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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share three progressively more disturbing stories,
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Speaker 1: and at the end of each of them, I'm going
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Speaker 1: Just after midnight on June seventeenth, nineteen thirty nine, a
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Speaker 1: crowd of people begin to form outside of this un
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Speaker 1: remarkable building in Versailles, which is a city in France.
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Speaker 1: The atmosphere in this crowd was electric. They all knew
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Speaker 1: why they were there, they knew what they were about
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Speaker 1: to see, but even still, there was a lot of
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Speaker 1: nervous anticipation, and so as such, some people were coping
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Speaker 1: with these nerves by drinking alcohol and trying to laugh
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Speaker 1: and have a good time, while others were much more
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Speaker 1: subdued and were trying to be respectful about what they
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Speaker 1: were about to witness. Between one and two am, the
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Speaker 1: doors of this unremarkable building opened up, and a group
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Speaker 1: of men dressed in the same dark uniforms came out
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Speaker 1: and didn't say a word to the crowd, and the
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Speaker 1: crowd immediately went silent and began to back away from them.
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Speaker 1: And this group of men they walked right out in
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Speaker 1: front of this building, and they had lumber and they
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Speaker 1: had tools with them, and they began constructing this kind
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Speaker 1: of strange wooden structure.
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Speaker 2: And so the crowd they wanted to.
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Speaker 1: Get up close to see what these guys were doing,
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Speaker 1: but at the same time they didn't want to get
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Speaker 1: too close, and so as the crowd formed a sort
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Speaker 1: of half moon around these men, these men that were
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Speaker 1: doing the constructing were moving so seamlessly, like all of
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Speaker 1: them had built this structure dozens of times before, and
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Speaker 1: it was just muscle memory. And so by about three am,
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Speaker 1: this structure was built, and they placed this large basket
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Speaker 1: next to the structure, and then these men packed up
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Speaker 1: their tools and the remaining pieces of lumber, and they
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Speaker 1: turned around and they went right back inside the doors
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Speaker 1: into the building and were gone. At this point, the
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Speaker 1: crowd had become quite sizable outside of this building, and
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Speaker 1: they were growing kind of restless because they knew now
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Speaker 1: that this structure was built, that the next time those
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Speaker 1: doors opened, the show is really going to start. This
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Speaker 1: spectacle they are all therefore, it's about to happen. And
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Speaker 1: the crowd all knew that this event couldn't happen if
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Speaker 1: the sun was up, because if the sun was up
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Speaker 1: and the area was well lit, the press would be
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Speaker 1: able to take pictures and film it.
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Speaker 2: And that's not what officials wanted. They wanted this to
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Speaker 2: happen in the darkness.
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Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, things seemed to be getting delayed
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Speaker 1: inside of this building, and so the crowd was just
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Speaker 1: getting more and more restless. People are getting more and
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Speaker 1: more drunk, and they're getting louder and more disruptive and boisterous.
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Speaker 1: And then around four forty five am, the sun had
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Speaker 1: come up, and so the press was out in full
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Speaker 1: force with their cameras trained at the doors of this building,
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Speaker 1: and so the crowd really at this point is not
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Speaker 1: actually expecting this event to take place, because at this
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Speaker 1: point it just seems totally unlikely. But at four fifty am,
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Speaker 1: those doors swung open, and standing in the threshold was
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Speaker 1: thirty one year old Eugene Wideman, who was a convicted
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Speaker 1: serial killer. His arms were tied behind his back and
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Speaker 1: the collar of his white shirt had been tucked down
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Speaker 1: inside because they needed his neck to be free and
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Speaker 1: clear because he was about to be beheaded. So the
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Speaker 1: two guards on either side of Eugene, they pulled him
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Speaker 1: forward out towards the crowd, so the executioners behind him,
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Speaker 1: who were dressed all in black, could filter out and
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Speaker 1: take up positions alongside the guillotine, which is that wooden
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Speaker 1: structure that had been built earlier in the morning. And
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Speaker 1: so as Eugene is being brought out towards the crowd
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Speaker 1: and everything is getting set up for his execution, the
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Speaker 1: crowd went wild. They were shrieking and howling and laughing
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Speaker 1: and pointing and booing and just generally being completely rambunctious
