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"John Cleveland Carter is betraying
the country that gave him his chance.
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"This is my public announcement
that I am ashamed of John.
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"I am ashamed I ever was his friend.
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"His paper is abusing
the freedom of the press
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"and misusing the power of the press.
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"Freedom of the press means
freedom to tell the truth.
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"It doesn't mean freedom to twist the truth.
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"I say John Cleveland Carter is a traitor.
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"He can sue me for saying so.
I hope he does."
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"Freedom of the press means freedom
to tell the truth.
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"it doesn't mean freedom to twist the truth."
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I'm going to read every line of that editorial
to those people out there. Every line of it.
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And then I'm going to plead guilty
to everything that Ulysses Bradford said.
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After that, the
Gazette is going
to clean house, starting right at the top.
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You speak in a moment, John.
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I took the liberty
of revising some of your figures.
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The paper will carry the speech in full,
of course, starting on the first page.
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I suppose it's already in print.
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Well, we'll be on the street with it
in about 1 2 minutes.
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Get the managing editor.
Tell him to kill my speech as set.
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- Hold for new copy to come.
- Yes, Mr. Carter.
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What's come over you, John?
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A sudden attack of journalistic honesty.
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Gazette? Mr. Thompson, please.
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Thompson talking.
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Oh, you.
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What?
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Say, what are we doing, playing
Parcheesi
or publishing a newspaper?
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I've already sent the home edition away
with Carter's speech as set.
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All right, then,
argue with Mr. Carter yourself.
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Mr. Thompson, I consider it important news
when the
Gazette announces
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a complete change of policy.
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We will print it.
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I don't intend to let you do something
that we'll all regret.
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The man who wrote that told the truth.
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I'm going to tell the truth
to those people out there.
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The man who wrote that should be
in a concentration camp.
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Have you lost your mind?
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As of tonight, Mr. Rankin,
you've stopped running my newspaper.
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Mr. Thompson? He seems to have been
cut off. Get him back, please.
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I'm still principal owner of the
Gazette.
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I've let you dictate policies
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because I've been too busy
with other matters much too long.
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Gazette? Mr. Thompson again, please.
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Hello, Griff?
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You were right, Eddie.
You're always right. I've been a fool.
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From now on,
Rankin won't have things his own way.
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They're ready for you, Mr. Carter.
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Good luck.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. John Cleveland Carter,
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publisher of the
New York Gazette.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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your programs will tell you
that I am to speak tonight on the subject
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of the freedom of the press.
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A free press in Axis-dominated Europe
is dead.
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Thank God, in America, it is still free.
Here, we have no censorship.
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Every editor is on his honor, but the editor
has no right to take advantage of that trust.
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A free press is the sole right of the people.
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The editor is but the trustee of that right,
not the dictator.
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Beware of those
who hide behind the front pages of America,
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who use, for their own advantage,
the power of the press.
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They are as dangerous as enemy planes,
guns, bombs, tanks!
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I speak to you as the publisher
of a newspaper which reaches millions,
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earns millions and misguides millions.
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Here is a small-town weekly paper,
The Starr County World
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of Hiawatha, whose editor is able to reach
less than one-tenth of one percent,
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once a week, of the number of people
my paper reaches every day.
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Three weeks ago, this man,
Ulysses Bradford, wrote an editorial,
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telling his readers and me
that he is ashamed
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that he ever called me his friend.
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He called me a traitor to my country.
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He said my paper was misusing the power
of the press, was betraying this country.
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He told the truth.
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I stand here tonight to plead guilty
of abusing that trust,
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but I am not the only traitor.
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I am going to name and convict, with proof,
the other traitors.
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Mr. Rankin,
Mr. Carter is able to talk to you now.
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Don't try to talk.
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I've got things to say.
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More light.
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Paper.
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- Did you bring that paper here?
- My orders.
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Also my orders,
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print the speech I made.
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On Page 1.
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Paper printed the speech you wrote for me.
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The things you said might have
been misconstrued.
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You couldn't even wait for me to die.
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Get out.
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John.
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Oh, get out.
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I think you had better go now.
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Doctor,
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nothing you can do.
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Eddie,
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give me a pen,
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some paper.
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Help him.
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- How are you, Mr. Thompson?
- Fine.
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Circulation increase has been
very satisfactory.
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Unfortunately, a publisher doesn't
get killed every week.
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We're tearing up the contract
we have with you
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and replacing it with this one.
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You'll note that in the new contract,
every circulation increase of 50,000
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or more means a cash bonus for you.
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Better have your attorney read that.
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- This is all right.
- Good, we'll get along.
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You and I are going
to work more closely together
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than we have in the past.
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Riding on somebody else's bandwagon
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and following the parade
doesn't sell papers,
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but leading your own parade
will sell papers.
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Circulation isn't all you're after,
is it, Mr. Rankin?
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You and I weren't born to march
in the rear rank.
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- Who's he?
- You can speak freely.
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Trent's really one of the family.
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Matter of fact, he's just done
an excellent piece of work for us.
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Since the police have failed so miserably,
I had Trent and several private investigators
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go after Carter's assassin.
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- Jerry Purvis?
- Yes.
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He worked for me.
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Yes, and was discharged
as a dangerous radical
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and a constant troublemaker.
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He talked too much, he...
Most kids like Jerry do.
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Kind of a half-baked idealist.
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Thinks he was born to die on a barricade,
so he goes looking for a barricade.
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But he's not a murderer.
I know he isn't. He couldn't be.
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Well, I admire your loyalty
to a former employee, but facts are facts.
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Half a dozen witnesses made affidavits
that Purvis threatened to kill Carter,
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used vile and threatening language,
was broke and in debt, about to be thrown
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out of his apartment, had a sick mother,
bought a gun,
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was seen running away after the shooting.
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What more do you want?
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Well, if this doesn't hold up,
we've got a fine libel suit on our hands.
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We'll risk that.
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Have the police got this stuff?
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Why should we give our case to the police
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and turn our story over
on a platter to the other papers?
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Okay, but you might as well know right now
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I'm not exactly crazy about building up
our own little private Gestapo.
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Well, in cases like this,
I think the end justifies the means.
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Come on, open up.
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- What do you want?
- Your name Jerry Purvis?
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- Yeah, what if it is?
- Open up.
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You don't get in here without a warrant.
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Hey, what do you think you're doing?
Let go of me! My mother's in there.
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She's sick. Let her alone! Hey, what is this?
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- What are you doing?
- What do you think?
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.38 caliber. One shot fired.
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- Your gun?
- That wasn't there five minutes ago.
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I never saw it before in my life.
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Guy says you bought it from him.
Hockshop on Fourth Avenue.
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You planted that. Give me that.
Now, get out of here before l...
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Get out of here!
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Okay, that's just what we wanted,
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a nice set of fingerprints.
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Hey, what are you doing? Let go!
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"John Cleveland Carter is dead.
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"Of the dead, speak only good,
or anyhow, speak as little bad as you can."
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Yep, he had only one fault, and it killed him.
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He figured
you only run a newspaper to make money.
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Duchess ready to roll?
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What are you figuring to put
in that wide-open space?
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Well, let me see. It'll take about
a stick and a half to fill her up, I reckon.
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A short stick and that's all.
Unless we're using rubber type this week.
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Hi there, ma'am.
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Hello, Helen, get me Gill Brown.
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Sorry, ma'am, but we're awfully busy
just now. Hello, Gill?
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About them two cows you wanted to sell.
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I know you ain't got money enough
to pay for an ad, but
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tell you what I'll do. I'll trade you a stick
and a half on Page 1 for...
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Well, anyway, a stick for three
or four bushels of eatable potatoes
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that ain't sprouted yet.
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- Mr...
- I'm very sorry, ma'am,
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but we're terrible busy.
The paper's just going to press.
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All right, make it three, then,
seeing as how an emergency exists.
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- So, you're Ulysses Bradford.
- What there is of him.
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There, excuse me.
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Now, this will fix up Page 1 . Let her roll.
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If you're selling dictionaries,
we don't want some.
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But... I am not trying to sell you a dictionary.
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Page 3's personal columns ain't filled yet.
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All right, I'll fill her right up.
Always trying to sell me a dictionary.
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Claim my paper makes
a lot of mistakes in spelling.
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It wouldn't be a real newspaper
if it didn't make a mistake now and then.
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But I am not selling dictionaries.
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Well, whatever it is,
come around after we get our taxes paid.
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If we ever do.
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Mr. Bradford, I came all the way
from New York to talk to you.
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- Long trip.
- I was John Cleveland Carter's secretary.
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I live right upstairs. It's quieter up there.
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I call this my sanctum sanctorum,
whatever that means.
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Those are famous editors.
Famous first pages.
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That's Charles Dana, used to be
editor of the
New York Sun.
