( car honks )
( people chattering )
JOE PATERNO: You know, it's a tough life.
And to be able to get away
and go someplace where you're gonna
meet friends that you only see once in a while,
eat stupid food,
drink more than you should drink,
can get excited about going to a game.
MALE P.A. ANNOUNCER: Welcome to Beaver Stadium...
PATERNO: And you know, just get it all together.
( cheers and applause )
And have 100,000 people doing
the same dumb things,
you know, which makes you feel like
you're not as dumb as you think you are.
( laughs )
Way, way back, I said,
you know what,
I tell you what,
college football is something special.
And it is. It really is.
Hopefully, we'll never lose sight of that
or screw it up.
( Wilco performing "Country Disappeared" )
¶ Wake up, we're here ¶
¶ It's so much worse than we feared ¶
¶ There's nothing left here ¶
¶ The country has disappeared ¶
¶ You've got the white clouds ¶
¶ Hanging so high above you ¶
¶ You've got the helicopters dangling ¶
¶ Angling to shoot ¶
¶ The shots to feed ¶
¶ The hungry weekend news crew, anchorman... ¶
( dish whirring )
FEMALE NEWS REPORTER 1: The State took four days
to lay out its case against Jerry Sandusky.
Eight accusers took the stand,
and each gave disturbing testimony.
And in team coverage tonight, we're going to look ahead...
ANDERSON COOPER: Sandusky, as you know,
pleaded not guilty to those charges.
The scandal's led to the removal of Penn State's president,
the head football coach, Joe Paterno,
who died last month.
Two other administrators are awaiting trial...
MALE NEWS REPORTER: There's a feeling that a lot of people had,
that they should've known this. How could this have happened?
And most people in this community
really just want this to be over.
That may give some sense of closure around this.
But again, I-I dare say...
FEMALE NEWS REPORTER 2: After more than 12 hours of deliberations today
and eight and a half hours of deliberations yesterday,
we finally have a verdict in the Jerry Sandusky case.
Everyone wants to know, what did the jury decide?
Did they decide to go with the prosecution...
FEMALE NEWS REPORTER 3: In about 20 minutes,
Mr. Sandusky will be in the courtroom.
The judge will call court to order.
The jury will walk in.
They will read the verdict.
JAY PATERNO: Everybody in this community's kind of in the same boat
because the national media
and a lot of the people that came into town
when some of the stories were written
kind of cast a net over everybody here.
They put us all in the same boat as "had to know."
You know, "enabled this to happen,"
those kind of things.
The truth is, there was no enabling of Jerry Sandusky.
The truth is, this is not a Penn State issue.
It's not a Joe Paterno issue.
This is a Jerry Sandusky issue.
Excuse me. Excuse me.
- WOMAN 1: Guilty? - MAN: Guilty.
WOMAN 1: Guilty! Guilty on all four!
WOMAN 2: Yay!
( crowd cheering )
- It's 45? - 45 counts, yes.
- 45 counts. - 45 counts, only 2 not guilty.
Okay. Jerry Sandusky was found guilty on 45 counts.
( cheers and applause )
WOMAN : Yay!
Essentially, the sentence the jury will receive
will be a life sentence just due to the level.
( scattered cheering )
The question is, does that prove to me
that my client is guilty? And the answer is no.
You know, folks,
- what this tells me is this... - ( crowd booing )
MAN: Do you think he's innocent?
- This jury-- - ( man shouting indistinctly )
May I finish?
You know, the community, seems to me, felt like there's
an individual who caused,
you know, horrific damage to many children
and to a community and to a football program
and to a way of life,
and that the justice system has punished
the person that's responsible, and that's enough.
MAN: You suck, Sandusky!
The wholesomeness of Penn State Football
and those values survive this.
And I think that that would be a dangerous lesson
to take from this because I--
because I think it's just the beginning of the story.
WOMAN: Rot in hell!
I think it would be convenient but not appropriate
to say, "Sandusky's been convicted, you know,
what else is there to do? Let's move on.
It's, you know, time for football."
MATT SANDUSKY: In this town, if you're religious...
and you think of God as being the almighty,
the all-encompassing, Joe Paterno would--
you could put Joe Paterno into that realm.
But then Jesus, you know, his son,
the man that's right there
would be Jerry.
Like, that's how it seemed in this town.
Like, they were,
to me, the two most powerful people.
They could do what they wanted.
And they could do no wrong.
We turn now to NBC's Bob Dotson,
who has the story tonight of a man who can teach us all
a lesson about how to be a winner.
BOB DOTSON: Penn State's Jerry Sandusky
is one of the best in the country.
JERRY SANDUSKY: Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy!
Goodbye, Charlie, there!
DOTSON: He's developed seven first-team All-America linebackers.
Let's go! You got to hustle! Let's go!
DOTSON: So why doesn't a guy like that have a team of his own?
- Bart! - In a way, he does.
In the summer, Sandusky runs a free camp for 400 children.
JERRY: Take your time. You've got it, guy.
So many of them, I guess, by where they grew up
or what they've done, they're stereotyped.
You know, they're not supposed to succeed.
Well, they succeed here.
JERRY: Good job, Neal.
I was 10 years old
when I went to the Second Mile summer camp.
That's where I first saw him and met him.
( laughs )
Jerry was what a father would be like.
DOTSON: Jerry Sandusky told him he was part of a larger family.
And family can make him stronger than he is...
MATT: I'm part of Jerry's family.
Like, I was brought into the family.
So, that's a bond that he created.
So I had to be loyal.
I was loyal to the family.
I wasn't going to betray anybody.
I wasn't going to betray him.
And in the end,
here I sit, betrayed by them all.
Like, this is where, like, I grew up,
in this house,
with no running water, you know?
So...
that's what I came from.
It looks exactly the same.
I remember when we all lived here,
with all of my cousins, all of my aunts,
when there was like 30 people living in that house.
But no toilets, no sinks.
The place was cockroach-filled.
I mean, they're just running everywhere.
AMIR BAR-LEV: Is this a house where Jerry ever picked you up?
Yeah.
