1 00:00:51,718 --> 00:00:55,055 I was born Roxanna Stanton in Tarboro, North Carolina, 2 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:58,100 when tobacco was king. 3 00:01:00,143 --> 00:01:01,687 During market time, 4 00:01:01,687 --> 00:01:05,732 the warehouses were full of cured, bright-leafed tobacco, 5 00:01:05,732 --> 00:01:09,778 and any little breeze would fan that sweet, strong smell, 6 00:01:09,778 --> 00:01:12,281 and seal it over the center of town like a jar lid. 7 00:01:15,534 --> 00:01:17,953 Daddy owned the funeral home. 8 00:01:17,953 --> 00:01:22,124 He used to say, "There's two things for sure in Tar County." 9 00:01:22,124 --> 00:01:23,875 "Tobacco brings money and people die." 10 00:01:43,979 --> 00:01:45,939 When I married Aaron Walston, 11 00:01:45,939 --> 00:01:47,941 we moved out to his tobacco farm. 12 00:01:47,941 --> 00:01:49,735 It was about ten miles outside of Tarboro. 13 00:01:50,777 --> 00:01:52,654 And I have to say, 14 00:01:52,654 --> 00:01:55,532 the isolation of that little farm was something I had not known before. 15 00:01:58,744 --> 00:02:02,581 By the time I was 20, our baby, Patty Estelle, was two. 16 00:02:02,581 --> 00:02:04,625 And we worked hard getting that crop out every year. 17 00:02:07,961 --> 00:02:11,715 I didn't think much about whether there would be anything else for me. 18 00:02:11,715 --> 00:02:16,053 But then, the summer of 1937 changed my life forever. 19 00:02:16,053 --> 00:02:20,223 At that time, I didn't understand all the things that happened, 20 00:02:20,223 --> 00:02:21,558 but I knew they were irrevocable. 21 00:03:32,295 --> 00:03:34,089 When my grandmother, Georgeanna, died, 22 00:03:35,590 --> 00:03:38,260 I was as lonely as I ever'd been in my life. 23 00:03:40,053 --> 00:03:43,348 Georgeanna had raised me ever since my mother died. 24 00:04:03,702 --> 00:04:04,870 Sorry about your grandmother. 25 00:04:06,621 --> 00:04:07,622 Thank you. 26 00:04:11,918 --> 00:04:13,462 Are you gonna stay at her house? 27 00:04:15,714 --> 00:04:17,507 No. I'm scared to stay there by myself. 28 00:04:21,636 --> 00:04:23,221 Well, what about livin' at your daddy's? 29 00:04:25,557 --> 00:04:27,476 His wife, Ruth, 30 00:04:27,476 --> 00:04:29,060 is my mother's younger sister. 31 00:04:29,644 --> 00:04:30,645 I know. 32 00:04:33,064 --> 00:04:34,566 Well, I feel kind of funny about that. 33 00:05:09,184 --> 00:05:11,978 What are you doin'? Is Baby asleep? 34 00:05:11,978 --> 00:05:13,313 Yeah, Baby's asleep. 35 00:05:19,903 --> 00:05:22,739 I wanted to last night and you just shrugged me off. 36 00:05:22,739 --> 00:05:24,282 I had to get up at the crack of dawn. 37 00:05:27,786 --> 00:05:28,787 Aaron... 38 00:05:29,996 --> 00:05:31,790 Sometimes I think you're just doin' this, 39 00:05:31,790 --> 00:05:34,376 'cause you can't think of anything better to do. 40 00:06:17,085 --> 00:06:20,338 Daddy hired boys from all over eastern North Carolina 41 00:06:20,380 --> 00:06:22,883 to work at the funeral home. 42 00:06:22,883 --> 00:06:25,510 When his friends couldn't think of what to do with their boys 43 00:06:25,510 --> 00:06:26,970 they sent 'em to Mr. Will for a job. 44 00:06:30,765 --> 00:06:32,517 What do you say, boys? Good mornin', Will. 45 00:06:37,814 --> 00:06:39,774 I got that Clark Gable picture at the theater. 46 00:06:41,234 --> 00:06:42,903 Where he don't wear no undershirt? 47 00:06:44,529 --> 00:06:46,781 - You won't see that one, will ya, Will? - No. 48 00:06:46,781 --> 00:06:48,950 How do you expect me to keep the theater running? 49 00:07:06,426 --> 00:07:09,471 Here comes a fella lookin' for a job, Will. What you wanna bet? 50 00:07:10,931 --> 00:07:13,099 No, I got too many boys here now, Strother. 51 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:15,393 Don't matter. 52 00:07:15,435 --> 00:07:17,729 They know ya all over eastern North Carolina 53 00:07:17,729 --> 00:07:19,105 for havin' a soft heart. 54 00:07:20,899 --> 00:07:24,444 I don't have any work, and room upstairs is plumb-full. 55 00:07:38,333 --> 00:07:40,877 He ain't from Tar County. 56 00:07:40,877 --> 00:07:43,046 I bet you he's a walk-away from the CCC Camp. 57 00:07:50,136 --> 00:07:51,638 I'm looking for Mr. Will. 58 00:07:53,014 --> 00:07:54,015 Ask inside. 59 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:56,101 I don't work here. 60 00:07:59,729 --> 00:08:00,730 Thank you. 61 00:08:14,285 --> 00:08:15,286 What are you doin'? 62 00:08:16,371 --> 00:08:17,747 Just waitin' here like you told me. 63 00:08:48,695 --> 00:08:50,155 Aaron! 64 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:51,156 Your folks are here. 65 00:08:58,204 --> 00:08:59,789 Hello, Mr. Ta tie. 66 00:08:59,789 --> 00:09:02,000 Hi there, Roxy. Aaron. 67 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,086 We're gonna ride over to, uh, Eureka, see Aunt Sally. 68 00:09:05,086 --> 00:09:07,589 Thought some of y'all might want a ride back to Tarboro with us. 69 00:09:07,589 --> 00:09:09,466 I believe I'll just stay here. 70 00:09:09,466 --> 00:09:11,426 I got my new seedlings just getting started. 71 00:09:11,426 --> 00:09:12,427 But y'all come in. 72 00:09:14,471 --> 00:09:15,930 Roxy why don't you and Baby go on in? 73 00:09:16,765 --> 00:09:17,766 Maybe we'll do that. 74 00:09:32,655 --> 00:09:33,948 There's your grandpa over there. 75 00:09:36,409 --> 00:09:37,410 There's your grandma. 76 00:09:39,537 --> 00:09:40,538 Yeah. 77 00:09:45,794 --> 00:09:48,213 Baby, you look like a cat under a collard. 78 00:10:16,366 --> 00:10:17,784 Well, look who's here! 79 00:10:19,119 --> 00:10:20,703 We're just waitin' for your daddy. 80 00:10:20,703 --> 00:10:21,704 Come here, Baby. 81 00:10:22,580 --> 00:10:24,457 Come here. 82 00:10:24,457 --> 00:10:26,209 We're just waitin' for your daddy. 83 00:10:26,209 --> 00:10:28,419 There was a wreck out at the crossroads last night, 84 00:10:28,419 --> 00:10:29,838 and he had to stop by. 85 00:10:29,838 --> 00:10:32,549 Come on, Roxy. I have something important to tell ya, come on! 86 00:10:32,549 --> 00:10:33,967 What? It's important, come on. 87 00:10:39,931 --> 00:10:41,724 I grew up playing in the backyard there. 