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00:00:40Who, the governor?
00:00:41No, not a wife.
00:00:43You didn't tell me that before.
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00:00:47Well, is that him there?
00:00:49No, that's Robert Hugh Pace.
00:00:51And what about Mrs. White?
00:00:52Well, there isn't one.
00:00:54You didn't tell me that either.
00:00:56Does that matter?
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00:01:00Mrs. Prentice.
00:01:01Adam, we've been looking all over for you, boy.
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00:01:03How do you do?
00:01:04I was looking around wondering which one you were.
00:01:07Mary Lou! Mary Lou, dear, here I come.
00:01:12Let's go get you something to drink.
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00:01:30Hello, Jeffrey.
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00:01:35You don't look at all like your correspondence.
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00:01:39Well, which one would you have thought I was?
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00:01:43Well, from your sample brief, I would have thought that man over there.
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00:01:48How are you?
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00:01:51We'll talk more later.
00:01:52Mr. Prentice, Mr. Ian Strand, former state senator, one of the world's true great Democrats,
00:01:57and someone I'm sure he's going to hit up for campaign money, so don't you mind a word
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00:02:01Nice to meet you.
00:02:02And please, call me Melissa.
00:02:04Melissa is Dr. Kent's niece.
00:02:05Oh, the lawyer.
00:02:06Well, yes, we've all heard about you.
00:02:08He is very proud.
00:02:09She was top of her class, and boss, she's going to clerk with me while she studies for
00:02:12the bar exam.
00:02:13Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in a big welcome for the current and the next leader
00:02:19of the great commonwealth of Virginia, ladies and gentlemen, the governor, Albert Lee Trinkle.
00:02:27Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
00:02:29Thank you very much.
00:02:31I'm going to keep it short.
00:02:33I want you to go on and join yourselves here, and I want me to have something left to say
00:02:38when I do come to hit you up for contributions.
00:02:40We have the great war behind us and only greatness before us.
00:03:02There's opportunity out there, and it's our duty to see it and take hold of it and better
00:03:07ourselves with it.
00:03:08We're here tonight together because we believe in progress.
00:03:12We believe that through social progress, we can perfect our society.
00:03:16We believe that through economic progress, we can perfect our commerce and industry.
00:03:21We believe that through scientific progress, we can perfect even the human race itself.
00:03:27And my friends, any goal short of that is just not good enough for us here in the commonwealth
00:03:32of Virginia.
00:03:33So I ask you all to raise your glasses with me, not just to this campaign, but to a whole
00:03:39new beginning, a new beginning each day, and a proud new beginning together.
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00:05:49I don't know.
00:06:19Okay, hold on. Hold on now. I'll get to that door a little bit.
00:06:38Look who I found on the road.
00:06:40Beautiful daughter and a beautiful grandson.
00:06:43You see that up in the air?
00:06:45Oh, he likes it, don't you?
00:06:47Oh, that's so exciting. Gregory's buying us an automobile.
00:06:51Oh, Elizabeth.
00:06:53You got a tea, Mama?
00:06:54You look flush. Some cold lemonade?
00:06:56Why don't you sit and relax, Mama? Let Carrie get it.
00:06:59Oh, she's with her child.
00:07:00Speaking of which, do you call the feeble-minded colony today?
00:07:04They said Dr. Kent's out of town, due back in Lynchburg end of the week.
00:07:07They say when they can commit Carrie?
00:07:09Well, they said they'd write up the order when Dr. Kent's back.
00:07:11Well, I certainly hope so. People already saying we got a place up here for unwed mothers.
00:07:17What was that I heard about some lemonade, huh?
00:07:20Come on, let me see my grandson.
00:07:22Oh, honey, there's something else.
00:07:23Honey, sweetheart.
00:07:25Oh, it's your little grandma.
00:07:27Come on, Feeney. You should be taking all those down and not putting those up.
00:07:31Feeney, you don't get everything out of here.
00:07:34You know, it's all going to come down with the whole place.
00:07:37Okay, look.
00:07:38You can't read it, right?
00:07:40You just put an X on this line.
00:07:42Now, all this says is that you have been informed of and understand the eviction.
00:07:51I understand how you feel, Mr. Feeney.
00:07:54No one likes it when these things happen.
00:07:57And no one is doing this to hurt you.
00:07:59It's just that the bank that owns this building is tearing it down.
00:08:04Like they're tearing down other buildings that they own.
00:08:07And whether we like it or not, they have a right to do that.
00:08:12See, the lease you signed with them is ended.
00:08:14Now, either they're going to come in here and pull you out of the store,
00:08:18or you can walk out with your head up and get on with the rest of your life.
00:08:29This is hard enough, Mr. Feeney.
00:08:35Please don't make it harder on yourself.
00:08:36I'm impressed.
00:08:52Sad.
00:08:52How long has he been here?
00:08:53Forever.
00:08:54His father had the original lease.
00:08:56Well, the law's the law.
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00:09:14Hello, is anybody home?
00:09:16Mama?
00:09:18Papa, he's here.
00:09:21My, oh my, look at this.
00:09:25Now, see right here, see this is the choke, you see so it's like, you know, if somebody,
00:09:29if somebody is talking too much, then you can choke them, and then you let it go and it's
00:09:34done breathing again.
00:09:35Yeah.
00:09:35Like that
00:09:52Right there
00:10:05Go like this
00:10:17Look at all this dust already
00:10:22Ah, she's from the back room
00:10:23I'm gonna send Carrie out to wipe it down
00:10:25Elizabeth, look at this
00:10:27Open car
00:10:28Carrie
00:10:30Carrie, bud
00:10:32Oh, Carrie, I need you to
00:10:34Oh, my God, what the hell are you doing?
00:10:37What? Elizabeth?
00:10:39Elizabeth!
00:10:44She's crying
00:10:50She's crying
00:10:52She's crying
00:10:54She's crying
00:10:56I'm so sorry
00:10:58Baby, cry with the heart
00:11:00Now let's all just settle down
00:11:01So the people mind the germs she carries
00:11:04Unless we've got to get to the doctor
00:11:05She's crying
00:11:06My baby
00:11:07She must have been committed now
00:11:09She's going when all the arrangements are made
00:11:12And until then, whenever that happens
00:11:14This is still her home
00:11:15She was just trying to help
00:11:16I want her out of here
00:11:20You got that?
00:11:32She'll be right out
00:11:33Are you coming, Carrie?
00:11:39Saying her goodbye, I imagine
00:11:40She doesn't love that child
00:11:42She'll be right down
00:11:43Carrie
00:11:44Oh
00:11:45Well, doesn't she look pretty?
00:11:49Don't they both?
00:11:51Come on down, dear
00:11:52Oh, you changed her again
00:11:54Oh, she does look fine
00:11:55Did she do to yourself again?
00:11:57No, ma'am
00:11:58You remember Miss Frederick, don't you?
00:12:01Say hello
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00:12:03Hello, Carrie
00:12:04Your bags are in the car
00:12:05I can't leave Vivian
00:12:07No, dear
00:12:08Why don't I take Vivian?
00:12:09No
00:12:10Well, now, she's such a pretty child
00:12:11Won't you let me hold her?
00:12:13Yeah
00:12:13Let the nice Miss Frederick's hold her
00:12:15There, now
00:12:16My, my
00:12:17What a little darling
00:12:18Come on
00:12:19Go on outside
00:12:20We're going to let Miss Evans hold her for just a minute
00:12:25And you and I are going to go say goodbye to Mr. Evans
00:12:27Okay?
00:12:28Okay?
00:12:29Where's your little outfit, Carrie?
00:12:30Hmm?
00:12:31Oh, what, Vivian?
00:12:32Now, Mrs. Evans is going to hold her for just a minute
00:12:35We're going to go out here and say goodbye
00:12:36Come on, Carrie
00:12:37Come on, now, Carrie
00:12:38Baby, baby
00:12:39Carrie, you're enough, Carrie
00:12:40Baby, come on
00:12:41Carrie, careful, Carrie
00:12:43Carrie, stop it
00:12:44Carrie, stop it
00:12:44Carrie, Carrie, careful
00:12:46I must help me
00:12:49Baby, come
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00:12:54No
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00:13:00Baby, I'm not
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00:13:34Mr. White's office
00:13:41Just a moment, let me see if he's available
00:13:43It's Miss Jane Talbot again
00:13:45I'm sorry, he's with a client at the moment
00:13:49Yes, I'll tell him
00:13:51She said you promised to call her last week
00:13:54You can't say she isn't persistent
00:13:57Oh, I'm almost finished with that historical brief
00:14:12It's actually very interesting
00:14:13Do you need something?
