Transcripts For WDJT Through The Decades 20160924

And im kerry sayers. And iyour host, bill kurtis. This isthrough the decades. There are only so many corners of this world that we have not explored but the mystery of what or who call those nooks and crannies home fascinates us. Entire industries have been born to shine a light in the shadows o a elaborate backstories. So in the next hour, we are looking back on the theories, hoaxes, mysteries and the lengths we will go to try and find an answer. We begin in roswell, new mexico. A site of so much lore. The centerpiece of any number of conspiracy theories that have forever connected the otherwise mundane southwestern town with the extraterrestrial. Its a cultural identity created over a single event that ordinary but would morph into something extraordinary. In july, 1947. Something crashed on a ranch near roswell, new mexico. Initially reported to be some kind of flying saucer, the air force put that speculation to rest taking reporters to the site of the crash and showing them debris of w a weather balloon. The story disappeared in a matter of days. But then, 30years later, in the late 1970s, the roswell incident, as it would become known, reemerged when an officer who was among the first to investigate the wreckage in 1947 broke his silence asserting that what he saw was quote not of this world. Almost immediately, the story which had lain dormant for three decades began to unravel. Witnesses or at least those who claimed to be, came forward in droves. And suddenly, a minor weather balloon crash was an alien landing, complete with a government coverup. A tale that the media ran away with by way of boo, tv shows and movies. With by way of boo, tv shows and movies. So that by the 1990s, 50 years after the original incidthe u. Sy decided to set the record straight and released two reports. The second of which was made public on june 24, 1997. The air force today released its latest explanation for whats come to be known as the roswell incident. Roswell, new mexico is a place where ufo buffs believe a flying saucer crashed landed 50 years ago. Perfectly with air force research projects. The air force bravely titled its report case closed but with the roswell legend thats little more than wishful thinking. Despite the report, the roswell incident still holds on to a culture convincedthat humans are not alone in this galaxy. It looks just like theyre getting desperate. Either they have an answer to this or they dont. We dont know why theyre feeding people answers that are so transparent. The government has not leveled with us. Theres no doubt about it. I would stipulate that the only dummies involved is whoever initiated that report. From innocuous to phenomenal and whether its debunking is to be accepted or not roswells notoriety, its spot on the map, owes everythingto the brevity of a single moment. A lake in scotland or more specifically what might be in that lake it might be a reptile, it might be a fish or it might be a hoax. Whatever it is, it was front page news in 1934. The first photographic evidence of the loch ness monster. Loch ness on which the eyes of the world are focused. The reputed haunt of a prehistoric monster or monsters and the newly found adventure ground of modern gullivers. Mr. Wetherell, the biggame hunter and his party, who have been hot on the trail of the monster for some time, set out from coyes to comb the lake. There is competition from local enthusiasts with ambitions to earn eternal fame for the discovery of a species long thought fabulous. The first record of a monster in the loch ness vicinity is from an account of the sixth century saint columba from the creature by warding it off with the sign of the cross. Sightings over the succeeding centuries were few and equally easy to dismiss until the daily mails front page story of april 21, 1934. The socalled surgeons photo taken by a london gynecologist who didnt want his name attached to it caused a sensation. The monsts appearance seemed to suggest an unusually longlived plesiosaur that somehow survived extinction unusually longlived plesiosaur that somehow survived extinction and though the photograph has been consistently debunked over the decades, that hasnt stopped true believers from continuing to look for evidence of nessie. In fact, some have devoted their lives to it. One man who firmly believes in the legend is a lowly sassenach called frank searle. For seven scanned the loch for sight and sound of its elusive tenant. Hes a Firm Believer that the monster or monsters exist and his lochside museum sustains interest in nessie herself. Others have approached the search more scientifically. This is the widest part of loch ness just over one mile wide. This is where the most loch ness just over one mile wide. This is where the most been made. Reported sightings of the loch ness monster not only attract tourists, they inspire each year increasingly sophisticated attempts to find evidence that nessie is real. Sonar has been used for several years to plumb the depths