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Horace Greeley, "Go west, young man."
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Those gentlemen are supposed
to be an inspiration to me.
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Well, there ain't no harm in a mouse wishing
to be an elephant, is there?
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Are you hungry? I'm doing my own cooking
since my wife died.
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Pretty good at it, too.
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Some ham and eggs, maybe?
A Denver sandwich?
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I cook with or without onions.
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Mr. Bradford, did you really mean
all those things you said about Mr. Carter?
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He's dead now.
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Yes, but do you know why he was killed?
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"Murder, though it hath no tongue,
will speak." Shakespeare.
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Mr. Bradford, he was killed because
he wanted to plead guilty
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to everything you said about him.
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Ain't the way I understood it.
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Mr. Carter wrote and signed this
just before... Just before he died.
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"l, John Cleveland Carter,
being of sound mind, do hereby
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"make my last will and testament,
revoking any previous testament.
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"To my true friend, Ulysses Bradford
of Hiawatha, Nebraska,
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"I leave my controlling interest
in the
New York Gazette,
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"to have and to hold."
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"I hand back to him control
of the newspaper
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"his great-grandfather founded.
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"Make an honest newspaper
of the
Gazette again, Ulysses.
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"God help and guide you."
Signed, John Cleveland Carter.
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Let's both sit down.
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Howard Rankin's the man, not Mr. Carter,
who's made the
Gazette what it is,
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and that's what Mr. Carter was
going to tell that crowd when he was shot.
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I've heard about Mr. Rankin
for a long, long time.
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- But surely you don't accuse him...
- I'd accuse him of anything.
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He's capable of anything.
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Riding to glory on the back of a newspaper.
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- Is that it?
- Yes.
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Why, Howard Rankin isn't even
a real newspaperman,
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not in any sense of the word.
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But because he inherited 45%
of the
Gazette's stock,
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he can dictate the newspaper's policies.
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He can prove anything to the readers,
especially if it's a lie.
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Journalistic ethics, honesty,
which is the foundation
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of every decent newspaper,
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means absolutely nothing to him.
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He's the man who abuses
the freedom of the press
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and misuses the power of the press.
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And with John Carter dead,
he can go on doing it
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more and more,
and there's no one to stop him.
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I think he's the most dangerous man
in America.
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Me trying to cope with him would be like...
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No, I'm just man enough to run
the
Starr County World, and that's all I am.
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I couldn't carry on
even if I was fool enough to try.
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No, it's not for me.
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It's much easier to tell people when they're
wrong than to do anything about it,
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isn't it, Mr. Bradford?
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Well, John Carter's dead because
what you said mattered to him.
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But it doesn't seem to matter enough
to you for you to leave your nice, quiet,
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safe little corner and step out and fight
the people who killed him.
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You must be a very big man
with your 1,244 readers,
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if there are that many.
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Well, if defending the freedom of the press
and not misusing the power of the press
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meant anything more than just words to you,
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you'd take Mr. Carter's newspaper
with its 2,000,000 readers, and you'd...
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I know about Charles Dana, Horace Greeley
and your great-grandfather,
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and all the rest of the great old-time editors.
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Mr. Carter told me about them,
and they weren't afraid.
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But a mouse can't be an elephant.
You're right, Mr. Bradford. You're right.
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Wait a minute.
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There ain't no train out
until tomorrow morning.
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I've got a room down the hall
where you can rest.
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Right this way.
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I just thought, I don't know your name.
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Edwina Stephens.
Mr. Carter called me Eddie.
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- Good night.
- Good night.
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I don't know whether
my great-granddad's ghost
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just gave me my marching orders, or what.
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Maybe I'm just a victim
of an oversized conscience.
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Anyhow, if you and John wished a job
on me, I guess I gotta take it
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and do the best I can with it.
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I hope you sleep better now. I know I won't.
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Good night, Eddie.
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Memorandum from the publisher
to all department heads.
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We want
Gazette readers to say
that the
Gazette leads the parade
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because the
Gazette crusades.
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Wherever we find anything we don't like,
we're going to tell the public about it
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and smash it.
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Mr. Ulysses Bradford,
this is Mr. Howard Rankin.
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I've heard of Mr. Bradford.
What do you want?
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I've got a kind of a letter here
from John Carter
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that I think you ought to read.
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That is a photostatic copy.
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Well, I'm sorry
that this young woman has involved you
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in all the expense and trouble
of coming here with this.
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All I know is, Mr. Rankin,
that John Carter kind of wanted me
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to take his place running this newspaper.
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You've had a lot of experience
running a New York newspaper?
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Kind of roomy here, ain't it?
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You could take my little old printing office
and drop it in one corner in there
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and nobody'd ever notice it.
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Charles Dana once said that all there was
to publishing a paper was
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to buy your newsprint
for enough less than you sell it for
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so that you could pay your bills
and maybe make a little profit,
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if you're lucky.
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I always had an idea that New York
was just a bunch of little hometowns,
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kind of crowded together on an island.
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As far as I know, the same kind of people
read the papers in New York
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as they do in Hiawatha.
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I'm just a small-town man, Mr. Rankin,
and I ain't ashamed to admit it.
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But you're a big man,
and a mighty smart one, too,
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but I gotta tell you that I aim to try
just as hard as I'm able
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to do what John Carter wanted me to.
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Well, I shouldn't like
to have to say this in court,
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but Mr. Carter was not competent
to make this or any other will
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at the time of his death,
and this I can easily prove if I have to.
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But you don't want to go to court,
do you, Mr. Rankin?
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You know, an awful lot of things
could be said right out in court
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about the inner workings of the
Gazette,
and other papers could print it
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without any fear of libel.
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-
Yes.
- Have Mr. Thompson come in, please.
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Yes, sir.
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You'd better make notes of this
in case a record is needed later.
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Whatever Mr. Rankin says.
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The
Gazette is under too much pressure
at this time for me to risk discussion
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or a possible scandal which might reduce
the advertising or circulation revenues.
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I have made money for this paper,
and for Mr. John Carter, and for myself,
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and for the minority stockholders,
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and if you can do as well or better,
Mr. Bradford, we'll all be quite satisfied.
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Guess that kind of puts it up to me.
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Well, I'll do the best I know how.
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No man can do any better than that,
can they, Eddie?
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Sent for me?
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Yes, a very important story has just come in.
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Is this on the level?
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This is Mr. Bradford, new publisher.
Griff Thompson, Managing Editor.
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Well, I'm glad
to meet you formally, Mr. Thompson.
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The first name is Ulysses.
Some folks used to call it "Useless,"
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same as Ulysses S. Grant.
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Till he surprised them
by being kind of useful.
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We've already got
a pretty important Page 1 top line.
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Well, now, that is an important story.
Yes, sir, you bet it is.
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We'll change the signatures
on that Page 1 editorial of yours
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in the next run,
sign Mr. Bradford's name.
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Let the town wonder who
Ulysses Bradford is for the next 24 hours,
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crack the story then, we've got more space.
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That'll save a lot of mix-ups,
give both stories a better play.
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Okay with you?
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I hadn't figured on getting my name
on the front page.
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Right, I'll have the boys take
some pictures of you later.
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Send in a rewrite man to talk to you.
See you around.
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Well, now I know that a cyclone can talk.
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I'll be in my office.
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Eddie, Mr. Rankin hasn't even begun
to commence to start to fight.
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He figures if he gives me enough rope,
I'll hang myself and save him the trouble,
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unless I can hang him first,
which both he and I doubt if I can.
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Eddie, the last man
that sat in that chair before Mr. Rankin
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was a better man than either Rankin or me.
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Look what happened to him.
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Oh, no, this couldn't be.
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Why, I know that boy.
He used to work for the paper.
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I met his mother. It's a frame-up.
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Rankin had to send someone
to the electric chair to close the case,
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and he picks on Jerry Purvis.
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Eddie, it seems the police have
a good deal of evidence against him.
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What the
Gazette calls evidence.
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Private investigators from the
Gazette.
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Oscar Trent, a
Gazette employee.
But he doesn't work for the paper,
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he draws his pay directly from Rankin.
He's no reporter.
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He's just a little Himmler
if there ever was one.
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Chris Barker, a private detective
retained by the
Gazette.
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Why, he's a flat-headed strong-arm man
hired by Rankin.
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In Germany, he'd be a storm trooper.
Don't you see?
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The
Gazette? Oh, no,
it's Rankin's own private little Gestapo.
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Now, Eddie, Griff Thompson's
an honest newspaperman if ever I saw one.
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He wouldn't print fake news.
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He would print whatever came
across his desk, as long as it sold copies.
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Accuse today, retract tomorrow,
and if you can make the fake hold up,
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so much the better.
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-
Yes, Mr. Rankin?
- This is Miss Stephens,
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Mr. Bradford's private secretary,
and from now on,
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this is Mr. Bradford's office.
