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[birds chirping]
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[raven crows]
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[Mary] I grew up here
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on Hidden Valley Road
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on the outskirtsof Colorado Springs.
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It lookslike such a peaceful place,
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but things aren't alwaysas they seem.
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I was the youngestof 12 children.
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From the outside,
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our family lookedpicture perfect.
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And that's just howour parents wanted it.
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But behind closed doors,it was another story.
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And it tore our family apart.
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My brothers wereturning into something
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none of us understood.
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As a child, I thought--
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I thought they'd beentaken over by demons.
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The violence they unleashedwas terrifying.
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Murder, rape,
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suicide.
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For those of us that survived,
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we had to watch
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as six of my brothers wereconsumed by madness.
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In the end,
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the consequences would consume
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us all.
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[Daniel] Where schizophreniais diagnosed
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between age 17 and 24.
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[Mark] It's a tragic story.
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To be partof the Galvin family is
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to be part of a tragedy.
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[woman]
This mutation was present
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in every person in that familywho had schizophrenia.
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[Daniel] They mighthear voices.
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They can command themto do things.
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[echoing] C ommand themto do things.
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[Mary] Throwinga cat into a bonfire.
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Dismembered a dogin the bathtub.
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[man] This familygave us hope
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that there might be a chanceto cure schizophrenia.
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[woman] He shot her first,and then he shot himself.
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[Richard] Well,it started to fall apart.
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My brothers were falling ill.
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They were losing their minds.
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[echoes] They werelosing their minds.
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These are all
the family photos. There's...
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boxes and boxes of them.
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And they're quite heavy.
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I'm Mary Christine Galvin,
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which my mother always said
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was named after Mary,the mother of Christ.
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I was borninto this largeIrish Catholic family.
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I was the youngestof 12 children,
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10 boys, and two girls.
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Don, Jim, John,Brian, Michael,
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Richard,
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Joseph, Mark, Matthew,Peter, Margaret, and Mary.
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Six of my brothers,
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diagnosed schizophrenics.
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My mom describesthat she saw signs,
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but couldn'treally identify in her...
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heart and mind
what was going on.
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There was somethinggoing on with Jim.
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Peter breaking all the windowsin the house.
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Donald,
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he dismembered a dogin the bathtub at home.
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It was like a snowball effect,
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my parents blaming themselves.
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There was so much despair
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and so much hopelessness
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and so much confusion.
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I didn't find out
until much later as an adult,
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maybe in my 20s.
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Brian had murderedhis girlfriend
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and committed suicide.
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I remember my mother
just being...
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distraught.
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My parents,
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I don't think they knewwhat to make of it.
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Neverin their worst nightmares
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would they have believedsuch a thing could happen.
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Their children, young menthat are so promising,
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to end upin a mental hospital.
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...after Donald was born.
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These are early pictures
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of my parents' relationship.
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They met at a swim meet.
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She jumped the gun
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and he had to goin the water after her.
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Then he asked her outon their first date.
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They went to see
The Wizard of Oz.
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And she said they skippedall the way home, singing
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"We're off to see the wizard."
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This is their wedding day.
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They eloped.
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But our parents never told us
they had eloped.
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They told us
about the grand wedding
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they had in New York
at the rectory.
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But these are
from Southern California
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when they eloped,
'cause my mom was pregnant.
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It was a family secret, yes.
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And he was going to war.
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So they took the train
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from New York
to Southern California,
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where he was getting ready
to ship off for World War II.
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So he's in his whites,
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his Navy whites.
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Neither set of families wereterribly happy
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because she was,
you know, Irish Protestant
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and he was Irish Catholic.
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And then at some point,she converted to Catholicism.
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And it was becausemy father said
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it would help their marriage,
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that they could then
bring their children up
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in the same religion.
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It would make them closeras a family.
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[interviewer] John,
come take a seat.
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[John] My mother wasa wonderful woman.
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She always hadour interests at heart,
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made sure we had
piano lessons.
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The house was
always full of music.
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[violin music playing]
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[John] We would listento classical music
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all the time, and...
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she would point outhow to listen to the music.
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She'd say, "Oh, do you hear
the French horns,"
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or "Do you hear the oboe?"
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She liked to listento Verdi operas,
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Mozart operas,
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and she loved to be involved,and she loved to sing.
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She grew up in New York,
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and her mother took her
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to the Metropolitan Operain New York City,
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and she fell in love with it.
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When my father joinedthe Air Force,
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he moved to Colorado Springsfrom New York.
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I think my mother was
probably very anxious
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about what kind of culture
she would find
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in Colorado Springs.
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[Mary] The Air Force base wassupposed to be
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on Long Island,
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and then
they suddenly changed it
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to Colorado Springs.
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My dad had signed on thinking
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they were gonna stay
in New York,
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and then they ended up
in Colorado Springs.
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My mother hated it.
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This was their first home.
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She said it was a dump.
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Here's four boys.
So, young Don,
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and that would
have been Jim, John,
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and Brian was a baby here.
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September 1951,
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baby Brian's approximately
three weeks old here.
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The Catholic Church believedin large families
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to keep the faith going.
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And so I thinkmy parents just embraced that.
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They were doing
their Catholic duty.
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Don and Jim and John
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and Brian
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and Richard
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and Robert Michael
and Joseph, as a baby.
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And my dad's
in his uniform there.
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[Richard] I wasalways called Number 6.
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Occasionally they wouldcall me by my name,
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but I was Number 6.
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I was right in the middleof 12.
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[Richard] Hello.
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[exhales] How are you?
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I was a little boy growing upwith older brothers.
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We played baseball
and did our things together
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and hockey and tennis
and swam and hiked
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and camped
and lived a normal life.
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But it started to fall apart.
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I mean, people weregetting sick.
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The boys, my brothers,were falling ill.
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They were losing their mindsto schizophrenia.
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[Mary] Mark wasthe peacekeeper.
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If anyone could deescalate
a situation, it was Mark.
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'Cause he was a mathematicianand a great chess player,
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and he always gotexcellent grades.
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He was oneof the better students
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in our family.
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[Mark] I'm in the middleof the youngest five boys.
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Richard and Joseph arethe older two,
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and Matthew and Peter arethe younger two.
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I lived
on the Air Force Academy base
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until I was five years old.
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So I attended
kindergarten there.
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Dad was a brilliant guy.
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Asa political science professor,
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he taught
Soviet foreign policy
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to the cadets
back in the Cold War era.