88 00:10:44,060 --> 00:10:46,563 So what happened to the coffin for the Mr. Master doll? 89 00:10:46,563 --> 00:10:47,939 Well, we haven't played in those coffins 90 00:10:47,939 --> 00:10:49,732 since Raider tried to sail off the top. 91 00:10:49,732 --> 00:10:51,151 He did? 92 00:10:51,151 --> 00:10:53,361 - Daddy's gonna have him hauled away. - Aw. 93 00:10:53,361 --> 00:10:55,822 I had copied the design for my playhouse 94 00:10:55,822 --> 00:10:57,866 out of my weekly reader. 95 00:10:57,866 --> 00:11:00,702 And then built it out of old coffins. 96 00:11:00,702 --> 00:11:03,621 Main thing my friends at school wanted to know was, 97 00:11:03,663 --> 00:11:05,290 had I ever seen anybody dead? 98 00:11:06,541 --> 00:11:08,459 - Boo! - Raider! 99 00:11:09,169 --> 00:11:10,170 Hey you. 100 00:11:11,963 --> 00:11:15,466 Callie and me finally saw a dead person. 101 00:11:15,466 --> 00:11:17,719 We heard at school this man that got burned up 102 00:11:17,719 --> 00:11:19,637 that they had him down here. 103 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,056 We pushed the door open real fast, 104 00:11:22,056 --> 00:11:24,350 there was this little thing lying up on the table 105 00:11:24,350 --> 00:11:26,644 like a log out of the fireplace. 106 00:11:26,686 --> 00:11:29,147 We went flying up to the front of the house, 107 00:11:29,147 --> 00:11:32,525 and then saw somebody sitting on the stairs watching us. 108 00:11:32,525 --> 00:11:34,861 He wasn't like the other funeral home boys. 109 00:11:34,861 --> 00:11:37,197 He said, "You must be Mr. Will's girl." 110 00:11:37,197 --> 00:11:41,242 I told him I was his littlest girl. Roxy is his biggest girl. 111 00:11:41,242 --> 00:11:43,953 He said, "If she's any prettier than you, she must be real pretty." 112 00:11:47,123 --> 00:11:49,083 I couldn't believe I was standing there 113 00:11:49,083 --> 00:11:50,877 talking to a grown man like that. 114 00:11:54,547 --> 00:11:56,299 Who you got in there, Will? 115 00:11:56,299 --> 00:11:58,676 Old Fate Renfroe. You remember him? 116 00:11:58,718 --> 00:12:00,678 Poor old fella. He got hit, 117 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,681 broadside with a freight train over here at the Golden Weed. 118 00:12:04,390 --> 00:12:05,892 Tear him up much? 119 00:12:05,892 --> 00:12:06,893 Oh, yeah, he looks bad. 120 00:12:08,019 --> 00:12:09,812 And I worked on him near all night, 121 00:12:09,812 --> 00:12:11,189 that boy, Jack, came in and helped me. 122 00:12:11,189 --> 00:12:12,774 He's good. 123 00:12:12,774 --> 00:12:14,859 With his hands, you know? 124 00:12:14,859 --> 00:12:17,528 He's cool about it too. He was eatin' a... 125 00:12:17,528 --> 00:12:19,614 Bit-O-Honey bar 10 minutes after we quit. 126 00:12:21,449 --> 00:12:22,825 You gonna keep him? 127 00:12:22,825 --> 00:12:24,869 Oh, I can't. I can't, Strother, I... 128 00:12:26,579 --> 00:12:28,373 He'd be a natural, you know... 129 00:12:28,373 --> 00:12:31,376 A real natural but, you know, I got too many boys workin' here now. 130 00:12:33,253 --> 00:12:34,545 Jack's a right smart fellow. 131 00:12:34,545 --> 00:12:36,005 He, he reminds me of somebody, but... 132 00:12:37,215 --> 00:12:38,299 I can't think who. 133 00:12:45,181 --> 00:12:47,392 What the hell? 134 00:12:47,392 --> 00:12:48,935 It's just Renfroe, giving you a goodbye. 135 00:12:53,022 --> 00:12:55,900 What's he doin' sneaking up on me like that? 136 00:12:55,900 --> 00:12:57,986 What's he doin' over there? 137 00:12:57,986 --> 00:13:00,280 Go on, you shaggy-headed rascal. 138 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:01,614 Go on! 139 00:13:01,614 --> 00:13:03,908 If you think you can get past them gals down at the hotel. 140 00:13:05,994 --> 00:13:08,997 - That boy's a... - Roxy! 141 00:13:08,997 --> 00:13:11,291 I believe you could use dose of Mr. Applewhite's Capudine. 142 00:13:11,291 --> 00:13:13,751 You always look like you'd be afraid to say "Boo!" to a goose. 143 00:13:29,267 --> 00:13:31,477 Two weeks later, in the middle of March, 144 00:13:31,477 --> 00:13:33,229 the old hearse pulled up our drive. 145 00:13:35,315 --> 00:13:37,275 At first, I thought it was Daddy comin' to see me. 146 00:13:38,776 --> 00:13:40,028 But it was Jack Ruff in. 147 00:13:53,624 --> 00:13:54,709 I'm Jack Ruff in. Hey. 148 00:13:56,419 --> 00:13:57,420 Wanna draw? 149 00:13:58,004 --> 00:13:59,005 What do you want? 150 00:14:00,340 --> 00:14:03,384 I'm sorry. I thought you knew I was coming out. 151 00:14:03,384 --> 00:14:05,887 All I know is you're somebody I've never seen before in my life. 152 00:14:12,643 --> 00:14:15,104 Well, Mrs. Walston, 153 00:14:15,104 --> 00:14:16,939 if your husband didn't tell ya, I guess I will. 154 00:14:19,650 --> 00:14:20,693 I've come to help out. 155 00:14:22,445 --> 00:14:23,738 Your daddy run the funeral home? 156 00:14:26,074 --> 00:14:27,075 Mr. Will Stanton? 157 00:14:30,119 --> 00:14:31,496 He's the one who sent me over here. 158 00:14:34,582 --> 00:14:35,917 That was Neb just dropped me off. 159 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,063 Mr. Will said you might be able to use some help out here. 160 00:14:57,772 --> 00:14:59,524 That's right, I sure could. 161 00:15:00,191 --> 00:15:01,192 Come on. 162 00:15:11,994 --> 00:15:13,746 I had seen Jack Ruff in before. 163 00:15:15,915 --> 00:15:17,125 He was with Georgeanna, 164 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:19,961 in a dream. 165 00:15:46,529 --> 00:15:47,530 Roxy? 166 00:15:52,118 --> 00:15:54,454 I'm driving Jack back to town. 167 00:15:54,454 --> 00:15:55,705 But supper will be ready soon. 168 00:15:56,622 --> 00:15:57,623 I'll be back soon. 169 00:16:30,948 --> 00:16:32,742 Well, dinner's not fit to eat now. 170 00:16:34,243 --> 00:16:35,411 Don't worry about it. 171 00:16:35,411 --> 00:16:36,746 I got me a hot dog in town. 172 00:16:43,127 --> 00:16:44,670 Jack Ruff in's coming out next Saturday. 173 00:16:46,297 --> 00:16:47,840 Why don't you cook us up a chicken stew? 174 00:16:48,841 --> 00:16:50,510 Chicken stew? 175 00:16:50,510 --> 00:16:52,803 When did you get to know this Jack Ruff in so good? 176 00:16:52,803 --> 00:16:54,472 Fixing the well. 177 00:16:54,472 --> 00:16:55,973 We're gonna check on it Saturday 178 00:16:56,015 --> 00:16:58,518 and he's bringing his guitar out, we're gonna pick a few songs. 179 00:17:00,770 --> 00:17:02,104 Well... 180 00:17:02,104 --> 00:17:03,606 You hardly ever see a soul. 181 00:17:05,399 --> 00:17:07,485 I didn't know you knew him. 182 00:17:07,485 --> 00:17:09,195 Well, I didn't know him before this mornin'. 