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In coming that tragic day on may 14th, hill city. the right thing to do in this case would be to return the dinosaur to hill city. [ cheers and applause ] >> weve got now over 20,000 signatures on the one petition, the first petition to bring sue back. and theyre from all 50 states and from 14 other countries. >> a lot of people didnt have a lot of money around here, so they wanted to contribute any way they could do that. so there were a lot of fund-raisers, parades, buttons, posters. a show of...

Was writing about him and he should be my subject, i broke the first rule of journalism and fell in love with my subject. so we started dating and in our emotional ridiculousness, got married really quite quickly, within months of my moving here. but, it was okay. it was okay for what was going on there. and so we traversed this together and i had created for myself the additional burden of trying to be a journalist and separate my personal feelings from my job. two federal courts have sided w...

Said it purchased the fossil from maurice williams. originally maurice williams said that too, but then he changed his claim, and he said he had not sold the fossil and that he owned it. >> mr. williams. >> pete and neal had made a deal with maurice williams for $5,000. on that saturday, the day before we finished getting sue out of the ground, that we gave maurice williams a check for $5,000, that said for "theropod sue" on the bottom of the check. even though $5,000 may not seem like a lot, it...

Was what a great job they were doing preparing the specimen. id heard inklings that the black hills institute boys had found something. one of the first things i saw was actually, you know, part of the skull of sue still encased in matrix. 65 million years later, this animal really had the power to give you goose bumps. >> to see the look on petes face and neils, those guys were just like proud papas. they would inform you. they would go do classes at school for the kids, so it was very educatio...

Timbuktu or something. just kind of had some little conversations with her. >> it was precious. it was sweet. she was his person. and later, i would realize, she was more of his person than any other person has ever been and ever will be. i got to say, that dinosaur and pete larson were made for each other. and so he had to go talk to her. and that was what -- how it should be.

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It was our lives that had been just torn to pieces. >> i was in france, and they called me, and, you know, i thought it was a joke. couldnt believe it, and i cried. >> i was highly emotional, but from that moment that i heard that the specimen was going to be taken, my focus was on the specimen. legally and all that other crap, thats not my concern. my concern was make sure that dinosaur was going to transport, everything was going to be safe. >> sue belonged here, and what happened was not righ...

Comes back and when people see the movie, theyll see the wonderful people that surrounded us in hill city and tried to help to do everything they could. and the kids and all they gave to try to keep that dinosaur in hill city. all of that is a part of my life and its a part of my life that i cherish. you know, it really made the human being i am today and its not ending. its still continuing. >> it is a remarkable, remarkable story and a remarkable film. peter larson, kristin donna, thank you so...

>> i grew up in hill city, and i lived in los angeles at the time sue was discovered. in 1992, i was working at "unsolved mysteries," a tv show on nbc, researching cases where people convicted of crimes insist they were innocent. and that first day the dinosaur was seized, pete called me on the phone in the middle of it all. he said the fbi was here, and it was dramatic and scary, and he needed coverage. he needed support. so i thought, well, ill go cover the story and take a hiatus and maybe mo...

Different issues through the years, but the newest fight is over a dinosaur. >> it was a big story and a very unusual story. come in and seize sue, everything exploded. >> controversy tonight. controversy surrounding the institute and their most famous discovery. >> it may be the custody battle of the century. scientists, indians, the u.s. government. >> you find any fossils, the government may take them away. not only has he taken this dinosaur away, but hes taken our research away too, every p...