Valentino Dixon On Golf & Prison Reform — Transcript

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1. 0:00well first on the rundown tonight at
2. 0:015:30 for 27 years
3. 0:03his life was behind bars imagine that
4. 0:06until the district attorney reviewed his
5. 0:08case and got him exonerated of a murder
6. 0:10that another man admitted to Valentino
7. 0:13Dixon is an artist and his ability has
8. 0:16landed him opportunities as a free man
9. 0:18that some only dreamed to have channel
10. 0:21twos Claudine Ewing sat down with him to
11. 0:23talk about his trip to the Masters how
12. 0:26life changes last year Valentino Dixon
13. 0:28was a man with a number in prison
14. 0:30talking to us about why he should be
15. 0:32free this year he's on the green and
16. 0:35meeting Tiger Woods while in prison for
17. 0:37murdered that he was eventually
18. 0:38exonerated of dixon was asked to draw a
19. 0:41picture of Augusta National while in
20. 0:44Attica this is the picture that got it
21. 0:45started this is the picture Dodgers
22. 0:47ruled based all of this okay
23. 0:49which led to the Golf Digest
24. 0:51investigating the case and drawing golf
25. 0:53courses are now part of his signature he
26. 0:56calls this the granddaddy of them all
27. 0:57this picture of Augusta and now that
28. 1:00he's seen it in person you can see
29. 1:02things in person that you can't possibly
30. 1:05see in the magazine or photograph and he
31. 1:08plans to do it again I believe I can
32. 1:10calculate a whole a lot more vivid a lot
33. 1:13more detail than ever he knows it was a
34. 1:17privilege to be at the Masters well I
35. 1:19went as the Golf Digest illustrator he
36. 1:21will do future drawings of what he saw
37. 1:23but it's who he met target was Jack
38. 1:26Nicklaus Tom Watson gave me a lesson
39. 1:29just like that and before Tiger Juan
40. 1:31Dixon predicted
41. 1:33I just felt it in my heart that he was
42. 1:35gonna win he says Tiger knew his story
43. 1:37it was just the greatest feeling in the
44. 1:39world especially from where I come from
45. 1:41and when Tiger won Dixon was on the road
46. 1:44to an Innocence Project conference I got
47. 1:46text that he won while at the innocence
48. 1:49conference he met with Amanda Knox the
49. 1:51woman who spent time in an Italian
50. 1:52prison for murdering a fellow exchange
51. 1:55student and then acquitted Dixon is on a
52. 1:57mission for prison and sentencing reform
53. 2:00ultimately my goal is to get before
54. 2:02Congress and to speak to the President
55. 2:04and say hey this is a human rights issue
56. 2:07not just civil rights violations against
57. 2:09all people and Valentino Dixon said the
58. 2:13experience that the Masters was awesome
59. 2:15and beyond belief Augusta will always be
60. 2:17a passion project other projects for him
61. 2:19include making greeting cards some of
62. 2:21them I have in my hand and some other
63. 2:23big companies are also looking to work
64. 2:25with him you know he does not seem
65. 2:26bitter to me all of his bitter he's
66. 2:29coming off as someone who really wants
67. 2:31to change the system it's interesting
68. 2:32you say that because today when we were
69. 2:34sitting down speaking with him in his
70. 2:35home I said you you seem so humble and
71. 2:38he said where else how else would I
72. 2:41rather be than humble I mean think about
73. 2:43it last year this time we were making a
74. 2:44judgment stew go prison right and now
75. 2:48he's with millionaire and he's doing a
76. 2:50lot of good in this world and he is yeah
77. 2:52and you know it's also about second
78. 2:53chances that's one of the things he
79. 2:55talked about and that's why he wants to
80. 2:56meet with Congress 27 years behind bars
81. 2:58yeah all right thank you cloudy