Yeah, he picked me up a lot here.
I mean, he would get out and walk down
like he was royalty coming,
and everybody was so excited
about his presence there, and everybody was.
That's how it was.
He was like a savior.
DOTSON: Jerry Sandusky seems happiest
when he is mixing it up with his special kids.
( Jerry laughs )
He may never have his own football team,
but he already has something more.
JERRY: I've lost control of this game.
MATT: It was awesome, you know,
whenever he came and picked you up 'cause you knew
you were going to get out of what you were in, first off.
I mean, I knew that I was going to go
where I was going to have food.
I was going to travel all around.
And then all a sudden,
I'm wearing a new Nike Penn State coat.
You know, to be seen with Jerry Sandusky
was like a cool thing, it was like, yeah.
Eventually, I was going to football games.
Like, we would walk over to the stadium
and tailgate with, like, the Sandusky family
and their family friends, and it was nice.
It was kind of cool because a bunch of people,
there's friends there.
And coming from where I came from,
it wasn't-- you didn't--
you don't have that sen--
like that's not what family is, like, you know,
friendship and all of that.
It's just kind of like fend for yourself.
MALE TV ANNOUNCER: Jerry Sandusky enjoying
the ride and trying to fight back the tears.
But after 32 years...
MATT: After the game, you would go with Jerry.
So you would go into the locker room with the players.
Everybody's congratulating him after a win
and saying, "Good job, Coach," and everyone's
patting him on the back as you're walking,
and you're walking beside him-- so, yeah,
to be right next to him
and understand that he chose you,
I felt powerful, I felt like
people looked at me and envied me,
instead of people looking down on me.
The Sandusky name, that was a golden ticket in this town.
You know, if you were a Sandusky,
that afforded you things and got you that respect
that you could never get being where I was.
And I wanted to have that.
I wanted to, you know, be adopted.
I was known as part of the family already.
ANDREW SHUBIN: Matt got into some trouble as a juvenile
and became involved with the Second Mile.
From the beginning, Jerry expressed
an intention to try to adopt him.
And Jerry began making deliberate moves
to separate him from his family.
One of the unusual facts
relative to Matt's situation is that
he was court-ordered,
literally court-ordered by a judge
of the Court of Common Pleas in Centre County
to live with the Sanduskys,
despite the fact that his biological mother
brought to the attention of judges
that there were lots of problems there,
and with Jerry.
So you now have the most powerful institution
in our county taking Matt away from his biological family
and court-ordering him into an abuser's hands.
MALE NEWS REPORTER: For 67-year-old Jerry Sandusky,
a jubilant career at Penn State
has dwindled to a perp walk and prosecution.
Sandusky is alleged to have targeted
at least eight boys for sexual advances
or assaults over 15 years.
As you all know, Sandusky was taken into custody
this past Saturday...
JOE POSNANSKI: The grand jury presentment
of Jerry Sandusky comes out
on Saturday, November 5th, 2011.
And it details these horrible crimes
against children that Jerry Sandusky had committed.
And Joe Paterno, at that point,
has a small role in the presentment.
He's told by Mike McQueary,
graduate assistant, that he saw Jerry Sandusky
committing a crime in the shower at Penn State.
ANDERSON COOPER: The graduate assistant had seen Jerry Sandusky
fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy.
MALE NEWS REPORTER 1: Paterno said, "Because Sandusky was already retired
at that point, I referred the matter
to university administrators."
FEMALE NEWS REPORTER: Curley and Shultz told Sandusky not to bring
any Second Mile children to the football building.
MALE NEWS REPORTER 2: But no Penn State official went to the police.
We'll take questions. Yes?
WOMAN 1: Was that the extent of Mr. Paterno's responsibility,
just to report it to his superiors
as opposed to reporting it as well to the police?
( clears throat ) We believe that
under the statute, he had an obligation
to report it to the school administrators, and he did that.
POSNANSKI: At that point, the Attorney General's office said
Joe Paterno had acted properly.
Uh, he's been cooperative...
POSNANSKI: But we have all of this media in State College.
Now there's a lot more pressure on Joe Paterno.
- Yes, ma'am. - WOMAN 2: Anybody who maybe had
a moral obligation, or an extra obligation
to report something?
There is a difference between moral and legal guilt.
Right now, those of us up here
are concerned with legal guilt,
and I'm not gonna comment on morality now.
POSNANSKI: There was no question that Joe Paterno knew
it was a serious matter.
You were beginning to hear people say,
"Well, wait a minute,
all he did was go to his supervisor?
Should he have done more? Why didn't he do more?"
You guys have got a lot of good questions,
and I'd like to answer, but I can't do it now.
POSNANSKI: There's a moral question here with Joe Paterno.
That starts really gaining momentum.
MALE NEWS REPORTER 1: Joe Paterno did nothing other than tell his superiors.
MALE NEWS REPORTER 2: Take Paterno at his word.
There was something of a sexual nature going on.
FEMALE NEWS REPORTER: After that incident, Jerry Sandusky went on
to sexually abuse at least four more boys.
ANDERSON COOPER: Calls for Paterno's resignation are growing,
but many are standing by him as well.
Tonight, he arrived home to a huge show
of support outside his house.
He didn't take any questions though or make any statements.
POSNANSKI: I came back to State College Sunday
'cause I kind of sensed this was getting big.
I had to ask myself am I completely wrong?
'Cause this does not match
the Joe Paterno that I have written about.
This does not match the Joe Paterno
that anybody else has written about.
It wasn't like there was any debate
about Joe Paterno's contribution to society.
You know, the Friday before the grand jury presentment,
Joe Paterno was on the list
to be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
My feeling on it was
if this is not at all the man that I thought he was,
I have to find out.
JOE PATERNO: I've always hoped that I can work in atmosphere
on a campus where I could be a little bit more
than just a football coach,
to work with young people
and have an influence on their lives,
and that's what Penn State's allowed me to be.
POSNANSKI: The idea of Joe Paterno being a symbol
of something greater-than goes back years.
Think of what Joe Paterno did.
