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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.
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  Speaker 2: But what you'll remember from this story is the twist
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  Speaker 2: at the very end.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into today's story. On June twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty, the Korean War broke out between the North
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  Speaker 1: Koreans and the South Koreans. Just two days after this
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  Speaker 1: war had begun, the United States formally entered the conflict
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  Speaker 1: by sending troops to aid the South Koreans. Shortly after this,
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  Speaker 1: the United States enacted a military draft. A military draft
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  Speaker 1: is the forced enlistment of civilians into the military in
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  Speaker 1: the Korean War. The way Americans were chosen was in
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  Speaker 1: a lottery, and if their name was called, they would
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  Speaker 1: have to stop whatever they were doing in the civilian
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  Speaker 1: world and immediately go serve their country, and if they refused,
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  Speaker 1: they would go to jail. An eighteen year old high
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  Speaker 1: school dropout nicknamed Sampson was living with his family in Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: Washington when he found out he had been drafted. While
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  Speaker 1: military service was not something Samson was considering for his.
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  Speaker 2: Future, he accepted his fate with grace.
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  Speaker 1: And before long he was making his way to Fort
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  Speaker 1: Ord in northern California to begin his military training. But
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  Speaker 1: after training, when Sampson was now officially a soldier in
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  Speaker 1: the Army, he was not sent to Korea to fight
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  Speaker 1: in the war. Instead, he was ordered to stay at
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  Speaker 1: Fort Ord and be the lifeguard for their pool. It's
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  Speaker 1: unclear how Samson felt about this, but regardless, he did
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  Speaker 1: his duty and he stayed at this pool and he
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  Speaker 1: minded the folks who went swimming, and then at night
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  Speaker 1: and on the weekends, he would earn some extra cash
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  Speaker 1: by being a bouncer at a local bar. A year later,
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  Speaker 1: Samson was still working at the Fort Ord Pool when
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  Speaker 1: he decided to take some time off and go back
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  Speaker 1: home to Seattle and.
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  Speaker 2: See his family and see his girlfriend.
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  Speaker 1: As a military member, Samson was able to fly for
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  Speaker 1: free on any military flight so long as he was
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  Speaker 1: in uniform, and so Samson packed up his things.
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  Speaker 2: He threw on his uniform, and he made his.
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  Speaker 1: Way over to the Fort Ord airport where he hopped
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  Speaker 1: on a small military plane and he flew to Seattle
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  Speaker 1: a few days later, on September thirtieth, nineteen fifty one.
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  Speaker 1: Samson said goodbye to his family and to his girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: and then he put his uniform back on and made
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  Speaker 1: his way to the Seattle airport.
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  Speaker 2: When he got there, he.
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  Speaker 1: Saw there was only one military plane that was flying
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  Speaker 1: from Seattle all the way down to Fort Ord, and
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  Speaker 1: this plane was a World War Two era dive bomber
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  Speaker 1: that only had enough space for.
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  Speaker 2: One person, the pilot.
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  Speaker 1: Samson had to get back to Fort Ord that night
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  Speaker 1: because the following day he had work.
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  Speaker 2: And in the Army you can't just not show up
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  Speaker 2: for work.
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  Speaker 1: But Samson didn't have enough money to buy a civilian
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  Speaker 1: plane ticket to take a civilian flight down to fort
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  Speaker 1: or so he was in a tough spot. And so
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  Speaker 1: he approaches this pilot of this dive bomber plane. Then
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  Speaker 1: he says, hey, you know, can I just cram into
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  Speaker 1: your radar compartment in the back of your plane? And
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  Speaker 1: the pilot, whose name was Anderson, immediately said, no, that's
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  Speaker 1: a terrible idea. It's not meant for passengers. It's barely
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  Speaker 1: big enough to fit inside of You could get badly
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  Speaker 1: hurt in there. But Samson was adamant that he had
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  Speaker 1: to get back that night, that he'd be in so
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  Speaker 1: much trouble if he didn't, and he kind of appealed
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  Speaker 1: to Anderson and said, look, you're in the military, you
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  Speaker 1: get it. I have to get back there tonight. Can
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  Speaker 1: you please make an exception and just let me hitch
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  Speaker 1: a ride in the back of your plane. And so, finally,
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  Speaker 1: against his better judgment, Anderson caves and he says, okay, Samson,
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  Speaker 1: you can come with me. And so a little bit
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  Speaker 1: before four pm that afternoon, Samson eagerly went around to
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  Speaker 1: the side of the plane. He opened up a side
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  Speaker 1: hatch and he crawled inside at this very tight rate
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  Speaker 1: our compartment, and once he was tucked up inside Anderson
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  Speaker 1: walked around and he closed the hatch behind him, and
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  Speaker 1: then Andersen got in the cockpit and began preparing the
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  Speaker 1: plane for takeoff. A few minutes later, the pair was
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  Speaker 1: cleaning down the runway, and right as the plane began
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  Speaker 1: to experience lyft and was going up into the air,
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  Speaker 1: the side hatch of the radar compartment where Samson was
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  Speaker 1: suddenly flew open. The big issue with this now open
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  Speaker 1: door in the radar compartment was not that Samson, likened
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  Speaker 1: the movies, would get sucked out the store out to
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  Speaker 1: his death, although if he wasn't careful he totally could
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  Speaker 1: fall out of the door. No, the real problem with
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  Speaker 1: 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 Andersen
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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 2: But with Samson's door now wide open.
