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>> not even close. i won't take no for an answer. >> reporter: some of the best hospitals in the country, sutton had been told there was simply nothing to be done. he would be blind for life. the bullets had permanently destroyed his optic nerve. john had heard about a landmark break through at harvard affiliated research institute in boston where a renowned researcher had regenerated the optic nerve in mice using stem cell therapy and drugs, human trials would be next. so in march 2008, almost three years to the day after his son was arrested, sutton and his girlfriend kathy were on the cold,...

Germ of hope lodged itself in his stubborn mind. and you were thinking maybe they can do it for you? >> i said i'm in the right spot. >> he talked to the leading researchers working on optic nerve repair. >> have you done any studies with severed optic nerves? >> he peppered them with questions, like he was cross-examining witnesses. >> mike gilmore, then the president, offered sutton a glimmer at least of hope. >> we will be able to regenerate an optic nerve. it's not such a question of can we but when can we? and it was a good news-bad news sort of day. >> i do not want to mislead you or pro...

Hat or visor, black shirt, black pants. face shaded by the visor. and open fired. all i really remember was one bang. >> reporter: the bullets destroyed his right eye and severed the optic nerve in his left eye. the optic nerve connects the eye to the brain. without it sight is impossible. but the bad news, of course, didn't end there. >> reporter: how did you find out about susan? >> at some point, i asked melissa, how is mom doing? and melissa said she is not doing quite as well as you. they're working on her somewhere else. so you need to hang in there. didn't really mean too much to me. i ...

To think what that would be like. >> yeah. >> it's heavy. >> memorizing thing an going into court. he is a pretty determined guy. >> yeah, he's great. >> but adapting, even successful adapting, using a talking typewriter, for example, wasn't enough for john sutton because he waited for his son's long-delayed trial. he pursued with something like an obsession a quest to regain his eyesight. >> most people might have given up by then. can't do anything. >> not even close. >> not you. >> i won't take no for an answer. >> at some of the best hospitals in the country, sutton had been told there was...

Light up the airplane. but imagine someone putting something to flash in your eyes and you are blinded for a couple seconds. it can damage the optic nerve as well. >> jon: with hundreds of people on board the single-engine aircraft this is a dangerous game. i want to talk about good news in the aviation world. the world wondered what happened to have to missing malaysian airlines flight that disappeared and there is a new deal in the un allowing real-time tracking of planes anywhere in the world by satellite. the absb system it is called and it is being installed on planes to help them see one...