183 00:17:11,405 --> 00:17:12,698 He gave me this mandolin string. 184 00:17:14,492 --> 00:17:16,786 Had it right there in his suitcase. He just gave it to me. 185 00:17:33,719 --> 00:17:37,265 The wind was blowing hard the night Jack came for dinner. 186 00:17:37,265 --> 00:17:41,894 And I couldn't help thinking about Georgeanna's superstitions. 187 00:17:41,894 --> 00:17:44,855 You know, every time somethin' bad's happened to me in my life, 188 00:17:45,856 --> 00:17:47,525 it's happened to me in the month of March. 189 00:17:49,151 --> 00:17:52,280 It's like a big, black cloud that just hangs there. 190 00:17:57,952 --> 00:17:59,287 There's somethin' in the wind. 191 00:18:12,675 --> 00:18:14,260 Aaron? 192 00:18:24,812 --> 00:18:25,938 - Hey. - Hey. 193 00:18:25,938 --> 00:18:27,064 How are you? Real good. 194 00:18:37,283 --> 00:18:38,659 So, how do you like North Carolina? 195 00:18:39,702 --> 00:18:40,703 I like it. 196 00:18:48,836 --> 00:18:51,380 Well, how many boys does Mr. Will have over there now? 197 00:18:52,548 --> 00:18:53,549 Too many. 198 00:18:56,969 --> 00:18:58,596 It must be pretty stuffy in that... 199 00:18:58,596 --> 00:18:59,597 Hmm. 200 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:01,849 Excuse me. Watch your fingers. 201 00:19:02,183 --> 00:19:03,184 Excuse me. 202 00:19:10,858 --> 00:19:11,859 What's your baby's name? 203 00:19:12,735 --> 00:19:14,278 It's Patty Estelle. 204 00:19:14,278 --> 00:19:15,696 But everybody just calls her "Baby." 205 00:19:17,365 --> 00:19:19,033 Except Aaron's mother, Estelle. 206 00:19:19,033 --> 00:19:22,286 She calls her "Es-telle," like every syllable's just nailed down. 207 00:19:26,749 --> 00:19:27,750 Mom! 208 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,001 Excuse me. 209 00:19:34,423 --> 00:19:35,758 This is good. 210 00:19:35,758 --> 00:19:36,759 This is really good. 211 00:19:38,552 --> 00:19:42,181 Here, here. Have some more. We got a lot. 212 00:19:51,982 --> 00:19:52,983 Hey, Jack! 213 00:20:00,241 --> 00:20:02,702 Hey, can you, uh, plan on coming out tonight? 214 00:20:02,702 --> 00:20:05,496 Yeah. Just got me some new strings this morning. 215 00:20:05,496 --> 00:20:07,623 Listen, Neb wanted to come out, if that's okay. 216 00:20:09,083 --> 00:20:10,084 Well, uh... 217 00:20:11,419 --> 00:20:13,129 I don't want it to turn into a get-together. 218 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:17,258 Okay. 219 00:20:17,258 --> 00:20:18,259 I'll see you tonight. 220 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,477 Nah, I can't talk to you about this stuff. 221 00:21:09,477 --> 00:21:11,228 You're a married man with a family to boot. 222 00:21:12,897 --> 00:21:15,649 Besides, you don't want to hear about my date with Ava. 223 00:21:15,649 --> 00:21:17,693 I got news for you, Jack. 224 00:21:17,693 --> 00:21:19,904 Me and Ava Chisholm went steady in eighth grade. 225 00:21:19,904 --> 00:21:21,030 Is that so? 226 00:21:22,907 --> 00:21:26,494 In fact, I'll never forget one Saturday afternoon, 227 00:21:26,494 --> 00:21:28,120 Ava and I were over at her sister's house. 228 00:21:30,539 --> 00:21:31,707 I was sittin' on the couch... 229 00:21:32,875 --> 00:21:33,959 Ava had her head in my lap. 230 00:21:35,377 --> 00:21:37,505 All of a sudden, she shifts around, 231 00:21:37,505 --> 00:21:40,508 she says, "Aaron, your belt buckle's hittin' me in the head." 232 00:21:40,508 --> 00:21:42,051 I said "Ava, I'm not wearin' a belt." 233 00:21:43,594 --> 00:21:45,012 Her sister looked at me real embarrassed. 234 00:21:45,012 --> 00:21:46,472 I don't think Ava knew what was going on. 235 00:21:54,605 --> 00:21:56,106 So where did you day your parents are? 236 00:21:57,775 --> 00:21:59,068 My parents are dead. 237 00:21:59,068 --> 00:22:00,986 I'm sorry. 238 00:22:00,986 --> 00:22:02,905 It's all right. It was a long time ago. 239 00:22:02,905 --> 00:22:04,198 Well, I made you all a pecan pie. 240 00:22:05,908 --> 00:22:07,117 We'll be up there in a minute. 241 00:22:10,704 --> 00:22:11,705 Come on, Baby. 242 00:22:13,165 --> 00:22:15,417 Let's go. Yeah. 243 00:22:38,232 --> 00:22:41,443 Whoa! Hello, Jack. Um, Aaron's not here right now. 244 00:22:54,832 --> 00:22:55,833 Pretty. 245 00:23:11,390 --> 00:23:12,850 Hi, Aaron. Some weather, huh? 246 00:23:15,019 --> 00:23:16,896 Yep. 247 00:23:16,896 --> 00:23:19,356 How's this gonna be for the seedlings? 248 00:23:19,398 --> 00:23:22,359 This is perfect. That's what this is. This is perfect for the seedlings. 249 00:23:29,408 --> 00:23:31,619 You know how muddy the roads will be. 250 00:23:31,619 --> 00:23:33,412 I don't know why you just don't stay out here. 251 00:23:36,498 --> 00:23:38,500 You can just make yourself a bed in the spare room. 252 00:24:25,589 --> 00:24:28,801 I guess it would be a lot easier if I was just eta yin' out here. 253 00:24:28,801 --> 00:24:30,761 Why don't you bring your clothes and things on out? 254 00:24:30,761 --> 00:24:31,971 You know I could use the help. 255 00:24:32,471 --> 00:24:34,390 I know you could. 256 00:24:34,390 --> 00:24:36,684 I'll tell Neb to bring my things out now and just... 257 00:24:36,976 --> 00:24:38,102 Not go back. 258 00:24:38,102 --> 00:24:39,311 As soon as it quits rainin', 259 00:24:39,311 --> 00:24:40,437 we'll have plenty to do then. 260 00:24:42,481 --> 00:24:44,858 Roxy, why don't you clean out that chifforobe 261 00:24:44,858 --> 00:24:47,903 in the spare room so Jack can put his things in it. 262 00:24:47,903 --> 00:24:49,697 She's only got her sew in" stuff in there now. 263 00:25:03,377 --> 00:25:04,378 Okay. 264 00:25:06,255 --> 00:25:07,256 Turn it in. 265 00:25:16,682 --> 00:25:17,683 Lower it down. 266 00:25:35,784 --> 00:25:37,244 We might as well get on to bed early. 267 00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:41,498 We're gonna need this rest when it comes time to prime. 268 00:25:47,921 --> 00:25:49,715 Soon as that sun ever comes back out, 269 00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:51,300 it'll get to grow in" real fast. 270 00:25:58,932 --> 00:25:59,933 It's quit raining. 271 00:26:21,830 --> 00:26:22,831 Come on in. 272 00:26:30,214 --> 00:26:31,215 Quit raining. 