, George.
704
00:51:17,801 --> 00:51:20,136
You had to go on
and openly denounce the Klan now.
705
00:51:20,713 --> 00:51:26,943
Of course, it did get you the support
of the ACLU, NAACP.
706
00:51:27,113 --> 00:51:29,349
And all our lsraelites here in the state.
707
00:51:30,217 --> 00:51:33,348
BlLLY: Only problem is, you let yourself
get out of touch...
708
00:51:33,513 --> 00:51:36,361
...with everybody else in Alabama,
George.
709
00:51:36,841 --> 00:51:39,524
Klan might be just a bunch out there
hooting on the fringe...
710
00:51:39,688 --> 00:51:43,300
...but l tried to tell you,
times gotten tense.
711
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:47,743
You shouldn't have kept trying to be that
nice, open-hearted young fella you was...
712
00:51:47,913 --> 00:51:50,182
...back there in the legislature.
713
00:51:50,505 --> 00:51:54,399
You just didn't distance yourself enough
from Big Jim.
714
00:51:55,849 --> 00:51:58,238
There's whiffs of sulfur out there
in the air now.
715
00:51:58,632 --> 00:52:00,771
Can't be compromising, George.
716
00:52:00,937 --> 00:52:02,879
Not these days.
717
00:52:03,625 --> 00:52:08,327
Only way back now is, you gotta
get back in grace with the people.
718
00:52:09,289 --> 00:52:11,177
Bill, the only problem is--
719
00:52:11,337 --> 00:52:14,533
Honey, l really am so sorry.
720
00:52:15,816 --> 00:52:17,726
l just heard.
721
00:52:23,113 --> 00:52:25,698
Well, maybe there's some good, huh?
722
00:52:26,185 --> 00:52:28,323
Maybe at least now
we can head back home...
723
00:52:28,489 --> 00:52:29,634
...and live a normal life.
724
00:52:29,801 --> 00:52:32,452
Goddamn it to hell, Lurleen!
725
00:52:32,617 --> 00:52:34,439
Normal life?
726
00:52:34,601 --> 00:52:36,390
That ain't life.
727
00:52:37,321 --> 00:52:38,598
l just been hit like this...
728
00:52:38,761 --> 00:52:41,924
...you wanna start getting on me again
about our home life.
729
00:52:47,401 --> 00:52:49,539
That's all l need right now.
730
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:00,004
Excuse me here a minute.
731
00:53:02,441 --> 00:53:04,830
Now, be sweet to her, George.
732
00:53:09,481 --> 00:53:11,269
Honey, look, l only meant--
733
00:53:11,433 --> 00:53:13,343
l've had it.
734
00:53:13,705 --> 00:53:16,520
How do you think you can treat me?
735
00:53:16,873 --> 00:53:18,334
And you never even notice.
736
00:53:18,505 --> 00:53:21,821
-Now, look here, honey, l just--
-No, l'm through.
737
00:53:23,529 --> 00:53:25,351
Those strange women
who keep showing up...
738
00:53:25,513 --> 00:53:27,520
...acting like they know you better
than l do.
739
00:53:27,689 --> 00:53:29,598
-Like they know me.
-Who you talking about?
740
00:53:29,769 --> 00:53:32,006
-They ain't nothing--
-Oh, don't.
741
00:53:32,264 --> 00:53:34,883
lt's not even that, anyway.
742
00:53:35,049 --> 00:53:36,325
lt's....
743
00:53:41,065 --> 00:53:44,098
You've hardly lived at home
since we were married.
744
00:53:44,265 --> 00:53:46,404
You've left your children
almost half-orphans.
745
00:53:46,569 --> 00:53:50,180
l don't want them growing up like that
just because you did.
746
00:53:50,569 --> 00:53:53,122
You know l already almost
left you once because of this.
747
00:53:53,289 --> 00:53:58,242
And you sent your...buddies in there
to talk me out of it.
748
00:53:58,761 --> 00:54:00,670
This time, it's enough.
749
00:54:00,841 --> 00:54:02,270
So help me.
750
00:54:02,441 --> 00:54:04,830
This time, l'm doing it.
751
00:54:05,641 --> 00:54:07,780
l'm leaving you, George...
752
00:54:07,945 --> 00:54:10,563
...to the only thing
you ever cared about, anyway.
753
00:54:10,729 --> 00:54:12,136
Lurleen, God almighty, come on--
754
00:54:12,297 --> 00:54:17,632
From the first, l knew you had some hunger,
some need in you l didn't really understand.
755
00:54:17,801 --> 00:54:19,524
But that would've been all right.
756
00:54:19,689 --> 00:54:23,486
Only that thing, that need,
it's made you forget who l am.
757
00:54:24,905 --> 00:54:25,920
Forget us.
758
00:54:26,089 --> 00:54:28,096
Look at me.
759
00:54:28,969 --> 00:54:32,230
Remember when it was just us, George,
and then the babies?
760
00:54:32,392 --> 00:54:33,799
You remember that time?
761
00:54:34,345 --> 00:54:36,833
We're your family, George.
762
00:54:37,288 --> 00:54:39,427
Now it's money and power.
763
00:54:39,593 --> 00:54:41,415
Power and money.
764
00:54:41,577 --> 00:54:43,650
That's what counts?
765
00:54:44,201 --> 00:54:46,623
That's what you tell the kids. You do.
766
00:54:47,465 --> 00:54:51,327
You are no different
than all them other wives.
767
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,339
What y'all always saying.
768
00:54:54,505 --> 00:54:57,505
Same old scene.
''Why can't it be like it was?''
769
00:54:57,673 --> 00:54:58,917
''Why ain't you home more?''
770
00:54:59,849 --> 00:55:02,369
Well, it might be enough for you
just living at home...
771
00:55:02,537 --> 00:55:04,577
...and for excitement,
going out there fishing.
772
00:55:04,745 --> 00:55:06,206
But it's not enough for me!
773
00:55:07,113 --> 00:55:09,120
lt never will be enough for me!
774
00:55:20,457 --> 00:55:22,464
Oh, goddamn it.
775
00:55:22,633 --> 00:55:25,000
Honey, honey, l'm sorry.
776
00:55:28,553 --> 00:55:30,658
You just don't....
777
00:55:33,001 --> 00:55:33,983
No, you can't know.
778
00:55:34,153 --> 00:55:37,862
After losing this vote today,
it's like l'm just....
779
00:55:38,024 --> 00:55:41,123
Like l just disappeared or something.
780
00:55:43,849 --> 00:55:45,921
Like l'm not worth nothing.
781
00:55:46,089 --> 00:55:48,609
Nothing to nobody.
782
00:55:51,529 --> 00:55:52,903
Nothing.
783
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:55,582
Not even to you.
784
00:55:55,752 --> 00:55:59,811
George, you were always
everything to me.
785
00:56:02,728 --> 00:56:06,623
lt's just that things got to change
between us.
786
00:56:07,401 --> 00:56:08,994
Some.
787
00:56:17,544 --> 00:56:22,279
Maybe you could, uh,
start traveling with me or something.
788
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:24,328
Maybe or something.
789
00:56:33,769 --> 00:56:36,354
l've got to go pick up the children...
790
00:56:36,713 --> 00:56:38,753
...head back to Clayton.
791
00:56:39,401 --> 00:56:42,084
Just hang on a little bit, honey.
792
00:56:42,409 --> 00:56:43,903
Don't go off and leaving me now.
793
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,742
Don't stay up here too long.
794
00:57:00,009 --> 00:57:00,991
Good night, everybody.
795
00:57:01,161 --> 00:57:03,048
-Good night, Lurleen.
-Good night.
796
00:57:12,745 --> 00:57:15,014
Sorry about that, boys.
797
00:57:17,897 --> 00:57:19,871
Ain't the first time.
798
00:57:24,457 --> 00:57:25,918
lt's a....
799
00:57:26,185 --> 00:57:28,389
She's a good little gal.
800
00:57:30,217 --> 00:57:32,453
She always comes around.
801
00:57:37,768 --> 00:57:39,459
Lookie here now.
802
00:57:42,632 --> 00:57:44,640
What y'all were saying...
803
00:57:46,441 --> 00:57:50,335
...l know now y'all been right
about this race thing.
804
00:57:52,361 --> 00:57:54,084
Everything's different now.
805
00:57:54,248 --> 00:57:56,866
Big Jim just never caught on to that.
806
00:57:57,736 --> 00:57:59,908
And the folks
have turned their face against him.
807
00:58:00,073 --> 00:58:04,644
And if l don't flat-out cut free of him,
he's gonna take me on down with him.
808
00:58:08,329 --> 00:58:09,790
No.
809
00:58:11,336 --> 00:58:14,566
Me and Big Jim, we over with.
810
00:58:17,257 --> 00:58:19,558
He was always wrong, anyhow.
811
00:58:21,544 --> 00:58:23,650
Niggers hate whites.
812
00:58:24,649 --> 00:58:26,536
Whites hate niggers.
813
00:58:26,696 --> 00:58:29,446
Everybody's always known that
deep down.
814
00:58:33,577 --> 00:58:35,519
All right, boys.
815
00:58:39,272 --> 00:58:44,771
l just let myself get out-niggered,
but l'm never gonna get out-niggered again.
816
00:58:45,097 --> 00:58:48,741
Today, l have stood
where Jefferson Davis stood...
817
00:58:48,872 --> 00:58:50,334
...and took an oath to my people.
818
00:58:51,656 --> 00:58:54,918
ln this day, l feel a deep obligation
to renew my pledges...
819
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:58,495
...my covenants with you,
the people of this great state.
820
00:58:58,793 --> 00:59:02,819
General Robert E. Lee said
that duty is the most sublime word...
821
00:59:02,985 --> 00:59:04,195
...in the English language.
822
00:59:04,361 --> 00:59:05,343
Come on.
823
00:59:05,513 --> 00:59:09,157
And l have come increasingly
to realize what he meant.
824
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:11,392
And l shall do my duty to you.
825
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:17,376
God help me, l shall stand up
for Alabama, as governor of our state.
826
00:59:17,545 --> 00:59:19,400
You stand with me...
827
00:59:19,561 --> 00:59:23,008
...and we together
can give courageous leadership...
828
00:59:23,176 --> 00:59:25,991
...to millions of people
throughout this nation...
829
00:59:26,152 --> 00:59:30,527
...who look to the South
for their hope in this fight to win...
830
00:59:30,696 --> 00:59:33,030
...and preserve our freedom and liberty...
831
00:59:33,192 --> 00:59:35,331
...so help me God.
832
00:59:35,496 --> 00:59:37,405
...CHEERlNG...
