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The incredible story of and the discovery of and the fight over the largest and most complete t-rex skeleton ever found. the dinosaur that would be named sue is now on display at a chicago museum. it was found in 1990 preserved for 67 million years in what is now south dakota and then two years later, the fbi and the national guard seized the skeleton, setting off a battle over sue that has documented in its film, dinosaur 13. in a moment, speak to the paleontologists and in a clip from the film. >> crawl up on the cliff face and i see three articulated vertebrae and from that point on, i'm ab...

>> my reaction was relief that that's the best place, where the public and scientific community will have access to it. >> i think it's probably the second best place she could have been. it's going to go where millions of people would see her. she's not going to be in prison anymore. sue is free. and people can see her and they can get the same excitement that i have for her, and they can love her just like i do. >> to me, the dinosaur still belongs in hill city. he's the guy who can go out and find half a dozen more t-rexes, but there's only one more sue.

From our area, sam adelstein, really wanted to help get sue back to south dakota. >> in visiting with pete, i was fascinated with the possibility that we'd have this fantastic dinosaur back in the state where she belonged. >> stan came ready and willing to spend $1.2 million of his own money. >> i just had hopes we could make it work. >> stanford adelstein will bid on sue. >> sue has travelled a rocky road since she was found. >> right now larson's heart is broken. he's lost his most important find and cannot even see her soul, because larson is under house arrest. >> i'm still only on work re...

It is clearly a violation under the antiquities act to remove antiquities from united states lands without the permission of the united states. >> the federal government doesn't show up with the national guard and an assistant, or pardon me, an acting united states attorney in pancake make-up with the intention of working things out somewhere down the road. >> after we got over the initial shock, those of us who were packing the dinosaur kind of went into our packing mode, but towards the end of the day, it became obvious that something was going on with the town. >> people around town noticed...

And of course, the centerpiece of it all was that astonishing skull. absolutely amazing. >> kristen and stan adelstein are there. they're going to try to buy the dinosaur for us. and terry winston is there, the guy who fought for this dinosaur forever. susan hendricks is there. everybody's anticipating this auction. and i'm thinking, we have a chance, we have a chance. sotheby's had arranged for one of the people who normally would be taking bids to give me a running detail on the telephone about what was happening at the auction. >> i was at the institute too. i could not bear to listen to ...