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Get me Griff Thompson.
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Mr. Thompson's in the composing room.
Can't take any calls.
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Well, he'll take this call. Get him on the line.
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Eddie, you're not going to bother a man
when he's putting
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the paper to bed, are you?
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He's going to take Rankin's name
off that editorial and sign yours.
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-
Hello? Hello?
- Well, Griff, what's in the editorial?
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Publisher's statement
about the arrest of Jerry Purvis,
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and it's already locked up in the form. Why?
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Well, it's not to run
unless Mr. Bradford sees it and okays it,
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and that's publisher's orders.
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Well, Eddie, since you've taken charge,
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perhaps you'll tell me
what we're going to do next?
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Hello, Jerry.
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I'm sorry about your mother.
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- This is Mr. Bradford.
- John Carter was an old friend of mine.
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You know how I'd feel
about the man that killed him.
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- Eddie don't think you did. Did you?
- I wish I had.
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You oughtn't say that, son.
Now, look here. I've been at your age.
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Of course, I never had
as much bad luck as you had,
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but there were times when I thought
the cards were all stacked against me.
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So I think I know just how you feel.
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Jerry, if there's anything you know,
anything at all that will help you...
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You were a reporter once.
You know how it is.
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According to the
Gazette, you're guilty.
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So, to a million other people, you are.
The answer is to prove who is guilty.
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You can trust us.
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How did he get into this?
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- Mr. Carter left him the paper.
- Oh, that Carter.
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It says here you made threats against him.
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00:29:28,949 --> 00:29:34,251
Well, maybe I did, but Carter was
printing phony news, fake pictures
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00:29:34,321 --> 00:29:38,223
and lying editorials, like,
"Why are we fighting England's battles?
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"Everything's wrong in Washington."
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00:29:41,095 --> 00:29:44,030
And he said those things
even after Pearl Harbor.
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And I called him an un-American heel,
and he was.
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00:29:46,467 --> 00:29:51,404
I said it was rats like him that were
crucifying this country, so he had me fired.
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00:29:51,772 --> 00:29:57,335
Okay, I'm a good reporter, but I couldn't
get another job in this whole town.
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00:29:57,644 --> 00:29:59,874
Carter had me blacklisted and...
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What's the use?
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Killed my mother, and they'll burn me.
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I'm riding the railroad
straight to the electric chair,
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00:30:08,489 --> 00:30:13,324
and there's nothing you can do about it.
There's nothing nobody can do about it.
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00:30:20,601 --> 00:30:23,729
Eddie, that boy ain't guilty.
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He's no murderer.
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00:30:28,976 --> 00:30:33,936
I guess you've all read this morning's paper,
so I guess you all know who I am,
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where I'm from and how I happen
to be here talking to you.
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00:30:38,852 --> 00:30:42,379
You all know that I'm just pinch-hitting
for a better man,
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a man that should still be at bat.
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Well, here I am, and I hope you'll all help me
do the job that John Carter left for me to do.
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00:30:52,099 --> 00:30:54,260
Which reminds me of a story.
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00:30:55,269 --> 00:31:00,263
A story about a shipwrecked sailor
who was just about to give up the ghost,
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then he landed
on the beautiful shore of a paradise island.
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He met a friendly native.
The first thing this sailor says is,
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"What's the government
of this country? I'm agin it."
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00:31:14,588 --> 00:31:19,150
Now, folks, I think there's a point
to that story that affects you and me,
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00:31:19,493 --> 00:31:21,085
and this paper,
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00:31:22,129 --> 00:31:24,097
and the whole country.
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00:31:25,132 --> 00:31:28,898
The more I read our newspaper,
the more it seems to me
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that we're agin everything.
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00:31:32,906 --> 00:31:36,501
And I swear I can't see
where we're for much of anything.
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Now, folks, I think that's wrong.
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For example,
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a boy named Purvis is on trial for his life.
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00:31:50,624 --> 00:31:53,184
Now, this paper put him where he is.
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00:31:53,260 --> 00:31:56,821
Now, I don't know
why we're against this boy, but we are,
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00:31:57,431 --> 00:31:59,422
or at least we have been up to now.
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00:31:59,499 --> 00:32:04,527
I don't think a newspaper has the right
to decide the guilt or innocence of anybody.
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00:32:05,038 --> 00:32:09,498
Now, I've talked to this fellow, Jerry Purvis,
and personally I don't think he's a murderer.
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00:32:09,576 --> 00:32:13,478
Of course, that's only one man's opinion,
and that's all it is.
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00:32:13,780 --> 00:32:17,272
This newspaper seems to have been doing
the same thing to Jerry Purvis
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00:32:17,351 --> 00:32:22,084
that it's been doing to a lot of other people,
probably more important people,
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00:32:22,322 --> 00:32:26,520
and to this whole country,
which happens to be at war.
444
00:32:27,294 --> 00:32:31,526
Now, folks, I want to see if we can't
do things a little different from today on.
445
00:32:31,598 --> 00:32:34,761
I don't see why we can't get and print
both sides of the story
446
00:32:34,835 --> 00:32:37,065
about who killed John Carter.
447
00:32:37,404 --> 00:32:38,996
Who really killed him.
448
00:32:39,806 --> 00:32:43,867
I don't see why we can't get and print
both sides of every story
449
00:32:43,944 --> 00:32:48,176
and editorial and column and article
that goes into the
Gazette.
450
00:32:51,051 --> 00:32:56,580
Folks, all I know is that freedom of speech
does not mean freedom to aid the enemy,
451
00:32:57,491 --> 00:33:01,222
an enemy that has stopped
every kind of freedom in every country
452
00:33:01,295 --> 00:33:03,422
that he has touched so far.
453
00:33:04,298 --> 00:33:07,631
Freedom is dynamite
and has to be handled with care.
454
00:33:08,435 --> 00:33:11,734
Stop freedom of speech in this,
our free nation?
455
00:33:11,805 --> 00:33:14,239
Limit the freedom of the American press?
456
00:33:14,308 --> 00:33:18,836
No, but I don't think we want anybody
on this paper
457
00:33:19,479 --> 00:33:22,915
who fears democracy
more than he or she fears Hitler.
458
00:33:23,383 --> 00:33:27,683
Mr. Bradford, are you putting a ban
on constructive criticism?
459
00:33:27,754 --> 00:33:31,315
Constructive, no. Destructive, yes.
460
00:33:31,725 --> 00:33:33,989
Just how do you define the difference?
461
00:33:34,061 --> 00:33:37,394
I'll ask you. Is this constructive criticism?
462
00:33:39,499 --> 00:33:43,833
"Churchill schemed and stalled
till he dragged us into England's war."
463
00:33:44,438 --> 00:33:46,406
Who bombed Pearl Harbor?
464
00:33:46,473 --> 00:33:48,839
Who bayoneted the Filipinos?
465
00:33:48,909 --> 00:33:52,401
Who bombed the American hospitals
on Bataan Peninsula?
466
00:33:52,479 --> 00:33:54,208
Here's another one.
467
00:33:54,548 --> 00:33:58,450
"What were American troops doing
on the Dutch islands, anyhow?"
468
00:33:59,086 --> 00:34:02,283
I'm surprised someone of you hasn't
asked, in his column,
469
00:34:02,356 --> 00:34:06,292
"What business did the Hawaiian islands
have being in the Pacific?
470
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,056
"What business did Jimmy Doolittle have
flying over Tokyo?"
471
00:34:10,464 --> 00:34:13,900
Now, folks,
I don't call that constructive criticism.
472
00:34:14,634 --> 00:34:17,797
I call it poison. I call it aiding the enemy.
473
00:34:19,039 --> 00:34:20,734
I call it treason!
474
00:34:22,609 --> 00:34:27,672
Well, folks, that's about all I've got to say.
Thanks for listening so patiently.
475
00:34:33,018 --> 00:34:36,147
Mr. Thompson, just a minute, please.
476
00:34:42,362 --> 00:34:44,694
I congratulate you, Mr. Bradford.
477
00:34:44,764 --> 00:34:47,290
I'm anxious to see the result of your policy.
478
00:34:47,534 --> 00:34:51,800
Thank you, Mr. Rankin. I appreciate that
coming from you. I do indeed.
479
00:34:52,773 --> 00:34:53,933
Now,
480
00:34:55,475 --> 00:34:57,101
where was that?
481
00:35:01,882 --> 00:35:05,340
Thank you, Eddie. I don't know
what we'd do here without Eddie.
482
00:35:05,419 --> 00:35:09,446
I want us to print this
on the front page of every edition today.
483
00:35:11,658 --> 00:35:14,923
You know the thing that bothers me most
about Mr. Rankin?
484
00:35:14,995 --> 00:35:16,690
He's sincere.
