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...handoff
on the left side.

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...first down, hunter's out at
the 20-yard line and a big...

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Sondi Wright: He'd
known for a long time

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that he was no longer
a really good writer.

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He had spurts.

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Douglas Brinkley:
He lost that Gonzo edge.

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Tom wolfe: I wonder what's
happening to old hunter.

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He's kind of losing it.

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Charles Perry: Creatively,
he had written all his great stuff.

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He hadn't been really productive
for five or six years.

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I think he just had
run out of juice.

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Brinkley:
In hunter's last years...

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In order to really get the
juices stirred up in him...

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In what we call
quintessential hunter...

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It took something like...

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It had to almost a feel
like a kick in the groin.

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Johnny Depp: "It was just after
dawn in Woody creek, Colorado",

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when the first plane hit
the world trade center

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in New York City
on Tuesday morning.

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And as usual I was
writing about sports,

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but not for long.

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Football suddenly
seemed irrelevant

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compared to the scenes of
destruction and utter devastation

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"coming out
of New York on TV."

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"The towers are gone now,
reduced to bloody rubble,"

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along with all hopes
for peace in our time...

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"In the United States
or any other country."

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"Make no mistake about it:
We are at war now."

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some way out of here"

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to the thief...

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Depp: "It will be a religious
war... a sort of Christian jihad"

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fueled by religious hatred

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and led by merciless
fanatics on both sides...

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Guerrilla warfare
on a global scale

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"with no front lines
and no identifiable enemy."

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came and went...

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Depp: "We're gonna punish
somebody for this attack",

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but just who or what will be blown
to smithereens is hard to say...

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"Maybe Afghanistan,
maybe Pakistan or Iraq."

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to howl.

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"This is going to be
a very expensive war,"

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and victory is not
guaranteed for anyone...

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And certainly not for anyone
as baffled as George w bush.

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He will declare
a national security emergency

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and clamp down hard on everybody,
no matter where they live or why.

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Winston Churchill once said,

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'the first casualty of war
is always the truth.'

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the lid is on.
Loose lips sink ships.

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"Don't say anything that
might give aid to the enemy."

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TV anchor: A giant of the
written word has died.

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Hunter s Thompson
was a lot of things...

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A journalist,
an author, a patriot,

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a professional troublemaker,

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a complex walking
monument to misbehavior

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who apparently took his own
life with a gun last night.

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Depp: "It was always at
night, like a werewolf",

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that I would take the thing out

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for an honest run
down the coast.

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I would start
in golden gate park,

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"thinking only to run a few
long curves to clear my head."

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"The momentary freedom of the park
was like the one unlucky drink"

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that shoves a wavering
alcoholic off the wagon.

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But in a matter of minutes,
I'd be out at the beach

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with the sound
of the engine in my ears,

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the surf booming up
on the sea wall

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and a fine empty road stretching
all the way down to Santa Cruz.

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There was no helmet
on those nights,

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no speed limit and no cooling
it down around the curves.

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Then into second gear,
forgetting the cars

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and letting the beast
wind out... 35, 45.

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Then into third,
not worried about green or red signals

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but only some other
werewolf loony.

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Now there is no sound
except wind.

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The needle leans down on 100,

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and wind-burned eyeballs strain
to see down the centerline...

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No room at all for mistakes.

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"That's when
the strange music starts."

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Depp: "The edge... there is
no honest way to explain it"

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because the only people
who really know where it is

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are the ones who have gone over.

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The others... the living...

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Are those who pushed their control as
far as they felt they could handle it,

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and then pulled back,
or slowed down.

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"But the edge...
Is still out there."

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Man: What is your name, please?

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My name is hunter Thompson.

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My name is hunter Thompson.

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My name is hunter Thompson.

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Sonny barger:
I met hunter in the '60s

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a short time before
he wrote the book on us.

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And he went on to become

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probably one
of the greatest writers

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that America will ever have.

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Doesn't mean he isn't
a jerk in my eyes,

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but he's a very good writer.

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Wolfe: Hunter reminds me
so much of Mark twain.

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He was a reporter... twain
started out as a reporter...

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With a wild imagination

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and he's not trying to fool you.

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You know immediately that
he is filtering reality

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through what hunter
called Gonzo.

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Man: Will the real hunter
Thompson please stand up?

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Wright: Will the real
hunter Thompson stand up?

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That was before I understood
what all that was going to mean.

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Oops, are we marking?

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Oh, no! God!
Help us, Jesus!

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I know it.
It's in my interest...

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Maybe in the interest
of greatest good...

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For me to smoke
a joint and calm down.

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Jimmy Carter: He was not
afraid to rock the boat,

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to challenge the establishment

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and express himself in unique and
radical, sometimes shocking, ways.

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Pat Buchanan: He described me
as a half-crazed Davy Crockett

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running around the parapets
of Nixon's alamo.

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We were all amused by him.

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He was an interesting guy
to be around.

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He asked you
unexpected questions.

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Most people were surprised
that I walk on two legs.

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I think people think
I'm... very much...

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Maybe a violent version
of that comic strip.

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This is the last drawing
I did of him so far.

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"My god! I musta missed...
It's hell down here!!"

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Ralph steadman: He's pushing the
boundaries as much as he could.

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Life to him was the challenge.

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He was gonna be dead
at 30, anyway,

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so now he was living
on borrowed time.

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"Dear hunter, it is over a year"

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since you set the scene for
your strangely-planned suicide.

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The messages that I have
received from you

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up to the bush/kerry
election of 2004

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were infected
by a dismal undertone.

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'If bush wins, ' you said,
'the planet is doomed.'

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when you pulled
the trigger on your Magnum .44,

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my first reaction was to
say, 'about bloody time.

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He's been threatening
to do that for years.'

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you were never
reasonable, and you knew,

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in spite of your wayward spirit,

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you were not invincible.

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Those who grew to be a
threat to your America

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continue to burgeon.

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For you, it was
victory or game over.

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I just wanted you to hang
around and nail the beauty

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of that image of absolute evil.

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But you leave us with a
blueprint, old sport.

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Take it up with the gods.

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"Send word.
Ralph."

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Wright:
I think he was important

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in a literary way

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and also in a political way.

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And I think that
his story is tragic.

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He was loving.

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He was generous.

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On the other end
of the spectrum,

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the boy in the man

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was absolutely vicious.

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God damn, you dumb-ass!
Reach under there

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- and get some goddamned medicine!
- Man: Over here?

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To the right.

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Anita Thompson: Hunter
had two extremes in him

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that he lived with constantly...

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The generous, beautiful hunter

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and the scary,
mean, cruel hunter.

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And he was aware of both.

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I don't know if he was in
control of both all the time,

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but he was certainly
aware of both.

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And they became
present in his life

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when he was very young...
Both sides.

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Brinkley: You've gotta go
back to louisville, Kentucky,

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to understand him.
His father died when he was young.

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So you had a mother
raising three boys

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on a librarian salary.

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He lived... it wasn't
even middle class,

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it was a lower-
middle-class existence.

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His friends were the rich
kids of louisville,

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the ones that
had all the privilege.

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So he was on the other side
of the railroad tracks.

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Yet, hunter was very smart,
naturally intelligent,

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and he always felt
a bit like the outsider.

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He was a real hellion
on vandalism.

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The seminal experience was
when he and a group of buddies

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were partying
and smoking cigarettes

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and drinking beer.
They were all arrested.

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The rich kids who knew
the judges got out.

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Hunter never got to walk
for graduation.

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He was in jail.

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Depp: "I could see the
moon hung high in the sky"

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with a mocking grin on his face.

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I seized the bars,
and shrieked and wailed

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"like a soul
who's lost in hell."

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Wright:
Essentially, inside...

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Hunter was an agonized
human being.

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But he also felt

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like he had the potential

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of being a really great writer.

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Brinkley: "The great gatsby"
is how hunter learned to write.

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He would type "the great
gatsby" over and over again

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just to learn
the music of Fitzgerald.

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"The great gatsby"
was filled with anger

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that the whole deal
in American life was rigged.

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Hunter identified with Fitzgerald
I'd say more than any other writer.

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The difference is Fitzgerald would
look in on the candy store window,

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look in on the storefronts
of the rich.

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Hunter wanted
to smash the windows.

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Wright: Hunter was
extremely seductive.

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I was very attracted to hunter.

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His energy was just phenomenal.

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He wrote every day.

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He was getting paid $100
for an article or something,

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but we were very poor.

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When I was pregnant with my son,

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hunter shot elk
and I ate elk liver,

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milk and salad, period.
That's all I ate.

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Brinkley: Here was
a guy struggling.

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He had his wife sondi with him.

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He was living on a freelancer,

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check to check,
barely able to pay rent.

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So when he got the assignment

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from Carey mcwilliams
of "the nation"

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to write about this
phenomenon... hell's angels...

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It was a big deal.

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Man: "I, hunter
Thompson, am a writer."

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Recently, I spent
over a year living

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in close contact
with a notorious

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California motorcycle gang
which is the basis

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"of my new book,
'hell's angels.'"

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signed
"hunter Thompson."

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Uh, number two, approximately how many
members do the hell's angels have?

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It varies.
Anywhere from...

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I'd say 100 to 200.

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Brinkley: Hunter
infiltrated the story.

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He considered himself
a photojournalist.

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In his early
applications for jobs,

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he was always looking
to be a photographer.

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Depp: "The sight of a photographer
invariably whips the angels"

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into a kissing frenzy.
This is a guaranteed square-jolter,

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and the angels are gleefully
aware of the reaction it gets.

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'They can't stand it, '
says Terry.

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'It blows their minds
every time...

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"Especially
the tongue bit.'"

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wolfe: It is one of the bravura
pieces of reporting of all time.

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He actually, as they say,
ran with the angels for...

247
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He was embedded, you know?

248
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He was embedded in the
hell's angels battalion.

249
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Depp:
"The menace is loose again."

250
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The hell's angels,
the 100-carat headline,

251
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running fast and loud
on the early-morning freeway

252
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like genghis Khan
on an iron horse...

253
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A monstrous steed
with a fiery anus,

254
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flat out through the eye of a beer
can and up your daughter's leg

255
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"with no quarter asked
and none given."

256
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Brinkley: It was the
beginning of hunter

257
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developing his style.

258
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It is not Gonzo,
it's not surreal.

259
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It is straight journalism,
but it's participatory.

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Depp: "Weird as it seems,
as this gang of costumed hoodlums"

261
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converged on monterey
that morning

262
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they were on the verge
of 'making it big, '

263
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as the showbiz people say,

264
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and they would owe most of their
success to a curious rape mania

265
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that rides on the shoulder
of American journalism

266
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like some jeering,
masturbating raven.

267
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Nothing grabs an editor's
eye like a good rape.

268
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To them, the appearance
of the hell's angels

269
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"must have seemed like a
wonderful publicity stunt."

270
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Hell's angels accused
of rape and perversion,

271
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theft, narcotics and violence.

272
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And the attorney general says,

273
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"they will no longer be
allowed to threaten the lives,"

274
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the peace and security
of honest citizens.

275
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Hell's angels are the biggest

276
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"of the outlaw
motorcycle clubs."

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Oh, shit!
I just can't do it.

278
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Depp: "In a nation of
frightened dullards"

279
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there's always a sorry
shortage of outlaws,

280
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and those few who make the
grade are always welcome.

281
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The hell's angels pose
for television cameramen

282
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and answered questions
on radio call-in shows.

283
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They were sought out
by mystics and poets,

284
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cheered on by student rebels

285
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"and invited to parties given
by liberals and intellectuals."

286
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Number two, who is the author

287
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that sort of leads the
kind of LSD sect out there

288
00:16:25,802 --> 00:16:28,104
in los... San Francisco?

289
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Ken kesey.

290
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Number two,
the merry pranksters gave a party

291
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for the hell's angels...
Were you there?

292
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- ...That lasted two days?
- Yes.

293
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We're going out on an
outing... on a sunday outing.

294
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Oh, this is lovely.
You know, our little family.

295
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And so we ended up...
Hunter said,

296
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"oh, you know,
something's happening over...

297
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Let's go just kind
of check it out."

298
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The big banners out there saying

299
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"the merry pranksters
welcome the hell's angels."

300
00:17:01,405 --> 00:17:04,541
I thought I was
having a lot of fun.

301
00:17:04,542 --> 00:17:07,177
Juan was in the car asleep.
Everybody was on acid.

302
00:17:07,178 --> 00:17:10,247
I wasn't. Hunter wasn't.
He hadn't taken acid yet.

303
00:17:10,248 --> 00:17:12,549
And everybody is
pretty happy and dancing

304
00:17:12,550 --> 00:17:14,751
and then watching
this five-hour film

305
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or something
kesey had put together.

306
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And when we left...

307
00:17:20,291 --> 00:17:24,361
Hunter said, "did you know
what was happening in there?"

308
00:17:24,362 --> 00:17:26,363
And I said,
"what do you mean?"

309
00:17:26,364 --> 00:17:30,867
And he said, "well,
there was a gangbang going on."

310
00:17:30,868 --> 00:17:33,237
Hunter: I'm watching it as
I was about six feet away.

311
00:17:33,238 --> 00:17:35,239
See from the door,
the lights were on,

312
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there was a kind of a filmy
curtain over the door.

313
00:17:37,908 --> 00:17:41,278
You could see shadows moving around on
the side. If you knew what was happening...

314
00:17:41,279 --> 00:17:43,680
You could interpret the movements
of all these shadowy figures

315
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behind this curtain...
silhouettes is what they were.

316
00:17:46,151 --> 00:17:48,885
You could see people getting down on
her, other people holding her legs,

317
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and really...

318
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Surrealistically horrifying.

319
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Brinkley: The tape recorder
for hunter was essential.

320
00:17:57,128 --> 00:17:59,129
He always brought
a tape recorder...

321
00:17:59,130 --> 00:18:03,134
Like those famous... now... tapes
of the hell's angels party.

322
00:18:19,418 --> 00:18:23,087
Brinkley: Those tapes became a big
part of the book "hell's angels,"

323
00:18:23,088 --> 00:18:25,723
but he also loaned
those tapes to Tom wolfe.

324
00:18:25,724 --> 00:18:28,759
Wolfe used those tapes

325
00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:33,130
and extracted things from them for
"the electric kool-aid acid test."

326
00:18:33,131 --> 00:18:35,533
Wolfe: I had a hard
time with the tape

327
00:18:35,534 --> 00:18:37,535
about the rape scene
at the hell's angels party.

328
00:18:37,536 --> 00:18:40,671
It was dynamite,
from a reporting point of view,

329
00:18:40,672 --> 00:18:43,574
but the thing was,
I knew who the key figures in that were.

330
00:18:43,575 --> 00:18:46,944
One was the ex-wife...

331
00:18:46,945 --> 00:18:49,280
Of Neal cassady.

332
00:18:49,281 --> 00:18:53,351
And she quite willingly...

333
00:18:53,352 --> 00:18:55,520
Invited the...

334
00:18:55,521 --> 00:18:57,588
The entire corps

335
00:18:57,589 --> 00:19:00,625
of hell's angels
to have a go at her.

336
00:19:00,626 --> 00:19:04,229
Wright: It wasn't the kesey people
who were doing the gangbang.

337
00:19:04,230 --> 00:19:08,667
They were about love
and happiness...

338
00:19:08,668 --> 00:19:11,237
And togetherness
and community...

339
00:19:11,238 --> 00:19:13,806
And love and light.
They were, the angels weren't.

340
00:19:15,208 --> 00:19:17,376
Depp:
"It was about this time"

341
00:19:17,377 --> 00:19:20,579
that my long-standing rapport with
the angels began to deteriorate.

342
00:19:20,580 --> 00:19:23,649
For nearly a year I had lived in
a world that seemed, at first,

343
00:19:23,650 --> 00:19:25,584
like something original.

344
00:19:25,585 --> 00:19:27,419
It was obvious
from the beginning

345
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that the menace bore little
resemblance to its publicized image.

346
00:19:29,922 --> 00:19:33,259
Later, as they attracted
more and more attention,

347
00:19:33,260 --> 00:19:35,994
the mystique
was stretched so thin

348
00:19:35,995 --> 00:19:38,398
that it finally
became transparent.

349
00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,670
The honeymoon came to a
jangled end on October 16th,

350
00:19:44,671 --> 00:19:47,539
when the hell's angels attacked a
get out of Vietnam demonstration

351
00:19:47,540 --> 00:19:49,676
"at the Oakland-Berkeley
border."

352
00:19:55,448 --> 00:19:57,483
Man on TV: The bike rider
is Clifford workman,

353
00:19:57,484 --> 00:19:59,150
treasurer of the hell's angels.

354
00:19:59,151 --> 00:20:01,052
He's here to challenge
his biographer,

355
00:20:01,053 --> 00:20:04,089
a tense young literary
journalist named hunter Thompson.

356
00:20:04,090 --> 00:20:05,891
What did you think of the book?

357
00:20:05,892 --> 00:20:08,060
Well, I'll tell you, al

358
00:20:08,061 --> 00:20:12,064
and hunter,
everybody in this room,

359
00:20:12,065 --> 00:20:14,567
That that book
is 60% cheap trash.

360
00:20:14,568 --> 00:20:17,604
This is what happened: Junkie
George was beating his own lady.

361
00:20:17,605 --> 00:20:20,474
- Al: Junkie George?
-

362
00:20:22,175 --> 00:20:25,712
Clifford: Junkie George's
dog bit him, right?

363
00:20:25,713 --> 00:20:28,114
- Hunter: I didn't see...
- to me, this is a personal affair.

364
00:20:28,115 --> 00:20:30,149
If a guy wants to beat his
wife and his dog bites him,

365
00:20:30,150 --> 00:20:31,551
that's between
the three of them.

366
00:20:31,552 --> 00:20:33,486
But there was somebody
about 30' to my left

367
00:20:33,487 --> 00:20:35,388
beating his wife
to a pulp on the rocks.

368
00:20:35,389 --> 00:20:37,390
If he had been beating her that bad,
somebody would have stopped him.

369
00:20:37,391 --> 00:20:39,292
Oh, no. Don't... don't...
You're kidding me

370
00:20:39,293 --> 00:20:41,428
and you're gonna kid everybody else.
Nobody stopped him.

371
00:20:41,429 --> 00:20:43,195
You know he beat his wife up.
You just said it, right?

372
00:20:43,196 --> 00:20:45,164
You walked right up
to him and you said,

373
00:20:45,165 --> 00:20:47,834
"only a punk beats
his wife and dog."

374
00:20:47,835 --> 00:20:50,870
You finish it... - and he said,
"hunter, you want some of this?"

375
00:20:50,871 --> 00:20:53,740
And you said, "no."
But you got it anyways.

376
00:20:53,741 --> 00:20:57,009
And when he hit you,
three or four others hit you too.

377
00:20:57,010 --> 00:20:58,745
We let them beat him up
for a minute,

378
00:20:58,746 --> 00:21:01,113
then we broke it up and told
him to get out of there.

379
00:21:01,114 --> 00:21:03,783
He left and got in his car.
Well, uh...

380
00:21:03,784 --> 00:21:07,321
He says that he went
to the police station

381
00:21:07,322 --> 00:21:10,558
all bloodied-up and they threw him
out, which is malarkey.

382
00:21:10,559 --> 00:21:12,894
I mean, but it's part
of his style of writing.

383
00:21:15,096 --> 00:21:17,798
Depp: "My face looked
like it had been jammed"

384
00:21:17,799 --> 00:21:20,000
into the spokes
of a speeding Harley,

385
00:21:20,001 --> 00:21:22,269
and the only thing
keeping me awake

386
00:21:22,270 --> 00:21:25,105
was the spastic pain
of a broken rib.

387
00:21:25,106 --> 00:21:27,107
It had been a bad trip...

388
00:21:27,108 --> 00:21:30,778
Fast and wild in some moments,
slow and dirty in others,

389
00:21:30,779 --> 00:21:33,981
but on balance
it looked like a bummer.

390
00:21:33,982 --> 00:21:36,149
On my way back to San Francisco,

391
00:21:36,150 --> 00:21:38,218
I tried to compose
a fitting epitaph.

392
00:21:38,219 --> 00:21:40,421
I wanted something original,

393
00:21:40,422 --> 00:21:43,657
but there was no escaping the
echo of mistah Kurtz's final words

394
00:21:43,658 --> 00:21:45,359
from the 'heart of darkness':

395
00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:49,196
'The horror!
The horror!

396
00:21:49,197 --> 00:21:51,966
"Exterminate
all the brutes!'"

397
00:21:53,768 --> 00:21:56,870
Brinkley: Although "hell's
angels" rocketed him

398
00:21:56,871 --> 00:21:58,806
to name recognition and success,

399
00:21:58,807 --> 00:22:01,842
he didn't see it himself as being
the successful book that he wanted.

400
00:22:01,843 --> 00:22:03,511
It didn't sell enough for him,

401
00:22:03,512 --> 00:22:05,613
even though it made
the best-seller list.

402
00:22:05,614 --> 00:22:08,383
He didn't make enough money off of it.
He felt ripped off by the publisher.

403
00:22:08,384 --> 00:22:10,118
He got frustrated with that.

404
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,487
He had thought that it
would be the home run,

405
00:22:12,488 --> 00:22:15,757
but what it did do,
that book made him realize

406
00:22:15,758 --> 00:22:19,128
that there was a market in
the freak circus of the '60s.

407
00:22:22,698 --> 00:22:26,668
Brinkley: And it became this
thing going on out in the bay area

408
00:22:26,669 --> 00:22:29,304
and hunter was
deeply part of it.

409
00:22:32,608 --> 00:22:36,177
He used to drive
his bsa lightning motorbike

410
00:22:36,178 --> 00:22:39,881
and go to the matrix and
befriended Jefferson airplane.

411
00:22:39,882 --> 00:22:42,216
He had a huge crush
on grace slick.

412
00:22:42,217 --> 00:22:43,818


413
00:22:43,819 --> 00:22:45,754

why I feel like

414
00:22:45,755 --> 00:22:48,823

life is through?

415
00:22:48,824 --> 00:22:50,859


416
00:22:50,860 --> 00:22:54,963

strong my love is for you...

417
00:22:54,964 --> 00:22:57,298
Jann wenner: The San Francisco
bay area was a hotbed

418
00:22:57,299 --> 00:22:58,967
of live rock 'n' roll stuff,

419
00:22:58,968 --> 00:23:01,269
drug culture,
psychedelics, kesey,

420
00:23:01,270 --> 00:23:04,639
politics, campus activism.

421
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,508
It was more on the edge
culturally

422
00:23:06,509 --> 00:23:09,211
than any other place in the country.
There's more freedom there.

423
00:23:09,212 --> 00:23:12,314
"Rolling stone" began and
merged all those elements.

424
00:23:12,315 --> 00:23:14,717
And we just thought there was a
time for a new kind of politics

425
00:23:14,718 --> 00:23:17,687
and it would emerge out of the
rock 'n' roll consciousness

426
00:23:17,688 --> 00:23:20,255
and that rock 'n' roll
ethos and that idea.

427
00:23:20,256 --> 00:23:26,662

pleasing you

428
00:23:26,663 --> 00:23:28,664


429
00:23:28,665 --> 00:23:31,366
Wright: The energy
was just phenomenal.

