Capturing the Friedmans
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1:08:04
We did change our table
and I spoke to Arnie.

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I interviewed him
for a very long time.

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He was telling me
that the only reason

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he pled guilty
and went to jail

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was because he wanted
to save his son, Jesse.

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He told me that he was
a pedophile.

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He told me that he had
had activity with boys

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but not in Great Neck.
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He told me that he had a house
in Wading River

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a beach resort
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and that the family
enjoyed vacations there.

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And he told me that
there were certain boys

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he took liberties with
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and I don't want
to go into it

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while he was in that area.
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"In my early 40s,
during the summer

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I did go 'over the line'
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and did have sexually arousing
contact with two boys

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short of sodomy.
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One of the boys was the son
of a close friend

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and I feared exposure
and loss of this friendship.

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The boy might have
told his parents

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but they said nothing
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so I assumed that
he really had not told them. "

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That's what? It's one sentence.
What does that mean?

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Do you fucking know
what that sentence means?

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I don't even fucking know
what that sentence means.

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I "sexually aroused?"
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What the fuck
is he talking about?

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Maybe he put his arm
around the kid.

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Maybe he took him
in a sailboat

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and he found that
sexually arousing?

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Maybe he was leaning
against a tree.

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That's called
sexually arousing contact

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if you're sexually aroused
while you lean against a tree.

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I don't know what that means.
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I don't know
what that sentence means.

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When Arnold was first arrested,
he said

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"I'm arrested because
of this magazine.

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I sent one magazine
in the mail

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and that's why I'm arrested,
and it's nothing.

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It's just nothing.
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It doesn't count,
it doesn't matter

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it's nothing. "
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And you know, you live
as husband and wife

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you share certain intimacies.
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I said to him,
"Tell me the truth.


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