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My things. >> reporter: and distraught family members who feel betrayed. >> i just said, no. >> hello. this is conrad roy iii. >> >> reporter: our story starts with conrad. his mother lynne roy says he was an easy child. what kind of kid was he? >> definitely sensitive. never gave me a hard time with anything. did well in school, had friends, loved baseball. >> reporter: conrad was her first born. two daughters would come later. looking back, she remembers his early years as good ones. >> every picture i have of him, he looks like a little goof ball. >> reporter: conrad grew up in newbedford, ...

♪ >> bret: finally tonight it's october. major league baseball, the washington nationals will take on the milwaukee brewers and tonight's national league wild card game right here in d.c. a big night, no one would be more excited than our dear friend, the late charles krauthammer. he loved baseball. it was his passion. he became a devoted nats fan when the team came to washington in 2005 and as he told us a few years back, he almost never missed a home game even when he was right here on the "special report" panel that ended at 7:00 p.m. >> when i started to do your show every night, and end...

America grew to love had personal battles with addiction that played out ultimately in a very public fall from grace. now joe namath opens up about overcoming all odds. in his new book all the way, my life in four quarters, this is the untold story of joe namath. >> martha: i like to sort of go back to the beginning. i was just struck by reading about the fact that you, as a high school kid, in western pennsylvania were recruited to play major league baseball right out of high school. >> you know, if i had my druthers, i would have been a baseball player. back then, man, i loved baseball. i wa...

Anchor. >> how do you want to be remembered for all time? >> that i did it with honor. duty, honor, country. you know, i hope people will go back and say we did the right thing in facing down this aggression, setting it back, restoring credibility not only to the u.s. but of all those who want to stand against aggression. that's a point in history. but i want to be remembered as a guy that did it with honor, that did his best. >> those are powerful words, john. a lot of people will contrast that with the critics of the current president of the united states. >> it is the athlete in president b...

Hoover's strategy, we would start talking baseball. we talked a lot of baseball. we talked baseball for hours. he loved baseball. he was a great athlete. the thing that strikes me, listening to date to his grandson. i have to tell you as a grandfather how much it would mean to me to have a grandson get up there and not only say that his grandfather was a great guy but to talk about the idea that it wasn't just rhetoric. sometimes you think kids look at you when you are talking and say oh, he's just talking. he's just saying that stuff. he said when his grandfather talked about honor, duty, whe...