00:14:21No
00:14:21I've been invited to a lecture this weekend
00:14:26To Dr. Harry Loughlin of the Carnegie Institute
00:14:28Speaking about eugenics
00:14:29Yes, Uncle Loughlin's going
00:14:31If you're interested, I have an extra ticket
00:14:32I thought if maybe you weren't studying
00:14:35You might like to come along
00:14:36I'd love to
00:14:39There are 10 to 15 million social inadequates out there
00:14:53And it's not an exaggeration to say that your new law here is historic
00:14:57If it'll allow me to project into the future
00:15:00Enforcing the sexual sterilization of the feeble-minded
00:15:05Will change the face of this country
00:15:07And indeed the world
00:15:09If all the other states would show the courage and the foresight
00:15:12That you Virginians have
00:15:13By 1950 we could be sterilizing 200,000 a year
00:15:18And by the turn of the century
00:15:20We would have an America that would be free of insanity
00:15:23Feeble-mindedness
00:15:24Epilepsy
00:15:25Poverty and most of its crime
00:15:28Think of that, ladies and gentlemen
00:15:30Think of it
00:15:32Here you are
00:15:33My pleasure
00:15:34Oh, hello, Jack
00:15:38This is Mr. and Mrs. Barrows
00:15:39The Barrows Sugar Company is my colleague
00:15:41Hi
00:15:41Melissa Prentiss
00:15:42Very nice to meet you
00:15:43Eight to ten thousand feeble-minded in the state
00:15:46Yes, but remember
00:15:47Most of them are Roman-free out there
00:15:49They need to be found and committed first
00:15:51But what we have in our facilities right now
00:15:53I'd say we do about 400 this year
00:15:55I know you were sued a few years ago
00:15:57For sterilizing some inmates
00:15:58Will this law help prevent future suits?
00:16:01I hope so, sir
00:16:02Thank you, sir
00:16:02Dr. Kent
00:16:04I was hoping to have a word with you
00:16:06Well, I would be honored, sir
00:16:07Thank you
00:16:07I know that this case was designed to keep you out of the courts
00:16:10But it is the opinion of my colleagues and I
00:16:12That you need to get back into the courts as soon as possible
00:16:15I don't understand
00:16:16We need to have you sued again
00:16:18What?
00:16:20We need a case that'll test this law
00:16:22Right to the Supreme Court of the United States
00:16:24What if it doesn't pass?
00:16:26We think it will
00:16:27Justice Holmes is with us
00:16:28And the Jew Brandeis is with Holmes
00:16:31And Butler is the only Catholic
00:16:33If the Supreme Court stamps its approval
00:16:36All the other states can come on board
00:16:38How exactly would we proceed?
00:16:40Very simply
00:16:41You find a subject who touches on as many provisions of the law as possible
00:16:45Ideally, someone with no religion or close friends or mentally sound relatives
00:16:51Then you find a cooperative attorney
00:16:53To object to the sterilization
00:16:55And then you appeal the case
00:16:57Right up the ladder to Washington
00:16:59Forgive me
00:17:00If I'm the one being sued
00:17:03What if we don't win?
00:17:05I have the full backing of the Carnegie Institute
00:17:07He's quite a speaker, huh?
00:17:19Yes
00:17:19You ever read his book?
00:17:21No, but I've seen it around Uncle Arthur's office
00:17:23I just haven't had the chance to
00:17:24So what do you read?
00:17:26These days, nothing but law books
00:17:28No D.H. Lawrence?
00:17:30Oh, come on
00:17:33It's not that scandalous
00:17:34No
00:17:36No, I
00:17:37I don't
00:17:38I don't find it all that scandalous
00:17:39I have
00:17:40Her
00:17:42What have you heard?
00:17:44You bet it's
00:17:45Hey, what's that?
00:17:48She looks like she's lost
00:17:49What, run away from the colony?
00:17:56Let me handle it
00:18:00I'm going to Charlotteville
00:18:15Where are you coming from?
00:18:17Coming from the colony?
00:18:20If you're going to Charlottesville
00:18:21You're going the wrong way
00:18:22Because Charlottesville is this way now
00:18:23That's right, do you need a ride?
00:18:29We can take you there
00:18:30If you'll, come on, come on
00:18:31Get in the car
00:18:32Come on
00:18:32We'll take you
00:18:33That's it
00:18:34Come on, come on
00:18:35Yeah, we'll get in the car
00:18:37So that we can go that way
00:18:38That's right
00:18:42You got the idea
00:18:44That's it, come on
00:18:48It's an awfully long walk
00:19:04To Charlottesville
00:19:04Is that where you're from?
00:19:10What's in Charlottesville?
00:19:11That's all right
00:19:20You don't have to tell me
00:19:21If you don't want to
00:19:22Do you want to tell me your name?
00:19:41I don't know
00:19:54I don't know
00:19:55I don't know
00:19:56You're the only
00:20:00You're the only
00:20:02You're the only
00:20:03We'll come
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00:20:09You're the only
00:20:10Gentlemen, I need the road to Charlottesville completely covered.
00:20:22You couldn't have gotten far, but we need to find her before dark.
00:20:25What about the train?
00:20:26Well, when's the last thing?
00:20:27I can't get me.
00:20:28They found her on her way to Charlottesville.
00:20:31Adam?
00:20:34She's all right.
00:20:35Do you know how much worry you put her through here?
00:20:38Take it there, Ward.
00:20:39I'll be there in a minute.
00:20:41Gentlemen, I'm sorry I brought you down here for nothing.
00:20:43Come on.
00:20:47Look at him.
00:21:09Uncle Arthur, I made you a sandwich and some tea.
00:21:15Oh, this is the best news I've had on the day.
00:21:18Well, the tea might be cold.
00:21:19Would you like me to get you some more?
00:21:20No, no, honey.
00:21:21It's just fine.
00:21:22You're going up to bed.
00:21:26That girl this afternoon, who is she?
00:21:28She's one of the bucks.
00:21:29We've had a number of them over the years.
00:21:32Well, what's wrong with her?
00:21:33She's feeble-minded, moral delinquent.
00:21:36Had an illegitimate baby.
00:21:41What's going to happen to her?
00:21:44Uncle Arthur?
00:21:45Oh?
00:21:46What's going to happen to her?
00:21:47Well, I don't know, Melissa.
00:21:50I'll have to look into her case.
00:21:53All right, then.
00:21:55Good night.
00:21:55Oh, thank you.
00:22:03All right.
00:22:13Let's try a few numbers.
00:22:16How about that?
00:22:18Let's do these backwards.
00:22:20Six, nine, four, eight, two.
00:22:25Begin.
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00:22:29My dear Dr. Laughlin, she has sensual emotional reaction and is morally, economically and socially
00:22:54inadequate.
00:22:57Her record is of immorality, promiscuity, and untruthfulness.
00:23:05What's the matter with you?
00:23:09What?
00:23:10Do you want to be out with Mrs. Evans and your baby?
00:23:20No.
00:23:22Mrs. Evans is afraid you might have another baby.
00:23:27I don't have a little baby.
00:23:30Would you like for me, Mrs. Evans, never to have to worry about that?
00:23:36For you, never to have to worry about having another baby.
00:23:41She belongs to that shiftless, ignorant, and worthless class of antisocial whites of the
00:23:46South.
00:23:47Would you like that?
00:23:51I want to step in.
00:23:56Her name is Carrie Buck.
00:24:22Excuse me.
00:24:23Hey, did you find us another runaway?
00:24:25No.
00:24:25You looking for Dr. Kent?
00:24:27Actually, I'm looking for Carrie Buck.
00:24:29Oh, they're all out on the farm.
00:24:31Hey.
00:24:38Maybe.
00:24:39Maybe.
00:24:39Fought her.
00:24:41No, I'm getting very hungry.
00:24:44Hey, I'll give them to her.
00:24:49Hey, I'll give me two drinks.
00:24:55No.
00:24:56Oh
00:25:07Carrie
00:25:12Harry what's wrong are you hurt?
