friends. >> it was in his second year in the senate when brooks found the cause close to his heart. >> victims rights was simply one of those things that nobody talked about. >> but of course that was the core experience of his life. did he know how the system treats victims of crime? oh, yes he did. so he introduced oklahoma's first victims right act. >> the jury never hears one word about the family or not considering how brutal that crime was. this person took another individual's life in these cases. >> the victims rights movement was in its infancy then. he met resistance from judges and prosecutors. >> there were judges, there were state senators who had championed the rights of the accused. and certainly the accused is entitled to basic rights. and -- but there's a long tradition of that. it's a relatively new phenomena