273 00:26:32,257 --> 00:26:33,258 Yeah, it sure did. 274 00:26:40,099 --> 00:26:41,892 Well... I guess I'll get on back to town, now. 275 00:26:42,601 --> 00:26:43,602 See ya. See ya. 276 00:26:48,607 --> 00:26:49,608 See you in the morning. 277 00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:52,611 See you in the morning. 278 00:27:39,116 --> 00:27:40,117 Phew! 279 00:27:48,375 --> 00:27:50,878 You wanna pick a little tonight? 280 00:27:50,878 --> 00:27:52,671 Nah, I think we're gonna go on to bed early. 281 00:27:54,089 --> 00:27:55,757 But you know where the keys are. 282 00:27:55,757 --> 00:27:57,050 I mean, if you need the truck to go in 283 00:27:57,050 --> 00:27:58,468 and see Ava or anything like that, 284 00:27:58,468 --> 00:27:59,845 you go ahead and use it. 285 00:28:56,944 --> 00:28:58,111 Neb came by last night. 286 00:28:58,111 --> 00:28:59,112 Uh-huh. 287 00:29:01,323 --> 00:29:03,575 Needed some help with a wreck out by Johnson Crossroads. 288 00:29:05,452 --> 00:29:06,954 Old preacher and his wife swerved 289 00:29:06,954 --> 00:29:08,080 in a ditch, hurt pretty bad. 290 00:30:34,207 --> 00:30:36,626 Roxy, 291 00:30:36,626 --> 00:30:38,337 Ray says, Daddy needs me to come over 292 00:30:38,337 --> 00:30:40,088 to help him start to fix that back fence. 293 00:30:41,131 --> 00:30:43,133 Horses go out again last night. 294 00:30:43,133 --> 00:30:44,926 I gotta get over there. 295 00:30:44,926 --> 00:30:47,721 Sorry, I can't watch Baby today. 296 00:30:47,721 --> 00:30:49,598 Well, do you think you can take Baby to Daddy's? 297 00:30:50,932 --> 00:30:51,975 Yeah, I can do that. 298 00:30:55,896 --> 00:30:57,022 Come on, pretty Baby. 299 00:30:58,648 --> 00:31:00,025 You're gonna go see Callie. 300 00:31:02,319 --> 00:31:03,904 Here you go, Baby. 301 00:31:03,904 --> 00:31:06,323 You wanna go for a ride in that big black car? 302 00:31:06,323 --> 00:31:07,324 That's where we're goin'. 303 00:31:07,824 --> 00:31:08,825 Bye. 304 00:31:16,958 --> 00:31:18,919 Why don't you get that hot hair cut off? 305 00:31:49,991 --> 00:31:50,992 Roxy. 306 00:31:55,956 --> 00:31:57,457 I thought you were halfway to Raleigh. 307 00:33:01,271 --> 00:33:05,233 I just wanna say that I appreciate every one of y'all out here. 308 00:33:05,233 --> 00:33:07,277 I have a real good feelin' about the crop this year. 309 00:33:08,403 --> 00:33:10,614 Treat every leaf as special. 310 00:33:10,614 --> 00:33:12,616 Don't let the littlest leaf burn up in the sun. 311 00:33:12,616 --> 00:33:13,617 We gotta eat. 312 00:33:38,016 --> 00:33:39,976 Roxy's got fudge! 313 00:34:21,393 --> 00:34:25,105 ♪ Come by here, good Lord Come by here 314 00:34:25,105 --> 00:34:29,359 ♪ Oh, Lord, come by here 315 00:34:29,359 --> 00:34:33,363 ♪ Somebody needs you, Lord Come by here 316 00:34:33,363 --> 00:34:37,158 ♪ Somebody needs you, Lord Come by here 317 00:34:37,158 --> 00:34:40,870 ♪ Somebody needs you, Lord Come by here 318 00:34:40,870 --> 00:34:44,958 ♪ Oh, Lord, come by here 319 00:34:44,958 --> 00:34:49,045 ♪ Come by here, good Lord Come by here 320 00:34:49,087 --> 00:34:52,757 ♪ Come by here, good Lord Come by here 321 00:34:52,757 --> 00:34:55,218 ♪ Come by here, good Lord Come by here 322 00:34:57,012 --> 00:35:00,098 ♪ Oh, Lord, come by here I 323 00:35:19,909 --> 00:35:21,077 Here you go, Jack. 324 00:35:23,580 --> 00:35:25,665 You don't get much sleep with tobacco curing, do you? 325 00:35:26,750 --> 00:35:27,751 Can't afford it. 326 00:35:29,127 --> 00:35:31,004 Two years ago I lost my best barn. 327 00:35:31,588 --> 00:35:32,589 Burned up. 328 00:35:35,175 --> 00:35:36,926 Well, you want me to stay down here tonight? 329 00:35:38,261 --> 00:35:39,554 No, I'll stay down here tonight. 330 00:35:40,597 --> 00:35:42,140 You stay down here tomorrow night, okay? 331 00:37:59,652 --> 00:38:01,237 Honey, 332 00:38:01,237 --> 00:38:03,072 you have to move a little faster. 333 00:38:04,908 --> 00:38:06,451 You're movin' like you're sleepwalkin'. 334 00:38:13,708 --> 00:38:15,460 Whoa! 335 00:38:42,987 --> 00:38:45,865 - Oh, boy. - Raider, you been fishin' lately? 336 00:38:45,865 --> 00:38:48,117 - Not much. -You wanna pass me some more of those string beans? 337 00:38:53,623 --> 00:38:55,333 Has your roof got a hole in it, Raider? 338 00:38:55,917 --> 00:38:57,335 Gonna need patching? 339 00:38:59,170 --> 00:39:00,463 Well, let's get back, boys. 340 00:39:04,175 --> 00:39:06,219 I think it's fixin' to get real warm this afternoon. 341 00:39:06,219 --> 00:39:08,429 Sure is. Listen, we ought to get those mules first. 342 00:39:09,639 --> 00:39:11,099 Okay, they're gonna need some water. 343 00:40:44,984 --> 00:40:47,570 I think we ought to get on over to Haws Landing for that barbecue. 344 00:40:52,075 --> 00:40:54,619 You know, the only reason I didn't go sit up with 'em last night 345 00:40:54,619 --> 00:40:55,995 to help 'em cook that pig was... 346 00:40:58,498 --> 00:41:00,333 That's my best barn curio' out there. 347 00:41:01,084 --> 00:41:02,210 I just wanted to see it. 348 00:41:05,922 --> 00:41:07,507 I just don't care a thing about goin'. 349 00:41:08,299 --> 00:41:09,300 Not go? 350 00:41:10,885 --> 00:41:11,886 I don't see why. 351 00:41:14,889 --> 00:41:15,890 I'm just not goin'. 352 00:41:19,769 --> 00:41:21,270 I feel like I'm in the way over there. 353 00:41:23,648 --> 00:41:24,649 Now, Roxy, 354 00:41:25,692 --> 00:41:28,111 you know my family thinks so much of you. 355 00:41:29,278 --> 00:41:30,530 And they love to see Baby. 356 00:41:32,824 --> 00:41:33,825 Aaron, 357 00:41:35,785 --> 00:41:37,954 there's somethin' about the Fourth of July 358 00:41:37,954 --> 00:41:39,914 that just tears my nerves all to pieces. 359 00:41:41,582 --> 00:41:43,584 It's all those loud noises and 360 00:41:43,584 --> 00:41:46,212 firecrackers and all. And... 361 00:41:46,212 --> 00:41:49,674 Those folks drivin' around in those fast pickup trucks, drunk! 362 00:41:52,927 --> 00:41:54,554 Look, it's just too hot. 363 00:41:54,554 --> 00:41:55,680 And everybody's crazy. 364 00:41:59,350 --> 00:42:00,518 They're expectin' us, Roxy. 365 00:42:04,856 --> 00:42:05,857 No. 366 00:42:08,484 --> 00:42:10,153 Excuse me. I can't hear you. No. 367 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:17,577 Well, you do what you please, then. 368 00:43:25,895 --> 00:43:27,271 Long life line, 369 00:43:28,856 --> 00:43:31,150 long crooked double love line. 370 00:43:52,380 --> 00:43:54,674 I got you a present. Hmm. 371 00:43:54,674 --> 00:43:56,801 Okay. Can you just wait a minute? 