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[TV reporter] Among the moresignificant achievements
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of our recent national history
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is the establishmentof this leadership laboratory
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in Colorado.
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It is called
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the United StatesAir Force Academy.
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[marching band music playing]
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[John] When my father startedteaching at the Academy,
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we moved out onto the base.
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They house you by rank,so you get your colonels,
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they're up on one end,
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and then you go down
to the majors,
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you're in the middle,
and then you have
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the non-commissioned officers
down south further.
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The Officers Club had
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swimming poolsand tennis courts.
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In the summertime,we would spend the whole day
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at the swimming pooland playing tennis.
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But all the kids wentto school together.
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I think my parents werea little dismayed
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that I spent so much time
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with non-commissioned
officers' kids.
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[laughs]
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But they were my friends,
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and so we did
a lot of things together.
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[Richard] Back then it was,you know, military officer,
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and you were trying
to get a leg up
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in the military hierarchy,
of the ladder system.
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They were climbing the ladder.
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And Dad was justa looked-upon figure
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by the academy staff,
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because he was in chargeof the falconry program,
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and that was their mascot.
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That was a big deal.
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We had to gotrain falcons with him
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and feed them beef heartand chop it up
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and clean the newspapersand clean up the pen.
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[John] We wentthrough training.
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Dad had set one on my head
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and then he'd walk backso many paces
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and bait his glove
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and have the bird fly
to his glove
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and we did that
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endlessly, for hours.
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[Mary] I think the falconryat the Air Force Academy made
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my mother feel special,
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something they were known for.
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I think that's
what my mom liked about it.
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It was unusual.
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And for my dad, it wasjust a fun sport
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that he got to dowith his boys.
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[Mark] Arnold Hall was
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the concert venuefor the Air Force Academy.
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You know, that wasa photo taken
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right after our 10th boywas born.
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[Richard] ...Wasthe Von Trapp family.
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That's whatthey used to call us.
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Sound of Music came out.
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I'll never forget
Mom getting us all
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in the Volkswagen van.
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And I bet ifwe didn't see it 10 times,
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we saw it 20.
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And that's whatshe wanted us to be,
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is that Von Trapp family.
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[Mark] We all booed
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when Margaret came home
from the hospital.
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[laughs]
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All 10 of us boys sent
my mom to tears.
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Our quarterback turned outto be a cheerleader.
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Margaret, beautiful
little girl growing up.
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This is the pride
and joy of mother.
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And she was very smart,very talented, good kid.
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Didn't know anything was
going on until later in life
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when I heard about the stories
of brother Jim.
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Mary was the second fiddleto Margaret.
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She was, you know, "Okay,
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I got my prideand joy in Margaret,
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and then along came Mary."
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[Mary] People would say,"Why do you haveso many children?"
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And my parents would say,
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"Well, we wouldn'thave the girls."
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Margaret always thought
it was mean,
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but my mom used to say,
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"The roses after
all the thorns."
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So she calledthe boys the thorns
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and Margaret and I the roses.
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[Mark] There werethree acres of land,
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trees and shrubs,
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and things surrounding
the property.
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It was a beautiful setting.
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[John] Not a lot of privacy
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with so many siblings living
in the same house.
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Four bedrooms upstairs
and two baths.
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Downstairs you had a bathroom
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and a bedroomoff the stairway,
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but that was an open room.There was no door.
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And then the garage...
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got turned into
another bedroom.
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[Mary] Chaotic, but to me,it was just normal.
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"Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom,Peter hit me, Mom.
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Margaret's notbeing nice to me, Mom."
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I'm guessing she got thatfrom everybody.
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She'd always go,
"Tattletale...
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your tongue will be split
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and all the dogs in town
will have a little bit."
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'Cause she just hatedtattletaling,
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'cause how could youkeep up with it?
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You couldn't possiblybe interfering
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in every... conflict12 children had.
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She'd say, "Go resolve it."
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[Mark] Mom wasdefinitely a perfectionist
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when it came to housecleaning.
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All the boys wereassigned tasks,
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whether it wassweeping the floor one day,
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or doing the dishesthe next day,
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or cleaning the bathrooms
another day, or vacuuming.
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It was the white glove test,
you know. [chuckles]
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If it wasn't clean,
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[clears throat] she would
let you know
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and you'd do it over.
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00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,900
[John] To my mother,social status was important.
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I don't thinkso much to my father,
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but I thinkhe went along with it.
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She always liked to rub elbows
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or rub shoulders
with famous people,
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famous artists,
musicians, dancers,
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anyone in the arts.
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[Mary] She didn't likethe military wives.
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They didn't listen to opera.
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[laughs] Military wives.
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And she had trouble
finding the culture
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that she was looking for.
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The church became a place
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where there were levelsof importance,
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kind of a caste systemin and of itself.
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The people that weremore ingratiated
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with the priests...
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were elevated in some way.
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It gave my mothersome level of importance
333
00:16:38,266 --> 00:16:40,133
that the priest wouldcome to our home.
334
00:16:41,367 --> 00:16:44,100
And I vaguely remember
the priest coming.
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00:16:44,100 --> 00:16:46,066
It was a big to-do.
336
00:16:46,066 --> 00:16:47,500
"Oh, Father Freudenstein iscoming.
337
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We need to geteverything tidied up."
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00:16:49,166 --> 00:16:52,100
And make sure she hadher tea on.
339
00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:55,000
He would show up at the door
with records for her.
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00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,533
He would bring her
opera records
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00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:58,133
to listen to,
342
00:16:58,867 --> 00:16:59,934
and-- as a gift...
343
00:17:00,467 --> 00:17:01,533
you know, to her.
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00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,166
[John] I was notparticularly fond of him,
345
00:17:05,166 --> 00:17:08,333
and I kind of distanced myselffrom him.
346
00:17:09,867 --> 00:17:11,967
It's like a instinct.
347
00:17:12,834 --> 00:17:14,166
The only thing I have now is
348
00:17:14,166 --> 00:17:17,000
from what I heardfrom my brothers about him,
349
00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,300
the fact that he became
physically or sexually abusive
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00:17:21,300 --> 00:17:22,967
towards
my oldest brother, Don.
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00:17:27,567 --> 00:17:30,433
[Mary] Everything seemedso picture perfect.
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00:17:31,734 --> 00:17:34,233
And then this other thing was
happening at...