of the loch. Interesting echoes have been recorded but no proof of what caused them. The current crop of investigators includes both adrian shine, an enthusiastic but untrained amateur, is a believer. Theres no scientific reason why there shouldnt be a loch ness monster. The most impressive effort is being made by two american electronic engineers. Their large sonar array is designed to track any creature that ventures beneath it and bring back a piece of its flesh with remotely fired dart guns. So far, these bright young scientists have found nothing and dont believe anyone else has. Across the bay lives the senior monster watcher, who says she has sighted nessie sixteen times. Winre her own unique method for finding nessie. Now, nessie, ive got to concentrate. Yes, thats it. Thats the line. Now the line the line is just to the right of the theres cathouse. Theres the line. See. Now if i do my pendulum yes, there they are. But on the loch, there was the wake of a passing boat. It seems inevitable that the mystery will be solved and it could be that well lose something in the process. The real question is, is nessie reptile or fish . The scientists will find out. They will get her because she there, as everest was climbed because its there; as the other side of the moon was explored because it was there. Nessie must be found, trapped, measured, and analyzed and nessie must be found, trapped, measured, and analyzed and maybe disneyland performing twice a day, catching frozen fish in her mouth on cue. If that happens, then a longsimmering rebellion may erupt by children, storytellers, poets, magicians, all those who believe that what is, in the foreground, is more wonderful because in the background is what just might be. Theyre going to get nessie, but theres still a chance for the abominable snowman. When our journey continues, as Eric Severeid said, theres snowman. Well take you back to when the most famous explorer in the world went in search of the yeti. Plus, well look at one of the most enduring conspiracy theories and the continued fascination with a certain grassy knoll. They are the mysteries that from inside a goverment base in new mexico to the murky depths of a lake in scotland, our to prove what has only been myth brings us now to the highest reaches on earth. It is there among the himalayan mountains that you hear stories of the abominable snowman or yeti. And it was in 1960 that none other than Sir Edmund Hillary went in search of answers. The himilayas seen here from a 9 af aircraft in wartime are the giants of the earth. Grim, inhospitable, forbidding and the greatest of these giants, of itself, a permanent challenge to the adventurous spirit of man. It was here at the roof the world that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made their forever mark on history. In 1953, they became the first men to climb mount everest. When they came down, their names and faces graced the pages of newspapers and television for tenzing and hillary, the men who reached the top, there were silver replicas of the mighty mountain which they had conquered. But even a knighthood wouldnt keep hillary from exploring the globe. In 1958, he was back in the headlines. This time, hillary headed south leading a team over the 12 hundred mile over land journey to the south pole. Five men, three tractors, and their fuel almost finhe after the last 70mile forced march. Thats how the new Zealand Antarctic team, led by Sir Edmund Hillary, reached the south pole. But by 1960, the famous explorer was being called back to the mountains where he made his name. He was drawn by stories the sherpas told and by footprints he had seen in the snow. The myth of a monster lurking among the earths highest reaches. Sir edmund is going to try another expedition. Hes here for it. This time, hes going off in quest of that legendary character, the yeti, the abombinable snowman. One of the objectives of the expedition really is to make a search for more evidence or try to find this creature the yeti or abombinable snowman as commonly called. I must admit that my attitude to the creature is im fairly open minded about it. I wouldnt say i necessarily even believe it exists but theres no doubt at all that these tracks have bee at great altitudes between 16 and 19,000 feet and were going there and were going to have a good look to try and find whats making them. In other words, you think theres enough evidence to support a need for an investigation of what this thing is . I do indeed. I think our main approach is we want to find out whats making them. If we find out theres only a bear or some form of monkey or something well im good, at least weve proved something. But of course believe its not a bear of a monkey of any type but that it is actually some sort of cross between a man beast which they call the yeti. And when he returned to london, he didnt come home empty handed. He brought with him a scalp said to be from a yeti that had been preserved in a nepalize monastary for hundreds of years. While science would prove that