1 00:01:07,934 --> 00:01:09,925 My name is Henry Lesser. 2 00:01:11,404 --> 00:01:13,372 When I was 26... 3 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,204 Herbert Hoover was the president. 4 00:01:15,275 --> 00:01:19,803 Al Capone was in his heyday in Chicago. 5 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:23,315 Henry Ford built his one millionth Model 'A'. 6 00:01:24,217 --> 00:01:26,948 Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig were beltin' 'em with the Yankees... 7 00:01:27,020 --> 00:01:28,988 and I took a new job... 8 00:01:31,024 --> 00:01:32,685 where I met a man... 9 00:01:32,759 --> 00:01:37,321 the likes of which very few of us, thank God, ever get to meet. 10 00:01:38,898 --> 00:01:40,366 Carl Panzram. 11 00:01:59,452 --> 00:02:02,353 [ Man ] Hold it right there! I'm warnin' you! 12 00:02:15,335 --> 00:02:17,099 Okay, you got me. 13 00:02:17,170 --> 00:02:18,604 Fuck you! 14 00:02:22,642 --> 00:02:25,839 - What are you nabbin' me for? - Housebreakin'. 15 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,242 [ Groaning ] 16 00:02:30,884 --> 00:02:32,875 [ Chuckles ] 17 00:02:32,952 --> 00:02:34,545 Housebreaking. 18 00:02:36,189 --> 00:02:39,022 It's a good thing your mother's not alive. 19 00:02:39,092 --> 00:02:41,026 If she could see you now, she'd drop dead. 20 00:02:41,094 --> 00:02:43,153 - [ Woman ] Sam! - What? 21 00:02:43,229 --> 00:02:45,095 Whoever heard of a Jewish prison guard? 22 00:02:45,165 --> 00:02:48,328 This is America, you said, where a Jew can be whatever he wants. 23 00:02:48,401 --> 00:02:50,460 Yes, except a prison guard. 24 00:02:50,537 --> 00:02:53,131 It's an honest job, Papa. It could lead to something. 25 00:02:53,206 --> 00:02:55,607 It could lead to warden. 26 00:02:55,675 --> 00:02:58,736 An honest job, maybe. Your key to fame and fortune? 27 00:02:58,811 --> 00:03:00,745 Richard, your lunch. 28 00:03:09,022 --> 00:03:10,456 I'm nervous. 29 00:03:13,359 --> 00:03:14,884 You will be fine. 30 00:03:16,362 --> 00:03:18,353 Here. This will protect you. 31 00:03:18,431 --> 00:03:19,694 Ahhh. 32 00:03:20,767 --> 00:03:23,236 - You have a locker there. - Yes. 33 00:03:24,304 --> 00:03:25,567 Thank you. 34 00:03:29,742 --> 00:03:31,733 - I'll see you tonight. - Okay. 35 00:03:39,652 --> 00:03:42,053 [ Old Henry Narrating ] My father had a point. 36 00:03:42,121 --> 00:03:44,146 Me, a prison guard? 37 00:03:44,224 --> 00:03:46,693 I was a tailor by trade... 38 00:03:46,759 --> 00:03:50,127 until I got fired for joining the union. 39 00:03:51,798 --> 00:03:54,130 [ Man ] Welcome to Leavenworth, gentlemen. 40 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,191 This is hell... 41 00:03:56,269 --> 00:03:58,328 and I am the devil. 42 00:03:58,404 --> 00:04:01,203 I didn't send for you, I don't like you... 43 00:04:01,274 --> 00:04:03,333 and I have enough of you already. 44 00:04:04,444 --> 00:04:09,382 You're here because you've proven you can't live amongst decent society... 45 00:04:09,449 --> 00:04:12,248 and because you broke the law. 46 00:04:12,318 --> 00:04:16,118 What you are getting now is our rule book. 47 00:04:16,189 --> 00:04:18,749 There are 99 rules contained in it. 48 00:04:19,826 --> 00:04:23,888 You will memorize and then obey each and every one of them. 49 00:04:24,697 --> 00:04:26,927 - Is this clear? - Yes, sir! 50 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,732 If you cannot read, you better find somebody to read it to you... 51 00:04:30,803 --> 00:04:34,103 because 'I didn't know' doesn't cut ice with me. 52 00:04:34,173 --> 00:04:36,335 Take that rule book, boy! 53 00:04:38,711 --> 00:04:42,238 [ Warden ] At this time, I want you all to remove your caps. 54 00:04:42,315 --> 00:04:44,374 With your right hand, put it down on the ground... 55 00:04:44,450 --> 00:04:47,613 in front of you, top down, brim touching your toes. 56 00:04:49,455 --> 00:04:50,923 Good. 57 00:04:51,758 --> 00:04:54,284 You will now place in your cap... 58 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,795 any and all contraband... 59 00:04:56,863 --> 00:04:59,628 including coins, money... 60 00:04:59,699 --> 00:05:02,066 stamps, pictures... 61 00:05:02,135 --> 00:05:04,832 watches, rings, pens... 62 00:05:04,904 --> 00:05:06,838 pencils or paper. 63 00:05:07,874 --> 00:05:10,138 Anybody caught with these items... 64 00:05:10,209 --> 00:05:12,303 will go straight to the hole. 65 00:05:12,378 --> 00:05:15,348 - Is that clear? - Yes, sir! 66 00:05:15,415 --> 00:05:16,974 That's all. 67 00:05:20,286 --> 00:05:22,914 - You the new man, Lesser? - Yes, sir. 68 00:05:22,989 --> 00:05:24,980 All right, then. Move 'em out of here. 69 00:05:25,058 --> 00:05:26,082 Gentlemen... 70 00:05:26,159 --> 00:05:27,991 please face me. 71 00:05:29,829 --> 00:05:31,797 Let's get you started. 72 00:05:31,864 --> 00:05:34,333 - Greiser will show you the ropes. - Yes, sir. 73 00:05:41,541 --> 00:05:43,532 You got your laundry room. 74 00:05:46,512 --> 00:05:49,106 The metal shop and the drill press area. 75 00:05:52,018 --> 00:05:55,477 They got their tools, materials. Guards posted up top. 76 00:05:59,292 --> 00:06:02,023 The infirmary over here, mess hall straight ahead. 77 00:06:02,095 --> 00:06:04,655 Hey. Who the heck is that? 78 00:06:04,731 --> 00:06:07,211 - That's Harry Sinclair, the oilman. - The Teapot Dome scandal. 79 00:06:07,266 --> 00:06:09,266 - I didn't know he was here. - [ Snapping Fingers ] 80 00:06:13,906 --> 00:06:15,897 Thank you, Mr. Sinclair. 81 00:06:19,011 --> 00:06:23,744 Are there any books you might recommend on prison administration or reform? 82 00:06:23,816 --> 00:06:28,117 Ain't no book's gonna help you in here, unless it's got a gun in it. 83 00:06:30,656 --> 00:06:33,819 When I say, 'Fire 'em,' I mean fire 'em! 84 00:06:33,893 --> 00:06:38,330 [ Inmate Retching ] 85 00:06:38,398 --> 00:06:40,025 [ Coughing ] 86 00:06:40,099 --> 00:06:41,498 [ Henry ] Oh, my God. 87 00:06:44,771 --> 00:06:46,034 Hold it. 88 00:06:49,642 --> 00:06:52,543 It's just a dope fiend goin' through withdrawal. 89 00:06:52,612 --> 00:06:54,080 Nothin' we can do. 90 00:06:54,147 --> 00:06:57,276 Warden's policy. Let him sweat it out. 91 00:06:57,350 --> 00:06:59,546 He ought to at least be in the hospital. 92 00:06:59,619 --> 00:07:01,553 - There's no room. - There's plenty of room. 93 00:07:01,621 --> 00:07:03,715 Sinclair's the only one in there. 94 00:07:05,925 --> 00:07:08,917 Listen, friend. This place was designed to hold 1,600 men. 95 00:07:08,995 --> 00:07:11,760 We got more than three times that many here. 96 00:07:11,831 --> 00:07:15,768 Gangsters, killers, hopheads-- The place is a powder keg ready to blow. 97 00:07:15,835 --> 00:07:19,032 So don't go lightin' matches like that. Not when I'm around. 98 00:07:41,394 --> 00:07:43,123 [ Panzram ] Shit! 99 00:07:43,196 --> 00:07:45,221 Keep your feet off the furniture. 100 00:08:25,805 --> 00:08:28,502 You're laundering about 20 of those extra a week. 101 00:08:28,574 --> 00:08:31,202 That's against the rules, and you know it. 102 00:08:31,277 --> 00:08:33,075 I need the money. 103 00:08:33,145 --> 00:08:34,442 For what? 104 00:08:35,214 --> 00:08:37,478 Smokes, better food. 105 00:08:41,988 --> 00:08:44,388 You sayin' there's something wrong with the food we give you? 106 00:08:46,993 --> 00:08:48,483 No, sir. 107 00:08:48,561 --> 00:08:50,529 Then what are you sayin'? 108 00:08:51,797 --> 00:08:53,060 Nothin', sir. 109 00:08:55,635 --> 00:08:58,900 - I may have to put you on a report. - Stop ridin' me. 110 00:08:58,971 --> 00:09:00,769 What'd you say, boy? 111 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,866 I said stop ridin' me, or I'll cut your fuckin' throat. 112 00:09:07,914 --> 00:09:09,348 Step out, mister. 113 00:09:13,886 --> 00:09:15,320 [ Grunting ] 114 00:09:16,889 --> 00:09:20,052 That the best you can do, you cocksucker? Come on. 115 00:09:23,095 --> 00:09:25,564 [ Grunting, Groaning ] 116 00:09:32,271 --> 00:09:35,400 [ Laughing ] My mother's tougher than you, you bitch! 117 00:09:35,474 --> 00:09:36,839 Come on! 118 00:09:41,247 --> 00:09:44,615 I killed 21 men. 119 00:09:44,684 --> 00:09:46,049 Come on. You're nothin'. 120 00:09:50,656 --> 00:09:52,454 And you're next, you flatfoot bastard. 121 00:09:53,659 --> 00:09:56,788 Couldn't be a real cop. You had to be a hack. 122 00:09:56,862 --> 00:09:59,194 You couldn't track an elephant in a snowdrift, you prick. 123 00:10:09,275 --> 00:10:11,209 Who did this to you? 124 00:10:11,277 --> 00:10:13,211 [ Groaning ] 125 00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:22,645 Is there anything I can do for you? 126 00:10:37,770 --> 00:10:40,296 [ Old Henry ] I couldn't get it out of my mind... 127 00:10:40,373 --> 00:10:43,138 what those bastards had done to him. 128 00:10:43,209 --> 00:10:45,200 I wanted to make it right. 129 00:10:49,548 --> 00:10:52,540 - Got somethin' for ya. - What would that be, snitch? 130 00:10:52,618 --> 00:10:54,609 Call me that again, you ain't gonna get it. 131 00:10:56,422 --> 00:10:58,151 You want it or not? 132 00:10:59,225 --> 00:11:00,954 You're givin' me a dollar? 133 00:11:01,027 --> 00:11:02,791 I ain't givin' you shit. 134 00:11:02,862 --> 00:11:04,796 It's from one of the guards. 135 00:11:04,864 --> 00:11:06,855 Get the fuck outta here, whiskers. 136 00:11:06,932 --> 00:11:10,493 That new guy Lesser give it to me on his way home. 137 00:11:10,569 --> 00:11:12,537 He said to give it to you. 138 00:11:14,006 --> 00:11:16,270 I ain't got all day. 139 00:11:16,342 --> 00:11:19,972 Shave that thing off your face, whiskers. It looks like a pussy. 140 00:11:20,046 --> 00:11:22,174 [ 'Whiskers' Giggling ] 141 00:11:35,961 --> 00:11:38,896 [ Man ] How 'bout one of them tailor-mades for me, Panzram? 142 00:11:43,803 --> 00:11:45,737 [ Metal Door Slamming ] 143 00:12:00,052 --> 00:12:01,645 [ Panzram ] Psst! Lesser! 144 00:12:03,456 --> 00:12:05,584 You're Mr. Lesser, right? 145 00:12:05,658 --> 00:12:07,752 You give me that money? Why? 146 00:12:09,929 --> 00:12:12,921 - I thought you could use it. - Why? Hey. 147 00:12:12,998 --> 00:12:15,023 What's your racket, huh? 148 00:12:15,101 --> 00:12:17,092 You're welcome. 