everyone, stay back! 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 the community, all over the black hills trying to help. it was amazing the support that we had. we were fighting on everything we could think of from the sue freedom run, to petitions that we took, to the state capitol. i would talk in front of groups anywhere. terry was so involved in this case. he lived it. one of the most moving things in my life to see was this wonderful group of people here, supported us getting sue back. the u.s. attorney, mr. kevin schieffer, made a terrible error.
the pelvis off of sue s skull in the beginning of may 1992. taking that hip off of sue s skull was critical to doing it right, because you don t have a second chance. you okay there, terry? oh! okay. if you think of two big ships, you know, when you get those kind of weights going on, one little movement, you don t know what s going on. it could be cracking it all the way through inside. okay, go. go. go, go, go, go, go, go, go. yeah, that must be where the weight is. yep. yep. okay, it s looking good. we re free here. we re free here. what am i down to? hey, we re loose in the front finally! all right. yeah!
was going to look like. basically, we d take different sections so we weren t in each other s way and just kind of worked the specimen until we could start removing bones. you know, and every time somebody found a bone or fragments, they just said, the s bone. we wouldn t say, skull. we didn t want to jinx it. pretty early on, i hit something hard, and so, i stopped. it s the s word, i said, thinking, i bet i hit the skull. when i got down digging and then started really working with the smaller knife, we found, as we were going down, is the back of the skull. and we re getting down, and here s this skull taking shape, and we get out on the side, and i put terry to work on cleaning the side of the skull, cause