When he first became a head coach, he basically said,
"I'm going to do this the right way."
JOE PATERNO: Football, if it's just a question
of winning, is a silly game.
I think it's trying to use the winning
to develop a kid into being
something more than maybe he thinks he could be.
When they put the uniform on, they're not going to have
the names on the back of their jerseys.
They're only a member of the team,
and willing to be unselfish people.
Let's get down on our knees. We got a lot to be thankful for.
POSNANSKI: His thinking was we develop good young men
that could be leaders in our communities,
can be leaders in our world.
That was absolutely
the most important thing in the world to him.
MALE TV ANNOUNCER: Thirty games without a loss
for this team from the hills of Pennsylvania.
POSNANSKI: And the numbers bear it out.
Obviously, all the success they had on the football field,
but over and over and over again,
they had the highest graduation numbers.
You go and you make the best of any decision you make.
POSNANSKI: But it wasn't until the New England Patriots
make this huge offer that he became this iconic figure.
The Patriots offered him
many, many, many multiples
of what he was making at Penn State
to go coach in the professional ranks.
This is truly, you know,
the guy coming to you with the briefcase full of money
and saying, you know, "Do you want it or don't you?"
When he stayed, he was a hero.
( crowd cheering )
MALE NEWS REPORTER: Joe Paterno, I think you're
one that we in the sports world admire.
One, you have a tremendous percentage
of your football players who get their degrees.
Two, you turned down supposedly a million-dollar offer
- to go to the pros. - ( Joe laughs )
POSNANSKI: That begins the St. Joe stuff.
MAN: Teacher of character
and coach of champions, Joe Paterno!
( cheers and applause )
POSNANSKI: The feeling was that Joe Paterno was perfect.
Every player I talked to would call him a second father,
or a father I never had.
He spent a lot of his own money building the library
and some of these other cultural parts of the city.
And I think Penn State fans' identity
was built around Joe Paterno,
but it was really built around this idea
that Joe Paterno came up with, which is,
yes, it was great that they're winning,
but that they were serving something higher.
And of course it made Penn State fans despised everywhere else.
I want to ask you about this issue
of being the beacon of integrity.
I mean, you draw up game plans listening to opera.
You quote Robert Browning.
You write op ed articles for The New York Times.
Is it possible that this stuff's a little overblown?
- Sure, it's overblown... - POSNANSKI: He was St. Joe.
That's how people viewed him,
that it was something much larger
than I think he ever was comfortable being.
I'm the "beacon of integrity" is kind of scary.
You know, I-- yeah...
But it was a symbol that he lived with
for almost 40 years until that day in November.
JAY PATERNO: My father did the right thing.
Joe reported what he was told.
The Attorney General said
that's what the law directed him to do.
And Tuesday morning, he was set to go out
and meet with the press and explain things.
I have a brief statement,
which we will pass out to everyone.
Due to the ongoing legal circumstances centered around
the recent allegations and charges,
we have determined that today's press conference
cannot be held and will not be rescheduled.
MAN 1: Who made that decision?
We will not have any further comments.
MAN 2: Jeff, you called this press conference--
- why did you call-- - WOMAN: Can we get a statement?
JAY: When the university cancelled the press conference,
you know, suddenly, all those newspaper people
and media people needed somewhere to go.
They came here.
Guys, get-- back up, back up, back up!
This is private property.
It didn't shut.
MAN: Scott, can you confirm that the coach
is leaving at the end of the season?
Please get off the driveway!
God love him, my dad, Saturday, said,
"This will blow over because we did the right thing.
They'll focus to Jerry, and then they'll move on,
and they'll get off our porch, and that'll be the end of it."
CROWD ( chanting ): I believe that we will win!
I believe that we will win!
( crowd cheering )
SCOTT PATERNO: My parents were both very worldly in the sense
that they were very well-read,
but they were unbelievably naive.
Can you guys clear a path?
I read the presentment, and made the conclusion
almost immediately that Dad
had probably coached his last game.
I called him Sunday morning and said,
"You need to get your head around the possibility."
Yeah, he gave me sort of one of his, "Ah, you know."
And I said, "Dad," I said, "you really need to think about it."
He said, "I appreciate you telling me that.
I appreciate where you're coming from."
He said, "I got get ready for Nebraska game."
He had not read the presentment when he said that.
I said, "You have to read what they're reading.
They're reading that Mike saw a kid being anally raped,
told you about it, and you didn't do anything more
than tell these guys up the chain."
I said, "The way that reads, it's going to be a problem."
( crowd shouting and chanting )
Everyone, not just my father,
nobody could seem to understand
how these things tend to mushroom.
Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, thank you very much.
Guys, first off, really, we really appreciate it.
We really appreciate the show of support.
And before you guys continue cheering,
can we just take a minute and say a prayer for--
Guys, look, no matter how this works out,
there's a horrible story
that involved a lot of kids getting hurt.
And as a father of three kids, I just--
Can you guys take a moment to say a prayer?
And then please feel free to cheer,
feel free to show your support,
but let's remember that we want to show support
for the victims first.
Gentlemen, thank you very much.
I have nothing more to say.
This was for them.
Thank you very much, guys.
MAN ( chanting ): Scott Paterno!
CROWD ( chanting ): Scott Paterno!
JAY PATERNO: Wednesday night, the phone starts ringing,
and my wife said, "You need to call your sister.
I think they're gonna fire your dad tonight."
And it was just complete shock.
It was like, "What the...? Why would you do this?"
And my reaction was, "Why would you do this to this team right now?"
'Cause we were 8-1, we're two games up in the Big Ten.
We beat Nebraska and Ohio State.
We're going to the Big Ten Championship Game,
chance to go to the Rose Bowl,
a lot of great things going on for us.
I figured if they hadn't fired him by Tuesday,
they would hold their fire
and just kinda let the season play out.
Uh, I'm gonna make some comments,
and then we'll take your questions.
The past several days have been absolutely terrible
for the entire Penn State community.
The Penn State Board of Trustees tonight decided
that it is in the best interests of the university
to have a change in leadership
to deal with the difficult issues
that we are facing.