149 00:12:24,176 --> 00:12:25,905 Hey, fellas-- 150 00:12:25,978 --> 00:12:28,879 - Is it true what he said? - How many did he kill? 151 00:12:28,948 --> 00:12:32,009 - What do you hear about him? - Is he in isolation? 152 00:12:48,234 --> 00:12:50,396 Seems you're a bit of an attraction around here. 153 00:12:50,469 --> 00:12:51,732 How's that? 154 00:12:51,804 --> 00:12:54,364 Reporters wanting in to see you. 155 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,909 Anybody writes my story, it's gonna be me. 156 00:12:57,977 --> 00:13:00,378 Sell like hot cakes. 157 00:13:00,446 --> 00:13:02,574 - [ Henry ] Juicy, eh? - Bloody. 158 00:13:03,716 --> 00:13:06,777 - Your file says you're in for-- - You believe everything you read... 159 00:13:06,852 --> 00:13:08,183 Mr. Lesser? 160 00:13:11,090 --> 00:13:13,058 You like to read, don't you? 161 00:13:14,894 --> 00:13:17,022 I've had a lot of time on my hands. 162 00:13:21,867 --> 00:13:23,460 Tell me something. 163 00:13:23,536 --> 00:13:25,470 - You go to church? - Temple. 164 00:13:25,538 --> 00:13:27,370 - You go to temple? - Nope. 165 00:13:27,439 --> 00:13:29,931 - Don't believe in God? - Nope. 166 00:13:30,009 --> 00:13:31,272 Why not? 167 00:13:31,343 --> 00:13:33,573 What kind of God would allow a place like this? 168 00:13:33,646 --> 00:13:37,605 A smart one. Where else would he keep men like these? 169 00:13:37,683 --> 00:13:40,152 Why would he make men like these? 170 00:13:41,086 --> 00:13:43,077 You ever read The Count of Monte Cristo? 171 00:13:43,155 --> 00:13:46,614 The count said, 'God keeps evil men in His care... 172 00:13:47,893 --> 00:13:51,352 that he may use them as instruments of His vengeance.' 173 00:13:51,430 --> 00:13:53,194 Ah. 174 00:13:53,265 --> 00:13:56,496 God didn't make these men. Our system did. 175 00:13:59,772 --> 00:14:01,672 You're a Red, Mr. Lesser. 176 00:14:02,575 --> 00:14:03,872 Shh. 177 00:14:10,683 --> 00:14:12,651 Two things, Mr. Lesser. 178 00:14:12,718 --> 00:14:16,780 You are never again to give any prisoner in here so much as a penny... 179 00:14:16,856 --> 00:14:20,850 and you will never, ever again try to shake any of their hands. 180 00:14:20,926 --> 00:14:22,724 - You understand me? - Yes, sir. 181 00:14:22,795 --> 00:14:25,230 What the hell is up with you, anyway? 182 00:14:25,297 --> 00:14:28,927 Are you one of these reformers, tending little lost lambs? 183 00:14:29,001 --> 00:14:31,470 - No, sir. - You like this job? 184 00:14:31,537 --> 00:14:32,629 Yes, sir. 185 00:14:32,705 --> 00:14:35,140 Then toe the mark and walk the line. 186 00:14:35,207 --> 00:14:39,576 Sir, I was wondering if I could... 187 00:14:39,645 --> 00:14:42,512 have next Friday and Saturday off. 188 00:14:42,581 --> 00:14:44,413 What for? 189 00:14:44,483 --> 00:14:46,315 It's a holiday. 190 00:14:46,385 --> 00:14:48,717 No, it isn't. What holiday? 191 00:14:48,787 --> 00:14:50,687 Yom Kippur. 192 00:14:52,491 --> 00:14:54,550 No, I can't spare you. 193 00:14:55,327 --> 00:14:56,726 Sorry. 194 00:14:57,796 --> 00:14:59,161 You're Jewish. 195 00:14:59,231 --> 00:15:00,562 Yes, sir. 196 00:15:13,612 --> 00:15:16,707 [ Henry's Wife ] You gave money to one of them? 197 00:15:16,782 --> 00:15:18,443 I gave one dollar to him. 198 00:15:18,517 --> 00:15:21,077 One dollar. People live a week on a dollar. 199 00:15:21,153 --> 00:15:23,178 People live a month on a dollar in prison. 200 00:15:23,255 --> 00:15:25,815 Oh, and I should feel sorry for them? 201 00:15:25,891 --> 00:15:27,120 This man... 202 00:15:27,192 --> 00:15:30,924 his face was beaten to a pulp by guards! 203 00:15:30,996 --> 00:15:34,193 You have to see it. I've never seen anything like it. 204 00:15:34,266 --> 00:15:37,031 He probably deserved it. What's he in there for? 205 00:15:37,102 --> 00:15:41,266 He's a criminal. He's a petty thief or a burglar. 206 00:15:41,340 --> 00:15:44,435 But he-- When they were beating him, he confessed to several murders. 207 00:15:44,510 --> 00:15:47,275 Murderer. [ Chuckles ] 208 00:15:47,346 --> 00:15:50,179 They say he's making it up for attention. 209 00:15:50,249 --> 00:15:51,580 Oy, it worked. 210 00:15:52,885 --> 00:15:55,513 Every reporter in town wants to get in and see him. 211 00:15:55,587 --> 00:15:57,851 The warden won't let them in. 212 00:15:57,923 --> 00:16:01,154 Henry, we hardly have enough for ourselves. 213 00:16:02,227 --> 00:16:04,161 We have each other. 214 00:16:05,264 --> 00:16:07,756 Rudolph Valentino you're not. 215 00:16:07,833 --> 00:16:10,029 Yes, I am. I am Rudolph Valentino. 216 00:16:10,102 --> 00:16:11,627 Are you? 217 00:16:49,008 --> 00:16:51,306 It's a beautiful sunrise, isn't it? 218 00:16:52,745 --> 00:16:54,179 Take a look. 219 00:16:55,781 --> 00:16:57,374 Why would I wanna do that? 220 00:16:58,517 --> 00:16:59,951 [ Chuckles ] 221 00:17:01,220 --> 00:17:03,518 I have to check the bars on the window. 222 00:17:03,589 --> 00:17:04,852 Orders from above. 223 00:17:10,295 --> 00:17:12,627 I thought you were gonna coldcock me with that. 224 00:17:44,830 --> 00:17:46,855 You're a brave man, Mr. Lesser... 225 00:17:48,934 --> 00:17:50,424 but don't do this again. 226 00:17:51,303 --> 00:17:53,670 Don't you ever turn your back on me. 227 00:17:59,111 --> 00:18:01,512 I know you won't try anything. 228 00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:03,014 How? 229 00:18:08,420 --> 00:18:10,354 I trust you. 230 00:18:17,930 --> 00:18:19,955 Let me give you some advice. 231 00:18:22,301 --> 00:18:23,735 Quit this job. 232 00:18:23,802 --> 00:18:25,736 Get out of here. 233 00:18:27,239 --> 00:18:28,502 Why? 234 00:18:30,642 --> 00:18:33,077 Because sooner or later, you're gonna become just like... 235 00:18:34,313 --> 00:18:35,781 the rest of them. 236 00:18:36,915 --> 00:18:40,215 Just as vicious, just as cruel, just as stupid. 237 00:18:41,854 --> 00:18:44,255 Like Greiser. Like all of them. 238 00:18:44,323 --> 00:18:45,757 That's why. 239 00:18:57,336 --> 00:18:58,770 I don't think so. 240 00:19:13,752 --> 00:19:16,119 I started writing my story last night, Mr. Lesser. 241 00:19:17,523 --> 00:19:18,991 With what? 242 00:19:19,725 --> 00:19:21,659 With nothing. That's the problem. 243 00:19:23,729 --> 00:19:25,697 I'll make you a deal, sir. 244 00:19:25,764 --> 00:19:28,790 You give me paper and pencil, and I'll give you the story. 245 00:19:28,867 --> 00:19:31,564 You can sell it. You can do whatever you want with it. 246 00:19:31,637 --> 00:19:33,731 If it makes any money, you can keep it. 247 00:19:34,973 --> 00:19:37,533 I just wanna write my story. 248 00:19:37,609 --> 00:19:41,375 You're not allowed to have paper or pencils. It's against the rules. 249 00:19:48,554 --> 00:19:49,817 Right. 250 00:19:49,888 --> 00:19:53,620 Sorry I mentioned it, sir. 251 00:20:12,611 --> 00:20:14,705 Dinner's ready. You have time to eat? 252 00:20:14,780 --> 00:20:16,111 Sure. 253 00:20:16,181 --> 00:20:18,741 Henry, do you have to work the night shift? 254 00:20:19,651 --> 00:20:22,621 Yes, I do, for now. 255 00:20:22,688 --> 00:20:25,623 - It's just two nights a week. - Two nights a week. 256 00:20:26,925 --> 00:20:28,893 Who'll read to me? 257 00:20:36,969 --> 00:20:38,403 Come wash up. 258 00:22:18,103 --> 00:22:20,367 [ Panzram Narrating ] My name is Carl Panzram... 259 00:22:20,439 --> 00:22:25,502 number 31614, United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. 260 00:22:25,577 --> 00:22:30,139 I was born June 28, 1891, on a small farm in Minnesota. 261 00:22:30,215 --> 00:22:33,150 My parents were German immigrants, hardworking... 262 00:22:33,218 --> 00:22:35,778 ignorant and poor. 263 00:22:35,854 --> 00:22:40,553 I had five brothers and a sister, all decent, all God-fearing... 264 00:22:40,625 --> 00:22:41,990 all except me. 265 00:22:42,060 --> 00:22:44,620 By the age of nine, I was a drunkard. 266 00:22:44,696 --> 00:22:46,494 By ten, I was a thief. 267 00:22:46,565 --> 00:22:49,660 They sent me to the Red Wing, Minnesota State Training School... 268 00:22:49,735 --> 00:22:51,935 where I was taught how to be a clean, upright citizen... 269 00:22:51,970 --> 00:22:54,050 - and a credit to the human race. - [ Whip Cracking ] 270 00:22:54,106 --> 00:22:57,371 When I was let go, they gave me five dollars, a Bible... 271 00:22:57,442 --> 00:22:59,911 and a world of good advice. 272 00:22:59,978 --> 00:23:04,006 Put the five bucks in my pocket and hopped a freight west to be a cowboy. 273 00:23:05,083 --> 00:23:07,017 I never made it. 274 00:23:08,086 --> 00:23:12,785 I learned a lesson that day, a simple lesson that I never forgot... 275 00:23:12,858 --> 00:23:14,792 and have always practiced since. 276 00:23:14,860 --> 00:23:16,692 [ Young Panzram Screaming ] 277 00:23:16,762 --> 00:23:19,254 Might makes right. 278 00:23:19,331 --> 00:23:21,857 I spent my youth... 279 00:23:21,933 --> 00:23:23,958 robbing poor boxes in churches... 280 00:23:24,035 --> 00:23:26,868 doing unto others what was done unto me. 281 00:23:26,938 --> 00:23:30,602 Until I found myself in the army, then in the army stockade... 282 00:23:30,675 --> 00:23:32,404 for disagreeing with my sergeant. 283 00:23:35,213 --> 00:23:39,172 Some older boys finally put me wise on how you got yourself out of there. 284 00:23:39,251 --> 00:23:41,549 You had to tell 'em how you loved Jesus... 285 00:23:41,620 --> 00:23:44,817 and, naturally, now I loved Jesus very much. 286 00:23:44,890 --> 00:23:48,451 I loved him so much, I'd like to crucify him all over again. 287 00:23:49,361 --> 00:23:52,262 I got outta the hoosegow in 1911. 288 00:23:52,330 --> 00:23:55,231 During those years, I met every kind of crook there is... 289 00:23:55,300 --> 00:23:57,928 from the biggest of the big shots... 290 00:23:58,003 --> 00:24:00,301 down to the lowest and greasiest greaseballs. 291 00:24:00,372 --> 00:24:03,740 Wasn't long before I wound up in the Oregon State Penitentiary. 292 00:24:05,277 --> 00:24:07,575 There's coolers and there's coolers. 293 00:24:07,646 --> 00:24:10,274 Some are cold and wet, and some are hot and dry. 294 00:24:11,950 --> 00:24:15,113 In every joint I was in, there was always some kind of torture... 