372 00:43:56,801 --> 00:43:59,762 Mmm-hmm. I gotta change Baby. 373 00:43:59,762 --> 00:44:01,639 I'm sure her diaper's about ready to fall off. 374 00:44:02,181 --> 00:44:03,182 Please. 375 00:44:04,684 --> 00:44:06,477 Just a second. Okay? 376 00:44:12,024 --> 00:44:13,025 Now. 377 00:44:19,323 --> 00:44:20,783 That's Mom. Momma. 378 00:44:24,579 --> 00:44:28,207 That's good. That was good. Okay, Baby. 379 00:44:28,207 --> 00:44:30,042 Now, then, you wanna take a picture of me and Baby? 380 00:44:30,042 --> 00:44:31,627 No. Now, we're gonna try a little trick. 381 00:44:43,973 --> 00:44:44,974 Stay right there. 382 00:44:46,517 --> 00:44:47,518 Mom. 383 00:44:48,895 --> 00:44:51,522 What's the matter? Mom. 384 00:45:15,087 --> 00:45:16,088 Whoa! 385 00:45:21,928 --> 00:45:24,096 You ready? This is going to be some picture. 386 00:45:39,904 --> 00:45:40,905 Baby! 387 00:45:41,405 --> 00:45:42,698 Jack! Help! 388 00:45:43,991 --> 00:45:44,992 I'll get the truck. 389 00:46:04,220 --> 00:46:06,847 I was cookin' some peas, and Baby turned 'em over on herself. 390 00:46:07,431 --> 00:46:08,724 Where is she? 391 00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:10,268 She's with the doctor. 392 00:46:19,402 --> 00:46:20,403 Hello, Doctor. 393 00:46:22,571 --> 00:46:23,572 You can take her home now. 394 00:46:23,572 --> 00:46:24,657 Okay. 395 00:46:24,657 --> 00:46:25,783 Keep her quiet. 396 00:46:26,409 --> 00:46:28,077 And keep her in bed. 397 00:46:28,077 --> 00:46:30,663 Oh, and if she should happen to wake up tonight, 398 00:46:30,663 --> 00:46:32,748 you might rub her with some more of this. 399 00:46:32,790 --> 00:46:34,750 Okay. 400 00:46:34,792 --> 00:46:37,169 I'll come out and, uh, check on her in the morning, 401 00:46:37,169 --> 00:46:38,170 see how she's getting on. 402 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:41,215 Are there gonna be scars? 403 00:46:42,675 --> 00:46:43,843 Probably. Yes. 404 00:46:50,850 --> 00:46:51,851 How's Baby? 405 00:46:55,896 --> 00:46:57,023 Where's the Kodak? 406 00:46:57,606 --> 00:46:58,607 I hid it. 407 00:47:19,545 --> 00:47:21,505 Aaron, where's... 408 00:47:24,508 --> 00:47:26,218 Can't you take care of your own family? 409 00:47:29,513 --> 00:47:30,681 Let me take her. 410 00:47:58,334 --> 00:47:59,919 Okay, is it better, Baby? 411 00:47:59,919 --> 00:48:00,920 Is it better? 412 00:48:27,988 --> 00:48:28,989 Roxy? 413 00:48:31,450 --> 00:48:33,577 There's somethin' Daddy wants me to talk to you about. 414 00:48:37,540 --> 00:48:39,917 Daddy mentioned somethin' about Jack eta yin' here. 415 00:48:42,711 --> 00:48:44,004 It might be better... 416 00:48:46,549 --> 00:48:49,510 He said we ought to get the first 'bacco to market, 417 00:48:49,510 --> 00:48:51,303 and then give him some money and send him off. 418 00:48:53,514 --> 00:48:54,515 I've already told him. 419 00:48:56,684 --> 00:48:58,644 I told Jack that 420 00:48:58,644 --> 00:49:01,021 after the opening sale we'll be able to manage without him. 421 00:49:03,190 --> 00:49:04,316 Why don't you tell him, too? 422 00:49:09,405 --> 00:49:11,782 Somebody at the church mentioned to the folks that 423 00:49:11,782 --> 00:49:14,326 it didn't look right with you and Jack eta yin' in the same house. 424 00:49:22,626 --> 00:49:23,627 Talk to Jack about it. 425 00:49:41,854 --> 00:49:43,606 Jack! 426 00:49:50,154 --> 00:49:51,197 Jack, I've got to talk to you. 427 00:49:51,197 --> 00:49:53,324 Shh. Shh. I've gotta talk to you. 428 00:49:53,324 --> 00:49:55,367 I've gotta... I've gotta talk to you, Jack. 429 00:49:55,367 --> 00:49:56,368 I've gotta talk to you. 430 00:50:02,791 --> 00:50:03,792 I love you, Roxy. 431 00:50:06,295 --> 00:50:07,546 You're prettier than any Ava. 432 00:50:12,301 --> 00:50:13,302 Don't worry. 433 00:50:14,303 --> 00:50:15,638 He's not comin' down here. 434 00:50:34,657 --> 00:50:37,034 I came down here to tell you. Jack, you have to go. 435 00:50:40,704 --> 00:50:42,289 I'm married. 436 00:50:42,289 --> 00:50:43,290 I have a baby. 437 00:50:45,125 --> 00:50:46,877 You could run off with me. 438 00:50:46,877 --> 00:50:48,128 I'm married, Jack. 439 00:51:07,565 --> 00:51:08,607 Did you talk to Jack? 440 00:51:10,317 --> 00:51:11,318 Yes. 441 00:51:20,911 --> 00:51:22,037 $5! 442 00:51:25,708 --> 00:51:26,834 $5! 443 00:51:30,504 --> 00:51:31,505 $7! 444 00:51:34,842 --> 00:51:36,051 How're they biddin'? 445 00:51:36,051 --> 00:51:37,261 They're biddin' a little low. 446 00:51:37,261 --> 00:51:38,512 Yeah, I heard that. 447 00:51:38,512 --> 00:51:39,430 They'll pick up. 448 00:51:39,430 --> 00:51:40,639 $4! 449 00:51:40,639 --> 00:51:41,640 They better. 450 00:51:43,934 --> 00:51:45,894 Sta yin' out of trouble, Jack? 451 00:51:45,894 --> 00:51:47,605 Yes, sir. All right. 452 00:52:00,868 --> 00:52:01,910 $25! 453 00:52:03,537 --> 00:52:04,705 Help me out. 454 00:52:27,144 --> 00:52:28,729 Got us hot dogs from the Greek's. 455 00:52:42,743 --> 00:52:45,788 First day of market, 1937. 456 00:52:54,046 --> 00:52:55,547 I never thought I'd get a... 457 00:52:56,632 --> 00:52:57,633 10. 458 00:52:58,592 --> 00:53:00,219 Mmm-hmm. Oh! 459 00:53:00,219 --> 00:53:02,471 I never thought I would. 460 00:53:02,471 --> 00:53:04,640 Hell, I mean... I mean, she's worth it and all... I just... 461 00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:05,724 I never thought I'd get it. 462 00:53:10,020 --> 00:53:12,773 They're havin' a dance down at Wainright's this year. 463 00:53:12,773 --> 00:53:13,941 I do see why we can't go. 464 00:53:14,942 --> 00:53:16,568 You get Baby up early. 465 00:53:16,568 --> 00:53:18,570 We can go on in, take in the whole festival. 466 00:53:22,700 --> 00:53:24,618 Jack can take care of things around here. 467 00:53:31,250 --> 00:53:32,376 I'll see ya tomorrow. 468 00:53:33,168 --> 00:53:34,169 Al right. 469 00:53:50,602 --> 00:53:53,063 Jack still had a pull for me. 470 00:53:53,063 --> 00:53:54,898 And I thought then that maybe he always would. 471 00:53:56,108 --> 00:53:57,443 But I had to make a choice. 472 00:54:00,779 --> 00:54:04,408 All I hoped was that Aaron and I could forget everything that had happened 473 00:54:05,033 --> 00:54:06,034 and start over. 474 00:54:36,148 --> 00:54:37,733 Did y'all enjoy yourself last night? 475 00:54:37,733 --> 00:54:39,943 Oh, the pageant was beautiful. 