The Board of Trustees and Graham Spanier have decided
that effectively immediately, Dr. Spanier
is no longer president of the university.
In addition, Joe Paterno
is no longer the head football coach...
- ( crowd gasps ) - ...effectively immediately.
( scattered shouting )
( crowd shouting )
SUE PATERNO: We were getting into bed.
( crowd cheering )
When it rang, I gave Joe the phone.
And he said, "Okay, okay."
And he hung up, and he said, "Goodbye."
And he said, "They just fired me."
( applause )
So I redialed the number, and I said,
"After 61 and a half years, he deserves better.
Goodbye," and I hung up.
I couldn't,
I couldn't believe that's how you...
They can take your heart away...
that quickly.
Why did you guys come out? What do you want to say?
- MAN 1: Back off! - WOMAN 1: Back off!
MAN 1: You guys, back off!
WOMAN 2: Leave Joe alone!
MAN 2: Leave Joe alone!
CROWD ( chanting ): Leave Joe alone!
Leave Joe alone!
Hey, look, get a good night's sleep, all right?
Study, all right?
We still got things to do.
All right, I'm out of it maybe now.
That phone call put me out of it.
But we'll go from here, okay?
Hey, good luck, everybody. Hey, thanks for coming.
WOMAN 3: We love you, Joe! We love you, Joe!
- MAN 3: I love you, Joe! - MAN 4: I love you, Joe!
MAN 4: Thank you for everything!
We are Penn State!
MAN 5: Yeah!
WOMAN 3: We love you, Joe!
MAN 6: You guys have no decency at all.
MAN 7: You know, you guys are fucking assholes.
WOMAN 3: I hope you media are happy!
MAN 7: I'm gonna beat the shit out of all you motherfuckers.
MAN 8: We should!
MAN 7: Everybody should look up every one of their asses.
MAN 1: What do you think of people who think
you're making him the fall guy for this?
I think we have to do what we think
was the right thing to do in the circumstances.
I'm confident that the university and our students
will behave in the proper manner.
MAN 2: Have you made any contingency plans?
JOHN SURMA: Our administration is very adept
at handling these sorts of affairs, and I'm sure
they're prepared for whatever eventualities there may be.
MAN 3: The campus is gonna burn.
CROWD ( chanting ): We want Joe! We want Joe!
We want Joe! We want Joe!
( shouting and cheering )
CROWD ( chanting ): We want Joe Pa!
( rapid clapping )
We want Joe Pa! We want Joe Pa!
TYLER ESTRIGHT: I was just so angry.
So I-I took that picture I have of Joe,
and I just stood out there on my balcony with it.
And I got like a bunch of texts
from family and stuff saying like,
"Good job, you got on TV representing Joe."
( loud cheering and yelling )
ESTRIGHT: We got a lot of backlash
for that event that night,
that riot as they call it.
Even though I wouldn't really call it a real riot.
CROWD ( chanting ): One more game! One more game!
I would call it a protest.
That's definitely a better word for it.
CROWD ( chanting ): We want Joe! We want Joe!
ESTRIGHT: I don't think it was unwarranted.
You know, this man was treated so badly.
This guy was Penn State, and he built this place.
How could they do this to him? How could they do this?
They made him look like a freaking villain!
You call him a legend, treat him like one!
MAN: Hell, yes.
( crowd cheering )
CROWD ( chanting ): We want Joe! We want Joe!
We want Joe! We want Joe!
That's the first time I've ever been really scared
in State College, was at that riot.
I almost got in a fight with a student
'cause he was yelling at me,
telling me that I was the reason
this whole thing was happening.
CROWD ( chanting ): Fuck the media!
Break the camera!
MAN: Holy shit!
LITTLE: When they turn over a truck,
it's a whole different ball game.
Plus, they were trying to light the gas on fire.
They were throwing cigarettes at it
and holding lighters down to the gas.
Happy Valley, to me,
it's more of a feeling than a place.
It felt safe here.
But that was the night that I feel like
State College lost its innocence.
CROWD ( chanting ): We want Joe! We want Joe!
Hey, guys, you guys, quick question.
MAN 1: Yeah!
So give me a stance on why you're out here tonight.
- What are you trying to say? - 'Cause we want Joe Pa!
MAN 2: We want Joe Pa!
MATT JORDAN: The students, in a sense,
they're having to come to terms
with the loss of a father figure.
I mean Paterno, paternal.
You know, it was always built that way.
CROWD ( chanting ): We want Joe Pa!
It was the same father figure for 40 years
who kept Happy Valley happy.
CROWD ( chanting ): We want Joe Pa!
Fuck Sandusky!
We want Joe Pa!
MAN 1: Fuck Sandusky!
MAN 2: All right, yes, we're out here yelling "We want Joe Pa."
But if you also listen, we're yelling "Eff Sandusky."
Sandusky can burn in hell. What he did was wrong.
JORDAN: Sandusky represented another surrogate-parent model.
The sick irony of that all now we know,
but at the time, the people came to that
with total open arms.
We have the hope of setting up a home for troubled youths.
Now, uh, right now at this stage,
it's just a dream, it's a hope, and...
JORDAN: From all I know about the two of them,
I don't think Joe Pa liked Jerry Sandusky very much.
...who've had some problems.
You know, they've gone astray somewhere...
JORDAN: But the powerful mythos
surrounding the football program,
and its capacity to transform people
from bad backgrounds
provided cover in a way
to Sandusky's predatory behavior.
This is not something that people are comfortable with.
They couldn't believe that somebody who was steeped
in that culture could be capable of this.
So a bad apple must immediately be taken
from the barrel in order that the barrel be saved.
FEMALE REPORTER: We're right at the corner of College Avenue,
and I want to take you in behind me.
You can see the artist
who created this awe-inspiring mural
is actually painting over the likeness
of Jerry Sandusky.
He was the heir apparent for some time,
thought of to be the heir apparent to Joe Paterno.
Students are devoted to Paterno, but those that we spoke to today
say they are still very upset about the allegations,
and they're feeling a wave of emotion right now.