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Speaker 1: and totally bloodthirsty. Eugene kept his head down. He did
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Speaker 1: not want to look at the crowd, and he did
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Speaker 1: not want to look at the guillotine, and so eventually
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Speaker 1: the two guards turned him and walked him directly towards
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Speaker 1: the base of the guillotine, at which point the executioners
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Speaker 1: that had taken up their positions around this device, they
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Speaker 1: grabbed him and slid him forward, so he was on
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Speaker 1: his stomach on top of this wooden platform the guillotine,
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Speaker 1: and they slid him forward until his head poked through
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Speaker 1: this opening at the very far end, at which point
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Speaker 1: his neck was positioned right under this huge blade that
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Speaker 1: was dangling right above him, and his head was positioned
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Speaker 1: over a metal bucket on the ground, which he would
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Speaker 1: be looking directly at. At this point, the crowd was
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Speaker 1: at a fever pitch, and one of the executioners pulled
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Speaker 1: a lever. The blade came soaring down and it removed
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Speaker 1: his head. His head fell into the bin, and the
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Speaker 1: executioners pushed his torso into the basket that had been
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Speaker 1: placed out there earlier, and then the executioners and the
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Speaker 1: prison guards they gathered up Eugene's body parts and went
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Speaker 1: right back inside of the building, which was a prison.
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Speaker 2: At this point, the crowd.
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Speaker 1: Was cheering and going wild, and they ran up and
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Speaker 1: began dabbing their scarves and their handkerchiefs in Eugene's blood,
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Speaker 1: which was on the ground as a sort of souvenir
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Speaker 1: from having been at this execution. And of course, because
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Speaker 1: the sun had been out for this entire spectacle, all
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Speaker 1: of this had been captured on film, and so later
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Speaker 1: that day and for the next couple of days, the
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Speaker 1: headlines all over France were about this bloodthirsty crowd that
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Speaker 1: was cheering as this man was beheaded, and it just
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Speaker 1: overall made France look really, really bad, and so French
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Speaker 1: leaders decided that from that point forward they could no
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Speaker 1: longer do any more public executions. So the guillotine would
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Speaker 1: continue to get used for decades beyond this point.
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Speaker 2: But it was all behind closed doors. Also, random fact.
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Speaker 1: About being beheaded by a guillotine, Your head, after it's
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Speaker 1: been separated from your body stays conscious for about ten
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Speaker 1: to twelve seconds, so they say. And apparently there's been
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Speaker 1: lots of cases where the executioner, after the condemned has
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Speaker 1: had their head removed, will yell the name of the
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Speaker 1: person who has just had their head removed, and that
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Speaker 1: person's head will look over at the person calling to
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Speaker 1: them and will blink or try to mouth words for
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Speaker 1: several seconds before the lack of oxygen kills the brain
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Speaker 1: and then the head is no longer conscious. Here are
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Speaker 1: some of the more notable pictures that were used in
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Speaker 1: the media from Eugene Wideman's execution in the early nineteen hundreds.
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Speaker 1: Eben Byers was a man who other people envied. He
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Speaker 1: was born into a very wealthy family in New York City.
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Speaker 1: He attended Yale University in Connecticut, which is a very
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Speaker 1: prestigious Ivy League university, and he was devilishly handsome. After
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Speaker 1: his college graduation, he didn't need a job because his
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Speaker 1: family was so rich, and so instead he focused his
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Speaker 1: time on a passion of his which was golfing, and
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Speaker 1: in time he became this world class golfer, going so
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Speaker 1: far as to win the nineteen oh six US Amateur Tournament,
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Speaker 1: which is the biggest amateur golf tournament in the world
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Speaker 1: that most of the winners go on to become professional golfers,
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Speaker 1: and so Evan most likely would have followed that path
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Speaker 1: and become a pro golfer had his father not just
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Speaker 1: handed over the very successful metalworking business that he started
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Speaker 1: that made his family.
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Speaker 2: Wealthy in the first place.
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Speaker 1: And so Evan stopped his golf career and became the
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Speaker 1: chairman of this incredibly successful company, and so overnight he
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Speaker 1: basically went from being just rich to being uber rich,
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Speaker 1: making more money than he could possibly spend.
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Speaker 2: But Evan did attempt to spend his money. He pretty
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Speaker 2: much immediately.