476 00:54:39,943 --> 00:54:42,321 The whole family was there, and it was just, uh... 477 00:54:42,321 --> 00:54:43,322 It was wonderful. 478 00:54:54,875 --> 00:54:55,959 Nice festival? 479 00:54:55,959 --> 00:54:58,504 Oh, it sure was. 480 00:54:58,504 --> 00:55:00,506 Listen, I need you to ride over with me to Daddy's. 481 00:55:01,965 --> 00:55:03,759 I wanna get that new truck I bought from him 482 00:55:03,759 --> 00:55:05,302 before we go down to Carolina Beach. 483 00:55:06,094 --> 00:55:07,387 You can drive it back here. 484 00:55:58,730 --> 00:55:59,731 You're gonna get stung. 485 00:56:04,736 --> 00:56:06,113 God damn it, Roxy. 486 00:56:20,460 --> 00:56:22,671 Come on down back of the barn, Aaron. 487 00:56:22,671 --> 00:56:24,756 I wanna show you something I killed down there today. 488 00:56:28,385 --> 00:56:29,428 I don't know what it is. 489 00:56:31,013 --> 00:56:32,014 Somethin' strange. 490 00:56:36,018 --> 00:56:37,144 Some strange kind of animal. 491 00:57:08,133 --> 00:57:10,093 Aaron, Baby's... Aaron's not here. 492 00:57:13,513 --> 00:57:14,890 Put some clothes on Baby. 493 00:57:15,807 --> 00:57:17,267 We gotta go. 494 00:57:17,267 --> 00:57:19,061 Go where? Don't ask me that. 495 00:57:20,103 --> 00:57:22,147 Just get your clothes... 496 00:57:22,147 --> 00:57:24,274 Put some things in your suitcase. We gotta go. Now! 497 00:57:25,108 --> 00:57:26,276 Get her blankets. 498 00:57:31,239 --> 00:57:32,240 Where's Aaron? 499 00:57:33,241 --> 00:57:34,242 Get in the car. 500 00:57:40,832 --> 00:57:42,417 Jack, where is Aaron? 501 00:57:42,459 --> 00:57:43,794 You don't really wanna know, Roxy. 502 00:57:44,544 --> 00:57:45,629 Just get in the car. 503 00:57:48,465 --> 00:57:49,633 I'll tell you about it later. 504 00:58:13,782 --> 00:58:14,783 You got any rooms? 505 00:58:21,164 --> 00:58:22,165 Jack... 506 00:58:23,917 --> 00:58:27,129 Jack, I just... I need to go home. 507 00:58:27,129 --> 00:58:29,548 After you see what's on my overalls, you won't wanna go home. 508 00:58:32,968 --> 00:58:34,553 I, I can't keep it in any longer. 509 00:58:37,723 --> 00:58:39,349 I hit him, not too far from the hole. 510 00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:43,729 What hole? I hit him at the hole, Roxy. 511 00:58:43,729 --> 00:58:45,105 What hole? The hole I dug. 512 00:58:46,273 --> 00:58:47,315 I dug... Is Aaron okay? 513 00:58:47,315 --> 00:58:48,900 Roxy... 514 00:58:48,900 --> 00:58:50,610 I hit him twice... Why? 515 00:58:50,610 --> 00:58:52,738 At the hole. I dug the hole, Roxy. 516 00:58:56,533 --> 00:58:59,244 I dug a hole behind the barn. 517 00:58:59,244 --> 00:59:00,662 Saturday, while y'all were in town. 518 00:59:02,122 --> 00:59:04,166 And I sat out there and I looked into it all day 519 00:59:05,292 --> 00:59:06,293 and all night. 520 00:59:07,627 --> 00:59:08,879 I called him out there and I... 521 00:59:09,546 --> 00:59:10,547 Hit him, and I... 522 00:59:12,132 --> 00:59:13,133 Covered him up. 523 00:59:14,426 --> 00:59:15,427 You! 524 00:59:55,342 --> 00:59:56,760 We better be leaving here. 525 01:00:04,935 --> 01:00:06,019 Roxy, 526 01:00:07,646 --> 01:00:08,647 I'll treat you right. 527 01:00:11,691 --> 01:00:12,943 Now, say you'll be ready to go. 528 01:00:14,986 --> 01:00:16,404 Come on. Say it. 529 01:00:19,074 --> 01:00:20,575 Kiss me now and say. 530 01:00:31,211 --> 01:00:32,671 We've got to go. 531 01:00:34,422 --> 01:00:35,757 Got the bus tickets to Birmingham. 532 01:00:40,554 --> 01:00:41,847 I know somebody we can stay with. 533 01:00:48,687 --> 01:00:49,688 I don't know why... 534 01:00:55,152 --> 01:00:57,070 I don't know why I ever thought you'd go with me. 535 01:01:03,827 --> 01:01:05,453 I'll come back for you as soon as I can. 536 01:02:08,558 --> 01:02:10,769 We picked up Jack Ruff in when he was getting on the bus. 537 01:02:12,604 --> 01:02:14,147 He told us where he buried your husband. 538 01:02:16,524 --> 01:02:18,652 We called up to Tarboro, 539 01:02:18,652 --> 01:02:20,987 and some of your people went out there and they dug him up. 540 01:02:21,988 --> 01:02:23,365 He made a full confession. 541 01:02:24,824 --> 01:02:26,117 Says you two planned it together. 542 01:02:29,412 --> 01:02:31,790 You never saw those bloody overalls till yesterday? 543 01:02:32,582 --> 01:02:34,125 No, sir. 544 01:02:34,125 --> 01:02:36,503 You're sure about that? Yes, sir. 545 01:02:36,503 --> 01:02:38,004 You're real sure? Yes. 546 01:02:41,758 --> 01:02:43,051 I believe we can go on home, now. 547 01:02:44,135 --> 01:02:46,179 She be arraigned on Monday morning. 548 01:02:49,849 --> 01:02:51,351 She's gonna be arraigned, Roger? 549 01:03:20,714 --> 01:03:23,717 I don't know how to say this to you, Roxy, 550 01:03:23,717 --> 01:03:26,678 but I want you to know a little about what it was like. 551 01:03:28,930 --> 01:03:32,183 You know. I'm used to that phone ringing at all times of the night. 552 01:03:32,183 --> 01:03:34,936 But this time it, I just didn't know what to think. 553 01:03:36,730 --> 01:03:39,357 I mean, it had to be somebody crazy. 554 01:03:41,860 --> 01:03:45,280 But it did finally get through to me 555 01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:48,283 that they were saying the sheriff in Georgia had called, 556 01:03:50,618 --> 01:03:52,245 and that Aaron was probably dead 557 01:03:52,245 --> 01:03:53,788 and you and Jack were off somewhere. 558 01:03:55,832 --> 01:04:00,003 I called Ruth to come to the phone and try to make some sense out of it, 559 01:04:00,837 --> 01:04:02,047 but she... 560 01:04:07,927 --> 01:04:10,472 Was just as bad as me, at first. 561 01:04:11,890 --> 01:04:14,142 I told them I'll be right on out there, 562 01:04:14,142 --> 01:04:16,436 and they said it's no use. But, of course, I went. 563 01:04:16,436 --> 01:04:18,646 I couldn't get to the farm fast enough. 564 01:04:18,646 --> 01:04:22,108 Somehow, I thought you might be there. 565 01:04:22,108 --> 01:04:23,818 Even though they said you were in Georgia. 