295 00:24:15,187 --> 00:24:16,677 and I've tried 'em all. 296 00:24:21,493 --> 00:24:24,087 One of the boys got hold of a gun and nailed the warden. 297 00:24:24,162 --> 00:24:26,756 My only sorrow: I didn't get to do it first. 298 00:24:30,335 --> 00:24:33,999 A new warden was named. Ex-army captain named Charles Casey. 299 00:24:35,373 --> 00:24:39,310 Big old, thick mick he was, but pretty good scout as it turned out. 300 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,558 No one had ever seen anything like what he was doing. 301 00:24:43,582 --> 00:24:47,815 There was no religion about him, no brutality, no punishment of any kind. 302 00:24:47,886 --> 00:24:51,015 Actually, the worst you could get was peelin' potatoes. 303 00:24:51,089 --> 00:24:52,420 [ Panzram Chuckles ] 304 00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:54,892 And on account of that, we all called him 'Spud.' 305 00:24:56,928 --> 00:24:59,090 At first I thought he was crazy... 306 00:24:59,164 --> 00:25:00,598 and that was wrong. 307 00:25:01,533 --> 00:25:05,299 Then I thought he was a fool, but damned if that wasn't wrong too. 308 00:25:07,005 --> 00:25:09,497 This man doesn't belong here. 309 00:25:09,574 --> 00:25:11,269 Belongs in the asylum. 310 00:25:12,177 --> 00:25:14,407 - [ Knock At Door ] - Come on in. 311 00:25:21,620 --> 00:25:23,179 Take those off. 312 00:25:24,356 --> 00:25:26,415 Take 'em off, I said. 313 00:25:27,325 --> 00:25:28,656 Carl? 314 00:25:28,727 --> 00:25:31,162 Warden Charles Casey. 315 00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:41,495 - [ Popping Caps Off Bottles ] - They tell me you're the worst man in this penitentiary. 316 00:25:45,377 --> 00:25:47,937 A mean and cowardly degenerate... 317 00:25:49,180 --> 00:25:50,614 beyond redemption. 318 00:25:57,622 --> 00:25:58,953 What's that? 319 00:25:59,691 --> 00:26:01,489 What do you think it is? 320 00:26:27,719 --> 00:26:29,448 Good, isn't it? 321 00:26:30,956 --> 00:26:35,223 [ Chuckling ] I don't believe everything people tell me, Carl. 322 00:26:35,293 --> 00:26:37,227 I imagine you don't either. 323 00:26:38,597 --> 00:26:42,363 I don't believe you're the worst man in this prison, nor beyond redemption. 324 00:26:42,434 --> 00:26:44,425 Let's get down to cases, shall we? 325 00:26:46,638 --> 00:26:49,107 Does your word mean anything to you? 326 00:26:49,174 --> 00:26:50,539 My what? 327 00:26:51,443 --> 00:26:53,377 Your word, damn it! 328 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,271 Are you in the habit of keeping your word? 329 00:26:57,349 --> 00:26:59,408 - Depends. - On what? 330 00:26:59,484 --> 00:27:01,350 On who I'm givin' it to... 331 00:27:02,654 --> 00:27:03,917 mister. 332 00:27:03,989 --> 00:27:06,822 I'm gonna hand you the surprise of your life. 333 00:27:06,891 --> 00:27:09,223 I'm gonna let you out for one whole day... 334 00:27:09,294 --> 00:27:12,821 if you'll give me your promise you won't try to escape. 335 00:27:16,201 --> 00:27:18,169 Let me get this straight. 336 00:27:20,105 --> 00:27:23,131 You're gonna let me out of my cell and into the yard? 337 00:27:23,208 --> 00:27:24,471 No. 338 00:27:24,542 --> 00:27:27,773 Out of the penitentiary. Outside the walls. 339 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:30,611 Out. 340 00:27:38,256 --> 00:27:39,815 Why? 341 00:27:39,891 --> 00:27:41,791 I have my reasons. 342 00:27:41,860 --> 00:27:44,591 Which are when I'm on the other side of the wall... 343 00:27:44,663 --> 00:27:47,598 your sharpshooters gun me down for an escape attempt. 344 00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:50,135 - Fuck you. - Carl. 345 00:27:51,302 --> 00:27:54,533 I give you my word of honor no harm will come to you. 346 00:27:56,207 --> 00:27:59,871 All I want is your promise you'll be back by suppertime. 347 00:28:03,682 --> 00:28:04,945 Oh. 348 00:28:05,684 --> 00:28:07,118 Well, then... 349 00:28:16,761 --> 00:28:18,729 you have my word. 350 00:28:19,898 --> 00:28:21,923 [ Birds Chirping ] 351 00:29:07,712 --> 00:29:10,773 [ Panzram ] I didn't have the least intention of keeping my word of honor... 352 00:29:10,849 --> 00:29:12,283 or ever coming back. 353 00:29:13,485 --> 00:29:16,853 What I intended was to catch the first freight I could... 354 00:29:16,921 --> 00:29:19,913 north to Canada, south to Mexico-- I didn't care. 355 00:29:53,358 --> 00:29:57,454 [ Train Whistle Blowing In The Distance ] 356 00:30:14,078 --> 00:30:16,012 [ Laughing ] 357 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,050 [ Panzram ] Back inside, the other boys told me I was nuts. 358 00:30:19,117 --> 00:30:21,279 Hell, I thought I was nuts. 359 00:30:21,352 --> 00:30:24,014 Spud's big passion was baseball. 360 00:30:24,088 --> 00:30:27,319 Had a prison team. Damnedest thing you ever saw. 361 00:30:27,392 --> 00:30:30,123 Every week the lot of us-- killers, rapists and thieves-- 362 00:30:30,195 --> 00:30:32,994 would load into trucks with only one guard to watch us... 363 00:30:33,064 --> 00:30:35,761 and we'd play the little towns all over Oregon. 364 00:30:35,834 --> 00:30:38,428 Since I couldn't hit water if I fell out of a boat... 365 00:30:38,503 --> 00:30:41,029 since I couldn't play any instruments neither... 366 00:30:41,105 --> 00:30:45,702 Spud let me carry the flag, which I must say I did with pleasure. 367 00:30:45,777 --> 00:30:47,074 What are you doin'? 368 00:30:47,145 --> 00:30:51,309 The papers had their eye on Spud, watching his experiments like hawks... 369 00:30:51,382 --> 00:30:53,874 waitin' like vultures for one of us to foul him up. 370 00:30:53,952 --> 00:30:57,013 Spud opened up an old unused building to make more room... 371 00:30:57,088 --> 00:31:00,456 giving each of us his own cell, and I liked that just fine. 372 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,727 Then I upped the ante on him... 373 00:31:04,796 --> 00:31:06,958 just to see what he'd do. 374 00:31:07,031 --> 00:31:09,056 Be right with you, Carl. 375 00:31:09,133 --> 00:31:12,592 We got our crime commission's new report here. 376 00:31:12,670 --> 00:31:14,104 Listen to this. 377 00:31:15,173 --> 00:31:19,132 'We therefore advise castration for the following: 378 00:31:19,210 --> 00:31:23,078 the rapist, the incorrigible burglar or gunman... 379 00:31:23,147 --> 00:31:28,085 the gibbering idiot or imbecilic cretin with inherited tendencies to crime... 380 00:31:28,152 --> 00:31:30,143 and the unstable erotopath.' 381 00:31:31,356 --> 00:31:33,984 What the hell is an 'erotopath'? 382 00:31:34,058 --> 00:31:35,992 What do you think of this? 383 00:31:36,060 --> 00:31:38,961 Well, sir, I think if you followed through like they advise... 384 00:31:39,030 --> 00:31:41,055 we could have us a damn fine choir in here. 385 00:31:43,434 --> 00:31:45,562 What can I do for you? 386 00:31:48,006 --> 00:31:51,943 When I go outside the walls, there's a town not too far away. 387 00:31:52,010 --> 00:31:54,672 - I don't know the name. - A bit east of here. 388 00:31:55,580 --> 00:31:58,072 I'd like permission to go there, sir. 389 00:31:59,517 --> 00:32:00,609 Why? 390 00:32:02,086 --> 00:32:06,455 See if they have a library. I've read all the books we got in here, sir. 391 00:32:06,524 --> 00:32:08,515 An ice-cream parlor-- I don't know. 392 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,934 On these conditions: 393 00:32:19,037 --> 00:32:22,268 Go to the library. Don't talk to anybody except to ask for a book. 394 00:32:22,340 --> 00:32:26,140 No ice-cream parlor, and for Dear Lord's sake, no pool halls... 395 00:32:26,210 --> 00:32:27,837 or saloons. 396 00:32:27,912 --> 00:32:29,243 Agreed? 397 00:32:29,314 --> 00:32:30,713 Agreed. 398 00:32:34,886 --> 00:32:37,048 One more thing. 399 00:32:37,121 --> 00:32:41,285 If I go in a library like this, those old ladies will run. 400 00:32:41,359 --> 00:32:43,657 What do you want, Carl? 401 00:32:43,728 --> 00:32:45,492 The shirt off your back, sir. 402 00:32:47,565 --> 00:32:49,499 We'll find something for you. 403 00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:53,233 Thank you, sir. 404 00:32:56,674 --> 00:32:58,608 [ Chuckling ] 405 00:33:04,015 --> 00:33:06,450 - Enjoy the book, Mrs. Dresser. - Thank you. 406 00:33:23,568 --> 00:33:26,868 [ Screaming ] I'm sorry. I didn't mean to frighten you... 407 00:33:26,938 --> 00:33:29,202 but the library is closing. 408 00:33:30,475 --> 00:33:32,773 Okay. Sorry. 409 00:33:32,844 --> 00:33:36,178 Are you new in town? Would you like a card? 410 00:33:37,915 --> 00:33:40,384 - Card? - A library card... 411 00:33:40,451 --> 00:33:42,681 so you can check those out, take them home. 412 00:33:45,923 --> 00:33:47,186 Does it cost money? 413 00:33:47,258 --> 00:33:49,226 No, you just have to be a county resident. 414 00:33:49,293 --> 00:33:51,387 Are you a resident? 415 00:33:54,532 --> 00:33:56,057 Yeah. 416 00:33:57,268 --> 00:34:00,101 Emerson. I love Emerson. It's all right. 417 00:34:00,171 --> 00:34:02,333 I'll-- I'll fix it. 418 00:34:02,407 --> 00:34:03,738 Sorry. 419 00:34:05,176 --> 00:34:07,167 You sure you don't want your-- 420 00:34:10,882 --> 00:34:14,841 [ Bell Tolls The Hour ] 421 00:34:19,924 --> 00:34:23,554 I guess my first love would be Shakespeare. 422 00:34:23,628 --> 00:34:26,757 But he's more of a boy's author, don't you think? 423 00:34:26,831 --> 00:34:29,129 And then there's Emily Dickinson and Chekhov. 424 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:33,159 All his characters are so rich and lovely, and they move me. 425 00:34:33,237 --> 00:34:35,638 And Uncle Vanya. I just love them. 426 00:34:35,706 --> 00:34:37,470 There are so many plays. 427 00:34:37,542 --> 00:34:40,637 It's so interesting to meet a man who loves books... 428 00:34:40,711 --> 00:34:44,170 and plays and poetry-- and exciting. 429 00:34:44,248 --> 00:34:48,014 [ Panzram ] I'd stay after she closed up, and we'd talk and talk. 430 00:34:49,187 --> 00:34:52,316 She didn't seem to mind I was a lousy con. 431 00:34:52,390 --> 00:34:54,518 She even promised she wouldn't tell anyone. 