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Speaker 1: Began buying up luxury properties all over the country. He
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Speaker 1: bought horse racing stables in the United Kingdom in America,
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Speaker 1: and he bought an entire luxury box at Forbes Field,
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Speaker 1: which is where the Pittsburgh Pirates professional baseball team used
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Speaker 1: to play. And so in addition to owning all these
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Speaker 1: incredible things, Eban also, through his role as chairman of
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Speaker 1: this company, began connecting with and befriending very powerful and
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Speaker 1: influential people like the founders and executives at the Coca
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Speaker 1: Cola Company, and so all in all, Evan's life was
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Speaker 1: really going quite well until nineteen twenty seven. That year,
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Speaker 1: Evan was forty seven years old, and he took some
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Speaker 1: time off from gallivanting around the world and rubbing shoulders
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Speaker 1: with famous people to go catch a football game at
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Speaker 1: his alma mater at Yale University.
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Speaker 2: So he hops on a train. He rides to Connecticut.
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Speaker 1: He watches this game, and then afterwards he gets back
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Speaker 1: on the train to head.
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Speaker 2: Back to Pittsburgh. And this is a very long ride.
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Speaker 1: It's over twelve hours long, and so Evan naturally bought
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Speaker 1: a first class ticket, and so he was inside of
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Speaker 1: a train car that had bunk beds for passengers to
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Speaker 1: sleep on during the ride. So kl into a top
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Speaker 1: bunk and he fell asleep. A few hours later, after
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Speaker 1: the train is well on its way to Pittsburgh, Eban,
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Speaker 1: in his sleep manages to roll to the side of
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Speaker 1: the bed and actually falls out of his bed onto
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Speaker 1: the ground.
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Speaker 2: He lands hard on his left side.
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Speaker 1: It wakes him up, and as he stands up, he
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Speaker 1: thinks he's okay, but then he feels this shooting.
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Speaker 2: Pain in his left arm. So he's moving his arm around.
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Speaker 1: He's not really sure what's wrong with it, but he's
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Speaker 1: hoping it's just some bruising, and so he decides to
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Speaker 1: get back into his bunk and just go back to sleep,
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Speaker 1: and so he manages to fall asleep despite the pain.
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Speaker 2: And then when they roll into the station in Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 1: Several hours later, he wakes up and right away he
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Speaker 1: feels that pain in his left arm. And so after
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Speaker 1: getting off the train and going back to his house
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Speaker 1: and dropping off his luggage, he went right to his
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Speaker 1: physical therapist's office to ask him if there was anything
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Speaker 1: he could do to help with the pain in his arm.
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Speaker 1: And so the physical therapist examines Eban's shoulder and determines that,
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Speaker 1: you know, there's no structural damage to his arm, but
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Speaker 1: obviously Eban is in pain. And so he says, look,
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Speaker 1: you know, there's a new product that came online that's
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Speaker 1: quite expensive, but since you're a man of means, maybe
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Speaker 1: it's something you want to consider. It's called Ratathor and
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Speaker 1: it's supposed to dull aches and pains, and it's supposed
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Speaker 1: to give you this huge boost of energy, and so
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe you want to try that. And so
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Speaker 1: Evan was really excited at the notion of taking this
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Speaker 1: new health tonic and said, yeah, let's do it. And
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Speaker 1: so his physical therapist wrote him a prescription for Ratathor.
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Speaker 1: Van took the prescription and he went to the drug store.
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Speaker 1: He picked up a half ounce bottle of this liquid.
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Speaker 1: He went back to his house, and as prescribed, he
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Speaker 1: drank a very small spoonful of this liquid, and right
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Speaker 1: away he felt the surge of energy. The pain in
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Speaker 1: his arms started to fade. All the things this health
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Speaker 1: tonic claimed to be able to do, it was doing.
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Speaker 1: And so over the next couple of days, Edban very diligently,
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Speaker 1: every day took the prescribed amount, a very small spoonful
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Speaker 1: of this ratathor, and every day he felt better and
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Speaker 1: better and better, not just the pain in his arm,
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Speaker 1: but overall. He felt happier, he felt fitter, he felt alive,
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Speaker 1: and he was attributing all those feelings to this miracle tonic.
