you want bumper stickers? there s some on every vehicle. we would like to just gain public support for our cause of getting sue back to hill city. when you get the big foot of the government come in and do something like that, you d better answer in a way that people can understand that this is wrong. you know, they just protested for three straight days in front of the institute during the raid. they weren t done. we want to protest. okay. let s go protest. stay back. everyone, stay back! you ll be thrown to the ground and arrested. we ve got everything under control here. we don t want any trouble. we had people from all over coming to help. it was amazing the support we had.
town had. it was our dinosaur. it was our museum. it was our lives that had been just torn to pieces. i was in france, and they called me, and, you know, i thought it was a joke. couldn t believe it, and i cried. i was highly emotional, but from that moment that i heard that the specimen was going to be taken, my focus was on the specimen. legally and all that other crap, that s not my concern. my concern was make sure that dinosaur was going to transport, everything was going to be safe. sue belonged here, and what happened was not right.
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that is, of course, in chicago, at the renowned field museum. [ applause ] sue s bones went on the auction block at sotheby s auction house in new york. bidding started at $500,000 and ended at $7.6 million, but totaled $8.4 million, after a fee to the auction house. mcdonald s and the walt disney company helped foot the bill, and the field museum of natural history reaps the benefit. south dakotans say she should have stayed here. maurice williams was there in the building, and i glanced up at him, this man, supported by our government, in receiving 7 point whatever million dollars. but that fossil should have stayed in her hometown museum.
suit. you know, we sued the federal government for return of our property. the black hills institute said it purchased the fossil from maurice williams. originally maurice williams said that too, but then he changed his claim, and he said he had not sold the fossil and that he owned it. mr. williams. pete and neal had made a deal with maurice williams for $5,000. on that saturday, the day before we finished getting sue out of the ground, that we gave maurice williams a check for $5,000, that said for theropod sue on the bottom of the check. even though $5,000 may not seem like a lot, it was a lot of money for our company to spend, and no one had ever paid that much for an undiscovered fossil before. we had lots of conversations with maurice williams about what was happening to the dinosaur. he knew that we were going to bring it back to hill city. he was completely in favor of that. he knew about the museum we were building. he knew we were going to be