432 00:34:54,592 --> 00:34:57,425 It's exciting to talk to somebody, and you read Emerson! 433 00:34:57,495 --> 00:34:58,985 Oh, and Thoreau. 434 00:34:59,063 --> 00:35:01,691 It must give you peace when you sit in a jail-- 435 00:35:01,766 --> 00:35:06,294 I think what your warden is doing is admirable. 436 00:35:07,538 --> 00:35:09,905 It must have been awful in there for you before. 437 00:35:09,974 --> 00:35:11,442 I've seen worse. 438 00:35:11,509 --> 00:35:15,104 Still, it seems like he's a good man. 439 00:35:15,179 --> 00:35:17,739 - He's trying so hard to change-- - A what? 440 00:35:17,815 --> 00:35:20,648 A good man. He's doing-- 441 00:35:20,718 --> 00:35:23,744 [ Sighs ] One who, as Emerson said... 442 00:35:23,821 --> 00:35:26,791 'Exalts by his example... 443 00:35:26,858 --> 00:35:28,189 [ Together ] all mankind.' 444 00:35:30,394 --> 00:35:31,862 Where's your head? 445 00:35:32,964 --> 00:35:34,830 [ Laughing ] What? 446 00:35:34,899 --> 00:35:38,028 Your can. The-- Your facilities. 447 00:35:38,102 --> 00:35:40,366 Oh, uh, in there. 448 00:35:50,748 --> 00:35:53,046 [ Chain Jangles, Toilet Flushes ] 449 00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:12,092 ♪♪ [ Humming ] 450 00:36:20,111 --> 00:36:23,172 Oh. [ Nervous Laughing ] I thought you might wanna dance... 451 00:36:23,247 --> 00:36:25,909 if that's not too bold to ask. 452 00:36:27,418 --> 00:36:31,377 I teach dance to young boys and girls on Saturdays. 453 00:36:31,455 --> 00:36:33,048 I don't think so. 454 00:36:34,759 --> 00:36:39,162 That's what all my young men tell me, but I tell them a Chinese proverb. 455 00:36:39,230 --> 00:36:41,562 'The longest journey... 456 00:36:41,632 --> 00:36:43,964 begins with one step.' 457 00:36:48,406 --> 00:36:49,840 Frame. 458 00:36:52,910 --> 00:36:54,378 Hand. 459 00:36:55,846 --> 00:36:57,211 Shall we? 460 00:37:00,918 --> 00:37:02,818 That's good. What? 461 00:37:05,256 --> 00:37:07,020 Is this all right? 462 00:37:08,693 --> 00:37:10,718 - Are you sure? - [ Fabric Tearing ] 463 00:37:10,795 --> 00:37:13,924 [ Screaming, Gasping ] 464 00:37:13,998 --> 00:37:15,261 Carl-- 465 00:37:16,334 --> 00:37:18,359 - [ Carl Grunts ] - [ Screaming ] 466 00:37:18,436 --> 00:37:21,371 [ Gasping, Panting ] 467 00:37:21,439 --> 00:37:23,669 - [ Grunting ] - [ Gasping ] 468 00:37:23,741 --> 00:37:25,175 Shut up! 469 00:37:39,824 --> 00:37:42,987 [ Casey ] In case you're interested, you've done more than embarrass me. 470 00:37:43,060 --> 00:37:45,893 You've justified what a lot of people have said about me all along-- 471 00:37:45,963 --> 00:37:48,193 that what I was trying to do was a mistake... 472 00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:50,098 it was all gonna blow up in my face! 473 00:37:50,167 --> 00:37:53,694 What did you think I was gonna do, Spud? What did you expect of me? 474 00:37:54,839 --> 00:37:57,536 - [ Carl Gasps ] - Cut him down. 475 00:37:57,608 --> 00:37:59,576 Cut him down, damn it! 476 00:38:01,679 --> 00:38:03,374 [ Panzram ] Spud was fired... 477 00:38:03,447 --> 00:38:05,472 his reforms scrapped and forgotten. 478 00:38:05,549 --> 00:38:08,644 Not long after, I escaped... 479 00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,745 ready to rob, rape, burn and kill anywhere and everywhere I could... 480 00:38:11,822 --> 00:38:13,415 as long as I lived. 481 00:38:13,491 --> 00:38:15,892 [ Men Laughing ] 482 00:38:20,731 --> 00:38:25,328 I killed my first man coming out of Kit Burns's rat pit down in the Bowery. 483 00:38:25,403 --> 00:38:27,167 It felt pretty good. 484 00:38:27,238 --> 00:38:28,501 In New Haven, Connecticut... 485 00:38:28,572 --> 00:38:31,735 I robbed the former 26th President of the United States... 486 00:38:31,809 --> 00:38:33,243 Mr. William Howard Taft... 487 00:38:33,311 --> 00:38:36,178 of $40,000 of jewelry and Liberty bonds... 488 00:38:36,247 --> 00:38:39,444 and a .45 automatic with which I killed ten men. 489 00:38:47,692 --> 00:38:51,595 I got caught robbing the express office in Larchmont, New York. 490 00:38:51,662 --> 00:38:55,098 Got me five years in one of the real hellholes, Dannemora Prison. 491 00:38:56,534 --> 00:38:58,468 I fell more than 30 feet trying to escape. 492 00:38:59,737 --> 00:39:02,729 Broke both my ankles, both my legs... 493 00:39:02,807 --> 00:39:07,608 fractured my spine, ruptured my spleen, and I got no medical attention at all... 494 00:39:07,678 --> 00:39:11,080 except for the removal of one of my testicles. 495 00:39:11,148 --> 00:39:12,877 Why, I don't know. 496 00:39:14,785 --> 00:39:17,379 I am 39 years old now. 497 00:39:17,455 --> 00:39:19,549 In my lifetime, I've killed 21 human beings... 498 00:39:19,623 --> 00:39:22,024 some of them no more than boys. 499 00:39:22,093 --> 00:39:25,290 I've broken every law made by God and man. 500 00:39:25,363 --> 00:39:27,889 If they make more, I'll break those too. 501 00:39:27,965 --> 00:39:31,663 I don't know much, but this I do know. 502 00:39:31,736 --> 00:39:34,398 This country's in a war now, which few people realize. 503 00:39:34,472 --> 00:39:36,236 A crime war. 504 00:39:36,307 --> 00:39:40,335 Thousands of lives, billions of dollars of property are lost every year. 505 00:39:40,411 --> 00:39:43,574 And you know the best thing you've been able to do so far? 506 00:39:43,647 --> 00:39:45,240 Build bigger prisons... 507 00:39:45,316 --> 00:39:47,284 and fill them full of men. 508 00:39:47,351 --> 00:39:49,012 You fill one, you build another... 509 00:39:49,086 --> 00:39:51,680 but there are more criminals, and there is no end in sight. 510 00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:57,362 This being the case, you and your system must be wrong. 511 00:40:00,064 --> 00:40:04,297 You take a young tiger cub, you put it in a cage. 512 00:40:04,368 --> 00:40:07,030 You mistreat it until it becomes a savage and bloodthirsty thing... 513 00:40:07,104 --> 00:40:09,539 and then you turn it loose. 514 00:40:09,607 --> 00:40:11,632 What do you think will happen? 515 00:40:12,877 --> 00:40:14,971 You know, but I'll tell you. 516 00:40:15,045 --> 00:40:17,776 It's gonna kill and kill and keep on killing... 517 00:40:17,848 --> 00:40:20,943 until someone finally puts it out of its pain. 518 00:40:23,621 --> 00:40:26,249 Damn it! Please. I've told you to knock. 519 00:40:32,196 --> 00:40:34,255 [ Sighing ] 520 00:41:07,231 --> 00:41:09,199 - So? - Let's walk. 521 00:41:14,171 --> 00:41:16,265 - It's all true? - What don't you believe? 522 00:41:16,340 --> 00:41:17,705 The killings. 523 00:41:19,143 --> 00:41:21,635 - You sorry you gave me the paper? - You led me to believe-- 524 00:41:21,712 --> 00:41:24,306 - I led you to nothing. - Is it all true? 525 00:41:25,716 --> 00:41:28,447 Children. How could you-- 526 00:41:30,688 --> 00:41:34,886 I'm no lawyer, but just having possession of this... 527 00:41:36,060 --> 00:41:37,858 just knowing what you say that you've done-- 528 00:41:37,928 --> 00:41:40,192 Why don't you give it back? Forget you saw it. 529 00:41:40,264 --> 00:41:42,733 Forget? How can I possibly forget? 530 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,497 This is now my responsibility. You are now my responsibility. 531 00:41:45,569 --> 00:41:48,402 We can't have that, can we, Mr. Lesser? 532 00:41:48,472 --> 00:41:50,566 I want your permission to show it to someone. 533 00:41:58,148 --> 00:42:01,140 - To who? The warden? - No, a publisher. 534 00:42:03,254 --> 00:42:05,655 You wanna see me hang, do you, Mr. Lesser? 535 00:42:05,723 --> 00:42:07,248 With the names changed. 536 00:42:07,324 --> 00:42:09,122 Why would anybody wanna publish that? 537 00:42:09,193 --> 00:42:11,338 Because it's the most damning indictment I've ever read. 538 00:42:11,362 --> 00:42:13,023 An indictment against me. 539 00:42:13,097 --> 00:42:15,691 It is an indictment against this whole damn-- 540 00:42:29,513 --> 00:42:33,143 When you tell me where you got it, I might let you out. 541 00:42:33,217 --> 00:42:35,481 Fuck you, you dumb Kraut. Take these off. Come on. 542 00:42:40,491 --> 00:42:43,688 [ Grunting ] 543 00:42:48,032 --> 00:42:51,161 [ Panzram Laughing ] 544 00:42:59,276 --> 00:43:01,210 Thank you, Mr. Sinclair. 545 00:43:04,582 --> 00:43:06,983 [ Reporters Shouting Questions ] 546 00:43:07,051 --> 00:43:10,385 - You staying in the oil business? - You going back to California? 547 00:43:11,722 --> 00:43:13,713 You gonna stay in the oil business, Harry? 548 00:43:13,791 --> 00:43:17,659 [ Reporters All Shouting ] 549 00:43:17,728 --> 00:43:19,787 Give us a statement, Harry. 550 00:43:19,863 --> 00:43:21,456 Harry, come on! 551 00:43:22,533 --> 00:43:24,467 [ Guard ] I hope he comes back. 552 00:43:38,315 --> 00:43:40,010 What is that? 553 00:43:40,084 --> 00:43:43,054 It's just work. Reports for the prison and-- 554 00:43:44,989 --> 00:43:47,185 You have to do it every night? 555 00:43:47,257 --> 00:43:49,316 It's a lot to do. It's a lot of work. 556 00:43:52,963 --> 00:43:54,897 Amos 'n' Andy is on. 557 00:43:57,134 --> 00:44:02,004 I just wanna-- I just wanna get this in the mail by the morning. Okay? 558 00:44:26,897 --> 00:44:28,831 [ Man ] That's it for now. 559 00:44:31,635 --> 00:44:33,694 - Thanks, pal. - Thank you. 560 00:44:41,912 --> 00:44:43,971 [ News Vendor ] Evening, mister. 561 00:44:44,048 --> 00:44:45,982 Can I get you something? 562 00:44:46,884 --> 00:44:48,113 Mister? 563 00:44:48,185 --> 00:44:49,584 ♪♪ [ Big Band Music Playing ] 564 00:44:49,653 --> 00:44:51,951 [ Man, Woman Chattering ] 565 00:44:52,022 --> 00:44:53,956 - [ Woman ] No! - [ Man ] Serious? 566 00:44:57,728 --> 00:45:01,722 ♪♪ [ Big Band Music On The Radio ] 567 00:45:03,834 --> 00:45:07,361 [ Man Singing ] ♪ Get my tailor on the phone ♪ 568 00:45:07,438 --> 00:45:10,772 - ♪ Tell the maid-- ♪ - [ Henry Clears Throat ] 569 00:45:10,841 --> 00:45:14,334 ♪ Just explain when they start to moan ♪ 570 00:45:14,411 --> 00:45:16,778 ♪ I don't know when I'll be home ♪ 571 00:45:16,847 --> 00:45:18,781 Uh, beer, please. 