485
00:35:16,763 --> 00:35:20,563
Someone said, I don't know who it was,
that all the great traitors of history
486
00:35:20,634 --> 00:35:21,999
were sincere men,
487
00:35:22,502 --> 00:35:26,165
and that they believed in their own hearts
that they were patriots.
488
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,002
I thought you and Rankin had
buried the hatchet?
489
00:35:28,074 --> 00:35:29,769
Oh, we did, we did.
490
00:35:31,077 --> 00:35:34,012
Crackpots and cranks won't help
Jerry Purvis. That's all this'll get you.
491
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,413
"To Whom It May Concern."
That's a terrific headline.
492
00:35:37,851 --> 00:35:40,752
Thousands of happy little newsboys running
up and down, yelling,
493
00:35:40,821 --> 00:35:44,257
"Extra! Read all about it!
'To Whom It May Concern.'"
494
00:35:45,892 --> 00:35:48,725
"if any person has information which may
add to the reasonable doubt
495
00:35:48,795 --> 00:35:53,698
"that already exists as to the actual guilt
of Gerald Purvis, contact the..."
496
00:35:53,767 --> 00:35:57,100
You told us just a minute ago it's none
of our business to say guilty or not guilty.
497
00:35:57,170 --> 00:36:02,130
So far, son, we've said nothing but guilty.
Now, this Jerry Purvis is a little fellow.
498
00:36:02,843 --> 00:36:05,141
No money, nobody on his side.
499
00:36:05,579 --> 00:36:09,515
He's entitled to protection,
the same as all of the other little people
500
00:36:09,583 --> 00:36:11,915
that make up 99% of our country.
501
00:36:12,752 --> 00:36:15,346
The common people that Lincoln said,
502
00:36:15,422 --> 00:36:19,119
"God must have loved them
because he made so many of them."
503
00:36:19,259 --> 00:36:23,992
Justice, that's what the Constitution
guarantees to every American,
504
00:36:24,064 --> 00:36:26,464
and that's what I'm trying
to get for Jerry Purvis.
505
00:36:26,533 --> 00:36:28,433
- Justice.
- Anything else?
506
00:36:29,002 --> 00:36:31,436
No, I guess that's all, right now.
507
00:36:38,612 --> 00:36:40,512
You know, Eddie,
if he'd just be himself a minute
508
00:36:40,580 --> 00:36:43,276
and stop being a managing editor,
509
00:36:43,350 --> 00:36:46,376
he'd be on Jerry Purvis' team,
same as we are.
510
00:36:46,786 --> 00:36:50,222
He has nothing personal against the boy,
not a thing.
511
00:36:50,657 --> 00:36:53,854
Oh, he hasn't anything personal
against anybody.
512
00:36:53,927 --> 00:36:57,886
He's just a circulation-chasing Little Caesar,
that's all he is.
513
00:36:59,766 --> 00:37:03,793
Love and newspapers don't mix
very well together, do they, Eddie?
514
00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:08,332
- Yes?
-
Thompson talking.
515
00:37:08,408 --> 00:37:10,603
Let me speak to Mr. Bradford.
516
00:37:11,144 --> 00:37:12,236
Yes, son?
517
00:37:12,312 --> 00:37:14,803
The name Lambert Davidson mean
anything to you?
518
00:37:14,881 --> 00:37:16,815
A dollar-a-year man in Washington, ain't he?
519
00:37:16,883 --> 00:37:20,080
We've got a hot tip that this Davidson
has got enough tires, gas and sugar,
520
00:37:20,153 --> 00:37:23,452
and other rationed stuff hoarded away
in a warehouse he owns downtown,
521
00:37:23,523 --> 00:37:28,119
to feed and transport an army,
which is not so good when you consider
522
00:37:28,194 --> 00:37:31,288
they're cracking down right and left
on little guys that buy a hot retread
523
00:37:31,364 --> 00:37:35,095
for their jalopy and on housewives that are
hiding away a couple of cups of sweetening.
524
00:37:35,168 --> 00:37:38,695
Well, that's pretty scandalous,
even if true, ain't it, son?
525
00:37:39,205 --> 00:37:41,230
If you ask me, it's news.
526
00:37:42,208 --> 00:37:44,199
What does Mr. Davidson say
in his own defense?
527
00:37:44,277 --> 00:37:45,574
Have we talked to him yet?
528
00:37:45,645 --> 00:37:48,910
If we go around asking a lot of questions,
it'll tip off all the rest of the papers.
529
00:37:48,982 --> 00:37:51,212
This is exclusive up till now.
530
00:37:51,284 --> 00:37:54,412
If we can't print both sides of the story,
we don't want to print any.
531
00:37:54,487 --> 00:37:57,615
Work on it some more, son, talk to me later.
532
00:37:57,824 --> 00:38:03,285
This is too hot to hold, so we've got to go
with this before the other papers get it.
533
00:38:03,363 --> 00:38:07,356
Mr. Davidson beat Mr. Rankin for governor.
Of course, that was years ago.
534
00:38:07,434 --> 00:38:10,164
That was before Mr. Rankin discovered
that you can be a dictator
535
00:38:10,236 --> 00:38:12,170
without having votes.
536
00:38:12,238 --> 00:38:15,264
Mr. Davidson isn't afraid to say
what he thinks,
537
00:38:15,342 --> 00:38:17,708
and he didn't agree with Mr. Rankin.
538
00:38:17,777 --> 00:38:22,612
So he got in Mr. Rankin's way, and so...
539
00:38:24,351 --> 00:38:26,410
I gotta get out of here for a while, Eddie.
540
00:38:26,486 --> 00:38:30,752
Sometimes I can think better when I walk,
if I walk far enough.
541
00:38:31,691 --> 00:38:34,660
You stay here
and kind of hold down the fort.
542
00:38:45,071 --> 00:38:48,336
- Say, mister, I want to see the publisher.
- Yeah?
543
00:38:49,943 --> 00:38:53,845
- "To Whom It May Concern," that's me.
- Yeah, why?
544
00:38:54,614 --> 00:38:57,412
I got a big scoop for the paper. Scoop!
545
00:38:57,884 --> 00:39:00,648
- I don't know. This Jerry Purvis...
- Just a minute.
546
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:02,415
- He don't kill Mr. Carter.
- Just a minute.
547
00:39:02,489 --> 00:39:05,151
- No, sir!
- How do you know he didn't?
548
00:39:05,225 --> 00:39:07,250
I'm his alibis.
549
00:39:07,661 --> 00:39:12,257
Where I find Mr. Ulysses Bradford?
So I tell him.
550
00:39:12,332 --> 00:39:14,129
Just a... Mr. Rankin?
551
00:39:14,567 --> 00:39:17,434
Mr. Rankin, could you come here a minute?
552
00:39:19,072 --> 00:39:23,168
This gentleman wants to see Mr. Bradford.
He's got an alibi for Jerry Purvis.
553
00:39:23,243 --> 00:39:25,370
That's right, that's right.
554
00:39:25,445 --> 00:39:29,677
I don't know who killed Mr. Carter,
but Jerry Purvis don't. No, sir.
555
00:39:30,083 --> 00:39:32,017
How do you know he didn't?
556
00:39:32,085 --> 00:39:38,115
See, I got a cigar store, sell newspapers,
sell the
Gazette many years.
557
00:39:38,191 --> 00:39:41,854
This Jerry Purvis, he's come to my store
two, three times.
558
00:39:42,162 --> 00:39:47,031
He say he used to be a reporter
for the
Gazette, so we talk.
559
00:39:47,100 --> 00:39:52,163
Only the last time he was there,
he talk very bad about Mr. John Carter,
560
00:39:52,338 --> 00:39:58,072
so I throw him out. But he's in my store
right when Mr. Carter got killed,
561
00:39:58,311 --> 00:40:02,805
so he don't kill Mr. Carter.
So he's got to have justice.
562
00:40:03,216 --> 00:40:05,116
Yeah. Yeah, that's right.
563
00:40:05,185 --> 00:40:07,779
Mr. Trent will take you to the publisher.
564
00:40:07,854 --> 00:40:10,118
Oh, thanks, mister. Thank you.
565
00:40:10,657 --> 00:40:12,784
Say, maybe I get my picture
in the paper, you think?
566
00:40:12,859 --> 00:40:14,451
Yeah, if you're lucky.
567
00:40:14,527 --> 00:40:18,122
Say, I'm always lucky
since I've been an American citizen.
568
00:40:18,198 --> 00:40:22,532
Yeah, we'll take a little elevator ride.
The publisher's upstairs.
569
00:40:22,602 --> 00:40:23,899
Oh, yes, all right.
570
00:40:44,824 --> 00:40:48,282
He fell clear from the top. Make way now.
Come on, get back. Get back, please.
571
00:40:48,361 --> 00:40:50,955
- Go ahead, get back, please.
