
The Paperboy
(male interviewer) Just
tell me when you're rolling.
(cameraman)
We 're rolling.
A lot of people...
have questioned
what really happened.
And when the novel
was first published,
it didn't take long
for there to be even
more questions asked.
It's always
remained a mystery.
And that's why
for coming
in to meet with us.
To help shed some light on the events.
Okay.
He dedicated
the book to you.
Can you tell us
how much of his novel
was based on fact?
All of it.
[clears throat]
I t was 1969...
[raindrops drumming]
[female voice moaning]
(interviewer, off) What can
you tell us about that summer?
Question? What was
the question?
[overlapping] What do you
remember about that summer 1969?
[overlapping] It was
hot. It was real hot.
God must have been
sweatin', it was so hot.
[chuckling]
[rain drumming]
[thunder]
Tell me
about the murder.
Hey, how much, how much
I'm gettin' paid for this?
[clears throat]
Well, Sheriff Call
was this evil, nasty,
disgusting son
of a gun.
[female voice oohing]
Black people
hated Sheriff Call
because he killed
so many of us
during his two terms
in service.
[thunder crashing]
Some of my family
was included.
White people
feared him too.
[grunts and groans]
So somebody got fed up with
his fat ass, and killed him.
That's what happened
that summer.
[soft music]
[birds chirping]
[wipers rubbing]
They say he dragged
his intestines
for a mile
before he died.
built a statue for him.
How did it come about
that you worked
for the Jansens?
I was cleaning
for them part time,
right when his mamma
ran off.
And Ward and I,
Ward was his brother,
he was in high school
at the time
and we raised
him together.
Little Jackie
was five at the time.
Where was his father?
W. W. was just
chasing girls,
you know.
And running
the local newspaper.
The M oat County T tribune.
(man on bench)
How's Ward?
(Jack) He's good,
he's good. Real busy.
Ward was a writer...
uh... for the Miami Times.
He used to write
about, uh...
well, he was kind of famous, you know,
'cause he wrote about
and the poor
and the unjustly accused.
That's how come
that lady Charlotte
started writing
letters to him.
Stuff like that.
Yeah.
And then Jack, like I
said, he was a swimmer.
And, uh...
almost professional,
very close but then
he got kicked
off the swim team,
he got kicked
out of college,
and he came back home to his
papa's house to deliver newspapers.
He didn't want
to come back home,
but he didn't have
nowhere else to go.
[water rippling]
['60s beat music playing]
(female voice singing)
??? Yeah???
??? Mmm???
(Anita) Jack, you better
turn that music down.
You know W. W.
gon' be mad at you.
??????
Dang it, Anita, can you please knock?
I could've been
jerking off in here.
Please, it ain't nothing
I ain't seen before.
What are you doing?
I'm picking up your stuff,
like I do every day.
(Anita) Oh come on, not
today. It's too hot for that.
I'm just helping.
You're not helping me.
You don't have to help me.
Come on.
Get off the bed
so I can make it.
Go fix me
some collard greens.
It's my bed.
I know it's your bed.
Really?
Because it's your bed,
They cancelled
"The Smothers Brothers. "
Oh, no, that's your show.
Well, I love that show. I
love Dick and I love Tommy.
Lay down. Let me be you for a second.
Oh, yeah, right. Get me in trouble.
You want to be me,
I get to be you? Okay.
Okay, I'll love this.
Jack, may I come in?
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