566 01:04:26,279 --> 01:04:27,280 When got out there, 567 01:04:28,573 --> 01:04:30,909 they had already gone right to the grave, 568 01:04:30,909 --> 01:04:33,078 a sorry hole not any way from the barn. 569 01:04:34,371 --> 01:04:35,497 Anybody could have found it. 570 01:04:36,748 --> 01:04:38,124 Anybody could have found that hole. 571 01:04:39,709 --> 01:04:41,252 What was the matter with that boy, Jack? 572 01:04:43,463 --> 01:04:44,839 What could he have been thinking of? 573 01:04:50,887 --> 01:04:51,930 What was I thinking of? 574 01:05:15,620 --> 01:05:17,038 You've got to see him, Roxy. 575 01:05:18,957 --> 01:05:21,126 Got to make yourself look right at him. 576 01:06:07,338 --> 01:06:09,257 Oh, Roxy. 577 01:06:09,257 --> 01:06:12,552 You hold tight to that baby, Roxy. She misses her mama. 578 01:06:12,552 --> 01:06:13,595 Don't you worry. 579 01:06:29,861 --> 01:06:31,946 You daddy wanted to buy you one 580 01:06:31,988 --> 01:06:33,490 but I told him I wanted to pick it out. 581 01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:45,627 Nearly everybody in the world's got some kind of secret, 582 01:06:45,627 --> 01:06:47,921 but everybody doesn't get found out 583 01:06:47,921 --> 01:06:49,506 and have their pictures put in the paper. 584 01:06:52,675 --> 01:06:53,927 We're gonna do the best we can. 585 01:06:55,470 --> 01:06:57,472 When you walk in there tomorrow, 586 01:06:57,472 --> 01:06:59,474 you stand up straight and hold your shoulders back. 587 01:07:08,149 --> 01:07:09,234 Okay, okay, make way, make way. 588 01:07:09,234 --> 01:07:10,235 Mrs. Walston! 589 01:07:13,029 --> 01:07:15,281 Are you in love with Jack Ruff in? 590 01:07:15,281 --> 01:07:16,699 Why didn't you go to your husband's funeral? 591 01:07:16,699 --> 01:07:18,243 Are you really in love with that guy, Jack Ruff in? 592 01:07:18,243 --> 01:07:19,994 Please, can we get a picture? 593 01:07:20,912 --> 01:07:22,872 Let my wife through, please. 594 01:07:22,872 --> 01:07:25,083 Did you murder your husband? 595 01:08:15,091 --> 01:08:17,135 Bailiff, please read the confession. 596 01:08:28,646 --> 01:08:33,610 "I stayed home all day Saturday and Sunday while the Walstons were gone." 597 01:08:33,610 --> 01:08:36,696 "I dug the grave on Saturday, about 3:00 in the afternoon." 598 01:08:38,781 --> 01:08:42,118 "I used the shovel which I got from the Walstons' house." 599 01:08:43,286 --> 01:08:44,662 "I left the shovel at the hole." 600 01:08:46,205 --> 01:08:48,249 "I hit him in the back of the head with the shovel." 601 01:08:49,417 --> 01:08:51,085 "Knocked him out the first lick." 602 01:08:52,712 --> 01:08:55,006 "He was lying down on his face" 603 01:08:55,006 --> 01:08:56,382 "when I hit him the second time." 604 01:08:58,635 --> 01:09:01,429 "I had been sleeping with her." 605 01:09:01,429 --> 01:09:04,140 "No use to say I love her, and will die loving her." 606 01:09:05,808 --> 01:09:09,437 "I had intercourse with her from June." 607 01:09:09,437 --> 01:09:11,981 "In a way, she knew I killed him. In a way, she didn't." 608 01:09:12,982 --> 01:09:14,776 "She wanted to run off with me," 609 01:09:14,776 --> 01:09:16,444 "but she couldn't, because of her husband." 610 01:09:17,945 --> 01:09:19,155 "So, I killed her husband." 611 01:09:21,574 --> 01:09:25,536 Now, Mrs. Walston, would you tell the gentlemen of the jury 612 01:09:25,536 --> 01:09:27,622 how you met and got to know Jack Ruff in? 613 01:09:32,168 --> 01:09:35,755 He came out to help my husband with the well. 614 01:09:38,758 --> 01:09:42,220 And then he started helping with the tobacco crop. 615 01:09:45,598 --> 01:09:47,975 Aaron told him to come on and move in. 616 01:09:50,019 --> 01:09:51,646 Aaron would go down to the barn one night, 617 01:09:53,022 --> 01:09:54,399 and Jack would go down the next. 618 01:09:58,903 --> 01:10:00,613 I got up while Aaron was still sleeping 619 01:10:03,408 --> 01:10:05,326 and I went down to the barn. 620 01:10:07,829 --> 01:10:09,414 And then I got back before he woke up. 621 01:10:12,625 --> 01:10:16,087 Now, Mrs. Ruff in, I'm gonna ask you a little bit about those nights down in the barn. 622 01:10:16,087 --> 01:10:18,047 I'm Mrs. Walston. 623 01:10:18,047 --> 01:10:20,550 But those nights down in the barn were your idea, weren't they? 624 01:10:23,261 --> 01:10:24,846 He asked me to come down there. 625 01:10:24,846 --> 01:10:26,347 But they were your idea, weren't they? 626 01:10:31,936 --> 01:10:34,272 I wanted to go. 627 01:10:34,272 --> 01:10:37,859 So you were in no way forced to go down into that barn were you, Mrs. Ruff in? 628 01:10:39,444 --> 01:10:41,154 I am Mrs. Walston. 629 01:10:41,154 --> 01:10:44,157 Now, please describe to the gentlemen of the jury 630 01:10:44,157 --> 01:10:46,909 just what happened on the first occasion you had intercourse with him. 631 01:10:52,832 --> 01:10:54,375 You heard the question, ma'am. 632 01:10:54,375 --> 01:10:56,586 Please describe to the gentlemen of the jury, 633 01:10:56,586 --> 01:10:58,838 the first occasion on which you had intercourse with him. 634 01:11:01,549 --> 01:11:03,092 My husband had gone off, 635 01:11:05,762 --> 01:11:06,971 and it happened in the garden. 636 01:11:07,722 --> 01:11:08,848 In the garden. 637 01:11:12,769 --> 01:11:13,770 And the next time? 638 01:11:15,688 --> 01:11:16,898 I don't know. 639 01:11:19,233 --> 01:11:21,569 It might have been the next day. 640 01:11:21,569 --> 01:11:24,447 And these relations did occur every day thereafter, did they not? 641 01:11:27,158 --> 01:11:28,493 Sometimes I was sick. 642 01:11:30,328 --> 01:11:33,664 But, when your husband was gone, and you weren't sick, 643 01:11:33,664 --> 01:11:34,957 it happened every day, didn't it? 644 01:11:39,545 --> 01:11:42,590 Please, let the record reflect that the witness has nodded the answer, "Yes." 645 01:11:58,481 --> 01:12:02,652 For him, for the State, 646 01:12:02,652 --> 01:12:06,656 and for everybody else, for God's sake, don't turn him loose. 647 01:12:06,656 --> 01:12:11,202 But a life sentence in prison would constitute a far more severe punishment 648 01:12:11,202 --> 01:12:12,328 than the death penalty. 649 01:12:15,498 --> 01:12:18,960 Whatever damnation comes out of this case, 650 01:12:20,211 --> 01:12:22,338 she is the foundation for it. 651 01:12:26,259 --> 01:12:29,637 Now, gentlemen, you have heard the evidence. 652 01:12:29,637 --> 01:12:33,975 After a comparatively short time, this man was living in the house 653 01:12:33,975 --> 01:12:36,102 with more freedom than the woman's husband. 