more t-rexs. but there s only one sue. in your life, you don t hope to find something that good, but we did. and it s still unbelievable to me. it was time for sue s unveiling, finally, which, of course, you can imagine, pete s most exciting moment to be able to be reunited with sue. he wasn t invited. [ cheers and applause ] we go through what happened and the negative of that, but there s another negative. it s the negative of what never happened and what could have happened. and it s a damn shame.
[ crowd chanting ] here was a dream that the 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.
here was a dream that the 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.
a wonderful philanthropist from our area, sam, adelstein, really wanted to help get sue back to south dakota. in visiting with pete, i was fascinated with the possibility that we d have this fantastic dinosaur back in the state where she belonged. stan came ready and willing to spend $1.2 million of his own money. i just had hopes we could make it work. there s still hope sue will make it back home. stanford adelstein will bid on sue. sue has travelled a rocky road since she was found. right now larson s heart is broken. he s lost his most important find and cannot even see her soul, because larson is under house arrest. i m still only on work release. so they ask me to go out there. so they flew he out to new york and i helped them kind of unpack some of the bones. so much was still in jackets. we left those in jackets. we felt that was, first of all, the right thing to do, scientifically, but also, it
in your lifetime, you don t hope to find something that good, but we did. and it s still unbelievable to me. it was time for sue s unveiling, finally, which of course you can imagine, pete s most exciting moment to be able to be reunited with sue. he wasn t invited. three, two, one! [ applause ] we go through what happened and the negative of that, but there s another negative. it s negative of what never happened and what could have