833
00:59:42,824 --> 00:59:45,574
From this cradle of the Confederacy...
834
00:59:45,737 --> 00:59:49,511
...this very heart of the great
Anglo-Saxon Southland...
835
00:59:50,152 --> 00:59:53,283
...today, we sound the drum of freedom.
836
00:59:53,448 --> 00:59:56,929
Let us rise to the call
of the freedom-loving blood that is in us.
837
00:59:57,609 --> 01:00:01,253
ln the name of the greatest people
that have ever trod this earth...
838
01:00:01,416 --> 01:00:03,653
...l draw the line in the dust...
839
01:00:03,816 --> 01:00:06,599
...and toss the gauntlet
before the feet of tyranny.
840
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:11,270
And l say segregation now,
segregation tomorrow...
841
01:00:11,432 --> 01:00:14,247
...and segregation forever.
842
01:00:30,601 --> 01:00:34,594
--segregation tomorrow,
and segregation forever.
843
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:38,725
Sworn in on this bitterly cold
January day as Alabama's new governor...
844
01:00:38,889 --> 01:00:40,198
...George Corley Wallace....
845
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:43,233
Oh, Cathy.
846
01:00:43,433 --> 01:00:45,472
Try and get him to sleep early.
847
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:47,429
He's so tired.
848
01:00:47,592 --> 01:00:50,788
l love you, sweetheart.
lf you can, with all that noise downstairs.
849
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:52,669
Bye.
850
01:01:00,169 --> 01:01:02,176
Do l look okay?
851
01:01:06,025 --> 01:01:07,399
Like a pluperfect queen.
852
01:01:08,457 --> 01:01:10,562
Oh, nothing that fancy if it's a Wallace.
853
01:01:16,296 --> 01:01:21,381
Well, then, Alabama governor's wife.
854
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:23,869
That's even better.
855
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:31,269
We've made it, haven't we, George?
856
01:01:31,432 --> 01:01:33,058
Yeah, l reckon we have.
857
01:01:33,224 --> 01:01:35,941
This does look a lot like
the governor's mansion to me.
858
01:01:36,104 --> 01:01:37,631
No.
859
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:38,946
l mean, us.
860
01:01:40,648 --> 01:01:42,470
l did hang on.
861
01:01:42,632 --> 01:01:45,763
And you have gotten
what you've always wanted.
862
01:01:45,928 --> 01:01:48,994
And l did support you,
because you've wanted it so much.
863
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:51,651
We've survived.
864
01:01:51,816 --> 01:01:53,343
You and me.
865
01:01:54,696 --> 01:01:57,281
We're celebrating more
than your election tonight.
866
01:01:57,448 --> 01:01:59,041
We're celebrating us.
867
01:02:06,184 --> 01:02:08,289
l just hope you know though...
868
01:02:09,672 --> 01:02:13,021
...you're not gonna have much time
to go out there fishing at that pond now.
869
01:02:13,192 --> 01:02:15,047
Oh, yes, l will.
870
01:02:15,208 --> 01:02:17,826
You're not taking that away from me,
George Wallace.
871
01:02:17,992 --> 01:02:20,675
Only place l know any peace.
872
01:02:42,088 --> 01:02:43,975
Don't be nervous.
873
01:02:44,424 --> 01:02:46,311
But l am.
874
01:02:46,473 --> 01:02:47,879
Well...
875
01:02:49,032 --> 01:02:50,625
...don't be.
876
01:03:03,336 --> 01:03:07,133
This is a little different
than the first time you were here.
877
01:03:07,304 --> 01:03:08,995
But you remember who you are now.
878
01:03:09,161 --> 01:03:12,674
No, l'm still the 1 6-year-old girl
behind the cosmetics counter...
879
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,229
...of Kresge's dime store.
880
01:03:17,576 --> 01:03:18,721
Hey, pretty girl.
881
01:03:20,712 --> 01:03:22,501
My name's George Wallace.
882
01:03:22,664 --> 01:03:24,452
And l wanna buy a bottle of hair oil.
883
01:03:26,184 --> 01:03:27,810
-Oh, yeah?
-Yeah, yeah.
884
01:03:27,976 --> 01:03:30,594
l'm about to go into the Army, and....
885
01:03:32,424 --> 01:03:35,239
You wanna go to the picture show
with me Saturday night?
886
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:38,848
And l'm thinking
you got the nicest dark eyes.
887
01:03:39,016 --> 01:03:41,766
But you could stand to eat
a little more. You're so skinny.
888
01:03:44,776 --> 01:03:46,402
You are such a pretty little thing.
889
01:03:46,568 --> 01:03:49,437
l think l'm already falling
slap in love with you, sweetie.
890
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:52,709
And l think....
891
01:04:05,449 --> 01:04:07,139
Well, now...
892
01:04:08,904 --> 01:04:10,944
...let's go on and live our life,
Mrs. Wallace.
893
01:04:23,048 --> 01:04:24,063
George, do you still--?
894
01:04:24,232 --> 01:04:25,956
Here they are, folks!
895
01:04:43,849 --> 01:04:45,921
You go, George. Yeah.
896
01:04:49,768 --> 01:04:51,622
Ha!
897
01:04:51,785 --> 01:04:53,923
George! Looking good there, George.
898
01:04:54,088 --> 01:04:56,870
George, you look like a million bucks!
899
01:05:01,192 --> 01:05:03,199
Congratulations, governor.
900
01:05:03,368 --> 01:05:06,051
Now, you boys come see me
about 9, you hear?
901
01:05:06,216 --> 01:05:10,111
We all used to be with Big Jim once,
but l need y'all with me now.
902
01:05:11,016 --> 01:05:11,998
All right.
Yes, l am.
903
01:05:12,168 --> 01:05:13,510
We'll be there.
904
01:05:13,672 --> 01:05:15,297
Where's my wife?
905
01:05:15,656 --> 01:05:17,478
She's seeing to the children, governor.
906
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:21,088
-Can l get you something?
-Yeah. Bring me a glass of buttermilk.
907
01:05:21,256 --> 01:05:23,044
lt's about time to turn in here.
908
01:05:23,208 --> 01:05:24,769
Yes, sir.
909
01:05:29,032 --> 01:05:31,617
-Watson.
-Yes, George?
910
01:05:32,072 --> 01:05:33,959
What's that you're drinking?
911
01:05:34,472 --> 01:05:36,709
Liquor drinking at the mansion's
against the rules.
912
01:05:36,872 --> 01:05:40,614
All right.
Well, the rules were made for niggers.
913
01:05:40,776 --> 01:05:41,889
White trash.
914
01:05:42,056 --> 01:05:43,463
Not for me and Odum.
915
01:05:43,625 --> 01:05:47,651
Hey, what do you think
of our new state police commander?
916
01:05:47,816 --> 01:05:49,442
Al....
917
01:05:49,608 --> 01:05:51,015
ALL:
Lingo.
918
01:05:51,176 --> 01:05:53,085
ln all his finery.
919
01:05:53,256 --> 01:05:54,750
l do appreciate it, governor.
920
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:58,019
-Me and all the boys appreciate it.
-Well, l'm counting on you, now.
921
01:05:58,184 --> 01:06:00,388
-You've got it.
-All right.
922
01:06:01,384 --> 01:06:05,857
Look, l'm gonna need y'all
staying around me now.
923
01:06:06,024 --> 01:06:09,919
Sort of my unofficial kitchen cabinet.
924
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:12,385
There's a lot
we got to get going on right away.
925
01:06:12,552 --> 01:06:16,643
lt looks like that Martin Luther King's
stirring up insurrection in Birmingham.
926
01:06:16,808 --> 01:06:20,321
He's got all them nigger school kids
involved in it now.
927
01:06:20,488 --> 01:06:21,698
Ain't got no shame.
928
01:06:21,864 --> 01:06:22,912
Don't worry.
929
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:25,022
l'll tend to his ass for you, governor.
930
01:06:25,192 --> 01:06:28,837
Now, l always dreamed we'd have a chance
like this back when it was Judge Wallace.
931
01:06:29,224 --> 01:06:30,533
Yeah.
932
01:06:30,696 --> 01:06:32,835
He's trying to test me.
933
01:06:33,384 --> 01:06:34,562
That's what he's doing.
934
01:06:34,728 --> 01:06:37,630
We're gonna settle his hash real fast.
935
01:06:38,216 --> 01:06:40,802
Gonna need y'all in my office
in the morning at 7:00.
936
01:06:40,968 --> 01:06:45,987
Well, in that case, Wallace, l better
be getting me a good night's sleep.
937
01:06:47,304 --> 01:06:48,384
Night, governor.
938
01:06:48,552 --> 01:06:50,494
-George.
-Good night.
939
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:58,022
l've seen you before, ain't l?
940
01:07:58,184 --> 01:08:00,769
lt was Folsom's inaugural, wasn't it?
941
01:08:01,384 --> 01:08:02,911
Yes, sir.
942
01:08:03,624 --> 01:08:07,039
-What's your name again?
-Archie, sir.
943
01:08:07,208 --> 01:08:08,964
Archie Weathers.
944
01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:12,454
Been a trustee here how long?
945
01:08:12,616 --> 01:08:15,965
Since 1 952.
946
01:08:18,248 --> 01:08:19,655
Who'd you up and kill, Archie?
947
01:08:21,448 --> 01:08:22,942
A man.
948
01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:25,764
He was messing with my wife.
949
01:08:26,024 --> 01:08:27,300
Hmm.
950
01:08:29,959 --> 01:08:34,302
And what were you doing before that?
951
01:08:34,472 --> 01:08:35,966
Just working or what?
952
01:08:36,136 --> 01:08:38,274
-l was a fighter, sir.
-That right?
953
01:08:38,440 --> 01:08:40,001
Any good?
954
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:42,273
Won 1 6 and lost once.
955
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:44,479
Whew. Ha.
956
01:08:44,648 --> 01:08:46,688
-Yeah?
-Yes, sir.
957
01:08:47,016 --> 01:08:49,863
You know, l boxed once myself,
Golden Gloves.
958
01:08:50,024 --> 01:08:52,390
lt was the Alabama
bantamweight champion, yeah.
959
01:08:52,552 --> 01:08:57,669
l guess all us fighters
got hot tempers, huh?
960
01:08:57,832 --> 01:08:59,294
Yes, sir.
961
01:09:07,592 --> 01:09:09,894
Let's see how good you are, Archie.
962
01:09:10,504 --> 01:09:12,959
-Governor, l have to clean up around here.
-No, come on.
963
01:09:13,128 --> 01:09:15,517
Just a second or two, huh?
964
01:09:16,039 --> 01:09:17,021
We'll go at it.
