Glenn Ford talks about life after death row — Transcript

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1. 0:00it took you right through how long is
2. 0:01that process from cell to
3. 0:04to release to fresh air before about 45
4. 0:06minutes yeah does it feel like 45
5. 0:09minutes no i felt like all day
6. 0:12yeah i still couldn't believe it as i
7. 0:14was doing it
8. 0:15you know i still couldn't believe it
9. 0:17and then you'd walk out the front door
10. 0:19yeah
11. 0:21and i still didn't believe it then did
12. 0:22you look back
13. 0:25no
14. 0:27who greeted you
15. 0:29uh my lawyer gary clemens and uh
16. 0:33aaron and calvin duncan came together he
17. 0:36can't pick me up
18. 0:38and at that time they wasn't even
19. 0:41prepared for me to be released at that
20. 0:43particular time while i was being
21. 0:45released there was
22. 0:47speed trying to get there and go trying
23. 0:49to get there before i come out to front
24. 0:51gate yeah yeah so they just made it yeah
25. 0:55and you get in the car
26. 0:56what's the first thing i mean people
27. 0:58have to wonder what's the first thing
28. 1:00you want to do
29. 1:01when you get out there were you even
30. 1:03able to think about here's what i want
31. 1:04to do yeah yeah that's what that's where
32. 1:07the thought process went what i wanted
33. 1:09to do
34. 1:10did a million things pop up
35. 1:12possibilities that i can do
36. 1:14or that i'm free to do like to go close
37. 1:16the door to
38. 1:19uh just sit down and do that
39. 1:21i had choices that i never had in like
40. 1:2330 some odd
41. 1:25had decisions to make that i never made
42. 1:28and it was all
43. 1:31uh catch it as i go try to keep up
44. 1:35and that's why i've been for this past
45. 1:36year trying to catch up
46. 1:39so this past year has just been one
47. 1:41series of ketchup in this series of
48. 1:43learning how i
49. 1:45still can't do them because it can't
50. 1:46work my phone right
51. 1:48computer's still bad for me
52. 1:51i still can't turn one on
53. 1:53but uh
54. 1:55i think i don't know uh i i believe i
55. 1:59would probably
56. 2:02never really catch on to the internet as
57. 2:04i should
58. 2:05but
59. 2:06i really don't need god i don't know
60. 2:08about it anyway
61. 2:10you're not missing too much yeah
62. 2:13yeah
63. 2:15would you tell me about some of the
64. 2:16other challenges in this year
65. 2:18uh
66. 2:20hmm man is trying to keep my health
67. 2:22together
68. 2:23yeah
69. 2:25that and
70. 2:26uh
71. 2:27wondering what's going to happen
72. 2:30after i get denied this this
73. 2:32conversation
74. 2:34i don't know what next you're going to
75. 2:36be about though