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Best for his family, even if that meant a change of scenery. >> my father got us out of atlanta when we were pre-teens getting to the age where diversions come along, and so he thought it would be good for us to be raised in the country. so we picked up and moved to south carolina to help plantation. >> life at the plantation was challenging. >> when we lived there, there was no air-conditioning, there were no showers. it was just bathtubs there. it was living in an old farmhouse in the woods. >> they pulled pigweed. he gave them machetes to go out to the barns and cut down poison oak and pois...

Outrageous and the mouth of the south. >> there is no cutoff between the brain and the mouth with ted. >> ted was a little unorthodox and a little unpredictable. >> he built a media empire. he won the america's cup. >> we have to go as fast as we can here. >> the world series. >> he put the atlanta braves organization on the map. >> and the heart of jane fonda. >> i will never love anyone like i love him. >> before his world came crashing down. >> it's been a very painful experience, obviously. >> a journey like no other. >> the fact that he was taken off that focus allowed him to go to the ...

My face because i knew what it meant in terms of his development as a person to have had such a really, really difficult early life. >> after the war ended, ted's dad relocated the family to savannah, georgia. he bought a small billboard company and renamed it turner advertising. he insisted ted, not yet a teenager, learn the business. >> i worked a full 40-hour week when i was out of school in the summer. the first year when i was 12 years old, he paid me 10 cents an hour. >> tensions grew between father and son and the family fell apart when ted's 17-year-old sister, mary jane, passed away a...

I love him. >> before his world came crashing down. >> it's been a very painful experience, obviously. >> a journey like no other. >> the fact that he was taken off that focus allowed him to go to the next important phase of his life, the third act. >> you can see the full documentary, the one-hour documentary "ted turner the maverick man" this sunday night, 7:00 p.m. eastern. replayed 1:00 a.m. eastern right here on cnn. truly, truly amazing man. coming up, she's one of obama care's sharpest critics. republican congresswoman michele bachmann is here in "the situation room" to debate our own...