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00:17:35,100 --> 00:17:36,367
the same time.
354
00:17:38,166 --> 00:17:40,367
I mean, it justunraveled so fast.
355
00:17:41,100 --> 00:17:42,367
It was,
356
00:17:42,367 --> 00:17:44,400
how could this possibly be
happening to them?
357
00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:45,834
They'd done everything right.
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00:17:54,266 --> 00:17:57,033
[John] Donald, he was
my father's favorite for sure.
359
00:17:57,667 --> 00:17:59,333
He was a great athlete.
360
00:17:59,333 --> 00:18:02,734
Their football team took state
in his senior year.
361
00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,233
Got into the state finalsin wrestling.
362
00:18:06,867 --> 00:18:08,266
He played hockey.
363
00:18:08,266 --> 00:18:10,000
He was an all-around athlete.
364
00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,066
And I kind of admired that
when I was younger,
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00:18:13,066 --> 00:18:14,100
looking up to him.
366
00:18:14,667 --> 00:18:15,900
[Mary] So these are...
367
00:18:16,567 --> 00:18:17,934
pictures of Donald.
368
00:18:17,934 --> 00:18:19,600
My parents sort of
elevated him
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00:18:20,166 --> 00:18:21,467
in our family status.
370
00:18:21,467 --> 00:18:23,233
He was sort of the...
371
00:18:23,233 --> 00:18:25,834
could-do-no-wrong, perfect boy
372
00:18:25,834 --> 00:18:27,367
who, you know,
got good grades,
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00:18:27,367 --> 00:18:30,266
handsome, and dated
the General's daughter.
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00:18:30,266 --> 00:18:31,567
There he is, in high school,
375
00:18:31,567 --> 00:18:33,033
track and field.
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00:18:33,033 --> 00:18:35,734
It seemed like everybody
in the family followed suit.
377
00:18:37,467 --> 00:18:39,533
Jim was an athlete.
378
00:18:39,533 --> 00:18:41,333
I remember himplaying football.
379
00:18:41,333 --> 00:18:42,133
Highlight moment,
380
00:18:42,133 --> 00:18:44,333
blocked a punt
and scored a touchdown.
381
00:18:46,333 --> 00:18:50,233
[Mary] Jim, he was alwaysin competition
382
00:18:50,567 --> 00:18:52,934
with Don.
383
00:18:52,934 --> 00:18:54,634
From the timethey were little, you know,
384
00:18:54,634 --> 00:18:56,667
who was better at baseball,
385
00:18:56,667 --> 00:18:58,667
who was a better swimmer,
who could run faster,
386
00:18:58,667 --> 00:19:00,567
who could jump higher,
who, you know, I think--
387
00:19:00,567 --> 00:19:02,900
and Donald was
always superior. He was older.
388
00:19:03,667 --> 00:19:06,400
That really bothered Jim,
389
00:19:07,767 --> 00:19:09,834
that he was alwayssort of felt slighted
390
00:19:09,834 --> 00:19:11,967
or that he wasn't good enough,
391
00:19:11,967 --> 00:19:14,934
that my parents lovedDon more.
392
00:19:16,133 --> 00:19:17,567
[John] The first timeI recognized
393
00:19:17,567 --> 00:19:19,133
that Donald was
my father's favorite,
394
00:19:19,133 --> 00:19:22,033
I was about 12 years old.
395
00:19:22,033 --> 00:19:25,133
And he would have been,you know, five years older.
396
00:19:25,867 --> 00:19:28,433
And he became violent.
397
00:19:31,266 --> 00:19:33,333
I became his punching bag.
398
00:19:35,867 --> 00:19:39,100
He would have a coupleof my brothers hold me
399
00:19:39,100 --> 00:19:42,467
so he could take swings at me.
400
00:19:42,467 --> 00:19:44,767
And, you know, I had no wayto defend myself.
401
00:19:44,767 --> 00:19:47,367
And so I was terrifiedof him after that.
402
00:19:47,367 --> 00:19:49,000
I told my parents about it,
403
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,567
and...
404
00:19:50,567 --> 00:19:52,934
my father ceased
to believe anything I said,
405
00:19:52,934 --> 00:19:54,634
it seemed like, about Donald.
406
00:19:54,634 --> 00:19:56,634
If I would talk about Donald,
407
00:19:56,634 --> 00:20:00,567
it was like-- it just got
shoved to the side.
408
00:20:00,567 --> 00:20:02,133
It was not believable.
409
00:20:03,233 --> 00:20:04,934
So you endured what you could,
410
00:20:04,934 --> 00:20:07,533
and then you avoidedwhat you could.
411
00:20:10,166 --> 00:20:13,266
And I'm not
the only one in the family
412
00:20:13,266 --> 00:20:14,800
that suffered that way.
413
00:20:32,433 --> 00:20:34,166
[Mark] When I was a child,
414
00:20:34,166 --> 00:20:37,133
I would wait on topof the hill opposite my home
415
00:20:37,133 --> 00:20:39,100
for my mother to come home.
416
00:20:40,567 --> 00:20:43,200
I would wait for heruntil her car pulled up.
417
00:20:44,467 --> 00:20:47,233
I was afraid of being beatenby my brothers.
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00:20:50,233 --> 00:20:52,567
That was not somethingthat's normal
419
00:20:52,567 --> 00:20:54,834
for a child to experience.
420
00:20:56,367 --> 00:20:57,533
You know?
421
00:20:57,533 --> 00:20:59,333
They would, uh...
422
00:20:59,333 --> 00:21:02,333
make me hold encyclopedias
in my arms
423
00:21:02,333 --> 00:21:05,133
and hit me in the stomach
and tell me not to drop them.
424
00:21:06,867 --> 00:21:09,066
Or even sometimes
they would...
425
00:21:09,066 --> 00:21:11,266
pour Tabasco sauce
on my tongue
426
00:21:11,266 --> 00:21:13,433
or [grimaces]
make me eat cat food.
427
00:21:15,066 --> 00:21:17,467
It's like the fear of this,
428
00:21:17,467 --> 00:21:20,600
and it was always somethingthat was with me every day.
429
00:21:25,433 --> 00:21:27,166
I was always
breaking up the fights
430
00:21:27,166 --> 00:21:29,433
between the older brothers
and the younger ones.
431
00:21:30,934 --> 00:21:32,734
Dad used to call me Kissinger,
432
00:21:32,734 --> 00:21:33,934
the diplomatic one.