572 00:45:18,849 --> 00:45:21,341 ♪ Gonna hire a limousine ♪♪ 573 00:45:21,418 --> 00:45:23,352 You new around here? 574 00:45:23,420 --> 00:45:25,514 I-I live close by. 575 00:45:27,157 --> 00:45:30,149 The name's Sally. What's yours? 576 00:45:30,227 --> 00:45:31,388 Henry. 577 00:45:31,462 --> 00:45:33,396 It's nice to meet you, Sally. 578 00:45:34,164 --> 00:45:36,155 [ Sally ] Let me guess. 579 00:45:38,168 --> 00:45:39,431 Italian. 580 00:45:40,604 --> 00:45:43,972 I can always guess what somebody is just by lookin' at 'em. 581 00:45:44,041 --> 00:45:46,738 Mick, Kraut, Guinea. 582 00:45:46,810 --> 00:45:48,744 You're a Guinea, right? 583 00:45:49,813 --> 00:45:51,008 A Russian Jew, actually. 584 00:45:51,915 --> 00:45:54,282 Born in America. Fall River, Massachusetts. 585 00:45:54,351 --> 00:45:55,819 Hmm. 586 00:45:57,654 --> 00:45:59,986 No. I don't think I've ever met a Jew before. 587 00:46:01,358 --> 00:46:03,884 What the hell is a Jew anyway, Henry? 588 00:46:05,462 --> 00:46:08,363 [ Chuckles ] I-- 589 00:46:10,334 --> 00:46:13,827 It means we walk upright, feareth God... 590 00:46:13,904 --> 00:46:15,372 and escheweth evil. 591 00:46:16,273 --> 00:46:17,604 You speak English? 592 00:46:19,543 --> 00:46:23,241 It means this is the first time in my life I've ever been in a speakeasy. 593 00:46:23,313 --> 00:46:25,247 Oh, Christ! 594 00:46:25,315 --> 00:46:27,511 What have you been waiting for? 595 00:46:27,584 --> 00:46:29,552 Micky, pour him somethin' hard. 596 00:46:42,733 --> 00:46:44,167 To Henry. 597 00:46:50,674 --> 00:46:51,937 [ Gasps ] 598 00:46:55,012 --> 00:46:57,947 [ Henry ] The belief in human perfectibility... 599 00:46:58,015 --> 00:47:00,780 that there is a place where people, uh-- 600 00:47:00,851 --> 00:47:03,320 where criminals will be reformed... 601 00:47:03,387 --> 00:47:06,254 where they'll see the errors of their ways and be reformed... 602 00:47:06,323 --> 00:47:08,382 and then can be returned to society. 603 00:47:08,458 --> 00:47:11,894 And that-- that to lock someone away... 604 00:47:11,962 --> 00:47:13,987 for years and years in a room... 605 00:47:14,064 --> 00:47:17,694 doesn't necessarily-- certainly doesn't lead to... 606 00:47:17,768 --> 00:47:21,864 to reformation or any form of enlightenment or change. 607 00:47:21,939 --> 00:47:24,465 Uh, change, uh-- 608 00:47:29,479 --> 00:47:31,573 Micky. Want somethin' else? 609 00:47:33,450 --> 00:47:37,216 - Uh, sure. - Okay. Then you can continue. 610 00:47:39,790 --> 00:47:42,725 [ Yelling ] Let me out! 611 00:47:49,032 --> 00:47:52,900 [ Yelling ] 612 00:47:52,970 --> 00:47:54,563 I'll kill you! 613 00:48:04,248 --> 00:48:07,809 [ Old Henry ] Carl never told them where he got the pencil. 614 00:48:07,885 --> 00:48:11,822 When he was finally let out, he was changed. 615 00:48:11,889 --> 00:48:14,551 There was a look in his eye that frightened me. 616 00:48:29,606 --> 00:48:32,405 [ Steam Whistle Blowing ] 617 00:48:32,476 --> 00:48:35,207 [ Man ] Okay, guys, grab a smoke. 618 00:48:39,583 --> 00:48:41,711 [ Grunting ] 619 00:48:44,187 --> 00:48:45,655 [ Groaning ] 620 00:48:50,627 --> 00:48:53,653 [ Panting ] What are you doin'? 621 00:48:55,299 --> 00:48:56,562 You're crazy. 622 00:48:56,633 --> 00:48:59,364 You broke my fuckin' leg. 623 00:48:59,436 --> 00:49:02,098 What are you doin'? You're gonna pay for this, Panzram! 624 00:49:02,172 --> 00:49:04,106 You're gonna pay for this! 625 00:49:08,145 --> 00:49:10,637 You crazy bastard! What are you doin'? 626 00:49:10,714 --> 00:49:12,648 - [ Club Strikes Table ] - [ Greiser Yells ] 627 00:49:13,717 --> 00:49:15,651 [ Bones Crunching ] 628 00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:19,746 [ Greiser Gasping, Coughing ] 629 00:49:21,558 --> 00:49:23,151 [ Yelling ] 630 00:49:24,227 --> 00:49:26,628 [ Whimpering ] 631 00:49:30,867 --> 00:49:33,734 [ Grunting ] 632 00:50:25,255 --> 00:50:26,654 Mr. Lesser. 633 00:50:26,723 --> 00:50:27,986 How are you? 634 00:50:28,058 --> 00:50:29,992 It's the damnedest thing. 635 00:50:30,060 --> 00:50:32,188 I kill a guard, and they give me a bigger cell... 636 00:50:32,262 --> 00:50:35,027 and all the books and magazines I can handle. 637 00:50:35,098 --> 00:50:38,033 The barber comes to shave me, I get new linen every Friday... 638 00:50:38,101 --> 00:50:40,035 and all the tobacco I can smoke and chew. 639 00:50:40,103 --> 00:50:43,562 [ Chuckles ] I should've killed me one a long time ago. 640 00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:47,235 [ Sighs ] That mutt had it comin'. I told him, 'I'll slit your throat'-- 641 00:50:47,310 --> 00:50:49,506 Nobody has coming what you did. 642 00:50:49,579 --> 00:50:50,842 So? 643 00:50:50,914 --> 00:50:54,145 - That man had a wife and children. - What are they gonna give me? 644 00:50:54,217 --> 00:50:56,948 - I think you know. - I'll tell you what. 645 00:50:57,020 --> 00:50:59,955 This might surprise you, but I look forward to hanging... 646 00:51:00,023 --> 00:51:01,718 like you did to your wedding night. 647 00:51:01,792 --> 00:51:03,021 They're not gonna hang you. 648 00:51:03,093 --> 00:51:05,858 Kansas abolished the death penalty 20 years ago. 649 00:51:05,929 --> 00:51:08,728 I looked it up. The last man hanged here was in 1888. 650 00:51:08,799 --> 00:51:11,063 You're gonna spend the rest of your life-- 651 00:51:11,134 --> 00:51:13,398 Did you look up the fact that Leavenworth Penitentiary... 652 00:51:13,470 --> 00:51:17,703 is federal land, and killing a hack here is a federal crime-- 653 00:51:17,774 --> 00:51:21,369 it's a capital crime-- that I am gonna swing, and the sooner the better? 654 00:51:21,445 --> 00:51:22,913 Did you look that up? 655 00:51:30,020 --> 00:51:32,387 Do you think you were in your right mind when this happened? 656 00:51:32,456 --> 00:51:34,390 [ Telephone Ringing ] 657 00:51:34,458 --> 00:51:35,755 My what? 658 00:51:35,826 --> 00:51:38,659 Warden wants to see you, Henry! 659 00:51:38,728 --> 00:51:42,255 Hey, listen to me. This 'right mind' business. 660 00:51:42,332 --> 00:51:45,700 You nip that in the bud, Mr. Lesser. You hear me? 661 00:51:45,769 --> 00:51:48,067 You nip that in the bud! 662 00:51:48,138 --> 00:51:49,435 Mr. Lesser! 663 00:51:54,077 --> 00:51:57,945 I'm in my right mind. You'll see how right my mind is. 664 00:51:58,014 --> 00:51:59,482 [ Knock At Door ] 665 00:51:59,549 --> 00:52:01,074 Come in. 666 00:52:06,289 --> 00:52:09,884 This is John Turner, the prosecutor handling the Panzram case. 667 00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:11,394 Yes, sir. 668 00:52:11,461 --> 00:52:13,429 You're the only one he talks to? 669 00:52:13,497 --> 00:52:15,864 Yes, sir, just about. 670 00:52:15,932 --> 00:52:18,458 When I tried this morning, he handed me that. 671 00:52:20,837 --> 00:52:22,805 His last will and testament. 672 00:52:23,907 --> 00:52:26,672 Left his body to a dogcatcher in his native Minnesota... 673 00:52:26,743 --> 00:52:29,007 and an eternal curse on mankind. 674 00:52:29,079 --> 00:52:31,707 - [ Warden ] You think that's funny? - No, sir. 675 00:52:31,781 --> 00:52:33,306 Here's the situation. 676 00:52:33,383 --> 00:52:36,353 When he does talk, he says the same thing over and over. 677 00:52:36,419 --> 00:52:38,251 'I'm guilty. Hang me.' 678 00:52:38,321 --> 00:52:40,566 Any halfway skilled attorney and psychiatrist can use that. 679 00:52:40,590 --> 00:52:43,719 They'll say that any man who so devoutly desires his own execution... 680 00:52:43,793 --> 00:52:47,229 must be insane, and if so, cannot be executed. 681 00:52:47,297 --> 00:52:50,858 It's just a con. He's pulling a con on us. 682 00:52:50,934 --> 00:52:53,528 I don't think he is pulling a con, sir. 683 00:52:53,603 --> 00:52:54,695 Oh, you don't. 684 00:52:54,771 --> 00:52:57,297 Pardon me for asking, but what does this have to do with me? 685 00:52:57,374 --> 00:52:59,001 I want your opinion... 686 00:52:59,075 --> 00:53:01,373 and I may need your testimony in court. 687 00:53:01,444 --> 00:53:06,280 Over the past few months, I've gotten to know Panzram fairly well. 688 00:53:06,349 --> 00:53:08,283 I've heard most of his life story. 689 00:53:08,351 --> 00:53:12,049 He's been in and out of reformatories, jails and prisons since he was a boy. 690 00:53:12,122 --> 00:53:15,217 I know cons are full of phony hard-luck stories, but... 691 00:53:16,726 --> 00:53:19,058 from what I've heard... 692 00:53:19,129 --> 00:53:23,157 and from what I've seen happen to him here at Leavenworth... 693 00:53:23,233 --> 00:53:25,861 and from what I know about psychology... 694 00:53:25,936 --> 00:53:28,200 I would say that he is out of his mind. 695 00:53:28,271 --> 00:53:30,831 - Are you defending this animal? - No, sir. 696 00:53:30,907 --> 00:53:33,501 That's your honest, considered opinion? He's insane? 697 00:53:33,577 --> 00:53:34,577 Yes, sir. 698 00:53:34,644 --> 00:53:36,635 He didn't know that killing that man was wrong? 699 00:53:36,713 --> 00:53:37,839 No, sir. 700 00:53:37,914 --> 00:53:40,406 This man is of no use to me whatsoever. 701 00:53:40,483 --> 00:53:44,215 What is going on here? Are you this man's friend? 702 00:53:44,287 --> 00:53:45,379 No, sir. 703 00:53:46,756 --> 00:53:49,691 I'm assigning you to desk duty down there with him. 704 00:53:49,759 --> 00:53:51,693 No one else wants it. 705 00:53:51,761 --> 00:53:54,207 If you hear anything, Mr. Lesser, I'd appreciate you letting me know. 706 00:53:54,231 --> 00:53:55,926 - [ Telephone Rings ] - You want-- 707 00:53:55,999 --> 00:53:59,560 I want your assistance in prosecuting this bastard, that's what I want. 708 00:54:00,637 --> 00:54:01,866 Fine. 709 00:54:02,973 --> 00:54:05,840 - Menninger's out there waiting for us. - Karl Menninger? 710 00:54:05,909 --> 00:54:08,708 Another shepherd of little lost sheep. 711 00:54:08,778 --> 00:54:11,270 Get three men and bring him in here... 712 00:54:11,348 --> 00:54:13,407 and I want him double-chained. 713 00:54:13,483 --> 00:54:14,483 Yes, sir. 714 00:54:42,412 --> 00:54:43,709 Hello. 715 00:54:45,915 --> 00:54:47,383 How are you? 716 00:54:56,126 --> 00:54:58,060 Do you know who I am? 717 00:55:03,900 --> 00:55:05,834 I am Dr. Karl Menninger. 718 00:55:06,736 --> 00:55:08,727 Karl, like you. 719 00:55:13,343 --> 00:55:14,777 Cigarette? 