965
01:09:17,192 --> 01:09:20,040
Just a little play sparring, you know.
966
01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:21,858
Come on. Come on.
967
01:09:24,136 --> 01:09:25,150
Yeah, that's it.
968
01:09:25,320 --> 01:09:26,814
Come on.
969
01:09:46,440 --> 01:09:51,393
One time up in Birmingham,
night of a high school boxing tournament...
970
01:09:53,064 --> 01:09:55,398
...l jumped in
and saved this little colored boy.
971
01:09:55,976 --> 01:09:59,172
l saw a couple of white roughnecks
picking on him.
972
01:10:01,224 --> 01:10:04,485
The only thing was, he broke my hand.
973
01:10:05,288 --> 01:10:07,393
Lost my fight that night.
974
01:10:38,503 --> 01:10:40,162
l'll tell you what.
975
01:10:42,343 --> 01:10:44,645
You can help me get back in shape.
976
01:10:45,992 --> 01:10:47,999
Count on you for that?
977
01:10:48,168 --> 01:10:49,662
Yes, sir.
978
01:10:54,248 --> 01:10:55,775
Yeah.
979
01:10:56,552 --> 01:10:58,886
Gotta be getting on to bed now.
980
01:11:00,839 --> 01:11:03,043
Gotta get up early tomorrow.
981
01:11:09,319 --> 01:11:11,872
Now is when the real stuff begins.
982
01:11:17,767 --> 01:11:19,491
KlNG: We're on the move now.
Yes, sir.
983
01:11:20,776 --> 01:11:24,038
KlNG: Like an idea whose time has come.
Yes, sir.
984
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:26,982
Not even the marching of mighty armies
can halt us.
985
01:11:27,144 --> 01:11:31,716
And all the world today knows
that we are here.
986
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:34,978
We are standing
before the forces of power...
987
01:11:35,143 --> 01:11:38,689
...in the state of Alabama, saying we ain't
gonna let nobody turn us around.
988
01:11:41,607 --> 01:11:43,517
They started erupting again
in Birmingham.
989
01:11:43,687 --> 01:11:46,687
l want you to get there with your troopers
and do what you gotta do.
990
01:11:46,856 --> 01:11:49,507
-l'll slap them under martial law.
-Yes, sir.
991
01:11:50,247 --> 01:11:52,419
Okay, boys. Next stop, Birmingham.
992
01:11:52,584 --> 01:11:54,078
Yeah.
993
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:42,269
Martin Luther King
and his group of pro-communists...
994
01:12:42,439 --> 01:12:47,873
...have instigated these demonstrations
by lawless Negro mobs in Birmingham.
995
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:50,691
But the law-abiding citizens
of both races there...
996
01:12:50,856 --> 01:12:55,493
...are fed up with this rioting and disruption
led by so-called clergymen...
997
01:12:55,656 --> 01:12:58,241
...and their communist-inspired followers.
998
01:12:58,407 --> 01:13:02,335
l am therefore sending
250 state troopers into that city...
999
01:13:02,503 --> 01:13:05,886
...supported by 500 other law officers
of this state.
1000
01:13:06,312 --> 01:13:08,254
l will meet our enemies face to face.
1001
01:13:08,423 --> 01:13:10,049
l will not surrender!
1002
01:13:19,016 --> 01:13:23,107
Freedom now! Freedom now!
1003
01:13:39,591 --> 01:13:41,085
Get back, l said.
1004
01:13:41,255 --> 01:13:42,335
Come here.
1005
01:13:42,504 --> 01:13:43,649
Watch your hands.
1006
01:13:44,168 --> 01:13:45,378
That's what l'm gonna need.
1007
01:13:45,544 --> 01:13:48,643
Three more squads of boys down here,
because the niggers are running.
1008
01:13:53,991 --> 01:13:54,973
Bite him.
1009
01:13:55,144 --> 01:13:57,031
-Get a hold of him.
Get off me.
1010
01:13:58,056 --> 01:14:00,325
l'll get him, l'll get him.
1011
01:14:01,767 --> 01:14:04,069
That way. Come on, let's go.
1012
01:14:05,159 --> 01:14:06,720
Come on, come on.
1013
01:14:06,887 --> 01:14:09,670
Get away from me.
Get away from me. Get away from me.
1014
01:14:15,879 --> 01:14:18,116
What's the real purpose
of what you've been doing in Birmingham?
1015
01:14:18,312 --> 01:14:21,628
Couldn't your defiance there spark
a major escalation of racial violence...
1016
01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:25,477
-...in this state and all over the South?
-No, l don't believe so. No, not at all.
1017
01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:29,895
The action l took in Birmingham
was to maintain law and order...
1018
01:14:30,056 --> 01:14:31,332
...and to prevent violence.
1019
01:14:31,495 --> 01:14:33,535
Now, we have a system.
1020
01:14:33,703 --> 01:14:37,348
They use the water, they use the dogs,
bitten only 22 people in 45 days.
1021
01:14:37,512 --> 01:14:41,505
Twenty-two Negros in 45 days been injured,
and not a single one seriously.
1022
01:14:42,055 --> 01:14:44,030
Speaking more generally, governor...
1023
01:14:44,456 --> 01:14:48,351
...seems like your lawmen here
are especially fond of using cattle prods.
1024
01:14:48,519 --> 01:14:51,170
Yeah, that's correct. That's right.
Electric cattle prods.
1025
01:14:51,335 --> 01:14:53,790
l would like to tell you
that we have no apologies...
1026
01:14:53,959 --> 01:14:56,545
...for using electric cattle prods
for the simple reason...
1027
01:14:56,712 --> 01:14:59,711
...they are harmless, and when you're
having these demonstrations...
1028
01:14:59,879 --> 01:15:03,141
...a cattle prod is a lot better
than putting in tear gas...
1029
01:15:03,304 --> 01:15:05,159
...and hitting people with nightsticks.
1030
01:15:05,320 --> 01:15:06,498
Governor.
1031
01:15:06,663 --> 01:15:10,438
You say you're only representing the will
and feelings of the people of Alabama.
1032
01:15:10,791 --> 01:15:12,701
Do you mean to include
the Negro community?
1033
01:15:13,127 --> 01:15:17,317
Well, of course, the system
under which we operate in this country...
1034
01:15:17,480 --> 01:15:20,796
...the minority viewpoint
is certainly considered...
1035
01:15:20,968 --> 01:15:23,237
...but l'm expressing the sentiments...
1036
01:15:23,400 --> 01:15:26,050
...of the overwhelming majority
of the people in my state.
1037
01:15:26,215 --> 01:15:27,492
White people, you mean?
1038
01:15:28,167 --> 01:15:30,371
They're the majority, yes, that's correct.
1039
01:15:30,536 --> 01:15:31,518
Now, look here.
1040
01:15:36,328 --> 01:15:38,978
Look at all the folks
been writing me in here from all over.
1041
01:15:39,143 --> 01:15:41,958
Places like Montana...
1042
01:15:42,119 --> 01:15:45,949
...Ohio, California, Michigan.
1043
01:15:46,119 --> 01:15:47,101
ldaho, even.
1044
01:15:47,271 --> 01:15:49,093
Now, look at all the folks l got in here.
1045
01:15:49,255 --> 01:15:53,249
Governor, you're moving into
a confrontation with federal government...
1046
01:15:53,416 --> 01:15:56,350
...over these two Negro students
who have applied for admission...
1047
01:15:56,519 --> 01:15:58,374
...to the University of Alabama.
1048
01:15:58,664 --> 01:16:01,980
Now, in this case, can you tell us
what you could expect?
1049
01:16:02,152 --> 01:16:04,770
Just what l promised
in my campaign for governor.
1050
01:16:04,936 --> 01:16:07,586
Any attempts
to integrate any schools in Alabama...
1051
01:16:07,751 --> 01:16:10,981
...l shall stand in that schoolhouse door
to resist that.
1052
01:16:11,144 --> 01:16:13,053
That's what l said,
and that's what l meant.
1053
01:16:13,224 --> 01:16:14,947
You mean that literally?
1054
01:16:18,599 --> 01:16:20,933
Y'all excuse me for just one minute?
1055
01:16:21,096 --> 01:16:23,430
One more question.
One more question, governor.
1056
01:16:23,559 --> 01:16:25,763
Just one more question.
Mr. Wallace.
1057
01:16:27,816 --> 01:16:30,815
What's so urgent about a call
from the attorney general?
1058
01:16:30,983 --> 01:16:32,510
-Richmond Flowers ain't ever--
-No.
1059
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:35,909
Attorney general of the United States.
1060
01:16:36,903 --> 01:16:38,529
Bobby Kennedy.
1061
01:16:38,696 --> 01:16:43,714
Says he needs to talk to you about
this pending problem at the university.
1062
01:16:52,455 --> 01:16:56,033
You tell him the governor's busy
with a press conference.
1063
01:16:56,199 --> 01:16:59,014
lf he wants to call back later,
the governor might be available.
1064
01:16:59,175 --> 01:17:00,157
Busy.
1065
01:17:00,327 --> 01:17:02,749
We ain't transacting this thing
by phone to Washington.
1066
01:17:02,919 --> 01:17:05,091
-No, sir.
Sure.
1067
01:17:05,255 --> 01:17:07,361
Hold on just a minute.
1068
01:17:09,799 --> 01:17:12,450
He says he don't know
why you won't talk to him.
1069
01:17:14,408 --> 01:17:16,644
You just tell him
l just plain don't want to, Odum.
1070
01:17:16,807 --> 01:17:18,214
You're gonna hurt his feelings.
1071
01:17:18,375 --> 01:17:21,092
Yeah, that's too bad, isn't it?
1072
01:17:21,255 --> 01:17:24,005
George Wallace,
standing in the schoolhouse door...
1073
01:17:24,168 --> 01:17:27,015
...against the might and power
of the federal government.
1074
01:17:27,175 --> 01:17:29,957
That'll make them sit up
and take notice all over this country.
1075
01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:32,127
We gonna make them bring troops
in this state.
1076
01:17:32,296 --> 01:17:33,637
-Now we're talking.
-You watch.
1077
01:17:33,799 --> 01:17:36,833
They're gonna have to put Alabama
under military occupation.
1078
01:17:37,479 --> 01:17:39,486
We gonna set the stage on this one.
1079
01:17:39,655 --> 01:17:43,649
Bobby Kennedy wants to talk to me,
he's gonna have to come down here.
1080
01:17:57,287 --> 01:18:00,037
-Welcome to Alabama.
Thank you.
1081
01:18:03,976 --> 01:18:05,863
Well, you know,
his old man's a bootlegger.
