:03:04
It's the first small notice
taken of Leonard Zelig.
:03:08
Florida, one year later.
:03:10
An odd incident occurs...
:03:12
at the New York Yankees'
training camp.
:03:15
Journalists,
anxious as always...
:03:17
to immortalize the exploits
of the great home-run hitters...
:03:21
notice a strange new player...
:03:23
waiting his turn at bat
after Babe Ruth.
:03:26
He's listed on the roster
as Lou Zelig...
:03:29
but no one on the team
has heard of him.
:03:32
Security guards are called...
:03:33
and he's escorted
from the premises.
:03:35
It appears as a small item
in the next day's newspaper.
:03:47
Chicago, Illinois,
that same year.
:03:50
There is a private party...
:03:52
at a speak-easy
on the South Side.
:03:55
People from the most
respectable walks of life...
:03:57
dance and drink bathtub gin.
:04:05
Present that evening
was Calvin Turner, a waiter.
:04:09
A lot of gangsters
come in the place.
:04:12
They're good tippers
and take care of us.
:04:15
We take care of our customers.
:04:18
On this particular night,
here's a strange guy coming in.
:04:21
I'd never seen him before.
:04:23
So I asked the one
or the other...
:04:24
I said, "John,
you know this guy?
:04:26
"You ever seen him?"
So he looks.
:04:27
"No. I ain't never
seen him before.
:04:29
"I don't know who he is...
:04:30
"but I know one thing--
he's a tough-looking hombre."
:04:32
So I looked over, and then...
:04:34
the next thing,
the guy had disappeared.
:04:35
I don't know where he went to.
:04:38
But about this time,
the music starts...
:04:40
and the band
started playing.
:04:42
I looked. Here's a colored boy
over there playing trumpet.
:04:47
Man, he was playing back,
and I looked at the guy...
:04:50
and I said, "He looks
just like that gangster...
:04:53
"but the gangster was white,
and this guy is black."
:04:58
So I don't know
what's happening.