MAN: Here he comes.
WOMAN: You've anything to say?
You have anything to say?
How are you holding up?
What do you have to say about more victims coming?
MATT SANDUSKY: As the story first broke,
I mean, it really was like a whirlwind,
you know, for everybody, I think.
There were reporters always at the end of the driveway
and coming to the door.
Yes, sir.
I'm sorry, but my attorney has advised me
that the situation is in the courts,
and I'm not to make any comments.
If you need any information, he will make any statements.
Can you tell us if you had any inappropriate relations
with young boys, sir?
You didn't hear what I said. I said I am--
I've been advised by my attorney,
I am following orders,
and I am not privy to making any statements--
You can't tell us if any members
of the Penn State administration
ever spoke to you about this matter at all?
Any information that you want,
my attorney would be available.
Well, you have an opportunity right now
just to set the record straight, sir.
I mean, you can tell us right now
that these charges are false.
Unfortunately-- unfortunately,
I'm not in a position I can make any statements.
I've been advised,
and I've agreed to that with my attorney.
So I'm sorry.
What about Second Mile, sir?
MATT SANDUSKY: Jerry was Jerry. He was just steadfast.
You're not listening.
( chuckles ) Okay.
He believed that these kids
were going to be proven to be lying
and it would all just go away.
I think most times, I would go over during the day.
I was doing stuff around the house
to help my adopted mother, Dottie.
She was under a lot of duress.
You better get out.
Just being in that house with him alone,
he was locked down, he couldn't do anything.
MAN: He's right over there.
Do you see him?
What's he looking at?
The neighbors, they were not supporting 'em.
They wanted them to leave, you know?
Because there's this elementary school right,
really, in their backyard.
And the house was vandalized.
Like, a couple windows got broke
on, like, two different occasions or something.
But it was like the rallying.
You know, it was us against
everybody outside of that building,
us against all these people saying this,
and it's a lie.
I mean, the police questioned me.
They asked me if Jerry Sandusky touched me,
if he ever did these things to me,
if I could ever think that he would do that, and...
I said no,
absolutely definitively, nothing happened to me.
I don't know anything about that.
And I, you know, I don't think
that he would do those things.
( bell tolling )
ESTRIGHT: I tried to get myself so excited
for the Nebraska game.
There was supposed to be a pep rally that Friday.
They decided to do this vigil instead.
MAN ( over P.A. ): Nothing can atone
for the crimes that happened here...
A lot of people were really, like, emotional about it,
but I was just like, "This seems so fake to me."
( crowd vocalizing )
This is a Friday night before a football game.
We should be getting ready to support the team.
That's what we do here in Happy Valley--
we watch football on Saturdays, and that's our pastime.
MALE TV ANNOUNCER: Nebraska and Penn State players gathering in prayer.
ESTRIGHT: And then we have the prayer
at the middle of the field the next day.
But we do know that you are bigger than it all!
A lot of people don't know this, but the man that led it
was an assistant coach for Nebraska,
and he's like really a radical Christian leader.
He wrote some really bad things about homosexuals.
There are a lot of little boys around the country today
who are watching this game.
And-and they're trying to figure out
what the definition of manhood is all about.
Father, this is it right here.
ESTRIGHT: I'm like, this guy is out here
leading that prayer, and I don't agree
with anything that this guy thinks.
You know, I think guy is ignorant.
And may we be reminded, Lord, as it says in your word...
And then from pockets in the stadium,
you hear kind of people cheering.
- May the truth be known. - ( man shouts indistinctly )
May justice by known. Would you protect the victims...
( crowd clapping and cheering )
( preacher shouting indistinctly )
They kind of had the idea that I had, kind of like,
all right, you know, this is great and all,
but stop praying in the middle of the field.
Get off your knees, stop holding the hand of the Nebraska guy.
Get on your own side, and let's go play football.
( man preaching and crowd cheering continues )
And Taylor Martinez, Nebraska's quarterback,
he was walking by, and I said,
"Martinez, the only way you're leaving here
is in a hearse 'cause we're gonna destroy you,"
or something like that, and I yelled it,
and this kid, he's like, "It's not about that today!"
And I'm like, it's not about that today?
I'm like, I don't care what happened.
This is Penn State football. It's always about that.
You know, I always want to see the other team destroyed,
especially Nebraska, we got a rivalry there.
We're not playing Temple or some cupcake
from down the street, you know?
Like, this is a big game.
And I'm like, we need to-- we need to treat it
like it's a big-- I understand what happened.
I feel badly for all the victims and stuff, and I hate that.
I hate how every time I have to share my opinion
about Penn State Football and what happened,
I have to say I feel bad for the victims.
No shit!
I mean, that should just be like...
common sense for anyone.
Yeah, you feel bad.
But now with anybody who's not associated with it,
I have to say that just to make sure
that they don't think I'm some kind of idiot
that doesn't care about that kind of stuff.
That was the beginning of me feeling strange
- at Beaver Stadium. - ( crowd cheering )
MALE TV ANNOUNCER: Well, in light of the developments
of the past week here at Penn State,
you can understand a very emotional day
on many fronts, some not knowing even
how to react to what they've heard and seen this week.
Well, Chris, for the first time in a half-century,
Joe Paterno is not the head coach at Penn State.
But there is still a Paterno on the sidelines today.
Jay, so much has happened this week.
How would you describe it?
Well, you know, we've had
better weeks in our lives, obviously.
I know you visited with your dad earlier today,
your dad and Sue, and you wrote him a letter.
What were you trying to share with them, Jay?
Just how proud of them I am.
( voice breaking ) And, Dad, I wish you were here.
We love you.
Go.
I don't know how we got through that week
'cause then he got fired on Wednesday night,
and then, um, on Saturday, he was coughing up blood,
and that's when I took him to the hospital.
And, um, to go meet the doctor
at the hospital at 8:00 in the morning,
he had to lie down in my Camry.
And I covered him with a blanket
so the press wouldn't see he was in the car.
And then that afternoon,
they had done a blood draw,
and things were not-- the blood was not good.
