shepard: celebrating the life of the first lady of the greatest generation with a nod to john meachum, the presidential historian. i m shepherd smith outside of st. martin episcopal church with thousands gather and officers line the street on a cloudy and looks like it might rain day. ly tell you, though, earlier i was speaking to assistant pastors at the church who said to me quietly in aa a room across the street, it would take a lot of nerve to rain on barbara s funeral. we shall see.
people from the church where the safe had been stolen and becky and bertie joe started small talk telling them about bertie joe s son and the church members were trying to be nice and looked at them, smiled and asked questions and you could tell they were very hurt. at one point one of the assistant pastors asked bertie joe, so where exactly are you living now and all of that humor and all of that glee immediately erased from their faces and said we re not supposed to talk about that. it was all business from the beginning of the conversation. it s all about work. the kind of work he s talking about isn t a 9:00 to 5:00 variety. it s the scams the girls have been working on for most of their lives since they were teenagers in illinois. these girls were tom boys. jeans, shirt tails out. to be honest with you, the first time i was associated with them, i thought they were twin boys. retired police sergeant danny danner dealt with them
hair. at one point one of the assistant pastors birdie joe, so where exactly are you living now and all that humor and all that glee erased from their faces and birdie joe said we re not supposed to talk about that. it s all about work. the kind of work he s talking about isn t the 9:00 to 5:00 variety. it s the scam the girls have been working at for most of thash lives since they were teenagers in hoopeston, illinois. the first time i was really associated with them i thought they were twin boys. retired sergeant danny danner dealt with them frequently. a tough word to use is mooch. they would mooch off of anybody, red cross, mooching dinner, lunch, breakfast, dinner, supper, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. everybody in town knew the girls, so they didn t look like
sitting in the courtroom with just them and the people from the church where the safe had been stolen. they started small talk telling them about birdie jo s son and talking about the weather. the church members trying to be nice looked at them and smiled and asked questions. you could tell they were very hurt. at one point one of the assistant pastors asked birdie jo, so where exactly are you living now? and all that humor and all that glee immediately erased from their faces and birdie jo said, we re not supposed to talk about that. it was all business from the beginning of that conversation. it is all about work. the kind of work he s talking about isn t the 9 to 5 variety. it s the scams that girls have been working at for most of their lives. since they were teenagers in illinois. these girls were tomboys. jeans, shirttails out. to be honest with you, the first time i was associated with them, i thought they were twin boys. retired police sergeant danny