hillarys scalp came from a himilayan animal similar to a goat, it hasnt stopped thwh years have followed the great explorers path into these mountains in search of the unknown. Everyone loves a mystery and this one rolls around every few years. But some of us are suckers enough to bite. I was exploring a new National Park in nepal when i got word that some villagers wanted to talk to me about their evidence that a abominable snowman. If it lived anywhere, this was a good place. We were at 10,000 ft. Looking up to an ice wall at 25,000 ft. The evergreen forest crawled up the slope looking like shangrila which was another good story to do. When we arrived at the village, perched on the 45degree slopes, a few villagers had laid out their stencil that they had put over footprints, large footprints that they claimed belonged to an ancient creature half human and half bear that lived in the forest. Humans did not inhabit the forest and thats why there had been reports of an unidentified beast. But as i looked at the footprint outlines, it seemed clear to me that they had been made when the footprints were in melting snow. Footprints expand as they melt and lose their shape. These had rounded, bear claw type feet identify the yeti. No eyewitness among the villagers. I passed on further exploration but i could see the origin of the legend, especially when you have people who want to believe and who doesnt want to believe in a beast that walks like a man even one that no one has found. I know you [laughs] welcome hi were your neighbors. We live across the street. Thanks for this. I see youve got Time Warner Cable like the rest of the hood. Genius. Yeah, they offer tons of free hd channels. And you can record six shows at the same time. And with the super fast internet, entertainment nirvana ch to Time Warner Cable for 89. 99 per month, youll get free hd channels, 30 meg internet with no data cap, and unlimited calling. Call now. Looks like youre all hooked up. Games about to start. Lets do it. Were watching here . Oh yeah. Ohh. How about you and i go watch my favorite show . Switching is easy. Youll get our exclusive onehour arrival window, a moneyback guarantee, and theres no contract to sign. Oh youve got the twc phone. Its unlimited calling to like half the world. Including mexico, canada, india, european union. Yeah. This will work as a coffee table. It says. Fragile. Get tv, internet and phone for 89. 99 per month. Plus free installation, tv equipment, and epix included. He captivated the nation and nobody knew his name. On november 24, 1971, a man hijacked a flight bound for seattle demanding a 200 hundredthousand dollar ransom. Since that day, the mystery of db cooper has boggled the minds of americans through the decades. A mystery story. It has a villan and a hero but in this case they may be the same person. Case they may be the same person. He landed himself a place in american folklore. People called him a daredevil. They called him a robin hood. The story of a man who hijacked a boeing 727 and escaped with hundreds of thousands of dollars never to be seen or heard from again. He became something of a rouge folkhero. A ballad asks where did you go d. B. . Did he die . More importantly, who is db cooper . Cooper the name of course given by the man who carried out the only unsolved hijacking in american history. The story begins on november 24, 1971 as i reported for authorith here thinking the hijacker may have jumped off at the end of the runway as the plane touched down. But, the problem is more complex. A daring parachute escape from a flyi 727 somewher and seattle, washington. A massive manhunt brought no trace of cooper. Hed a massive manhunt brought no trace of cooper. Hed seemingly just vanished. Then, with each passing year, the mystery and legend of db cooper just kept gtheres beens but theres one d. B. Cooper a guy who jumps out of a plane with a parachute and completely disappears. And then apparently writes letters telling everybody thank think youre great. And this think youre great. And this just blows everyones minds. Hes a fo just blows everyones minds. It would be 1980 before any trace of cooper showed up thats when a boy named brian ingram found a stack of money along the columbia river. It was 58hundred dollars all in 20dollar bills. Over the years, the fbi has suspects that could be cooper like every l the fbi is looking into these claims but for now, the true identity of db cooper remains a mystery. This one is not solved and were still after d. B. Cooper. This one is not solved and were still after d. B. Cooper. And over the years the fbi released more sketches. Like more before that the guy is looking into the claims but as of now of the identity remains a mystery. This one is not solve. To one of the greatest mysterieswe remember when a comission tasked with delivering a grieving nation concrete answers in the death of a president came up short of earth has always been a point of fascination for everyone, even in this 50s era milky way ad. Knock. Knock. Whos there . Artie. Artieficial ingredients should mars . Never artificial is a nasty word at mars. Yes. Everything is for real in bars from mars. Milky way bars for instance are made the milky way with gallons and gallons of whole grade a milk, fluffy whites of cackle fresh milk chocolate. All to make every bite a lucious, chewy treat. Real satisifaction. Thats what you buy candy for and thats why artificial is a nasty word with the folks at mars. Thats why everything is for real in bars from mars so naturally, the best candy on earth comes from mars. Och years of conspiracy theories lead scientists to exhume the went years body of legendary outlaw jesse james. Buried here, later moved to a nearby cemetery, the last chapter to an American Legend may soon be unearthed near the edison warhols her hotjesse was buried right here in the yard of the home. A team of scientists is a that is buried here is really jesse james. Its members of the family now Professor James star, a forensic anthropologist at George Washington university, is leading a team of scientists who hollingerpositive id using dna tests full of loose should give us 100percent certainty as james. Among those hoping it is is descendents, some claiming jesse left missouri to lead a secret life fathering many children in texas. Investigators will analyze the remains here at a kansas city this is the one thats claimed to havbe jesse james. Theres some doubt. Monday with history buffs hopeful they will validate an outlaw legend jesse james and hia rest in peace. Frank courier. Cbs news. Clay county, missouri. We turn now to the one Conspiracy Theory that stands above them all. Who killed president john f. Kennedy and why . From the grassy knoll to a magic bullet, the lynchpins of all the theories are as familiar Abraham Zapruder on his home movie camera. To understand why the questions have lingered for so long, you have to understand the state of shock the nation was in after that fateful day in dallas. As that turned to grief and later confusion, the Warren Commission was ordered to find the answers. But its in their final report that sparked some real questions. Questions. By some, the assassination of the thirtyfifth president of the United States is still regarded as one of the greatest mysteries of the modern era. Four not three shots may have been fired. He believed Cubas Fidel Castro was involved. The motorcycle with an open microphone in the president ial motorcade. But it was certainly not intended to be. In fact, president johnson wanted the matter thoroughly investigated. So he directed a group of dedicated statesmen to come up traumatic act. One that left a shell shocked america to try and pick up the pieces the asassination left in its wake. And it was up to that served on johnsons Warren Commission to put those pieces together and to quote evaluate all the facts the commission met briefly with the president this morning andur of their investigations into the death of president kennedy. There was no ceremony. The chief justice merely handed the huge volume, five inches thimore president. Mr. Johnson hefted it in both hands and said, it seemed pretty heavy. then, it was all over and the commission filed out soberly, looking like men whod completed a long, hard a job that went on just shy of 10 months. The Warren Commission completed their report on september 24, 1964. What they found, matched the narrative that had dominated the media and the nation for the past year that Lee Harvey Oswald had killed the president with three shots fired from a rifle at the Texas Book Depository and the the second shot to president kennedy had been the fatwell, we had beforu probably know, certain medical conclusions from the warren report. That the president was struck by a bullet whi entered the back of the neck and passed forward to leave through the lower portion of the front of the throat. That there was a second bullet which entered the right rear pone head and that this produced extensive injury to the head and indeed was the fatal wound. The warren report report found quote no evidence of a conspiracy, foreign or domestic. And with that conclusion and the reports delivery to the president of the United States was meant to be answered and the chapter closed. But, instead, it seemed as though the Warren Commissions report was only thin of accusations that came from both domestic and international sources. For the past two days, the havana government has been presenting what its is evidence that the cia conspired with the mafia in placing the blame for the assassination of president kennedy on cuba. The cubans claim that Lee Harvey Oswald was set up by the cia to give the u. S. A pretext for attacking cuba. According to spokesman herbert hetu, that is all rubbish. the reported that president johnson himself had lingering doubts on the commission, a report that had until then, previously been unaired under th it was a tho national security. but o the news broke. 