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Speaker 1: And so he began taking more and more of this tonic,
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Speaker 1: well beyond what was prescribed, to the point where he
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Speaker 1: was drinking three full bottles of ratathor every single day.
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Speaker 1: And so for years he did this and it was
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Speaker 1: all going great until his jaw fell off literally in
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Speaker 1: nineteen thirty one. One day, his lower jaw just separated
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Speaker 1: from his skull and went slack. And so the reason
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Speaker 1: this happened was because ratathor was actually.
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Speaker 2: Just radioactive water.
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Speaker 1: In the early nineteen hundreds, the radioactive element radium was
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Speaker 1: believed to have highly curative properties with no side effects,
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Speaker 1: and so naturally, at the time, dozens of health products
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Speaker 1: were created with radium being their main ingredient, and ratathor
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Speaker 1: was one of those products. It was literally just water
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Speaker 1: and radium, and so after consuming over fourteen hundred bottles
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Speaker 1: of ratathor over a three year period, Evans's body was
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Speaker 1: finally just starting to to disintegrate from the inside out.
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Speaker 1: After he had his jaw surgically removed, along with large
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Speaker 1: portions of his upper jaw, the rest of his body
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Speaker 1: also just began to crumble, and so by the end
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Speaker 1: of nineteen thirty one, when his story was making headlines
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Speaker 1: all around the world about the dangers of ratathor and really,
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Speaker 1: more specifically the dangers of radium, Eben had become completely
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Speaker 1: bedridden and his skull was now beginning to disintegrate. There
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Speaker 1: were holes forming all over his skull that were exposing
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Speaker 1: portions of his brain, and so by nineteen thirty two,
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Speaker 1: Eban was dead. Eban was buried in Pittsburgh, and he
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Speaker 1: was buried inside of a lead lined coffin that was
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Speaker 1: designed to absorb any of the radiation emitting from his bones, and.
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Speaker 2: Then thirty years after he was buried.
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Speaker 1: So in nineteen sixty five, scientists actually exhumed his skeleton
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Speaker 1: to see if it was still emitting radiation, and they
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Speaker 1: determined it was still emitting the same levels of radiation
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Speaker 1: as when he died, and they actually would ultimately figure
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Speaker 1: out that radium, this radioactive element, has a half life
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Speaker 1: of sixteen hundred years. So what that means is Evan's
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Speaker 1: body will remain highly radioactive for centuries.
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Speaker 2: Here is a picture of Evan with his jaw surgically removed.
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Speaker 1: It was taken shortly before he passed away. There is
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Speaker 1: still some debate about what exactly happened in this story
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Speaker 1: that I'm about to share with you, and so for
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Speaker 1: transparency in this video, I am going to rely on
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Speaker 1: the narrative that was presented in court.
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Speaker 2: By the defendant, and so with that in mind, here
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Speaker 2: we go.
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Speaker 1: On the afternoon of December third, twenty twelve, a freelance
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Speaker 1: photographer working for the New York Post newspaper named Umar
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Speaker 1: Abbasi was walking down the stairs of the forty ninth
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Speaker 1: Street subway station in New York City. This very busy
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Speaker 1: station is located only a few blocks away from the
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Speaker 1: very famous Times Square. And so after Umar made his
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Speaker 1: way down to this underground Sube Boy station, he walked
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Speaker 1: over to one of the big automated kiosks that looks
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Speaker 1: like an ATM and he purchased a subway ticket and
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Speaker 1: then with his ticket, he walked over to the turnstiles.
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Speaker 1: He slid his ticket to the slot, pushed past the turnstiles,
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Speaker 1: and was now standing out on the actual train platform.
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Speaker 1: And from where Umar was standing, this platform basically was
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Speaker 1: like a huge sidewalk that stretched all the way to
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Speaker 1: his right a couple hundred feet and all the way
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Speaker 1: to his left a couple hundred feet, and in front
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Speaker 1: of this platform were the actual tracks down below. Because
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Speaker 1: the train when it came out of the tunnel, it
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Speaker 1: would actually come right up alongside this platform with almost
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Speaker 1: no clearance between the platform and the train. As such,
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Speaker 1: the leading edge of the platform, basically the lip of
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Speaker 1: the train platform that's closest to the train tracks, has
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Speaker 1: this big yellow line painted all across it to keep
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Speaker 1: commuters from standing too close to the edge because if
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Speaker 1: the train.