430
00:23:31,367 --> 00:23:34,203
It was like losing your identity

431
00:23:34,204 --> 00:23:37,807
and being just kind of sucked...

432
00:23:37,808 --> 00:23:40,309
Into whatever, you know?

433
00:23:40,310 --> 00:23:42,311
Whatever... whatever this was,

434
00:23:42,312 --> 00:23:45,247
it was some kind of
magical something or other.

435
00:23:45,248 --> 00:23:47,784


436
00:23:49,786 --> 00:23:53,155


437
00:23:53,156 --> 00:23:59,195

my dreams come true...

438
00:24:01,665 --> 00:24:04,734
Tim crouse: Hunter was a romantic.
Hunter's utopia,

439
00:24:04,735 --> 00:24:08,170
which he had experienced
before I met him,

440
00:24:08,171 --> 00:24:12,275
was San Francisco
in the early '60s.

441
00:24:12,276 --> 00:24:16,647
But there was always
two great moral pressures...

442
00:24:16,648 --> 00:24:19,249
The war and civil rights.

443
00:24:19,250 --> 00:24:23,954

make me say...

444
00:24:23,955 --> 00:24:27,223
Buchanan: There's bitterness
and nastiness to politics today,

445
00:24:27,224 --> 00:24:30,727
but I don't sense
the same anger and rage

446
00:24:30,728 --> 00:24:32,996
that we had in the 1960s...

447
00:24:32,997 --> 00:24:34,631
Anti-war demonstrations, riots,

448
00:24:34,632 --> 00:24:39,536
disorders of racial conflict,
the generational conflict.

449
00:24:39,537 --> 00:24:41,572
And hunter was right
in the middle of that.

450
00:24:41,573 --> 00:24:45,141

than all I am

451
00:24:45,142 --> 00:24:48,345


452
00:24:50,514 --> 00:24:53,283
Brinkley: The last period
where there was an optimism

453
00:24:53,284 --> 00:24:55,385
in hunter about America
were the Kennedys,

454
00:24:55,386 --> 00:24:58,388
with John Kennedy
and Bobby Kennedy.

455
00:24:58,389 --> 00:25:00,991
Hunter liked that they
had such hubris.

456
00:25:00,992 --> 00:25:04,595
They could be good politicians
but play hard at midnight.

457
00:25:04,596 --> 00:25:07,263
That meant a lot.
Those were his guys.

458
00:25:07,264 --> 00:25:08,932
I want the politics of hope,

459
00:25:08,933 --> 00:25:11,468
because I think that we can
do better in this country.

460
00:25:11,469 --> 00:25:13,137
And I don't think
that we can say

461
00:25:13,138 --> 00:25:15,339
that we are joyous
or that we are happy

462
00:25:15,340 --> 00:25:18,475
if 590 Americans are killed
in Vietnam last week

463
00:25:18,476 --> 00:25:20,678
and if we have rioting
in our nation's capital.

464
00:25:20,679 --> 00:25:22,213
I think that we can do better.

465
00:25:22,214 --> 00:25:24,783


466
00:25:30,222 --> 00:25:33,124
Depp: "The day after
Robert Kennedy died"

467
00:25:33,125 --> 00:25:36,527
I received a notice from the
local railway express office

468
00:25:36,528 --> 00:25:39,664
saying my walther p-38
automatic pistol had arrived.

469
00:25:39,665 --> 00:25:43,935
We shot it one afternoon, agreeing
that it had a very smooth action...

470
00:25:43,936 --> 00:25:46,437
And then I sent it back.

471
00:25:46,438 --> 00:25:48,806
Returning the p-38
solved nothing.

472
00:25:48,807 --> 00:25:50,808
It only postponed the necessity

473
00:25:50,809 --> 00:25:52,944
"of coming to grips
with my gun problem."

474
00:25:52,945 --> 00:25:56,547


475
00:25:56,548 --> 00:25:59,251

with that gun in your hand?

476
00:26:02,621 --> 00:26:05,356
Brinkley: Hunter saw guns as
one of the great things in life.

477
00:26:05,357 --> 00:26:07,959
He loved shooting them and
firing them whenever he could.

478
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,829

with that gun in your hand?

479
00:26:10,830 --> 00:26:12,497
When he's at big sur,
he would go

480
00:26:12,498 --> 00:26:15,635
wild-boar, wild-pig hunting
with a submachine gun.

481
00:26:19,405 --> 00:26:21,840
Juan Thompson: I had a bb gun
when I was like seven, probably.

482
00:26:21,841 --> 00:26:23,842
Those are some of my best
memories from that time,

483
00:26:23,843 --> 00:26:25,811
because it was something
we both enjoyed doing,

484
00:26:25,812 --> 00:26:27,946
but it was also because
it was time

485
00:26:27,947 --> 00:26:29,614
we were building
our relationship

486
00:26:29,615 --> 00:26:32,918
as a father and son,
and not just as kind of roommates.

487
00:26:32,919 --> 00:26:35,854
Wenner: The guns... they
weren't just for amusement.

488
00:26:35,855 --> 00:26:37,990
He liked the noise,
the violence and the destruction of it.

489
00:26:37,991 --> 00:26:40,158
And he had that
in his personal life too.

490
00:26:40,159 --> 00:26:42,227
We had a real violent streak.

491
00:26:42,228 --> 00:26:44,596
Wright: The first time he took
acid, hunter says,

492
00:26:44,597 --> 00:26:47,499
"sondi, get me the gun." I
said, "I can't get you the gun.

493
00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:51,636
I'm terrified something
is gonna happen to Juan."

494
00:26:51,637 --> 00:26:54,572
And... and hunter says,

495
00:26:54,573 --> 00:26:56,608
"you get me that gun

496
00:26:56,609 --> 00:26:59,845
or I'm throwing this boot
through the window."

497
00:26:59,846 --> 00:27:02,481
He throws the boot
through the window.

498
00:27:04,417 --> 00:27:07,953
Depp: "Had my brain turned
into jelly from too much acid?"

499
00:27:07,954 --> 00:27:10,556
What was I doing
with all these guns?

500
00:27:10,557 --> 00:27:12,225
My angst began to fester

501
00:27:12,226 --> 00:27:15,494
as the gun-control argument
raged closer to home.

502
00:27:15,495 --> 00:27:17,596
More and more people
began telling each other

503
00:27:17,597 --> 00:27:22,068
that the gun was the ultimate
cure for what ails us...

504
00:27:22,069 --> 00:27:24,070
"The American way."

505
00:27:24,071 --> 00:27:27,807
Brinkley: By 1968,
hunter takes on this idea

506
00:27:27,808 --> 00:27:30,643
that he's gonna be able to write
on the death of the American dream.

507
00:27:30,644 --> 00:27:33,312
And hunter thought
that covering politics...

508
00:27:33,313 --> 00:27:35,482
'68 was gonna be the book.

509
00:27:40,554 --> 00:27:43,389
Depp: "I went to
Chicago as a journalist."

510
00:27:43,390 --> 00:27:46,225
My candidate had been
murdered in Los Angeles

511
00:27:46,226 --> 00:27:47,828
"two months earlier."

512
00:27:52,299 --> 00:27:57,203


513
00:27:57,204 --> 00:27:58,872


514
00:27:58,873 --> 00:28:02,441

you feel...

515
00:28:02,442 --> 00:28:05,411
Crouse: Hunter was in Chicago
right in the midst of the gas

516
00:28:05,412 --> 00:28:07,380
and the beatings
and everything else.

517
00:28:07,381 --> 00:28:10,516
And I think that
that was a milestone event

518
00:28:10,517 --> 00:28:13,153
for hunter
that he never got over.

519
00:28:13,154 --> 00:28:16,390
And he never forgave Humphrey
who was the candidate,

520
00:28:16,391 --> 00:28:19,593
and he never forgave muskie who
was the vice-presidential candidate

521
00:28:19,594 --> 00:28:23,397
for supporting mayor daley
and his Chicago police.

522
00:28:23,398 --> 00:28:29,369

piece of my heart now, baby...

523
00:28:29,370 --> 00:28:32,172
Depp: "I witnessed at least
10 beatings in Chicago"

524
00:28:32,173 --> 00:28:35,810
that were worse than anything I
ever saw the hell's angels do.

525
00:28:35,811 --> 00:28:38,278
I left in a state
of hysterical angst,

526
00:28:38,279 --> 00:28:40,380
convinced by what I had seen

527
00:28:40,381 --> 00:28:42,983
"that the American dream was
clubbing itself to death."

528
00:28:42,984 --> 00:28:45,685

feel good...

529
00:28:45,686 --> 00:28:49,356
Wright: There were only tears twice that
I remember ever in our 19 years together.

530
00:28:49,357 --> 00:28:52,793
I remember one, when he came back
from the Democratic convention.

531
00:28:52,794 --> 00:28:54,795
And he was telling me
the stories

532
00:28:54,796 --> 00:28:56,831
about the people being beaten

533
00:28:56,832 --> 00:28:59,133
and he... you know,
the tears just...

534
00:28:59,134 --> 00:29:03,503
And that was very... you know.

535
00:29:03,504 --> 00:29:07,041
It was... hunter was a
man that didn't cry.

536
00:29:07,042 --> 00:29:10,210

in your heart...

537
00:29:10,211 --> 00:29:14,115
Wright: And he cared so much.
Hunter was a patriot.

538
00:29:14,116 --> 00:29:16,517
He knew the constitution,
he cared about it,

539
00:29:16,518 --> 00:29:20,156
and then there he was in Chicago
and it's all being destroyed.

540
00:29:22,058 --> 00:29:24,692

another little piece...

541
00:29:24,693 --> 00:29:27,295
Wright: I think Chicago
inspired him to do...

542
00:29:27,296 --> 00:29:29,730
To do more,
to get more involved.

543
00:29:29,731 --> 00:29:31,867

piece of my heart

544
00:29:31,868 --> 00:29:35,136

yeah yeah yeah

545
00:29:35,137 --> 00:29:38,506
Wenner: Right away,
riots started... Chicago, '68 took place.

546
00:29:38,507 --> 00:29:41,376
Then that was kind of a
radicalizing, galvanizing event.

547
00:29:41,377 --> 00:29:45,313
We were already eschewing
mainstream nostalgia in politics

548
00:29:45,314 --> 00:29:47,615
saying, "look, the system is too rigged.
Politics is..."

549
00:29:47,616 --> 00:29:49,284
Fine, but in
some other venue."

550
00:29:49,285 --> 00:29:51,319
I got a letter from hunter
out of the blue,

551
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,055
complimenting me on "rolling
stone," how much he liked it.

552
00:29:54,056 --> 00:29:56,324
So I wrote him back and said,
"what are you doing these days?"

553
00:29:56,325 --> 00:29:58,059
I'd love to have you
in the magazine."

554
00:29:58,060 --> 00:29:59,861
Then he mentioned
he was running for sheriff.

555
00:29:59,862 --> 00:30:02,830
So I said, "how about that?
Sounds great."

556
00:30:02,831 --> 00:30:05,100
It's the kind of thing
we would run today,

557
00:30:05,101 --> 00:30:08,769
you know, somebody running for sheriff
in Aspen, trying to take over the town.

558
00:30:08,770 --> 00:30:11,439
James salter:
Hunter Thompson is a moralist

559
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,475
posing as an immoralist.

560
00:30:13,476 --> 00:30:17,013
Nixon is an immoralist
disguised as a moralist.

561
00:30:17,014 --> 00:30:19,048
This is James salter.

562
00:30:19,049 --> 00:30:22,584
There'll be thieves and auto wrecks
in Aspen whoever gets elected,

563
00:30:22,585 --> 00:30:24,820
but hunter represents
something wholly alien

564
00:30:24,821 --> 00:30:27,223
to the other candidates
for sheriff...

565
00:30:27,224 --> 00:30:29,591
Ideas, and the sympathy

566
00:30:29,592 --> 00:30:32,995
towards the young, generous,
grass-orientated society,

567
00:30:32,996 --> 00:30:35,331
which is making
the only serious effort

568
00:30:35,332 --> 00:30:38,700
to face the technological
nightmare we have created.

569
00:30:38,701 --> 00:30:40,702
The only thing against him is

570
00:30:40,703 --> 00:30:43,172
he is a visionary who
wants to cure the world.

571
00:30:43,173 --> 00:30:46,442
George stranahan: First of all,
he drove everybody batshit nuts.

572
00:30:46,443 --> 00:30:49,411
Hunter was my friend
and neighbor,

573
00:30:49,412 --> 00:30:52,949
the man who never paid his
rent, broke up my marriage

574
00:30:52,950 --> 00:30:54,684
and taught my children
to smoke dope.

575
00:30:55,919 --> 00:30:57,819
Now hunter was outrageous,

576
00:30:57,820 --> 00:31:00,156
but there was
such a sort of movement

577
00:31:00,157 --> 00:31:02,925
that this guy may be crazy,

578
00:31:02,926 --> 00:31:05,228
but better that than whitmire.

579
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:14,071
Announcer: The American sheriff's job
was carved out of the rugged west.

580
00:31:14,072 --> 00:31:15,872
It was a desperately-
needed position

581
00:31:15,873 --> 00:31:20,110
of few words, much action,
and little praise or glory.

582
00:31:20,111 --> 00:31:22,879
Today the sheriff has
reams of responsibility.

583
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,383
But still... as in the past...
The number-one responsibility

584
00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:29,552
is to protect his people
and enforce their laws.

585
00:31:29,553 --> 00:31:31,554
Vote for and elect

586
00:31:31,555 --> 00:31:34,357
Carrol whitmire for our sheriff.

587
00:31:34,358 --> 00:31:36,827
I think a lot of places are
beyond this kind of politics.

588
00:31:38,629 --> 00:31:41,149
We seemed to be running an
experiment that people were watching.

589
00:31:44,402 --> 00:31:47,604
Stranahan: Hunter came to Aspen,
he had moved into our farm.

590
00:31:47,605 --> 00:31:49,472
Hunter liked to talk politics.

591
00:31:49,473 --> 00:31:54,011
I was just at that age
of war protest... 1968.

592
00:31:54,012 --> 00:31:57,047
I was becoming political...

593
00:31:57,048 --> 00:31:59,683
And so hunter and I had a
lot in common to talk about.

594
00:32:02,386 --> 00:32:05,855
Bob braudis: Aspen then was
a magnet for intellectuals

595
00:32:05,856 --> 00:32:08,291
who wanted to drop out.

596
00:32:08,292 --> 00:32:10,427
And hunter convinced us

597
00:32:10,428 --> 00:32:12,329
that we didn't have much
effect on what happened

598
00:32:12,330 --> 00:32:14,432
in Washington day to day

599
00:32:14,433 --> 00:32:18,169
and what happened in Washington from day
to day didn't have much effect on us.

600
00:32:18,170 --> 00:32:21,805
But what happened in pitkin
county had a visceral,

601
00:32:21,806 --> 00:32:26,377
daily, hourly effect on
the way we lived here.

602
00:32:26,378 --> 00:32:30,281
People didn't understand that
Aspen was a battleground.

603
00:32:30,282 --> 00:32:33,017
Aspen was more of a Disneyland.

604
00:32:33,018 --> 00:32:36,920
Hunter was a visionary.
He understood more about land use

605
00:32:36,921 --> 00:32:38,956
and development
than any of us did.

606
00:32:38,957 --> 00:32:43,694
Nobody at the time was
standing up to the bulldozers.

607
00:32:43,695 --> 00:32:45,696
"Tentative platform,
Thompson for sheriff,"

608
00:32:45,697 --> 00:32:49,033
Aspen, Colorado, 1970:

609
00:32:49,034 --> 00:32:53,571
1... rip up all city streets
with jackhammers

610
00:32:53,572 --> 00:32:56,307
and sod the streets at once.

611
00:32:56,308 --> 00:33:01,112
2... change the name 'Aspen'
to 'fat city.'

612
00:33:01,113 --> 00:33:03,881
this would prevent
greedheads, land-rapers

613
00:33:03,882 --> 00:33:06,817
and other human jackals from
capitalizing on the name 'Aspen.'

614
00:33:06,818 --> 00:33:10,754
these swines should be
fucked, broken,

615
00:33:10,755 --> 00:33:12,790
and driven across the land.

616
00:33:12,791 --> 00:33:16,528
3... it will be
the general philosophy

617
00:33:16,529 --> 00:33:19,931
of the sheriff's office
that no drug worth taking

618
00:33:19,932 --> 00:33:22,201
should be sold for money.

619
00:33:22,202 --> 00:33:24,303
My first act as sheriff

620
00:33:24,304 --> 00:33:28,273
will be to install on the
courthouse lawn a set of stocks

621
00:33:28,274 --> 00:33:30,842
in order to punish
dishonest dope dealers

622
00:33:30,843 --> 00:33:32,978
"in a proper
public fashion."

623
00:33:37,383 --> 00:33:39,384
Juan: I was only
about six at the time,

624
00:33:39,385 --> 00:33:41,420
but legend has it that
my father shaved his head

625
00:33:41,421 --> 00:33:45,324
so he could say, "unlike my long-haired
opponent, sheriff whitmire."

626
00:33:45,325 --> 00:33:47,326
I just wish I could
have been old enough

627
00:33:47,327 --> 00:33:49,528
to really understand
people's reaction

628
00:33:49,529 --> 00:33:51,996
about this crazy,
bald, freak drug-fiend

629
00:33:51,997 --> 00:33:55,201
who was about to take over
the whole political mechanism.

630
00:33:56,769 --> 00:34:00,071

from Miami, f.L.A...

631
00:34:00,072 --> 00:34:03,242
Hunter Thompson is the only
candidate who has the imagination

632
00:34:03,243 --> 00:34:07,212
and intelligence to be
a law-enforcement executive.

633
00:34:07,213 --> 00:34:09,013
Elect hunter Thompson sheriff.

634
00:34:09,014 --> 00:34:11,015
You haven't been listening!

635
00:34:11,016 --> 00:34:13,585
Why doesn't anybody
listen to me anymore?!

636
00:34:13,586 --> 00:34:15,588
This is for your own good!

637
00:34:15,589 --> 00:34:18,959

a walk on the wild side...

638
00:34:21,362 --> 00:34:24,297
Braudis: At the start,
I think it was more to get a message out

639
00:34:24,298 --> 00:34:26,866
knowing that defeat was certain.

640
00:34:26,867 --> 00:34:30,703
The serious component of
hunter's campaign snowballed

641
00:34:30,704 --> 00:34:34,073
and, as the movement
gained momentum,

642
00:34:34,074 --> 00:34:37,510
I think hunter actually
believed that he had a chance.

643
00:34:37,511 --> 00:34:41,381
And a lot of us that were supporting
hunter shared that belief.

644
00:34:41,382 --> 00:34:44,517
We're trying to get together
a list of endorsements

645
00:34:44,518 --> 00:34:47,420
for hunter Thompson for sheriff.

646
00:34:47,421 --> 00:34:49,088
Brood:
We were all freaks...

647
00:34:49,089 --> 00:34:52,325
The people who came together
in support of hunter...

648
00:34:52,326 --> 00:34:56,229
But I think our biggest issue
at the time was the environment,

649
00:34:56,230 --> 00:34:58,231
and a secondary issue

650
00:34:58,232 --> 00:35:00,900
was the illegal status of drugs.

651
00:35:00,901 --> 00:35:03,102
What is that you're smoking?

652
00:35:03,103 --> 00:35:05,672
This is what I believe
to be marijuana.

653
00:35:07,574 --> 00:35:09,342
You mean you can't tell?

654
00:35:09,343 --> 00:35:12,144
An awful lot of us
were smoking dope

655
00:35:12,145 --> 00:35:14,580
because the government said,
"thou shalt not."

656
00:35:14,581 --> 00:35:16,250
We said, "we shall."

657
00:35:16,251 --> 00:35:19,553
Marijuana laws are
one of the reasons

658
00:35:19,554 --> 00:35:22,689
that has engendered
this lack of respect

659
00:35:22,690 --> 00:35:26,159
that cops complain about
all over the country.

660
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,895
When you get a whole
generation that grows up

661
00:35:28,896 --> 00:35:32,233
as felons, they know
the law is ridiculous

662
00:35:32,234 --> 00:35:34,268
and they're told us
all this gibberish about it...

663
00:35:34,269 --> 00:35:37,138
"it drives you crazy and makes your
brain soft, and your feet fall off."

664
00:35:39,641 --> 00:35:41,642
Even the police know
it's a silly law.

665
00:35:41,643 --> 00:35:44,645
It's time that we
either bridge that chasm

666
00:35:44,646 --> 00:35:47,080
with some kind of realistic
law enforcement or else...

667
00:35:47,081 --> 00:35:50,050
I don't think it's gonna be bridged in
this country. We're going to revolution.

668
00:35:50,051 --> 00:35:52,018
Wright: I think that
was one of hunter's

669
00:35:52,019 --> 00:35:54,087
greatest times, myself.

670
00:35:54,088 --> 00:35:56,890
He had the passion
to move people,

671
00:35:56,891 --> 00:35:59,726
change people's thinking,

672
00:35:59,727 --> 00:36:02,929
make them act

673
00:36:02,930 --> 00:36:06,433
and bring them out...
Not just defy authority

674
00:36:06,434 --> 00:36:09,270
and take as many drugs
as you want,

675
00:36:09,271 --> 00:36:12,539
but to make a real difference
trying to change the system,

676
00:36:12,540 --> 00:36:14,841
make the system work

677
00:36:14,842 --> 00:36:17,111
and make the system good.

678
00:36:17,112 --> 00:36:19,047
He had that in him.

679
00:36:20,716 --> 00:36:23,551
Whitmire: If he was elected
sheriff, I can foresee

680
00:36:23,552 --> 00:36:28,089
that you would have an influx
of what we call the hippies.

681
00:36:28,090 --> 00:36:31,293
And I think if this happened,

682
00:36:31,294 --> 00:36:33,362
it would actually destroy Aspen.

683
00:36:40,769 --> 00:36:43,705
Man: When you publicly
come out with statements

684
00:36:43,706 --> 00:36:45,340
of mescaline, marijuana...

685
00:36:45,341 --> 00:36:47,875
My good god!

686
00:36:47,876 --> 00:36:49,944
This isn't the way
of American life.

687
00:36:49,945 --> 00:36:53,681


688
00:36:53,682 --> 00:36:55,983

in your hand

689
00:36:55,984 --> 00:36:58,686


690
00:36:58,687 --> 00:37:01,589

"who is that, man?"

691
00:37:01,590 --> 00:37:06,361
They are raping our forests.
Some of them are living like animals.

692
00:37:06,362 --> 00:37:08,930

is happening here

693
00:37:08,931 --> 00:37:13,034

what it is

694
00:37:13,035 --> 00:37:18,173

Mr. Jones?

695
00:37:18,174 --> 00:37:20,543
Hunter Thompson...

696
00:37:20,544 --> 00:37:24,447
Has no grip on reality.
I think he's psychotic.

697
00:37:24,448 --> 00:37:27,516
I think if there was ever
gonna be any excesses

698
00:37:27,517 --> 00:37:29,518
within the sheriff's department,

699
00:37:29,519 --> 00:37:32,821
I'd look for more out of hunter
Thompson than Carrol whitmire.

700
00:37:32,822 --> 00:37:34,857

the geek...

701
00:37:34,858 --> 00:37:37,926
Braudis: He was a
redneck and very popular

702
00:37:37,927 --> 00:37:41,497
with the people who
controlled this valley then.

