CBS Evening News - 1999-02-22
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[0:03] The momentby-moment evidence of a
[0:05] horrifying hate crime, a Texas jury
[0:08] confronts the details of a black man's
[0:10] death by dragging. Hours before the new
[0:13] war or peace deadline in what used to be
[0:15] Yugoslavia, how President Clinton was
[0:18] double crossed, and life in the '90s, a
[0:22] worldrenowned doctor's secret
[0:23] prescription for a longer, healthier
[0:26] life.
[0:29] This is the CBS [music] Evening News
[0:33] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:36] headquarters in New York. Good evening.
[0:38] [music] The hate trial that called new
[0:41] attention to racially motivated violence
[0:43] in America brought the horror home today
[0:46] in shocking detail. The jury in Jasper,
[0:48] Texas saw and heard heartbreaking
[0:50] prosecution evidence. The excruciating
[0:53] picture of how a black man was dragged
[0:55] to his death. CBS's Bob McNamera is
[0:58] covering the trial.
[1:01] >> On the morning John William King left
[1:03] jail smiling, he would be confronted
[1:05] with the most devastating evidence yet.
[1:07] In damning detail, a pathologist told
[1:10] for the first time how horrifying James
[1:13] Bird Jr.'s last moments of life were.
[1:16] How Bird's body was a gruesome record of
[1:19] a helpless struggle to stay alive. how
[1:21] he fought the force of a truck dragging
[1:23] him down the bumpy road, vainly trying
[1:26] to keep his head off the asphalt,
[1:28] shifting his body to relieve the severe
[1:30] pain, then being killed when he hit a
[1:33] culvert and was decapitated. As King
[1:36] listened passively, the pathologist said
[1:39] Bird's ankles bore marks that a logging
[1:42] chain was used to shackle him to the
[1:43] rear of the truck and drag him to his
[1:46] death. We owed