00:25:17Should I go get dr. Kent what is it?
00:25:26Oh
00:25:31My god you must be in pain
00:25:35Where's your baby?
00:25:39I'm sorry
00:25:41How can you have taken away like that that patient will subside Melissa so with the pain when a few days a few days
00:26:01You can't leave her like that for a few days
00:26:03Well I'll examine her see what I can do for her
00:26:05She needs to be with her baby uncle Arthur
00:26:07And she is gonna be soon enough
00:26:09I'm petitioning to sterilize her once that's done she'll be out in the world again
00:26:13And you don't have a thing to worry about darling you just run right along don't worry
00:26:19Oh what is that that's a pig Margaret that's very good very good you keep up the good work
00:26:25Hey
00:26:31They said a pretty woman is waiting to see me I was hoping it was you now these have just come in I got 15 minutes to make a decision which do you think?
00:26:37Um this one
00:26:39Okay
00:26:41I think you're right mind you that troubled look doesn't go too well with it something the matter?
00:26:45I have to file these with the court by five o'clock
00:26:48Yeah well so that's about what three hours from now so that can't be what's on your mind
00:26:52You don't have to tell me
00:26:56I went by the colony on my way here and saw that girl that we picked up
00:27:00When they committed her they took her away from a baby she was nursing
00:27:03And uncle Arthur says he's gonna keep her there until he sterilizes her
00:27:07And well I just don't think she should be kept away from a child like that and
00:27:11I was wondering if there was something we could do for her some kind of legal provision somewhere
00:27:15I'll tell you what why don't we talk about it later and
00:27:17Oh I'm sorry I shouldn't have bothered
00:27:19No no no no I'll see you back at the office after court
00:27:21Let me take you to dinner tonight talk about it then
00:27:25You don't have to do that
00:27:27Well I know I don't I want to
00:27:33All right
00:27:35Fine I'll pick yourself
00:27:37All right bye
00:27:39That's her over there yeah that's her poor thing
00:27:49Dr. Laughlin wants to get a case all the way to the Supreme Court
00:27:53To lock down once and for all the constitutionality of these kinds of laws
00:27:57Since this would be a big step forward in any career I was hoping maybe we could get you to act as our attorney
00:28:03Well I'd be honored
00:28:07Thank you
00:28:08Well I thought you might be interested
00:28:10I'll get some paperwork sent over to your office
00:28:12Our first step is gonna be to have a meeting of the colony board
00:28:16They will certify that she is fit for sterilization then her guardian will object and appeal it into court
00:28:22And what about her attorney?
00:28:23Well I haven't got a rather idea but don't worry it's gonna be somebody cooperative
00:28:29This is a friendly suit
00:28:31Hey
00:28:34I would love to have one
00:28:36You know
00:28:37I think that Angela
00:28:39Well
00:28:40It's talking well
00:28:41She's talking about this
00:28:42Yeah
00:28:43This is for you
00:28:45I asked him to put it here
00:28:47Oh no, see I did
00:28:48I just had them put these others out so people wouldn't feel bad
00:28:52Did that sound for you?
00:28:54Why didn't you stay in Virginia for law school?
00:28:56They wouldn't let me
00:28:58They weren't taking any women
00:29:00How's that for a progressive state?
00:29:02They are
00:29:03And you can join our bond
00:29:04Sure
00:29:05We can vote here too
00:29:06For progressives
00:29:07Like your governor Trinkle
00:29:10What's wrong with that?
00:29:12You don't really think we won that do you?
00:29:15It was the lesser of two evils Adam
00:29:17How do you keep the colored vote insignificant?
00:29:19You double the white vote
00:29:20Now come on
00:29:21Women's causes have been strong
00:29:23And successful
00:29:24Trinkle has spoken out for them hundreds of times
00:29:26And they
00:29:27Hey
00:29:30I hired you
00:29:31Didn't I?
00:29:32Yes
00:29:34But would you ever hire a colored to work anywhere but your kitchen or your garden?
00:29:38Women have only done well here at a convenience
00:29:42Mrs. Danforth, Colonel
00:29:43Mr. Wyatt
00:29:44Yeah
00:29:46You're gonna make a good lawyer
00:29:48I intend to
00:29:50Your uncle said you were
00:29:52Strong-willed
00:29:54I imagine stubborn is probably the word he used
00:30:00I love Uncle Arthur
00:30:02He's always been my favorite
00:30:04I used to come here every summer when I was a little girl
00:30:08Mama and I would pack up the car and drive down from Richmond and stay with him
00:30:13I was a tomboy
00:30:15Ugh
00:30:16You see that I can't imagine
00:30:19Oh yes
00:30:21I used to get into all kinds of trouble when I was little
00:30:24Um, let me see
00:30:26Well
00:30:27Oh
00:30:29One time
00:30:31My friend and I
00:30:32Emptied
00:30:34A jar of fireflies into one of the colony windows
00:30:38And the inmates went berserk and had a party
00:30:42And Uncle Arthur still doesn't know who did it
00:30:46Oh
00:30:48We used to steal old man Delaney's robot
00:30:51And we would go catch catfish
00:30:52And we would toss them alive into the windows of passing trains
00:30:58You should have heard the screams
00:31:01Oh, then we take the boat all the way down the river and go skinny-dipping in the swimming hole
00:31:06We used to steal that old boat too
00:31:07Yeah, I think everybody did
00:31:09You think you left it there for us?
00:31:10I think he did
00:31:11Is he still alive?
00:31:12Very much so
00:31:13His boat is too
00:31:14Still see a amount of fish in there
00:31:18So what'd he say?
00:31:20To what?
00:31:21Yeah
00:31:23It's a nice night
00:31:25Oh, you don't mean
00:31:29Why are you bearing me?
00:31:30I guess I am not as fit as I am
00:31:36They didn't have women's crew up in Boston?
00:31:39Oh, they did, I just didn't drill in
00:31:40Why don't you take one?
00:31:41Why don't you take one?
00:31:42I think it's a nice night
00:31:43I'm not as fit as I am
00:31:44I guess I'm not as fit as I am
00:31:48They didn't have women's crew up in Boston?
00:31:49Oh, they did, I just didn't drill in
00:31:51Why don't you take one?
00:31:52Why don't you do it?
00:32:15Goat?
00:32:16No. You?
00:32:18Mm-mm.
00:32:22Actually, I am a little cold.
00:32:25Take my jacket.
00:32:33Lost your brother?
00:32:34I must have left it on the dock.
00:32:52I'm sorry.
00:32:59No, I shouldn't have left it.
00:33:00No, Adam.
00:33:01It's not easy when the most bright and beautiful woman you've ever met is working there in the office next to yours.
00:33:10Just get this one wall between you.
00:33:14Adam.
00:33:14All evening, though, all day long is what's on the other side.
00:33:19They got enough light?
00:33:42They got enough light?
00:33:42They got enough.
00:33:43And for the rest of your world, they're putting the lights down.
00:33:45They got enough, man.
00:33:46Yeah, right over there.
00:33:48And I'll get the light on there.
00:33:50Drop that downline.
00:33:51Boom!
00:33:53Who is it though?
00:33:55Who is it?
00:33:56It's beating.
00:34:00It's beating.
00:34:04Boys, take the body back to show.
00:34:06Oh, it's beating.
00:34:07Oh, it's beating.
00:34:08Oh, it's beating.
00:34:09Oh, it's beating.
00:34:10Oh, it's beating.
00:34:11Take care, thanks for being here.
00:34:19Here, give me this.
00:34:26I've never seen a dead body before, have you?
00:34:31I saw my mama in the casket, but she was all done up, you know, made to be seen.
00:34:37It was just a few days ago that we were standing with him in his store.
00:34:43Well, listen.
00:34:44It was so easy just to draw up those papers and fill in M. Feeney.
00:34:51We didn't do anything wrong.
00:34:53You know, I don't even know what M stands for, do you?
00:35:01Uh, no, I don't.
00:35:03I don't.
00:35:06You can't take the blame for what happened.
00:35:09I don't know.
00:35:19Adam.
00:35:22Uncle Arthur says you're gonna have a hearing tomorrow about that girl Carrie's sterilization.
00:35:26Yeah.
00:35:28I wanna go.
00:35:30Do you mind if I take the afternoon off?