1082
01:18:06,023 --> 01:18:07,233
He just running that....
1083
01:18:07,399 --> 01:18:08,708
-Gentlemen.
-Thank you.
1084
01:18:08,871 --> 01:18:09,854
Governor.
1085
01:18:10,023 --> 01:18:11,430
Hello, Mr. Attorney General.
1086
01:18:11,591 --> 01:18:12,573
Hello.
1087
01:18:12,743 --> 01:18:14,150
-Welcome to Alabama.
-Thank you.
1088
01:18:14,311 --> 01:18:15,740
Archie.
1089
01:18:17,416 --> 01:18:19,685
This here's my handyman,
Archie Weathers.
1090
01:18:19,848 --> 01:18:22,019
He's about the biggest fan
y'all got down here.
1091
01:18:22,183 --> 01:18:24,998
-Ain't that right, Archie?
-Yes, sir.
1092
01:18:25,735 --> 01:18:27,361
Hello.
1093
01:18:29,863 --> 01:18:32,318
This is Deputy Attorney General
Nicholas Katzenbach.
1094
01:18:32,487 --> 01:18:33,916
-Pleasure to meet you.
-Governor.
1095
01:18:34,088 --> 01:18:36,030
l've got a few fellows with me.
1096
01:18:36,647 --> 01:18:38,654
That's T.Y. Odum,
one of my close advisors.
1097
01:18:38,823 --> 01:18:39,805
Hello, sir.
1098
01:18:39,975 --> 01:18:41,982
Ricky Brickle there,
he's my press secretary.
1099
01:18:42,151 --> 01:18:44,388
Billy Watson,
he's sort of my senior advisor.
1100
01:18:44,552 --> 01:18:45,795
Hello.
1101
01:18:45,959 --> 01:18:49,669
Well, governor, you've got
quite a crowd outside too this morning.
1102
01:18:49,831 --> 01:18:50,911
Have we?
1103
01:18:51,079 --> 01:18:53,828
Well, l don't know.
l came up the back way.
1104
01:18:53,991 --> 01:18:55,682
Y'all have a seat.
1105
01:18:55,976 --> 01:18:57,950
-Mr. Attorney General, over here.
-Thank you.
1106
01:18:58,119 --> 01:18:59,974
-Mr. Katzenbach.
-Nick.
1107
01:19:00,295 --> 01:19:02,466
Here, you'll recognize him.
1108
01:19:05,543 --> 01:19:08,674
We're taping this conversation.
1109
01:19:09,703 --> 01:19:12,322
Thought we might wanna
save this for posterity.
1110
01:19:12,487 --> 01:19:15,586
Well, l don't know anybody
who would wanna listen to it, governor.
1111
01:19:15,943 --> 01:19:19,172
Well, you know, people in this state
feel like us talking to you folks...
1112
01:19:19,335 --> 01:19:22,684
...who have so much charm and wit...
1113
01:19:22,856 --> 01:19:24,928
...you gonna get us
in a compromising position.
1114
01:19:26,696 --> 01:19:28,638
But we're glad to have you in Alabama...
1115
01:19:28,807 --> 01:19:31,590
...and we feel like this is
the courtesy capital of the nation.
1116
01:19:31,751 --> 01:19:35,526
So if you wanna
pay a courtesy visit, we, uh....
1117
01:19:35,688 --> 01:19:37,793
Well, this is the courtesy capital
of the world.
1118
01:19:37,960 --> 01:19:39,421
-Ain't that right?
-Yes, sir.
1119
01:19:39,591 --> 01:19:40,801
-Sure is.
-Yes, sir.
1120
01:19:40,967 --> 01:19:43,487
Well, terrific.
1121
01:19:43,655 --> 01:19:47,267
But l wonder if we might talk about
the problem of integration...
1122
01:19:47,431 --> 01:19:49,820
...we are perhaps facing
at the university?
1123
01:19:49,991 --> 01:19:51,452
l don't hear good.
1124
01:19:51,623 --> 01:19:53,663
Too many bombing missions
over in Japan, there.
1125
01:19:53,831 --> 01:19:55,489
lntegration of the university.
1126
01:19:55,879 --> 01:19:57,701
Oh, yeah. You wanna discuss that?
1127
01:19:57,863 --> 01:20:01,508
Well, you're here as my guests so....
1128
01:20:01,671 --> 01:20:03,776
Do you think it would be horrifying,
governor...
1129
01:20:03,943 --> 01:20:05,852
...to have a Negro attend the university?
1130
01:20:06,023 --> 01:20:09,372
l think it's horrifying for the federal courts
and the central government...
1131
01:20:09,544 --> 01:20:12,773
...to force upon the people
that which they don't want.
1132
01:20:15,015 --> 01:20:16,444
Yes.
1133
01:20:18,375 --> 01:20:20,099
Y'all want a Coke?
1134
01:20:20,263 --> 01:20:21,888
l might have one.
1135
01:20:22,055 --> 01:20:24,128
-How about you?
-No, thank you.
1136
01:20:24,615 --> 01:20:25,989
Boys?
1137
01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:27,902
-Sure.
All right.
1138
01:20:28,071 --> 01:20:30,755
Archie, bring us four bottles of Coke.
1139
01:20:30,919 --> 01:20:32,479
Yes, sir.
1140
01:20:35,911 --> 01:20:37,602
Getting back to this...
1141
01:20:37,767 --> 01:20:42,208
...what's gonna happen with this attempt
to integrate the university.
1142
01:20:42,599 --> 01:20:47,039
Of course, now, you folks are the ones
who will control that matter.
1143
01:20:47,207 --> 01:20:49,346
Because you have control of the troops.
1144
01:20:49,511 --> 01:20:52,293
Well, we do have a responsibility
to ensure...
1145
01:20:52,455 --> 01:20:56,350
...with all the force behind the government,
that the orders of the court are followed.
1146
01:20:56,519 --> 01:20:59,302
l know that. You're gonna use
the force of the government.
1147
01:20:59,464 --> 01:21:01,569
Just like you did
over there in Mississippi.
1148
01:21:01,736 --> 01:21:05,926
At old Miss, last fall, to get that
James Meredith fella enrolled there.
1149
01:21:06,087 --> 01:21:10,113
Fact, what you're telling me, if necessary,
you're gonna bring troops into Alabama too.
1150
01:21:10,279 --> 01:21:12,996
-No, l did not say that, governor.
-You didn't?
1151
01:21:15,879 --> 01:21:18,694
You did say all the force
of the federal government...
1152
01:21:18,855 --> 01:21:20,895
...and all the force
includes troops, don't it?
1153
01:21:21,063 --> 01:21:23,649
Just like at old Miss,
all those bayonets and all.
1154
01:21:23,816 --> 01:21:28,572
Well, l'm planning and hoping
that won't be necessary, governor.
1155
01:21:28,903 --> 01:21:31,391
Maybe somebody here wants us to use--
1156
01:21:31,559 --> 01:21:35,268
You seem to, uh, want me to say
that l'm going to use troops.
1157
01:21:35,431 --> 01:21:39,043
Well, you did say that you'd....
1158
01:21:40,167 --> 01:21:41,760
You said that--
1159
01:21:41,927 --> 01:21:45,473
No, governor,
you are the one talking about force.
1160
01:21:45,639 --> 01:21:46,916
Look.
1161
01:21:47,943 --> 01:21:49,405
Thank you.
1162
01:21:49,831 --> 01:21:55,712
We trying to do a lot of real things
for the Negro people down here.
1163
01:21:55,879 --> 01:21:58,846
You know, give them jobs, education.
1164
01:21:59,015 --> 01:22:02,398
But all this agitation and all this
business with Martin Luther King...
1165
01:22:02,567 --> 01:22:06,397
...who's a phony and a fraud,
marching and going to jail and all that.
1166
01:22:06,567 --> 01:22:09,501
They just living high on the hog, now.
1167
01:22:12,775 --> 01:22:16,223
But now,
if you could use your influence...
1168
01:22:16,999 --> 01:22:19,846
...because the NAACP
and all those other groups...
1169
01:22:20,007 --> 01:22:23,651
...you know, they feel like you people...
1170
01:22:23,815 --> 01:22:26,303
...are almost gods.
1171
01:22:26,919 --> 01:22:31,327
lf you could just exert some influence
to persuade those people...
1172
01:22:31,495 --> 01:22:34,790
...to stop this integration movement,
this business of marching.
1173
01:22:34,951 --> 01:22:38,399
For instance,
if you could persuade these people...
1174
01:22:38,567 --> 01:22:40,738
...trying to get into the University
of Alabama...
1175
01:22:40,903 --> 01:22:42,659
...to withdraw their applications, we--
1176
01:22:42,823 --> 01:22:45,441
Governor, that would be
neither right nor possible.
1177
01:22:45,607 --> 01:22:50,725
Just to use our persuasive power
on the other side, you're saying?
1178
01:22:51,591 --> 01:22:52,900
Yes, that's right.
1179
01:22:53,063 --> 01:22:58,497
Because l'm not for you using
persuasive power on us to integrate.
1180
01:22:58,663 --> 01:22:59,907
l'm against integration.
1181
01:23:02,407 --> 01:23:05,025
l just don't believe
in social and educational mixing.
1182
01:23:05,415 --> 01:23:08,449
And l think l've made it clear
that what's involved for us...
1183
01:23:08,551 --> 01:23:12,959
...for President Kennedy, is the integrity
and the orders of the court, governor.
1184
01:23:25,735 --> 01:23:28,288
-All set here, Al?
-We all set up here.
1185
01:23:39,047 --> 01:23:40,902
Help us out a little bit now.
1186
01:23:41,063 --> 01:23:42,590
Governor of Alabama. Help him out.
1187
01:23:44,199 --> 01:23:45,246
Come on. Step back, now.
1188
01:23:50,759 --> 01:23:52,581
Morning, boys.
1189
01:23:53,191 --> 01:23:55,231
Yeah, l'm ready for this scrap, huh?
1190
01:23:55,399 --> 01:23:56,675
Sir.
1191
01:23:56,839 --> 01:23:58,246
Like climbing in the ring again.
1192
01:23:58,407 --> 01:24:00,447
Only with the whole country watching.
1193
01:24:28,327 --> 01:24:32,102
Governor, l don't know
what the purpose of this show is.
1194
01:24:32,263 --> 01:24:35,013
l'm here to see that the orders
of the court are enforced.
1195
01:24:35,175 --> 01:24:39,037
l'm asking that you step aside
and permit these students...
1196
01:24:39,207 --> 01:24:40,865
...who want an education at a great--
1197
01:24:41,031 --> 01:24:44,129
Now, we don't need for you to
make a speech, just make your statement.