00 00 i asked mr. Johnson then, whether he was satisfied that there was no International Conspiracy in his i cant honestly say that ive ever been completely relieved of the fact that there might have been international you m that. There might have been . Well i, have not completely discounted. Well, that would seem to indicate that you dont have complete confidence in the Warren Commissions report. No, no i think the Warren Commission study. I think first of all the Warren Commission is composed of the first of all the Warren Commission is composed of the mo partisan men in this country. Second, i think they only had one objective and that was the truth. The thi, i think, te andt they cou i dont think that they or me or anyone es abf every thing that might have motivated oswald or others that could have been involved. What direction your lingering suspicion lead you. To cuba. Is that the that you feel might have been involved . Oh, i dont think we ought to discuss suspicions because theres not any hard evidence that would lead me to the conclusion that oswald was directed by Foreign Government or that his sympathies for other spurred him on in this effort. But, he was quite a mysterious fellow and he did have a connection that bore examination and the extent of the influence of those connections on him, i think history will deal with, much more than we are able to now. Some of these more critical questions to a certainty. We know now that the fbi and cia withheld information that was pertinent to the investigation and while gerald ford in a 2004 interview said he didnt think the information would have changed the conclusion, he did call the decision a mistake. So even now the mystery lingers and likely will cross from mystery to myth as time winds on throu the voices who remember the story fade from memory to as soon as the Warren Commission issued its final report, there were doubters and supporters and they persist today. I talked directly with president gerald ford at his home in palm springs and he showed me his full volume edition of the report on his book shelf. He was adamant that there was nothing new to find. Quote, bring me the new bullet, the second rifle so we can go back to court. But no one has done that because it isnt out there. There have been more than 600 books written on the assassination, examining every new suggestion of conspiracy wrong. When we continue, well move from conspiracy theories to outright hoaxes. From when a new york paper had americans convinced life was discovered on the moon to a faked photo that was as a stunt, an excuse for bragging rights, a tantilizing three minutes in 1931. That was the day an airship reportedly docked at the very top of the tallest building in the world. History has shown that, even before photoshop, the socalled photo evidence was a fake. Glimpse of what was to become the future of air travel or so everyone thought. The german zeppelin hindenburg, queen of the skies seen here from a universal news reel camera plane as it sped over new york to its tragic end at lakehurst, new jersey. The promise of future travel. One not yet marked by the tragedy that would come. Shortly after these pictures were taken showing the great skyliner saluting the millions watching it from below on its huge craft exploded while docking and blazed to a fiery end. 1937s hindenburg stands in stark contrast with e optimism that was associated with the airship, in french, the dirigible. If you look at airships, they had a track record largely successful going back to the 1850s or if you wanna go back to the rigid airships with count zeppellin, going back to 1900, which well predates the development of the airplane. With the airpane still in was the quickest and most luxurious way to travel at the time. If you ride in an airship, its generally less noisy, more comfortable and more spacious than riding in an airplane. In an airship, because its a large rigid airship, you have the lifting gas, hydrogen or helium, that enables you to actually build larger areas because it can lift more naturally whereas an airplane has to bring everything, force naturally whereas an airplane has to bring everything, force it into the sky. So you have a lounge area, you can have more spacious accomodations, maybe not always equivalent to an oceanliner but sometimes very similar and that is obviously a much more easygoing way to travel. The germans had the graf zeppelin or lz127 ,the most successful zeppelin ever built that famous old german dirigble, the graf zeppellin, comes rolling up from rio. She the argentine, a hop of over 4000 miles. This is her fourth flight to america and she has flown 275,000 miles all over the globe so she knows her way about it and she certainly knows how to land. Her veteran commander, dr. Eckener, climbs down the ladder. Dr. Eckener piloted the graf zeppelin around the world in 1929 and has successfully flown 17,000 persons on more than 250 flights. It even circled over chicago during the 1933 worlds fair. She takes a look at the skyline and on over the planetarium. Bue ma airships was no easy feat especially when the plan was to have them moored atop a