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Speaker 2: Came through, they could actually get hit by the train.
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Speaker 1: And so as Umar is standing on this platform and
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Speaker 1: he's looking left and right. It's totally crap people, and
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Speaker 1: they're all kind of tucked back against the wall, away
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Speaker 1: from this yellow line, and so Umar decides he's going
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Speaker 1: to turn right and wait at the right end of
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Speaker 1: the platform, just because he saw it. Down at the
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Speaker 1: far end there appeared to be a gap in people
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Speaker 1: and he figured he could stand right there. And so
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Speaker 1: Umar begins navigating past all of these people on the
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Speaker 1: right side of the platform, and for the most part,
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Speaker 1: everyone he is passing either has their head buried in
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Speaker 1: their phone or they're listening to music or both. Because
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Speaker 1: the thing about riding trains, especially trains in busy cities
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Speaker 1: is nobody.
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Speaker 2: None of the commuters want to talk to anybody else.
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Speaker 1: They want to be completely left alone, and so as
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Speaker 1: Umar is walking, everyone was basically doing that. But at
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Speaker 1: some point he did pass two people that were engaged
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Speaker 1: in a pretty heated conversation. Umar had no idea what
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Speaker 1: they were arguing about, or if they were even arguing
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Speaker 1: at all. He didn't know who these people were, but
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Speaker 1: he took mental note of the fact that two men
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Speaker 1: were kind of bickering with each other, and.
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Speaker 2: So he walked past them. Didn't give it much of
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Speaker 2: a second.
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Speaker 1: Thought, and he arrived at a gap in the gaggle
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Speaker 1: of people waiting for the train, and there he just
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Speaker 1: stood well back of the yellow line, where he pulled
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Speaker 1: out his camera and began clicking through the images he
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Speaker 1: had taken earlier in the day at an earlier photo shoot.
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Speaker 1: And so as he's clicking through these pictures, he starts
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Speaker 1: to notice that those two men who had been bickering
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Speaker 1: before are now straight.
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Speaker 2: Up yelling at each other. There's screaming obscenities at each other.
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Speaker 1: It's not clear who's fighting about what or who was
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Speaker 1: the aggressor, but it's very obvious that at this point
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Speaker 1: they're fighting. And so Umar looked away from his camera
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Speaker 1: and looked left down the platform towards these two guys.
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Speaker 1: And so these two guys are about one hundred to
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five feet away from him, and
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Speaker 1: all the people that were standing in the vicinity of
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Speaker 1: these two men are beginning to migrate away from them.
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Speaker 1: They just don't want anything to do with them. Because
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Speaker 1: the thing about being in subways, especially in cities like
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Speaker 1: New York, is there's lots of people that go down
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Speaker 1: into these train stations that are inebriated or mentally unstable
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Speaker 1: and so very strange, and bad behavior is just kind
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Speaker 1: of a normal thing, and people tend to just kind
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Speaker 1: of ignore it.
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Speaker 2: And so that's what's happening. People are kind of walking.
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Speaker 1: Away from these two fighting men, doing their best to
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Speaker 1: pretend it's not happening. And so Umar spent a couple
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Speaker 1: more seconds staring down the platform at these two men,
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Speaker 1: but eventually just shrugged and thought, you know what, whatever
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Speaker 1: problems they have, they're not mine. And so Umar went
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Speaker 1: back to his camera and continued to click through his
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Speaker 1: pictures when all of a sudden, he hears a scream
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Speaker 1: coming from the left side of the platform, but it
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Speaker 1: was not a scream that sounded like it came from
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Speaker 1: either of these two men, and so Umar looked up
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Speaker 1: from his camera and looked left down the platform, and
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Speaker 1: now he just sees chaos. It's people running away from
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Speaker 1: these two men. People are running to get away from
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Speaker 1: whatever is happening around them, and so Umar's thinking, these
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Speaker 1: men must have come to blows and they're now fighting
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Speaker 1: actively physically with each other. But when finally the crowd
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Speaker 1: kind of cleared for a second, he saw a woman
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Speaker 1: pointing down at the train tracks right in front of
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Speaker 1: where those two men had been standing, and so Umar
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Speaker 1: looks at the woman and he follows her finger down
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Speaker 1: onto the tracks and he sees there is now a man,
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Speaker 1: one of the two men who had been fighting, laying.
