Parents of Ryan Ferguson thrilled with his impending release — Transcript

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1. 0:03all right right now everyone we're
2. 0:04listening to a live press conference out
3. 0:06of columbia missouri now this deals with
4. 0:08the conviction of ryan ferguson being
5. 0:10overturned today let's listen
6. 0:12uh spirit he has a strong spirited by
7. 0:14himself he's an independent thinker and
8. 0:18and he just wants to improve himself he
9. 0:19wants to be a better person and
10. 0:22that was demonstrated by working with
11. 0:24the other inmates and helping them with
12. 0:26their high school diplomas and in fact
13. 0:28one of the things he did i thought was
14. 0:29really amazing beyond playing basketball
15. 0:32is uh he led several discussion groups
16. 0:34the first one he did was uh which
17. 0:36totally amazes me was george orwell's
18. 0:391984.
19. 0:41and uh you know that's not a group of
20. 0:42people that really get into george
21. 0:43orwell but there's a whole wing that
22. 0:46knows all about george orwell now and
23. 0:49now they even read animal farm so uh he
24. 0:52uh a little easier to read but
25. 0:57by um quiz
26. 0:59so he's educated himself he's very
27. 1:01literate now extremely extremely
28. 1:04knowledgeable very we're so proud of him
29. 1:06so proud of him yeah there's some people
30. 1:08no matter what you do you cannot keep
31. 1:10them down
32. 1:11he's an example of that and we're so
33. 1:13proud of him
34. 1:15and any of us can rise to that to that
35. 1:16level if we want
36. 1:18any one of us and he's demonstrated how
37. 1:20how it can be done so thank you for the
38. 1:23question
39. 1:24are you going to repaint the car now
40. 1:28you know i might put a little different
41. 1:29message on the car now
42. 1:31uh but like kathleen said
43. 1:34we're going to be very cautious
44. 1:37i don't know how cautious i've been but
45. 1:39uh about what we say because ryan isn't
46. 1:43right you're listening live to the
47. 1:44father ryan ferguson this is a live news
48. 1:46conference going on in columbia they've
49. 1:47been speaking for about 20 minutes or so
50. 1:50he was uh his conviction was overturned
51. 1:52today his attorney's now working to get
52. 1:53his immediate release from prison we'll
53. 1:55continue to follow this story we'll have
54. 1:56much more on kshb.com as well