720 00:55:22,819 --> 00:55:24,913 I've heard a lot about you... 721 00:55:24,988 --> 00:55:27,685 that you're a very bad man, a vicious killer. 722 00:55:28,858 --> 00:55:31,828 Even so, I've decided that I'm not going to be afraid of you. 723 00:55:33,163 --> 00:55:35,427 I don't think you're going to hurt me because-- 724 00:55:35,498 --> 00:55:38,934 Take off these fucking chains, and I'll show you! 725 00:55:39,002 --> 00:55:42,495 I will hurt you! I'll fucking tear your fucking heart out! 726 00:55:42,572 --> 00:55:45,598 Don't ever testify that I'm insane or irresponsible! 727 00:55:45,675 --> 00:55:47,905 I'll kill ya! Okay? 728 00:55:47,977 --> 00:55:50,810 I'm sane, I'm responsible, I'm guilty! 729 00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:54,612 I killed the fucker, and the sooner I hang for it, the better! 730 00:55:54,684 --> 00:55:57,779 Take these chains off! Come on, you quack! 731 00:55:57,854 --> 00:55:59,185 And take your-- 732 00:56:02,425 --> 00:56:04,416 Come on. Come over here. 733 00:56:04,494 --> 00:56:06,485 I'll fucking kill you. 734 00:56:08,398 --> 00:56:10,867 You understand me? Do you understand me? 735 00:56:10,934 --> 00:56:12,629 Do you? 736 00:56:12,702 --> 00:56:14,192 Are you all right? 737 00:56:31,588 --> 00:56:33,022 Winter's comin'. 738 00:56:35,091 --> 00:56:37,059 It's gonna be a bad one. 739 00:56:37,961 --> 00:56:39,395 Farmer's Almanac. 740 00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:53,342 - Got my trial date today. - I heard. 741 00:56:55,945 --> 00:56:57,879 Will you be there? 742 00:56:57,947 --> 00:56:59,972 I'm one of the guards. 743 00:57:00,049 --> 00:57:03,144 Probably be 25 more of us, considering who you are. 744 00:57:03,219 --> 00:57:05,153 Better make it 35. 745 00:57:08,391 --> 00:57:09,881 Sun feels good. 746 00:57:12,595 --> 00:57:15,724 Say, whatever happened to that Harry Sinclair? 747 00:57:15,799 --> 00:57:18,063 He was paroled about a month ago. 748 00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,374 He gave 'em to all the guards. 749 00:57:27,243 --> 00:57:28,506 Keep it. 750 00:57:30,980 --> 00:57:32,812 You take it, son. 751 00:57:32,882 --> 00:57:34,316 You keep it. 752 00:57:36,386 --> 00:57:38,480 He stands for everything I hate. 753 00:57:38,555 --> 00:57:41,490 Greed, avarice, corruption. 754 00:57:41,558 --> 00:57:44,027 Hell, Mr. Lesser, I'm for all that. 755 00:57:46,596 --> 00:57:49,759 How did you ever end up in a place like this? 756 00:57:49,833 --> 00:57:53,792 There's a depression on out there. I'm lucky to have this job. 757 00:57:53,870 --> 00:57:56,532 You got here before the depression, son. 758 00:57:56,606 --> 00:57:58,199 Never shit a shitter. 759 00:58:05,715 --> 00:58:07,649 I wanted to do some good. 760 00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:12,188 Eugene Debs, socialist... 761 00:58:13,256 --> 00:58:16,749 he said as long as there was a soul in prison... 762 00:58:16,826 --> 00:58:18,260 he wasn't free. 763 00:58:20,530 --> 00:58:22,897 I remembered that. Never forgot it. 764 00:58:24,767 --> 00:58:28,032 Jesus Christ! [ Laughing ] 765 00:58:28,938 --> 00:58:31,100 Eugene Debs. 766 00:58:31,174 --> 00:58:32,608 Oh, boy. 767 00:58:34,444 --> 00:58:36,538 I'll tell you why you're here, Mr. Lesser. 768 00:58:38,348 --> 00:58:41,443 For you, being here is like being in a dark room when you're a kid. 769 00:58:41,518 --> 00:58:45,182 The lights are out, there's a spook show on the radio. 770 00:58:45,255 --> 00:58:49,590 You're close, but not too close to those things inside you you can't let out. 771 00:58:49,659 --> 00:58:51,093 It scares ya... 772 00:58:52,462 --> 00:58:54,396 and you like being scared. 773 00:58:57,400 --> 00:58:59,334 That's why you're here, son. 774 00:59:00,603 --> 00:59:02,469 Not bad, Doctor. 775 00:59:02,539 --> 00:59:03,938 No charge. 776 00:59:06,376 --> 00:59:08,310 I owe you, Mr. Lesser. 777 00:59:12,448 --> 00:59:14,917 I think we're comin' to the end of the line... 778 00:59:16,419 --> 00:59:18,513 and you've never let me pay you back. 779 00:59:21,891 --> 00:59:23,359 There is a way. 780 00:59:27,196 --> 00:59:29,187 You're not gonna like it. 781 00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:34,134 You should talk to Menninger. Let him testify for you. 782 00:59:34,203 --> 00:59:36,399 I told you to nip that in the bud! 783 00:59:36,472 --> 00:59:38,839 They can hang me, shoot me or burn me... 784 00:59:38,908 --> 00:59:40,967 but I will not go to the bughouse! 785 00:59:41,044 --> 00:59:43,274 Forget I mentioned it! 786 00:59:44,747 --> 00:59:47,682 You think I'm nuts, don't you? Goddamn it, you answer me, boy. 787 00:59:49,452 --> 00:59:52,149 - You think I'm nuts, don't you? - Yes, I do. 788 00:59:52,221 --> 00:59:54,383 I think legally-- 789 00:59:56,192 --> 00:59:59,787 I would like to go back into the cell now, Mr. Lesser. 790 00:59:59,862 --> 01:00:01,796 I've had enough fresh air for today. 791 01:00:01,864 --> 01:00:05,732 - It's the only way to keep you alive! - I don't want to be alive! 792 01:00:05,802 --> 01:00:08,362 I want out of these clothes! I want out of this body! 793 01:00:08,438 --> 01:00:11,203 I want out of this world! Don't you understand that? 794 01:00:12,308 --> 01:00:14,800 Don't you understand that? I'm warning you. 795 01:00:14,877 --> 01:00:16,957 - What are you gonna do? - Don't interfere with this. 796 01:00:17,013 --> 01:00:19,004 You gonna kill me too? 797 01:00:21,484 --> 01:00:23,475 [ Guard ] Stand back. Stand back. 798 01:00:26,055 --> 01:00:30,049 [ Reporters Shouting Questions ] 799 01:00:36,933 --> 01:00:38,901 [ Carl Sighs ] 800 01:00:42,071 --> 01:00:45,974 [ Man ] All rise. Court is now in session. 801 01:00:46,042 --> 01:00:49,068 The Honorable Judge John W. Kingman presiding. 802 01:00:57,186 --> 01:00:58,449 Be seated. 803 01:01:05,862 --> 01:01:07,296 [ Clears Throat ] 804 01:01:08,931 --> 01:01:12,834 Your Honor, we intend to prove that on the fifth day of October, 1929... 805 01:01:12,902 --> 01:01:15,462 the defendant, one Carl Panzram, did knowingly, willfully... 806 01:01:15,538 --> 01:01:18,508 unlawfully, purposely, feloniously, deliberately... 807 01:01:18,574 --> 01:01:20,508 premeditatedly, with malice aforethought... 808 01:01:20,576 --> 01:01:25,480 and with a malignant and abandoned heart, murder Robert Gregory Greiser... 809 01:01:25,548 --> 01:01:29,212 an officer of the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. 810 01:01:31,287 --> 01:01:33,984 Mr. Bailey, do you have an opening declaration? 811 01:01:34,057 --> 01:01:37,049 - Yes, I do, Your Honor. - Sit down. Shut up and sit down! 812 01:01:38,661 --> 01:01:41,358 I do not want this shyster representing me. 813 01:01:41,431 --> 01:01:44,731 I do not want any shyster representing me. 814 01:01:44,801 --> 01:01:47,429 I will represent myself. 815 01:01:47,503 --> 01:01:49,437 I do not intend to call any defense witnesses... 816 01:01:49,505 --> 01:01:52,941 because I have no witnesses, nor do I have a defense. 817 01:01:53,009 --> 01:01:55,671 I do not intend to cross-examine Mr. Windbag's witnesses... 818 01:01:55,745 --> 01:01:58,680 all of whom I am certain will tell the truth and nothing but. 819 01:01:58,748 --> 01:02:02,651 I do not intend to plead for pity or sympathy or mercy. 820 01:02:02,719 --> 01:02:05,484 What I demand is justice. 821 01:02:05,555 --> 01:02:08,581 You created me. Now you kill me. 822 01:02:08,658 --> 01:02:10,387 You present the facts... 823 01:02:10,460 --> 01:02:12,622 you blow the hot air, and you... 824 01:02:12,695 --> 01:02:14,754 find me guilty. 825 01:02:14,831 --> 01:02:16,709 - [ Spectators Murmuring ] - [ Man ] He's right. Hang him! 826 01:02:16,733 --> 01:02:17,996 [ Gavel Banging ] 827 01:02:19,469 --> 01:02:21,460 [ Judge Kingman ] This court is now in session. 828 01:02:22,305 --> 01:02:24,933 I have here the commissioner's report. 829 01:02:25,007 --> 01:02:29,342 The commission finds that the defendant, Carl Panzram... 830 01:02:29,412 --> 01:02:30,971 is of unsound mind. 831 01:02:31,047 --> 01:02:33,573 I'll kill you, you son of a bitch! Let go, you cocksucker! 832 01:02:33,649 --> 01:02:34,946 [ Gavel Banging ] 833 01:02:35,017 --> 01:02:36,451 However... 834 01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:39,318 they also find... 835 01:02:39,388 --> 01:02:42,153 that he knew what he was doing when he committed the crime... 836 01:02:42,225 --> 01:02:44,922 he so freely admitted committing-- 837 01:02:44,994 --> 01:02:48,624 that he is able to understand the nature of the charges against him... 838 01:02:48,698 --> 01:02:52,066 and is capable of assisting in his own defense... 839 01:02:52,135 --> 01:02:54,069 though he chooses not to do so. 840 01:02:55,805 --> 01:02:58,740 Therefore, I order the prosecution to proceed... 841 01:02:59,976 --> 01:03:04,607 and I order the defendant to remain seated and silent... 842 01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:07,775 or I will remove you from this courtroom. 843 01:03:09,218 --> 01:03:10,652 [ Knocking ] 844 01:03:12,989 --> 01:03:15,048 - Yes? - Is Henry Lesser here? 845 01:03:15,124 --> 01:03:17,058 Yes, he is. May I tell him who's calling? 846 01:03:17,126 --> 01:03:18,958 Yes, Dr. Karl Menninger. 847 01:03:22,398 --> 01:03:23,866 Please have a seat. 848 01:03:26,269 --> 01:03:29,170 I want to apologize for coming at this hour. 849 01:03:29,238 --> 01:03:31,935 No, no. This is such an honor. 850 01:03:32,008 --> 01:03:35,774 - Would you like something to drink? - No, no. Please. I'm fine. 851 01:03:38,648 --> 01:03:40,707 I wanted to talk to you about Carl Panzram. 852 01:03:42,785 --> 01:03:44,753 How well do you know him? 853 01:03:44,821 --> 01:03:47,791 - You've read the manuscript? - Of course. 854 01:03:48,858 --> 01:03:51,884 It's a most remarkable document, sir. Thank you for sending it to me. 855 01:03:51,961 --> 01:03:55,295 Thank you for reading it. He is insane, isn't he? 856 01:03:55,364 --> 01:03:58,231 As the court said, yes and no. 857 01:03:58,301 --> 01:04:00,360 How can one be sane and commit the crimes... 