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Survival of the Fittest · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: This story is totally unbelievable, it's shocking, it's a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of things. But what you'll remember from this story
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  Speaker 1: is the twist at the very end. But before we
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  Speaker 1: get into today's story. On June twenty fifth, nineteen fifty,
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  Speaker 1: the Korean War broke out between the North Koreans and
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  Speaker 1: the South Koreans. Just two days after this war had begun,
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  Speaker 1: the United States formally entered the conflict by sending troops
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  Speaker 1: to aid the South Koreans. Shortly after this, the United
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  Speaker 1: States enacted a military draft. A military draft is the
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  Speaker 1: forced enlistment of civilians into the military in the Korean War.
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  Speaker 1: The way Americans were chosen was in a lottery, and
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  Speaker 1: if their name was called, they would have to stop
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  Speaker 1: whatever they were doing in the civilian world and immediately
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  Speaker 1: go serve their country, and if they refused, they would
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  Speaker 1: go to jail. An eighteen year old high school dropout
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  Speaker 1: nicknamed Samson was living with his family in Seattle, Washington
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  Speaker 1: when he found out he had been drafted. While military
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  Speaker 1: service was not something Samson was considering for his future,
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  Speaker 1: he accepted his fate with grace, and before long he
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  Speaker 1: was making his way to Fort Ord in northern California
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  Speaker 1: to begin his military training. But after training, when Samson
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  Speaker 1: was now officially a soldier in the Army, he was
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  Speaker 1: not sent to Korea to fight in the war. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he was ordered to stay at Fort Ord and be
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  Speaker 1: the lifeguard for their pool. It's unclear how Samson felt
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  Speaker 1: about this, but regardless, he did his duty and he
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  Speaker 1: stayed at this pool and he minded the folks who
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  Speaker 1: went swimming, and then at night and on the weekends,
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  Speaker 1: he would earn some extra cash by being a bouncer
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  Speaker 1: at a local bar. A year later, Samson was still
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  Speaker 1: working at the Fort Ord Pool when he decided to
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  Speaker 1: take some time off and go back home to Seattle
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  Speaker 1: and see his family and see his girlfriend. As a
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  Speaker 1: military member, Samson was able to fly for free on
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  Speaker 1: any military flight so long as he was in uniform.
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  Speaker 1: And so Samson packed up his things, he threw on
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  Speaker 1: his uniform, and he made his way over to the
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  Speaker 1: Fort Word Airport where he hopped on a small military
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  Speaker 1: plane and he flew to Seattle a few days later,
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  Speaker 1: on September thirtieth, nineteen fifty one. Samson said goodbye to
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  Speaker 1: his family and to his girlfriend, and then he put
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  Speaker 1: his uniform back on and made his way to the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle airport. When he got there, he saw there was
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  Speaker 1: only one military plane that was flying from Seattle all
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  Speaker 1: the way down to Fort Ord, and this plane was
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  Speaker 1: a World War Two era dive bomber that only had
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  Speaker 1: enough space for one person, the pilot. Samson had to
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  Speaker 1: get back to Fort Ord that night because the following
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  Speaker 1: day he had work, and in the Army you can't
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  Speaker 1: just not show up for work. But Samson didn't have
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  Speaker 1: enough money to buy a civilian plane ticket to take
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  Speaker 1: a civilian flight down to Fort Org so he was
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  Speaker 1: in a tough spot. And so he approaches this pilot
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  Speaker 1: of this dive bomber plane. Then he says, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: can I just cram into your radar compartment in the
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  Speaker 1: back of your plane? And the pilot, whose name was Anderson,
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  Speaker 1: immediately said, no, that's a terrible idea. It's not meant
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  Speaker 1: for passengers. It's barely big enough to fit inside of
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  Speaker 1: You could get badly hurt in there. But Samson was
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  Speaker 1: adamant that he had to get back that night, that
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  Speaker 1: he'd be in so much trouble if he didn't, and
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  Speaker 1: he kind of appealed to Anderson and said, look, you're
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  Speaker 1: in the military, you get it. I have to get
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  Speaker 1: back there tonight. Can you please make an exception and
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  Speaker 1: just let me hitch a ride in the back of
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  Speaker 1: your plane. And so, finally, against his better judgment, Anderson
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  Speaker 1: caves and he says, okay, Samson, you can come with me.