skyscraper. If you look at the history of skyscrapers, dating back to the turn of the century, its only natural that if youre Building Structures that are climbing many, many stories up into the atmosphere that you would connect them to what is developed that flies in that same atmosphere. So, by the time you get to the 1920s, been developed for quite some time and with airships being seen as a cuttingedge technology of the inner war years, its only natural that if you wanted to say that your building was also reallly cutting edge that you would have an interest in figuratively and maybe literally linking it up, hooking it up if you will, to that new technology. Hooking it up if you will, to that new technology. While this famous fake photo makes it appear as if a dirgible is actually moored atop the empire state building, the truth is, no airship ever docked there. A mooring mast was built but that construction may have been more motivated by competition with the Chrysler Building for the title of worlds tallest. Still a docking attempt was made in september 1931 but the winds made it impossible. If youre going to have an airship dock atop a skyscraper, you need to build a mast that airship while its moored there and also transport people and supplies down through or around that mast as well as resupply or funnel those same kinds of materials back up to the airship. Chicago,too, wanted in on the airship mania and the former medinah athletic club, built in the late 20s which is now the hotel intercontinental, reportedly designed the gold dome for use as a dirigible dock. Chicago obviously wants capitalize on this interest not just so that it maintains its position as the socalled second city but also to emerge as a leader in terms of this pioneer use of air travel or air transportation and so really you have a lot of discussion about mooring masts in chicago all through the 1920s. The intercontinental is one of those Chicago Buildings thats of rigid airships and their mooring masts. One of the interesting questions is, if the medinah were to have a mast, what would that be like . How would that work . Today, the dream of an air ship stands as a footnote to an abandoned vision of the future. While towers built to accommodate that future stand as landmarks albeit it ones that provide a tantilizing glimpse ofwhat might have been. If you were to have an airship mast atop the intercontinental, with a structure like the minaret or exhaust stack behind me, this offers a rather nervewracking approach to how you would disembark or even get aboard an airship. So you disembark from the airship have to climb down a ladder like not necessarily the way that most people would want to get on and off their partular means of transportation. So, just the practicalities, if you will, of getting on and off an airship thats on a high mast really gives you a this was a less practical method of mooring airships. Before fake cable news, internet satire, or the supermarket tabloids, a new york newspaper took perhaps the first shot at ridiculous stories. In 1835, the new york sun published the first of six articles detailing life on earths only satellite in what will forever be known as the great moon hoax. Man first set foot on the moon in 1969. Armstrong is on the moon. Neil armstrong, 38yearold american, standing on the surface of the moon. But if you read a newspaper in First Americans on the surface would have had more company. Amateur astronomer, reverend thomas dick, had published in a bestsellie moon was home to some four billion inhabitants and d susbut a man s locke wasnt buying it and decided he would the ridiculous theory by publishing his own series of in the new york sun newspaper. Locke included just enoh facts to make his story s he included a detailed moon map cited the edinburgh j of science and gave the byline to a madeup doctor who worked with known astronomer sir john herschel. Locke proposed this fake doctor halooked through a telescope in cape town, south africa and seen animals like blue unicorns, twolegged beavers and even fourfoot tall humans that looked like bats actually living on the moon. It was all ridiculous but people ate up the sixpart copies of the sun sold out all over town. And even when locke came clean that his reports were purely meant to be satire, no one had the resources to find out for sure. The great moon hoax poked fun at the first lunar conspiracy theories. Even if some of those remain today. Thats one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. When we continue, well move from outright hoaxes to the seemingly endless search for the quote real lwell head back ton countless School Children though they knew the truth even if the fbi couldnt figure out what hi guys got the birthday girl a drum set. Drum set . Hes kidding [laughs] oh you guys must have Time Warner Cable. This is gonna be some party. Yeah, their free home wifi lets us connect all our devices at the same time. And theres no data cap, so. The kids must love that, huh . hey, theres the birthday girl lets get this Party Started get Time Warner Cable 50 meg internet. Thats more than 8 times faster than dsl and no data cap. Uploading honey, im goin viral call now. Get 15 megs for 39. 