858 01:04:00,436 --> 01:04:02,996 that he's claimed to have committed? 859 01:04:06,209 --> 01:04:07,802 Pardon me for saying this... 860 01:04:07,877 --> 01:04:10,972 but you don't seem the sort who makes a prison guard. 861 01:04:12,915 --> 01:04:14,849 I don't think I make a very good one. 862 01:04:17,420 --> 01:04:19,115 He's so intelligent. 863 01:04:22,925 --> 01:04:25,087 Is it a case of split personality? 864 01:04:25,161 --> 01:04:28,131 Jekyll-and-Hyde syndrome or-- 865 01:04:28,197 --> 01:04:29,460 Mr. Lesser... 866 01:04:31,267 --> 01:04:33,565 Carl Panzram is only doing what he was taught to do. 867 01:04:34,770 --> 01:04:37,102 Everything that he has experienced since birth... 868 01:04:37,173 --> 01:04:38,937 has conspired to create... 869 01:04:39,008 --> 01:04:41,477 this thing, this animal... 870 01:04:43,112 --> 01:04:44,546 doing to everyone else... 871 01:04:44,614 --> 01:04:46,708 exactly what was done to him. 872 01:04:46,782 --> 01:04:48,841 He's a child... 873 01:04:48,918 --> 01:04:50,886 practicing his lessons. 874 01:04:52,521 --> 01:04:56,549 He's a man who claims to have killed 21 people. 875 01:04:56,626 --> 01:04:58,116 He's not a child. 876 01:04:58,194 --> 01:05:01,129 We're all children, Mr. Lesser. 877 01:05:04,934 --> 01:05:08,427 ♪ There once was two cats from Kilkenny ♪ 878 01:05:08,504 --> 01:05:11,872 ♪ Each cat thought there was one too many ♪ 879 01:05:11,941 --> 01:05:14,239 ♪ They quarreled and fit They scratched and they bit ♪ 880 01:05:14,310 --> 01:05:16,711 ♪ Instead of two cats there weren't any ♪♪ 881 01:05:17,780 --> 01:05:19,942 [ Judge Kingman ] Has the jury reached a verdict? 882 01:05:20,016 --> 01:05:21,882 We have, Your Honor. 883 01:05:21,951 --> 01:05:23,043 How say you? 884 01:05:27,056 --> 01:05:31,857 We find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree. 885 01:05:31,928 --> 01:05:35,023 - [ Spectators Murmuring ] - [ Gavel Banging ] 886 01:05:37,333 --> 01:05:41,065 Do you have anything to say before this court passes sentence on you? 887 01:05:41,137 --> 01:05:43,196 I've done my duty. 888 01:05:43,272 --> 01:05:46,799 The jury has done theirs. Now you do yours. 889 01:05:46,876 --> 01:05:49,038 It is the order of this court... 890 01:05:50,112 --> 01:05:52,046 that the defendant, Carl Panzram... 891 01:05:52,114 --> 01:05:54,048 be remanded to the care of the warden... 892 01:05:54,116 --> 01:05:56,016 at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth... 893 01:05:56,085 --> 01:05:59,817 there to be confined until the fifth day of April... 894 01:05:59,889 --> 01:06:04,224 when between the hours of 6:00 and 9:00 in the morning... 895 01:06:04,293 --> 01:06:06,284 he shall be taken to some suitable place... 896 01:06:06,362 --> 01:06:09,059 within the confines of the penitentiary... 897 01:06:09,131 --> 01:06:11,498 and there hanged by the neck until dead. 898 01:06:11,567 --> 01:06:14,036 [ Spectators Murmuring ] 899 01:06:14,103 --> 01:06:16,197 [ Gavel Banging ] 900 01:06:17,606 --> 01:06:21,440 - You have 90 days to file an appeal. - There will be no appeal. 901 01:06:22,578 --> 01:06:23,773 Take him down. 902 01:06:23,846 --> 01:06:27,214 Your Honor, I must object! 903 01:06:27,283 --> 01:06:31,277 What's happened here today is nothing more than a legally sanctioned suicide! 904 01:06:31,354 --> 01:06:33,288 You can't do this to this man! 905 01:06:33,356 --> 01:06:37,953 [ Reporters Shouting ] 906 01:06:48,237 --> 01:06:50,296 Gonna do a good job there on me, buddy? 907 01:06:52,508 --> 01:06:55,478 Henry, you were a tailor. Think he knows what he's doin'? 908 01:07:02,785 --> 01:07:04,844 He's got a good touch, though, I'll tell you that. 909 01:07:06,956 --> 01:07:09,891 Knew a fella had boots like those. Those are Ropers, aren't they? 910 01:07:13,462 --> 01:07:14,896 Fancy-looking things. 911 01:07:19,101 --> 01:07:21,069 I love them boots, boy. 912 01:07:23,205 --> 01:07:25,697 They're damn ostrich or something, I swear to God. 913 01:07:27,610 --> 01:07:29,601 Maybe snakeskin. 914 01:07:34,817 --> 01:07:36,808 Where did it come from? 915 01:07:37,686 --> 01:07:40,417 Little birdie dropped it from heaven. 916 01:07:40,489 --> 01:07:41,820 Why? 917 01:07:43,259 --> 01:07:47,196 Cheat the hangman. [ Imitates Slicing Noise ] 918 01:07:49,498 --> 01:07:51,466 I'm not gonna cheat the hangman, Mr. Lesser. 919 01:07:54,103 --> 01:07:56,037 Gonna do what's right. 920 01:07:56,105 --> 01:07:57,800 Not gonna get a reprieve. 921 01:07:57,873 --> 01:08:02,367 Not gonna kill myself. I'm gonna die at the end of a rope. 922 01:08:04,346 --> 01:08:06,371 Justice. 923 01:08:25,468 --> 01:08:26,993 [ Door Slamming ] 924 01:08:27,069 --> 01:08:28,503 Justice. 925 01:08:31,006 --> 01:08:33,031 Where did these come from? 926 01:08:34,577 --> 01:08:36,568 Harry Sinclair gave them to me. 927 01:08:38,047 --> 01:08:39,310 Why? 928 01:08:40,382 --> 01:08:41,850 [ Sighs ] 929 01:08:46,522 --> 01:08:47,785 I, um... 930 01:08:49,091 --> 01:08:52,356 I gave my notice today. Quit my job. 931 01:09:00,970 --> 01:09:02,495 Pretty, aren't they? 932 01:09:08,210 --> 01:09:09,974 Time to go. 933 01:09:15,818 --> 01:09:17,650 Ohhh! 934 01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:20,655 - [ Urinating ] - Ahhh! 935 01:09:22,525 --> 01:09:26,189 [ Muttering ] 936 01:09:34,537 --> 01:09:36,505 [ Groaning ] 937 01:09:37,873 --> 01:09:39,238 [ Moaning ] 938 01:09:39,308 --> 01:09:41,333 [ Door Opening ] 939 01:09:44,046 --> 01:09:46,140 [ Groaning ] 940 01:09:47,483 --> 01:09:49,417 Excuse me, sir. Hello. 941 01:09:50,519 --> 01:09:53,113 Are you Mr. Panzram? 942 01:09:54,190 --> 01:09:55,487 Uh-- 943 01:09:57,059 --> 01:10:02,896 I'm Mr. Dover. Mr. Benjamin Dover. Who the fuck are you? 944 01:10:02,965 --> 01:10:06,492 [ Clears Throat ] I'm the Reverend Nausbauer. 945 01:10:06,569 --> 01:10:08,298 I'm here from... 946 01:10:08,370 --> 01:10:13,206 the National Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment. 947 01:10:13,275 --> 01:10:15,403 - Who's the little beaver? - I'm sorry. 948 01:10:15,477 --> 01:10:18,344 This is my assistant, Miss Mabel. Yeah. 949 01:10:18,414 --> 01:10:20,405 - Uh, we're-- - How ya doin', Mabel? 950 01:10:20,482 --> 01:10:24,350 - [ Nausbauer ] Say hello. - You puttin' the wood to old Mabel? 951 01:10:24,420 --> 01:10:26,479 At least gettin' that tip in, are ya? 952 01:10:26,555 --> 01:10:28,546 Sometimes they're under a great deal of anxiety. 953 01:10:28,624 --> 01:10:30,058 Mabel, turn around. 954 01:10:30,125 --> 01:10:33,686 We're here to get your signature on this petition, sir. 955 01:10:33,762 --> 01:10:35,787 Let me take a look at that round eye. 956 01:10:35,864 --> 01:10:37,958 Bet you get a taste of that once in a while. 957 01:10:38,033 --> 01:10:40,593 If you would just sign this petition. 958 01:10:40,669 --> 01:10:42,831 This goes to President Hoover, who, as you know... 959 01:10:42,905 --> 01:10:45,050 is the only man who has the authority to commute your sentence. 960 01:10:45,074 --> 01:10:46,906 You a pratter or a fruiter? 961 01:10:46,976 --> 01:10:48,637 I beg your pardon? 962 01:10:48,711 --> 01:10:50,975 Are you a pratter or a fruiter? 963 01:10:51,046 --> 01:10:54,175 I'm sorry, sir. I don't think I know what that means. 964 01:10:54,250 --> 01:10:57,276 You know, one likes to sit on it. [ Grunting ] 965 01:10:57,353 --> 01:10:59,321 - The other one likes to-- - Please! 966 01:10:59,388 --> 01:11:02,653 - Likes to eat it. - Sir, I've come a long way. 967 01:11:02,725 --> 01:11:05,524 Get the fuck outta here, you holy roller! Goddamn it! Get out! 968 01:11:06,595 --> 01:11:08,654 - Don't hit him. - Go on! 969 01:11:08,731 --> 01:11:10,961 - This man is drunk. - You bet your life I'm drunk. 970 01:11:11,033 --> 01:11:13,798 Tomorrow I'll be sober, and you'll still be a goddamn face artist! 971 01:11:13,869 --> 01:11:15,847 - Get the fuck outta here! - I wish you would understand-- 972 01:11:15,871 --> 01:11:18,067 I wish you and your kind had one neck... 973 01:11:18,140 --> 01:11:20,074 so I could just get my hands around it. 974 01:11:20,142 --> 01:11:21,473 Just wring it! 975 01:11:21,543 --> 01:11:23,511 Get out before I baptize you... 976 01:11:23,579 --> 01:11:26,071 in the name of the holy nelson! 977 01:11:26,148 --> 01:11:27,582 Come on, sir. 978 01:11:28,917 --> 01:11:30,885 [ Door Slamming ] 979 01:11:30,953 --> 01:11:33,285 [ Pail Clattering ] 980 01:11:37,293 --> 01:11:38,727 That was beautiful, Carl. 981 01:11:40,529 --> 01:11:42,691 [ Belches ] 982 01:11:43,599 --> 01:11:45,533 [ Sighs ] 983 01:11:46,935 --> 01:11:48,699 How 'bout them biscuits on old Mabel? 984 01:11:48,771 --> 01:11:50,705 How'd you like to lay your Johnson in there? 985 01:11:50,773 --> 01:11:51,773 Proud of yourself? 986 01:11:53,342 --> 01:11:54,605 [ Chuckles ] 987 01:11:55,577 --> 01:11:58,410 Give me the jug, Carl. 988 01:11:58,480 --> 01:12:00,471 Why don't you come get it, son? 989 01:12:06,221 --> 01:12:07,655 Come here. 990 01:12:18,067 --> 01:12:20,229 [ Jug Breaking ] 991 01:12:27,142 --> 01:12:29,076 Give it to me, Carl. 992 01:12:35,084 --> 01:12:36,347 Carl... 993 01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:40,651 give that to me, now. 994 01:12:43,992 --> 01:12:45,426 Carl? 995 01:12:48,597 --> 01:12:50,565 When were you gonna tell me? 996 01:12:51,867 --> 01:12:53,392 You fuck. 997 01:12:55,804 --> 01:12:58,000 Tell you what? 998 01:12:58,073 --> 01:13:00,098 That you quit, Mr. Lesser. 999 01:13:06,949 --> 01:13:09,111 You were just gonna walk away, weren't ya? 1000 01:13:09,184 --> 01:13:10,743 Were you gonna cut me with this? 1001 01:13:10,819 --> 01:13:12,844 [ Carl Sighs ] 1002 01:13:16,024 --> 01:13:17,958 I did it for you. 1003 01:13:18,861 --> 01:13:20,420 Did what for me? 1004 01:13:21,864 --> 01:13:23,195 Greiser. 1005 01:13:24,333 --> 01:13:25,960 He was for you. 1006 01:13:32,574 --> 01:13:34,064 He was for you. 1007 01:14:34,069 --> 01:14:38,028 [ Old Henry ] Carl wrote to me and asked me to witness his execution. 1008 01:14:38,106 --> 01:14:40,632 I was the only one he invited... 