433
00:21:33,934 --> 00:21:37,266
So I was always tryingto make peace in the family.
434
00:21:37,266 --> 00:21:39,033
There was a lot of tension
435
00:21:39,033 --> 00:21:42,700
between John and Jim
and Don, always fighting.
436
00:21:45,166 --> 00:21:47,333
The one I'll never forgetis at Woodmen Valley.
437
00:21:47,333 --> 00:21:49,066
Don and Jim started fightingin the house.
438
00:21:49,066 --> 00:21:50,066
Of course, Mother said,
439
00:21:50,066 --> 00:21:52,567
"Get out of the houseif you're going to fight."
440
00:21:52,567 --> 00:21:55,100
Donald started running
after Jim down the road,
441
00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:56,634
Hidden Valley Road.
442
00:21:56,634 --> 00:21:58,467
And I'll never forget
looking down the road
443
00:21:58,467 --> 00:21:59,934
with my mom and watching him.
444
00:21:59,934 --> 00:22:00,800
And Donald took a swing
445
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,133
and lifted my brother up
off the ground.
446
00:22:03,133 --> 00:22:05,333
I've never seen anybody
get hit so hard in my life.
447
00:22:07,967 --> 00:22:09,634
[Mark] You know, I don't know
448
00:22:09,634 --> 00:22:11,867
if some of this
had anything to do
449
00:22:11,867 --> 00:22:15,166
with Donald's
mental health issues already,
450
00:22:15,166 --> 00:22:17,767
even though they weren't
diagnosed yet.
451
00:22:17,767 --> 00:22:21,066
It could be
that even as a younger boy,
452
00:22:21,066 --> 00:22:23,333
he had some mental issues
453
00:22:23,333 --> 00:22:26,600
that caused him to behavetoward us like he did.
454
00:22:44,867 --> 00:22:47,367
[Richard] Donald metJean in college
455
00:22:47,367 --> 00:22:50,066
and brought her homeand told the family
456
00:22:50,066 --> 00:22:51,867
that he's goingto get married.
457
00:22:51,867 --> 00:22:53,400
So we were all happy for him.
458
00:22:54,367 --> 00:22:56,166
They were getting married,
they were in college.
459
00:22:56,166 --> 00:22:58,100
Donald was
a straight-A student,
460
00:22:58,100 --> 00:22:59,233
I understood.
461
00:23:00,166 --> 00:23:01,567
Everybody was happy.
462
00:23:01,567 --> 00:23:03,934
Jean was justa very nice lady,
463
00:23:03,934 --> 00:23:06,767
big, tall, strong woman.
464
00:23:06,767 --> 00:23:08,834
She was a rancher's daughter,
465
00:23:08,834 --> 00:23:10,734
you know, very tough-minded.
466
00:23:24,433 --> 00:23:27,367
I can only tell you
what is hearsay.
467
00:23:27,367 --> 00:23:29,467
Uh, again,
I didn't know them very well,
468
00:23:29,467 --> 00:23:31,066
but, uh...
469
00:23:31,066 --> 00:23:33,667
Don, um, wanted
to have a family.
470
00:23:33,667 --> 00:23:35,667
Jean didn't.
471
00:23:35,667 --> 00:23:39,433
Um, Jean wanted to pursue
her doctoral degree.
472
00:23:41,166 --> 00:23:43,000
Don wanted to start a family.
473
00:23:44,467 --> 00:23:46,834
I think that wasa huge rift between them.
474
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,467
Might have tippedthe scales on Donald
475
00:23:50,467 --> 00:23:52,133
as far as his mental illness.
476
00:23:52,133 --> 00:23:54,133
I'm not sureit made any difference,
477
00:23:54,533 --> 00:23:56,166
but probably did.
478
00:24:01,066 --> 00:24:03,467
[Mark] Donald,he went away to college
479
00:24:03,467 --> 00:24:06,233
when I was... six.
480
00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:08,567
Didn't really see him much
481
00:24:08,567 --> 00:24:11,767
in the next several years
until he came home.
482
00:24:11,767 --> 00:24:14,367
And by then, he was, uh,
483
00:24:14,367 --> 00:24:17,734
very much in psychotic states
from time to time.
484
00:24:18,467 --> 00:24:20,066
[Mary] My first memory
of Donald is
485
00:24:20,066 --> 00:24:22,533
his coming home
486
00:24:23,033 --> 00:24:24,400
from college
487
00:24:25,166 --> 00:24:29,000
and being very,
very upset and crying.
488
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,834
[dog barks distantly]
489
00:24:30,834 --> 00:24:33,667
[Mary] In my bedroom,being adjacent to my parents,
490
00:24:33,667 --> 00:24:35,867
and there being a lotof yelling and screaming
491
00:24:35,867 --> 00:24:38,533
and commotionand him on his knees.
492
00:24:39,867 --> 00:24:42,066
saying, "What's wrong with me,what's wrong with me,
493
00:24:42,066 --> 00:24:44,834
what's wrong with me?Help me, please help me."
494
00:24:46,834 --> 00:24:49,000
Everyone was awake
in the house,
495
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,133
and "What's going on,
what's going on?"
496
00:24:53,767 --> 00:24:55,233
Donald was screamingand yelling
497
00:24:55,233 --> 00:24:57,433
at everybody in the houseto please get down,
498
00:24:57,433 --> 00:24:59,900
that there's somebody outsidethat's trying to hurt us.
499
00:25:00,667 --> 00:25:01,834
My mother, you know, saying,
500
00:25:01,834 --> 00:25:03,734
"Oh, dear God,
what is going on?
501
00:25:03,734 --> 00:25:04,700
Is he on drugs?"
502
00:25:05,867 --> 00:25:09,233
Get the younger childrenout of the environment,
503
00:25:09,233 --> 00:25:10,734
where my father wastrying to--
504
00:25:11,533 --> 00:25:13,467
to calm him down.
505
00:25:13,467 --> 00:25:15,634
-[ambulance wailing]
-[dog barks in distance]
506
00:25:36,734 --> 00:25:38,000
[Mary] This isDonald's records
507
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,433
from Colorado State UniversityStudent Health Services.
508
00:25:41,433 --> 00:25:43,767
"The student isthe oldest of 12 children,
509
00:25:43,767 --> 00:25:45,934
ten boys, two girls.
510
00:25:45,934 --> 00:25:47,867
He's been
self-supporting in school.