00:35:33No, you go.
00:35:35Thanks.
00:35:39Please have the record show myself as attorney for the board.
00:35:41Mr.
00:35:42Willem Sherman as court-appointed guardian for the inmate Carrie Buck.
00:35:46And Miss Melissa Prentiss as the sheriff.
00:35:47Yes, look, I apologize for my tardiness.
00:35:50Gentlemen, I would like to have you meet Carrie Buck.
00:35:55Hello, Melissa.
00:35:56Hello.
00:35:57How are you doing, huh?
00:35:58I'm fine.
00:35:59You started this thing early, didn't you?
00:36:00Yeah.
00:36:01Try to make me look back.
00:36:02Wait a minute.
00:36:03I classify her as a lowest grade moron.
00:36:08Her mental age is about seven, yet she's already had one illegitimate mentally defective child.
00:36:15She's a moral delinquent, but I think physically capable of earning her own living if protected against childbearing but sterilization.
00:36:22And if she were not sterilized?
00:36:25She would have to remain here at the expense of the state for the remainder of her childbearing years, maybe 30 years.
00:36:32So it's your opinion that sterilizing Carrie would be better for her and society?
00:36:37I believe that preventing Carrie Buck from childbearing is our duty.
00:36:42And there's support for this in general medicine?
00:36:44Yes.
00:36:45My belief is based on all the authorities on mental defectiveness and on sterviculture, which is the study of horse breeding and all the general principles of heredity.
00:36:59Thank you, Dr. Kent.
00:37:00No further questions.
00:37:03Do I say it now?
00:37:05Not yet.
00:37:06I'll tell you when.
00:37:08They let me see Fibion.
00:37:10Mr. Sherman, it's your duty to defend Carrie Buck's rights and interests.
00:37:18Do you have any questions of Dr. Kent?
00:37:21Yes, sir, I do.
00:37:23Doctor, what...
00:37:26What assurance can you give that sterilization will not be dangerous to Carrie Buck's health or life?
00:37:32The operation is as harmless as any can be.
00:37:35The girls leave their beds in two or three weeks.
00:37:37None of their womanly functions except for childbearing is impaired.
00:37:41I've already sterilized, oh, I'd say 80 to 100 females, and we haven't had one single death.
00:37:48There have been no deaths, gentlemen.
00:37:51Couldn't she be taught or trained to restore herself to society as a moral and responsible individual?
00:37:57No, sir.
00:37:58That would be impossible.
00:38:00Self-control, moral conception are lacking in her.
00:38:03They cannot be supplied by training or teaching.
00:38:08She is incurably congenitally defective.
00:38:12Thank you, Doctor.
00:38:13Mr. Strand, do you have any questions for the inmate herself?
00:38:17Just one.
00:38:18Carrie, do you care to say anything about having this operation performed on you?
00:38:22I do not.
00:38:32You deserve too much people.
00:38:36The child has no people.
00:38:37Does Willem Sherman even know her?
00:38:38Has he told her what's going to happen?
00:38:51She wouldn't understand.
00:38:53Well, this is a serious operation.
00:38:55She has to be made to understand.
00:38:59Uncle Arthur, you've sterilized 80 to 100 girls.
00:39:02Have all the hearings been this way?
00:39:03There hasn't been a hearing like this before.
00:39:05This is the new law, which is all and carries best interest.
00:39:09What are Willem Sherman's qualifications?
00:39:11Is he a lawyer?
00:39:12Is he a doctor?
00:39:13I just simply ask Ian to select someone suitable.
00:39:17Ian?
00:39:18But Ian's representing your side.
00:39:22Willem Sherman only has two questions.
00:39:25Yes.
00:39:26Ian and I instructed him which were the proper ones.
00:39:29Now, Melissa, this is my job, honey.
00:39:31I've worked with girls like this for most of my life.
00:39:34I do know what's best for them.
00:39:36Trust me.
00:39:37I really do.
00:39:38I really do.
00:39:52Carrie?
00:39:55How are you? Are you still hurting?
00:39:58Did Dr. Kent give you a hot water bottle?
00:40:00They're going to let me see Vivian.
00:40:06Carrie.
00:40:07They're only going to let you see Vivian after they give you an operation.
00:40:10Do you know what an operation is?
00:40:14They're going to cut into your body.
00:40:20They're going to change you, Carrie. Forever.
00:40:22They're going to make it so that you can't have any more babies like Vivian.
00:40:28I think you should be able to see Vivian without having that done to you.
00:40:31And I want to help you.
00:40:33Who knows?
00:40:35Maybe someday you want to have other Vivians and I think that should be your choice too.
00:40:39Do you want me to help you, Carrie?
00:40:41Carrie?
00:40:44I've learned to see Vivian.
00:40:50My baby.
00:40:53Okay.
00:40:55Okay.
00:41:01You went to Norfolk for the campaign.
00:41:04Norfolk?
00:41:05Friday he has his club launching.
00:41:07Did he leave me a message?
00:41:08No.
00:41:11Get me.
00:41:13Get off.
00:41:17Bye.
00:41:20Bye.
00:41:22Bye.
00:41:27Bye.
00:41:30Bye.
00:41:33Bye.
00:41:36Bye.
00:41:39Bye.
00:42:11Very good to me, Adam.
00:42:13I was trying to knock you off the field.
00:42:15There, and see what you get for it.
00:42:16I understand things are working well with you and Melissa.
00:42:19Oh, yeah. She's quite a girl.
00:42:21Is this your caseload?
00:42:23Yeah. Matter of fact, more than I expected.
00:42:26Good. I'm glad to hear that.
00:42:29That means you got room for another case?
00:42:31What?
00:42:34What kind of case?
00:42:36Very important case.
00:42:41What you saw in North, but it's exactly the same in Raleigh.
00:42:52Let me call you right back.
00:42:53No, this is important.
00:42:55I know it's important, but let me call you back.
00:42:58Bye-bye.
00:42:59I was wondering where you were.
00:43:00There's a case that we need to get.
00:43:01My trip was great, thanks.
00:43:02I missed you, too.
00:43:09We're way up in the Norfolk polls.
00:43:11Hey, look at this over here for my luncheon.
00:43:14What is it?
00:43:15Campaign contributions.
00:43:17Your uncle was particularly generous.
00:43:19Good.
00:43:19I went to Carrie's sterilization hearing.
00:43:24Adam, it was a joke.
00:43:26The board already ruled for Uncle Arthur, so I think there's something that we can do.
00:43:30Melissa?
00:43:32Her guardian's name is Willem Sherman.
00:43:34He's a friend of Ian Strand's.
00:43:36We need to get him to appeal to county court.
00:43:39He's already going to.
00:43:42How do you know that?
00:43:43He was at the club.
00:43:45And he said he's going to appeal?
00:43:46Yes.
00:43:47Well, who's representing him?
00:43:49I am.
00:43:52Are you serious?
00:43:53Yes, he asked me, and I said I'd be happy to.
00:43:55Oh, Adam, listen to me now.
00:43:56I'm going to go start doing things together.
00:44:18What is all of this?
00:44:24Hi.
00:44:25These are Carrie's papers.
00:44:26They just came in.
00:44:27Everything.
00:44:27Her medical records, the commitment proceedings, petitions.
00:44:29I even pulled some cases.
00:44:31Oh, you have the bar exam in a month.
00:44:33I'll study in the evenings.
00:44:34What if you get a gentleman to call him?
00:44:36Well, that all depends on who he is.
00:44:38A handsome lawyer?
00:44:40He'll have to call and see.
00:44:42He is.
00:44:42I'll make time.
00:44:45I promise.
00:44:49What's wrong?
00:44:49What?
00:44:50Nothing.
00:44:51Are you trying to say you don't want me on this?
00:44:53First time.
00:44:54So there she is with the Evans family, doing just fine with the chores, thank you, for years and years, and she gets pregnant.
00:45:10Well, now they want to be rid of her.
00:45:11She's an unread mother.
00:45:13She's an embarrassment.
00:45:14So they say they can't support her anymore.
00:45:16They say she is dishonest, has hallucinations, outbreaks of temper.
00:45:21Here they even try and say she's epileptic since childhood, where before they said that she had never been subject to epilepsy, headaches, nervousness, fits, convulsions, or spasms of any kind.
00:45:31She is not epileptic.