So he had to go to the hospital.
POSNANSKI: It was one of those things that had happened so fast
that nobody could believe it.
The presentment comes down on a Saturday.
Joe Paterno's fired on a Wednesday.
The word gets out that Joe Paterno
had cancer on a Saturday.
That's how quick it was.
I mean, it was literally one week.
He-- he was--
Obviously, he was terribly wounded by it all.
MAN: Here he is.
And I think for about 24 to 36 hours,
he wore his emotions on his sleeve.
I mean, I think he-- he cried.
He talked about, you know, "My father gave me a name,
and I lost-- you know, that name is gone now."
But, of course, it was right at that time
that he found out that he had cancer,
and that was so totally the focus
of those last three months of his life.
At some point, we were having this conversation, and he said,
"Let me ask you something." And I said, "Sure."
He goes, "What do you think of all this?"
And he was asking me what I thought of him
with his role in this.
And I told him--
I told him, "I think you should've done more."
I said, "You're Joe Paterno.
You've represented what's right.
And it doesn't mean what's right on the base level.
It means the highest level of what's right."
And he, uh--
he kind of nodded, and he said,
"You know, I wish I had done more."
MAN 1: Thank you, Joe!
MAN 2: We love you, Joe!
( cheers and applause )
MAN 2: We love you, Joe!
MAN 3: We Love you!
MAN 2: We love you, Joe!
MAN 3: We love you!
SHUBIN: One of the victims went to the parade
that accompanied Joe Paterno's casket when Paterno died.
It was surreal.
The town was lined with people
four and five deep just to get a glimpse of a hearse
that was driving around town, you know, for hours.
This victim, you know, took it upon himself
to see what that was like, and afterward he felt worried.
You know, "These people adored Paterno.
They'll never believe me."
- MAN: We are! - CROWD: Penn State!
MAN: We are!
- CROWD: Penn State! - MAN: We are!
SHUBIN: Because of the way people view the team,
view football, view Paterno, there is a lot of fear.
I think that the victims want peace.
And, you know, I think that they also want accountability,
not just Sandusky, but those that enabled him,
and that, you know, that we all learn from this,
not just Penn State but the community.
That's very important.
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Good evening. He is identified
in court documents as victim number four,
a 28 year-old man,
who today became witness number one
in the criminal sex abuse trial
of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky.
( cameras clicking )
MALE TV REPORTER 1: It's a classic courtroom confrontation--
Jerry Sandusky faces his accusers for the first time
since being charged.
Prosecutors plan to start out today
with one of their strongest witnesses,
a man identified in the grand jury report as victim four.
BRIAN WILLIAMS: And again, there are more witnesses after him.
This is just the start...
MATT SANDUSKY: At the trial, I was sitting
with Dotty and the family in the courtroom,
really just spinning, just trying to figure out what--
what was happening, what was going on.
MALE TV REPORTER 2: The first witness identified
in court documents as victim four
said he was a 90-pound teenager when the abuse began.
He described how showers with Sandusky
in the Penn State coaches' locker room went from
horsing around to hugging and caressing to oral sex.
Now 28...
MATT SANDUSKY: I knew victim four.
He was around whenever I was around.
I was older, and I would pick him up at school sometimes
when Jerry couldn't pick him up to go play racquetball.
I played racquetball with him.
We did things together, you know?
FEMALE TV REPORTER: He told the jurors Sandusky
would sexually assault and rape him
in the basement of Sandusky's home...
MATT SANDUSKY: That testimony was very hard
to hear and to have to listen to.
MALE TV REPORTER 1: Now, despite that grueling testimony, Sandusky seemed
unfazed, smiling and even laughing
with supporters in the courtroom
at the end of yesterday's session.
MALE TV REPORTER 3: Victim number four had
gut-wrenching testimony, spoke for about four hours...
MATT SANDUSKY: In the evenings, I would come home and be out of it.
I didn't speak to anybody, you know.
I was just trying to really figure things out
and come to terms with things.
MALE TV REPORTER 4: Victim four testified
Sandusky lavished him with gifts--
cash, sports gear,
a sideline spot at home football games...
MATT SANDUSKY: His whole story, everything, the way that it started,
the gifts, the traveling that he got to do, the bowl games,
you know, the process of how he slowly transcended
from the hand on the leg
to more in the shower
or the soaping you up and hugging you
to just the more vulgar details of it,
you know, it was the whole thing.
The putting him into school programs,
and helping him that way,
having people give him money for college eventually.
And... his story was exactly--
is my story.
But he was in my place.
After the first day of the trial,
I knew I wasn't going back to the courtroom.
I knew I would not be involved in this anymore.
I went into my bathroom, and I looked in the mirror.
Like, I had to look at my own reflection and say...
( chuckles softly )
"Which way am I going to go?
Am I going to remain...
you know, the coward that I have been?
Or am I going to risk everything...
and tell the truth?"
FEMALE TV REPORTER 1: A major development has occurred
in the Jerry Sandusky case.
MALE TV REPORTER 1: A local lawyer confirmed to NBC News this afternoon
that he had been retained to represent Matt Sandusky
as a victim of Jerry Sandusky's abuse.
MATT SANDUSKY: In the end, I did go back
to testify against him if needed.
MALE TV REPORTER 2: About an hour ago,
the Matt Sandusky bombshell was all the buzz
here on press row.
That is a bombshell George will not hear.
MALE TV REPORTER 3: The news broke after
final arguments and deliberations began...
FEMALE TV REPORTER 2: Matt Sandusky was prepared to testify...
SHUBIN: It was just enormously courageous,
Matt coming forward like that
to support the victims who were testifying.
Almost to a man, none of them felt that it was possible
that Sandusky could be convicted,
that they would be believed.
We had no idea that Matt was going to flip on us.
How did Jerry react to the fact
that his son, his adopted son,
was going to come in and testify against him?
Jerry and Dottie were crushed.
As a matter of fact...
It's just so complicated.
You know, these were, these were little boys.
And Jerry was a father figure to them.
And they felt they were complicit,
which is the most confusing
and difficult and sad thing.