511
00:25:47,867 --> 00:25:50,033
He gave up an apartment
512
00:25:50,367 --> 00:25:51,467
to save expenses
513
00:25:51,467 --> 00:25:54,133
and is living
in an old fruit cellar
514
00:25:55,567 --> 00:25:56,767
which he described as,
515
00:25:56,767 --> 00:25:59,433
'Large enoughto hold his mattress.'
516
00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:02,233
He has no water.
517
00:26:03,367 --> 00:26:06,367
In past two weeks,
has run through bonfire,
518
00:26:06,367 --> 00:26:09,734
put cord around his neck,turned on gas,
519
00:26:09,734 --> 00:26:11,734
and even goneto a funeral home
520
00:26:13,233 --> 00:26:15,166
to price caskets.
521
00:26:15,166 --> 00:26:18,266
Very sadistic killing of a cat
522
00:26:18,266 --> 00:26:20,867
and fantasies of killing
a person at a football game.
523
00:26:20,867 --> 00:26:22,867
Fear, realistic at the time
524
00:26:22,867 --> 00:26:25,467
that he had killedan instructor.
525
00:26:25,467 --> 00:26:27,233
Dr. Oxman,
a psychiatrist, predicted
526
00:26:27,233 --> 00:26:29,266
he was dangerous to others."
527
00:26:29,266 --> 00:26:30,333
And then it says,
528
00:26:30,333 --> 00:26:32,233
"Possible
schizophrenic reaction.
529
00:26:35,166 --> 00:26:37,867
Recommendation,immediate hospitalization
530
00:26:37,867 --> 00:26:40,900
for evaluationand prescription."
531
00:26:43,433 --> 00:26:45,634
Being admitted to...
532
00:26:45,634 --> 00:26:48,166
a state mental hospital
when your child is
533
00:26:48,166 --> 00:26:51,000
however old he is, 20, 21,
534
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,066
I mean, I think of that now.
My son is 22.
535
00:26:54,066 --> 00:26:57,567
And what would that
emotionally feel like
536
00:26:57,567 --> 00:26:59,000
to be told
537
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,767
that your son is schizophrenic
538
00:27:00,767 --> 00:27:03,367
and that he needs
to be sent to a place
539
00:27:03,367 --> 00:27:04,834
that everyone knew
540
00:27:05,767 --> 00:27:07,433
was horrific.
541
00:27:09,133 --> 00:27:11,367
[TV reporter] For years,what was called insanity
542
00:27:11,367 --> 00:27:14,266
was regarded as a problemfor each state to solve
543
00:27:14,266 --> 00:27:16,033
as best it could.
544
00:27:16,033 --> 00:27:18,567
In nearlyall state mental hospitals,
545
00:27:18,567 --> 00:27:21,166
little morethan custodial carewas provided.
546
00:27:21,967 --> 00:27:23,367
Few who were committedcould hope
547
00:27:23,367 --> 00:27:25,433
to return to society.
548
00:27:26,767 --> 00:27:30,233
Many, whose illnesseswere comparatively mildat the start,
549
00:27:30,233 --> 00:27:31,567
became increasingly worse
550
00:27:31,567 --> 00:27:34,033
until all hopeof recovery vanished.
551
00:27:36,266 --> 00:27:38,533
[Daniel] There weredark chapters
552
00:27:38,533 --> 00:27:41,734
in the history of treatmentof psychiatric patients.
553
00:27:43,567 --> 00:27:45,266
Castration was common,
554
00:27:45,266 --> 00:27:47,533
taking out people's pancreas.
555
00:27:48,467 --> 00:27:52,333
Lobotomy was a wayof cutting into the brain
556
00:27:52,333 --> 00:27:53,867
and breaking up
557
00:27:53,867 --> 00:27:57,367
fibers that connect cells
in the brain to each other.
558
00:27:57,367 --> 00:27:58,867
[TV reporter] Operationscan be performed
559
00:27:58,867 --> 00:28:00,166
under local anesthesia
560
00:28:00,166 --> 00:28:03,333
if the patient issufficiently cooperative.
561
00:28:03,333 --> 00:28:05,934
[Daniel] Surgeons wouldcut a hole in your skull,
562
00:28:05,934 --> 00:28:09,100
introduce a knife
into that hole,
563
00:28:09,100 --> 00:28:11,066
and then go like this
with the knife
564
00:28:11,467 --> 00:28:13,133
to cut the fibers
565
00:28:13,133 --> 00:28:15,567
in the frontal lobeof your brain.
566
00:28:15,567 --> 00:28:18,934
And that became
a very popular procedure
567
00:28:18,934 --> 00:28:21,033
in certain institutions.
568
00:28:21,033 --> 00:28:23,467
And the frontal lobe isthe part of your brain
569
00:28:23,467 --> 00:28:26,033
that learns from experience,
570
00:28:26,033 --> 00:28:28,066
that uses judgment.
571
00:28:28,066 --> 00:28:30,467
It's the executiveof your brain.
572
00:28:30,467 --> 00:28:33,266
When you break up
the frontal lobe's connection
573
00:28:33,266 --> 00:28:35,333
to the rest of the brain,
574
00:28:35,333 --> 00:28:37,533
you've obviously reduced
somebody's capacity
575
00:28:37,533 --> 00:28:39,634
to exercise all those
frontal lobe functions,
576
00:28:39,634 --> 00:28:42,000
but you've made themmuch more docile.
577
00:28:43,367 --> 00:28:44,467
[Matthew] For Don's mom,
578
00:28:44,467 --> 00:28:47,333
I just can't imagine--
just the, um-- the shock,
579
00:28:47,333 --> 00:28:51,033
the shame, and the fear
that Mimi experienced,
580
00:28:51,033 --> 00:28:52,767
and her husband as well,
581
00:28:52,767 --> 00:28:55,567
that to have a son
582
00:28:55,567 --> 00:28:56,533
whom you love and you've seen
583
00:28:56,533 --> 00:28:59,467
this very handsome,beautiful son,
584
00:28:59,467 --> 00:29:00,567
and now you're having
585
00:29:00,567 --> 00:29:02,000
to have him in an institution.
586
00:29:04,133 --> 00:29:06,100
I think it wouldhave been horrifying.
587
00:29:08,333 --> 00:29:10,266
[Mary] Well, here, I mean,he's being diagnosed
588
00:29:10,266 --> 00:29:11,300
with schizophrenia,
589
00:29:11,300 --> 00:29:14,767
and he's being recommended
immediate hospitalization.
