Part 51, page 65

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His hairline is, is more down than they have on the sketch.

Okay, this is nineteen ninety-six, why has it been so long for you guys to come forward with this, what, what's happened to make you talk about this?

Okay, what happened in the meantime

Well actually I told him to

Yeah, it was

I told him it would be worth checking out

A few years, I, see like I say, I was into my job, I was a titanium welder and it was all new and we was all getting into that, in fact I was the first to start you know, help the write the book on welding titanium,

Hmm.

So I was really into my work all the time and I had five kids, never, and I mentioned to my other wife a few times, well boy you know that sounds like [REDACTED] and finally I seen after a few years, seen the picture cause see I don't remember none of the run around airplanes looking for him, cause I was on swing, I think that's why, it was long hours a lot of time, and then I somehow got a hold of a book and seen the picture and I kept looking at it and I think man, you know, but I didn't have a picture of [REDACTED] at the time, from just what I can remember that you know, the mouth, the shape the head and and the dark eyes that he had, you know, he had the dark piercing eyes and I said god darn, you know and this, and then I read more books on it and stuff and got a little more information, but me, in the meantime me and my wife broke up and we had a, big battle and I went to California for a year and

That's how he met me.

That's how I met her and then I come back here in nineteen eighty something.

Eighty-eight

Eighty-six.

Eighty-seven.

Eighty-six, eighty-seven.

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