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Speaker 2: Face down on the train tracks.
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Speaker 1: And then, to Umar's horror, he looks up down the
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Speaker 1: tunnel where the train would come out of and he
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Speaker 1: sees the headlights of the train it is now coming
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Speaker 1: into the station. And so Umar starts running down the
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Speaker 1: platform to try to get to this man, to pull
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Speaker 1: him out of the tracks. And as he's running, he
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Speaker 1: pulls out his camera and he turns the flash on
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Speaker 1: and he holds the shutter down and he aims it
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Speaker 1: at the train conductor to hope the flashing of his
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Speaker 1: camera will alert the train conductor to put on the
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Speaker 1: emergency brake and stop the.
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Speaker 2: Train before he hits this guy down on the tracks.
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Speaker 1: And so as Umar is running trying to signal this
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Speaker 1: train conductor, the man down on the tracks tries to
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Speaker 1: stand up, and Umar sees he's really struggling to stand
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Speaker 1: and when he finally gets up, he turns and he
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Speaker 1: grabs the edge of the platform and he tries to
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Speaker 1: pull himself up and out of the tracks.
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Speaker 2: But he doesn't have the strength or the coordination.
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Speaker 1: And as Umar is getting closer and closer, but he's
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Speaker 1: still too far away to help, he sees that this
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Speaker 1: guy down on the tracks is not going to be
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Speaker 1: able to get out of there before the train hits him.
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Speaker 1: So Umar finally comes to a stop and he watches
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Speaker 1: as this man down on the tracks lets go of
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Speaker 1: the lip of this platform and just turns and faces
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Speaker 1: the train like he knows what's.
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Speaker 2: About to happen.
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Speaker 1: And then seconds later, the train, although it did try
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Speaker 1: to stop, impacted this man and killed him instantly. The
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Speaker 1: man's name was Kai Sukhan and he was fifty eight
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Speaker 1: years old. When the police finally showed up, they arrested
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Speaker 1: the other man who Han had been fighting with. He
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Speaker 1: was a thirty year old named Naim Davis, and Davis
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Speaker 1: would actually tell police that he had been fighting with
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Speaker 1: Han and he had pushed him onto the tracks, but
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Speaker 1: it was in self defense. However, that self defense story
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Speaker 1: didn't stop him from being charged with murder. While Davis
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Speaker 1: sat in jail waiting for his trial, the media and
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Speaker 1: the public at large had already come to the conclusion
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Speaker 1: that Davis was guilty, and this was due in large
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Speaker 1: part to a particular picture. As Umar was running down
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Speaker 1: the platform holding up his camera, holding the flashdown, trying
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Speaker 1: to flag the train conductor to get him to stop.
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Speaker 1: Umar was all so taking dozens and dozens of pictures,
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Speaker 1: and those pictures were of Han right before he was
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Speaker 1: struck by the train. And so after Umar ultimately discovered
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Speaker 1: he had taken these pictures, he gave them to his employer,
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Speaker 1: the New York Post newspaper, and the day after the incident,
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Speaker 1: they ran on the front page a picture of Han
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Speaker 1: right before he's about to be killed, with the headline Doomed.
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Speaker 1: And so once the public saw this picture, nobody could
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Speaker 1: believe that Davis was anything other than a cold blooded
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Speaker 1: killer for pushing this poor innocent man onto the tracks.
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Speaker 1: But as it would turn out, nearly five years later,
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Speaker 1: when Davis did finally get his trial, he was acquitted
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Speaker 1: of all charges because it turned out Han was very
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Speaker 1: drunk and had picked a fight with Davis, and Davis
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Speaker 1: was filmed on more than one occasion on the platform
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Speaker 1: trying to get Han to leave him alone. And so finally,
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Speaker 1: after Han began making death threats and then grabbed Davis's shoulder.
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Speaker 1: Davis turned around and pushed him, and Han, being drunk,
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Speaker 1: stumbled and fell backwards onto the tracks and then was
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Speaker 1: ultimately killed. Here is the infamous photo of Han on
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