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Document - "The Ordeal," Transcript
https://www.danratherjournalist.org/sites/default/files/documents/1981%2001%2020%20The%20Ordeal%20Combines.pdf
Transcript of the CBS News Special Report "The Ordeal," January 24, 1981.