They felt, you know, they were taking the football tickets,
they wanted to go to the games.
They accepted Jerry's attention,
and they didn't talk about it.
FEMALE TV REPORTER 3: Former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky
has been sentenced to at least 30 years behind bars.
The price for sexually...
MATT SANDUSKY: It's really complicated,
why I was part of that family's life
and around him for so long after I had been abused.
( cameras clicking )
And I understand that, yes,
I know that I lied to the police.
But...
for me, it was for the family.
I needed the family. I wanted-- you know,
I needed to know
that I had their support, that we were--
they needed to see that they had my support,
that we were all together.
And my feeling is,
everything that Jerry has done,
he doesn't feel that he's hurt any of us.
He thinks that what he did was love.
( car engine starts )
I mean, he came in, and he did help.
You know, he did try to direct me
in positive ways.
90% of the time when you were around Jerry Sandusky,
for me, was enjoyable,
was things that you would want.
But...
you know, there was another part also that...
destroys you.
( kids chattering )
So now Sandusky's going to jail
for the rest of his life.
In some ways, that's sort of the easiest part,
is, you know, to knock out the actual predator.
The tougher stuff is the self-examination,
you know, what we did as a community to enable this.
And I think the grappling with that
really began with the Freeh Report.
¶ He's got the whole world in his ha-aands... ¶
CAROL COSTELLO: Good morning to you. I'm Carol Costello.
We start with breaking news in the CNN Newsroom.
In just seconds, a 200-page report will be posted online.
It involves Penn State
and how it handled the child rape accusations
against Jerry Sandusky.
MALE ESPN REPORTER: The next shoe to drop in the Jerry Sandusky scandal
is due this morning in just a few hours
when Louis Freeh, the former director of the FBI,
will release the results of an 8-month investigation
into the actions of Penn State officials.
Who were they?
Graham Spanier, the school's former president,
Tim Curley, the former athletic director,
Gary Schultz, the former vice president,
and Joe Paterno, the legendary
and revered football coach
who died last January.
MICHAEL PILATO: There's definitely a major cloud on this beautiful day
in Happy Valley, you know what I mean?
You know, there's been a cloud for a while,
but today I think it's a storm.
I don't like that the Freeh Report
comes out at the first day of arts festival,
but you know,
things happen when they happen.
They fall when they fall.
And I'm also wondering in my head what--
what to do on the mural.
In November, right after we all heard the news,
I came up, and-- two days later,
and painted Sandusky out of the mural.
I'm going to wait, of course.
I have to read the report myself
to decide about Joe.
But we feared this moment, you know?
SHUBIN: So we need-- do you guys each have
a link to the web page
where this Freeh Report's coming out?
WOMAN 1: I can get it right now.
All right, download it.
Save it as a PDF file because it could go away.
WOMAN 1: It's crashing. "Website cannot display--"
Can you print the press release
from the Freeh site and bring it in?
- 267 pages. - WOMAN 3: Okay.
WOMAN 2: Report coming your way, guys!
All right.
MALE TV REPORTER: Our most saddening and sobering finding...
WOMAN 2: Okay, folks, here we go.
The press conference, ESPN, streaming live.
The most powerful men at Penn State
failed to take any steps for 14 years
to protect the children who Sandusky victimized.
I was finishing the book
just as the Freeh Report was coming out,
and my big concern about the Freeh Report was that
it was going to have stuff in there that I didn't have.
The evidence shows that Mr. Paterno was made aware
of the 1998 investigation of Sandusky...
POSNANSKI: That it was going to completely blow up
everything that I believed.
So I read the Freeh Report right when it came out,
and my sense of the sort of
the critical e-mail conversation
specific to Joe Paterno was from 2001.
It's after Mike McQueary has reported this to Joe
and Joe's reported it on.
And they had essentially come to a conclusion,
Tim Curley, Gary Schultz.
They've decided what their game plan is.
They were going to the authorities.
Somewhere in the middle of this e-mail conversation,
Tim Curley says, "After thinking about it
and talking it over with Joe,
I'm not entirely comfortable with this game plan."
And the Freeh Report said that e-mail represented
was that Tim Curley had shifted the plan
away from going to the authorities,
the proper authorities,
and instead had decided
to sort of quietly handle it in-house,
and that Joe Paterno had been the one
that had guided him to do that.
To me, pulling that
from six words in an e-mail
is astonishing, absolutely astonishing.
We don't know what Joe Paterno said in that conversation.
We don't know what it meant.
SHUBIN: People who are interested in the legacy of Paterno
and the football program will do their best
to deconstruct the emails, you know, parse words,
but from an ethical and from a moral standpoint,
um, you know, the e-mails,
you know, thunderously demonstrate
that a lack of concern
for what happened to these kids.
MALE TV REPORTER 1: The 267-page report also states
the men knew about a 1998 investigation
into Sandusky but still failed...
MALE TV REPORTER 2: Freeh says Paterno knew about a report
that Jerry Sandusky abused a boy
on campus in 1998 and followed...
MALE TV REPORTER 3: Curley wrote in one e-mail
to Spanier and Schultz that he had touched base
with Paterno about the incident,
and days later, there was this follow-up:
"Anything new in this department?
Coach is anxious to know where it stands."
MATT JORDAN: One thing that seems to be very certain
is that in 2001,
Spanier, Curley, and Schultz had much more knowledge
than they had previously declared.
But in terms of what Joe Paterno knew
or what he was anxious about in 1998,
this is one of those points of ambiguity
in the whole story that is so difficult to process.
TOM KLINE: Joe Paterno was consulted.
There was a collaborative effort
not to go to the authorities...
JORDAN: The various parties that have vested interests in the facts,
they're all still competing
to get their narrative out there.
Knowing Joe, I can't see where
he would purposely withhold anything
along those lines. As a player...
FEMALE TV REPORTER: Paterno loyalists insist...
But given what I know about the facts,
no one narrative yet quite fits.
And the whole thing had the effect
of polarizing the debate
and dividing the community.
Ready, Dad?
Yep.
One, two...