- What's happening, please?
572
00:40:51,030 --> 00:40:53,362
- A man fell down the elevator shaft.
- Dead?
573
00:40:53,433 --> 00:40:55,060
He never knew when he hit the bottom.
574
00:40:55,135 --> 00:40:58,104
I'm Ulysses Bradford,
editor and publisher of this paper.
575
00:40:58,171 --> 00:40:59,798
Have you any idea who the man was?
576
00:40:59,873 --> 00:41:02,364
Name was Tony Angelo,
had his naturalization papers on him,
577
00:41:02,442 --> 00:41:05,309
registered in the last draft.
Ran a cigar store over at Avenue B,
578
00:41:05,378 --> 00:41:07,243
according to stuff in his wallet.
579
00:41:07,313 --> 00:41:12,250
Followed the races, from the look of this.
Had to pry that out of his hand.
580
00:41:12,318 --> 00:41:15,685
Funny. Falls a city block,
but won't let go of the racing tips.
581
00:41:15,755 --> 00:41:17,484
Do you mind if I take charge of these?
582
00:41:17,557 --> 00:41:19,787
Maybe I can do something
for the poor fellow's family, if he had one.
583
00:41:19,859 --> 00:41:23,522
- No, I can't do that, Mr. Bradford.
- Well, maybe I could go along with you.
584
00:41:23,596 --> 00:41:26,190
- I'd be glad to help if I could.
- Why, sure.
585
00:41:42,916 --> 00:41:45,248
- Mr. Bradford.
- Hello, Eddie.
586
00:41:45,318 --> 00:41:49,049
- I've been looking everywhere for you.
- I went over to the police station.
587
00:41:49,122 --> 00:41:51,556
A man named Tony Angelo fell down
one of the elevator shafts
588
00:41:51,624 --> 00:41:53,717
here in the building and was killed.
589
00:41:54,394 --> 00:41:58,296
I was just trying to check up on him
and his family, and so on.
590
00:41:59,165 --> 00:42:02,760
Didn't find out much, though.
Got to do some more investigating later.
591
00:42:02,836 --> 00:42:03,996
I tried to locate you last night.
592
00:42:04,070 --> 00:42:07,164
I called your hotel room
till way past midnight.
593
00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:09,640
I didn't get in till 3:00 or 4:00,
something like that.
594
00:42:09,709 --> 00:42:12,974
Did you see last night's special extra,
or any extras today?
595
00:42:13,046 --> 00:42:14,240
No.
596
00:42:26,559 --> 00:42:28,891
I told Thompson not to do that.
597
00:42:31,331 --> 00:42:32,662
-
Yes?
- Tell Mr. Thompson
598
00:42:32,732 --> 00:42:34,723
Mr. Bradford wants him in here right away.
599
00:42:34,801 --> 00:42:36,291
He's in the composing room.
600
00:42:36,369 --> 00:42:39,896
I don't care if he's in Timbuktu.
Tell him to come in here.
601
00:42:39,973 --> 00:42:43,465
Look at the story, Mr. Bradford,
not just the headlines.
602
00:42:45,011 --> 00:42:48,947
"Statements continued to pour
into the
Gazette office today
603
00:42:49,015 --> 00:42:54,180
"following the
Gazette's exclusive exposé
last night, as aroused citizens demanded
604
00:42:54,254 --> 00:42:57,587
"Davidson's removal
from his post in Washington."
605
00:42:58,658 --> 00:43:02,094
But we don't say who accuses him.
We don't quote him at all.
606
00:43:02,161 --> 00:43:04,186
Who accused Jerry Purvis?
607
00:43:05,832 --> 00:43:07,595
- You sent for me?
-
Yes.
608
00:43:07,667 --> 00:43:10,761
Thompson talking. I'll take my calls in here
for the next few minutes.
609
00:43:10,837 --> 00:43:13,271
We'd broken every street-sale record
in history after 10:00 this morning.
610
00:43:13,339 --> 00:43:16,706
That's Page 1 for the next edition.
We're running 300,000 extra.
611
00:43:16,776 --> 00:43:18,607
Feel proud of yourself, don't you?
612
00:43:18,678 --> 00:43:21,545
"Riot Threatened as Citizens Rise
in Hoarding Scandal."
613
00:43:21,614 --> 00:43:22,774
Is there likely to be trouble?
614
00:43:22,849 --> 00:43:26,478
Well, there will be as soon as that hits
the street, which is exactly the idea.
615
00:43:26,552 --> 00:43:29,419
- We print what happens.
- You mean we make it happen.
616
00:43:29,489 --> 00:43:32,856
Now, son, seems to me there's a law
against inciting a riot,
617
00:43:32,926 --> 00:43:34,325
and that's what I'd call that headline.
618
00:43:34,394 --> 00:43:37,989
Look, Mr. Bradford, you edit and publish
to your heart's content,
619
00:43:38,064 --> 00:43:40,396
but I run the news pages. Is that clear?
620
00:43:40,466 --> 00:43:43,560
But we're not printing
both sides of the story.
621
00:43:43,970 --> 00:43:45,335
-
Mr. Thompson.
- Yes?
622
00:43:45,405 --> 00:43:46,497
City desk has a flash.
623
00:43:46,572 --> 00:43:49,735
Rush call to police headquarters
from Davidson's warehouse.
624
00:43:49,809 --> 00:43:53,176
Call Circulation.
Special crew to handle street sales.
625
00:43:53,246 --> 00:43:57,410
Tell Makeup to set up for action pictures
to follow. I'll be in my office.
626
00:44:04,290 --> 00:44:07,123
- See what I mean?
- I see a lot of things.
627
00:44:07,193 --> 00:44:09,127
- Come on, Eddie.
- Where?
628
00:44:09,662 --> 00:44:12,790
I want to see that riot.
Hurry up, now. Come on.
629
00:44:30,483 --> 00:44:33,452
Pringle talking.
Get me Griff Thompson, quick.
630
00:44:34,420 --> 00:44:37,321
Thompson talking.
Yeah, where have you been?
631
00:44:38,691 --> 00:44:41,524
All right, calm down and tell me about it.
632
00:44:41,928 --> 00:44:43,725
Quit yelling. I can't understand you.
633
00:44:43,796 --> 00:44:46,492
I never saw a crowd gather so quick.
The street's full of them,
634
00:44:46,566 --> 00:44:49,296
hundreds of them, thousands.
Make it thousands.
635
00:44:49,369 --> 00:44:51,837
Lots of them have copies
of the
Gazette with them. Yeah.
636
00:44:51,904 --> 00:44:54,839
Guys making speeches.
Well, what else would they say?
637
00:44:54,907 --> 00:44:56,932
They had to give up gas, tires
and all that sort of thing,
638
00:44:57,010 --> 00:44:58,944
and Lambert Davidson's got
a warehouse full of them.
639
00:44:59,012 --> 00:45:00,274
Hold it, Pringle.
640
00:45:00,346 --> 00:45:02,678
Tear out everything on Page 1.
Tell Circulation we're going to bat
641
00:45:02,749 --> 00:45:04,239
with a special in 10 minutes.
642
00:45:04,317 --> 00:45:07,343
Go ahead, Pringle. Yeah. Yes, yes, yes.
I got it.
643
00:45:08,721 --> 00:45:09,813
What?
644
00:45:10,757 --> 00:45:12,088
He went down there?
645
00:45:12,158 --> 00:45:15,559
Yeah, old "Useless" Ulysses,
and the girl's with him, too.
646
00:45:15,628 --> 00:45:17,653
Yeah, he tried
to give the crowd an argument.
647
00:45:17,730 --> 00:45:19,527
Then Lambert Davidson showed up.
648
00:45:19,599 --> 00:45:21,590
I don't know what he said to the crowd.
Couldn't hear him.
649
00:45:21,667 --> 00:45:24,795
They were yelling too loud,
and all of a sudden, he collapsed.
650
00:45:24,871 --> 00:45:26,702
Heart attack, I guess.
651
00:45:26,773 --> 00:45:30,675
Thompson talking.
Oh, yes, Mr. Rankin. Yes, I know.
652
00:45:30,743 --> 00:45:33,439
I've got a man on the phone right now,
giving me all the details.
653
00:45:33,513 --> 00:45:35,777
Yes, of course,
we're hitting it with everything we've got.
654
00:45:35,848 --> 00:45:37,782
Yes, sir, see you later.
655
00:45:38,418 --> 00:45:42,286
Hey, Griff, the warehouse is on fire. Yeah.
656
00:45:42,355 --> 00:45:45,017
Hold it, Pringle. Get over there quick.
The warehouse is on fire.
657
00:45:45,091 --> 00:45:48,254
You, follow through on Lambert Davidson.
Supposed to be sick, and he ought to be.