703
00:37:41,498 --> 00:37:43,532
They didn't want
a smart sheriff.

704
00:37:43,533 --> 00:37:45,668
They wanted people
who would do their bidding.

705
00:37:45,669 --> 00:37:47,370


706
00:37:47,371 --> 00:37:50,506
I'm not at all embarrassed at
the use of the word "freak."

707
00:37:50,507 --> 00:37:53,041
I think the way things are
going, in this country today

708
00:37:53,042 --> 00:37:55,444
it's a very honorable designation.
I'm proud of it.

709
00:37:55,445 --> 00:37:57,880

is happening here...

710
00:37:57,881 --> 00:38:00,148
Hunter: We have a situation
here, an isolated town,

711
00:38:00,149 --> 00:38:02,050
with a very unusual
kind of population.

712
00:38:02,051 --> 00:38:05,053
We do have a freak power base.
It's undeniable.

713
00:38:05,054 --> 00:38:07,623
We have about 1,000
votes that wouldn't...

714
00:38:07,624 --> 00:38:11,694
If I went out there and walked through the
streets naked with a bomb in each hand,

715
00:38:11,695 --> 00:38:14,197
They would still vote for me.

716
00:38:18,168 --> 00:38:21,170
Braudis: One of hunter's
"freak power" tools

717
00:38:21,171 --> 00:38:24,273
was to register people
who had never voted before.

718
00:38:24,274 --> 00:38:26,610
Okay, where's this voting place?

719
00:38:26,611 --> 00:38:29,613
Hunter, 182;
Whitmire, 137.

720
00:38:29,614 --> 00:38:31,449
- Ricks, 10.
- Yeah! Right!

721
00:38:35,686 --> 00:38:37,487
Woman: One could do
it, one could do it.

722
00:38:37,488 --> 00:38:39,789
The suburbs...
The silent majority.

723
00:38:39,790 --> 00:38:44,028
- Okay, here's the totals.
- Man: He's not available right at this second.

724
00:38:46,864 --> 00:38:50,266
Whitmire, 204;

725
00:38:50,267 --> 00:38:52,936
Hunter, 173.

726
00:38:52,937 --> 00:38:55,572
Okay, uh...

727
00:38:55,573 --> 00:38:58,207
Unfortunately,
it proved what I set out to prove...

728
00:38:58,208 --> 00:39:01,310
And it was more a political
point than a local election...

729
00:39:01,311 --> 00:39:05,081
that the American dream
really is...

730
00:39:05,082 --> 00:39:08,051
Very hard to have
a baldheaded lunatic...

731
00:39:08,052 --> 00:39:10,286
I'll do that for the cameras.
Hey, you fellows.

732
00:39:10,287 --> 00:39:12,589
Man:
All right!

733
00:39:12,590 --> 00:39:16,560
And we made a mistake
in thinking...

734
00:39:16,561 --> 00:39:18,696
That the town was ready for
an honest political campaign.

735
00:39:18,697 --> 00:39:22,299
Depp: "We frighten
the bastards so badly"

736
00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:25,269
that on election day they
rolled people in wheelchairs...

737
00:39:25,270 --> 00:39:29,540
Even on stretchers... into the
polling places to vote against us.

738
00:39:29,541 --> 00:39:32,843
And when I lost,
they instantly got down to making sure

739
00:39:32,844 --> 00:39:37,314
"that nobody like me could
ever run for office again."

740
00:39:37,315 --> 00:39:39,950
We ran that story,

741
00:39:39,951 --> 00:39:43,253
had the infamous poster
of a two-thumbed hand

742
00:39:43,254 --> 00:39:44,922
holding a peyote button.

743
00:39:44,923 --> 00:39:49,794
He came in and talked to an
editor named John lombardi.

744
00:39:49,795 --> 00:39:52,129
Afterwards, lombardi,
who was from Philadelphia

745
00:39:52,130 --> 00:39:55,232
and was not quite used
to the west coast crazy...

746
00:39:55,233 --> 00:39:57,735
He said, "you know,
that hunter Thompson is weird."

747
00:39:57,736 --> 00:39:59,470
He's really weird.

748
00:39:59,471 --> 00:40:01,806
He came in with a box
full of wigs and hats.

749
00:40:01,807 --> 00:40:03,808
He was taking them off
and putting them on

750
00:40:03,809 --> 00:40:06,377
"in the middle
of the conversation."

751
00:40:16,788 --> 00:40:20,826

to introduce myself

752
00:40:20,827 --> 00:40:25,163

and taste...

753
00:40:25,164 --> 00:40:27,398
Wenner: Ralph is crazier
than hunter ever was.

754
00:40:27,399 --> 00:40:29,467
Whereas hunter could always
pull back from the edge,

755
00:40:29,468 --> 00:40:32,771
Ralph was a true believer.
And if it was time

756
00:40:32,772 --> 00:40:34,940
to take the fucking thing
down, Ralph was prepared

757
00:40:34,941 --> 00:40:36,808
to go in like guy Fawkes
and blow up parliament.

758
00:40:36,809 --> 00:40:40,612
And so we had
this purity of vision,

759
00:40:40,613 --> 00:40:42,548
and hunter saw that.

760
00:40:42,549 --> 00:40:44,616
I know you from somewhere.
I wonder where.

761
00:40:44,617 --> 00:40:46,384

to meet you...

762
00:40:46,385 --> 00:40:48,554
Have I seen you
somewhere before?

763
00:40:48,555 --> 00:40:51,122
Are you listening to me?
Are you listening?

764
00:40:51,123 --> 00:40:53,158
Please!

765
00:40:53,159 --> 00:40:56,194
Stewardess: On behalf of rocky
mountain airways and your flight crew,

766
00:40:56,195 --> 00:40:58,329
we'd like to thank you
for flying with us today.

767
00:40:58,330 --> 00:41:00,331
Have a pleasant stay in Aspen

768
00:41:00,332 --> 00:41:02,901
or wherever your final
destination might be.

769
00:41:02,902 --> 00:41:05,837
Steadman: I think what
he saw in this connection

770
00:41:05,838 --> 00:41:09,074
was somebody that somehow
saw the thing in pictures

771
00:41:09,075 --> 00:41:12,143
as he saw it in words.
And that seemed to me

772
00:41:12,144 --> 00:41:15,080
to be part of the whole
chemistry, of our chemistry,

773
00:41:15,081 --> 00:41:16,882
that made Gonzo possible.

774
00:41:16,883 --> 00:41:19,919
Here I go.

775
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,989
Perry: I've seen the
illustrations steadman was doing

776
00:41:22,990 --> 00:41:24,991
before he worked with hunter.

777
00:41:24,992 --> 00:41:28,961
He was much more conventional
before hunter got a hold of him.

778
00:41:28,962 --> 00:41:31,764
Hunter told me
he liked steadman's stuff,

779
00:41:31,765 --> 00:41:35,534
so he asked him to help him
cover the Kentucky derby

780
00:41:35,535 --> 00:41:38,204
for a magazine
called "scanlan's."

781
00:41:38,205 --> 00:41:40,740
And Ralph told me as soon
as he got off the airplane,

782
00:41:40,741 --> 00:41:43,475
hunter gave him some psilocybin
and his life changed.

783
00:41:43,476 --> 00:41:46,213
- Come on, buddy.
- Come on, hey! Hunter!

784
00:41:49,116 --> 00:41:51,918

it was you and me...

785
00:41:51,919 --> 00:41:54,320
So nice to see you.

786
00:41:54,321 --> 00:41:56,055
Wright: Ralph...
When he first met hunter,

787
00:41:56,056 --> 00:41:57,657
he'd never done any drugs.

788
00:41:57,658 --> 00:42:01,027
He drank, but he'd never
done anything hallucinogenic.

789
00:42:01,028 --> 00:42:04,196
And so here comes hunter,
he gives him mescaline

790
00:42:04,197 --> 00:42:07,433
and he loses it.

791
00:42:07,434 --> 00:42:09,369
You know, Ralph loses it.

792
00:42:12,673 --> 00:42:14,340
Steadman:
I was a choirboy...

793
00:42:14,341 --> 00:42:17,009
You know, decent,
innocent abroad.

794
00:42:17,010 --> 00:42:18,645
You know how things are.

795
00:42:18,646 --> 00:42:21,882
And so I guess
it was attractive,

796
00:42:21,883 --> 00:42:24,218
that kind of raciness.

797
00:42:26,220 --> 00:42:28,221


798
00:42:28,222 --> 00:42:29,691


799
00:42:32,593 --> 00:42:34,695
Steadman: I think the
birth of Gonzo happened

800
00:42:34,696 --> 00:42:37,530
when the evil came out
of me in the drawings.

801
00:42:37,531 --> 00:42:40,668
Depp: "Unlike most of the
others in the press box",

802
00:42:40,669 --> 00:42:43,804
we didn't give a hoot in hell
what was happening on the track.

803
00:42:43,805 --> 00:42:46,439
We had come to watch
the real beasts perform.

804
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,909
When the crowd stood
to face the flag

805
00:42:48,910 --> 00:42:50,778
and sing
'my old Kentucky home, '

806
00:42:50,779 --> 00:42:53,446
steadman faced the crowd
and sketched frantically.

807
00:42:53,447 --> 00:42:56,416
Thousands of raving,
stumbling drunks

808
00:42:56,417 --> 00:42:59,653
"getting angrier and angrier as
they lose more and more money."

809
00:42:59,654 --> 00:43:03,456
Wolfe: In that story,
you get all of the attitudes

810
00:43:03,457 --> 00:43:06,760
to the derby,
and you never get to the derby.

811
00:43:06,761 --> 00:43:09,830
You're there to...
He said to come to the derby,

812
00:43:09,831 --> 00:43:11,899
and you get all
the drunk southerners,

813
00:43:11,900 --> 00:43:13,901
you get all
the weird socialites,

814
00:43:13,902 --> 00:43:16,103
the weird bookies,
the hangers-on.

815
00:43:16,104 --> 00:43:18,571
Depp: "It was a face I'd
seen a thousand times"

816
00:43:18,572 --> 00:43:20,208
at every derby I'd been to.

817
00:43:20,209 --> 00:43:24,278
I saw it in my head as the
mask of the whiskey gentry...

818
00:43:24,279 --> 00:43:28,683
"The inevitable result
of too much inbreeding."

819
00:43:28,684 --> 00:43:30,919
Hunter: First, I'd realized I
was doing something different.

820
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,187
A friend of mine,
he wrote me a note saying

821
00:43:33,188 --> 00:43:35,589
"that derby piece
was pure Gonzo."

822
00:43:35,590 --> 00:43:36,958
And I thought, "well,
if that's what it was..."

823
00:43:36,959 --> 00:43:38,927
I thought
it was a brutal failure.

824
00:43:38,928 --> 00:43:41,595
I'd botched my assignment,
you know?

825
00:43:41,596 --> 00:43:43,431
It was one of my worst failures

826
00:43:43,432 --> 00:43:47,201
and I got this onslaught
of mail... mail, calls...

827
00:43:47,202 --> 00:43:49,670
Saying I made a great
breakthrough in journalism.

828
00:43:49,671 --> 00:43:51,405
Well, Christ, if I made it...

829
00:43:51,406 --> 00:43:53,808
As a breakthrough,
we've gotta call it something.

830
00:43:53,809 --> 00:43:56,845
So I liked the word "Gonzo," and
it seemed to me what I was doing...

831
00:43:56,846 --> 00:44:00,081
Kind of nice and crazy,
like zen. Gonzo.

832
00:44:00,082 --> 00:44:02,383

my name...

833
00:44:02,384 --> 00:44:05,386
- I'm Edward.
- Steadman: He has a bird called Edward.

834
00:44:05,387 --> 00:44:07,355
He's such a marvelous character.

835
00:44:07,356 --> 00:44:11,392
I think hunter tormented it,
but it was kind of a two-way affection.

836
00:44:11,393 --> 00:44:14,462
Hunter would use it,
I think, to bounce off,

837
00:44:14,463 --> 00:44:16,464
to bring into the story

838
00:44:16,465 --> 00:44:18,532
how he was feeling about
it, who was the bird.

839
00:44:18,533 --> 00:44:22,172
I suppose that at some point
I, in a way, became the bird.

840
00:44:23,907 --> 00:44:26,809
Speak up, Edward. Speak up!
Speak up! Talk to me!

841
00:44:26,810 --> 00:44:30,012
He banged the cage...
Bang bang bang bang!

842
00:44:30,013 --> 00:44:32,047
"Edward.
It's me, Edward.

843
00:44:32,048 --> 00:44:33,849
I'm coming
to get you, Edward."

844
00:44:33,850 --> 00:44:38,020
He'd open the cage, and he'd say,
"Edward, there is no bird god"

845
00:44:38,021 --> 00:44:39,955
that's gonna help you
now, Edward."

846
00:44:39,956 --> 00:44:43,526
And this bird's going...

847
00:44:45,028 --> 00:44:47,496
Steadman: I feel like
Edward sometimes...

848
00:44:47,497 --> 00:44:48,998
Now, we're going
to talk, Edward.

849
00:44:48,999 --> 00:44:50,432
Steadman:
...Holding me like a bird,

850
00:44:50,433 --> 00:44:52,502
and I'm trying to bite
my way out of it.

851
00:44:53,636 --> 00:44:55,971
I never felt fear

852
00:44:55,972 --> 00:44:58,207
when he was at the wheel.

853
00:44:58,208 --> 00:45:01,443
There's no holes over here.

854
00:45:01,444 --> 00:45:05,147
- Ooh!
- This is a big box.

855
00:45:05,148 --> 00:45:07,182
No wonder why I don't buy
American cars. God damn it.

856
00:45:07,183 --> 00:45:10,019
Move over, I'm gonna kill somebody!
You're too small!

857
00:45:10,020 --> 00:45:12,521
I want to kill somebody
a lot bigger than you!

858
00:45:12,522 --> 00:45:16,225
- What's the speed limit?
- 70. Oh my god, it's 75.

859
00:45:16,226 --> 00:45:19,029
Holy shit.
No wonder he's going...

860
00:45:20,932 --> 00:45:22,732
Duke's voice: We were
somewhere around barstow,

861
00:45:22,733 --> 00:45:25,501
on the edge of the desert,
when the drugs began to take hold.

862
00:45:25,502 --> 00:45:28,338
Suddenly, there was a
terrible roar all around us

863
00:45:28,339 --> 00:45:31,141
and the sky was full of
what looked like huge bats,

864
00:45:31,142 --> 00:45:34,710
all swooping and screeching
and diving around the car.

865
00:45:34,711 --> 00:45:37,714
And a voice was screaming, "holy Jesus,
what are these goddamn animals?!"

866
00:45:41,518 --> 00:45:44,287
Did you say
something? Huh?

867
00:45:44,288 --> 00:45:46,156
Never mind.

868
00:45:46,157 --> 00:45:48,358
- It's your turn to drive.
-

869
00:45:48,359 --> 00:45:50,193
Duke's voice: "No point in
mentioning these bats," I thought.

870
00:45:50,194 --> 00:45:52,228
"The poor bastard
will see them soon enough."

871
00:45:52,229 --> 00:45:54,965
Wenner: "Fear and loathing in Las
Vegas"... it starts off like a rocket.

872
00:45:54,966 --> 00:45:56,766
"We were somewhere
on the edge of barstow

873
00:45:56,767 --> 00:45:58,634
when the drugs began
to take hold."

874
00:45:58,635 --> 00:46:01,537
Well, that just grabs you...
Damn... right there,

875
00:46:01,538 --> 00:46:04,474
the description of the trunk
what was in the trunk...

876
00:46:04,475 --> 00:46:06,276
All the drugs, the salt shakers

877
00:46:06,277 --> 00:46:08,378
full of mescaline, cocaine...
On and on and on.

878
00:46:08,379 --> 00:46:10,280
It was mad genius stuff.

879
00:46:10,281 --> 00:46:12,148
Duke's voice:
We had two bags of grass,

880
00:46:12,149 --> 00:46:14,417
75 pellets of mescaline,

881
00:46:14,418 --> 00:46:17,053
five sheets of high-powered
blotter acid,

882
00:46:17,054 --> 00:46:19,055
a salt shaker
half-full of cocaine...

883
00:46:19,056 --> 00:46:22,259
...a pint of raw ether,
and two dozen amyls.

884
00:46:22,260 --> 00:46:24,295
Not that we needed
all that for the trip,

885
00:46:24,296 --> 00:46:27,031
but once you get locked into
a serious drug collection,

886
00:46:27,032 --> 00:46:30,968
the tendency is to push it
as far as you can.

887
00:46:30,969 --> 00:46:33,137

where you come from...

888
00:46:33,138 --> 00:46:34,972
Radio host:
A house subcommittee report

889
00:46:34,973 --> 00:46:39,376
says illegal drugs killed
160 American gis last year,

890
00:46:39,377 --> 00:46:42,113
40 of them
in Vietnam. Drugs...

891
00:46:42,114 --> 00:46:45,649



892
00:46:45,650 --> 00:46:49,486


893
00:46:49,487 --> 00:46:52,689

in a railway station

894
00:46:52,690 --> 00:46:55,059

over the line...

895
00:46:55,060 --> 00:46:57,494
Wenner: Through all this time,
he's traveling with Oscar acosta.

896
00:46:57,495 --> 00:47:00,397
They went there and had
this drug rampage.

897
00:47:00,398 --> 00:47:02,699
- I found some good grass for $12 a lid.
- Hunter: Good.

898
00:47:02,700 --> 00:47:05,836
- I just ordered two lids. I'll get it tomorrow.
- God bless you.

899
00:47:05,837 --> 00:47:07,905
Wenner: Hunter's raoul Duke...
the author of the book...

900
00:47:07,906 --> 00:47:10,174
We published whatever was
published in "rolling stone."

901
00:47:10,175 --> 00:47:11,943
It was published
as "by raoul Duke."

902
00:47:11,944 --> 00:47:15,947
Oscar transmogrifies
from Oscar zeta acosta,

903
00:47:15,948 --> 00:47:18,515
crusading chicano attorney,
into Dr. Gonzo.

904
00:47:18,516 --> 00:47:22,687

learned about the pain

905
00:47:22,688 --> 00:47:24,356


906
00:47:24,357 --> 00:47:26,358
Layla nabulsi:
Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo

907
00:47:26,359 --> 00:47:28,460
were hunter Thompson
and Oscar acosta.

908
00:47:28,461 --> 00:47:30,462
He just used that as a cover.

909
00:47:30,463 --> 00:47:32,397
You have these
sort of antiheroes.

910
00:47:32,398 --> 00:47:34,266
It's "butch Cassidy
and the Sundance kid."

911
00:47:34,267 --> 00:47:36,134
It's just the next
version in a way.

912
00:47:36,135 --> 00:47:38,670
They're outlaws.
These guys were fighting

913
00:47:38,671 --> 00:47:40,638
and they really
were in real life.

914
00:47:40,639 --> 00:47:42,574
Oscar acosta was using the law

915
00:47:42,575 --> 00:47:44,509
and the brown power movement

916
00:47:44,510 --> 00:47:48,213
and hunter was fighting with
the pen and using journalism.

917
00:47:48,214 --> 00:47:51,883
So they really were warriors
of their generation.

918
00:47:51,884 --> 00:47:55,520

one toke over the line

919
00:47:55,521 --> 00:47:58,490

over the line.

920
00:47:58,491 --> 00:48:00,258
Brinkley: When hunter
went to Las Vegas,

921
00:48:00,259 --> 00:48:02,127
he was on an assignment
for "sports illustrated"

922
00:48:02,128 --> 00:48:04,562
to write about
this motorcycle race.

923
00:48:04,563 --> 00:48:08,233
They only wanted a very brief,
almost like a little box about the race.

924
00:48:08,234 --> 00:48:12,504
He delivered this screed that
went on for about 60 pages

925
00:48:12,505 --> 00:48:15,073
detailing the desert
and everything that happened.

926
00:48:15,074 --> 00:48:17,709
And it had in it
a little bit of that

927
00:48:17,710 --> 00:48:20,612
wild, druggy...

928
00:48:20,613 --> 00:48:23,649
Feel that the final "fear and
loathing in Las Vegas" had.

929
00:48:23,650 --> 00:48:27,487
Duke's voice: Ignore this terrible drug.
Pretend it's not happening.

930
00:48:28,555 --> 00:48:32,758
Uh... hi there!

931
00:48:32,759 --> 00:48:34,760
My name...

932
00:48:34,761 --> 00:48:36,996
Uh...

933
00:48:36,997 --> 00:48:40,766
- Raoul Duke.
- Your suite isn't ready yet, but...

934
00:48:40,767 --> 00:48:42,601
Someone was looking for you.

935
00:48:42,602 --> 00:48:45,071
No! We haven't done
anything yet. Move!

936
00:48:45,072 --> 00:48:46,572
I can handle this.

937
00:48:46,573 --> 00:48:48,607
At that point there was still

938
00:48:48,608 --> 00:48:51,010
kind of that Timothy leary
approach to psychedelics

939
00:48:51,011 --> 00:48:52,945
going around,
where it's this very pious thing.

940
00:48:52,946 --> 00:48:56,450
You sat on a persian rug
and listened to Indian music.

941
00:48:57,584 --> 00:49:00,186
There had been
very little in the way

942
00:49:00,187 --> 00:49:03,156
of actually dealing with the fact that
when you're stoned on psychedelics,

943
00:49:03,157 --> 00:49:05,158
you're often just
way out of control

944
00:49:05,159 --> 00:49:07,593
and you don't know how
you're gonna handle things.

945
00:49:07,594 --> 00:49:10,963
And hunter made that
his real topic.

946
00:49:10,964 --> 00:49:13,732
Depp: "What leary
took down with him"

947
00:49:13,733 --> 00:49:15,934
was the central illusion
of a whole lifestyle

948
00:49:15,935 --> 00:49:17,603
that he helped create...

949
00:49:17,604 --> 00:49:20,206
A generation
of permanent cripples,

950
00:49:20,207 --> 00:49:22,007
failed seekers,
who never understood

951
00:49:22,008 --> 00:49:25,545
the essential old-mystic
fallacy of the acid culture:

952
00:49:25,546 --> 00:49:28,515
The desperate assumption that
somebody or at least some force

953
00:49:28,516 --> 00:49:31,919
"is tending the light
at the end of the tunnel."

954
00:49:33,954 --> 00:49:36,156
Woman: I don't know about you,
but I'm starting to feel that drink.

955
00:49:36,157 --> 00:49:38,225
- Peanuts, man.
- Oh, god! Oh, god.

956
00:49:38,226 --> 00:49:40,261
Two Cuba libres with beer
and mescal on the side.

957
00:49:42,797 --> 00:49:46,800
Duke's voice: Terrible things
were happening all around us.

958
00:49:46,801 --> 00:49:50,504
It's impossible to walk in
this muck... no footing at all.

959
00:49:50,505 --> 00:49:54,408
Perry: At last there was a vocabulary
for talking about psychedelics,

960
00:49:54,409 --> 00:49:57,043
and it was also an early
clue to the new direction...

961
00:49:57,044 --> 00:50:00,180
More and more craziness from hunter.
Of course, he was high anyway.