1198
01:24:44,295 --> 01:24:47,524
l was making my statement. l was in
the process of making my statement.
1199
01:24:47,687 --> 01:24:51,997
l'm asking your unequivocal assurance
that you will not bar these students.
1200
01:24:54,631 --> 01:24:59,104
''As governor of the state of Alabama,
l, George C. Wallace...
1201
01:24:59,271 --> 01:25:02,915
...deem it my solemn duty
to stand before you...
1202
01:25:03,079 --> 01:25:07,138
...and seeking to preserve and maintain
the peace and dignity of this state...
1203
01:25:07,303 --> 01:25:10,369
...and the individual freedoms
of the citizens thereof...
1204
01:25:10,535 --> 01:25:13,437
...do hereby denounce and forbid...
1205
01:25:13,607 --> 01:25:17,349
...this illegal, unwarranted
and force-induced intrusion...
1206
01:25:17,511 --> 01:25:20,096
...upon the campus
of the University of Alabama...
1207
01:25:20,263 --> 01:25:22,816
...by the might
of the central government.''
1208
01:25:23,495 --> 01:25:27,205
So, governor, l take it from your statement
that you intend to stay in the doorway.
1209
01:25:27,367 --> 01:25:29,952
-l stand by my statement.
-You stand by your statement.
1210
01:25:30,119 --> 01:25:35,007
Governor, James Hood and Vivian Malone
will register today.
1211
01:25:35,175 --> 01:25:36,964
And they will go
to school here tomorrow.
1212
01:25:48,775 --> 01:25:50,182
You keep the press humming here.
1213
01:25:50,343 --> 01:25:53,311
They gonna have to federalize
the Alabama National Guard now.
1214
01:26:03,879 --> 01:26:06,465
Detail, halt.
1215
01:26:57,958 --> 01:26:59,584
Go on.
1216
01:27:15,751 --> 01:27:20,485
lt is my sad duty to ask you
to step aside...
1217
01:27:20,647 --> 01:27:24,291
...under orders from the president
of the United States.
1218
01:27:28,422 --> 01:27:33,408
lf not for this unwarranted federalization
of the National Guard...
1219
01:27:33,574 --> 01:27:36,422
...l would be your commander in chief.
1220
01:27:37,831 --> 01:27:39,554
lt is a bitter pill to swallow.
1221
01:27:44,230 --> 01:27:47,198
We shall now return to Montgomery...
1222
01:27:47,366 --> 01:27:49,471
...to continue this constitutional fight.
1223
01:28:19,206 --> 01:28:22,174
We are confronted primarily
with a moral issue.
1224
01:28:22,343 --> 01:28:24,099
It is as old as the scriptures...
1225
01:28:24,263 --> 01:28:27,459
...and is as clear
as the American Constitution.
1226
01:28:27,623 --> 01:28:29,663
The heart of the question is...
1227
01:28:29,831 --> 01:28:35,362
...whether all Americans are to be afforded
equal rights and equal opportunities.
1228
01:28:35,526 --> 01:28:39,236
Whether we are going to treat our
fellow Americans as we want to be treated.
1229
01:28:39,943 --> 01:28:43,521
If an American,
because his skin is dark...
1230
01:28:43,687 --> 01:28:46,436
...cannot eat lunch in a restaurant
open to the public...
1231
01:28:47,335 --> 01:28:51,197
...if he cannot send his children
to the best public school available...
1232
01:28:52,135 --> 01:28:55,648
...if he cannot vote for the public officials
who represent him...
1233
01:28:56,390 --> 01:29:02,141
...if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full
and free life which all of us want...
1234
01:29:02,311 --> 01:29:04,677
...then who among us
would be content...
1235
01:29:04,839 --> 01:29:09,094
...to have the color of his skin changed
and stand in his place?
1236
01:29:09,255 --> 01:29:14,525
Who among us would then be content
with the counsels of patience and delay?
1237
01:29:15,271 --> 01:29:20,127
One hundred years of delay have passed
since President Lincoln freed the slaves...
1238
01:29:20,902 --> 01:29:25,343
...yet their heirs, their grandsons,
are not fully free.
1239
01:29:25,511 --> 01:29:28,642
They are not yet freed
from the bonds of injustice.
1240
01:29:41,062 --> 01:29:44,805
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
and his little brother, Bobby.
1241
01:29:47,303 --> 01:29:50,532
They just ain't caught on
to what really happened over there today.
1242
01:29:50,695 --> 01:29:53,990
A couple of niggers got registered,
but it don't matter.
1243
01:29:55,079 --> 01:30:00,032
Because l stood in the doorway against
the full force of the federal government...
1244
01:30:00,710 --> 01:30:03,231
...and millions of Americans
stood with me.
1245
01:30:03,398 --> 01:30:05,668
The Kennedys, they got no idea...
1246
01:30:05,831 --> 01:30:08,416
...how the common, ordinary folks
all over this country...
1247
01:30:08,583 --> 01:30:11,452
...really feel
about this race-mixing question.
1248
01:30:13,415 --> 01:30:16,262
They start catching this mess up north...
1249
01:30:17,095 --> 01:30:20,957
...and everywhere else, it's gonna
Southernize the whole country out there.
1250
01:30:21,318 --> 01:30:25,213
Gonna make what's happening in Alabama
seem like a Sunday school picnic.
1251
01:30:28,710 --> 01:30:31,460
George Corley Wallace...
1252
01:30:32,359 --> 01:30:35,108
...sure enough
got a lot to say about that.
1253
01:30:38,087 --> 01:30:40,869
Yeah, l think the time's come, Billy.
1254
01:30:45,638 --> 01:30:46,849
l'm going national.
1255
01:30:49,401 --> 01:30:52,783
Good evening. lt is my very
great pleasure to present to you...
1256
01:30:52,985 --> 01:30:55,319
...Governor George C. Wallace.
1257
01:30:56,633 --> 01:30:58,389
You're a bigot!
1258
01:30:58,553 --> 01:31:01,335
Boo! Go back to the South!
1259
01:31:08,825 --> 01:31:10,516
Go back home with all your crackers.
1260
01:31:11,289 --> 01:31:12,718
l accept the nomination.
1261
01:31:13,209 --> 01:31:14,616
You don't belong here!
1262
01:31:14,777 --> 01:31:16,664
Where's your horn, George?
1263
01:31:16,825 --> 01:31:19,475
l wanna say-- l wanna say
that l'm very proud....
1264
01:31:19,641 --> 01:31:20,689
You're a racist.
1265
01:31:20,857 --> 01:31:24,086
l'm very proud to be amongst all you
very intelligent-looking folks...
1266
01:31:24,249 --> 01:31:26,452
...up here at Harvard tonight.
1267
01:31:30,169 --> 01:31:34,129
Of course, l realize you all
more genteel up here, more civilized.
1268
01:31:37,017 --> 01:31:40,017
Well, l do sense there might be
some disagreements among us.
1269
01:31:40,185 --> 01:31:41,461
Yeah!
1270
01:31:44,057 --> 01:31:46,959
But l want us all to be in a good humor
this evening, you hear?
1271
01:31:47,129 --> 01:31:48,722
Fuck you, George Wallace.
1272
01:31:48,889 --> 01:31:50,799
...CHEERlNG AND WHlSTLlNG...
1273
01:31:55,193 --> 01:31:58,990
Now, didn't you ever learn any manners?
1274
01:31:59,161 --> 01:32:01,583
You sound like
you ain't had much raising.
1275
01:32:01,753 --> 01:32:03,989
Why don't you try
using another four-letter word...
1276
01:32:04,153 --> 01:32:07,317
...like W-O-R-K or S-O-A-P?
1277
01:32:07,481 --> 01:32:10,231
Why don't you try those?
You don't know those.
1278
01:32:13,081 --> 01:32:15,502
Actually, a lot of people
been asking me here lately...
1279
01:32:15,673 --> 01:32:18,640
...if l'm gonna be running for president
in 1 964.
1280
01:32:21,369 --> 01:32:23,376
lf somebody like you
can run for president...
1281
01:32:23,545 --> 01:32:26,894
...l might run myself,
as a revolutionary for president.
1282
01:32:33,401 --> 01:32:36,663
Well, now-- Well, now,
between you and me both...
1283
01:32:36,825 --> 01:32:39,280
...we might manage to kick out
that crowd in Washington.
1284
01:32:42,745 --> 01:32:44,501
Maybe we should run on the same ticket.
1285
01:32:44,665 --> 01:32:46,487
l don't think so.
1286
01:32:47,961 --> 01:32:50,230
WOMAN 2: Hey, what would you call it,
the Lynch Party?
1287
01:32:50,393 --> 01:32:54,900
Yet they now forcing parents to bus
their little children clear across town...
1288
01:32:55,065 --> 01:32:58,196
...just so they can sit in a class
with those from the opposite race.
1289
01:32:58,361 --> 01:33:01,263
We don't wanna hear
your Southern racist demagoguery.
1290
01:33:01,433 --> 01:33:03,407
Yeah!
1291
01:33:03,865 --> 01:33:06,353
Then what all y'all doing here?
1292
01:33:07,385 --> 01:33:09,752
Just wait, just wait.
1293
01:33:10,233 --> 01:33:13,397
But you wanna talk
about this race matter a minute?
1294
01:33:13,561 --> 01:33:15,284
Yeah!
1295
01:33:17,657 --> 01:33:19,512
All right, then.
1296
01:33:20,056 --> 01:33:22,096
lt is well-known by now...
1297
01:33:22,265 --> 01:33:25,494
...that l do not believe in social
and educational mixing of the races.
1298
01:33:28,249 --> 01:33:32,820
But the liberal left-wing press has tried to
make segregation synonymous with hatred.
1299
01:33:32,985 --> 01:33:35,538
lt's a sin against human dignity.
1300
01:33:39,577 --> 01:33:42,893
Well, now, l believe
that separation is good...
1301
01:33:43,065 --> 01:33:46,807
...for our white citizens
and our Negro citizens alike.
1302
01:33:47,865 --> 01:33:50,134
Did you bring
your Birmingham dogs with you?
1303
01:33:56,345 --> 01:34:00,501
Oh, my goodness, fella,
you gone and made me lose my place here.
1304
01:34:01,113 --> 01:34:03,415
We shall overcome
1305
01:34:03,577 --> 01:34:05,333
WALLACE:
Of course...
1306
01:34:05,497 --> 01:34:10,134
...people in the states
with 1 percent Negro population...
1307
01:34:10,297 --> 01:34:11,409
...and the rest white...
