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Do you have something like 15 or 16 months still waiting for you?

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Yes.

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On the three year old, the second,

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we're in the state, yes.

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Do you think you could do that now standing on your head or what?

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Are you hopeful of getting that cut down?

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No, I'm hopeful.

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I'm hopeful that you can get that cut down.

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I'm hopeful.

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Are you glad that Nate is getting out now?

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I am, yes.

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Yes, I am.

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I'm hoping that he will be.

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Are you happy about this poll, Roger?

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Well, it's a step towards freedom.

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It's another step towards freedom.

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No, it's kind of a cut to gradually down.

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There's no end to it.

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Well, the gate was absolutely closed before you got that word, is that right?

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That's what I saw, yes.

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And now the gate is open to me, is that right?

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Roger, can you sit in front of me?

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On March the 18th.

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Do you think you have to serve after 17 months?

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No, well, the court will decide that.

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You're trying to have that sentence set aside, is that right?

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That's right, yes.

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What's the procedure before the federal court now, Roger?

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What are you going to do?

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Well, there's a habeas corpus pending in the early

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for the final decision on March the 18th.

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On March the 18th?

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Yes.

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To try and set aside this three year sentence?

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Not only this three year sentence, but the original sentence that I'm bound with.

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That's why my third work institution is out there.

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No, I mean, if you were to go to the federal court,

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it would exonerate me on the original sentence.

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You want to be exonerated on the fact that kidnapping,

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for which you said you were well-loved.

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The opinion of Judge Bynes was taken by the Attorney General of Illinois

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and State's Attorney Adam Moskey before the board.

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I said that the records in that case were taken

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into State's Attorney's office in 42.

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And otherwise, you depose me before the board.

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Another step, like I said, to freedom.

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How did you feel when the warden gave you the full view and the way forward

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that you had been through all?

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What would you feel? What did you think of?

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Well, I sort of expected it to be myself.

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I like that you and me, we all said to each other,

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when the warden blasted you in the room,

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you must have looked at each other and said something.

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Did you expect something?

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Well, I told him that I was going to be here,

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but he was too old.

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And what did he say to you, Mr. Kuwait?

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Well, congratulations, I'll say that.

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Did you both feel like we...

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I mean, I got a couple of boys,

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and none of them joined in, but we don't need the State of Illinois.

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I'm just really there.

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What state are you going to, sir?

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Well, I'm going down to the South, some place,

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and go to play up there, and learn to self-manufacture and sport again.

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Something of my own, something of my own idea.

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Your family has been consistently loyal to you, hasn't it?

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Oh, yes.

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What's the word about Dan?

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Well, uh...

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I imagine he's working there.

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I don't think there was any particular reason why he did that.

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Roger, do you get any feelings?

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Go ahead, Warden.

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How's it feel after you got to parole, Roger?

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Well, uh...

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It's another step for liberty, Warden.

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Am I too far from Roger, or is it alright?

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No, it's alright.

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Just a couple more of you, I'll set them.

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Okay.

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Warden, one more, if you don't mind, I'm going to ask you all this soon,

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if you're here to answer me back.

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Everybody ready?

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You're going to ask what?

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Well, don't answer if you don't want to. I think you will.

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I'll set a lot of business for the price of my life.

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Call the calls for a few minutes.

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What happened when you took the good news to Leopold?

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Well, the word came to me at approximately a quarter to twelve,

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and at the time I was in the parole office of the institution,

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and Tui and Leopold were waiting in the assistant warden's office.

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I had sent for them, and after I received the call from the board,

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I announced to them that they had both been given a parole.

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Was there any emotional reaction from Leopold?

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I would say so. He lighted up and stood up and thanked me for the information.

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Did he have any comment? What did he say?

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Well, I really didn't stay long enough because I had a lot of newspaper people

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and television people and radio people waiting for me.

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Would you read us his statement, please?

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Nathan Leopold will be walking out these gates to freedom after processing,

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which normally takes three to four weeks,

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refused to be photographed or interviewed this morning after you had heard the good news.

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Leopold sent this statement out through warden Reagan.

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I have only two things to say, that I am grateful and that I am determined.

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I am grateful first of all to God, for men can do only what God permits them to do.

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I am grateful to the parole board for giving me this opportunity.

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I am grateful to my many, many friends who have given me their help, their good wishes and their prayers.

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And I am grateful to the press and the other mass media of communication for their fair and charitable coverage of my case.

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And I am determined to do my utmost to justify the faiths shown in me.

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I am acutely conscious that more than my own future hangs in the balance.

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Thousands of prisoners, especially long-term prisoners, look to me to vindicate the rehabilitation theory of imprisonment.

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I will do my best not to fail in that trust.

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Signed, Nathan F. Leopold Jr.

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Warden Reagan said that Leopold lit up like a Christmas tree when he heard the good news.

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And his comment was, thank the Lord, it's wonderful.

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Now back to John Daly in New York.

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Warden Reagan said that Leopold lit up like a Christmas tree when he heard the good news and said, thank the Lord, it's wonderful.

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Now back to John Daly in New York.

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Warden Reagan said that Leopold lit up like a Christmas tree when he heard the good news and said, thank the Lord, it's wonderful.

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Now back to John Daly in New York.