962
00:50:00,181 --> 00:50:02,149
I never saw the guy
without either a can of bud

963
00:50:02,150 --> 00:50:04,151
or a bottle of wild
Turkey in his hand.

964
00:50:04,152 --> 00:50:05,819
He drank a bottle
of bourbon a day,

965
00:50:05,820 --> 00:50:08,955
and that was on top of all
the pills he was taking,

966
00:50:08,956 --> 00:50:12,560
so he was just constantly pushing
the limit of consciousness.

967
00:50:15,363 --> 00:50:19,032
Duke's voice: I was right in the
middle of a fucking reptile zoo

968
00:50:19,033 --> 00:50:22,169
and somebody was giving booze
to these goddamn things.

969
00:50:22,170 --> 00:50:25,741
It won't be long now before
they tear us to shreds!

970
00:50:28,076 --> 00:50:29,577
Please!

971
00:50:29,578 --> 00:50:31,612
Tell me about
the fucking golf shoes!

972
00:50:31,613 --> 00:50:33,948
All: Huh?

973
00:50:33,949 --> 00:50:37,485
The rejection by "sports
illustrated" infuriated him.

974
00:50:37,486 --> 00:50:40,288
And it was only at that point
that he started realizing,

975
00:50:40,289 --> 00:50:42,290
like, "Eureka!
Chicago may not be"

976
00:50:42,291 --> 00:50:44,292
where the death
of the American dream is.

977
00:50:44,293 --> 00:50:46,094
"It's Las Vegas."

978
00:50:48,530 --> 00:50:52,501


979
00:50:55,471 --> 00:50:59,607


980
00:50:59,608 --> 00:51:02,643


981
00:51:02,644 --> 00:51:05,980

strange nights...

982
00:51:05,981 --> 00:51:08,849
Wenner: Hunter had rented a Cadillac
and wanted me to pay for it.

983
00:51:08,850 --> 00:51:12,353
I said, "no," you know? "I'm not
paying for the rent of a Cadillac."

984
00:51:12,354 --> 00:51:15,523
And he was like, "well,
I can't cover the goddamn American dream"

985
00:51:15,524 --> 00:51:18,025
in a Volkswagen.
What the fuck is wrong with you?"

986
00:51:18,026 --> 00:51:20,094
And um...

987
00:51:20,095 --> 00:51:22,097
You know, of course
that's quite true.

988
00:51:24,901 --> 00:51:27,536


989
00:51:27,537 --> 00:51:30,639


990
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:35,944

Mercedes benz...

991
00:51:35,945 --> 00:51:38,013
Depp: "Breakdown
on paradise blvd."

992
00:51:38,014 --> 00:51:39,515
"At this point
in the chronology,."

993
00:51:39,516 --> 00:51:42,384
Dr. Duke appears to have
broken down completely.

994
00:51:42,385 --> 00:51:44,820
The original manuscript
is so splintered

995
00:51:44,821 --> 00:51:47,789
that we were forced to seek
out the original tape recording

996
00:51:47,790 --> 00:51:51,159
"and transcribe it
verbatim."

997
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:54,596
Hunter:
Testing... one, two.

998
00:51:54,597 --> 00:51:59,168
Closing.
Okay, it is now 11:30 A.M.

999
00:52:16,052 --> 00:52:18,587
Depp: "The transcription
begins somewhere"

1000
00:52:18,588 --> 00:52:21,089
on the northeast outskirts
of Las Vegas...

1001
00:52:21,090 --> 00:52:24,427
"Zooming along paradise road
in the white whale."

1002
00:52:50,754 --> 00:52:52,622
- Hello.
- May I help you?

1003
00:52:52,623 --> 00:52:55,057
- Yeah. You have tacos here?
- Mm-hmm.

1004
00:52:55,058 --> 00:52:57,026
But they're five for a dollar?

1005
00:52:57,027 --> 00:52:58,595
I'll take five of them.

1006
00:52:58,596 --> 00:53:01,230
Do you want anything to drink?

1007
00:53:01,231 --> 00:53:03,433
Beer. No, I have
beer in the car...

1008
00:53:03,434 --> 00:53:06,503
Tons of it... the whole
back seat's loaded with it.

1009
00:53:06,504 --> 00:53:08,170
We're looking
for the American dream.

1010
00:53:08,171 --> 00:53:10,106
We were told that it was
somewhere in this area, but...

1011
00:53:10,107 --> 00:53:12,309
- The American dream?
- Yeah, the American dream.

1012
00:53:12,310 --> 00:53:14,977
- I'll tell you something... go to paradise.
- Is that it?

1013
00:53:14,978 --> 00:53:17,113
We're here looking for it
because they sent us out here,

1014
00:53:17,114 --> 00:53:19,716
all the way from San
Francisco, to look for it.

1015
00:53:19,717 --> 00:53:22,285
That's why they gave us
that white Cadillac.

1016
00:53:22,286 --> 00:53:24,754
They figured that we could
catch up with it in that.

1017
00:53:24,755 --> 00:53:28,158
Hey, Luke, do you know
where the American dream is?

1018
00:53:28,159 --> 00:53:30,328
Acosta:
She's asking him.

1019
00:53:30,329 --> 00:53:32,930
- What is it?
- That's what we don't know.

1020
00:53:32,931 --> 00:53:35,666
We were sent out here from San Francisco
to look for the American dream.

1021
00:53:35,667 --> 00:53:37,167
Now are you guys serious?!
Because...

1022
00:53:37,168 --> 00:53:40,270
Acosta: No, look at the car.
I mean, do I look like...

1023
00:53:40,271 --> 00:53:45,909
Could that be the old psychiatrists' club?
It was a discotheque place.

1024
00:53:45,910 --> 00:53:49,547
All we were told was,
"go till you find the American dream."

1025
00:53:49,548 --> 00:53:51,048
Take this white Cadillac

1026
00:53:51,049 --> 00:53:52,550
and go find the American dream.

1027
00:53:52,551 --> 00:53:53,984
"It's somewhere
in the Las Vegas area."

1028
00:53:53,985 --> 00:53:56,387
Are you taking
pictures of it or...

1029
00:53:56,388 --> 00:54:00,257
- no no no, pictures, just...
- somebody just sent you on a goose chase.

1030
00:54:00,258 --> 00:54:02,393
It's sort of a wild goose
chase more or less, yeah.

1031
00:54:02,394 --> 00:54:04,395
Woman: It has to be
the old psychiatrists'.

1032
00:54:04,396 --> 00:54:06,063
But the only people
who hang out there

1033
00:54:06,064 --> 00:54:08,131
is a bunch of pushers, peddlers,

1034
00:54:08,132 --> 00:54:10,634
- uppers-and-downers and all that stuff.
- Maybe that's it.

1035
00:54:10,635 --> 00:54:12,503
- Dopers.
- Could be it.

1036
00:54:12,504 --> 00:54:14,638
I think this place,
the way you're describing it...

1037
00:54:14,639 --> 00:54:16,875
I think... you know,
maybe that's it.

1038
00:54:22,814 --> 00:54:25,749
Wenner: Hunter said, you
know, Vegas is the city

1039
00:54:25,750 --> 00:54:27,752
that was the death
of what he thought

1040
00:54:27,753 --> 00:54:29,921
was the American dream.
In that famous scene,

1041
00:54:29,922 --> 00:54:33,792
he sees that opportunity and possibility
that was represented by the '60s.

1042
00:54:33,793 --> 00:54:36,260
"The wave rolls back

1043
00:54:36,261 --> 00:54:38,129
and, " he said, " once for
a beautiful moment there,

1044
00:54:38,130 --> 00:54:41,533
"- we thought we had it." -
it feels the way we die...

1045
00:54:41,534 --> 00:54:44,669
Duke's voice: San Francisco
in the middle of the '60s

1046
00:54:44,670 --> 00:54:47,972
was a very special time
and place to be a part of,

1047
00:54:47,973 --> 00:54:49,974
but no explanation,

1048
00:54:49,975 --> 00:54:52,911
no mix of words
or music or memories

1049
00:54:52,912 --> 00:54:55,914
can touch that sense of
knowing that you were there

1050
00:54:55,915 --> 00:54:58,917
and alive in that corner
of time in the world,

1051
00:54:58,918 --> 00:55:01,786
whatever it meant.

1052
00:55:01,787 --> 00:55:05,491

know why...

1053
00:55:07,527 --> 00:55:11,295
Duke's voice: There was madness
in any direction, at any hour.

1054
00:55:11,296 --> 00:55:14,699
You could strike
sparks anywhere.

1055
00:55:14,700 --> 00:55:16,701
There was a fantastic
universal sense

1056
00:55:16,702 --> 00:55:19,037
that whatever
we were doing was right,

1057
00:55:19,038 --> 00:55:20,805
that we were winning.

1058
00:55:20,806 --> 00:55:23,141
And that, I think,
was the handle...

1059
00:55:23,142 --> 00:55:27,780
I have seen...
The promised land.

1060
00:55:27,781 --> 00:55:30,015
Duke's voice: ...That
sense of inevitable victory

1061
00:55:30,016 --> 00:55:32,317
over the forces of old and evil.

1062
00:55:32,318 --> 00:55:34,854
Not in any mean
or military sense;

1063
00:55:34,855 --> 00:55:36,756
We didn't need that.

1064
00:55:36,757 --> 00:55:39,359
Our energy would simply prevail.

1065
00:55:40,727 --> 00:55:42,928
We had all the momentum.

1066
00:55:42,929 --> 00:55:47,166
We were riding the crest of
a high and beautiful wave.

1067
00:55:47,167 --> 00:55:49,401
I may not get there with you,

1068
00:55:49,402 --> 00:55:52,171
but I want you to know tonight

1069
00:55:52,172 --> 00:55:56,709
that we as a people will
get to the promised land!

1070
00:55:56,710 --> 00:56:01,213
Duke's voice: So now,
less than five years later,

1071
00:56:01,214 --> 00:56:03,415
you can go up on a steep hill

1072
00:56:03,416 --> 00:56:05,117
in Las Vegas and look west

1073
00:56:05,118 --> 00:56:06,886
and with the right kind of eyes

1074
00:56:06,887 --> 00:56:09,689
you can almost see
the high-water Mark,

1075
00:56:09,690 --> 00:56:12,592
that place where
the wave finally broke...

1076
00:56:12,593 --> 00:56:15,761
And rolled back.

1077
00:56:15,762 --> 00:56:18,264
Martin Luther King was shot
and was killed tonight.

1078
00:56:24,671 --> 00:56:27,674
Nabulsi: It's amazing
to think that in 1971

1079
00:56:27,675 --> 00:56:31,344
he already saw that final nail
in the coffin of the '60s,

1080
00:56:31,345 --> 00:56:33,413
which is really bittersweet.

1081
00:56:33,414 --> 00:56:35,849
And I think for hunter
it was bittersweet,

1082
00:56:35,850 --> 00:56:39,052
so I think speech
sort of encapsulates that.

1083
00:56:39,053 --> 00:56:42,322
I haven't read anything else
on that generation,

1084
00:56:42,323 --> 00:56:45,125
that subject
that moves me as much.

1085
00:56:45,126 --> 00:56:47,260
I felt it was so important.

1086
00:56:47,261 --> 00:56:49,162
To me, it was the driving thing

1087
00:56:49,163 --> 00:56:51,297
that made me wanna do the movie.

1088
00:56:51,298 --> 00:56:53,099
Well, I don't like
the idea of it...

1089
00:56:53,100 --> 00:56:55,836
That isn't one of the best
fucking things I've ever written...

1090
00:56:55,837 --> 00:56:58,271
To turn it into some kind of
a stupid cartoon show...

1091
00:56:58,272 --> 00:57:00,106
Woman: It's one of the best things
that anybody's ever written.

1092
00:57:00,107 --> 00:57:01,908
I just happen to have
a very high affection

1093
00:57:01,909 --> 00:57:03,844
for that one piece
and so do other people.

1094
00:57:03,845 --> 00:57:06,112
Nabulsi: Before Terry Gilliam
was hired to direct the film,

1095
00:57:06,113 --> 00:57:08,481
there was another director,
but things didn't work out

1096
00:57:08,482 --> 00:57:11,284
when he wanted to put
this animated sequence

1097
00:57:11,285 --> 00:57:16,122
in the wave speech of this
little hunter on a wave of bones.

1098
00:57:16,123 --> 00:57:18,258
You can see that I might
be a little bit edgy

1099
00:57:18,259 --> 00:57:20,026
when you talk about putting
it in a cartoon form

1100
00:57:20,027 --> 00:57:21,828
with me on
some kind of tidal wave

1101
00:57:21,829 --> 00:57:24,631
across some imaginary
Mickey mouse desert.

1102
00:57:24,632 --> 00:57:27,400
Man: You've been put in
a cartoon form already.

1103
00:57:27,401 --> 00:57:30,004
The problem is that you've
published a novel with cartoons.

1104
00:57:30,005 --> 00:57:32,306
- I hired Ralph to do some drawings.
- And they're great.

1105
00:57:32,307 --> 00:57:34,308
- No no no no.
- You're really getting me angry.

1106
00:57:34,309 --> 00:57:36,010
Nabulsi: I know
hunter well enough

1107
00:57:36,011 --> 00:57:38,846
that even if he was mad,
I'm not terrified

1108
00:57:38,847 --> 00:57:40,447
and I know how
to get through it,

1109
00:57:40,448 --> 00:57:42,650
but I was just sort of shocked

1110
00:57:42,651 --> 00:57:45,252
that it had gone so awry.

1111
00:57:45,253 --> 00:57:48,590
Hunter on TV: Just don't fucking
go and make it a cartoon!

1112
00:57:48,591 --> 00:57:50,357
All right, we're having
a little problem here

1113
00:57:50,358 --> 00:57:53,227
with your goddamn stupid
fucking cartoons in this thing.

1114
00:57:53,228 --> 00:57:54,562
If you think you're in
charge of this movie,

1115
00:57:54,563 --> 00:57:55,897
we're gonna have
a real problem right now.

1116
00:57:55,898 --> 00:57:57,999
If you want war...
Here we go, baby...

1117
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,234
There's gonna be
a nasty fucking war.

1118
00:58:00,235 --> 00:58:04,305
Yeah, but I don't like you
turning on me at the end.

1119
00:58:04,306 --> 00:58:05,940
I must say I don't
like that at all.

1120
00:58:05,941 --> 00:58:07,241
Hunter:
What should I have said?

1121
00:58:07,242 --> 00:58:09,210
"No, I've known Laila
for many years...

1122
00:58:09,211 --> 00:58:12,413
...And she would
never say that."

1123
00:58:12,414 --> 00:58:16,884
- Man
- He had a kind of over-the-top

1124
00:58:16,885 --> 00:58:19,553
dramatic way of being.

1125
00:58:19,554 --> 00:58:22,556
Yeah, I'll talk to hunter now.
Yeah, okay.

1126
00:58:22,557 --> 00:58:24,558
Hunter, how are ya?

1127
00:58:24,559 --> 00:58:27,061
Wenner: Hunter always had
to have a running crisis.

1128
00:58:27,062 --> 00:58:28,663
Going on of some type of other...

1129
00:58:28,664 --> 00:58:30,432
To animate him,
to get him going.

1130
00:58:30,433 --> 00:58:33,502
What disease? I mean, do you... is
it a potentially serious thing?

1131
00:58:34,638 --> 00:58:36,639
Brain... brain damage.

1132
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:38,474
I see.

1133
00:58:40,209 --> 00:58:41,777
Jimmy buffet: Hunter did
everything for effect.

1134
00:58:41,778 --> 00:58:44,579
He was not ever happy,
I don't believe,

1135
00:58:44,580 --> 00:58:47,349
when things were
stable and tranquil.

1136
00:58:47,350 --> 00:58:50,218
Crouse: Hunter was
a force of nature.

1137
00:58:50,219 --> 00:58:52,420
Hunter would sit

1138
00:58:52,421 --> 00:58:54,990
very still and very straight

1139
00:58:54,991 --> 00:58:58,827
with his arms up
like this, waiting.

1140
00:58:58,828 --> 00:59:02,865
And all of a sudden,
he would get a jolt and he would type.

1141
00:59:02,866 --> 00:59:04,667
He also had deadlines,

1142
00:59:04,668 --> 00:59:06,802
and hunter never met a deadline.

1143
00:59:06,803 --> 00:59:09,104
He was completely
behind deadline.

1144
00:59:09,105 --> 00:59:12,207
He hadn't written a word and
jann was calling and screaming.

1145
00:59:12,208 --> 00:59:14,677
Hunter was, at that time,
carrying around the mojo wire...

1146
00:59:14,678 --> 00:59:16,745
Announcer:
Just insert the document...

1147
00:59:16,746 --> 00:59:22,050
...which was a suitcase-sized
portable transmission machine.

1148
00:59:22,051 --> 00:59:24,019
Announcer: In just
six minutes or less,

1149
00:59:24,020 --> 00:59:26,254
an exact copy of the document

1150
00:59:26,255 --> 00:59:28,390
can be received anywhere
in the country.

1151
00:59:28,391 --> 00:59:30,459
He said, "I've gotta do the story." I
said, "you haven't written the story."

1152
00:59:30,460 --> 00:59:32,696
"It doesn't matter.
Just... when I tell you to,"

1153
00:59:32,697 --> 00:59:36,565
just take the plug
and unplug it...

1154
00:59:36,566 --> 00:59:39,168
"In and out...
On the machine."

1155
00:59:39,169 --> 00:59:42,238
He called up
"rolling stone" offices,

1156
00:59:42,239 --> 00:59:44,373
"well, it doesn't seem
to be working."

1157
00:59:44,374 --> 00:59:47,643
The entire place is shut down

1158
00:59:47,644 --> 00:59:50,213
because everything has been
done except these four pages

1159
00:59:50,214 --> 00:59:53,516
- you've been holding for hunter.
- I was usually the guy,

1160
00:59:53,517 --> 00:59:54,818
at 2:00 or 3:00
in the morning,

1161
00:59:54,819 --> 00:59:57,486
who had to be there to get
the feed from hunter.

1162
00:59:57,487 --> 01:00:01,324
He took the fax machine,
held the phone like this and destroyed it.

1163
01:00:01,325 --> 01:00:03,092
And then he went into this rave

1164
01:00:03,093 --> 01:00:04,894
about some editor
on the other end,

1165
01:00:04,895 --> 01:00:06,575
then hung the phone up
and went to the bar.

1166
01:00:08,065 --> 01:00:10,834
Perry: Jann was generally so
happy with the kind of stuff

1167
01:00:10,835 --> 01:00:13,269
that hunter was turning in
that it didn't matter.

1168
01:00:13,270 --> 01:00:15,438
It was just merely
a damn inconvenience for us.

1169
01:00:15,439 --> 01:00:17,606
Young wenner:
The editor's note says

1170
01:00:17,607 --> 01:00:20,409
"after long, heavy and
occasionally brutal negotiations,."

1171
01:00:20,410 --> 01:00:21,878
Dr. Thompson is
back on the payroll.

1172
01:00:21,879 --> 01:00:24,313
His gibberish will
appear regularly

1173
01:00:24,314 --> 01:00:26,850
in an unpredictable length on a
wide variety of subject matter.

1174
01:00:26,851 --> 01:00:29,518
"We have total confidence
in him, for good or ill."

1175
01:00:29,519 --> 01:00:32,857
Wenner: After
"Vegas," it was clear

1176
01:00:32,858 --> 01:00:36,126
what an enormous talent
hunter was,

1177
01:00:36,127 --> 01:00:38,128
and, with the energy
and the reporting level,

1178
01:00:38,129 --> 01:00:41,899
he was going to be better than
anybody else at "rolling stone."

1179
01:00:41,900 --> 01:00:43,667
Would you have any other
place to publish your stuff

1180
01:00:43,668 --> 01:00:45,436
if it wasn't
for "rolling stone"?

1181
01:00:49,407 --> 01:00:51,809
Wenner: So it was always
looking for what would be next.

1182
01:00:51,810 --> 01:00:53,243
What would be
the next assignment?

1183
01:00:53,244 --> 01:00:54,879
What's the biggest thing
we could think of?

1184
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:56,680
I came up with the idea that
he should move to Washington,

1185
01:00:56,681 --> 01:00:59,149
become the full-time
correspondent

1186
01:00:59,150 --> 01:01:01,218
for the mcgovern campaign.

1187
01:01:01,219 --> 01:01:03,653
Two of the classical works
of American politics

1188
01:01:03,654 --> 01:01:06,656
came out of that campaign and out of
that assignment for "rolling stone."

1189
01:01:06,657 --> 01:01:09,059
One is "fear and loathing: On
the campaign trail" by hunter;

1190
01:01:09,060 --> 01:01:12,429
And "boys on the bus"
by Tim crouse,

1191
01:01:12,430 --> 01:01:13,964
who was one
of our little junior stars.

1192
01:01:13,965 --> 01:01:16,033
But he wanted to be up there
and cover the campaign,

1193
01:01:16,034 --> 01:01:19,003
so I said, "sure. Go right ahead.
You can help hunter while you're at it."

1194
01:01:19,004 --> 01:01:21,038
Part of the reason I was there

1195
01:01:21,039 --> 01:01:23,808
was to take care of him.

1196
01:01:23,809 --> 01:01:26,576
And what I felt from him

1197
01:01:26,577 --> 01:01:29,679
from the very beginning was
a sense of protection.

1198
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:33,684
And we became
a very good team that way.

1199
01:01:33,685 --> 01:01:35,220
Young wenner: If you were really
interested in what was happening

1200
01:01:35,221 --> 01:01:37,055
on the mcgovern campaign,
the election,

1201
01:01:37,056 --> 01:01:38,857
you would've also... although
it was not as widely known...

1202
01:01:38,858 --> 01:01:40,792
Turned to "rolling stone" to find
out really what was going on.

1203
01:01:40,793 --> 01:01:42,493
Hunter's coverage
and record of it...

1204
01:01:42,494 --> 01:01:44,196
His coverage was just brilliant.

1205
01:01:58,978 --> 01:02:02,180
Pat caddell: When he showed up at
the campaign, no one knew who he was.

1206
01:02:02,181 --> 01:02:04,515
But I'm still in college,
so I read "rolling stone,"

1207
01:02:04,516 --> 01:02:06,751
so I knew who he was.
Nobody else knew.

1208
01:02:06,752 --> 01:02:08,319
That was his great advantage...

1209
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:10,088
Nobody was paying
attention to him...

1210
01:02:10,089 --> 01:02:12,390
Until he started publishing,

1211
01:02:12,391 --> 01:02:14,225
then all hell broke loose.

1212
01:02:14,226 --> 01:02:17,762
Depp: "So this is more of
a jangled campaign diary"

1213
01:02:17,763 --> 01:02:19,530
than a record
or reasoned analysis

1214
01:02:19,531 --> 01:02:21,532
of the '72 presidential campaign

1215
01:02:21,533 --> 01:02:25,103
from December '71 to January '73

1216
01:02:25,104 --> 01:02:27,372
in airport bars,
all-night coffee shops

1217
01:02:27,373 --> 01:02:28,974
and dreary hotel rooms
all over the country.

1218
01:02:28,975 --> 01:02:31,677
There is hardly
a paragraph in this saga

1219
01:02:31,678 --> 01:02:34,414
that wasn't produced in a
last-minute teeth-grinding frenzy.