1308
01:34:11,705 --> 01:34:13,876
...they can always talk about things
in Alabama...
1309
01:34:14,041 --> 01:34:17,521
...where you got 30 percent
Negro population and the rest white.
1310
01:34:17,689 --> 01:34:21,169
Governor, we need to get out right now,
for your personal safety.
1311
01:34:25,465 --> 01:34:27,985
Well, they tell me we got to leave y'all...
1312
01:34:28,153 --> 01:34:30,487
...because we got little unrest
developing outside.
1313
01:34:30,648 --> 01:34:33,169
l appreciate y'all
coming out here tonight. Thank you.
1314
01:34:40,121 --> 01:34:41,877
Yellow commie brats.
1315
01:34:42,041 --> 01:34:44,561
Throw their asses in jail!
1316
01:34:45,848 --> 01:34:47,921
Shut up, you dumb brats.
1317
01:34:48,728 --> 01:34:51,543
Kick his ass!
-Yeah, you bunch of freaks!
1318
01:34:56,761 --> 01:34:58,965
Get out of here, you commie punks!
1319
01:35:07,769 --> 01:35:11,118
Good God almighty, look what we done
set off, even way up here.
1320
01:35:11,289 --> 01:35:13,012
-Watch it, George.
Take him, take him!
1321
01:35:13,177 --> 01:35:14,519
Give them hell, George!
1322
01:35:17,305 --> 01:35:18,450
Come on, George.
1323
01:35:21,689 --> 01:35:25,005
God sakes alive, George.
Look what they're doing to our car.
1324
01:35:25,177 --> 01:35:26,933
Get down from there, you little....
1325
01:35:27,865 --> 01:35:30,254
Get off there, you little....
-Damn you.
1326
01:35:31,897 --> 01:35:33,806
Get off there.
1327
01:35:33,977 --> 01:35:36,398
-This way, sir. Try to get by.
-All right.
1328
01:35:37,433 --> 01:35:39,440
Get out of the way, now.
1329
01:35:40,568 --> 01:35:42,740
You nigger-loving little commie punks.
1330
01:35:42,904 --> 01:35:44,944
-Get out of the way.
-Ahh!
1331
01:35:45,113 --> 01:35:46,160
Damn.
1332
01:35:46,328 --> 01:35:47,954
You left-wing pinko radical.
1333
01:35:48,121 --> 01:35:51,634
You should appreciate me
for putting money in your riot treasury.
1334
01:35:51,801 --> 01:35:54,353
Sing, damn it, sing. l'm too old to run.
1335
01:35:54,520 --> 01:35:55,535
l don't know the words.
1336
01:35:55,705 --> 01:35:57,363
Well, pretend, goddamn it.
1337
01:35:58,008 --> 01:36:01,489
We shall overcome
1338
01:36:06,488 --> 01:36:08,659
Take this back to the hotel.
l'll meet you there.
1339
01:36:08,824 --> 01:36:10,319
All right.
1340
01:36:10,488 --> 01:36:12,311
Get out of there.
1341
01:36:12,729 --> 01:36:14,419
Come on.
My shoulder.
1342
01:36:14,584 --> 01:36:16,624
-Get in the car.
Damnedest party l've ever....
1343
01:36:16,793 --> 01:36:18,484
Jesus.
1344
01:36:20,409 --> 01:36:22,132
All right, there you go.
1345
01:36:22,297 --> 01:36:24,020
Kiss my Alabama ass goodbye.
1346
01:36:24,505 --> 01:36:25,552
Move.
1347
01:36:29,784 --> 01:36:31,246
Stay back!
1348
01:36:32,281 --> 01:36:35,095
Good Lord,
l'm too old for this kind of wretch.
1349
01:36:35,257 --> 01:36:36,751
Sure are a lot of them Zulus.
1350
01:36:36,920 --> 01:36:38,928
They go right
with all those hairy beatniks.
1351
01:36:39,097 --> 01:36:41,966
Damn ignorant, uncultured intellectuals.
1352
01:36:42,137 --> 01:36:44,690
l know that most of the American people
feel the way l do.
1353
01:36:44,857 --> 01:36:46,067
Like those working fellas.
1354
01:36:46,233 --> 01:36:49,494
You see them? One kicked this
professor four feet straight up in the air.
1355
01:36:49,657 --> 01:36:50,639
You see that?
1356
01:36:50,808 --> 01:36:52,718
Tell you what,
you're speaking for them now.
1357
01:36:52,888 --> 01:36:54,230
That's right, the real people.
1358
01:36:54,392 --> 01:36:57,556
That's who this all's really been for
tonight, of course.
1359
01:36:58,201 --> 01:36:59,477
Why, down home, l tell you...
1360
01:36:59,641 --> 01:37:03,187
...nigger comes up to you like they just
been doing up here, he gonna get shot.
1361
01:37:03,353 --> 01:37:04,782
Get his head busted.
1362
01:37:04,952 --> 01:37:07,374
That's why we don't have none
of this business at home.
1363
01:37:07,545 --> 01:37:10,228
They start this kind of riot,
first one to throw something...
1364
01:37:10,393 --> 01:37:12,280
...gets a bullet in the brain, that's all.
1365
01:37:12,440 --> 01:37:16,564
You walk over to the next one, you say,
''All right, let's see you throw something.''
1366
01:37:16,793 --> 01:37:18,680
Let them see you
shoot down a few of them.
1367
01:37:18,841 --> 01:37:20,663
You got it stopped.
1368
01:37:20,985 --> 01:37:22,577
ls that right?
1369
01:37:23,033 --> 01:37:26,099
Liberals, all the time
whining about compassion and mercy.
1370
01:37:26,265 --> 01:37:29,364
Hell, we got too much compassion
and mercy in government already.
1371
01:37:29,529 --> 01:37:31,285
What we need is some meanness, right?
1372
01:37:31,449 --> 01:37:34,099
Yeah, but keep on making your speech
about big government...
1373
01:37:34,264 --> 01:37:36,948
...telling everybody what schools
their children gotta go to.
1374
01:37:37,113 --> 01:37:40,211
That's what a candidate for president
ought to be saying right now.
1375
01:37:40,376 --> 01:37:42,548
They'll know what l'm talking about.
1376
01:37:42,713 --> 01:37:44,403
Ain't that right?
1377
01:38:03,224 --> 01:38:06,803
The 1 6th Street Baptist
Church has served as a major staging point...
1378
01:38:06,969 --> 01:38:10,285
...for the recent series of civil-rights
demonstrations here in Birmingham.
1379
01:38:10,457 --> 01:38:13,391
This Sunday morning, it was wrecked
by a powerful dynamite bomb...
1380
01:38:13,561 --> 01:38:16,179
...an explosion which killed
four young Negro girls...
1381
01:38:16,344 --> 01:38:17,871
...in a Sunday-school Bible class.
1382
01:38:18,393 --> 01:38:19,854
Mrs. Wallace watching TV?
1383
01:38:20,025 --> 01:38:21,585
Yes, sir.
1384
01:38:21,752 --> 01:38:23,029
You want something to eat?
1385
01:38:23,193 --> 01:38:26,422
Yeah, have Mary fix me up
a tomato sandwich.
1386
01:38:26,585 --> 01:38:27,567
Yes, sir.
1387
01:38:27,737 --> 01:38:31,086
Scores of Sunday school children came
running out of the church screaming...
1388
01:38:31,256 --> 01:38:32,238
...some bleeding.
1389
01:38:32,408 --> 01:38:34,448
Police, firemen
and emergency medical units....
1390
01:38:34,617 --> 01:38:35,599
George.
1391
01:38:35,769 --> 01:38:38,256
-Amid a rising sound of wails....
-lt's terrible.
1392
01:38:38,776 --> 01:38:42,191
They and neighborhood residents began
grappling through the wreckage...
1393
01:38:42,361 --> 01:38:44,084
...searching for possible victims.
1394
01:38:44,248 --> 01:38:45,492
They soon found them.
1395
01:38:45,656 --> 01:38:47,282
After one rescue worker spotted....
1396
01:38:47,449 --> 01:38:49,456
And we just got back
from church ourselves.
1397
01:38:49,625 --> 01:38:51,992
--hand, and the edge
of a bloodied white dress.
1398
01:38:52,153 --> 01:38:56,179
The white dress shoe of one was found
and identified by her grandfather.
1399
01:38:56,345 --> 01:38:59,825
All four girls had been dressed
for this morning's special services...
1400
01:38:59,993 --> 01:39:01,203
...entirely in white.
1401
01:39:01,368 --> 01:39:03,343
They had just heard their teacher
deliver a lesson...
1402
01:39:03,513 --> 01:39:04,942
...entitled, ""The Love that Forgives. ""
1403
01:39:06,393 --> 01:39:09,142
Police have been trying to contain
the upheavals of protest...
1404
01:39:09,304 --> 01:39:12,403
...and outrage that have since swept
the Negro sections of Birmingham.
1405
01:39:12,569 --> 01:39:13,551
Archie.
1406
01:39:13,721 --> 01:39:15,728
--hurled a barrage of stones
at white people.
1407
01:39:15,897 --> 01:39:17,042
Archie!
1408
01:39:17,209 --> 01:39:20,078
--in cars flying Confederate battle flags.
1409
01:39:20,249 --> 01:39:21,842
Governor's.
1410
01:39:22,936 --> 01:39:25,391
lt's Colonel Al Lingo, sir.
1411
01:39:27,096 --> 01:39:29,617
Yeah, l just got in.
What the hell happened?
1412
01:39:29,785 --> 01:39:33,167
But a 1 6-year-old Negro boy
was fatally hit in the back.
1413
01:39:33,337 --> 01:39:34,613
At least three fires have....
1414
01:39:34,776 --> 01:39:36,402
Hang on a minute.
1415
01:39:36,569 --> 01:39:40,344
Peggy Sue, Bobbi Jo,
you don't wanna watch this mess.
1416
01:39:40,505 --> 01:39:42,894
Go on up to your rooms or something.
1417
01:39:43,512 --> 01:39:45,454
Come on, come on, do as l say. Let's go.
1418
01:39:45,624 --> 01:39:47,861
-You wanna go with your sister?
-Let's go, come on.
1419
01:39:48,025 --> 01:39:50,774
--racial warfare could now finally
break open in this city.
1420
01:39:50,936 --> 01:39:54,766
President Kennedy interrupted a visit to
Rhode Island to return to the White House...
1421
01:39:54,936 --> 01:39:57,108
...for emergency discussions
of the situation....
1422
01:39:57,273 --> 01:40:00,240
-Ain't you got something better to do?
-Yes, sir.