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  Speaker 1: And so a little bit before four pm that afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: Samson eagerly went around to the side of the plane.
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  Speaker 1: He opened up a side hatch and he crawled inside
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  Speaker 1: at this very tight rad compartment, and once he was
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  Speaker 1: tucked up inside, Anderson walked around and he closed the
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  Speaker 1: hatch behind him, and then Anderson got in the cockpit
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  Speaker 1: and began preparing the plane for takeoff. A few minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: the pair was cleaning down the runway, and right as
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  Speaker 1: the plane began to experience lyft and was going up
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  Speaker 1: into the air, beside hatch of the radar compartment where
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  Speaker 1: Samson was suddenly flew open. The big issue with this
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  Speaker 1: now open door in the radar compartment was not that Samson,
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  Speaker 1: likened the movies, would get sucked out the store out
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  Speaker 1: to his death, although if he wasn't careful he totally
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  Speaker 1: could fall out of the door. No, the real problem
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  Speaker 1: with this now open door had to do with oxygen levels.
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  Speaker 1: At their cruising altitude, where the majority of their flight
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  Speaker 1: would be spent, there wasn't enough oxygen in the air
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  Speaker 1: to sustain human life, and so as soon as Anderson
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  Speaker 1: powered up that plane and began preparing it for takeoff,
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  Speaker 1: he began pumping oxygen into the cockpit and also into
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  Speaker 1: the radar compartment space. This is done specifically to compensate
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  Speaker 1: for the lack of oxygen up at that cruising altitude,
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  Speaker 1: but with Samson's door now wide open, all that extra
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  Speaker 1: oxygen that was coming into that space to keep him
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  Speaker 1: alive is now just being sucked right out the door
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  Speaker 1: into the atmosphere, which meant if Samson couldn't find a
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  Speaker 1: way to shut that door, he would eventually pass out
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  Speaker 1: and suffocate to death. Samson, who was fully aware of
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  Speaker 1: this fact, immediately jumped into action by anchoring his feet
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  Speaker 1: and legs around the stanchion in the middle of this
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  Speaker 1: compartment space, and once he was fairly secure, he began
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  Speaker 1: extending his upper body out of the plane to try
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  Speaker 1: to grab onto the handle to try to shut it.
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  Speaker 1: But once he was holding onto that door handle he's
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  Speaker 1: now halfway out of the plane, he could not get
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  Speaker 1: it to shut. The wind was so strong it was
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  Speaker 1: pinning the door open. And so for the next several minutes,
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  Speaker 1: Samson desperately is trying to get this door shut, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not working. And so eventually he retreated back into
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  Speaker 1: the plane and went all the way to the very
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  Speaker 1: back of the radar compartment space and tucked himself up
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  Speaker 1: behind some equipment. Because this was not an area where
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  Speaker 1: passengers were supposed to be, there was no way to
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  Speaker 1: communicate with the pilot. He could not tell Anderson that
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  Speaker 1: he was dying back here, and so he just sat
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  Speaker 1: there and prayed. While Samson was dealing with this open
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  Speaker 1: door crisis, Anderson was dealing with a crisis of his own.
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  Speaker 1: At some point after takeoff, he looked down at his
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  Speaker 1: gauges and he realized a terrible mistake had been made.