1220
01:02:37,050 --> 01:02:39,151
Every deadline was a crisis

1221
01:02:39,152 --> 01:02:41,353
when I was cranking it
out of the typewriter

1222
01:02:41,354 --> 01:02:43,455
one page at a time
and feeding it

1223
01:02:43,456 --> 01:02:45,824
into the plastic maw
of that goddamn mojo wire...

1224
01:02:45,825 --> 01:02:47,826
...to some hash-addled freak
of an editor

1225
01:02:47,827 --> 01:02:51,063
"at the 'rolling stone'
news desk in San Francisco."

1226
01:02:51,064 --> 01:02:54,902
There. Chew on that gibberish for a
while, you heartless scum.

1227
01:02:57,204 --> 01:02:59,406
You pushed me too far.

1228
01:03:11,018 --> 01:03:13,519
Mcgovern: I couldn't read that
book, "fear and loathing,"

1229
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:16,522
without being in a place
where I could laugh out loud

1230
01:03:16,523 --> 01:03:18,824
from time to time.

1231
01:03:18,825 --> 01:03:20,859
It was a hilarious book.

1232
01:03:20,860 --> 01:03:23,329
I have been quoted many times
and I'll say it again...

1233
01:03:23,330 --> 01:03:27,867
It was the most accurate and least
factual account of that campaign.

1234
01:03:29,903 --> 01:03:31,570
Mcgovern:
I'll say one other thing:

1235
01:03:31,571 --> 01:03:34,541
That book was written
for "rolling stone"

1236
01:03:34,542 --> 01:03:37,710
as the campaign progressed.

1237
01:03:37,711 --> 01:03:40,747
It wasn't something written
from the hindsight

1238
01:03:40,748 --> 01:03:43,883
of the campaign.
Those chapters rolled off

1239
01:03:43,884 --> 01:03:48,456
of his typewriter
as the campaign moved along.

1240
01:03:51,926 --> 01:03:53,593
Perry:
It was a journalistic risk.

1241
01:03:53,594 --> 01:03:56,429
He had covered
political campaigns before

1242
01:03:56,430 --> 01:03:58,698
he was just sick
of the conventions,

1243
01:03:58,699 --> 01:04:01,068
sitting around
and reporting the speeches.

1244
01:04:01,069 --> 01:04:05,105
And the speeches were all written
for reporters to write about.

1245
01:04:05,106 --> 01:04:07,140
Depp:
"As far as I was concerned,"

1246
01:04:07,141 --> 01:04:09,476
there was no such thing
as 'off the record.'

1247
01:04:09,477 --> 01:04:11,644
unlike most other correspondents

1248
01:04:11,645 --> 01:04:13,480
I could afford to burn
all my Bridges behind me,

1249
01:04:13,481 --> 01:04:15,282
'cause I was only there
for a year.

1250
01:04:15,283 --> 01:04:17,517
And the last thing I cared about

1251
01:04:17,518 --> 01:04:21,054
"was establishing long-term
connections on capitol hill."

1252
01:04:21,055 --> 01:04:23,256
He wanted to stir things up.

1253
01:04:23,257 --> 01:04:25,692
Buchanan: There was no
one quite like hunter.

1254
01:04:25,693 --> 01:04:28,361
He was on the edge
and beyond the edge,

1255
01:04:28,362 --> 01:04:29,997
and it was very funny.

1256
01:04:29,998 --> 01:04:33,034
I remember he wrote
that Hubert Humphrey,

1257
01:04:33,035 --> 01:04:34,902
the great father
of the civil rights movement...

1258
01:04:34,903 --> 01:04:39,207
He said, "they ought to stuff
Hubert in a goddamn bottle"

1259
01:04:39,208 --> 01:04:41,109
and send him out
with the Japanese current."

1260
01:04:41,110 --> 01:04:44,145
Depp: "There is no way to grasp
what a shallow, contemptible"

1261
01:04:44,146 --> 01:04:47,715
and hopelessly dishonest old
hack Hubert Humphrey really is

1262
01:04:47,716 --> 01:04:50,651
until you've followed him around
for a while on the campaign trail.

1263
01:04:50,652 --> 01:04:53,587
Hubert Humphrey is
a treacherous,

1264
01:04:53,588 --> 01:04:55,789
"gutless old ward-heeler."

1265
01:04:55,790 --> 01:04:58,859
Buchanan: He had a view of the
ridiculousness of it all...

1266
01:04:58,860 --> 01:05:00,628
Thank you.
Shalom shalom.

1267
01:05:00,629 --> 01:05:03,197
...and hunter did some of his
best work on the liberals.

1268
01:05:03,198 --> 01:05:07,335
Mcgovern: He was particularly
hostile to Hubert,

1269
01:05:07,336 --> 01:05:09,703
but he certainly
loathed Richard Nixon.

1270
01:05:09,704 --> 01:05:13,707
Depp: "Our Barbie doll president
with his Barbie doll wife"

1271
01:05:13,708 --> 01:05:15,676
and his boxful
of Barbie doll children

1272
01:05:15,677 --> 01:05:19,647
is also America's answer
to the monstrous Mr. Hyde.

1273
01:05:19,648 --> 01:05:22,250
He speaks to the werewolf in us

1274
01:05:22,251 --> 01:05:25,519
"on nights when the moon
comes too close."

1275
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:28,856
Nixon represents everything
that's wrong with this country...

1276
01:05:28,857 --> 01:05:31,026
Down the line.

1277
01:05:32,827 --> 01:05:34,863
Buchanan: Well,
he first came into our consciousness

1278
01:05:34,864 --> 01:05:38,333
in the beginning of 1968.
He was writing for "pageant" magazine.

1279
01:05:38,334 --> 01:05:41,203
He came up to cover us. I was with
Nixon in the New Hampshire primary

1280
01:05:41,204 --> 01:05:45,707
and hunter would importune me to
get some time with the candidate.

1281
01:05:45,708 --> 01:05:49,644
So we got hunter...
As I recall it...

1282
01:05:49,645 --> 01:05:51,180
We put him in the car with Nixon

1283
01:05:51,181 --> 01:05:52,814
in the back seat of the limo

1284
01:05:52,815 --> 01:05:55,250
when Nixon was going
to Manchester airport.

1285
01:05:55,251 --> 01:05:59,521
Man: Wasn't it in 1968
you tried to interview Nixon?

1286
01:05:59,522 --> 01:06:00,989
Hunter: No, I did it.
I had a wonderful talk with him.

1287
01:06:00,990 --> 01:06:02,557
What did you talk about?

1288
01:06:02,558 --> 01:06:05,060
Football. I was the only
person in the press corps

1289
01:06:05,061 --> 01:06:06,328
who could talk about football.

1290
01:06:06,329 --> 01:06:07,996
Is this a need that
occurs to him during...

1291
01:06:07,997 --> 01:06:09,864
Oh, yeah.
He's a complete football freak.

1292
01:06:09,865 --> 01:06:13,135
And I said, "no, of course.
I'm a freak. I know all about it."

1293
01:06:13,136 --> 01:06:15,137
He said, "but you...
You're the one who wants"

1294
01:06:15,138 --> 01:06:17,939
to talk about Vietnam
and that kind of thing."

1295
01:06:17,940 --> 01:06:20,242
I said, "no, I'll talk about football.
Don't worry."

1296
01:06:20,243 --> 01:06:22,244
He said, "okay, if you
promise, then you can ride"

1297
01:06:22,245 --> 01:06:24,113
in the car with him
back to the airport."

1298
01:06:24,114 --> 01:06:25,480
It's about an hour
and a half ride,

1299
01:06:25,481 --> 01:06:27,116
just me a Nixon
in the back seat.

1300
01:06:27,117 --> 01:06:28,983
Was he an amiable fellow?

1301
01:06:28,984 --> 01:06:31,753
Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
It was kind of pleasant. It was weird.

1302
01:06:31,754 --> 01:06:36,059
Four more years,
four more years...

1303
01:06:37,528 --> 01:06:42,398
Tonight I again proudly
accept that nomination

1304
01:06:42,399 --> 01:06:44,701
for president
of the United States.

1305
01:06:48,772 --> 01:06:53,008
Hunter: Richard Nixon
represents everything that I...

1306
01:06:53,009 --> 01:06:55,645
Not only have contempt for but dislike
and think should be stomped out.

1307
01:06:55,646 --> 01:06:58,914
Depp: "He was a cheap crook
and a merciless war criminal"

1308
01:06:58,915 --> 01:07:02,051
who bombed more people
to death in Laos and Cambodia

1309
01:07:02,052 --> 01:07:05,054
than the U.S. army lost
in all of world war ii.

1310
01:07:05,055 --> 01:07:08,124
When students
at Kent state university

1311
01:07:08,125 --> 01:07:09,959
in Ohio protested the bombing,

1312
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:12,495
he connived to have them
attacked and slain

1313
01:07:12,496 --> 01:07:16,366
"- by troops from
the national guard."

1314
01:07:16,367 --> 01:07:19,469
"Some people will say that
words like 'scum' and 'rotten'"

1315
01:07:19,470 --> 01:07:21,737
are wrong
for objective journalism,

1316
01:07:21,738 --> 01:07:24,274
which is true.
But they miss the point.

1317
01:07:24,275 --> 01:07:26,108
It was the built-in blind spots

1318
01:07:26,109 --> 01:07:27,877
of the objective rules and dogma

1319
01:07:27,878 --> 01:07:29,579
that allowed Nixon to slither

1320
01:07:29,580 --> 01:07:31,481
into the white house
in the first place.

1321
01:07:31,482 --> 01:07:33,549
"He seemed
so all-American."

1322
01:07:33,550 --> 01:07:40,225

not cloudy all day.

1323
01:07:42,194 --> 01:07:44,361
Depp: "You had to get
subjective to see Nixon clearly."

1324
01:07:44,362 --> 01:07:47,398
He was so crooked
that he needed servants

1325
01:07:47,399 --> 01:07:50,867
"to help him screw
on his pants every morning."

1326
01:07:50,868 --> 01:07:54,339
I am filling with hate and rage
right now just thinking about it.

1327
01:07:58,976 --> 01:08:01,912
Gary hart: I had never tried
to psychoanalyze hunter

1328
01:08:01,913 --> 01:08:03,347
in mood swings and so on,

1329
01:08:03,348 --> 01:08:06,417
but I think in his bad
moments or worse moments

1330
01:08:06,418 --> 01:08:08,652
he thought it was
all fear and loathing.

1331
01:08:08,653 --> 01:08:11,588
Crouse: "Fear and
loathing in Las Vegas"

1332
01:08:11,589 --> 01:08:14,825
is ostensibly
about a man in search

1333
01:08:14,826 --> 01:08:16,660
of the American dream.

1334
01:08:16,661 --> 01:08:19,396
And "fear and loathing:
On the campaign trail"

1335
01:08:19,397 --> 01:08:23,600
is about a man in search
of an honest politician.

1336
01:08:23,601 --> 01:08:27,571
And the only one in sight
who even vaguely qualified

1337
01:08:27,572 --> 01:08:31,041
- was George mcgovern.
- When you support George mcgovern...

1338
01:08:31,042 --> 01:08:33,977
At the position
I am in the polls,

1339
01:08:33,978 --> 01:08:36,080
that's an act of courage.

1340
01:08:36,081 --> 01:08:38,816
Depp: "George mcgovern...
the only candidate"

1341
01:08:38,817 --> 01:08:40,518
in either party worth voting for

1342
01:08:40,519 --> 01:08:42,119
is hung in a frustrated limbo

1343
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:43,855
created mainly
by the gross cynicism

1344
01:08:43,856 --> 01:08:45,357
of the Washington press corps.

1345
01:08:45,358 --> 01:08:48,293
'He'd be a fine president, '
they say,

1346
01:08:48,294 --> 01:08:50,395
'but of course
he can't possibly win.'

1347
01:08:50,396 --> 01:08:53,030
- "why not?"
- I just wanted to say hello.

1348
01:08:53,031 --> 01:08:55,367
I'm senator mcgovern, folks.
Nice to see you.

1349
01:08:55,368 --> 01:08:58,202
Yes, you too.

1350
01:08:58,203 --> 01:09:00,838
You fellas know
I'm running for president?

1351
01:09:00,839 --> 01:09:02,675
I hope you'll help me out.

1352
01:09:07,346 --> 01:09:09,814
Crouse:
Mcgovern's program was

1353
01:09:09,815 --> 01:09:12,485
immediate withdrawal
from Vietnam...

1354
01:09:15,321 --> 01:09:17,355
Mcgovern:
Even if we stayed there

1355
01:09:17,356 --> 01:09:19,957
and bombed
for the next five years

1356
01:09:19,958 --> 01:09:22,827
and Americans continue to
die, five years from now

1357
01:09:22,828 --> 01:09:24,696
we're going to be right
where we are now.

1358
01:09:24,697 --> 01:09:26,998
So let's recognize
that we made a mistake.

1359
01:09:26,999 --> 01:09:29,066
Let's bring this war to an end.

1360
01:09:29,067 --> 01:09:32,670
...amnesty for draft Dodgers
and deserters,

1361
01:09:32,671 --> 01:09:34,306
equal rights for women

1362
01:09:34,307 --> 01:09:39,578
and... and a cut
in the defense budget.

1363
01:09:39,579 --> 01:09:41,981
Well, good luck.

1364
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:51,490
Mcgovern: The transcendent
issue of '72 was Vietnam,

1365
01:09:51,491 --> 01:09:54,393
and I desperately wanted
to win that election

1366
01:09:54,394 --> 01:09:57,630
to put an end
to that senseless war.

1367
01:09:57,631 --> 01:10:02,167
I'm sick and tired
of old men sitting around

1368
01:10:02,168 --> 01:10:04,903
in air-conditioned rooms
here in Washington

1369
01:10:04,904 --> 01:10:09,608
dreaming up wars
for young men to die in.

1370
01:10:09,609 --> 01:10:12,511
Mcgovern: It is a tide
that would sweep away

1371
01:10:12,512 --> 01:10:14,513
the barbarism of war

1372
01:10:14,514 --> 01:10:17,684
and end the folly
of Vietnam once and for all.

1373
01:10:19,152 --> 01:10:21,153
Depp: "Mcgovern is the
only major candidate"

1374
01:10:21,154 --> 01:10:23,255
who lines out the painful truth,

1375
01:10:23,256 --> 01:10:25,458
and his reward has been
just about the same

1376
01:10:25,459 --> 01:10:28,694
as that of any other politician
who insists on telling the truth:

1377
01:10:28,695 --> 01:10:30,996
He is mocked, vilified,

1378
01:10:30,997 --> 01:10:34,400
"ignored and abandoned
as a hopeless loser."

1379
01:10:34,401 --> 01:10:36,803
The president is attacking...

1380
01:10:36,804 --> 01:10:39,507
Hart: Hunter never trusted
anybody who was elected.

1381
01:10:41,576 --> 01:10:43,510
That was the irony,

1382
01:10:43,511 --> 01:10:48,114
because to be estimable
in his judgment

1383
01:10:48,115 --> 01:10:50,617
you had to be
a loser, in effect.

1384
01:10:50,618 --> 01:10:52,219
A noble loser.

1385
01:10:55,556 --> 01:10:57,691
Brinkley: What was bold
about hunter with mcgovern

1386
01:10:57,692 --> 01:10:59,459
is he wasn't being objective.

1387
01:10:59,460 --> 01:11:01,995
He was saying "this is the guy
I want to see as president."

1388
01:11:01,996 --> 01:11:03,636
I'm gonna try to help
make him president."

1389
01:11:06,934 --> 01:11:11,004
Mcgovern: Leaving out George
Wallace, who was shot,

1390
01:11:11,005 --> 01:11:14,173
the two strongest
Democratic contenders

1391
01:11:14,174 --> 01:11:15,975
were muskie and Humphrey.

1392
01:11:15,976 --> 01:11:18,678
Therefore, hunter saw them

1393
01:11:18,679 --> 01:11:21,548
as a threat to be unmasked,

1394
01:11:21,549 --> 01:11:26,153
because by then I think he was
pretty strongly committed to me.

1395
01:11:27,955 --> 01:11:32,325
Crouse: Hunter's pieces were
a very particular hybrid

1396
01:11:32,326 --> 01:11:35,194
of very clear-minded,

1397
01:11:35,195 --> 01:11:37,532
accurate straight reportage

1398
01:11:37,533 --> 01:11:41,268
and then sometimes
flat-out fantasy.

1399
01:11:41,269 --> 01:11:43,538
It was all run together,

1400
01:11:43,539 --> 01:11:47,274
and some people found it hard

1401
01:11:47,275 --> 01:11:50,611
to tell the fantasy
from the other stuff.

1402
01:11:50,612 --> 01:11:53,013
It occurred to me about
halfway during the campaign

1403
01:11:53,014 --> 01:11:55,916
that people actually believed

1404
01:11:55,917 --> 01:11:58,218
a lot of the things
I was writing about...

1405
01:11:58,219 --> 01:12:00,955
Muskie eating
this strange Brazilian drug.

1406
01:12:00,956 --> 01:12:03,724
Hunter had it in for muskie

1407
01:12:03,725 --> 01:12:05,660
like you couldn't believe.

1408
01:12:05,661 --> 01:12:08,696
Hunter just could not
lay off of muskie.

1409
01:12:08,697 --> 01:12:11,932
What did you do to ed muskie?

1410
01:12:11,933 --> 01:12:15,002
Nothing.
Ed muskie did it to himself.

1411
01:12:15,003 --> 01:12:16,672
I just helped him along.

1412
01:12:19,875 --> 01:12:22,543
Depp: "Not much has been written
about the ibogaine effect"

1413
01:12:22,544 --> 01:12:25,480
as a serious factor
in the presidential campaign,

1414
01:12:25,481 --> 01:12:27,982
but toward the end
of the Wisconsin primary race,

1415
01:12:27,983 --> 01:12:29,984
about a week before the vote,

1416
01:12:29,985 --> 01:12:33,087
word leaked out that some
of muskie's top advisors

1417
01:12:33,088 --> 01:12:34,522
had called in a Brazilian doctor

1418
01:12:34,523 --> 01:12:36,056
who was said to be
treating the candidate

1419
01:12:36,057 --> 01:12:38,094
"with 'some kind of
strange drug.'"

1420
01:12:43,265 --> 01:12:45,333
What was the drug
that you said he was on?

1421
01:12:45,334 --> 01:12:47,869
- Ibogaine.
- Ibogaine.

1422
01:12:47,870 --> 01:12:50,906
Perry: First we saw his work,
then we had to look it up

1423
01:12:50,907 --> 01:12:52,373
and then we started wondering

1424
01:12:52,374 --> 01:12:54,142
whether somebody
could sue us about this.

1425
01:12:54,143 --> 01:12:56,645
Then we realized
how silly that would be,

1426
01:12:56,646 --> 01:12:58,446
so we went ahead with it.

1427
01:12:58,447 --> 01:13:00,582
Caddell:
"Rolling stone" reports

1428
01:13:00,583 --> 01:13:02,984
Democratic presidential
candidate Edmund muskie

1429
01:13:02,985 --> 01:13:05,821
is in fact addicted. It ended up
on the wires as a straight story.

1430
01:13:05,822 --> 01:13:07,756
It caused a major sensation.

1431
01:13:07,757 --> 01:13:10,358
It was just this magical
lyrical moment of hunter's.

1432
01:13:10,359 --> 01:13:12,460
Depp: "It had been common
knowledge for many weeks"

1433
01:13:12,461 --> 01:13:16,131
that Humphrey was using an exotic
brand of speed known as 'wallot.'

1434
01:13:16,132 --> 01:13:17,499
and it had long been whispered

1435
01:13:17,500 --> 01:13:19,668
that muskie was
into something very heavy,

1436
01:13:19,669 --> 01:13:22,804
but it was hard to take the talk seriously
until I heard about the appearance

1437
01:13:22,805 --> 01:13:25,875
"of a mysterious Brazilian doctor.
That was the key."

1438
01:13:46,864 --> 01:13:50,933
By attacking me, he's proved
himself to be a gutless coward.

1439
01:13:50,934 --> 01:13:53,302
Depp: "I immediately
recognized the ibogaine effect"

1440
01:13:53,303 --> 01:13:54,904
from muskie's tearful breakdown

1441
01:13:54,905 --> 01:13:56,940
"on the flatbed truck
in New Hampshire..."

1442
01:13:58,609 --> 01:14:00,610
Perry: He said,
"well, look at the way"

1443
01:14:00,611 --> 01:14:02,011
the guy gives his speeches.

1444
01:14:02,012 --> 01:14:04,480
It exactly fits the symptoms

1445
01:14:04,481 --> 01:14:07,316
"of somebody
who's stoned on ibogaine."

1446
01:14:07,317 --> 01:14:10,620
And the charge was
so bizarre, so off-the-wall,

1447
01:14:10,621 --> 01:14:12,622
it really brought a lot of
attention to hunter's reporting.

1448
01:14:12,623 --> 01:14:15,024
Do you mind if I state my view?

1449
01:14:15,025 --> 01:14:16,559
Depp: "...To the delusions
and altered thinking"

1450
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:18,527
that characterized
his campaign in Wisconsin,

1451
01:14:18,528 --> 01:14:21,130
and finally the condition
of 'total rage'

1452
01:14:21,131 --> 01:14:23,165
"that gripped him
in Florida."

1453
01:14:23,166 --> 01:14:26,903
But I am speaking to these people
who are willing to listen to me!

1454
01:14:26,904 --> 01:14:29,105
Man: The rumor began
to spread everywhere

1455
01:14:29,106 --> 01:14:31,574
among all the people who
were covering the campaign

1456
01:14:31,575 --> 01:14:34,243
that muskie was in fact
on this bizarre drug.

1457
01:14:34,244 --> 01:14:36,846
- You finally said you made it all up.
- I had to.

1458
01:14:36,847 --> 01:14:40,183
I couldn't believe people
took this stuff seriously.

1459
01:14:40,184 --> 01:14:42,820
People really believed that
muskie was eating ibogaine.

1460
01:14:42,821 --> 01:14:47,224
I never said he was. I said there was
a rumor in Milwaukee that he was...

1461
01:14:47,225 --> 01:14:49,292
Which was true.
I started the rumor in Milwaukee.

1462
01:14:49,293 --> 01:14:51,995
Yeah, if you're really careful...

1463
01:14:51,996 --> 01:14:53,665
I'm a very accurate journalist.

1464
01:14:58,737 --> 01:15:00,403
Depp: "Muskie's
always taken pride"

1465
01:15:00,404 --> 01:15:02,305
in his ability
to deal with hecklers.

1466
01:15:02,306 --> 01:15:04,041
He's frequently challenged them,

1467
01:15:04,042 --> 01:15:06,209
calling them up to the stage
in front of big crowds

1468
01:15:06,210 --> 01:15:09,780
and the forcing the poor bastards to
debate with him in a Blaze of TV lights.

1469
01:15:09,781 --> 01:15:12,515
But there was none
of that in Florida.

1470
01:15:12,516 --> 01:15:14,952
When the boohoo began
grabbing at his legs

1471
01:15:14,953 --> 01:15:16,687
and screaming for more gin,

1472
01:15:16,688 --> 01:15:18,455
big ed went all to pieces,

1473
01:15:18,456 --> 01:15:21,124
which gave rise to
speculation among reporters

1474
01:15:21,125 --> 01:15:23,794
familiar with his campaign
style in '68 and '70

1475
01:15:23,795 --> 01:15:25,929
"that muskie
was not himself."