00:45:33What does the medical record say?
00:45:34Just the convenient, feeble-minded within the meaning of the law.
00:45:37That has a broad definition.
00:45:38Yes, so does uneducated, which is all she really is.
00:45:41Well, they'll argue she's not educable.
00:45:43According to Uncle Arthur, she was committed and is being sterilized for being a moral delinquent.
00:45:48You're not born with morals.
00:45:49Well, Uncle Arthur says otherwise.
00:45:50We'll prove him wrong.
00:45:51But heredity is scientifically documented.
00:45:53Not of morals, it's not.
00:45:54Now look, the better part of her family has been in the colony at one time or another, including her own mother.
00:46:00Now there's eight known members, who knows how many others, and Carrie herself was born out of wedlock.
00:46:05Now she's part of a whole pattern, and we can't deny that.
00:46:08Desires do get the best of that kind of girl.
00:46:12Melissa, they don't know any better than to go out and satisfy themselves when they wonder how they end up pregnant.
00:46:17So we blame them?
00:46:18Oh, all I'm saying.
00:46:19Well, what about the men that take advantage of them?
00:46:21They're guiltless.
00:46:21No, you can't blame them.
00:46:23Girls come looking for it.
00:46:24And men are easy prey.
00:46:26Not in the issue here, anyway.
00:46:27Maybe it is.
00:46:28Ah, you are the most frustrating human being that I have ever known.
00:46:32I'm just trying to make you a better lawyer.
00:46:33Listen.
00:46:34No, you listen to me.
00:46:36Do you know how many girls get pregnant in the streets each year?
00:46:38There's just case after case, and Carrie is difficult.
00:46:42How do you know?
00:46:42Does anyone ever ask how it happens?
00:46:45I don't know.
00:46:46I think that's pretty obvious, isn't it?
00:46:49Is that what you'd say if I suddenly showed up pregnant?
00:46:52Some of you would tell me.
00:46:53Adam, I'm trying to be serious.
00:46:59Make it different.
00:47:01Why?
00:47:02Because I don't fit one of Uncle Arthur's patterns?
00:47:04Because I'm not a slow girl from the hills?
00:47:08Something could just as easily happen to me.
00:47:11Yes, well, under the same conditions.
00:47:14Yes, maybe, it could.
00:47:16Walking down the street, it could.
00:47:21See, that's my whole point here.
00:47:24No one's ever bothered to find out what really happens to these girls.
00:47:27Have you asked Carrie what happened to her?
00:47:30No, I haven't.
00:47:41Dr. Ken has to authorize any leaves personally.
00:47:44He won't be back for another two days.
00:47:47Yes, I know.
00:47:47I just took him to the train station.
00:47:49Well, then you know I can't let her out, don't you?
00:47:51No, my dear.
00:47:53I'm her attorney.
00:47:56I work with Mr. White, and I need to spend a few hours with her.
00:47:59Is there some place I can talk to her completely undisturbed?
00:48:01Oh, I'm so tired, Bobby.
00:48:11Just close the door, and no one will Bobby.
00:48:14Come on.
00:48:26Come on.
00:48:27Where we go?
00:48:28That Carrie Buck is a surprise.
00:48:30All right, now, close your eyes.
00:48:43Are they shut?
00:48:46Cover them with your hands.
00:48:49Promise you can't see anything?
00:48:51I promise.
00:48:52No peeking now.
00:48:54No peeking.
00:48:56All right, you can look now.
00:49:09Surprise.
00:49:10Surprise.
00:49:10Daylight.
00:49:12itu.
00:49:17No peeking now.
00:49:34Oh, okay, go.
00:49:39Oh, Jessica, I need to get to know you again, that's all.
00:49:45It's okay.
00:49:47Hi, hi.
00:49:48Nice to meet you.
00:49:52Do you take cream and sugar?
00:49:54Just cream, please.
00:50:00So Carrie never said who the father was?
00:50:02Oh, gracious, no.
00:50:03She tried to deny the whole thing.
00:50:05Well, what would she say?
00:50:07Oh, you know, that she didn't know how it happened, that kind of thing.
00:50:16Do you think she might have been forced, Mrs. Evans?
00:50:20I suppose anything's possible, isn't it?
00:50:23Who's to know?
00:50:24Imagine when all's said and done, she just got herself into trouble like a lot of them do.
00:50:33She's sleeping.
00:50:36I can see why.
00:50:51I can see why.
00:50:59Oh, my God.
00:51:04Did you make this for her, Carrie?
00:51:24She likes it here, too.
00:51:26She's hungry.
00:51:28She's hungry.
00:51:52Hi, my friend.
00:51:56Hi, my friend.
00:52:01Hi, my friend.
00:52:07Hi.
00:52:11Hi, my friend.
00:52:15I don't know.
00:52:45I said I could.
00:52:49I'm glad.
00:53:10Did I have to go now?
00:53:12Not yet. We still have more time.
00:53:15I do not want to go back.
00:53:20I know.
00:53:21Why did you have a baby, Carrie?
00:53:32I left 5 a.m.
00:53:36Did you love a boy?
00:53:40Was it a man?
00:53:40It was a boy, but you didn't love him?
00:53:51What was his name, Carrie?
00:53:59There were empaths.
00:54:00Was he your friend? Was he nice to you?
00:54:06Did he hold you?
00:54:11Close to him, like a hug?
00:54:16How did he hold you, Carrie? Show me how he held you.
00:54:18It's all right. You can show me.
00:54:28Come on, Carrie. We have to go now.
00:54:41It's all right, Carrie. Give it to me.
00:54:43It's all right. Don't worry. We'll come back soon.
00:54:47It's all right, Carrie. Come on.
00:54:50Come on. Let go.
00:54:52I got her, Carrie.
00:54:53We'll come back soon.
00:55:00Of course, Carrie.
00:55:02Get in the car, Miss.
00:55:03Get in the car.
00:55:03Get in the car.
00:55:10Miss Evans, who is Daryl Anderson?
00:55:14He's my nephew. He's my husband's nephew, his sister's son.
00:55:17Goodbye.
00:55:18Goodbye.
00:55:20Goodbye, Carrie.
00:55:21She said his name is Daryl Anderson.
00:55:48Let's tell you how it happened.
00:55:51No.
00:55:52That's all I could get out of her, and then she started crying.
00:56:00We need to find him.
00:56:02Look, we don't have any proof.
00:56:04We will, if we find him.
00:56:05We have the word of a girl who isn't competent to testify.
00:56:08Well, then we'll get more out of her.
00:56:09Like what?
00:56:10Something. I don't know what. Something.
00:56:12And who do you think they're going to believe?
00:56:13Adam, her only crime was having that baby, and she was raped.
00:56:19Look, I know Judge Henry, and he won't let us turn this into a rape trial.
00:56:23And even if we wanted to press charges, it's a separate case, and you know that.
00:56:27What do you think they're going to do?
00:56:34What do you think they're going to do?
00:56:35Carrie?
00:56:37I can hear this.
00:56:40We are supposed to touch those things.
00:56:44Please.
00:56:44Carrie?
00:56:56She's up in confinement.
00:56:59Why?
00:57:00She left the grounds, went to Charlottesville.
00:57:02With you, I believe.
00:57:14Gary?
00:57:33Gary?
00:57:39Gary, I'm so sorry.
00:57:41I'm never meant for this to happen.
00:57:48I'm going to go and talk to Dr. Ken and tell him it was all my fault.
00:57:56All I want is to help you, Carrie.
00:58:02I don't want to hurt you.
00:58:06Do you know that?
00:58:11Can you please just tell me that you know that this wasn't meant to happen?
00:58:35I'm sorry.
00:58:36I'm sorry.
00:58:41If you're going to confine someone, it should be me.
00:58:52What I ought to do, I ought to have you arrested.
00:58:54Well, I ought to...
00:58:54You had no right, Melissa.
00:58:55Had no right taking away from here, taking out to see that baby.
00:58:58Then punish me.
00:58:59That's not my job.
00:59:01Carrie knows the rules here.
00:59:02It's not the first time she's left, as you very well know.
00:59:05Uncle Arthur, you're the one person that can help her.
00:59:07Please.
00:59:08Melissa, I'm trying to help her.
00:59:11And if you want to help her too, then stop interfering.
00:59:14It is my job to interfere.