658
00:46:09,115 --> 00:46:14,075
That'll do for the final run. Clear Page 2
for a photo layout for the final home.
659
00:46:16,389 --> 00:46:18,983
Thompson talking. Go ahead.
660
00:46:19,692 --> 00:46:21,683
Washington Bureau calling.
661
00:46:22,829 --> 00:46:24,763
Yeah? Now, wait a minute.
662
00:46:25,731 --> 00:46:28,291
What is this? The good old coveroo?
663
00:46:31,270 --> 00:46:32,396
Yeah.
664
00:46:36,642 --> 00:46:39,907
All right, file 2,000 words for tomorrow.
665
00:46:40,847 --> 00:46:42,075
Goodbye.
666
00:46:43,983 --> 00:46:47,919
The stuff in Davidson's warehouse
was government property.
667
00:46:47,987 --> 00:46:52,822
Secret stores for a special Army task force
that was to sail under sealed orders,
668
00:46:52,892 --> 00:46:54,723
the end of this week.
669
00:47:02,735 --> 00:47:05,898
Davidson was acting
under War Department orders.
670
00:47:05,972 --> 00:47:09,100
We've just wrecked
an Army division, that's all,
671
00:47:09,909 --> 00:47:13,242
and handed some vital military secrets
to the Axis.
672
00:47:14,647 --> 00:47:18,208
- Well, what?
- I just thought you might be interested.
673
00:47:18,284 --> 00:47:21,378
I didn't have a chance to tell you
while the hullabaloo was on,
674
00:47:21,454 --> 00:47:25,686
but the guy who organized that riot
was our pal Oscar Trent.
675
00:47:27,894 --> 00:47:30,863
- You must be mistaken.
- Mister, I was there.
676
00:47:32,398 --> 00:47:36,698
Well, Mr. Thompson, Washington
would naturally deny these charges.
677
00:47:43,242 --> 00:47:45,802
Thompson talking. Oh, you.
678
00:47:46,512 --> 00:47:49,538
Lambert Davidson just died. Heart failure.
679
00:47:50,383 --> 00:47:53,250
First Mrs. Purvis,
and now Lambert Davidson.
680
00:47:53,753 --> 00:47:57,211
How does it feel to kill an old woman
and a great man?
681
00:48:06,899 --> 00:48:10,926
Davidson just died. Heart failure.
682
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,950
Mr. Thompson,
I very seldom dictate headlines.
683
00:48:30,523 --> 00:48:32,423
I want this to run
in all the remaining editions.
684
00:48:35,328 --> 00:48:38,786
- We'll follow this angle tomorrow.
- Publisher's orders?
685
00:48:39,232 --> 00:48:40,256
Yes.
686
00:48:41,133 --> 00:48:44,000
Better put your okay on it
in case Old Man Ulysses still thinks
687
00:48:44,070 --> 00:48:45,731
he's running things.
688
00:48:48,975 --> 00:48:50,272
Good night.
689
00:48:54,647 --> 00:48:58,105
It was Oscar Trent who put the finger
on Jerry Purvis.
690
00:48:59,385 --> 00:49:02,286
- I liked Jerry.
- Get yourself a drink and forget it.
691
00:49:02,355 --> 00:49:06,223
The same Mr. Oscar Trent gave us
that tip on Davidson.
692
00:49:06,292 --> 00:49:07,987
I know that now.
693
00:49:08,060 --> 00:49:10,255
He framed that riot
and murdered Lambert Davidson
694
00:49:10,329 --> 00:49:13,059
just as sure as if he'd shot him in the back.
695
00:49:13,199 --> 00:49:17,499
Mr. Trent works for Mr. Rankin.
I don't like Trent.
696
00:49:17,570 --> 00:49:20,130
- I don't like Rankin.
- You're talking too much.
697
00:49:20,206 --> 00:49:22,834
But I thought I was working
for a newspaperman.
698
00:49:22,908 --> 00:49:25,502
Which Rankin ain't, and Trent ain't, either.
699
00:49:25,645 --> 00:49:30,878
But just now I saw Rankin give you your
orders, so you're just the same as Trent.
700
00:49:30,950 --> 00:49:32,679
- Now, listen!
- No.
701
00:49:34,020 --> 00:49:36,454
Because I just quit liking you.
702
00:49:40,793 --> 00:49:43,660
Lambert Davidson's only crime was
that he was too decent
703
00:49:43,729 --> 00:49:46,357
to fight back at the slander and lies.
704
00:49:47,700 --> 00:49:50,635
I'll be with you in just a minute, Mr. Rankin.
I'm dictating an editorial.
705
00:49:50,703 --> 00:49:52,193
Now, you all know that he was
one of our finest...
706
00:49:52,271 --> 00:49:54,899
- Mr. Ulysses Bradford?
- Yes, sir.
707
00:49:55,207 --> 00:49:58,233
I have an injunction order to serve upon you.
708
00:50:00,413 --> 00:50:02,813
Pending the judgment of the court,
Mr. Bradford,
709
00:50:02,882 --> 00:50:05,373
I am resuming control of the
Gazette.
710
00:50:05,451 --> 00:50:06,975
All right, Mr. Rankin.
711
00:50:07,053 --> 00:50:10,318
And, of course, you'll postpone the trial
for weeks or months,
712
00:50:10,389 --> 00:50:12,482
knowing that Mr. Bradford doesn't have
the money to fight you.
713
00:50:12,558 --> 00:50:16,790
Well, it looks like I'm licked, eh, Eddie?
Anyway, I'll finish that editorial.
714
00:50:16,862 --> 00:50:18,955
It won't be printed.
715
00:50:25,771 --> 00:50:28,501
Well, I didn't last long, did l, Eddie?
716
00:50:29,342 --> 00:50:31,276
We can fight back, Mr. Bradford.
717
00:50:31,344 --> 00:50:33,175
You can do something.
718
00:50:35,214 --> 00:50:37,580
You remember when you came
to see me in Hiawatha?
719
00:50:37,650 --> 00:50:40,847
I told you then I wasn't man enough
for this job.
720
00:50:41,587 --> 00:50:43,418
I should have stayed home.
721
00:50:43,489 --> 00:50:45,957
I should go home now,
where at least I have a chance of fooling
722
00:50:46,025 --> 00:50:48,550
some of the people some of the time.
723
00:50:48,627 --> 00:50:51,596
I haven't fooled anybody here.
Not even myself.
724
00:50:51,664 --> 00:50:56,226
Are you going back on Mr. Carter?
And Jerry Purvis? And Lambert Davidson?
725
00:50:56,502 --> 00:50:59,437
And the people,
the common people, the little people
726
00:50:59,505 --> 00:51:03,236
who read this paper and believe it?
Are you, Mr. Bradford?
727
00:51:03,309 --> 00:51:05,504
Like when a smart lawyer asks you
that trick question,
728
00:51:05,578 --> 00:51:07,773
"Do you still beat your wife?
Answer yes or no."
729
00:51:08,781 --> 00:51:11,011
What can I do? What can I say?
730
00:51:11,550 --> 00:51:15,281
I got up to bat, all right,
but I've struck out with the bases loaded.
731
00:51:15,354 --> 00:51:16,981
Now, I don't know.
732
00:51:17,656 --> 00:51:22,616
Hello, son. If it's about the paper,
don't ask me. Ask Mr. Rankin.
733
00:51:23,095 --> 00:51:26,394
For your information,
I just told Rankin to get a new boy.
734
00:51:26,465 --> 00:51:28,160
In other words, I quit.
735
00:51:28,234 --> 00:51:31,203
I just came in to say "so long"
to you, Mr. Bradford.
736
00:51:32,004 --> 00:51:33,972
Oh, yes, and you.
737
00:51:37,009 --> 00:51:38,135
What's funny?
738
00:51:38,210 --> 00:51:41,805
You are. You came in here
expecting us to pep you up.
739
00:51:41,881 --> 00:51:44,816
Well, frankly, I think the newspaper's
much better off without you.
740
00:51:44,884 --> 00:51:47,478
I think some other papers will hire me.
741
00:51:47,553 --> 00:51:50,386
Why? Because you're such
a wonderful newspaperman?
742
00:51:50,456 --> 00:51:52,720
Yeah. Good, too.
743
00:51:54,093 --> 00:51:56,857
Well, there may have been a time
when you were an honest newspaperman,
744
00:51:56,929 --> 00:52:01,263
when free press really meant something
to you, but that was a long time ago.
745
00:52:01,333 --> 00:52:03,665
That was a long, long time ago.
746
00:52:04,870 --> 00:52:07,930
Maybe I'm just getting around to it again.
747
00:52:08,007 --> 00:52:10,999
It's been the
Gazette's policy
to play its readers for suckers.
748
00:52:11,076 --> 00:52:13,601
Well, every day,
you've been Rankin's sucker,
749
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,680
but you don't know about that.