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  Speaker 1: There wasn't enough fuel to get to Fort Ord and
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  Speaker 1: where he was discovering it. Where he was out over
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  Speaker 1: the water, there wasn't enough fuel to even turn around
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  Speaker 1: and go back to Seattle. And so Anderson grabs his
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  Speaker 1: radio and he tries to call out to these surrounding
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  Speaker 1: airports to see if there's anywhere he can just emergency
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  Speaker 1: land this plane. But all he hears is silence. It
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  Speaker 1: would turn out his radio equipment just happened to fail
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  Speaker 1: right at this moment. And what also happened to fail
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  Speaker 1: right at that moment was Anderson's oxygen supply. It had
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with Samson and the open door. Anderson
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  Speaker 1: just also suddenly was without oxygen. And so Anderson knew
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  Speaker 1: he had to get to a lower altitude as fast
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  Speaker 1: as possible because he would eventually pass out and crash
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  Speaker 1: the plane. And so he went into a very steep
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  Speaker 1: dive and began going down and realized he needed to
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  Speaker 1: try to land this plane in the ocean. Now there
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  Speaker 1: was no way he could get to an airport, and
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  Speaker 1: so he's burning down towards the water. And as they're
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  Speaker 1: coming down in altitude, there was more oxygen in the air,
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  Speaker 1: and so Samson, who had eventually passed out from a
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  Speaker 1: lack of oxygen, is suddenly revived with all this additional
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  Speaker 1: oxygen as they're going down, And so Samson comes too
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  Speaker 1: and he looks and the door is still wide open,
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  Speaker 1: and all he can see is the Pacific Ocean burning
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  Speaker 1: up at him. He only had a few seconds to
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  Speaker 1: grab onto the stanchion in the middle of the space
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  Speaker 1: he's in before they impacted the water. Miraculously, Samson survived
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  Speaker 1: the impact, but immediately he was faced with another life
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  Speaker 1: and death situation. Because this door was wide open, the
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  Speaker 1: freezing cold water began pouring inside, flooding the space, and
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  Speaker 1: so Samson tried to swim his way out, but the
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  Speaker 1: power of this water coming in was too strong, and
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  Speaker 1: so he had to wait until the space completely flooded
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  Speaker 1: before he swam out, and then swam up to the
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  Speaker 1: surface once he got to the surface. He's looking around
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  Speaker 1: and the water's incredibly choppy and it's very foggy. He
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  Speaker 1: can barely see anything. He's looking around for. Anderson not
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  Speaker 1: really sure what happened to him, and he looks down
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  Speaker 1: the plane towards the front of the plane and he
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  Speaker 1: sees Andersen climbing out of the cockpit. He looks badly
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  Speaker 1: beaten up, but he's alive. He's okay. And so Samson
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  Speaker 1: yells to him, and the two men link up and
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  Speaker 1: they're able to pull two life rafts out of the plane,
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  Speaker 1: and so both men that get into each of their
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  Speaker 1: rafts right as this plane sinks down below the surface,
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  Speaker 1: and so Anderson and Samson begin looking around wondering what
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  Speaker 1: they're going to do. But it's so foggy they can't
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  Speaker 1: see land in any direction. They can barely see ten
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  Speaker 1: feet away from themselves. And so Anderson thought they landed
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  Speaker 1: maybe two or three miles off the coast of California,
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  Speaker 1: but they weren't really sure. So Anderson pulled out his compass.
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  Speaker 1: He looked east and said, let's just start paddling. The
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  Speaker 1: men had crashed about two miles off the coast of
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  Speaker 1: Point Reys, California, which is this big protected shoreline that's
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  Speaker 1: about one hundred and fifty miles north of Fort Ord,
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  Speaker 1: And this particular stretch of water that these two men
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  Speaker 1: had found themselves in was a known breeding ground for
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  Speaker 1: great white sharks. So the two men, they got their
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  Speaker 1: compass and they're trying to swim as fast as they
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  Speaker 1: can to the east, but they're not seeing any land.
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  Speaker 1: The fog hasn't let up at all, and then eventually
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  Speaker 1: it got dark, and as soon as it got dark,
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  Speaker 1: the water got choppier and choppier, until at one point
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  Speaker 1: Samson actually was launched out of his raft into the water.