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  Speaker 1: All that extra oxygen that was coming into that space
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  Speaker 1: to keep him alive is now just being sucked right
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  Speaker 1: out the door into the atmosphere, which meant if Samson
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  Speaker 1: couldn't find a way to shut that door, he would
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  Speaker 1: eventually pass out and suffocate to death. Samson, who was
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  Speaker 1: fully aware of this fact, immediately jumped into action by
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  Speaker 1: anchoring his feet and legs around the stanchion in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of this compartment space, and once he was fairly secure,
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  Speaker 1: he began extending his upper body out of the plane
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  Speaker 1: to try to grab onto the handle to try to
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  Speaker 1: shut it. But once he was holding onto that door handle,
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  Speaker 1: he's now halfway out of the plane, he could not
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  Speaker 1: get it to shut. The wind was so strong it
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  Speaker 1: was pinning the door open, and so for the next
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  Speaker 1: several minutes, Samson desperately is trying to get this door shut,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not working. And so eventually he retreated back
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  Speaker 1: into the plane and went all the way to the
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  Speaker 1: very back of the radar compartment space and tucked himself
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  Speaker 1: up behind some equipment. Because this was not an area
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  Speaker 1: where passengers were supposed to be, there was no way
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  Speaker 1: to communicate with the pilot. He could not tell Anderson
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  Speaker 1: that he was dying back here, and so he just
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  Speaker 1: sat there and prayed. While Samson was dealing with this
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  Speaker 1: open door crisis, Anderson was dealing with a crisis of
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  Speaker 1: his own. At some point after takeoff, he looked down
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  Speaker 1: at his gauges and he realized a terrible mistake had
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  Speaker 1: been made. There wasn't enough fuel to get to Fort
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  Speaker 1: Ord and where he was discovering it. Where he was
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  Speaker 1: out over the water, there wasn't enough fuel to even
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  Speaker 1: turn around and go back to Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: And so Anderson.
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  Speaker 1: Grabs his radio and he tries to call out to
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  Speaker 1: these surrounding airports to see if there's anywhere he can
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  Speaker 1: just emergency land this plane.
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  Speaker 2: But all he hears is silence.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out his radio equipment just happened to
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  Speaker 1: fail right at this moment. And what also happened to
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  Speaker 1: fail right at that moment was Anderson's oxygen supply. It
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with Samson and the open door.
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  Speaker 1: Anderson just also suddenly was without oxygen. And so Anderson
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  Speaker 1: knew he had to get to a lower altitude as
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  Speaker 1: fast as possible because he would eventually pass out and
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  Speaker 1: crash the plane. And so he went into a very
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  Speaker 1: steep dive and began going down and realized he needed
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  Speaker 1: to try to land this.
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  Speaker 2: Plane in the ocean.
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  Speaker 1: Now there was no way he could get to an airport,
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  Speaker 1: and so he's burning down towards the water. And as
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  Speaker 1: they're coming down in altitude, there was more oxygen in
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  Speaker 1: the air, and so Samson, who had eventually passed out
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  Speaker 1: from a lack of oxygen, this suddenly revived with all
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  Speaker 1: this additional oxygen as they're going down. And so Samson
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  Speaker 1: comes to and he looks and the door is still
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  Speaker 1: wide open, and all he can see is the Pacific
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  Speaker 1: Ocean burning up at him. He only had a few
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  Speaker 1: seconds to grab onto the stanchion in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the space he's in before they impacted the water. Miraculously,
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  Speaker 1: Samson survived the impact, but immediately he was faced with
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  Speaker 1: another life and death situation. Because this door was wide open,
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  Speaker 1: the freezing cold water began pouring inside, flooding the space,
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  Speaker 1: and so Samson tried to swim his way out, but
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  Speaker 1: the power of this water coming in was too strong,
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  Speaker 1: and so he had to wait until the space completely
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  Speaker 1: flooded before he swam out, and then swam up to
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  Speaker 1: the surface. Once he got to the surface, he's looking
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  Speaker 1: around and the water's incredibly choppy and it's very foggy.
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  Speaker 2: He can barely see anything.
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  Speaker 1: He's looking around for Anderson, not really sure what happened
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  Speaker 1: to him. And he looks down the plane towards the
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  Speaker 1: front of the plane and he sees Anderson climbing out
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  Speaker 1: of the cockpit. He looks badly beaten up, but he's alive.