You're too smart.
750
00:52:17,650 --> 00:52:20,642
I'll tell you something funny. You're right.
751
00:52:21,086 --> 00:52:24,749
You bet I am.
Why, you aren't even a managing editor.
752
00:52:24,824 --> 00:52:29,284
You're just a high-priced mouthpiece.
Rankin pulls the strings and you jump.
753
00:52:29,361 --> 00:52:33,491
You sit on his knee, and he does
the talking for you, and the thinking for you.
754
00:52:33,566 --> 00:52:35,659
You like to call your readers
saps and suckers.
755
00:52:35,734 --> 00:52:37,725
Well, you've been Sap Number 1.
756
00:52:37,803 --> 00:52:40,363
Playing on the prejudices of stupid people,
757
00:52:40,706 --> 00:52:43,038
trying to make them lose
their faith in democracy,
758
00:52:43,108 --> 00:52:46,202
trying to make them hold up
their hands for chains.
759
00:52:46,278 --> 00:52:50,408
The only difference is, you get paid
to be a sap. Rankin's mouthpiece.
760
00:52:50,483 --> 00:52:53,782
Shut up.
If anybody's going to call me a sap, I'll do it.
761
00:52:53,853 --> 00:52:55,514
Do you hear me? I'll do it.
762
00:52:55,588 --> 00:52:58,113
You're not telling me anything about Rankin
or myself I don't already know
763
00:52:58,190 --> 00:53:00,556
better than you do. Why do you think I quit?
764
00:53:00,626 --> 00:53:03,424
Because I finally got my eyes open.
765
00:53:03,863 --> 00:53:08,527
Because I want to get Rankin,
and get him good and quick.
766
00:53:11,237 --> 00:53:14,035
We think it's too late for the worm to turn.
767
00:53:15,241 --> 00:53:17,732
We guess we're not even interested.
768
00:53:18,277 --> 00:53:19,642
Why not?
769
00:53:20,579 --> 00:53:22,274
Your hands aren't tied.
770
00:53:28,387 --> 00:53:30,048
Well, I'll be...
771
00:53:31,190 --> 00:53:33,351
The good, old freezeroo, huh?
772
00:53:34,493 --> 00:53:36,484
Kind of puts us all in the same boat.
773
00:53:36,562 --> 00:53:39,224
I'm out of a job. You're out of a job.
774
00:53:40,266 --> 00:53:43,167
It leaves us with nothing to fight with.
775
00:53:43,235 --> 00:53:47,797
Yes, we're out of a job, but the biggest job
of all is right in front of us.
776
00:53:48,107 --> 00:53:51,873
We know that Rankin is trying to destroy
the unity of this country,
777
00:53:51,944 --> 00:53:54,003
but we can't let that happen.
778
00:53:54,079 --> 00:53:57,480
We've got to fight him. We've got to get him.
779
00:53:57,550 --> 00:53:58,642
Why not?
780
00:53:58,717 --> 00:54:02,278
Edwina, with Griff on our side,
we're sure to get Rankin.
781
00:54:03,722 --> 00:54:04,950
But how?
782
00:54:05,157 --> 00:54:08,092
- This man says it's important, Mr. Bradford.
- I want to see Ulysses Bradford.
783
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:09,593
- What about?
- You him?
784
00:54:09,662 --> 00:54:12,722
I'm Ulysses Bradford,
what there is left of him.
785
00:54:12,798 --> 00:54:17,167
- My name is Gibbons. Mack Gibbons.
- Well, I'm glad to know you, Mr. Gibbons.
786
00:54:21,740 --> 00:54:22,900
Where did you get that?
787
00:54:22,975 --> 00:54:26,968
I knew there was something phony.
That poor little crazy guy,
788
00:54:27,046 --> 00:54:28,877
he had to come and see the publisher.
789
00:54:28,948 --> 00:54:30,745
Perhaps you'd better tell us
what you're talking about.
790
00:54:30,816 --> 00:54:32,408
About Tony Angelo.
791
00:54:32,484 --> 00:54:35,282
Well, those are his things.
He fell down an elevator shaft.
792
00:54:35,354 --> 00:54:38,517
- I was aiming to try to find his folks.
- His folks?
793
00:54:38,591 --> 00:54:42,755
His wife is dead,
and his son is with MacArthur in Australia.
794
00:54:42,828 --> 00:54:44,352
Why did you have to kill him?
795
00:54:44,430 --> 00:54:46,796
I never saw him alive in my life.
796
00:54:46,865 --> 00:54:48,924
- You a friend of his?
- Yeah.
797
00:54:49,001 --> 00:54:51,561
Perhaps you'd better take charge
of these things.
798
00:54:51,637 --> 00:54:52,934
What's this?
799
00:54:53,539 --> 00:54:55,769
It looks like Tony used to bet
on the horse races.
800
00:54:55,874 --> 00:54:59,207
Tony never bet on a horse in his life,
and this ain't Tony's writing.
801
00:55:00,112 --> 00:55:01,545
Relax.
802
00:55:01,614 --> 00:55:03,138
Why did he want to see me?
803
00:55:03,215 --> 00:55:05,479
He was gonna give you a scoop
for your paper.
804
00:55:05,551 --> 00:55:09,419
This guy, Jerry Purvis, was in Tony's
cigar store when Mr. Carter was shot,
805
00:55:09,488 --> 00:55:12,048
so Tony was gonna give him an alibi.
806
00:55:12,124 --> 00:55:14,354
But you're trying to put Purvis
in the electric chair.
807
00:55:14,426 --> 00:55:18,226
So maybe somebody killed Tony
to keep him from crabbing the frame-up.
808
00:55:18,297 --> 00:55:20,026
Trent bets every race.
809
00:55:20,099 --> 00:55:22,659
Every day,
and he always picks the long shots.
810
00:55:22,735 --> 00:55:26,535
Tony Angelo had Trent's paper in his pocket
when he fell,
811
00:55:26,605 --> 00:55:29,631
and you took that paper away from Trent
right before the riot.
812
00:55:29,708 --> 00:55:31,300
Eddie, don't forget to remind me
to raise your pay
813
00:55:31,377 --> 00:55:33,572
if I ever get back where I'm able to.
814
00:55:33,646 --> 00:55:35,546
What do you think, son?
815
00:55:37,149 --> 00:55:40,949
If we can find out who last saw Tony
in the building alive,
816
00:55:42,988 --> 00:55:45,252
who he was seen talking to...
817
00:55:45,324 --> 00:55:48,293
And how and where
he ran into Oscar Trent...
818
00:55:49,294 --> 00:55:51,455
Come on, we're going places.
819
00:55:56,769 --> 00:56:00,466
Let me tell you, those brass hats
in Washington who got us into
820
00:56:00,539 --> 00:56:04,066
this disastrous war are not leading
this great nation nearer to victory...
821
00:56:04,143 --> 00:56:05,235
That's Rankin's voice.
822
00:56:05,310 --> 00:56:07,870
Yeah, he's on the radio tonight.
You know, one of those roundtable things.
823
00:56:07,946 --> 00:56:10,471
"Should we or should we not aid Russia?"
824
00:56:10,549 --> 00:56:13,916
- I'll bet he's on the negative.
-
They send out pitiful cries of unity...
825
00:56:13,986 --> 00:56:14,975
Have you got a gun?
826
00:56:15,054 --> 00:56:16,749
Yeah, but I don't know what to do with this.
827
00:56:16,822 --> 00:56:18,847
-
...like so many blind mice.
- I do.
828
00:56:19,992 --> 00:56:23,951
They say that we, the people, shall be
allowed only three gallons
829
00:56:24,029 --> 00:56:25,656
of gasoline every week.
830
00:56:27,566 --> 00:56:29,796
-
Two pounds of bacon a week.
- Trent! Open up!
831
00:56:29,868 --> 00:56:31,529
Rationing of every sort!
832
00:56:33,572 --> 00:56:36,439
Where is the freedom
upon which this land of ours is built?
833
00:56:36,508 --> 00:56:38,135
Lean on it, Mack.
834
00:56:41,814 --> 00:56:46,842
Why, the way things are going,
soon there'll be no difference between...
835
00:56:46,919 --> 00:56:48,910
- Steady now, steady.
-
...whether we should be under
836
00:56:48,987 --> 00:56:51,080
the domination of Germany,
837
00:56:51,590 --> 00:56:56,027
or under the iron heel
of those bureaucrats in...
838
00:57:11,076 --> 00:57:14,637
No powder burns.
Would be if Trent actually shot himself.
839
00:57:15,114 --> 00:57:19,346
Somebody came up the fire escape,
stood out there, let Trent have it.
840
00:57:20,018 --> 00:57:21,645
They tossed a gun in.
