they were. and he also helped he let me help him in the garden. we had inmates could plant a little plot of vegetables and things, and he took me in, taught me something about gardening, and i became very good at raising radishes and green beans, i m telling you. larry: what effect did prison have on you, jack? what effect? larry: impact. change you at all? it changed me somewhat because i realize now there are so many men who are not who don t belong there. that s because we use the wrong method of getting them there. it s called sanctuary. we don t have the old sanctuary method which according to the old sanctuary method, doc wouldn t be in there. larry: why. you d find out his crime, how
wouldn t be in there. why. you d find out his crime, how he s behaved himself. i never heard doc use bad language in the prison like other inmates you. who did you kill? i killed larry switt in michigan. over what? an argument him and i had. so you knew you did it, right? oh, yeah. was it all self-defense? did you have any plea? no, no. it wasn t self-defense, larry. it was an act of cruelty on my part. and you re saying, kevorkian, that should be given? don t forgive him. he paid a penalty. we have a penalty for it. but after 40 years in prison, what sense is there to continue it when the man is civil, he speaks calmly, you can tell. yes, sir.
from vermont. he had lou gehrig s disease. how did you feel about the doctor being convicted in the death of your brother, terry? well, of course, we never felt that jack should have been convicted because we don t believe it was a crime. as far as we re concerned, it was an act of mercy, and we ll always be very grateful for that service that jack provided for my brother. larry: were you involved in the arrangements to have dr. kevorkian do this? yes. at my brother s request, i contacted jack initially through the mail. thereafter i talked with jack on the phone and made the arrangements through him, which, by the way, the recent hbo special completely misrepresents how this happened. they rewrote it to have my
and he married, i understand, while he was in prison, has a devoted wife who visits him every time. i met her. great woman. how is she? oh, great. she left a while ago. we have our visits every wednesday, and she s home right now. thanks. yeah. thank you, larry. hang tough. see you, jack. thanks, doc. good to talk to you again. all right. we ll be back with kevorkian s attorney right after this. [ slap! ] [ slap! slap! slap! slap! slap! ] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster. tum ta tum tum tums
what s its purpose. larry: to analyze and determine the constitution. analyze the constitution and my attorney submitted it on the basis of the ninth amendment. they don t want to use that. never been used in 219 years. larry: give me the amendment. i used to know them all by heart. the bill of rights, anything that s enumerated can t be, shall we say, lessened or abridged by taking away any of the natural rights that people have, and therefore the natural rights larry: but it didn t define them, right? no, but just think of a natural right. wow you d need an ameantment to allow women to vote? they had the right to vote. larry: what were you thinking? the same thing with the 14th amendment. do you need an amendment to say the black people are the same as