am i what? do you think you re sane do you feel you have your full sanity? or has what happened to you sent you slightly mad? what do you think? well, i ll tell you. tonight, robert blake. the piers morgan interview starts now. good evening. i ve been interviewing celebrities and public figures for more than 25 years, more than 2,000 people including presidents, prime ministers, movie, tv and pop stars, but i have never had an encounter as explosive, confrontational or extraordinary as the one you re about to witness. robert blake is a hollywood legend. he shot to fame as a star of the our gang series. went on to a chilling role in the murderer of the film in cold blood and won an emmy for barretta. things changed when he met bonny lee bakley. she was found dead by a gunshot wound. he was charged with his wife s murder but acquitted after a sensational court case. then, bonny lee bakley s children filed a civil suit against blake alleging he was responsible f
ofiling a putting a wedge between law enforc and a community that would, in fact, be profiled. people in that community a less likely then t coopate with ople in law enforceme, ess likly to share information, ss likely to wnesses in a casehat law forcement is trying tsolv re you cle to filing a legal challenge to it? we rconsing all t options. onef e things that we re thinking about is the possibity of filing a lawsuit. whetherr not it is someg can file a lawsuitase on federalprmption grounds, whethe wehink the law as acted could viola federal civil rights statutes. finally,onthe issue of race, when u first became attorney general, you talked about the country being a, quote, natn of cowars, you said we asverage amecans simply do not talk with each other enough aboutrace. doou think that s changed sincthe president has been elected? i think s changed a bit. still don t tnk we re a place where we need to be. i think we need to talk to each other more about race d the
possibility of leading to racial ofiling a putting a wedge between law enforc and a community that would, in fact, be profiled. people in that community a less likely then t coopate with ople in law enforceme, ess likly to share information, ss likely to wnesses in a casehat law forcement is trying tsolv re you cle to filing a legal challenge to it? we rconsing all t options. onef e things that we re thinking about is the possibity of filing a lawsuit. whetherr not it is someg can file a lawsuitase on federalprmption grounds, whethe wehink the law as acted could viola federal civil rights statutes. finally,onthe issue of race, when u first became attorney general, you talked about the country being a, quote, natn of cowars, you said we asverage amecans simply do not talk with each other enough aboutrace. doou think that s changed sincthe president has been elected? i think s changed a bit. still don t tnk we re a place where we need to be. i think we need to talk to each other