841
00:57:23,856 --> 00:57:26,791
Wouldn't be any fingerprints on it,
of course.
842
00:57:26,859 --> 00:57:28,156
A professional job.
843
00:57:28,227 --> 00:57:31,685
The only man that could have told
us the truth, they shut him up, too.
844
00:57:31,764 --> 00:57:33,732
It don't look like much
of a story, does it, son?
845
00:57:33,799 --> 00:57:38,168
No, the best he rates is
a stick and a half of type on Page 9,
846
00:57:38,237 --> 00:57:40,467
and we've got plenty of space.
847
00:57:48,247 --> 00:57:51,648
Hello. Hello? This is Room 310.
848
00:57:51,717 --> 00:57:56,518
Get me the
Gazette on the phone.
Yeah, and stay off the line while I'm talking.
849
00:57:59,291 --> 00:58:04,354
That radio shindig goes on about 8:00
to 9:00, on the stage in front of an audience.
850
00:58:05,631 --> 00:58:10,864
It's now 8:32. Trent couldn't have been shot
much before 8:10.
851
00:58:11,737 --> 00:58:14,831
That means that Rankin's torpedo hasn't had
a chance to report to the boss yet.
852
00:58:14,907 --> 00:58:19,776
So, Rankin can't be sure that Trent is dead.
You get... Hello,
Gazette?
853
00:58:20,345 --> 00:58:23,906
Well, what's the matter?
Are you sleeping or writing your memoirs?
854
00:58:23,982 --> 00:58:26,177
Yes, this is Mr. Thompson.
Get me Photographic.
855
00:58:26,251 --> 00:58:28,583
Try and stay awake from now on.
856
00:58:31,056 --> 00:58:32,853
Joey, this is Griff.
857
00:58:33,325 --> 00:58:36,294
Come over to the Blake Hotel, Room 310.
858
00:58:36,795 --> 00:58:40,231
Hop on it.
Bring plenty of flashbulbs. Right.
859
00:58:44,469 --> 00:58:46,960
- Tony have a lot of cop friends?
- Plenty.
860
00:58:47,039 --> 00:58:49,371
Can you rustle up two or three
that might be off duty tonight?
861
00:58:49,441 --> 00:58:50,635
The meaner looking the better.
862
00:58:50,709 --> 00:58:54,702
Get them over here in uniform.
Come on, fast. Step on it.
863
00:59:03,956 --> 00:59:07,517
This isn't going to be very pretty.
Better wait outside.
864
00:59:26,879 --> 00:59:31,873
The whole story's right there in the paper,
Mr. Rankin. Trent talked his head off.
865
00:59:32,684 --> 00:59:34,311
- Trent is dead.
- Is he?
866
00:59:34,386 --> 00:59:36,547
- When did he die?
- Who told you he was dead?
867
00:59:36,622 --> 00:59:40,080
You see, the cops got there
before Trent died. We were there, too.
868
00:59:40,158 --> 00:59:43,559
He had a swell audience, then I came back
and took charge of the news department.
869
00:59:43,629 --> 00:59:47,531
Read what he said, Mr. Rankin.
Why don't you read what he said?
870
00:59:47,599 --> 00:59:51,330
A hundred and thirty million people
will know before this day is over.
871
00:59:51,403 --> 00:59:55,965
Patient people, Mr. Rankin.
They'll stand a lot.
872
00:59:56,341 --> 00:59:59,538
They seem mighty dumb
and easy to fool, up to a point.
873
01:00:00,112 --> 01:00:03,775
Lincoln said it,
"You can't fool all the people all the time."
874
01:00:03,849 --> 01:00:08,047
Not the American people.
It's the greatness and glory of this country
875
01:00:08,687 --> 01:00:13,181
that, when the little people are hurt
too much or too long, you pay for it.
876
01:00:14,359 --> 01:00:18,728
These people are not going to lay a hand
on you, Mr. Rankin. They don't need to.
877
01:00:18,864 --> 01:00:21,560
Don't you think you'd better talk
while you have a chance, Mr. Rankin?
878
01:00:21,633 --> 01:00:26,002
Well, I was...
Listen, John Carter was dangerous.
879
01:00:26,605 --> 01:00:28,766
He might have ruined this paper.
880
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,468
I had plans for this country, great plans.
881
01:00:31,543 --> 01:00:33,773
Yes, Mr. Rankin, you had plans,
882
01:00:34,646 --> 01:00:37,046
but you forgot that,
if it wasn't for the people,
883
01:00:37,115 --> 01:00:39,640
you wouldn't have been anything.
You couldn't have had anything.
884
01:00:39,718 --> 01:00:43,051
Once you found out that,
so long as democracy lives,
885
01:00:43,121 --> 01:00:44,611
you couldn't grab the power you wanted
886
01:00:44,690 --> 01:00:49,286
for yourself, you grew to scorn the people
and hate democracy.
887
01:00:49,361 --> 01:00:52,262
You were going to be the man
on horseback, riding this paper
888
01:00:52,331 --> 01:00:54,026
for your own personal glory.
889
01:00:54,666 --> 01:00:58,602
But, oh, no. Not now, Mr. Rankin.
Not since your man Trent has at last told us
890
01:00:58,670 --> 01:01:00,262
the truth about you.
891
01:01:00,339 --> 01:01:03,502
- What about Tony Angelo?
- Trent. Trent did it.
892
01:01:03,575 --> 01:01:05,668
Do you confess
you had John Cleveland Carter killed?
893
01:01:05,744 --> 01:01:08,713
You confess you had Tony Angelo killed?
You confess you had Trent killed?
894
01:01:08,780 --> 01:01:12,910
- Oh, yes, yes! Yes.
- Copy desk, hello. Hello?
895
01:01:12,985 --> 01:01:17,081
- Harry, get set for a special run.
-
Are you back on the paper?
896
01:01:17,155 --> 01:01:20,318
Yes, yes, I'm back on the paper.
Got a new contract.
897
01:01:20,726 --> 01:01:25,186
Get me a three-line streamer.
Biggest, blackest type we've got. Take it.
898
01:01:25,263 --> 01:01:30,064
"Rankin Confesses Three Murders
in Plot to Rule Nation."
899
01:01:31,570 --> 01:01:35,973
This is only a phony, Mr. Rankin,
printed only for your benefit.
900
01:01:36,041 --> 01:01:39,875
Trent never confessed.
He was dead when that picture was taken.
901
01:01:40,679 --> 01:01:44,080
"He that taketh the sword shall perish
by the sword,"
902
01:01:44,149 --> 01:01:48,813
so I guess that he that fakes the news
is entitled to perish by faked news.
903
01:01:49,421 --> 01:01:54,552
Page 1 for all editions,
the case of Howard Rankin is closed.
904
01:01:54,626 --> 01:01:59,723
He goes to prison as he should,
and his hired killer, Chris Barker,
905
01:02:00,332 --> 01:02:01,731
goes with him.
906
01:02:04,970 --> 01:02:06,369
What follows?
907
01:02:19,918 --> 01:02:22,682
These men will pay the penalty for murder.
908
01:02:23,288 --> 01:02:26,780
They were brave men
until their crimes were revealed.
909
01:02:26,858 --> 01:02:29,759
Now they are sniveling cowards,
begging for the justice
910
01:02:29,828 --> 01:02:31,591
they sought to destroy.
911
01:02:32,297 --> 01:02:34,265
That is as it should be.
912
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:36,825
What did Howard Rankin want?
913
01:02:36,902 --> 01:02:41,202
What lesson can we, all of us,
learn from him and about him?
914
01:02:42,774 --> 01:02:47,108
This lesson,
that the truly dangerous fifth columnists,
915
01:02:47,712 --> 01:02:51,842
the really frightening traitors in our midst,
are not men who speak
916
01:02:51,917 --> 01:02:55,216
in strange foreign accents
and draw their pay from Hitler.
917
01:02:56,421 --> 01:03:01,916
No, any man who lets himself get
into a group that makes it a business
918
01:03:01,993 --> 01:03:06,259
of hating any other group, or race, or creed
919
01:03:06,331 --> 01:03:09,357
within this nation, is a fifth columnist.
920
01:03:10,435 --> 01:03:14,895
Any man who practices discrimination
in this, of all times,
921
01:03:15,607 --> 01:03:19,134
who stirs up dissatisfaction and unrest,
922
01:03:19,344 --> 01:03:22,541
who blocks our road to victory and peace
923
01:03:22,614 --> 01:03:26,277
for his own vicious purposes, is a traitor.
924
01:03:27,786 --> 01:03:32,485
When the people, the common people,
divide, the dictators will conquer them,
925
01:03:33,859 --> 01:03:35,326
not before.
926
01:03:36,995 --> 01:03:42,956
Let us pray that the people may triumph,
and may God defend the right.
927
01:03:43,305 --> 01:03:49,171
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