00:59:15I am her lawyer.
00:59:17You are not her lawyer.
00:59:20Adam White is her lawyer.
00:59:22And I work for him.
00:59:23Melissa, he is embarrassed.
00:59:27Embarrassed?
00:59:27Yes, and I'm embarrassed too.
00:59:29He had no idea you went out there.
00:59:31You spoke with him?
00:59:32Yes, I spoke with him.
00:59:33Call him up on the phone and ask him what the devil was going on.
00:59:35He said he was embarrassed?
00:59:37He said he had no idea about anything until you got back.
00:59:41Well, he didn't.
00:59:42Melissa, if I could please give you a little advice, I'd be very careful, darling.
00:59:47You are a beautiful young woman.
00:59:49Adam is as fine a boy as ever came down the track.
00:59:52But if you keep on like this, aren't you going to ruin everything?
00:59:55You're going to drive him away.
00:59:56See, I told him a lot of things about you, but I didn't tell him you were like this.
01:00:02And just what did you tell him?
01:00:04I told him what I've been telling him for years, that you two would get along famously.
01:00:09That you'd be a fine mother, wife, just as soon as you got this damn lawyer stuff out of your system.
01:00:18You told him that?
01:00:19Yes, I told him that.
01:00:20So why don't you just let things be?
01:00:22I mean, just stop meddling, hon, and things that do not concern you.
01:00:25And I'll see you back down for supper.
01:00:27I'll see you back down.
01:00:57Oh, good day, Mrs. Prentice.
01:01:03Good day, Mrs. Prentice.
01:01:05Anyway, I think we're going.
01:01:07All right, let's go.
01:01:10Mrs. Prentice?
01:01:12Mrs. Evans?
01:01:14I am sorry if I...
01:01:15Well, I telephoned.
01:01:17They said you'd be back soon.
01:01:21Do you want to come in?
01:01:22No, my husband would...
01:01:24He's waiting for me on Main Street.
01:01:26He thinks I'm shopping.
01:01:30Mrs. Evans, what is it?
01:01:33There's something I didn't tell you the other day.
01:01:37There were these bruises that Carrie had.
01:01:40Here, on her wrist.
01:01:42And a fine silk nightgown that Mr. Evans and I had given to her was missing.
01:01:48Carrie said she'd thrown it out.
01:01:50That she'd torn it.
01:01:51Caught it on a nail.
01:01:52One day, I was out by the incinerator and I got a glimpse of it stuffed down inside.
01:01:58So I pulled it out.
01:02:00It was torn all right.
01:02:03Not like she said.
01:02:05Caught on a nail.
01:02:08It was torn all the way down the front.
01:02:10Like it had been ripped right off of her.
01:02:13And there was blood all smeared into the back.
01:02:19Like she'd had a month, Lisa.
01:02:22Only more.
01:02:23And, well...
01:02:25Dell Anderson was standing at our house at the time.
01:02:29Mrs. Evans, I need you to help me.
01:02:31I can't.
01:02:32I need you to help Carrie.
01:02:35I need you to come down to the court and tell people.
01:02:37Mrs. Evans, it's not going to help.
01:02:39They're going to do it to you anyway.
01:02:40Don't you know that?
01:02:41They'll do it to all those girls.
01:02:42We can stop them.
01:02:44My husband said that if I've never told them...
01:02:46I've got to go.
01:02:47He's going to come and be looking for me.
01:02:48Mrs. Evans, please.
01:02:49You summoned me.
01:02:50I'm going to have to swear that I was never here.
01:02:55Understand, don't you?
01:02:59I needed to tell someone.
01:03:02I need you to know.
01:03:06I got to go.
01:03:19Hey!
01:03:20What do you think?
01:03:21You tell me.
01:03:22What? What's that?
01:03:22Ian Strand's witness list.
01:03:23They're going to call Harry H. Loughlin himself.
01:03:25Oh, yeah, I know.
01:03:26You know, why didn't you tell me?
01:03:27Well, I just found out.
01:03:28I spoke to Ian.
01:03:30Adam.
01:03:31Mrs. Evans came by the office today.
01:03:33Oh?
01:03:33What for?
01:03:35She knew about the rape.
01:03:37Was she testifying?
01:03:38She said if we called her, she'd perjure herself.
01:03:40So I think we should ask for a continuance,
01:03:41and we should try and find Daryl Anderson.
01:03:43How?
01:03:43You said you can't find him.
01:03:44Well, somebody's got to know where he is.
01:03:45We just need more time.
01:03:47Hey, if we do find him,
01:03:47what do you think he's going to say?
01:03:48Yeah, I raped her tonight.
01:03:49Well, put him on the stand
01:03:50and hammer him until he gives in.
01:03:52It won't happen.
01:03:52And besides, you know
01:03:53it wouldn't change anything anyway.
01:03:55All right, so who are we going to call?
01:03:56Well, I've been thinking about that.
01:03:58Yeah, these need to get to Amherst right away.
01:04:00I think our best move is to call no one.
01:04:02No one?
01:04:02What do you mean?
01:04:03Well, who would you suggest?
01:04:05Somebody to refute Loughbent.
01:04:06That'll only make us look foolish.
01:04:08He's the world's leading expert.
01:04:10Adam, there is a growing body of scientists
01:04:12who believe we want Loughbent to...
01:04:13We'll just try to impeach Ian's witnesses
01:04:15and then show the law unconstitutional.
01:04:17What if we can't do that?
01:04:18We'll appeal.
01:04:19This is the kind of case
01:04:20that can go all the way to the Supreme Court.
01:04:22Now, do you know what that means?
01:04:23Yes, I do.
01:04:24It means that we have to win it
01:04:26right here, right now.
01:04:28Next week, they want to seal the right
01:04:30to sterilize Carrie and every other girl
01:04:32in that colony.
01:04:33And that's only going to be the beginning, Adam.
01:04:36Next, it'll be the blind and the deaf,
01:04:39the crippled, the poor, the Negroes,
01:04:41the Jews, and anybody else
01:04:42who isn't good, white, and all-American
01:04:44in the eyes of Dr. Harry H. Laughlin.
01:04:46And that's not just going to be
01:04:48the Carrie Bucks, Adam.
01:04:50Milton was blind.
01:04:51Byron had a clubbed foot.
01:04:53Beethoven was deaf.
01:04:55We need our own experts.
01:04:57Melissa, now, listen to me now.
01:04:58Let me do this.
01:04:59Adam, why did you hire me?
01:05:01What do you mean, why did I hire you?
01:05:04I mean, why did you hire me?
01:05:05Well, because I read your work,
01:05:07I thought it was good,
01:05:08and I was looking to ease my load
01:05:11to get on with things like this campaign.
01:05:12Why?
01:05:12You call me in here,
01:05:17and you ask my opinion
01:05:18on your hats and your flyers
01:05:20and your posters.
01:05:22Do you really care what I think about our case?
01:05:24Of course I do.
01:05:26Good.
01:05:27Then I think we need our own expert,
01:05:28and I'm going to go find us one.
01:05:31Bye.
01:05:31Bye.
01:05:31Tall, tall, tall, dwarf.
01:05:41Now, this is a pure tall.
01:05:46This is a pure dwarf,
01:05:49and these two middle ones are hybrid talls,
01:05:52which means they look exactly like the pure tall,
01:05:55but have the gene for dwarfism hidden inside them.
01:06:01If they mate,
01:06:02they can produce a pure dwarf.
01:06:05But this doesn't work for humans.
01:06:07Oh, no, for some physical traits, it does.
01:06:10Um, six fingers,
01:06:12eye color, a baldness,
01:06:13but certainly not all the mental and social conditions
01:06:16your doctor, Laughlin, would have us believe.
01:06:19What about this chart for feeble-mindedness
01:06:22and all the studies, family studies,
01:06:24found on alcoholism and poverty?
01:06:26It'd be nice to blame all the ills of the world
01:06:28on biology, wouldn't it?
01:06:30Listen, the most complicated organisms
01:06:32I work with are fruit flies,
01:06:34tiny little gnats that reproduce very quickly.
01:06:37We study their eyes and wings,
01:06:39and we're only beginning to understand
01:06:41how complex the relationship of genetics is
01:06:43to the environment.
01:06:45It's hard to even speculate about the human mind.