1423
01:40:01,592 --> 01:40:03,697
Everybody gawking, like....
1424
01:40:04,153 --> 01:40:06,291
lt's so awful.
1425
01:40:06,456 --> 01:40:07,700
--full-scale investigation.
1426
01:40:07,864 --> 01:40:11,726
Police inspectors believe at least 1 5
sticks of dynamite were used in the bomb...
1427
01:40:11,896 --> 01:40:13,325
...judging from its impact.
1428
01:40:13,497 --> 01:40:14,741
It left a sizable crater....
1429
01:40:14,905 --> 01:40:17,490
You know
l never wanted nothing like this.
1430
01:40:18,584 --> 01:40:21,618
All but one of the church's
stained-glass windows were blown out.
1431
01:40:21,785 --> 01:40:24,599
The one remaining
seems to have been damaged....
1432
01:40:24,761 --> 01:40:27,182
Governor,
the governor's at the back door.
1433
01:40:27,353 --> 01:40:28,335
What governor?
1434
01:40:28,505 --> 01:40:30,709
Governor Folsom. He's at the back door.
1435
01:40:30,873 --> 01:40:33,109
He said he need to talk to you
for a minute.
1436
01:40:33,272 --> 01:40:34,385
-Big Jim?
-Yes, sir.
1437
01:40:34,552 --> 01:40:36,440
At the back door?
1438
01:40:38,296 --> 01:40:39,540
That's all l need right now.
1439
01:40:39,704 --> 01:40:42,738
Well, let him in, Archie, let him in.
Shut the door.
1440
01:40:48,184 --> 01:40:51,861
All right, now, what we gonna say was....
1441
01:40:52,409 --> 01:40:55,758
Was obviously these nigger agitators
themselves trying to rouse sympathy.
1442
01:40:55,928 --> 01:40:57,903
That's who done this thing.
1443
01:41:00,089 --> 01:41:01,430
Yeah.
1444
01:41:04,185 --> 01:41:07,032
All right, all right. l gotta go.
1445
01:41:09,016 --> 01:41:12,977
As of yet, there has been no comment
from Governor Wallace himself.
1446
01:41:27,640 --> 01:41:30,739
You out here?
-George. Heh-heh.
1447
01:41:31,480 --> 01:41:33,487
Damn, Big Jim, what happened to you?
1448
01:41:33,656 --> 01:41:35,795
l got a broke foot.
1449
01:41:36,728 --> 01:41:37,710
Lord have mercy.
1450
01:41:37,881 --> 01:41:41,809
Lot of great old rampaging times
in this old place, wasn't there, George?
1451
01:41:42,136 --> 01:41:44,557
But doctors made me quit drinking now.
1452
01:41:45,336 --> 01:41:46,481
What can l do for you?
1453
01:41:46,648 --> 01:41:49,714
l hope it's all right for me to be here.
l don't wanna embarrass you.
1454
01:41:49,880 --> 01:41:52,051
That's the reason l came in
through the back way.
1455
01:41:52,216 --> 01:41:55,086
Sure, governor, that's fine.
Always glad to see you.
1456
01:41:55,257 --> 01:41:58,518
lt's them sons of bitches
over there in the Department of Pensions.
1457
01:41:58,680 --> 01:42:02,161
l need a little more help, l'm about broke.
But they won't help me on.
1458
01:42:02,329 --> 01:42:04,816
They wouldn't give me potato chips
if l was starving.
1459
01:42:04,984 --> 01:42:07,373
lf they was hurting, l'd help them out.
1460
01:42:09,592 --> 01:42:11,348
That's why you come over here?
1461
01:42:11,512 --> 01:42:12,723
Get your pension increased?
1462
01:42:13,080 --> 01:42:14,389
Yeah.
1463
01:42:15,800 --> 01:42:17,207
Tell me how much more you need.
1464
01:42:17,368 --> 01:42:19,856
They already know.
l done told them sons of bitches.
1465
01:42:20,377 --> 01:42:25,494
Well, l'll see if l can't work something
out somehow, you know that.
1466
01:42:25,656 --> 01:42:27,598
Thank you, George.
1467
01:42:30,712 --> 01:42:32,174
That, uh...?
1468
01:42:32,792 --> 01:42:36,338
-That all you wanted to see me about?
-Yeah, l won't bother you no more, George.
1469
01:42:38,232 --> 01:42:40,469
l sure appreciate it, though.
1470
01:42:40,793 --> 01:42:42,964
lt's all right. That's all right.
1471
01:42:45,976 --> 01:42:49,173
l guess you heard what happened up there
in Birmingham this morning.
1472
01:42:49,336 --> 01:42:51,059
lt was terrible, wasn't it?
1473
01:42:51,224 --> 01:42:54,159
Oh, now, goddamn, George.
Didn't l tell you?
1474
01:42:54,329 --> 01:42:55,855
You went ahead and done it anyway.
1475
01:42:56,505 --> 01:43:00,116
What the hell's the matter with you?
You wasn't no race bigot back then.
1476
01:43:00,280 --> 01:43:02,103
What'd you do, chatter yourself into it?
1477
01:43:02,265 --> 01:43:04,119
-Look, Big Jim, l don't need--
-George.
1478
01:43:04,281 --> 01:43:06,582
Me and you was populists together.
1479
01:43:06,744 --> 01:43:09,712
Times got ugly. You got scared,
you lose that connection to folks.
1480
01:43:09,880 --> 01:43:11,735
lf you lose that, then you're nothing.
1481
01:43:11,896 --> 01:43:14,711
lt's like it's all you feel
gives you any personal meaning, huh?
1482
01:43:14,872 --> 01:43:17,011
Like the terror
of not being able to breathe.
1483
01:43:17,176 --> 01:43:20,885
Lookie here, now. What you think
you're doing, talking to me like that?
1484
01:43:21,048 --> 01:43:22,641
George, l said l knew you...
1485
01:43:22,808 --> 01:43:24,980
...because the need for the people
was in me too.
1486
01:43:25,144 --> 01:43:28,243
Only l never go so desperate
to stay politically alive, l'd let--
1487
01:43:28,408 --> 01:43:31,921
l mean, good God, they're four
little girls in a Sunday school class!
1488
01:43:32,088 --> 01:43:35,219
l knew you were coming in here
about that.
1489
01:43:37,336 --> 01:43:39,092
What the hell you saying?
1490
01:43:40,184 --> 01:43:41,908
That ain't nothing l done.
1491
01:43:42,072 --> 01:43:44,047
-l'm as sick about it as you.
-No, you ain't.
1492
01:43:44,216 --> 01:43:47,664
You let loose all them low dogs in people's
necks. You've let them out loose.
1493
01:43:47,832 --> 01:43:50,647
l could've done the same damn thing,
probably still be governor.
1494
01:43:50,808 --> 01:43:52,718
l could've hung a nigger
on every stump too.
1495
01:43:52,889 --> 01:43:55,125
-That don't get you nothing in the long run.
-Oh, yeah.
1496
01:43:55,288 --> 01:43:57,939
You're somebody be giving folks advice
about the long run.
1497
01:43:58,328 --> 01:44:01,110
That's right, let loose them old dogs
of hatred and violence...
1498
01:44:01,272 --> 01:44:04,022
...and sooner or later,
they're gonna turn on you, hit at you.
1499
01:44:04,184 --> 01:44:06,639
Mad dog don't differentiate, George.
1500
01:44:06,808 --> 01:44:10,998
You get devoured by what you yourself
turn loose, that's what happens.
1501
01:44:19,544 --> 01:44:22,773
-What's the matter?
-l ain't feeling so good.
1502
01:44:22,936 --> 01:44:25,620
l gotta go home.
1503
01:44:37,784 --> 01:44:41,810
George, l didn't mean
to lose my temper in there.
1504
01:44:45,048 --> 01:44:47,863
l know, l know.
You're right, George, l'm sorry.
1505
01:44:48,024 --> 01:44:49,485
l ain't really been well lately.
1506
01:44:49,656 --> 01:44:53,202
They tell me they're gonna have
to operate on my brain for something.
1507
01:44:53,816 --> 01:44:55,158
Yeah.
1508
01:44:55,320 --> 01:44:58,768
l know you ain't too well right now,
but you'll be getting better before long.
1509
01:44:58,936 --> 01:45:01,140
George, l really do be needing some help.
1510
01:45:01,305 --> 01:45:03,671
lt's all them damn bills.
1511
01:45:04,664 --> 01:45:07,926
Yeah, well, l'll look into it tomorrow.
Don't worry.
1512
01:45:08,088 --> 01:45:09,168
Okay.
1513
01:45:10,520 --> 01:45:12,211
How'd you get over here?
1514
01:45:12,376 --> 01:45:14,198
l got my new wife driving me, George.
1515
01:45:15,097 --> 01:45:17,617
She ain't much over 30 years old.
1516
01:45:18,104 --> 01:45:20,919
Found her in this county fair up yonder.
1517
01:45:21,432 --> 01:45:24,563
Oh, l still get my exercise every evening,
don't you worry about that.
1518
01:45:24,728 --> 01:45:27,728
You like an old grizzly.
Why didn't you bring her in?
1519
01:45:29,080 --> 01:45:31,731
Oh, she didn't wanna come in
for some reason.
1520
01:45:33,656 --> 01:45:34,638
Well, George.
1521
01:45:36,888 --> 01:45:38,710
Sorry to bother you.
1522
01:45:45,272 --> 01:45:46,832
Hey, George.
1523
01:45:47,864 --> 01:45:49,009
Y'all come, now.
1524
01:46:47,928 --> 01:46:51,277
Darling, you have been getting
so many calls, you wouldn't believe.
1525
01:46:51,448 --> 01:46:53,204
That's where you been?
1526
01:46:53,368 --> 01:46:55,889
George McGovern called you
personally a little while ago.
1527
01:46:56,056 --> 01:46:57,397
So did Hubert Humphrey.
1528
01:46:57,560 --> 01:46:59,284
Ah, see there?
1529
01:46:59,448 --> 01:47:01,073
They know.
1530
01:47:01,656 --> 01:47:03,991
They know just because l been shot...
1531
01:47:04,600 --> 01:47:08,724
...that don't mean there ain't still all those
millions of folks out there voted for me.
1532
01:47:08,888 --> 01:47:10,414
That's right.
1533
01:47:10,584 --> 01:47:12,275
l showed them all.
1534
01:47:12,440 --> 01:47:13,552
Nixon too.
1535
01:47:13,720 --> 01:47:15,924
Those folks are out there.
1536
01:47:18,392 --> 01:47:20,399
l ain't out of this thing yet.
1537
01:47:20,568 --> 01:47:22,739
l'm going to that convention.
