CBS Evening News - 2000-04-20

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[0:02] A father pleads for his son. Juan Miguel

[0:05] Gonzalez makes an emotional public

[0:07] appeal to be reunited immediately with

[0:10] Elian.

[0:12] Columbine, 1 year after the massacre.

[0:14] You will see how the town has changed

[0:17] and how it has not. And the killer next

[0:20] door. A 30s used DNA to try to prove

[0:23] this family man is a serial killer.

[0:30] This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:34] With Dan Rather reporting from CBS News

[0:37] headquarters in New York.

[0:40] Good evening. It has been 2 weeks now

[0:42] since Juan Miguel Gonzalez came to the

[0:44] United States hoping to get back his son

[0:46] Elian. 5 months since he last saw the

[0:49] boy in person. Today, disappointed and

[0:52] frustrated, Gonzalez took his case

[0:55] directly to the American people.

[0:57] He begged Americans to send a message to

[0:59] President Clinton to reunite father and

[1:02] son.

[1:03] Fidel Castro sent a message of his own

[1:05] today. He massed thousands of Cubans in

[1:07] Havana to protest what he calls the

[1:09] unconscionable delay in returning the

[1:12] boy to his father and to Cuba. The child

[1:14] remains tonight with relatives in Miami.

[1:17] It is there that CBS's Byron Pitts

[1:19] begins our coverage. Byron?

[1:21] Dan, for months now we have heard and

[1:23] seen the passions of Cuban Americans

[1:25] here in Miami. Today, we heard a

[1:27] father's pain.

[1:30] Late this afternoon in Bethesda,

[1:31] Maryland, in his first public statement

[1:33] since he spoke with 60 Minutes, Juan

[1:36] Miguel Gonzalez talked briefly and

[1:38] directly to the American people.

[1:42] "Please help me," he said. "I love my

[1:44] son. I want him at my side."

[1:46] With his voice cracking, Gonzalez

[1:48] pleaded for people to write President

[1:50] Clinto

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