The Thin Blue Line
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I think I made a confession.
I can't even remember exactly.

:35:08
So I'm told I did.
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He had told us he had robbed stores,
and we laughed.

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"Sure, we know you have."
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I'd given him one of my hats.
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It's an old Bonnie-and-Clyde-looking
hat, it's turned sideways.

:35:26
We said, "We'll draw you a little
mustache, walk in with that gun.

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"Nobody'll know who you are."
:35:31
About 2:00 that morning,
I was asleep and the phone rings.

:35:35
I said, "Hello?" He said, "This is
David." "This is David Harris?"

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"Yeah," he said, "I did it.
Will you come and get me?"

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I said, "I'm not coming to get you.
I'm asleep."

:35:47
He didn't have a conscience.
:35:51
If I do something bad, it kind of gets to me.
:35:53
I feel, "Shucks, I shouldn't have done
that. I feel bad about it."

:35:58
But it didn't bother him.
Didn't bother him at all.

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We asked the D.A. In Vidor, Texas...
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what they were going to do
with little David. They said:

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"We'll send him
to the Texas Youth Council."

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And we sort of tried to inquire...
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didn't he think it was strange
that there was a robbery committed...

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with that same pistol.
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And here it was David Harris' pistol...
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David Harris' automobile
that picked up Randall Adams.

:36:38
Didn't he think it was a little odd...
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that all the utensils for committing
this so-called murder...

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were furnished by David Harris
who got off scot-free...

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and was being a witness
for the prosecution?

:36:51
And all he said was, "We don't
feel that way in Vidor, Texas.

:36:56
"Our people just are not that...
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"We're not that keen
on ruining a young man's life."


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