1009 01:14:40,709 --> 01:14:44,304 but I didn't think I could go. 1010 01:14:44,379 --> 01:14:46,905 To see a man murdered in cold blood. 1011 01:14:46,982 --> 01:14:49,314 No, I couldn't. 1012 01:14:53,188 --> 01:14:55,213 Thought about your meal? 1013 01:14:55,290 --> 01:14:57,884 Porterhouse steak, fried chicken... 1014 01:14:59,094 --> 01:15:00,721 buttered corn... 1015 01:15:01,964 --> 01:15:04,797 fried potatoes, hot biscuits... 1016 01:15:04,867 --> 01:15:06,995 pumpkin pie, black coffee, hold the arsenic. 1017 01:15:08,637 --> 01:15:10,731 - You invite anyone to witness-- - No. 1018 01:15:12,474 --> 01:15:14,408 Will there be anyone to claim your body? 1019 01:15:14,476 --> 01:15:16,410 Throw it to the hogs. 1020 01:15:17,546 --> 01:15:19,742 Will you talk to the reporters later? 1021 01:15:19,815 --> 01:15:22,978 Leave me alone now. I need to pray. 1022 01:15:34,796 --> 01:15:36,890 Why is this night different from all other nights? 1023 01:15:36,965 --> 01:15:38,399 [ Henry Chuckles ] 1024 01:15:40,402 --> 01:15:43,235 In each generation, every man must regard himself... 1025 01:15:43,305 --> 01:15:46,969 as if he personally had gone forth from Egypt. 1026 01:15:47,042 --> 01:15:51,707 Tonight we celebrate and remember the night thousands of years ago... 1027 01:15:51,780 --> 01:15:54,977 when each family was commanded to sacrifice a lamb... 1028 01:15:55,050 --> 01:15:56,984 and with its blood mark their door... 1029 01:15:57,052 --> 01:15:59,851 so that the angel of death would pass over their home... 1030 01:15:59,922 --> 01:16:01,947 sparing their firstborn son. 1031 01:16:05,027 --> 01:16:06,517 [ Carl Sighs ] 1032 01:16:06,595 --> 01:16:08,791 - You enjoy that? - I hated every bite. 1033 01:16:09,932 --> 01:16:11,661 You look like it. 1034 01:16:11,733 --> 01:16:13,929 You boys have been damn square with me. 1035 01:16:14,002 --> 01:16:16,096 I'm gonna remember both of you in my will. 1036 01:16:16,171 --> 01:16:18,616 You hear me, Walter? I'm gonna remember both of you in my will. 1037 01:16:18,640 --> 01:16:20,768 - Thanks, Carl. - You know what I forgot? 1038 01:16:20,842 --> 01:16:22,833 Damn! Ice cream. 1039 01:16:22,911 --> 01:16:25,437 You want me to see if I can get you some? 1040 01:16:25,514 --> 01:16:27,539 No, it's too late. Forget about it. 1041 01:16:27,616 --> 01:16:30,881 Yes, it is too late, Carl. Yes, it is. 1042 01:17:02,517 --> 01:17:04,508 Early, aren't you? 1043 01:17:33,482 --> 01:17:34,916 How are you? 1044 01:17:41,723 --> 01:17:43,714 I didn't think you were gonna make it. 1045 01:17:47,562 --> 01:17:49,496 Good to see you, Mr. Lesser. 1046 01:17:50,666 --> 01:17:52,691 Sorry I didn't answer you. 1047 01:17:55,837 --> 01:17:57,862 I have a letter here from someone. 1048 01:18:02,344 --> 01:18:03,937 'Dear Mr. Lesser: 1049 01:18:08,316 --> 01:18:11,809 This is one of the most amazing documents I've ever read. 1050 01:18:11,887 --> 01:18:15,915 Obviously, printing it in a general magazine would be impossible. 1051 01:18:15,991 --> 01:18:18,460 I doubt, too, that it could be done as a book. 1052 01:18:18,527 --> 01:18:21,963 However, I thank you for sending me the manuscript. 1053 01:18:22,030 --> 01:18:25,022 I can't recall ever reading anything more shocking. 1054 01:18:25,100 --> 01:18:27,228 Sincerely, H.L. Mencken.' 1055 01:18:28,737 --> 01:18:30,705 High praise from the master. 1056 01:18:33,241 --> 01:18:34,834 What's so shocking about it? 1057 01:18:34,910 --> 01:18:37,504 It's just another poor-boy-makes-good story, isn't it? 1058 01:18:39,381 --> 01:18:40,906 Not exactly, Carl. 1059 01:18:53,795 --> 01:18:55,263 I'm grateful, Mr. Lesser. 1060 01:19:00,836 --> 01:19:02,395 You're a good man... 1061 01:19:02,471 --> 01:19:04,530 and you deserve a good life. 1062 01:19:06,475 --> 01:19:08,705 What about you? 1063 01:19:08,777 --> 01:19:11,371 You have a mind, you have an intellect-- 1064 01:19:11,446 --> 01:19:13,414 You know what I think? 1065 01:19:13,482 --> 01:19:15,678 I think we're all just the sum of... 1066 01:19:17,753 --> 01:19:19,778 everybody we ever knew or met in our lives... 1067 01:19:19,855 --> 01:19:23,223 and everybody I ever knew, outside of you, Mr. Lesser... 1068 01:19:23,291 --> 01:19:26,283 and old Spud Casey... 1069 01:19:28,497 --> 01:19:30,090 it was all trash. 1070 01:19:33,435 --> 01:19:35,369 So that makes me trash... 1071 01:19:36,438 --> 01:19:38,634 and it's just about time to take out the trash. 1072 01:19:39,708 --> 01:19:41,005 Period. End of sentence. 1073 01:19:41,076 --> 01:19:44,341 - What if things had been different? - Different. 1074 01:19:44,412 --> 01:19:45,846 How? 1075 01:19:45,914 --> 01:19:48,383 Suppose you got a parole. 1076 01:19:48,450 --> 01:19:52,683 Suppose you had some money and you could start over and start a business. 1077 01:19:52,754 --> 01:19:54,688 Suppose my aunt were my uncle. 1078 01:19:54,756 --> 01:19:58,056 She'd have balls, a beard and whistle 'Dixie' when she walked down the street. 1079 01:19:58,126 --> 01:20:00,220 - Suppose what? - [ Henry ] All right. 1080 01:20:02,097 --> 01:20:04,293 Isn't there anyplace you'd like to go? 1081 01:20:15,544 --> 01:20:18,036 There was an island I once knew. 1082 01:20:28,456 --> 01:20:30,891 Down by the San Blas, coast of Panama. 1083 01:20:31,660 --> 01:20:35,392 This tribe of Indians lived on the island next to it. 1084 01:20:35,463 --> 01:20:39,627 They went there once or twice a year to harvest coconuts, gather turtle eggs. 1085 01:20:41,102 --> 01:20:43,400 'Savages,' we'd call them... 1086 01:20:43,471 --> 01:20:46,099 without the benefit of our civilization. 1087 01:20:46,174 --> 01:20:47,938 No moral sense whatsoever. 1088 01:20:49,010 --> 01:20:51,206 They considered this island holy ground. 1089 01:20:53,448 --> 01:20:55,542 They believed it had these pink dolphins that... 1090 01:20:57,752 --> 01:20:59,743 turned into beautiful women at night. 1091 01:21:02,457 --> 01:21:05,392 Exotic birds that spoke any language they needed to-- 1092 01:21:07,362 --> 01:21:09,330 English, Portuguese, Spanish. 1093 01:21:09,397 --> 01:21:11,058 Snakes without venom. 1094 01:21:12,133 --> 01:21:14,329 Pools of fine red wine. 1095 01:21:16,238 --> 01:21:19,538 You drank it, you only wanted to lie down and make love. 1096 01:21:23,678 --> 01:21:25,271 That's where I'd go. 1097 01:21:28,283 --> 01:21:29,648 Me too. 1098 01:21:31,586 --> 01:21:33,577 Spent those double eagles yet? 1099 01:21:35,690 --> 01:21:38,182 Still waiting for the stink to wear off. 1100 01:21:49,037 --> 01:21:50,300 [ Puffing ] 1101 01:21:55,310 --> 01:21:56,869 Adios, Mr. Lesser. 1102 01:21:56,945 --> 01:21:58,743 Henry. 1103 01:21:58,813 --> 01:22:00,542 Call me Henry. 1104 01:22:06,554 --> 01:22:07,554 Henry. 1105 01:22:26,141 --> 01:22:28,075 It's my wedding night. 1106 01:22:33,248 --> 01:22:35,546 Oh, darling, I'm ready. 1107 01:23:00,408 --> 01:23:05,209 - There's Carl! - [ Reporters Shouting ] 1108 01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:07,977 - Carl, you got any words? - [ Carl Yells ] 1109 01:23:08,049 --> 01:23:10,541 - [ Carl Laughs ] - Carl, give us a story. 1110 01:23:10,618 --> 01:23:12,552 - Carl. - Come on, now. Carl. 1111 01:23:15,724 --> 01:23:17,658 [ Carl Spits ] 1112 01:23:17,726 --> 01:23:19,888 Hey, chicken ass. Good day for a hanging, huh? 1113 01:23:19,961 --> 01:23:23,090 [ Carl Sniffles, Sighs ] 1114 01:23:54,929 --> 01:23:58,661 Come on. I could hang ten men in the time it's taken you to hang one. 1115 01:24:07,042 --> 01:24:08,305 [ Exhales ] 1116 01:24:08,376 --> 01:24:10,538 ♪ There once was two cats from Kilkenny ♪ 1117 01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:14,508 ♪ Each cat thought there was one too many ♪ 1118 01:24:15,417 --> 01:24:17,681 ♪ They quarreled and fit They scratched and they bit ♪ 1119 01:24:17,752 --> 01:24:19,584 ♪ Instead of two cats there weren't any ♪♪ 1120 01:24:42,811 --> 01:24:44,245 What do you want? 1121 01:24:45,513 --> 01:24:47,538 I haven't got all day. What do you want? 1122 01:24:49,617 --> 01:24:51,711 These enough to buy everybody in the place a drink? 1123 01:24:51,786 --> 01:24:53,220 Ten times over. 1124 01:24:54,656 --> 01:24:56,420 Hey, everybody, free drinks! 1125 01:24:56,491 --> 01:25:01,361 [ Patrons Shouting ] 1126 01:25:25,587 --> 01:25:27,681 [ Telephone Ringing ] 1127 01:25:31,326 --> 01:25:33,795 - Hello. - Is this Warden Casey? 1128 01:25:33,862 --> 01:25:35,421 Is this Charles Casey? 1129 01:25:35,497 --> 01:25:38,489 Speaking. Who are you? 1130 01:25:38,566 --> 01:25:40,534 My name is Henry Lesser. 1131 01:25:40,602 --> 01:25:43,833 I was a guard at the Leavenworth Penitentiary... 1132 01:25:43,905 --> 01:25:45,839 and-- 1133 01:25:45,907 --> 01:25:48,342 Do you remember a convict named Carl Panzram? 1134 01:25:49,744 --> 01:25:51,769 What about him? 1135 01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:54,512 He was hanged yesterday. 1136 01:25:55,350 --> 01:25:58,342 I just thought you might want to know. 1137 01:25:58,419 --> 01:26:00,478 Do you remember him? 1138 01:26:01,856 --> 01:26:03,324 Yes, I do. 1139 01:26:06,528 --> 01:26:08,018 I certainly do. 1140 01:26:10,565 --> 01:26:14,900 Carl carried the flag in my band. 1141 01:26:28,583 --> 01:26:32,611 [ Old Henry ] Carl was buried in an unmarked grave. 1142 01:26:35,823 --> 01:26:38,690 I spent the next 40 years of my life... 1143 01:26:38,760 --> 01:26:40,694 trying to get his journal published. 1144 01:26:41,896 --> 01:26:45,389 In 1970, I finally succeeded. 1145 01:26:46,467 --> 01:26:48,765 Not long after the book came out... 1146 01:26:48,836 --> 01:26:51,203 the calls began to come for me to lecture... 1147 01:26:52,407 --> 01:26:54,432 which I did with pleasure. 1148 01:26:57,412 --> 01:26:58,937 The Talmud says... 1149 01:27:00,215 --> 01:27:04,049 'All of us, if only once... 1150 01:27:04,118 --> 01:27:06,815 must reach out to those in our need.' 1151 01:27:08,356 --> 01:27:11,257 'If not you,' I tell them, 'then who?' 1152 01:27:12,660 --> 01:27:14,094 'If not now... 1153 01:27:15,463 --> 01:27:16,726 when?' 1154 01:31:15,436 --> 01:31:19,373 Subtitles By Captions, Inc. 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