99 a month. Hi grandma miss you who is that . Are you gonna finish that . Ok. Switching is easy with Time Warner Cables exclusive onehour arrival window, so you dont have to wait around. Plus, theres no contract [snoring] [giggling] get 15 meg internet with unlimited data for 39. 99 per month. Call now. Ask about free installation, and access to nearly 500,000 wifi hotspots with select plans. Call today. Government agentse assigned to figure out if the ls to louie louie were as obscene as some furious listeners claimed. It took two years of analysis before the fbi finally reached its conclusion. The vocals to one of the most Popular Party songs, unintelligible. louie louie is a song that does not requi intellectual investment. People just react to it have a good time. It is probably the dance song of the world. When i wrote louie louie, it was actually to be the bside of this record that i was going to release called you are my sunshine, which wn old country and western song. Richard berry wrote the song in the mid it song caught on. I sold about 200,000 records. The calypso style song about a sailor telling his bartender louie about missing his girl but in 1963, when the kingsmen recorded their version of it, a firestorm of controversy followed. Louie louie when i first started listening to it, they were saying looway, looway and mine was louie, louie, you know but after i got used to it, i could understand what they were saying but thats when the controversy came in with the song. Because jack elys vocals were slurred, teens began to spread the word that lyrics were obscene and they were conviced see, when i was 14 years old, somebody handed me this piece of paper, i was getting off the Junior High School bus, and said, heres the real words to louie louie. and i went, why does louie louie need real words . they said, go home, play the record at 33 1 3 instead of 45. Youll see what i mean. well, i never saw what they meant but there were these dirty words that my mother must have thrown out. The department of justice began receiving complaints. Attorney general robert f. Kennedy received a letter saying that the words were so filthy that, in this letter. Some radio stations banned the song. The governor of indiana, matt welch, got a hold of it and he called the Broadcasters Association and said, if this rumors true, you should take the record off the air, so, they took the record off the air. So that made billboard. So that made the wire services. So the fcc, the Postal Service because its illegal to send dirty stuff through the mail and the fbi all got involved. They called in the songs writer, Richard Berry they called me down to the f bi office and they had this dossie said these are all dirty lyrics you know and i said its not a dirty song, let me see some of those lyrics and they wouldnt let me see anything, you know. They just started playing the record. They played the record forward and then they played it backward you know and by this time i really started getting angry then. I said, youre playing it backwards. Youre listening for devil chants. I couldnt understand what all the hoorah was all about, because by that time, i had many times and i knew what they were saying because it was just that the lyrics were garbled and everything but by this time it was too late. It was out. They had banned the song in indiana. Kingsmen guitarist Mike Mitchell remembered what it was like performing back then well, we had the fbi at every show and these guys all wore the same kinda wingtipped shoes and short hair and so it was a little scary for a about a year. Was a little scary for a about a year. With all the controversy, the song hit number two on billboard 100, peaking there for six weeks. Finally after two years and a 455 page report, the fbis investigation was over, calling the lyrics unintelligible at any speed. Thirty years after the fact, the kingsmen guitarist still wouldnt say if their version of louie louie was xrated. Youll have to talk to the dirty guitar parts. Thatll do it for us today. Im bill kurtis. As we leave, one last look back at the mysteries that endure i know you [laughs] welcome hi were your neighbors. We live across the street. Thanks for this. I see youve got Time Warner Cable like the rest of the hood. Genius. Yeah, they offer tons of free hd channels. And you can record six shows at the same time. And with the super fast internet, entertainment nirvana wow. Nirvana. Switch to Time Warner Cable for 89. 99 per month, youll get free hd channels, 30 meg internet with no data cap, and unlimited calling. Call now. Oked up. Games about to start. Lets do it. Were watching here . Oh yeah. Ohh. How about you and i go watch my favorite show . Switching is easy. Youll get our exclusive onehour arrival window, a moneyback guarantee, and theres no contract to sign. 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