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Theres people going in and out of the house. a lot of neighbors around. like everything you see on tv. >> you never think its going to be you. >> oh, no. no, no, no. its surreal. very much so. >> what does that loss feel like? >> yeah. i cant put it into words. it was tremendous. it was awful. i immediately called mark and then -- im babbling on the phone. i cant even speak. >> mark gica is charlies uncle, lynns brother. >> after the initial shock theres disbelief. i didnt burst into tears right...

Will be your president too. in this country we rise or fall as one nation. lets resist the temptation to fall back on the same pettiness that has impacted us for so long. >> i have voted since i was 18. i might not have supported you before but as of today i am committed to you. >> this is our time. out of many we are one. while we breathe, we hope. where we are met with cynicism and doubt and those that tell us we cant, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up

>> that period of time in the democratic party, it was divided in two. you had the clinton wing of the party and everybody who had never been a part of the clinton wing. it was a desire for an alternative to the clinton machine, and thats who was getting excited about obama. >> he had a lot of quiet support among some really establishment democrats who couldnt be open about it obviously because hillary clinton was the presumptive nominee. >> i called him into my office and i basically said to hi...

You have to clear that nobody else in the field has the opportunity to clear. and so you clear this hurdle, you win. and he said, i guess ive got to give the speech. i said, you have to give the speech. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. reverend wrights comments were not only wrong, but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity. >> i didnt know if the speech was a good idea. but i know we didnt have any better idea. he called david axelrod and i and said he had just done a series of in...

And get my haircut and i will see you guys at grand park. yeah. yeah. see you later. >> decision 2008, election night. >> good evening. we are already underway. >> kentucky goes in the mccain column. >> kentucky just announced and obviously not for him. new hampshire. maryland. the district of columbia. >> mccain on the board again in tennessee. >> i talked to a former executive director of the republican party. he has no idea who will win the outer suburbs. >> i did not want to be in chicago. i...

Are about hope and change. do you think youd be willing to change it to like "hope?" i was like, i dont know. call him. its his artwork. he changed it to hope, and the rest is history. ♪♪ >> obama was something of a rock star at the time. and i think there were many people on my side of the political aisle who felt like the media was sort of allowing that to occur. >> the interesting thing about obama is he was the most uncomfortable person about the cultic personality that was growing up ar...

>> fred schockner. >> reporter: fred schockner, lynns husband of 25 years. on the surface it didnt make much sense. after all, fred had been cooperative with detectives from day one. and yes, he had moved out of the family house, but he told them the break was amicable. she was my best friend, he said. and yet, not long after the murder, young charlie sought out detective birdsall and whispered an awful question. >> did my dad have something to do with this? >> reporter: charlie remembers what t...

Nothing pointed at fred. and the police did not point at fred. >> they had their reasons. >> we used them in a lot of respects, and you feel guilty because theyre beating their chests and theyre upset and they had no idea that the father of charlie is the one that set the whole thing up. >> well, remember maybe some idea. >> i always had nigh suspicions. >> in spite of the fact it was a burglar and the police said it was a burglar, you still suspected your father? >> i didnt want to put it past ...

Freshman in high school then. he was sitting in math class. somebody told him he was wanted in the principals office. on the way there he thought he was in trouble. and then when they told him -- >> i didnt believe it. i thought it was a joke. >> until your father arrived with tears in his eyes. >> that was when i knew something was wrong. >> his father manfred, or fred as most people called him, came to take charlie home. >> how was your father? >> upset. i mean, he was definitely -- he was cry...

Knolls. she changed somehow after your father left? >> she seemed freer, seemed happier, more able to get excited, just really interested in everything and very lighthearted. >> reporter: but her happiness was short-lived. and when mark first heard she was murdered, his mind went to a very dark place. could fred have had something to do with it? but as much as he disliked fred, he just couldnt see it. >> there were no connections in their personal life to this person that committed the crime. >>...