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Vidor is the headquarters of the
Ku Klux Klan for the state of Texas.
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It's a city where black people
will not spend the night.
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Black people won't even stop there
to get their car filled with gasoline.
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And furthermore, the people of Vidor
were under the impression...
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that the policeman that was murdered
was a black man.
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I had to stop at a motel on the way.
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My wife and I stayed in one room,
the lady lawyer in another room.
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We arranged to get up very early,
go to Vidor and start our investigation.
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At about 6:00 in the morning...
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Edith James, the lady lawyer, got up...
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and was looking for me.
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While she went out in the parking lot
to find me, she went to one room...
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and someone in the parking lot said:
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"If you're looking
for the lawyer from Dallas...
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"he's in room..."
And he gave her the room number.
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I immediately began to suspect...
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from the time I was that close to Vidor,
I was being followed and observed.
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Doug Mulder had been there
the week before I had...
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and had told the people in Vidor that I was...
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an Eastern-educated
civil liberties attorney...
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and that I was down there
to discredit David Harris.
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And then I had been recommended
to see one particular policeman...
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who had been led
to the solution of this case.
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And I had the impression...
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that he was the one honest policeman
I could trust in Vidor.
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He told me that
after the policeman was killed...
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David Harris went back to Vidor.
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But before he was arrested,
he committed a robbery down there...
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and had someone on the floor
of a 7-Eleven type of store...
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with a shotgun at her throat.
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Got back there...
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robbed O'Bannion's 7-Eleven with a.22 rifle.
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Committed some other burglaries
and what have you.
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All this time I was on probation.
Juvenile probation.
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Eventually I turned myself in
for this stuff in Vidor.