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CNN Dinosaur 13 December 15, 2014 03:50:00

Everything going on. sotheby s had arranged for one of the people who would normally be taking bids to give me a running detail on the telephone about what was happening at the auction. i was at the institute, too. i could not bear to listen to the phone. it was too much. good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to sotheby s. we have for auction today the fossil of a tyrannosaurus rex known as sue. the property of the united states of america in trust of morris williams of south dakota. and now let us, if we re all ready, begin the competition for sue the tyrannosaurus rex. and i now begin with a bid of $500,000. $500,000? $600,000? $700,000? at $700,000. ....

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CNN Dinosaur 13 December 15, 2014 03:53:00

At the renowned field museum. sue s bones went on the auction block at sotheby s auction house in new york. bidding started at $500,000 and ended at $7.6 million, but totaled $8.4 million, after a fee to the auction house. mcdonald s and the walt disney company helped pfoot the bill and the field museum reaps the benefit. south dakotans say she should have stayed here. morris williams was there in the building and i glanced up at him, this man, supported by our government, in receiving $7 point whatever it was million dollars, but that fossil should have stayed in her hometown museum. ....

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CNN Dinosaur 13 December 15, 2014 03:00:00

Really surprised me. there were people that i thought were quite reasonable people, who basically said things about black hills that just were not true. there s a difference between the academic perspective of fossil collecting and the commercial perspective. there are some people in this profession that really, truly believe that it is, there s something morally wrong with selling a fossil. i was indoctrinated as an undergrad, that if you don t have a ph.d. you have no right to collect dinosaurs. i heard about the bhi and peter larson collecting fossils and i was told, these are pirates. and i visited pete larson and i visit the black hills institute, and they weren t pirates at all. they had techniques. they taught my crew. they were better than my crew. you have academias and they have these 5 doms and now here s ....

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CNN Dinosaur 13 December 15, 2014 03:43:00

while i was in prison, sue was also still in prison. and there were rumors that sue was going to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. it really was obvious to me at that time that the only way to get her away from maurice williams was through sotheby s. all of us was aware that the auction was taking place. it would probably sell for $1 million or $2 million. the big fear was that it was going to be sold to some private individual. i know there were a lot of people concerned that it might be bought by an institution in a foreign country. that was a big concern with the media, that it was going to be sold and lost to science and sold and put in a private room someplace. we always felt an extraordinary obligation to get this fossil to the right home. clearly, there were a lot of really interested parties that were hoping and praying they had a chance. we had dreams, after the auction started developing, that perhaps we could buy her back. ....

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CNN Dinosaur 13 December 15, 2014 02:47:00

almost. almost. auto and it s not not completely maurice williams never intended to sell that fossil. maurice williams knew exactly what he was doing. known you were on his ranch, we would have warned you. i had known people who knew maurice and sharky, and they were colorful and controversial figures in their own right on the cheyenne river reservation. there began to emerge some controversy about sue being collected from indian land and the ownership issue. you could not have discovered ....

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