1476
01:15:25,930 --> 01:15:29,232
...shredded, torn,
battered and beaten

1477
01:15:29,233 --> 01:15:31,234
beyond all recognition.

1478
01:15:31,235 --> 01:15:32,770
Depp:
"In retrospect, however,"

1479
01:15:32,771 --> 01:15:34,872
it is easy to see
why muskie fell apart

1480
01:15:34,873 --> 01:15:37,407
on that caboose platform
in the Miami train station.

1481
01:15:37,408 --> 01:15:39,243
It is entirely conceivable,

1482
01:15:39,244 --> 01:15:40,845
given the known effects
of ibogaine,

1483
01:15:40,846 --> 01:15:43,181
that muskie's brain was
almost paralyzed

1484
01:15:43,182 --> 01:15:44,849
by hallucinations at the time,

1485
01:15:44,850 --> 01:15:46,851
that he looked out at the crowd

1486
01:15:46,852 --> 01:15:48,954
and saw gila monsters
instead of people.

1487
01:15:50,790 --> 01:15:52,791
That his mind snapped completely

1488
01:15:52,792 --> 01:15:55,326
when he felt something large
and apparently vicious

1489
01:15:55,327 --> 01:15:57,496
"clawing at his legs."

1490
01:16:00,032 --> 01:16:02,100
That's crazy stuff.

1491
01:16:02,101 --> 01:16:03,501
Nobody was writing like that.

1492
01:16:03,502 --> 01:16:06,504
I mean, in the serious world
of political journalism

1493
01:16:06,505 --> 01:16:08,506
they thought that way of hunter,

1494
01:16:08,507 --> 01:16:11,609
that he was
getting away with stuff

1495
01:16:11,610 --> 01:16:14,779
that they couldn't
in what they were doing.

1496
01:16:14,780 --> 01:16:16,180
And they all lived
vicariously through him.

1497
01:16:16,181 --> 01:16:19,350
Crouse: The social
scene of the press...

1498
01:16:19,351 --> 01:16:22,653
In those days it was
almost all males

1499
01:16:22,654 --> 01:16:26,624
and they almost
all drank pretty seriously.

1500
01:16:26,625 --> 01:16:30,494
And hunter, he was
kind of impervious man

1501
01:16:30,495 --> 01:16:34,398
when it came
to drugs and to liquor.

1502
01:16:34,399 --> 01:16:36,868
You saw that stuff go in

1503
01:16:36,869 --> 01:16:39,805
and there was
no discernable effect

1504
01:16:39,806 --> 01:16:41,907
in his behavior.

1505
01:16:41,908 --> 01:16:44,643
And that left an impression

1506
01:16:44,644 --> 01:16:46,346
on the people he was with.

1507
01:16:48,148 --> 01:16:50,716
Hunter couldn't resist, ever,

1508
01:16:50,717 --> 01:16:52,384
trying to shock the squares.

1509
01:16:52,385 --> 01:16:54,319
Hunter would turn to me and say,

1510
01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:57,122
"maybe at the next stop
we can shoot up,"

1511
01:16:57,123 --> 01:16:59,759
or "hey, if they have
a men's room",

1512
01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:02,261
it would be good
to eat some acid."

1513
01:17:02,262 --> 01:17:04,830
And hunter, in this sense,

1514
01:17:04,831 --> 01:17:09,102
almost had the attributes
of an action hero.

1515
01:17:17,110 --> 01:17:19,278
Mcgovern:
I got a call from hunter.

1516
01:17:19,279 --> 01:17:21,947
He invited Eleanor and me
to meet him for dinner.

1517
01:17:21,948 --> 01:17:25,717
When we got there,
the waitress materialized

1518
01:17:25,718 --> 01:17:29,755
and he said,
"bring me three margaritas

1519
01:17:29,756 --> 01:17:33,158
and six beers,"

1520
01:17:33,159 --> 01:17:34,693
and the girl laughed.

1521
01:17:34,694 --> 01:17:38,730
She said, "are you expecting
some other people, sir?"

1522
01:17:38,731 --> 01:17:42,936
He said, "no. Find out
what these two folks want",

1523
01:17:42,937 --> 01:17:45,471
but bring me three margaritas

1524
01:17:45,472 --> 01:17:47,775
"and six beers."

1525
01:17:50,111 --> 01:17:53,213
Hart: I don't think hunter ever
thought mcgovern was gonna win.

1526
01:17:53,214 --> 01:17:55,681
I think he was along
for the ride.

1527
01:17:55,682 --> 01:17:57,884
This thing picks up
speed fast, doesn't it?

1528
01:17:57,885 --> 01:18:01,154
Man: Oh yeah,
so is your campaign.

1529
01:18:01,155 --> 01:18:02,823
Hart:
And all of a sudden,

1530
01:18:02,824 --> 01:18:05,191
this thing begins to be serious.

1531
01:18:05,192 --> 01:18:06,659
Man: Of the six
Democratic candidates,

1532
01:18:06,660 --> 01:18:08,694
which one are you
supporting in the primary?

1533
01:18:08,695 --> 01:18:10,530
- Mcgovern?
- Why?

1534
01:18:10,531 --> 01:18:14,868
Because I think that he's the only
man that can unite the country.

1535
01:18:14,869 --> 01:18:17,103
- George mcgovern.
- Man: Why?

1536
01:18:17,104 --> 01:18:19,439
Because I think
he's the people's man.

1537
01:18:19,440 --> 01:18:21,875
Uh, what's his name?

1538
01:18:21,876 --> 01:18:24,444
- Man: Wallace?
- No no no. No.

1539
01:18:24,445 --> 01:18:25,846
- Lindsay?
- No.

1540
01:18:25,847 --> 01:18:27,413
- Humphrey?
- No.

1541
01:18:27,414 --> 01:18:29,149
- Muskie?
- No.

1542
01:18:29,150 --> 01:18:31,351
- Mcgovern?
- Yes, you've got it right there.

1543
01:18:31,352 --> 01:18:33,686
I think you're coming
on good to labor people.

1544
01:18:33,687 --> 01:18:36,422
- Yeah.
- Hart: I think hunter realized

1545
01:18:36,423 --> 01:18:39,392
that the man he was following
might actually have a chance.

1546
01:18:39,393 --> 01:18:43,931
Man: Muskie, Jackson,
Lindsay trail badly.

1547
01:18:43,932 --> 01:18:46,333
What the hell
have you been doing?

1548
01:18:46,334 --> 01:18:48,135
We won by a landslide.

1549
01:18:48,136 --> 01:18:49,971
The press coverage is
unbelievable.

1550
01:18:49,972 --> 01:18:51,372
He's gonna be
on the cover of "newsweek,"

1551
01:18:51,373 --> 01:18:53,307
probably the cover of "time,"

1552
01:18:53,308 --> 01:18:54,741
and they're calling him
the frontrunner

1553
01:18:54,742 --> 01:18:56,177
for the Democratic nomination.

1554
01:18:56,178 --> 01:18:57,545
Now we've got to worry.

1555
01:19:06,388 --> 01:19:08,255
Man:
Senator George mcgovern,

1556
01:19:08,256 --> 01:19:10,057
having received
the majority vote

1557
01:19:10,058 --> 01:19:12,026
of this convention
of certified delegates,

1558
01:19:12,027 --> 01:19:14,261
is hereby declared

1559
01:19:14,262 --> 01:19:16,830
the 1972 Democratic nominee

1560
01:19:16,831 --> 01:19:19,067
for president
of the United States.

1561
01:19:23,638 --> 01:19:25,873
Depp: "Mcgovern appeared
to have a sure lock"

1562
01:19:25,874 --> 01:19:27,441
on the white house
when the sun came up

1563
01:19:27,442 --> 01:19:31,512
on Miami beach on the morning
of Thursday, July 13th.

1564
01:19:31,513 --> 01:19:34,015
Since then he has
crippled himself

1565
01:19:34,016 --> 01:19:36,985
"with a series of almost
unbelievable blunders."

1566
01:19:39,121 --> 01:19:40,955
Hart: The polls going
into that weekend

1567
01:19:40,956 --> 01:19:42,657
showed mcgovern
with a chance to win.

1568
01:19:42,658 --> 01:19:44,626
Now it's very difficult
to defeat an incumbent,

1569
01:19:44,627 --> 01:19:46,694
particularly at war time,

1570
01:19:46,695 --> 01:19:48,964
so you had to have
everything go right.

1571
01:19:48,965 --> 01:19:51,266
You could not have
one thing go wrong.

1572
01:19:51,267 --> 01:19:54,736
And of course we had a huge major
thing go wrong within hours.

1573
01:19:54,737 --> 01:19:57,272
There was this disaster

1574
01:19:57,273 --> 01:19:59,874
with the choice
for the vice president...

1575
01:19:59,875 --> 01:20:02,510
Thomas eagleton,
senator from Missouri.

1576
01:20:02,511 --> 01:20:04,879
Frank mankiewicz:
He meets the main requirements

1577
01:20:04,880 --> 01:20:07,682
senator mcgovern set down when
he began his consideration,

1578
01:20:07,683 --> 01:20:09,617
which is a man
in whom he would have

1579
01:20:09,618 --> 01:20:11,653
absolute and complete confidence

1580
01:20:11,654 --> 01:20:14,256
and in whom he believes the American
people would have complete confidence

1581
01:20:14,257 --> 01:20:17,192
to become president of the United
States should an occasion arise.

1582
01:20:17,193 --> 01:20:19,194
I think it was
mankiewicz who asked him

1583
01:20:19,195 --> 01:20:22,298
if he had any skeletons
in his closet and he said no.

1584
01:20:24,233 --> 01:20:26,768
Tom said he couldn't
think of anything

1585
01:20:26,769 --> 01:20:29,238
and then the clock
started to tick.

1586
01:20:32,575 --> 01:20:35,543
Hart: The weekend after
the convention in Miami

1587
01:20:35,544 --> 01:20:38,546
we had gotten an anonymous
call at headquarters

1588
01:20:38,547 --> 01:20:41,583
saying that
senator eagleton had had...

1589
01:20:41,584 --> 01:20:45,388
Shock therapy,
which we had not known.

1590
01:20:45,389 --> 01:20:50,726

out of my head

1591
01:20:50,727 --> 01:20:55,131

I'm going out of my head

1592
01:20:55,132 --> 01:20:58,667


1593
01:20:58,668 --> 01:21:01,037
On three occasions in my life,

1594
01:21:01,038 --> 01:21:03,939
I have voluntarily gone
into hospitals

1595
01:21:03,940 --> 01:21:07,276
as a result of nervous
exhaustion and fatigue.

1596
01:21:07,277 --> 01:21:09,612
Buchanan: I'd been in St. Louis.
I'd heard about the eagleton stuff,

1597
01:21:09,613 --> 01:21:11,347
even before...
When they nominated him.

1598
01:21:11,348 --> 01:21:13,482
It would surprise me
when they nominated him.

1599
01:21:13,483 --> 01:21:16,219
When that hit,
that was the coup de grace.

1600
01:21:16,220 --> 01:21:18,221
I was in Nixon's office

1601
01:21:18,222 --> 01:21:21,324
and there was what I would say
was considerable merriment.

1602
01:21:21,325 --> 01:21:23,960
Nixon said, "well, pat told
us, didn't he, Chuck?"

1603
01:21:28,898 --> 01:21:31,900
Depp: "Tom eagleton was exactly
the kind of vp candidate"

1604
01:21:31,901 --> 01:21:34,070
that muskie or Humphrey
would have chosen...

1605
01:21:34,071 --> 01:21:36,272
A peace offering
to the old politics gang,

1606
01:21:36,273 --> 01:21:37,740
because mcgovern
thought he needed

1607
01:21:37,741 --> 01:21:39,409
"those bastards
to beat Nixon."

1608
01:21:40,944 --> 01:21:42,979
Is it your intention then
to remain on the ticket?

1609
01:21:42,980 --> 01:21:45,949
- Categorically, yes.
- Depp: "It's hard to see"

1610
01:21:45,950 --> 01:21:47,384
how George could have
done any worse,

1611
01:21:47,385 --> 01:21:50,187
"even with Charles manson
for a running mate."

1612
01:21:50,188 --> 01:21:53,957
Hart: All of a sudden,
hunter jumps on that critical bandwagon.

1613
01:21:53,958 --> 01:21:57,194
His whole critique of mcgovern
in the fall campaign was

1614
01:21:57,195 --> 01:22:00,030
"sellout, compromiser."

1615
01:22:00,031 --> 01:22:02,432
But you can't be serious
about American politics

1616
01:22:02,433 --> 01:22:04,768
and be infantile about it.

1617
01:22:04,769 --> 01:22:07,003
And there was an infantile...

1618
01:22:07,004 --> 01:22:10,874
I say this with all
respect to my late friend...

1619
01:22:10,875 --> 01:22:12,942
An infantile aspect to hunter.

1620
01:22:12,943 --> 01:22:14,744
He wanted it all to be fun,

1621
01:22:14,745 --> 01:22:18,215
all to be amusing,
all to be good and evil,

1622
01:22:18,216 --> 01:22:20,684
and "we're the good guys,
they're the bad guys"

1623
01:22:20,685 --> 01:22:22,352
and we're gonna crush 'em,"

1624
01:22:22,353 --> 01:22:23,953
and overdramatizing

1625
01:22:23,954 --> 01:22:27,057
what is really some
of the toughest things

1626
01:22:27,058 --> 01:22:28,725
human beings have to do,

1627
01:22:28,726 --> 01:22:30,661
and that is to try
to govern a democracy.

1628
01:22:32,397 --> 01:22:35,332
Mcgovern: The public debate
of senator eagleton's

1629
01:22:35,333 --> 01:22:37,033
past medical history

1630
01:22:37,034 --> 01:22:39,503
continues to divert attention

1631
01:22:39,504 --> 01:22:41,438
from the great national issues

1632
01:22:41,439 --> 01:22:43,841
that need to be discussed.

1633
01:22:43,842 --> 01:22:46,977
Therefore we have jointly agreed

1634
01:22:46,978 --> 01:22:49,814
that the best course is
for senator eagleton

1635
01:22:49,815 --> 01:22:51,782
to step aside.

1636
01:22:51,783 --> 01:22:53,484
Crouse: When mcgovern
finally had to give in,

1637
01:22:53,485 --> 01:22:56,821
it made mcgovern
look like a liar,

1638
01:22:56,822 --> 01:22:58,289
it made him look like a waffler.

1639
01:22:58,290 --> 01:23:00,791
It was a blow
from which the campaign

1640
01:23:00,792 --> 01:23:02,293
never really covered.

1641
01:23:02,294 --> 01:23:04,362
Wish I wore my drip-dry suit.

1642
01:23:04,363 --> 01:23:08,333
Mcgovern: The national press wasn't
very responsible at that time.

1643
01:23:08,334 --> 01:23:10,635
I don't condemn the press.

1644
01:23:10,636 --> 01:23:12,737
They were doing what
they thought was right,

1645
01:23:12,738 --> 01:23:16,006
but they spent far more ink

1646
01:23:16,007 --> 01:23:19,144
dwelling on my mishandling

1647
01:23:19,145 --> 01:23:21,379
of the vice-presidential
selection

1648
01:23:21,380 --> 01:23:25,583
than was ever devoted
to the Watergate break-in

1649
01:23:25,584 --> 01:23:28,619
on the part of the Nixon
people during the campaign.

1650
01:23:28,620 --> 01:23:30,456
It was hard to get
them interested in that.

1651
01:23:33,925 --> 01:23:36,494
Depp: "At the stroke of
midnight in Washington"

1652
01:23:36,495 --> 01:23:39,997
a drooling red-eyed beast
with the legs of a man

1653
01:23:39,998 --> 01:23:41,866
and the head of a giant hyena

1654
01:23:41,867 --> 01:23:44,136
crawls out of its bedroom window

1655
01:23:44,137 --> 01:23:46,004
in the south wing
of the white house

1656
01:23:46,005 --> 01:23:48,874
and leaps 50' down to the lawn,

1657
01:23:48,875 --> 01:23:51,810
pauses briefly to strangle
the chow watchdog,

1658
01:23:51,811 --> 01:23:54,480
then races off into the darkness

1659
01:23:54,481 --> 01:23:57,716
towards the Watergate,
snarling with lust,

1660
01:23:57,717 --> 01:24:00,886
loping through the alleys
behind Pennsylvania Avenue

1661
01:24:00,887 --> 01:24:02,321
and trying desperately
to remember

1662
01:24:02,322 --> 01:24:04,756
which one of those
400 identical balconies

1663
01:24:04,757 --> 01:24:07,960
"is the one outside
Martha Mitchell's apartment."

1664
01:24:14,567 --> 01:24:17,369
Depp: "Due to circumstances
beyond my control",

1665
01:24:17,370 --> 01:24:19,371
I would rather
not write anything

1666
01:24:19,372 --> 01:24:22,808
about the 1972 presidential
campaign at this time.

1667
01:24:22,809 --> 01:24:25,010
On Tuesday, November 7th,

1668
01:24:25,011 --> 01:24:27,213
I will get out
of bed long enough

1669
01:24:27,214 --> 01:24:28,914
to go down to the polling place

1670
01:24:28,915 --> 01:24:31,483
and vote for George mcgovern.

1671
01:24:31,484 --> 01:24:35,354
Afterwards, I will
drive back to the house,

1672
01:24:35,355 --> 01:24:38,590
lock the front door,
get back in bed

1673
01:24:38,591 --> 01:24:42,027
and watch television
as long as necessary.

1674
01:24:42,028 --> 01:24:46,032
It will probably be a while
before the angst lifts.

1675
01:24:46,033 --> 01:24:48,401
But whenever it happens,

1676
01:24:48,402 --> 01:24:50,737
I will get out of bed again

1677
01:24:50,738 --> 01:24:54,774
and start writing the mean,
cold-blooded bummer

1678
01:24:54,775 --> 01:24:57,811
"that I was not
quite ready for today."

1679
01:25:00,614 --> 01:25:03,015
Crouse: He was the right
man in the right place

1680
01:25:03,016 --> 01:25:05,385
and he was equipped to capture

1681
01:25:05,386 --> 01:25:07,420
a certain moment in history

1682
01:25:07,421 --> 01:25:09,923
as nobody else was
equipped to do.

1683
01:25:14,595 --> 01:25:16,796
In his best pages,

1684
01:25:16,797 --> 01:25:19,131
I think he captured
certain truths

1685
01:25:19,132 --> 01:25:20,567
about human perversity

1686
01:25:20,568 --> 01:25:23,471
that will never lose
their sting.

1687
01:25:26,006 --> 01:25:29,976
And I don't think that
anybody can be too surprised

1688
01:25:29,977 --> 01:25:33,513
that we find ourselves in
the nightmare we're in today

1689
01:25:33,514 --> 01:25:35,648
because it's
essentially the same

1690
01:25:35,649 --> 01:25:38,518
as the nightmare
he described back then.

1691
01:25:38,519 --> 01:25:41,087
And I think
it will always be salubrious

1692
01:25:41,088 --> 01:25:45,759
and cleansing
to have someone express

1693
01:25:45,760 --> 01:25:47,795
the mockery and the rage

1694
01:25:47,796 --> 01:25:49,997
and finally the despair

1695
01:25:49,998 --> 01:25:53,367
that are the only reaction

1696
01:25:53,368 --> 01:25:56,270
of a real human
to that nightmare.

1697
01:25:56,271 --> 01:25:58,639
Reporter:
Massachusetts has gone

1698
01:25:58,640 --> 01:26:02,042
for the Democratic candidate...

1699
01:26:02,043 --> 01:26:04,778
The only state
going for mcgovern.

1700
01:26:04,779 --> 01:26:06,747
Reporter
that president Nixon

1701
01:26:06,748 --> 01:26:08,782
will come out
of this the winner.

1702
01:26:08,783 --> 01:26:11,985
With about 60%
of the popular vote.

1703
01:26:11,986 --> 01:26:14,888
I've never known
a national election

1704
01:26:14,889 --> 01:26:17,258
when I would be able to go
to bed earlier than tonight.

1705
01:26:19,027 --> 01:26:23,397

in the window...

1706
01:26:23,398 --> 01:26:25,333
Crouse: "This may be the
year when we finally come"

1707
01:26:25,334 --> 01:26:26,967
face to face with ourselves,

1708
01:26:26,968 --> 01:26:29,169
finally just lay back and say

1709
01:26:29,170 --> 01:26:31,472
that we are really just a nation

1710
01:26:31,473 --> 01:26:34,608
of 220 million used-car salesmen

1711
01:26:34,609 --> 01:26:36,477
with all the money
we need to buy guns

1712
01:26:36,478 --> 01:26:39,447
and no qualms at all about
killing anybody else in the world

1713
01:26:39,448 --> 01:26:41,249
"who tries to make us
uncomfortable."

1714
01:26:44,085 --> 01:26:46,521
Mcgovern:
Never again will we send

1715
01:26:46,522 --> 01:26:48,923
the precious young blood
of this country

1716
01:26:48,924 --> 01:26:50,792
to die trying to prop up

1717
01:26:50,793 --> 01:26:54,063
a corrupt military
dictatorship abroad.

1718
01:26:56,065 --> 01:26:58,800
"The tragedy of all this is
that George mcgovern,"

1719
01:26:58,801 --> 01:27:00,502
for all his mistakes

1720
01:27:00,503 --> 01:27:05,039
and all his imprecise talk
about new politics

1721
01:27:05,040 --> 01:27:06,608
and honesty in government,

1722
01:27:06,609 --> 01:27:09,511
is one of the few men
who would run for president

1723
01:27:09,512 --> 01:27:11,480
of the United States
in this century

1724
01:27:11,481 --> 01:27:14,416
who really understands
what a fantastic monument

1725
01:27:14,417 --> 01:27:16,551
this country might have been

1726
01:27:16,552 --> 01:27:18,553
if we could've kept it
out of the hands

1727
01:27:18,554 --> 01:27:20,555
"of greedy little hustlers
like Richard Nixon."

1728
01:27:20,556 --> 01:27:24,460

that old traveling bone

1729
01:27:27,863 --> 01:27:30,599

really alone...

1730
01:27:30,600 --> 01:27:32,934
...whether or not
their president is a crook.

1731
01:27:32,935 --> 01:27:35,704
Well, I'm not a crook.

1732
01:27:35,705 --> 01:27:41,010

losing my way, no no...

1733
01:27:44,313 --> 01:27:46,416
Crouse: "Mcgovern made
some stupid mistakes",

1734
01:27:46,417 --> 01:27:49,351
but, in context,
they seem almost frivolous

1735
01:27:49,352 --> 01:27:51,521
compared to the things
Richard Nixon does

1736
01:27:51,522 --> 01:27:53,456
every day of his life on purpose

1737
01:27:53,457 --> 01:27:55,391
as a matter of policy

1738
01:27:55,392 --> 01:27:58,193
and a perfect expression
of everything he stands for.

1739
01:27:58,194 --> 01:28:02,297
Jesus, where will it end?
How low do you have to stoop

1740
01:28:02,298 --> 01:28:05,200
"in this country
to be president?"