590
00:29:14,767 --> 00:29:16,867
And I can't read the date,
591
00:29:16,867 --> 00:29:20,767
but I'm assuming-- well, it's
different handwriting. So...
592
00:29:20,767 --> 00:29:23,333
um, "Patient was
not admitted...
593
00:29:25,867 --> 00:29:27,000
per instructions,
594
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,367
but has been treated
as an outpatient
595
00:29:29,367 --> 00:29:31,166
at the Air Force
Academy Hospital."
596
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,000
So this is the letter from...
597
00:29:36,266 --> 00:29:38,433
the Department
of the Air Force.
598
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,533
[Mary reading]
599
00:29:54,934 --> 00:29:56,567
That's unbelievable.
600
00:29:56,567 --> 00:29:57,867
[chuckles]
601
00:29:57,867 --> 00:29:59,367
My father was probably trying
602
00:29:59,367 --> 00:30:01,767
to use his influence
603
00:30:01,767 --> 00:30:03,066
to keep Don in school.
604
00:30:04,233 --> 00:30:06,367
I think my parents were like,
605
00:30:06,367 --> 00:30:09,467
"Well, shape upand get on with it."
606
00:30:09,467 --> 00:30:11,033
Somehow, I thinkthey were wishing
607
00:30:11,033 --> 00:30:12,433
or hoping or praying
608
00:30:12,433 --> 00:30:15,934
that this would be
a temporary situation
609
00:30:15,934 --> 00:30:17,233
that he would somehow outgrow.
610
00:30:17,233 --> 00:30:19,567
And if he just stuck
with his studies,
611
00:30:19,567 --> 00:30:21,033
that he would be okay.
612
00:30:21,834 --> 00:30:24,100
Certainly, sending himto Pueblo
613
00:30:24,100 --> 00:30:26,934
to a psychiatric hospital
614
00:30:26,934 --> 00:30:29,433
would have admitted defeat.
615
00:30:29,433 --> 00:30:32,433
They would have hadto accept the diagnosis
616
00:30:32,433 --> 00:30:34,734
that he was,in fact, schizophrenic.
617
00:30:34,734 --> 00:30:37,367
Were my parents so blind
618
00:30:37,367 --> 00:30:39,000
to what was going on with him?
619
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,500
Were they so trying
to ignore it or...
620
00:30:41,834 --> 00:30:42,867
pray it away?
621
00:30:42,867 --> 00:30:44,934
Whatever they were doing
with this information...
622
00:30:46,266 --> 00:30:48,533
was putting somebody elsein danger.
623
00:31:07,934 --> 00:31:10,100
[Mark] You know,when Donald first came home
624
00:31:11,033 --> 00:31:12,533
from college,
625
00:31:13,734 --> 00:31:15,266
they weren't seeking
treatments for him
626
00:31:15,266 --> 00:31:16,734
at the time, I don't believe.
627
00:31:16,734 --> 00:31:19,233
They were just trying
to... keep him home
628
00:31:19,233 --> 00:31:22,367
and take care of him
the best they could, and...
629
00:31:22,367 --> 00:31:25,066
hopefully that
that wouldn't disrupt
630
00:31:25,066 --> 00:31:26,934
the rest
of the family too much.
631
00:31:29,667 --> 00:31:30,667
[Richard] They didthe best they could
632
00:31:30,667 --> 00:31:31,667
under the circumstances.
633
00:31:31,667 --> 00:31:33,634
What else were theygoing to do but just
634
00:31:33,634 --> 00:31:36,867
try to minimizethe exposure of the illness,
635
00:31:36,867 --> 00:31:39,200
so they could maintain
their status, if you will,
636
00:31:39,533 --> 00:31:40,834
with the... um,
637
00:31:40,834 --> 00:31:42,100
with the governors
638
00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:43,667
and people they were
dealing with.
639
00:31:43,667 --> 00:31:45,133
They were dealing
at a very high level
640
00:31:45,133 --> 00:31:46,266
in our society.
641
00:31:47,266 --> 00:31:50,166
My father, he was a--what I call an overachiever,
642
00:31:50,166 --> 00:31:51,166
doing too many--
643
00:31:51,166 --> 00:31:54,166
too much for most people
to even comprehend.
644
00:31:54,166 --> 00:31:57,000
He actually wrote a bookabout American politics,
645
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,066
and he gothis doctorate degree.
646
00:31:59,066 --> 00:32:02,100
That was a proud moment,
I suppose.
647
00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:04,867
And I was proud of him
for doing that.
648
00:32:04,867 --> 00:32:07,166
Having a big familyand going to school
649
00:32:07,166 --> 00:32:09,100
and [chuckling] doingyour doctoral degree?
650
00:32:10,133 --> 00:32:11,734
That doesn't happenvery often.
651
00:32:11,734 --> 00:32:13,433
That's pretty rare, I think.
652
00:32:15,266 --> 00:32:17,367
We ordered
Kentucky Fried Chicken.
653
00:32:17,367 --> 00:32:18,667
[laughs]
654
00:32:18,667 --> 00:32:20,367
Had a picnic out
on the lawn and...
655
00:32:20,367 --> 00:32:22,634
uh, in front
of the Boulder Library.
656
00:32:22,634 --> 00:32:24,066
Yeah, I can remember that day.
657
00:32:24,066 --> 00:32:25,200
It was a nice day.
658
00:32:25,567 --> 00:32:26,700
It was a good day.
659
00:32:28,634 --> 00:32:29,567
But...
660
00:32:29,567 --> 00:32:31,567
probablyno more family gatherings
661
00:32:31,567 --> 00:32:33,734
that were as nice after that.
662
00:32:36,367 --> 00:32:38,634
After Dad's graduation,
663
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,667
this is 1969,
664
00:32:41,667 --> 00:32:44,133
so I would say
shortly after that was
665
00:32:44,133 --> 00:32:46,934
when Donald really became
seriously ill.
666
00:32:50,033 --> 00:32:52,166
[indistinct
overlapping whispering]
667
00:32:55,133 --> 00:32:58,166
[Mary] I was maybe threeor four years old.
668
00:32:58,166 --> 00:33:00,333
I remember Don being psychotic
669
00:33:00,333 --> 00:33:01,834
and it being scary.