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  Speaker 1: He's okay. And so Samson yells to him, and the
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  Speaker 1: two men link up and they're able to pull two
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  Speaker 1: life rafts out of the plane, and so both men
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  Speaker 1: that get into each of their rafts right as this
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  Speaker 1: plane sinks down below the surface. And so Anderson and
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  Speaker 1: Samson begin looking around wondering what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: But it's so foggy they can't see land in any direction.
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  Speaker 2: They can barely see ten feet away from themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And so Anderson thought they landed maybe two or three
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  Speaker 1: miles off the coast of California, but they weren't really sure.
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  Speaker 1: So Anderson pulled out his compass. He looked east and said,
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  Speaker 1: let's just start paddling. The men had crashed about two
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  Speaker 1: miles off the coast, of Point Reys, California, which is
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  Speaker 1: this big protected shoreline that's about one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: miles north of Fort Ord, And this particular stretch of
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  Speaker 1: water that these two men had found themselves in was
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  Speaker 1: a known breeding ground for great white sharks. So the
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  Speaker 1: two men, they got their compass and they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: swim as fast as they can to the east, but
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  Speaker 1: they're not seeing any land. The fog hasn't let up
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  Speaker 1: at all, and then eventually it got dark, and as
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  Speaker 1: soon as it got dark, the water got choppier and choppier,
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  Speaker 1: until at one point Samson actually was launched out of
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  Speaker 1: his raft into the water. He turned around and saw
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  Speaker 1: his raft, but it was being pulled away by a
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  Speaker 1: current faster than he could swim to it, and so
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  Speaker 1: Samson yells out for Anderson, who sees him in the water.
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  Speaker 1: Anderson tries his best to paddle over and save Samson,
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  Speaker 1: but the current was too strong, and before long Samson
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  Speaker 1: watched as Anderson just disappeared into the fog. Now Samson
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  Speaker 1: was all alone in the middle of the night. He
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  Speaker 1: couldn't see anything. There's no land anywhere. He doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: the compass. Anderson had the compass, so he has no
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  Speaker 1: idea which direction is what He's in a shark breeding ground.
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  Speaker 2: And now he doesn't have his life raft.
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  Speaker 1: And so Samson did the only thing he could do,
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  Speaker 1: which was pick a direction that he believed was east
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  Speaker 1: and start swimming.
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  Speaker 2: And so Samson is swimming in this pitch black water.
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  Speaker 1: He can't see anything around him, and all he's probably
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  Speaker 1: thinking about is how any minute now, I'm gonna run
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  Speaker 1: out of energy and I'm gonna sink down and I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna drown, or I'm gonna get attacked by sharks or
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  Speaker 1: some combination of the two. But miraculously, after about an
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  Speaker 1: hour of swimming in some direction, he broke through the
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  Speaker 1: fog and he saw a way off in the distance
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  Speaker 1: was a light on what looked like dry land. And
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  Speaker 1: so he has this sudden burst of energy and he
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  Speaker 1: swims as hard and as fast as he possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of times he gets pulled under by rip
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  Speaker 1: currents and he nearly drowns, but eventually he gets to
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  Speaker 1: the sandy shores of Point Reyes. It's believed he swam
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  Speaker 1: approximately one or two miles after being dumped out of
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  Speaker 1: the boat. As he was pulling himself out of the
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  Speaker 1: water and collapsed on the beach. He had given everything
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  Speaker 1: to that swim. Had he been in the water for
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  Speaker 1: even a few more minutes, it's very likely he would
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  Speaker 1: have drowned, unable to stand from pure exhaustion. Samson just
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  Speaker 1: begins slowly crawling up the beach towards this light he
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  Speaker 1: had seen as he was swimming, and it would turn
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  Speaker 1: out this light was on the outside of this building that.
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  Speaker 2: Was owned by a radio station.
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  Speaker 1: And so Samson is crawling and periodically puking out seawater,
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  Speaker 1: and finally, after about thirty or forty five minutes, he
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  Speaker 1: gets to the steps of this building. He crawls up
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  Speaker 1: the steps and he pounds on the door, and by
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  Speaker 1: this point he's hypothermic, he's in shock. He's about to
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  Speaker 1: die if he doesn't get any help. And luckily there's
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  Speaker 1: someone inside of this building. They open it up, they
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  Speaker 1: see Samson. They don't know what's going on, but they
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  Speaker 1: pick him up, they pull him inside, They wrap him
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  Speaker 1: in a blanket, and they try to ask him, you
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  Speaker 1: know what happened, what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: 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 Coastguard shows up. They take Samson and they rush
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  Speaker 1: him to their station house where they were able to
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  Speaker 1: give him medical treatment which saved his life. It was
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  Speaker 1: also at this Coast Guard station where Samson was reunited
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  Speaker 1: with Anderson, who had also managed to make his way
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  Speaker 1: to shore alive. Samson would go on to serve for
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  Speaker 1: two more years in the Army, the entire time was
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  Speaker 1: spent as a lie lifeguard at the Fort Word 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: Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.
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