1741
01:28:05,201 --> 01:28:08,672


1742
01:28:12,843 --> 01:28:16,912


1743
01:28:16,913 --> 01:28:18,815


1744
01:28:20,551 --> 01:28:24,354

the light...

1745
01:28:25,856 --> 01:28:27,257
Whew.

1746
01:28:28,792 --> 01:28:31,594
Wenner: As much as he
was reviled and revulsed

1747
01:28:31,595 --> 01:28:33,262
by Nixon,
he identified with him.

1748
01:28:33,263 --> 01:28:35,264
He understood that darkness
of the American spirit.

1749
01:28:35,265 --> 01:28:37,600
You know, hunter was
deeply invested in America.

1750
01:28:37,601 --> 01:28:40,603
Whether you call it the American
dream or American politics,

1751
01:28:40,604 --> 01:28:42,438
all the things he wrote about

1752
01:28:42,439 --> 01:28:46,241
were always looking at the
dark side as well as the hope.

1753
01:28:46,242 --> 01:28:48,745
But during his lifetime
it kept looking like,

1754
01:28:48,746 --> 01:28:52,049
once again, the evil,
the darkness would triumph.

1755
01:28:53,618 --> 01:28:57,888
Crouse: In 1972,
he began to feel disillusioned.

1756
01:28:57,889 --> 01:28:59,790
And with Jimmy Carter,
he was trying

1757
01:28:59,791 --> 01:29:02,359
to give politics
one last chance.

1758
01:29:07,565 --> 01:29:09,399
Depp: "I have heard
hundreds of speeches"

1759
01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:11,702
by all kinds of candidates
and politicians,

1760
01:29:11,703 --> 01:29:14,270
but I have never heard
a sustained piece

1761
01:29:14,271 --> 01:29:16,507
of political oratory
that impressed me more

1762
01:29:16,508 --> 01:29:18,875
than the speech Jimmy
Carter made on law day

1763
01:29:18,876 --> 01:29:20,711
at the university of Georgia

1764
01:29:20,712 --> 01:29:23,213
one Saturday afternoon
in may, 1974.

1765
01:29:23,214 --> 01:29:26,617
It was a king hell bastard
of a speech.

1766
01:29:26,618 --> 01:29:31,221
"By the time it was over,
it had rung every bell in the room."

1767
01:29:31,222 --> 01:29:34,725
Carter: Senator Kennedy and
distinguished fellow Georgians,

1768
01:29:34,726 --> 01:29:36,192
friends of the law school
of Georgia and...

1769
01:29:36,193 --> 01:29:37,628
Hunter: I was
the only reporter there

1770
01:29:37,629 --> 01:29:39,563
and I was with Kennedy.

1771
01:29:39,564 --> 01:29:41,665
I had no interest in Carter

1772
01:29:41,666 --> 01:29:44,334
and no intention
of either listening to him

1773
01:29:44,335 --> 01:29:45,969
or reporting anything he said.

1774
01:29:45,970 --> 01:29:47,872
Carter: Not paying
any attention to me,

1775
01:29:47,873 --> 01:29:49,641
he was going outside
every now and then

1776
01:29:49,642 --> 01:29:52,944
to replenish his glass of
what was apparently ice tea

1777
01:29:52,945 --> 01:29:54,912
but was really
wild Turkey whiskey.

1778
01:29:54,913 --> 01:29:58,182
I started speaking from my heart

1779
01:29:58,183 --> 01:30:00,484
about the defects

1780
01:30:00,485 --> 01:30:03,288
in the American judicial system.

1781
01:30:20,539 --> 01:30:22,607
Depp: "But what sent me
back out to the trunk"

1782
01:30:22,608 --> 01:30:25,009
to get my tape recorder
instead of another drink

1783
01:30:25,010 --> 01:30:27,979
was the spectacle
of a Southern politician

1784
01:30:27,980 --> 01:30:30,014
telling a crowd
of judges and lawyers

1785
01:30:30,015 --> 01:30:32,083
that 'the source
of my understanding

1786
01:30:32,084 --> 01:30:33,985
about what's right
and wrong in this society

1787
01:30:33,986 --> 01:30:35,787
is from a friend of mine...

1788
01:30:35,788 --> 01:30:38,857
"A great poet
named Bob Dylan.'"

1789
01:30:50,637 --> 01:30:54,908

Maggie's farm no more...

1790
01:31:09,055 --> 01:31:11,090
Carter: She said...

1791
01:31:13,292 --> 01:31:15,427
Hunter: "At this point,
Carter was attacked"

1792
01:31:15,428 --> 01:31:19,365
by what was later identified
as a 48 lb slope."

1793
01:31:26,773 --> 01:31:29,007
Carter: I was speaking
to a bunch of lawyers

1794
01:31:29,008 --> 01:31:31,009
and the reaction
among them was one

1795
01:31:31,010 --> 01:31:33,579
of stunned silence.

1796
01:31:53,968 --> 01:31:55,635
"...he was greeted
with horror."

1797
01:31:55,636 --> 01:31:56,970
Still, once that
change was made...

1798
01:31:56,971 --> 01:31:58,972
A very simple,
difficult change...

1799
01:31:58,973 --> 01:32:01,240
No one in his right mind
would want to go back

1800
01:32:01,241 --> 01:32:03,710
to circumstances prior
to that juncture

1801
01:32:03,711 --> 01:32:05,779
"in the development
of our nation's society."

1802
01:32:05,780 --> 01:32:07,580
It changed my life.

1803
01:32:07,581 --> 01:32:09,883
Of course, hunter is the person
that found Jimmy Carter.

1804
01:32:09,884 --> 01:32:13,820
Hunter would go around the
country and play it for people.

1805
01:32:13,821 --> 01:32:16,990
Brinkley: His cover
story on "rolling stone"

1806
01:32:16,991 --> 01:32:19,158
that hunter wrote
endorsing Carter

1807
01:32:19,159 --> 01:32:21,160
helped Jimmy Carter
win that election.

1808
01:32:21,161 --> 01:32:24,664
He was the most popular writer
in the United States.

1809
01:32:24,665 --> 01:32:29,402
My next guest is one of the most
controversial writers in America

1810
01:32:29,403 --> 01:32:31,437
and the inventor
of Gonzo journalism.

1811
01:32:31,438 --> 01:32:33,306
We're delighted that
he could be with us tonight.

1812
01:32:33,307 --> 01:32:35,608
Welcome, please,
Dr. Hunter Thompson.

1813
01:32:35,609 --> 01:32:38,978
Brinkley: He had just
delivered "hell's angels".

1814
01:32:38,979 --> 01:32:40,980
"Vegas," "campaign trail,"

1815
01:32:40,981 --> 01:32:43,717
and all those great
"rolling stone" pieces.

1816
01:32:43,718 --> 01:32:46,786
People didn't know where this
guy was gonna stop at that point.

1817
01:32:46,787 --> 01:32:50,190
You didn't know whether he would have
30 years of this kind of productivity.

1818
01:32:50,191 --> 01:32:52,693
He was... he was so hot.

1819
01:32:52,694 --> 01:32:55,730
He'd give a speech at a college

1820
01:32:55,731 --> 01:32:59,266
and 20 women wanted to
party with him all night.

1821
01:32:59,267 --> 01:33:01,601
Classic rock 'n' roll attitude.

1822
01:33:01,602 --> 01:33:03,470
And hunter saw rock stars,

1823
01:33:03,471 --> 01:33:06,941
and he thought,
"why shouldn't a writer be a rock star?"

1824
01:33:06,942 --> 01:33:10,845
He became that rock 'n'
roll... trash the hotel room,

1825
01:33:10,846 --> 01:33:12,980
throw the typewriter
out the window,

1826
01:33:12,981 --> 01:33:14,982
let the women in,
too much drugs...

1827
01:33:14,983 --> 01:33:17,317
Meanwhile, there was
this other side of him.

1828
01:33:17,318 --> 01:33:19,887
He was the squire
of Woody creek,

1829
01:33:19,888 --> 01:33:21,456
who had a wife and a kid.

1830
01:33:28,529 --> 01:33:31,031


1831
01:33:31,032 --> 01:33:34,668


1832
01:33:34,669 --> 01:33:37,504


1833
01:33:37,505 --> 01:33:41,341


1834
01:33:41,342 --> 01:33:44,378


1835
01:33:44,379 --> 01:33:47,347


1836
01:33:47,348 --> 01:33:50,519

I miss you...

1837
01:33:52,321 --> 01:33:54,389
Wright:
Here was all this fame,

1838
01:33:54,390 --> 01:33:56,457
all these famous people,

1839
01:33:56,458 --> 01:33:59,027
all these hanger-on girls

1840
01:33:59,028 --> 01:34:00,996
and people coming
into my kitchen

1841
01:34:00,997 --> 01:34:02,497
with heels like this.

1842
01:34:02,498 --> 01:34:03,999
We lived out in Woody creek...

1843
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:08,804
And in tight jeans and stilettos

1844
01:34:08,805 --> 01:34:10,738
and everything gorgeous.

1845
01:34:10,739 --> 01:34:13,408
And I said,
"who are these people?

1846
01:34:13,409 --> 01:34:16,478
And what are they doing
in my world?"

1847
01:34:19,481 --> 01:34:22,483
Juan: You don't think how
it should be different.

1848
01:34:22,484 --> 01:34:26,454
You just accept that my dad
gets up at 5:00 in the afternoon

1849
01:34:26,455 --> 01:34:29,090
for the 5:00 news.

1850
01:34:29,091 --> 01:34:31,026
He eats breakfast, I eat dinner.

1851
01:34:31,027 --> 01:34:33,161
It's a shame
he wasn't around more,

1852
01:34:33,162 --> 01:34:34,763
but that's who he was.

1853
01:34:36,432 --> 01:34:38,266
I met hunter in John
belushi's dressing room

1854
01:34:38,267 --> 01:34:40,001
at "Saturday night live."

1855
01:34:40,002 --> 01:34:42,237
He was the ultimate bad boy,

1856
01:34:42,238 --> 01:34:44,705
but we became fantastic friends.

1857
01:34:44,706 --> 01:34:48,009
And one night
he was talking to someone

1858
01:34:48,010 --> 01:34:49,978
and I guess by the way
he was talking to them...

1859
01:34:49,979 --> 01:34:51,647
When he hung up I said,
"oh, who was that?"

1860
01:34:51,648 --> 01:34:53,749
And he said,
"well, that's sondi."

1861
01:34:53,750 --> 01:34:56,285
I said, "well, who's sondi?"
He said, "my wife,"

1862
01:34:56,286 --> 01:34:57,855
and I said,
"your wife?"

1863
01:34:59,522 --> 01:35:02,558
Brinkley: Meanwhile,
his marriage was getting very rocky,

1864
01:35:02,559 --> 01:35:05,061
he was starting to drink
and do too many drugs

1865
01:35:05,062 --> 01:35:07,629
and fell into fame.

1866
01:35:07,630 --> 01:35:10,632
Caddell: What had given
him his strength...

1867
01:35:10,633 --> 01:35:12,334
His anonymity... was gone.

1868
01:35:12,335 --> 01:35:15,037
By writing and becoming
the political reporter he was,

1869
01:35:15,038 --> 01:35:18,074
he had lost that anonymity
that had been his cloak.

1870
01:35:18,075 --> 01:35:19,842
So now he was the story.

1871
01:35:19,843 --> 01:35:21,710
I used to be able
to stand in the back

1872
01:35:21,711 --> 01:35:23,946
and observe stories
and absorb them.

1873
01:35:23,947 --> 01:35:26,682
Now the minute
I appear at a story,

1874
01:35:26,683 --> 01:35:28,450
then I become part of it.

1875
01:35:28,451 --> 01:35:30,887
First time I went to a press
conference with Jimmy Carter

1876
01:35:30,888 --> 01:35:32,856
I had to sign more autographs
than Carter signed.

1877
01:35:34,524 --> 01:35:36,225
And the secret service had
no idea who I was.

1878
01:35:36,226 --> 01:35:37,506
They thought I was an astronaut.

1879
01:35:38,962 --> 01:35:40,963
Wenner: At that point,
you know, it was hard.

1880
01:35:40,964 --> 01:35:42,664
How do you find stuff
for hunter to do?

1881
01:35:42,665 --> 01:35:44,333
You're always looking
for a story that somehow

1882
01:35:44,334 --> 01:35:46,435
can top the campaign story
or Vegas,

1883
01:35:46,436 --> 01:35:48,538
something big enough
for his talent.

1884
01:35:50,507 --> 01:35:53,110
Going to Zaire seemed like a
natural assignment for hunter,

1885
01:35:53,111 --> 01:35:55,645
a big spectacle,
heavyweight fight;

1886
01:35:55,646 --> 01:35:58,048
Ali, whom he knew
or had written about before.

1887
01:35:58,049 --> 01:36:01,518
He went.
Steadman came down from London.

1888
01:36:01,519 --> 01:36:04,354
I'm gonna retire the heavyweight
champion of the world!

1889
01:36:04,355 --> 01:36:07,525
September the 25th,
the world will be stunned!

1890
01:36:09,193 --> 01:36:12,029
Brinkley: His hero, number
one, was Muhammad Ali.

1891
01:36:12,030 --> 01:36:14,031
He used to always say
that he was related

1892
01:36:14,032 --> 01:36:16,266
to Cassius Clay
in the bloodline.

1893
01:36:16,267 --> 01:36:19,202
I've never fully believed it...

1894
01:36:19,203 --> 01:36:21,939
It could be true...
But he loved to say

1895
01:36:21,940 --> 01:36:24,641
that he was blood-related
to Muhammad Ali.

1896
01:36:24,642 --> 01:36:26,876
Hah! Sucker,
you ain't nothing.

1897
01:36:26,877 --> 01:36:30,513
You're too ugly to represent
us colored folks.

1898
01:36:30,514 --> 01:36:33,116
Brinkley: And remember
again, Muhammad Ali is

1899
01:36:33,117 --> 01:36:34,751
this touchstone for hunter,

1900
01:36:34,752 --> 01:36:37,887
that the Kentucky boys
are making it big.

1901
01:36:37,888 --> 01:36:41,524
You out, sucker.

1902
01:36:41,525 --> 01:36:44,627
Wolfe: He went to Zaire to
cover the rumble in the jungle.

1903
01:36:44,628 --> 01:36:46,629
It was the foregone conclusion

1904
01:36:46,630 --> 01:36:49,166
that George foreman was going
to knock out Muhammad Ali.

1905
01:36:49,167 --> 01:36:50,733
There seemed to be no way

1906
01:36:50,734 --> 01:36:52,571
that Ali could survive
that fight.

1907
01:37:25,037 --> 01:37:27,772
He stops, and he looks up at
the drug dealer and he says...

1908
01:37:35,947 --> 01:37:39,051
You know, and it got worse
and worse and worse and worse.

1909
01:37:41,053 --> 01:37:44,488
This was when hunter gave
our tickets away.

1910
01:37:44,489 --> 01:37:46,624
I can't remember what I did.

1911
01:37:46,625 --> 01:37:49,193
I just think I tried to watch
it on television or something

1912
01:37:49,194 --> 01:37:50,894
so I would get some idea of it,

1913
01:37:50,895 --> 01:37:53,932
but hunter had gone
down to the pool

1914
01:37:53,933 --> 01:37:56,068
with a bucket of ice

1915
01:37:56,069 --> 01:37:58,103
and a bottle of whiskey,

1916
01:37:58,104 --> 01:38:00,072
drinking and smokes...
His dunhills.

1917
01:38:00,073 --> 01:38:02,707
And hunter decided to...

1918
01:38:02,708 --> 01:38:04,609
Take a dip in the pool,

1919
01:38:04,610 --> 01:38:07,046
float in the pool at the hotel

1920
01:38:07,047 --> 01:38:08,848
throughout the entire fight.

1921
01:38:11,384 --> 01:38:13,819
Announcer: 30 seconds
left in round eight.

1922
01:38:15,088 --> 01:38:18,823
As it turned out,
it was one of the...

1923
01:38:18,824 --> 01:38:20,792
Classic fights of all time.

1924
01:38:20,793 --> 01:38:22,727
Announcer:
Another sneaky right hand.

1925
01:38:22,728 --> 01:38:24,563
This time he worked
over his shoulder.

1926
01:38:24,564 --> 01:38:26,566
Unbelievable!

1927
01:38:31,504 --> 01:38:35,408
Referee:
Four, five, six, seven...

1928
01:38:49,055 --> 01:38:51,856
This was called the biggest
fucked-up journalistic story

1929
01:38:51,857 --> 01:38:53,693
in the history of journalism...

1930
01:38:53,694 --> 01:38:55,728
That we really didn't
get a story.

1931
01:38:55,729 --> 01:38:59,499
Wenner: Zaire was hunter's first
big failure as an assignment.

1932
01:38:59,500 --> 01:39:01,734
There was a big expense bill...
Which I paid for...

1933
01:39:01,735 --> 01:39:03,503
And didn't do the piece,

1934
01:39:03,504 --> 01:39:04,870
and that was disappointing
to us all.

1935
01:39:04,871 --> 01:39:07,607
I think hunter felt
a strong sense of failure.

1936
01:39:07,608 --> 01:39:11,477
That was kind of the beginning
of a period of decline there.

1937
01:39:11,478 --> 01:39:14,814
He, as a writer,
a journalist and a person,

1938
01:39:14,815 --> 01:39:17,717
ran up against some wall
there or a period there,

1939
01:39:17,718 --> 01:39:19,552
whether it was
coming from exhaustion

1940
01:39:19,553 --> 01:39:23,990
or something going on with his
marriage... somewhere he just lost it.

1941
01:39:25,492 --> 01:39:28,328
Wright: Hunter came
back from Africa,

1942
01:39:28,329 --> 01:39:30,963
he didn't wake up
for a day and a half.

1943
01:39:30,964 --> 01:39:34,367
And all of a sudden
he just couldn't write.

1944
01:39:34,368 --> 01:39:35,868
He couldn't piece it together.

1945
01:39:35,869 --> 01:39:38,238
His life really changed
after that

1946
01:39:38,239 --> 01:39:41,807
and he knew that he wasn't the
writer that he wanted to be.

1947
01:39:41,808 --> 01:39:43,744


1948
01:39:47,614 --> 01:39:49,849

I done enjoyed things

1949
01:39:49,850 --> 01:39:52,952

will never have...

1950
01:39:52,953 --> 01:39:55,256
Wenner: He stopped writing
full-time in the mid-'70s,

1951
01:39:55,257 --> 01:39:56,823
then he'd just do the articles.

1952
01:39:56,824 --> 01:39:58,625
Part of what happened
was I think

1953
01:39:58,626 --> 01:40:00,394
there were so many people
hanging around Woody creek,

1954
01:40:00,395 --> 01:40:02,329
and he was very welcoming
and enjoyed it all,

1955
01:40:02,330 --> 01:40:04,398
but it really made it
difficult to work.

1956
01:40:04,399 --> 01:40:07,402
"...safe for my young son."

1957
01:40:09,537 --> 01:40:12,506
"But the front doors are
a different matter."

1958
01:40:12,507 --> 01:40:15,942
Brinkley: I was a bit of a straight
man entering his carnival life.

1959
01:40:15,943 --> 01:40:19,680
He used to call himself a
drug-addled compound junkie.

1960
01:40:19,681 --> 01:40:25,052


1961
01:40:27,054 --> 01:40:29,691


1962
01:40:33,195 --> 01:40:35,162
Stranahan: I'd go around
to take care of hunter.

1963
01:40:35,163 --> 01:40:37,498
If he can toss the Heineken
bottle and catch it,

1964
01:40:37,499 --> 01:40:39,133
he hasn't had too much to drink.

1965
01:40:40,868 --> 01:40:43,805
And he began to retreat
to owl farm more and more.

1966
01:40:47,342 --> 01:40:49,676
Juan: Then eventually he
didn't really go out at all.

1967
01:40:49,677 --> 01:40:51,346
I guess people came to him.

1968
01:40:53,248 --> 01:40:54,849
Wenner: He was writing
occasional columns

1969
01:40:54,850 --> 01:40:56,784
for the "examiner"
and he did that "lono" book.

1970
01:40:56,785 --> 01:40:59,421
They were all right.

1971
01:40:59,422 --> 01:41:01,423
But he wrote three pieces,

1972
01:41:01,424 --> 01:41:04,459
just... they were just brilliant.

1973
01:41:04,460 --> 01:41:08,196
Elko, pulitzer, "Polo"...
Those are beautiful,

1974
01:41:08,197 --> 01:41:10,832
but his work never got
quite back to those levels.

1975
01:41:10,833 --> 01:41:13,401
It was all just repetitive,

1976
01:41:13,402 --> 01:41:16,438
not funny goofball stuff.

1977
01:41:16,439 --> 01:41:18,440
Hunter wanted a persona,

1978
01:41:18,441 --> 01:41:21,142
but he became a hostage
to that persona

1979
01:41:21,143 --> 01:41:22,910
as he got older and older

1980
01:41:22,911 --> 01:41:26,181
and he was being ridiculed
as a comic-book character.

1981
01:41:27,683 --> 01:41:29,684
When garry trudeau
first made Duke

1982
01:41:29,685 --> 01:41:31,286
a character in doonesbury

1983
01:41:31,287 --> 01:41:33,154
it was absolutely, literally,

1984
01:41:33,155 --> 01:41:35,189
the raoul Duke character
that hunter invented.

1985
01:41:35,190 --> 01:41:36,824
It was hunter's
literary property.

1986
01:41:36,825 --> 01:41:40,395
So I think he should've...
He could have and...

1987
01:41:40,396 --> 01:41:42,231
In retrospect...
Should have stopped that.

1988
01:41:47,670 --> 01:41:49,671
But then he said,
"what can I do?"

1989
01:41:49,672 --> 01:41:52,940
I decided to own it.
They want to see uncle Duke?

1990
01:41:52,941 --> 01:41:55,345
"I'll give 'em uncle Duke
times five."

1991
01:42:03,653 --> 01:42:05,688
- Wow.
- Man: You see what I mean?

1992
01:42:05,689 --> 01:42:08,123
Caddell: He hated "doonesbury."
He hated being a caricature.

1993
01:42:08,124 --> 01:42:10,125
He also loved being a star,

1994
01:42:10,126 --> 01:42:12,628
but also it interfered
with him being a reporter,

1995
01:42:12,629 --> 01:42:14,730
which is what he wanted to be.

1996
01:42:14,731 --> 01:42:16,332
Hunter: If you want to be
a famous American writer,

1997
01:42:16,333 --> 01:42:18,334
you don't really think of...

1998
01:42:18,335 --> 01:42:21,036
Being in the comic strips,

1999
01:42:21,037 --> 01:42:22,671
you know, being...

2000
01:42:22,672 --> 01:42:24,106
Oh, are we doing things
like that?

2001
01:42:24,107 --> 01:42:25,708
Yes, in front of the camera

2002
01:42:25,709 --> 01:42:28,176
and it will be on film,
won't it? Mmm.

2003
01:42:28,177 --> 01:42:30,714
Hunter did become, in a way,
a prisoner of his own fame.

2004
01:42:33,683 --> 01:42:36,852
Wright: I was getting more
distraught with his fame.

2005
01:42:36,853 --> 01:42:38,921
It was total chaos in the house.

2006
01:42:38,922 --> 01:42:43,659
Just thoughts of booze, drugs,

2007
01:42:43,660 --> 01:42:47,530
staying up for days and parties.