654 01:12:37,395 --> 01:12:39,313 She has been unfaithful to her child, 655 01:12:40,106 --> 01:12:41,566 unfaithful to her husband 656 01:12:42,316 --> 01:12:44,902 and unfaithful to her God. 657 01:12:44,902 --> 01:12:48,781 Not in the annals of the history of North Carolina, 658 01:12:48,781 --> 01:12:52,910 have we had a murder of such brutality as to compare with this one. 659 01:12:52,910 --> 01:12:56,497 Gentlemen, I want you to return a verdict of guilty. 660 01:12:58,165 --> 01:13:01,043 I want you to send Jack Ruff in 661 01:13:01,043 --> 01:13:04,171 and Roxanna Walston to the gas chamber. 662 01:13:06,382 --> 01:13:07,425 No! 663 01:13:08,843 --> 01:13:11,053 Wait. 664 01:13:11,053 --> 01:13:12,597 She never did say she'd run off with me. 665 01:13:15,308 --> 01:13:16,767 I pushed her into the car that night. 666 01:13:18,185 --> 01:13:19,353 She didn't know what happened. 667 01:13:23,024 --> 01:13:25,318 And when [ finally told her, she ran away from me and hid. 668 01:13:28,863 --> 01:13:30,698 They said yesterday that I do not have a heart! 669 01:13:35,995 --> 01:13:37,580 I do have a heart, 670 01:13:39,248 --> 01:13:40,958 and there's grief in my heart at the bottom. 671 01:13:44,253 --> 01:13:46,005 Will, hold her up here. I'll get her some water. 672 01:13:46,005 --> 01:13:47,006 Watch your head. 673 01:13:48,966 --> 01:13:51,385 We have a verdict in the Walston murder case. 674 01:13:51,427 --> 01:13:54,889 The jury went out at 11:25 and they were back at 12:05. 675 01:13:54,889 --> 01:13:56,349 They found Mrs. Roxanna Walston 676 01:13:56,349 --> 01:13:58,392 not guilty of conspiracy to murder, 677 01:13:58,392 --> 01:13:59,727 and they found Mr. Jack Ruff in 678 01:13:59,727 --> 01:14:01,729 guilty of murder in the first degree, 679 01:14:01,729 --> 01:14:04,523 with no recommendation for mercy. 680 01:14:04,523 --> 01:14:07,193 Handkerchiefs fluttered as the judge intoned the death sentence. 681 01:14:09,320 --> 01:14:12,281 I know Kate would be happy to have her. 682 01:14:12,281 --> 01:14:14,450 That sounds just like something a man would say. 683 01:14:15,451 --> 01:14:17,370 That's half her trouble now. 684 01:14:17,370 --> 01:14:19,246 Listening to ghost stories, all her life, 685 01:14:19,246 --> 01:14:22,875 and always doing something some man thought she ought to do. 686 01:14:22,875 --> 01:14:25,711 How can she go to Virginia, or anywhere else? 687 01:14:25,711 --> 01:14:27,922 She needs to learn to do something first. 688 01:14:27,922 --> 01:14:29,715 Could you lower your voice? 689 01:14:54,573 --> 01:14:56,033 You know, this was your mother's bed. 690 01:14:58,744 --> 01:15:01,622 That's why I brought you in here. 691 01:15:01,622 --> 01:15:04,667 There's no better medicine in this whole world than lying in your mama's bed. 692 01:15:10,006 --> 01:15:11,298 It was our mama's bed, too. 693 01:15:13,384 --> 01:15:15,845 I lay right here myself when I wasn't much older than you are, 694 01:15:16,971 --> 01:15:17,972 talking to Mama. 695 01:15:24,937 --> 01:15:27,189 When I was in that tourist camp in Georgia with him, 696 01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:32,194 I didn't know how to say, "No, I can't go with you." 697 01:15:34,947 --> 01:15:37,575 I never said "no" to anybody in my life, 698 01:15:39,660 --> 01:15:41,203 except for Aaron on the Fourth of July. 699 01:15:48,169 --> 01:15:50,713 Different things happen to different people, Roxy. 700 01:15:52,256 --> 01:15:53,382 Don't think you're the only one 701 01:15:53,382 --> 01:15:54,633 something bad ever happened to. 702 01:15:56,177 --> 01:15:57,511 What really matters is how you behave 703 01:15:57,553 --> 01:15:58,554 after it's over. 704 01:16:00,139 --> 01:16:01,140 And it is over. 705 01:16:08,981 --> 01:16:12,943 Daddy, I'd like to go to the farm today. 706 01:16:19,158 --> 01:16:21,327 You gotta get your driving license sometime. 707 01:16:23,079 --> 01:16:24,121 I'm going to. 708 01:16:28,250 --> 01:16:32,630 And then, I think you and me and Ruth ought to... 709 01:16:33,839 --> 01:16:36,050 We ought to talk about you getting on a train 710 01:16:36,050 --> 01:16:37,760 and heading up to Fredericksburg, 711 01:16:39,386 --> 01:16:40,971 to stay with Aunt Kate for a while. 712 01:16:46,727 --> 01:16:50,022 Daddy, I know I won't stay in Tarboro for my whole life. 713 01:16:52,858 --> 01:16:54,944 But right now my child needs her family. 714 01:16:57,238 --> 01:16:58,614 She needs a stable home. 715 01:17:03,494 --> 01:17:05,746 I'm gonna stay right here and I'm gonna ride it out, 716 01:17:08,207 --> 01:17:09,208 just the same as you. 717 01:17:10,626 --> 01:17:11,669 And Ruth, 718 01:17:12,586 --> 01:17:13,796 and our whole family. 719 01:17:52,585 --> 01:17:54,879 ♪ Now that I'm all alone 720 01:17:55,921 --> 01:17:59,341 ♪ All I am livin' on 721 01:17:59,341 --> 01:18:02,678 ♪ Is every memory I've had 722 01:18:03,470 --> 01:18:04,889 ♪ Of you 723 01:18:06,182 --> 01:18:10,728 ♪ I know the love will never die 724 01:18:10,728 --> 01:18:13,898 ♪ While there's someone to cry 725 01:18:13,898 --> 01:18:18,569 ♪ When does the heart come home? 726 01:18:21,030 --> 01:18:25,242 ♪ I know the heart must have a home 727 01:18:29,163 --> 01:18:32,499 ♪ For going to and comin' from 728 01:18:34,293 --> 01:18:38,297 ♪ And someday I'll see 729 01:18:38,297 --> 01:18:41,091 ♪ Where my heart wants to be 730 01:18:42,927 --> 01:18:46,055 ♪ And I'll be glad and I'll be home 731 01:18:49,516 --> 01:18:53,771 ♪ I know the heart must have a home 732 01:18:56,440 --> 01:19:00,361 ♪ I know the heart must have a home 733 01:19:01,946 --> 01:19:04,990 ♪ We guess at who we are 734 01:19:04,990 --> 01:19:09,078 ♪ And what we're living for 735 01:19:09,078 --> 01:19:15,417 ♪ We hope our heart and soul will see us through 736 01:19:15,417 --> 01:19:19,004 ♪ I don't care how far I must go 737 01:19:20,005 --> 01:19:23,259 ♪ As long as I can know 738 01:19:23,259 --> 01:19:28,013 ♪ My heart will have a home 739 01:19:29,890 --> 01:19:34,603 ♪ I know the heart must have a home 740 01:19:38,190 --> 01:19:41,902 ♪ For going to and comin' from 741 01:19:43,153 --> 01:19:47,199 ♪ And someday I'll see 742 01:19:47,199 --> 01:19:50,869 ♪ Where my heart wants to be 743 01:19:51,870 --> 01:19:55,374 ♪ And I'll glad and I'll be home 744 01:19:58,836 --> 01:20:02,631 ♪ I know the heart must have a home 745 01:20:06,176 --> 01:20:12,850 ♪ I know my heart must have a home 746 01:20:15,060 --> 01:20:16,979 ♪ Mmm 747 01:20:18,522 --> 01:20:23,193 ♪ Mmm-hmm ♪