01:06:48From the first moment of consciousness,
01:06:49it's subject to all kinds of conditions,
01:06:51education, sanitation, medical care, love,
01:06:56thousands of different variables.
01:06:58And even if this were all true,
01:07:00watch what sterilization would do.
01:07:03Let's change these little d's
01:07:06to f's for feeble-minded,
01:07:10and leave these big d's for,
01:07:15well, let's say,
01:07:17decent.
01:07:19The only feeble-minded would be this,
01:07:23one-fourth of this generation.
01:07:26That's who'd be sterilized.
01:07:30But these other hybrids
01:07:32would still carry the feeble-minded gene,
01:07:35yet appear completely decent.
01:07:37You could sterilize
01:07:39every feeble-minded one,
01:07:42but it would still take generations
01:07:44to see any meaningful reduction,
01:07:46and the gene itself
01:07:47would be impossible to eliminate.
01:07:50Unless, of course,
01:07:52he wants to sterilize them all.
01:07:54Adam, I'm just...
01:08:10Come on.
01:08:11They caught Carrie
01:08:11trying to jump the train to Charlottesville.
01:08:13They've got her over at the jail.
01:08:14Yes.
01:08:15Yeah.
01:08:15Stop it!
01:08:26Stop it!
01:08:27Leave her alone!
01:08:29Stop it!
01:08:30Stop!
01:08:33I want to talk to her.
01:08:35Please.
01:08:35Let her go.
01:08:36It's all right.
01:08:37Let her go.
01:08:47Gentlemen.
01:08:48Go away.
01:08:49Please.
01:08:50Both of you.
01:08:52Please.
01:09:00Carrie, may I come in?
01:09:03Carrie, are you hurt?
01:09:04I would like to come in
01:09:10if it's all right.
01:09:12But I won't
01:09:13unless you say I can.
01:09:21You can leave if you want to.
01:09:34No.
01:09:38He won't stop you.
01:09:41No one here will stop you.
01:09:44But they will find you, Carrie.
01:09:46Every time.
01:09:48And they will take you back to the colony.
01:09:51I want to help you
01:10:12to be free.
01:10:14But we have to do things
01:10:16the right way.
01:10:18Now, I don't know
01:10:19if you can understand this.
01:10:21But the right way
01:10:22is through the law.
01:10:24That's what Mr. White
01:10:26and I work at
01:10:27every day for you.
01:10:29We don't think
01:10:30that the law
01:10:31is being fair to you.
01:10:33And we think
01:10:34that you should have
01:10:35some kind of say
01:10:36in your own life.
01:10:38Carrie,
01:10:40we are going to do
01:10:44everything that we can for you.
01:10:47We really are.
01:10:49So you can go
01:10:54if you want to.
01:10:57Or you can come with us.
01:11:08I know you're hurt there.
01:11:09I know you're hurt there.
01:11:11She's a distinct liability.
01:11:37Would you say
01:11:38that she could take care
01:11:39of her own children?
01:11:39No, I wouldn't.
01:11:41On the very day
01:11:42I brought her to the colony,
01:11:43I witnessed her
01:11:44throwing a vicious
01:11:45temper tantrum.
01:11:46She scratched her own
01:11:47child quite badly.
01:11:48She purged me.
01:11:49They took her baby.
01:11:51It's okay.
01:11:51It's okay.
01:11:52That's why they took her baby.
01:11:54I see.
01:11:56Now, tell me
01:11:57about this child
01:11:58that she scratched.
01:11:59Do you have
01:12:00specific impressions of it?
01:12:01Well, it's difficult
01:12:02to judge one so young.
01:12:04But I have seen
01:12:05the child
01:12:05with Mrs. Evans'
01:12:06grandchild,
01:12:07Stephen,
01:12:08just three days older.
01:12:09And there is a look
01:12:11about Carrie's child
01:12:12that is,
01:12:14well,
01:12:15not quite normal.
01:12:17That's not true.
01:12:18You're a witness,
01:12:18Mr. White.
01:12:19Hold on.
01:12:19You say Carrie's baby
01:12:22does not measure up
01:12:23to the Evanses?
01:12:24No, not nearly.
01:12:25Can either of them talk?
01:12:27No.
01:12:27Can they walk?
01:12:29No.
01:12:29Then in what way
01:12:30do they differ?
01:12:32Well, the Evans baby is,
01:12:34it's just a baby
01:12:35you can play with.
01:12:37The other baby isn't.
01:12:38It seems more apathetic,
01:12:41not responsive.
01:12:42More passive?
01:12:43Yes, very much so.
01:12:44And because it's more passive,
01:12:47you think it's feeble-minded?
01:12:48I think it is.
01:12:50Well,
01:12:51it's just not quite normal.
01:12:53And this more active baby
01:12:54is a boy
01:12:55and the more passive one
01:12:56a girl.
01:12:57Is that right?
01:12:59Yes, sir.
01:13:00All right, now,
01:13:01before Carrie's pregnancy,
01:13:03are there any records
01:13:04at your agency
01:13:05that show Carrie Buck
01:13:06to be feeble-minded
01:13:07or anti-social?
01:13:09No, sir.
01:13:09So your opinion
01:13:10that she is feeble-minded
01:13:12and anti-social
01:13:13is based on the birth
01:13:13of her child?
01:13:14On that,
01:13:15and that as a social worker,
01:13:17I know girls of that time
01:13:19of what type?
01:13:21Decidedly feeble-minded.
01:13:24But wait,
01:13:24the fact that this girl
01:13:26made a misstep
01:13:27or was perhaps
01:13:28taken advantage of,
01:13:29is that evidence
01:13:30of feeble-mindedness?
01:13:32No, but
01:13:33a feeble-minded girl
01:13:35is much more likely
01:13:36to go wrong.
01:13:39I see.
01:13:40Now,
01:13:40just one more question.
01:13:42You say Carrie
01:13:43is a liability.
01:13:44Do you think
01:13:44by sterilizing her,
01:13:45she would become an asset?
01:13:46I don't know
01:13:47that she could ever
01:13:48become an asset,
01:13:49but I do think
01:13:50it would at least
01:13:52prevent the propagation
01:13:53of her kind.
01:13:54It would prevent
01:13:55the propagation
01:13:56of her kind,
01:13:57undoubtedly.
01:13:58Thank you,
01:13:59Miss Frederick.
01:14:02Why didn't you
01:14:03ask her about the scratch?
01:14:04I didn't need to.
01:14:05The judge got the point,
01:14:06and I'm sure
01:14:07her version
01:14:07would be different
01:14:07from Carrie's anyway.
01:14:09Well,
01:14:09that's the whole problem.
01:14:10Everybody's version
01:14:11of everything
01:14:11is different from Carrie's.
01:14:13You know,
01:14:13they just gave her
01:14:14this label,
01:14:14feeble-minded.
01:14:15Vivian, too,
01:14:16and she can't
01:14:16even speak yet.
01:14:17We need to show
01:14:18that to the judge.
01:14:19Well, we just did.
01:14:19No, I mean,
01:14:20we really need to show that.
01:14:21Now, Melissa,
01:14:22you know as well as I do
01:14:22that Carrie has
01:14:23her limitations.
01:14:24What do you want to argue?
01:14:25She can be a competent parent?
01:14:26I think she can
01:14:27if she gets some help.
01:14:28Well, the Evanses
01:14:28don't want to help her anymore.
01:14:30Then another family.
01:14:30And what?
01:14:31We have to find families
01:14:32for all the inmates.
01:14:35Well,
01:14:35what if she marries?
01:14:36Then she'd have a husband
01:14:37to love her and care for,
01:14:38and he might want
01:14:39to have more babies with her.
01:14:41Adam,
01:14:41she's an attractive,
01:14:42sweet girl.
01:14:42I can see it.
01:14:43So, what are you saying here?
01:14:44Do you want to put
01:14:45Carrie on the stand?
01:14:46Yes, I think we should.
01:14:47No, we can't do that.
01:14:48Why not?
01:14:49You really think
01:14:49she can handle that?
01:14:51Yes, I do.
01:14:53We at least owe her
01:14:54the chance, don't we?
01:15:08My name is Carrie Buck.
01:15:10And where do you live?
01:15:11In the colony.
01:15:13Well, where did you live
01:15:14before that?
01:15:15With Mrs. Evans.
01:15:17Now,
01:15:18I understand you have a baby.