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  Speaker 1: He turned around and saw his raft, but it was
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  Speaker 1: being pulled away by a current faster than he could
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  Speaker 1: swim to it, and so Samson yells out for Anderson,
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  Speaker 1: who sees him in the water. Anderson tries his best
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  Speaker 1: to paddle over and save Samson, but the current was
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  Speaker 1: too strong, and before long Samson watched as Anderson just
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  Speaker 1: disappeared into the fog. Now Samson was all alone in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the night. He couldn't see anything. There's
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  Speaker 1: no land anywhere. He doesn't have the compass. Anderson had
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  Speaker 1: the compass so he has no idea which direction is
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  Speaker 1: what He's in a shark breeding ground, and now he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have his life raft, and so Samson did the
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  Speaker 1: only thing he could do, which was pick a direction
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  Speaker 1: that he believed was east and start swimming. And so
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  Speaker 1: Samson is swimming in this pitch black water. He can't
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  Speaker 1: see anything around him, and all he's probably thinking about
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  Speaker 1: is how any minute now, I'm gonna run out of
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  Speaker 1: energy and I'm gonna sink down and I'm gonna drown,
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  Speaker 1: or I'm gonna get attacked by sharks or some combination
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  Speaker 1: of the two. But miraculously, after about an hour of
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  Speaker 1: swimming in some direction, he broke through the fog and
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  Speaker 1: he saw a way off in the distance was a
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  Speaker 1: light on what looked like dry land. And so he
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  Speaker 1: has this sudden burst of energy and he swims as
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  Speaker 1: hard and as fast as he possibly can. A couple
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  Speaker 1: of times he gets pulled under by rip currents and
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  Speaker 1: he nearly drowns, but eventually he gets to the sandy
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  Speaker 1: shores of Point Reyes. It's believed he swam approximately one
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  Speaker 1: or two miles after being dumped out of the boat.
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  Speaker 1: As he was pulling himself out of the water and
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  Speaker 1: collapsed on the beach. He had given everything to that swim.
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  Speaker 1: Had he been in the water for even a few
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  Speaker 1: more minutes, it's very likely he would have drowned, unable
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  Speaker 1: to stand from pure exhaustion. Samson just begins slowly crawling
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  Speaker 1: up the beach towards this light he had seen as
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  Speaker 1: he was swimming, and it would turn out this light
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  Speaker 1: was on the outside of this building that was owned
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  Speaker 1: by a radio station. And so Samson is crawling and
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  Speaker 1: periodically puking out seawater, and finally, after about thirty or
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  Speaker 1: forty five minutes, he gets to the steps of this building.
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  Speaker 1: He crawls up the steps and he pounds on the door,
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  Speaker 1: and by this point he's hypothermic, he's in shock. He's
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  Speaker 1: about to die if he doesn't get any help. And
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  Speaker 1: luckily there's someone inside of this building. They open it up,
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  Speaker 1: they see Samson. They don't know what's going on, but
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  Speaker 1: they pick him up, they pull him inside, They wrap
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  Speaker 1: him in a blanket, and they try to ask him,
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  Speaker 1: you know what happened, what's going on? Why are you here?
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  Speaker 1: But Samson was too cold to even speak. So we
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  Speaker 1: just sat there and shook and so finally, this employee
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  Speaker 1: just called the Coast Guard that had a station very
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  Speaker 1: close to where they were, and a few minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: the coast Guard shows up. They take Samson and they
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  Speaker 1: rush him to their station house where they were able
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  Speaker 1: to give him medical treatment which saved his life. It
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  Speaker 1: was also at this coast Guard station where Samson was
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  Speaker 1: reunited with Anderson, who had also managed to make his
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  Speaker 1: way to shore alive. Samson would go on to serve
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  Speaker 1: for two more years in the Army. The entire time
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  Speaker 1: was spent as a life lifeguard at the Fort Ward Pool. Then,
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty three, after the Korean War ended, Samson's
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  Speaker 1: mandatory service came to an end and he was honorably discharged.
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  Speaker 1: Samson would go on to become one of the most
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  Speaker 1: successful and well known actors and producers of all time.
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  Speaker 1: He has won hundreds of big awards, including four Academy
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  Speaker 1: Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. Samson's real name is
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