Miami Beach.
1538
01:47:22,904 --> 01:47:24,049
Of course you are, darling.
1539
01:47:24,440 --> 01:47:25,455
Ahh!
1540
01:47:25,624 --> 01:47:29,137
Oh, now, goddamn it, George.
The doctors ain't said yet you can just go--
1541
01:47:29,304 --> 01:47:31,759
Oh, what do they know, anyway?
1542
01:47:32,632 --> 01:47:36,561
They got no idea how far
l've already come since l started out.
1543
01:47:42,136 --> 01:47:44,078
Excuse me, governor. Mrs. Wallace.
1544
01:48:02,040 --> 01:48:04,407
l haven't seen those boys before.
Who are they?
1545
01:48:05,048 --> 01:48:07,798
Just some troopers l'm taking with me
up to New York tomorrow.
1546
01:48:07,960 --> 01:48:10,894
There's that speech l'm giving for you
up at the Waldorf.
1547
01:48:12,247 --> 01:48:13,425
What speech?
1548
01:48:13,592 --> 01:48:16,887
A very big group
of very important businessmen.
1549
01:48:17,047 --> 01:48:19,862
And even some entertainment
executives gonna be there.
1550
01:48:25,208 --> 01:48:29,648
l tell you, l'm going
to that convention, Miami Beach.
1551
01:48:29,816 --> 01:48:31,377
l'm going.
1552
01:48:33,048 --> 01:48:35,896
And we're gonna make sure
you do too, honey.
1553
01:48:36,792 --> 01:48:38,614
You're gonna make it.
1554
01:48:38,775 --> 01:48:40,532
You're gonna make it. Right, Archie?
1555
01:48:40,920 --> 01:48:42,992
Don't you think you should ease up, sir?
1556
01:48:43,160 --> 01:48:45,070
Why don't you rest a little bit here?
1557
01:48:45,432 --> 01:48:47,221
Don't wanna overdo it.
1558
01:48:47,608 --> 01:48:48,590
Damn.
1559
01:48:48,760 --> 01:48:50,899
Don't wanna do too much.
1560
01:48:51,064 --> 01:48:54,260
l'm going to Miami.
1561
01:49:00,088 --> 01:49:01,365
Ahh!
1562
01:49:03,704 --> 01:49:05,427
Damn pain.
1563
01:49:06,615 --> 01:49:08,044
lt's burning.
1564
01:49:08,216 --> 01:49:10,158
lt burns.
1565
01:49:22,616 --> 01:49:26,478
This, after l come this far.
1566
01:49:26,840 --> 01:49:30,101
What you're seeing is footage
just into our station and unedited...
1567
01:49:30,263 --> 01:49:33,046
...of the clash on this Sunday
between civil-rights marchers...
1568
01:49:33,208 --> 01:49:36,753
...and state law officers
at the Pettus Bridge in Selma.
1569
01:49:36,920 --> 01:49:38,808
Lookie here a second, George.
1570
01:49:38,968 --> 01:49:42,066
--as part of Martin Luther King's
campaign for voting rights.
1571
01:49:42,232 --> 01:49:44,785
Barricading their way
were some 1 00 of Al Lingo's....
1572
01:49:44,952 --> 01:49:48,247
lt's kind of strange, think about it.
1573
01:49:49,592 --> 01:49:52,243
Just over yonder, there's
Martin Luther King's old church...
1574
01:49:52,408 --> 01:49:54,099
...that Dexter Avenue Baptist.
1575
01:49:54,584 --> 01:49:57,518
Within a hollering distance of here,
and that's where he started...
1576
01:49:57,688 --> 01:49:59,859
...this goddamn
so-called civil-rights movement.
1577
01:50:00,023 --> 01:50:01,430
Yeah.
1578
01:50:02,168 --> 01:50:04,023
And this is where it's gonna be stopped.
1579
01:50:04,184 --> 01:50:06,224
--nonviolent coordinating committee.
1580
01:50:06,391 --> 01:50:10,254
Lewis himself was struck down
by a blow to the head in today's clash.
1581
01:50:10,424 --> 01:50:12,813
One Selma movement leader,
Mrs. Ophelia--
1582
01:50:12,984 --> 01:50:15,220
Son of a bitch.
1583
01:50:15,960 --> 01:50:19,637
l didn't know it was gonna
be turning out this big a showdown.
1584
01:50:21,016 --> 01:50:24,115
Never thought King's crowd
would have the nerve for it.
1585
01:50:25,496 --> 01:50:27,405
Archie, bring me a cigar.
1586
01:50:34,296 --> 01:50:36,118
By the way, Archie.
1587
01:50:37,496 --> 01:50:40,693
Been meaning to tell you
since l heard last night.
1588
01:50:42,967 --> 01:50:46,033
Mighty sorry about your daddy
getting shot over there in Hayneville.
1589
01:50:48,120 --> 01:50:50,095
Just awful things happening now.
1590
01:50:52,376 --> 01:50:57,526
How a fine old man like him could get
mixed up with these agitators, l can't....
1591
01:50:58,456 --> 01:51:00,147
Just terrible.
1592
01:51:03,960 --> 01:51:06,448
You can go over there
to his funeral if you want to.
1593
01:51:07,223 --> 01:51:08,336
Thank you, governor.
1594
01:51:08,952 --> 01:51:11,253
George, lookie here at what's happening.
1595
01:51:20,152 --> 01:51:22,836
Lingo's troopers were reinforced
by a county sheriff....
1596
01:51:23,000 --> 01:51:25,814
They ain't showing a whole
lot of fear, are they?
1597
01:51:26,327 --> 01:51:27,669
Archie.
1598
01:51:28,504 --> 01:51:29,780
Gerald, turn it up.
1599
01:51:29,944 --> 01:51:32,879
--voting rights campaign of Selma
has been accompanied of course...
1600
01:51:33,047 --> 01:51:35,503
...by weeks of disturbance
and violence in that city...
1601
01:51:35,671 --> 01:51:38,967
...and the counties around,
including now even some deaths.
1602
01:51:39,128 --> 01:51:43,732
This is, I believe, Colonel Lingo's
second-in-command, Major John Cloud.
1603
01:51:43,896 --> 01:51:46,962
Lingo's exact whereabouts right now--
I don't know, I don't see.
1604
01:51:47,128 --> 01:51:49,975
Go home or go back to your church.
1605
01:51:50,583 --> 01:51:52,406
Troopers advance.
1606
01:51:59,992 --> 01:52:01,202
Stand clear.
1607
01:52:01,368 --> 01:52:03,223
Don't push.
1608
01:52:27,352 --> 01:52:28,726
Get back there!
1609
01:52:32,984 --> 01:52:34,926
Move it!
1610
01:52:46,520 --> 01:52:51,026
I should say this is the first look
at this footage for some of us here.
1611
01:52:52,823 --> 01:52:56,304
We are also told that the marchers
were pursued on back...
1612
01:52:56,471 --> 01:52:58,806
...into the Negro section of Selma.
1613
01:52:58,968 --> 01:53:01,586
The injured have been spilling
into a hospital there...
1614
01:53:01,752 --> 01:53:04,272
...over 50 at last report.
1615
01:53:04,440 --> 01:53:06,960
Holy smokes, George.
What's this gonna do to us?
1616
01:53:07,608 --> 01:53:10,423
The injuries reportedly range
from severe head lesions...
1617
01:53:10,584 --> 01:53:13,682
-Down, turn it down.
-...to broken teeth to fracture ribs.
1618
01:53:18,776 --> 01:53:21,078
Well, it's not gonna hurt us at all.
1619
01:53:21,944 --> 01:53:25,653
King's mob of agitators marched,
and we turned them back.
1620
01:53:25,975 --> 01:53:28,147
lt's a victory for us.
1621
01:53:31,927 --> 01:53:35,342
Of course, the editorial writers in
big-city papers, they gonna be howling...
1622
01:53:35,512 --> 01:53:38,774
...about ''this is what's happening
in George Wallace's Alabama.''
1623
01:53:39,576 --> 01:53:42,445
But the people gonna be saying,
''That's right.
1624
01:53:42,616 --> 01:53:45,201
And he don't allow any of these
wooly-bully agitators...
1625
01:53:45,367 --> 01:53:48,433
...to take over the public highways
and streets.''
1626
01:53:48,759 --> 01:53:53,331
lt's gonna take a whole lot more
than singing and revival preaching...
1627
01:53:53,496 --> 01:53:57,206
...and whooping to stand
against the will of the majority.
1628
01:53:57,368 --> 01:54:01,012
And the majority of folks in Alabama
stand with George Wallace!
1629
01:54:01,176 --> 01:54:03,696
...ON TV...
We have the right to walk the highway.
1630
01:54:04,664 --> 01:54:09,399
We have the right to walk to Montgomery
if our feet can get us there.
1631
01:54:13,848 --> 01:54:16,848
KlNG: We must let the nation know,
and we must let the world know.
1632
01:54:17,015 --> 01:54:19,219
I'm calling into federal service...
1633
01:54:19,383 --> 01:54:22,318
...selected units
of the Alabama National Guard.
1634
01:54:23,096 --> 01:54:28,017
And also we'll have available police units
from the regular Army...
1635
01:54:28,631 --> 01:54:30,835
...to help meet state responsibilities.
1636
01:54:31,640 --> 01:54:36,048
These forces should be adequate
to assure the rights of American citizens...
1637
01:54:36,215 --> 01:54:39,477
...pursuant to a federal court order...
1638
01:54:39,639 --> 01:54:43,543
...to walk peaceably and safely...
1639
01:54:43,543 --> 01:54:49,392
...without injury or loss of life
from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1640
01:55:15,319 --> 01:55:17,359
You still up, huh?
1641
01:55:18,072 --> 01:55:20,493
l'm just reading my Bible, sir.
1642
01:55:20,952 --> 01:55:22,959
Get me a glass of buttermilk, Archie.
1643
01:55:23,128 --> 01:55:24,535
Yes, sir.
1644
01:55:26,296 --> 01:55:28,467
Can't seem to get to sleep.
1645
01:55:34,584 --> 01:55:39,799
Must be all that hullabaloo
went on over there in Selma today.
1646
01:55:46,999 --> 01:55:49,203
Book of Judges, huh?
1647
01:55:49,592 --> 01:55:51,479
What's in here?
1648
01:55:52,472 --> 01:55:54,544
l was just flipping through.
1649
01:55:59,031 --> 01:56:03,188
Like l said, Archie,
real sorry about your daddy.
1650
01:56:03,800 --> 01:56:07,575
l guess you know they arrested
a couple of Klan fellas this evening.
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