670
00:33:03,867 --> 00:33:06,266
He paced, constantly,
671
00:33:06,266 --> 00:33:08,634
constantly paced,
and paced, and paced,
672
00:33:08,634 --> 00:33:11,667
and paced, and spoke--
talked to himself, just...
673
00:33:11,667 --> 00:33:14,066
[indistinct
overlapping whispering]
674
00:33:14,066 --> 00:33:16,634
[Mary] Hours, and hours,and hours, and hours on end,
675
00:33:16,634 --> 00:33:18,333
he pacedand talked to himself.
676
00:33:19,533 --> 00:33:22,433
He's, I think,
believed himself to be
677
00:33:22,867 --> 00:33:24,033
a prophet.
678
00:33:27,100 --> 00:33:30,834
He was dressed in these robes,this brown sheet.
679
00:33:33,266 --> 00:33:36,734
He created these ritualsaround his life.
680
00:33:38,166 --> 00:33:40,934
[Richard]
The biblical babbling,I called it,
681
00:33:40,934 --> 00:33:44,867
it was just always relating
everything to the Bible.
682
00:33:44,867 --> 00:33:46,967
Everything that went onin the world was
683
00:33:46,967 --> 00:33:48,634
related to the Bible somehow.
684
00:33:49,367 --> 00:33:50,634
He was just trying to...
685
00:33:50,634 --> 00:33:53,100
stay in a realityof some sort.
686
00:33:56,533 --> 00:33:58,000
[indistinct
overlapping whispering]
687
00:34:00,567 --> 00:34:03,000
[Richard] I can rememberDad lecturing him.
688
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,266
He would take him up
into his bedroom
and lecture him,
689
00:34:05,266 --> 00:34:07,867
but you could hear it
through the house.
690
00:34:07,867 --> 00:34:09,634
You know,
"Why are you doing this?
691
00:34:09,634 --> 00:34:10,734
Why are you going
to the school
692
00:34:10,734 --> 00:34:11,867
in a priest robe?
693
00:34:11,867 --> 00:34:13,433
What are you doing?
694
00:34:13,433 --> 00:34:14,834
You're embarrassing
his family."
695
00:34:16,767 --> 00:34:18,867
[Mark] I certainly wouldn'twant to be seen
696
00:34:18,867 --> 00:34:20,934
in public with him
697
00:34:20,934 --> 00:34:22,433
at the time, you know,
698
00:34:22,433 --> 00:34:25,333
for afraid he would do
something crazy.
699
00:34:25,333 --> 00:34:27,567
None of my friends knew
700
00:34:27,567 --> 00:34:30,333
that I had
a mentally ill brother.
701
00:34:30,333 --> 00:34:33,266
It was not something
that we talked about.
702
00:34:33,266 --> 00:34:35,266
It was my dad's philosophy
703
00:34:35,266 --> 00:34:38,000
that you don't air
your dirty linen in public.
704
00:34:39,266 --> 00:34:41,200
Mom felt the same way.
705
00:34:43,467 --> 00:34:45,934
[John] To me, this would bethe family shame,
706
00:34:46,533 --> 00:34:47,734
you know.
707
00:34:47,734 --> 00:34:49,834
My father was always about...
708
00:34:49,834 --> 00:34:52,266
trying to keep
a family reputation,
709
00:34:52,266 --> 00:34:55,133
and you're known
by the company you keep.
710
00:34:55,133 --> 00:34:57,000
And so I think he was afraid
711
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,166
that the stigma of...
712
00:34:59,767 --> 00:35:00,934
schizophrenia,
713
00:35:01,667 --> 00:35:03,367
anybody finding out about it,
714
00:35:03,367 --> 00:35:04,300
would affect...
715
00:35:04,767 --> 00:35:06,066
what he did.
716
00:35:09,033 --> 00:35:12,166
[Mary] Don was the bad guy,though, in the family.
717
00:35:12,166 --> 00:35:14,867
He was the one that wascausing so much trouble.
718
00:35:14,867 --> 00:35:17,066
And my mother relied on Jim
719
00:35:17,066 --> 00:35:18,867
to get the younger childrenout of the house.
720
00:35:18,867 --> 00:35:21,333
So then, while we were
with him,
721
00:35:22,033 --> 00:35:23,667
Jim would just go on and on.
722
00:35:23,667 --> 00:35:25,800
He even gave him
a name...
723
00:35:26,367 --> 00:35:28,266
"Oh, it's...again."
724
00:35:28,266 --> 00:35:30,900
Jim was very cruel,very cruel.
725
00:35:32,567 --> 00:35:35,333
I was unaware, as a child,
726
00:35:35,333 --> 00:35:36,834
Jim was mentally ill.
727
00:35:37,266 --> 00:35:38,333
I had no...
728
00:35:39,033 --> 00:35:40,467
understanding or indication
729
00:35:40,467 --> 00:35:43,066
that he had sought treatment
730
00:35:43,066 --> 00:35:45,533
and that my parents hadhelped him get treatment.
731
00:35:46,467 --> 00:35:49,600
And in retrospect,
of course, you know,
732
00:35:50,133 --> 00:35:51,400
he was quite ill.
733
00:36:06,934 --> 00:36:09,934
[Mark] The dynamics startedchanging in the family.
734
00:36:09,934 --> 00:36:11,533
I remember Dad
and Donald getting
735
00:36:11,533 --> 00:36:12,934
into fisticuffs.
736
00:36:14,934 --> 00:36:17,333
Nobody ever challenged Dad
up until Donald,
737
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,667
and Donald was stronger.
738
00:36:20,667 --> 00:36:23,433
I don't know how longthey fought for, but...
739
00:36:23,433 --> 00:36:25,467
it was a serious fight.
740
00:36:25,467 --> 00:36:27,367
Bodies crashing
to the ground, wrestling,
741
00:36:27,367 --> 00:36:30,200
and fists being thrown,
and...
742
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,634
my brother, Donald, won.
743
00:36:37,667 --> 00:36:41,100
And I do remember
Donald coming after
my mother...
744
00:36:42,367 --> 00:36:45,533
physically a few times.
745
00:36:45,533 --> 00:36:47,700
And it always was
probably around...
746
00:36:48,533 --> 00:36:50,400
her being the one
that told him
747
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,266
to take his medications.
748
00:36:52,266 --> 00:36:53,800
"Have you taken
your medications?"
749
00:36:55,967 --> 00:36:58,667
And Donald would say,"Screw you.