2008
01:42:47,531 --> 01:42:50,566
And little did I know he was
having affairs all over the place.

2009
01:42:50,567 --> 01:42:54,570
It was unhealthy for me,
it was unhealthy for my son.

2010
01:42:54,571 --> 01:42:57,974
Brinkley: Eventually
sondi uncovered a tape

2011
01:42:57,975 --> 01:42:59,543
of a woman that he was with.

2012
01:42:59,544 --> 01:43:03,947
Woman: I'm gonna burn up
with unfulfilled desire

2013
01:43:03,948 --> 01:43:07,318
if I have to stay here
one more minute alone.

2014
01:43:10,721 --> 01:43:14,224
No, I don't want the delivery boy.
I want you.

2015
01:43:18,162 --> 01:43:19,796
Wright: So I remember
sitting on the phone,

2016
01:43:19,797 --> 01:43:21,998
I looked up at him and I said,

2017
01:43:21,999 --> 01:43:24,100
"you know I can't
do this anymore.

2018
01:43:24,101 --> 01:43:27,303
I'm gonna have to
have a divorce."

2019
01:43:27,304 --> 01:43:29,172
Well...

2020
01:43:29,173 --> 01:43:32,376
He just blew up
and then I got scared

2021
01:43:32,377 --> 01:43:36,446
and I ended up
calling the sheriff.

2022
01:43:36,447 --> 01:43:38,848
And a sheriff's deputy
comes out to the house.

2023
01:43:38,849 --> 01:43:41,451
The guys says...

2024
01:43:41,452 --> 01:43:43,920
"Um, does he have
any guns?"

2025
01:43:43,921 --> 01:43:46,155
And I said,
"'does he have any guns?'"

2026
01:43:46,156 --> 01:43:48,257
he has 22 guns

2027
01:43:48,258 --> 01:43:50,461
"and every one
is loaded."

2028
01:43:51,662 --> 01:43:53,864
Woman: Hey!

2029
01:43:55,533 --> 01:43:57,802
Brinkley: It was not an
easy divorce for hunter.

2030
01:43:57,803 --> 01:44:01,372
He refused to leave owl farm.

2031
01:44:01,373 --> 01:44:04,341
Sandy said, "the only thing
he owns is this land."

2032
01:44:04,342 --> 01:44:06,777
I have to have half
of what hunter owns,

2033
01:44:06,778 --> 01:44:09,213
'cause I'm divorcing him.

2034
01:44:09,214 --> 01:44:10,681
And I don't want half the land

2035
01:44:10,682 --> 01:44:12,550
"because I have to live
next to the son of a bitch."

2036
01:44:12,551 --> 01:44:16,186
So I got to buy my land back.

2037
01:44:16,187 --> 01:44:18,856
Well, I'd given it to hunter.

2038
01:44:18,857 --> 01:44:21,992
So then I ended up making payments
to sondi for the next 15 years.

2039
01:44:21,993 --> 01:44:23,928
Buzz off!
I'm going to Florida.

2040
01:44:23,929 --> 01:44:26,196
Brinkley:
He couldn't write.

2041
01:44:26,197 --> 01:44:28,566
He was completely shattered

2042
01:44:28,567 --> 01:44:31,001
and Jimmy buffet came
to his rescue

2043
01:44:31,002 --> 01:44:33,170
and allowed him to come down

2044
01:44:33,171 --> 01:44:35,506
and stay at his house
in key west free of charge.

2045
01:44:35,507 --> 01:44:39,677

in margaritaville...

2046
01:44:39,678 --> 01:44:42,713
That's where we are.

2047
01:44:42,714 --> 01:44:46,584

lost sugar and salt...

2048
01:44:46,585 --> 01:44:48,986
Hunter: You have never seen
people drive so fucking slowly.

2049
01:44:48,987 --> 01:44:51,522
It's incredible.
You dirty sons of bitches.

2050
01:44:51,523 --> 01:44:53,959
Move over. Go get in the fast
Lane, you cocksuckers.

2051
01:44:58,130 --> 01:44:59,731
Buffet:
The first thing I see is.

2052
01:44:59,732 --> 01:45:01,567
"Gonzo journalist
comes to key west,"

2053
01:45:01,568 --> 01:45:03,969
front page,
fucking "Miami herald."

2054
01:45:03,970 --> 01:45:06,337
Hunter's stretched out
in my apartment.

2055
01:45:06,338 --> 01:45:08,540
And then all of a sudden,
I got a call from my accountant.

2056
01:45:08,541 --> 01:45:10,542
He said, "what's this"

2057
01:45:10,543 --> 01:45:13,579
$9,000 telephone bill?"
And I went...

2058
01:45:13,580 --> 01:45:16,648
"Oh my god, hunter's down
there and I left the phone on."

2059
01:45:16,649 --> 01:45:18,750
And like always...

2060
01:45:18,751 --> 01:45:22,621
Then he got a boat
and I thought, "oh, Jesus."

2061
01:45:22,622 --> 01:45:27,025
You know, I expected to read
the obituary during those days.

2062
01:45:27,026 --> 01:45:31,830

I'd go out on the ocean

2063
01:45:31,831 --> 01:45:34,032


2064
01:45:34,033 --> 01:45:37,068


2065
01:45:37,069 --> 01:45:39,337


2066
01:45:39,338 --> 01:45:42,073


2067
01:45:42,074 --> 01:45:46,478

on my boat

2068
01:45:46,479 --> 01:45:49,981


2069
01:45:49,982 --> 01:45:54,252


2070
01:45:54,253 --> 01:45:57,189
Anita on tape: Say hello to the dolphins.
Well, hello.

2071
01:45:57,190 --> 01:45:59,859
Okay.

2072
01:45:59,860 --> 01:46:02,094
Anita: Well,
the first time I met hunter,

2073
01:46:02,095 --> 01:46:05,832
it was just kind of a... big
writer that I was curious about.

2074
01:46:05,833 --> 01:46:09,235
When we got married,
he promised me 10 years.

2075
01:46:09,236 --> 01:46:12,705
I just figured he was
such a powerful force

2076
01:46:12,706 --> 01:46:14,340
that he would know.

2077
01:46:14,341 --> 01:46:17,577
If he said 10 years,
that meant 10 years.

2078
01:46:17,578 --> 01:46:20,913
He had talked about suicide
a lot since I've known him,

2079
01:46:20,914 --> 01:46:23,816
and now I know,
talking to his former wife

2080
01:46:23,817 --> 01:46:26,386
and other girlfriends,
that he had talked about it all the time.

2081
01:46:28,556 --> 01:46:30,523
Depp:
"Trouble can come at you"

2082
01:46:30,524 --> 01:46:32,058
from any direction these days,

2083
01:46:32,059 --> 01:46:34,426
like being chased through
a crowded parking lot

2084
01:46:34,427 --> 01:46:36,395
by a pack of vicious stray dogs.

2085
01:46:36,396 --> 01:46:40,032
The world's situation has
become so nervous and wrong

2086
01:46:40,033 --> 01:46:42,501
that disasters that
would've been inconceivable

2087
01:46:42,502 --> 01:46:46,673
"two years ago are
almost commonplace today."

2088
01:46:46,674 --> 01:46:48,675
Anita: I did start
to worry about him

2089
01:46:48,676 --> 01:46:50,610
right after the bush election.

2090
01:46:50,611 --> 01:46:52,779
That I think was the trigger.

2091
01:46:52,780 --> 01:46:54,681
He didn't get angry,
he just got depressed.

2092
01:46:54,682 --> 01:46:56,849
You know, I could handle
when he was angry,

2093
01:46:56,850 --> 01:46:59,386
feisty or sulky...

2094
01:46:59,387 --> 01:47:02,255
Anything but depressed
or something I wasn't used to.

2095
01:47:02,256 --> 01:47:06,093

Norma Jean…

2096
01:47:06,094 --> 01:47:10,230
There are certain moments that
I'm really glad I had the camera.

2097
01:47:10,231 --> 01:47:13,466
There's a moment
I walk out onto the balcony...

2098
01:47:13,467 --> 01:47:17,004
He had been listening to "candle in
the wind" over and over and over.

2099
01:47:17,005 --> 01:47:18,839
There was a look of a grin,

2100
01:47:18,840 --> 01:47:20,708
like a roguish eye in his eye

2101
01:47:20,709 --> 01:47:22,710
when he was
about to have some fun.

2102
01:47:22,711 --> 01:47:24,846
Whoo-hoo-hoo.

2103
01:47:26,247 --> 01:47:28,582
Anita: Seeing him
look at the keys...

2104
01:47:28,583 --> 01:47:30,618
Especially to music...
When he was having fun,

2105
01:47:30,619 --> 01:47:33,286
you could see it in his
face and also on the page.

2106
01:47:33,287 --> 01:47:35,488

to have known you

2107
01:47:35,489 --> 01:47:39,593


2108
01:47:39,594 --> 01:47:42,263

long before...

2109
01:47:45,399 --> 01:47:49,771
-
- I feel wet.

2110
01:47:51,305 --> 01:47:53,440
Anita on tape:
Uh-oh. Good.

2111
01:47:53,441 --> 01:47:57,344
When he did die, his words
took on a new sparkle,

2112
01:47:57,345 --> 01:48:00,314
maybe because
they are finite now.

2113
01:48:00,315 --> 01:48:02,617
We have a finite amount.

2114
01:48:02,618 --> 01:48:07,088
And just the fact that we have
the words is a lucky thing.

2115
01:48:07,089 --> 01:48:08,923
I mean, imagine in
a twisted universe

2116
01:48:08,924 --> 01:48:11,793
when he died if somehow he took

2117
01:48:11,794 --> 01:48:13,528
his words with him, his work.

2118
01:48:16,198 --> 01:48:18,399
Anita: Oh, come on, hunter.

2119
01:48:18,400 --> 01:48:20,702
- That was not cool at all.
- I was tossing it to you.

2120
01:48:20,703 --> 01:48:22,904
- No, you weren't.
- What are you talking about?

2121
01:48:22,905 --> 01:48:25,606
- I didn't hit him in the head like that.
- Anita: That's enough.

2122
01:48:25,607 --> 01:48:28,910
Wolfe: To feel compelled
to be Gonzo all the time

2123
01:48:28,911 --> 01:48:31,780
must have been a burden
on his poor mind.

2124
01:48:31,781 --> 01:48:35,249
He was so identified
with the life he's described,

2125
01:48:35,250 --> 01:48:38,586
it was hard for him
not to be in costume,

2126
01:48:38,587 --> 01:48:42,056
not to be the actor
that was required.

2127
01:48:42,057 --> 01:48:45,527
Hunter must have felt
trapped... trapped in Gonzo.

2128
01:48:50,132 --> 01:48:52,333
Hunter: So,
I'm really in the way as a person.

2129
01:48:52,334 --> 01:48:54,602
The myth has taken over

2130
01:48:54,603 --> 01:48:57,371
and I find myself,
you know, an appendage.

2131
01:48:57,372 --> 01:48:58,574
I'm...

2132
01:49:00,143 --> 01:49:03,345
I'm no longer necessary.
I'm in the way.

2133
01:49:03,346 --> 01:49:05,314
It'd be much better if I died,

2134
01:49:05,315 --> 01:49:08,018
then people could take
the myth and make films.

2135
01:49:57,968 --> 01:49:59,402
Like, when I go out to...

2136
01:49:59,403 --> 01:50:01,604
When I got invited to speak
at, say, universities,

2137
01:50:01,605 --> 01:50:03,907
I'm not sure if you're
inviting Duke or Thompson.

2138
01:50:03,908 --> 01:50:05,776
So I'm not sure who to be...

2139
01:50:05,777 --> 01:50:07,744
So I'm not sure who to be.

2140
01:50:07,745 --> 01:50:10,380
I suppose that my plans are to
figure out some new identity.

2141
01:50:10,381 --> 01:50:13,016
You know, I have to kill off
one life and start another one...

2142
01:50:13,017 --> 01:50:14,752
Kill off one life
and start another one.

2143
01:50:19,991 --> 01:50:24,828

play a song for me

2144
01:50:24,829 --> 01:50:26,797


2145
01:50:26,798 --> 01:50:30,666

no place I'm going to...

2146
01:50:30,667 --> 01:50:33,169
Juan:
It was no secret that

2147
01:50:33,170 --> 01:50:34,938
that's the way he would die.

2148
01:50:34,939 --> 01:50:37,774
He'd made that clear
many years before,

2149
01:50:37,775 --> 01:50:40,376
that when the time came,
he was gonna...

2150
01:50:40,377 --> 01:50:41,912
He was gonna take himself out

2151
01:50:41,913 --> 01:50:43,914
and it would be with a gun.

2152
01:50:43,915 --> 01:50:47,350
So that... that was no surprise.

2153
01:50:47,351 --> 01:50:51,021
But it's one thing
to know that at some point,

2154
01:50:51,022 --> 01:50:52,889
you know,
he was gonna kill himself

2155
01:50:52,890 --> 01:50:55,325
and it's another
when it actually happens.

2156
01:50:55,326 --> 01:50:58,094
It was important to him

2157
01:50:58,095 --> 01:50:59,931
that we were there.

2158
01:50:59,932 --> 01:51:02,566
It was a sunny afternoon
in the winter

2159
01:51:02,567 --> 01:51:04,535
and it was just
a very peaceful time.

2160
01:51:04,536 --> 01:51:07,104
His family was there
and he decided

2161
01:51:07,105 --> 01:51:09,673
"all right, this is
a good time to go out."

2162
01:51:09,674 --> 01:51:11,075
It sounds kind of sappy,

2163
01:51:11,076 --> 01:51:14,011
but it was a warm family moment.

2164
01:51:14,012 --> 01:51:17,148


2165
01:51:17,149 --> 01:51:19,783


2166
01:51:19,784 --> 01:51:22,586
Steadman: When he did it,
Juan was in the next room

2167
01:51:22,587 --> 01:51:25,122
and he said, "when it happened"

2168
01:51:25,123 --> 01:51:27,459
I thought
I heard a book drop."

2169
01:51:29,127 --> 01:51:30,661
It went like that.

2170
01:51:30,662 --> 01:51:33,597
Juan went outside with a gun

2171
01:51:33,598 --> 01:51:35,968
and shot three times
into the air.

2172
01:51:38,670 --> 01:51:40,204
Steadman: It was a
kind of salute to him

2173
01:51:40,205 --> 01:51:42,540
as much as anything... or shock.

2174
01:51:44,843 --> 01:51:48,345
Wright: Hunter was very much
about preserving a legacy,

2175
01:51:48,346 --> 01:51:50,948
and this was perfect.

2176
01:51:50,949 --> 01:51:52,816
This was romantic.

2177
01:51:52,817 --> 01:51:55,686
And in a lot of people's minds,

2178
01:51:55,687 --> 01:51:59,623
it was a very strong act.
It was a noble act.

2179
01:51:59,624 --> 01:52:02,160
"Go out when you're on
top." He wasn't on top.

2180
01:52:02,161 --> 01:52:05,297
He was nowhere near on top.

2181
01:52:05,298 --> 01:52:07,665
But some people thought that,

2182
01:52:07,666 --> 01:52:11,236
and some people thought
it was a very courageous act.

2183
01:52:11,237 --> 01:52:13,771
I think just the opposite.

2184
01:52:13,772 --> 01:52:16,241
I think this is a time

2185
01:52:16,242 --> 01:52:18,676
when a together hunter Thompson

2186
01:52:18,677 --> 01:52:22,447
could make a difference
in this country.

2187
01:52:22,448 --> 01:52:24,883


2188
01:52:24,884 --> 01:52:27,119

you're seeing

2189
01:52:27,120 --> 01:52:29,121


2190
01:52:29,122 --> 01:52:32,090
Buffet: It's a tragic mistake.
I wish he was still here.

2191
01:52:32,091 --> 01:52:34,960
I wish there was still
a hunter around to talk to.

2192
01:52:34,961 --> 01:52:38,096
It's an amazing thing.
You think on one side

2193
01:52:38,097 --> 01:52:41,466
it's fun to reminisce,
but its sad that he's gone.

2194
01:52:41,467 --> 01:52:44,402
We could have used
a few more years of hunter.

2195
01:52:44,403 --> 01:52:47,906
He could wield
a pretty effective sword

2196
01:52:47,907 --> 01:52:49,541
against what's
going on right now.

2197
01:52:49,542 --> 01:52:53,179

followin' you...

2198
01:52:58,784 --> 01:53:00,885
You know, just all of it.

2199
01:53:00,886 --> 01:53:02,456
Just all of it.

2200
01:53:06,093 --> 01:53:08,861
Hunter, no!
You bastard!

2201
01:53:08,862 --> 01:53:10,863
Fuckhead!

2202
01:53:10,864 --> 01:53:14,401
- Oh shit.
- Hunter: You're okay.

2203
01:53:17,404 --> 01:53:19,206
I can't talk about it.

2204
01:53:22,376 --> 01:53:24,377
Buchanan:
He flamed out too quickly,

2205
01:53:24,378 --> 01:53:27,013
because of the way
he lived his life

2206
01:53:27,014 --> 01:53:28,914
and chose to live his life.

2207
01:53:28,915 --> 01:53:31,850
So in my view it was...
It was self-indulgent.

2208
01:53:31,851 --> 01:53:33,852
Maybe that's what
he wanted to do,

2209
01:53:33,853 --> 01:53:37,256
but he had so much more
he could give his readers

2210
01:53:37,257 --> 01:53:40,194
and his people...
And himself.

2211
01:53:45,865 --> 01:53:47,866
That's fitting.
That's fitting.

2212
01:53:47,867 --> 01:53:50,803
- Man: That's fitting for hunter.
- A motorcycle...

2213
01:53:50,804 --> 01:53:53,940
...Roars off.

2214
01:53:55,342 --> 01:53:57,144
Okay.

2215
01:53:59,279 --> 01:54:01,347
Steadman: It seems we're
here today to discuss

2216
01:54:01,348 --> 01:54:03,383
some kind idea for a monument.

2217
01:54:03,384 --> 01:54:05,585
If I show you this...
This is the basic idea,

2218
01:54:05,586 --> 01:54:07,254
but actually,
hunter hasn't approved it yet.

2219
01:54:07,255 --> 01:54:09,156
It's just a thought, yeah.

2220
01:54:09,157 --> 01:54:11,591
He lives in Aspen

2221
01:54:11,592 --> 01:54:13,994
- in Colorado.
- Man: That is different.

2222
01:54:13,995 --> 01:54:16,963
Is this something
that you would want to do

2223
01:54:16,964 --> 01:54:19,399
- in the near future?
- Hunter: He's written...

2224
01:54:19,400 --> 01:54:22,769
- I'm not sure.
- I mean you're talking about something

2225
01:54:22,770 --> 01:54:24,838
that maybe you want
to do after you die.

2226
01:54:24,839 --> 01:54:27,941
Oh, yeah, it's in the will.
It's all described.

2227
01:54:27,942 --> 01:54:31,611
It's gonna be a little hard to
do, particularly with me gone.

2228
01:54:31,612 --> 01:54:35,049
This rim of mountains is a
giant valley 20 miles across.

2229
01:54:35,050 --> 01:54:37,551
- Is this property that you own now?
- Hunter: Yeah.

2230
01:54:37,552 --> 01:54:39,219
The property goes back
over the cliffs,

2231
01:54:39,220 --> 01:54:41,622
so I can do whatever...
If I wanted to build a...

2232
01:54:43,324 --> 01:54:45,326
McDonald's,
I could do it back there.

2233
01:54:58,373 --> 01:55:01,075
Hunter: It's gonna be a pile
of rocks about 100' tall.

2234
01:55:01,076 --> 01:55:04,245

and they lay me to rest...

2235
01:55:04,246 --> 01:55:06,147
A giant cone... conical.

2236
01:55:06,148 --> 01:55:08,183
Going around and
tapering down to the top.

2237
01:55:08,184 --> 01:55:10,785
About every two years,
the doctor tells me I'm gonna die.

2238
01:55:10,786 --> 01:55:13,288
For all I know,
somehow I might live for 10 more years.

2239
01:55:13,289 --> 01:55:16,592
Well, that's something... none of
us know how long we're gonna live.

2240
01:55:19,595 --> 01:55:21,162
On top of the big arm,

2241
01:55:21,163 --> 01:55:23,864
a double... a fist with
double thumbs... the symbol.

2242
01:55:23,865 --> 01:55:25,800
I've told you
1,000 times for 10 years...

2243
01:55:25,801 --> 01:55:27,668
You've got to put
two thumbs on the fist.

2244
01:55:27,669 --> 01:55:30,738
Steadman: It's better than no
thumb, which is what you had.

2245
01:55:30,739 --> 01:55:34,375

that when you die

2246
01:55:34,376 --> 01:55:36,511


2247
01:55:36,512 --> 01:55:38,579


2248
01:55:38,580 --> 01:55:42,750

to the spirit in the sky

2249
01:55:42,751 --> 01:55:46,754

gonna go when you die

2250
01:55:46,755 --> 01:55:49,390

lay you to rest...

2251
01:55:49,391 --> 01:55:52,293
Hunter: After the cremation,
they put the ashes in a canister

2252
01:55:52,294 --> 01:55:55,663
and shoot it out of the top
of the fist over the valley.

2253
01:55:55,664 --> 01:55:58,299
Say 500' up, it explodes

2254
01:55:58,300 --> 01:56:00,034
and the ashes drift out
all over there.

2255
01:56:00,035 --> 01:56:03,505
That I do know about.
We place ashes in different areas.

2256
01:56:03,506 --> 01:56:06,443
I'm a firm believer in "ashes to
ashes, and dust to dust."

2257
01:56:30,167 --> 01:56:33,303
And that's it.
That's my funeral.

2258
01:56:44,247 --> 01:56:47,217
Man:
One, two, three, four!

2259
01:57:01,931 --> 01:57:04,635

with the waitress

2260
01:57:07,471 --> 01:57:10,007


2261
01:57:12,176 --> 01:57:15,246


2262
01:57:16,947 --> 01:57:20,251

with the Russians too?

2263
01:57:29,560 --> 01:57:32,496


2264
01:57:35,065 --> 01:57:37,768


2265
01:57:39,937 --> 01:57:42,873


2266
01:57:44,775 --> 01:57:47,610


2267
01:57:47,611 --> 01:57:49,347


2268
01:57:59,122 --> 01:58:02,360


2269
01:58:04,429 --> 01:58:07,332


2270
01:58:09,668 --> 01:58:12,770

and the hard place

2271
01:58:12,771 --> 01:58:15,974


2272
01:58:18,009 --> 01:58:21,346


2273
01:58:23,181 --> 01:58:26,117


2274
01:58:28,487 --> 01:58:31,390


2275
01:58:33,758 --> 01:58:36,127


2276
01:58:38,463 --> 01:58:41,666


2277
01:58:43,735 --> 01:58:46,805


2278
01:59:00,785 --> 01:59:04,121

guns and money

2279
01:59:04,122 --> 01:59:05,658


2280
01:59:11,597 --> 01:59:14,300


2281
01:59:21,607 --> 01:59:24,544


2282
01:59:26,111 --> 01:59:27,980


2283
01:59:31,684 --> 01:59:34,819


2284
01:59:34,820 --> 01:59:36,322