01:15:20Is that right?
01:15:20You have a baby?
01:15:22Yes, sir.
01:15:23What's her name?
01:15:24Vivian.
01:15:26Where does your baby live?
01:15:28With Mrs. Evans.
01:15:30Oh, I see.
01:15:31So,
01:15:32someone else
01:15:32is raising your baby
01:15:33for you?
01:15:35Who's Vivian's father?
01:15:37Carrie?
01:15:37Carrie?
01:15:37Carrie?
01:15:37Carrie?
01:15:42All right.
01:15:43You don't want to answer that.
01:15:44That's all right.
01:15:45Just tell us.
01:15:46Did you know him?
01:15:49Yes.
01:15:50Did you know him well?
01:15:52No.
01:15:53Oh, I see.
01:15:54Now,
01:15:55are you in the habit
01:15:56of having sexual relations
01:15:58with men you don't know well?
01:16:01Do you not
01:16:02understand my question?
01:16:05I'm going to put
01:16:06another way for you.
01:16:08Do you often
01:16:09sleep with men
01:16:10you don't know well?
01:16:11No.
01:16:12But you did
01:16:12sleep with Vivian's father,
01:16:14yes?
01:16:15I,
01:16:16I,
01:16:17I,
01:16:18I...
01:16:18is there something
01:16:19you won't say?
01:16:20I,
01:16:20I,
01:16:20I,
01:16:21I,
01:16:21no.
01:16:23Now,
01:16:24how do I know
01:16:24you won't have sex
01:16:25with someone
01:16:25like Vivian's father
01:16:26again?
01:16:27No.
01:16:27Why not?
01:16:28You did once,
01:16:29huh?
01:16:30I,
01:16:31I,
01:16:31I,
01:16:32I,
01:16:32I,
01:16:32let her try.
01:16:34Did I repeat
01:16:35the question?
01:16:35Oh,
01:16:36shh,
01:16:37shh,
01:16:37don't come in.
01:16:41But,
01:16:42get out,
01:16:44go out.
01:16:46Mrs. Evans.
01:16:47What, Mrs. Evans?
01:16:48Mrs. Evans,
01:16:49do you need now?
01:16:49No, Adam.
01:16:50Mrs. Evans!
01:16:51Get out!
01:16:53My room!
01:16:55Oh,
01:16:55no!
01:16:56No!
01:16:58Mrs. Evans!
01:17:00No!
01:17:01No!
01:17:02Come on!
01:17:02Mrs. Evans,
01:17:03do you need a rest?
01:17:04Are you having trouble?
01:17:06That's enough,
01:17:06Harry,
01:17:06Adam,
01:17:07that's enough.
01:17:08No!
01:17:09What are you saying?
01:17:10What's going to do to the bathroom?
01:17:11Get out!
01:17:12No,
01:17:13no,
01:17:13no.
01:17:17No!
01:17:18No!
01:17:18No!
01:17:19No!
01:17:19No!
01:17:19No!
01:17:19No!
01:17:20No!
01:17:20No!
01:17:20No!
01:17:21No!
01:17:21No!
01:17:21No!
01:17:22No!
01:17:22No!
01:17:22No!
01:17:23No!
01:17:23No!
01:17:23No!
01:17:24No!
01:17:24No!
01:17:24No!
01:17:25No!
01:17:25No!
01:17:25No!
01:17:25No!
01:17:26No!
01:17:26No!
01:17:26No!
01:17:27No!
01:17:27No!
01:17:27No!
01:17:28No!
01:17:28No!
01:17:28No!
01:17:28No!
01:17:29Tomorrow they're going to call Dr. Dijonet, Dr. Estabrook, Uncle Arthur, and Dr. Lawson.
01:17:55We need Professor Morgan.
01:17:59Please state your name and occupation.
01:18:12My name is Harry H. Laughlin.
01:18:15I'm in charge of the eugenics record office of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
01:18:19I had the investigation of heredity in humans, animals, and plants.
01:18:23I see.
01:18:24And in this investigation, have you made any effort to determine to what extent insanity and feeble-mindedness are transmissible by heredity?
01:18:32Yes, we've made great efforts in that area.
01:18:36And can you please tell the court what you found?
01:18:38Certainly.
01:18:40If I may refer to my charts.
01:18:45Human mental characteristics are inherited in exactly the same way as physical ones.
01:18:51Such as, say, the condition of six fingers.
01:18:56But while six fingers is what we call a dominant condition, feeble-mindedness is what we call a recessive.
01:19:06If you'll follow here on the chart, I'll make it clear.
01:19:09The operation is a very simple procedure.
01:19:12It's just cutting the fallopian tubes and tying them back.
01:19:16Efficient in hospital stay, too.
01:19:18What we are proposing, Your Honor, is an in-and-out method
01:19:22by which our institutions would be turned into clearinghouses to take these girls in, sterilize them, and turn them back out again.
01:19:30In a very short period of time, we could have the better part of them taken care of.
01:19:35So, this operation is just a simple cut and tie with none of the ovaries removed?
01:19:41No, indeed, sir.
01:19:43That would be criminal.
01:19:46No further questions.
01:19:48Thank you, Your Honor.
01:19:50Mr. Strand?
01:19:51No questions, Your Honor.
01:19:53And no further witnesses.
01:19:55You may step down, Dr. Kent.
01:19:56Mr. White, do you wish to call any witnesses?
01:20:05No witnesses, Your Honor.
01:20:10Then I believe we just have some technical matters.
01:20:14We'll take a recess until two o'clock.
01:20:24Melissa.
01:20:26I brought you Morgan, and you never even used him to challenge Laughlin.
01:20:32You didn't challenge any of them, Miss Frederick, Uncle Arthur.
01:20:36That's because this is just a friendly suit, isn't it?
01:20:40Right from the beginning.
01:20:40Melissa.
01:20:42There's no question that Carrie Buck should be prevented from having children.
01:20:45What's in court here is the law, and not her.
01:20:48You never wanted a partner for your practice.
01:20:50Uncle Arthur just told me that.
01:20:52But I was stupid enough to convince myself that it wasn't true.
01:20:54I do want you for a partner.
01:20:56Look, I wanted to tell you the truth.
01:20:58Then why did you?
01:20:59Well, because I did drive, but you would just charge off.
01:21:01And you let me.
01:21:02I was hoping we could somehow both find our way with this.
01:21:09Madam, a girl is about to lose her fertility.
01:21:14We're going to appeal.
01:21:15It's the whole idea, see, to argue it in Supreme Court.
01:21:19You should have argued it here.
01:21:20Let Uncle Arthur appeal.
01:21:25What?
01:21:33He gave this to you.
01:21:36And you took it so that you could get your name into the history book.
01:21:38So what does that make me?
01:21:41I'm a favorite of him.
01:21:42Melissa.
01:21:42Melissa.
01:21:45We are taking this case to the highest court in the country.
01:21:48The nine greatest judicial minds are there.
01:21:50Oliver Wendell Holmes, Brandeis, Butler.
01:21:53This is the right way.
01:21:59No.
01:22:01No, this is not the right way, and you know it.
01:22:07Withdraw.
01:22:08Pardon?
01:22:10Withdraw and show them that you're not as much of a pawn as you've made Carrie.
01:22:15Withdraw from the case.
01:22:24I can't.
01:22:25I can't.
01:22:25I have to go because I can't do anything for you here.
01:22:45Where are you going?
01:22:49I'm not sure.
01:22:50Passed Charlottesville?
01:22:56Yeah.
01:22:57Passed Charlottesville.
01:22:58Oh.
01:23:00When are you coming back?
01:23:03I don't know.
01:23:04I don't know if I am coming back.
01:23:07But I do know
01:23:08that I'm going to do everything I can for you, Carrie.
01:23:11And I need for you to know that.
01:23:16You trusted me.
01:23:25You're my friend.
01:23:32Yes.
01:23:32And you're my friend, Carrie Buck.
01:23:36I don't know.
01:24:06Bye-bye.
01:24:36The delinquent. Epileptics. Drunkards. Drug addicts. The diseased in any way. The blind. The deaf. The crippled and deformed. Dependent. Orphans.
01:24:48Take it to Cat now.
01:24:55Lift the slope you do.
01:24:58All right.
01:25:00All right.
01:25:01Cut.
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