750
00:36:58,667 --> 00:37:00,567
I'm not taking that stuff."
751
00:37:00,567 --> 00:37:02,367
And my mother would say,
"Yes, you are."
752
00:37:02,367 --> 00:37:03,667
And he'd say, "No, I'm not."
753
00:37:03,667 --> 00:37:07,233
And so a conflict would ensue.
754
00:37:07,233 --> 00:37:08,600
[Richard] There was a lotof bad times for Mom
755
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,300
and I don't knowhow she did it,
756
00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:11,300
come to think about it,
757
00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:15,300
and just how Donald stayedin that home with her
758
00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:17,166
just so he wouldn't have
to spend his life
759
00:37:17,166 --> 00:37:18,467
in a mental hospital.
760
00:37:21,767 --> 00:37:22,934
I remember one in particular
761
00:37:22,934 --> 00:37:25,367
where my father
and Donald were wrestling.
762
00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:28,066
And I remember there wasthis mushroom.
763
00:37:28,066 --> 00:37:29,533
It was crystal.
764
00:37:29,533 --> 00:37:31,600
I remember that being
picked up and used as--
765
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,567
and that could
kill someone easily.
766
00:37:33,567 --> 00:37:35,033
It was a heavy object.
767
00:37:35,033 --> 00:37:38,100
And I rememberbeing terrified that...
768
00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:39,934
Donald was goingto kill my father
769
00:37:40,867 --> 00:37:42,266
because my father was
770
00:37:42,266 --> 00:37:44,934
trying to protect my motherfrom Donald.
771
00:37:47,934 --> 00:37:50,934
[indistinct overlapping
whispering]
772
00:38:08,033 --> 00:38:10,233
[Mary] Often, Donald's anguish
773
00:38:10,233 --> 00:38:13,667
was centered aroundhis wife having left him.
774
00:38:14,767 --> 00:38:15,700
And...
775
00:38:16,333 --> 00:38:17,700
he was...
776
00:38:19,100 --> 00:38:20,967
obsessed--
777
00:38:20,967 --> 00:38:24,100
absolutely obsessed
with finding Jean.
778
00:38:24,100 --> 00:38:26,333
And I would guess
she probably had to...
779
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:28,767
find a way
to get away from him
780
00:38:28,767 --> 00:38:30,934
where he couldn't
necessarily find her.
781
00:38:34,734 --> 00:38:36,533
[door opens]
782
00:38:36,533 --> 00:38:38,934
And I remember my parentsgetting a phone call
783
00:38:38,934 --> 00:38:40,233
from the police.
784
00:38:42,767 --> 00:38:46,533
"10.20 a.m.,Donald Kenyon Galvin, 24,
785
00:38:46,533 --> 00:38:48,100
was bookedfor protective custody
786
00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:50,900
in connectionwith an allegedhomicide attempt.
787
00:38:53,767 --> 00:38:55,634
Mixed acid and cyanide
788
00:38:55,634 --> 00:38:58,734
and held his wifeand himself in the room.
789
00:38:59,967 --> 00:39:01,467
He had little insight
790
00:39:01,467 --> 00:39:02,767
and gave little feeling
791
00:39:02,767 --> 00:39:05,834
about the seriousnessof his actions.
792
00:39:08,266 --> 00:39:11,967
He is psychotic and that he islosing control and insight,
793
00:39:11,967 --> 00:39:14,834
is dangerous to himselfand the community."
794
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,333
[indistinct
overlapping whispering]
795
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,000
I feel sorry for my parents.
796
00:39:43,667 --> 00:39:44,800
I mean, they were...
797
00:39:46,433 --> 00:39:47,934
brilliant people.
798
00:39:49,166 --> 00:39:50,567
They seemed to have...
799
00:39:51,767 --> 00:39:55,767
really had a prettypicture-perfect... thing going
800
00:39:55,767 --> 00:39:57,000
from the outside.
801
00:39:58,266 --> 00:40:01,000
You know, they hadthis beautiful family that--
802
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:02,600
You know, my mom put onher white gloves
803
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:04,233
and off to church we went
804
00:40:04,233 --> 00:40:06,166
with [sobbing]
our beautiful outfits
805
00:40:06,166 --> 00:40:07,934
all perfectly pressed.
806
00:40:08,834 --> 00:40:10,300
If you look
at the first incident,
807
00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:11,233
which was really Donald,
808
00:40:11,233 --> 00:40:13,767
it took 10 years
809
00:40:13,767 --> 00:40:15,467
before we really started
to know
810
00:40:15,467 --> 00:40:18,300
what was--
something was really wrong.
811
00:40:18,300 --> 00:40:21,467
Nobody knew who had whator what was going on.
812
00:40:22,967 --> 00:40:25,367
I don't think they knew
what to make of it all.
813
00:40:25,367 --> 00:40:29,400
I think my parents were
so dumbstruck.
814
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,634
How could this possiblybe happening to them?
815
00:40:36,533 --> 00:40:38,367
[Mark] It's a tragic story.
816
00:40:39,367 --> 00:40:41,233
To be part
of the Galvin family is
817
00:40:41,233 --> 00:40:42,700
to be part of a tragedy.
818
00:40:45,934 --> 00:40:47,033
[interviewer] What'syour relationship
819
00:40:47,033 --> 00:40:48,200
with Donald today?
820
00:40:48,667 --> 00:40:49,834
I don't have one.
821
00:40:50,233 --> 00:40:51,433
I never see him.
822
00:40:54,300 --> 00:40:55,800
I don't think he cares.
823
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,066
[Richard] It's very difficultto be around people
824
00:41:02,066 --> 00:41:03,367
that are mentally ill,
825
00:41:03,367 --> 00:41:04,834
like my brother, Donald,
826
00:41:05,867 --> 00:41:08,233
'cause they're so harmful
827
00:41:08,233 --> 00:41:10,900
and they get into your psyche.
828
00:41:14,333 --> 00:41:15,100
[Mary] Don, hey.
829
00:41:15,100 --> 00:41:16,667
-You comfortable?
-[Donald] Mm-hmm.
830
00:41:16,667 --> 00:41:17,800
[Mary] Okay.
831
00:41:18,834 --> 00:41:20,934
And if there's anything
you don't want to answer,
832
00:41:20,934 --> 00:41:22,033
just...
833
00:41:22,033 --> 00:41:23,500
say, "Move on."
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