Keep your hands off me.
That's called assault.
Bite me.
Go to hell.
Ready?
Pedophile lover.
What you're doing is an infringement
- on peoples' freedoms. - No, I'm not.
Yeah, you're being an ass to peoples' freedoms.
- No, you are, too. - I am?
How do you know me?
I don't know you, but I can tell
by the way you're talking that you don't have a clue
as to what you're talking about.
I do know the facts versus fiction.
Facts about what?
- I do know that-- - Do you know the facts about this guy?
- No, I don't. - No.
- Neither do you. - Uh-huh.
So what do you need for the facts?
What facts do you know?
- What, what do you-- - Tell me a fact.
A fact is that Joe Paterno, in 2001,
was told about a boy being raped in the Lasch building,
and he didn't do anything for ten years.
That's called a cover-up. That's a fact.
He reported it at 8:00 the next morning.
That's all he did. Why--
When he knew that nobody else was going to--
No, though, you just admitted that.
- Yeah, he reported-- - You said he didn't do anything.
He reported it the next day.
Uh-huh, he reported it and that was it.
- We all have an opinion, okay? - We do.
- Yours isn't special. - I'm allowed to present mine.
I know you are, but I'm allowed to stand here--
- Then why are you so upset? - I'm allowed to stand here
without you bugging me or being in my picture.
I'm not bugging you. You're bugging me.
No, you were holding that above my head.
If you don't want bugged, all you have to do is move.
You were holding that above my head.
I'm allowed to stand here just like you.
I know you are. 'Cause you're a fuckin' asshole.
- That's why. - There's room on that side.
You can stand over there.
See you later, pedophile enabler.
What? What?
What did you say?
Huh? Gimme that.
Here, write another one.
I will!
Why don't you take that hat off?
MAN: Yeah.
Why are you wearing that hat?
'Cause I still am proud of Penn State.
I just don't have much pride for this guy.
You don't like the facts.
I don't like assholes like you.
You don't like free speech.
Good-bye.
Go to Russia. They don't like it either.
In the name of the Father, the Son...
PROTESTING MAN: Get of here with your silly religion.
( protesting man laughs )
Well, God bless America.
- You're gonna rot in hell. - You know the Catholic church?
I drove two hours to get here, and not to see you, jackass.
PROTESTING MAN: No, I'm not moving. Go ahead.
Hey, hey! What the hell are you doing?
- She's pushing me. - I am not.
- She's pushing-- yeah, she is. - You're a sick individual.
She's the sick one. She's pushing me.
- I don't think so. - Thank you.
- I'm trying to take a picture. - Why?
He touched my mother.
MAN: Thank you.
MAN: They took his halo. He had a halo over his head.
( people chattering )
This morning, you know, I came out to the mural.
I haven't slept for days.
I was thinking about a lot of things,
and I-- at 12:00,
painted the halo off of Joe Paterno.
And it was the hardest thing I've ever done.
The hardest thing I've ever done.
You can't take him out of the mural because he's done
so many amazing things for this community,
so many amazing things for his players.
But also we can't be blind to the fact
of what happened at the end there.
So by taking the halo out,
it means that we're all human beings.
FEMALE TV REPORTER 1: Since the release of the Freeh Report,
Paterno's alma mater, Brown University,
removed his name from its head football coaching position
and a student award.
MALE TV REPORTER 1: The Big Ten Conference announced that Paterno's name
will be removed from the league's championship trophy.
FEMALE TV REPORTER 2: Pennsylvania's two senators are rescinding their nomination
of Joe Paterno for the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
MALE TV REPORTER 2: Nike has announced it will take Joe Paterno's name
off its childcare center.
FEMALE TV REPORTER 3: The President believes removing
the Paterno statue is the right thing to do.
BARACK OBAMA: I think it's a good time
for us to do some soul searching,
every institution, not just Penn State.
MALE TV REPORTER 3: This is why you don't build
statues for people who are alive.
MALE TV REPORTER 4: There's a library at Penn State,
and there are calls to take his name off of that.
MALE TV REPORTER 5: Penn State students have decided to rename the tent city
they set up for camping out before home games.
Paternoville will now be called Nittanyville.
- ( jackhammer rattling ) - ( hammering )
SUE PATERNO: Mary Kay called me and said,
"Mom, they're taking the statue down."
( forklift beeping )
They didn't give me a 2-minute phone call
so that I could deal with it
and tell the kids not to watch the television.
I see now that society likes to...
destroy what they think is better than they are.
You know, everybody who worked in the football program,
it was a family.
Everybody cared about each other,
and everybody cared about how everybody else did.
We had Camelot.
We all had...
It was good we all had that time.
MARK EMMERT: No price the NCAA can levy
will repair the grievous damage
inflicted by Jerry Sandusky on his victims.
Our goal is not to be just punitive,
but to make sure the university establishes
an athletic culture and daily mindset
in which football will never again be placed
ahead of educating,
nurturing and protecting young people.
With these intentions in mind,
the executive committee, the Division One Board and I
have agreed upon the following sanctions:
First, the NCAA is imposing a fine
of $60 million
- on the university. - ( crowd gasps )
MATT JORDAN: For me as a faculty,
and in terms of the way that the program was run,
I thought it was a nice blend of academics with athletics.
...athletic culture that went horribly awry.
JORDAN: I didn't see this as a problem.
I had many examples over the years
of teaching students where, um,
I had starters who wouldn't play the next week
'cause they didn't come to my class.
So it was odd to me that they singled out this place.
It may be true that there was a reverence for football here,
but you know, there is a reverence
for football in America, period.
EMMERT: Penn State Football will be banned from bowl games
and any other postseason play for four years.
- ( students exclaim ) - To single this place out
for that when it's pervasive,
seemed pretty sanctimonious.
For the next several years now, Penn State can focus
on the work of rebuilding its athletic culture,
not worrying about whether or not
it's going to a bowl game.
JORDAN: How could the NCAA be shocked
by a reverence of football when that's the thing
that their advertising campaigns promote?
In order to minimize a negative impact on student athletes,
the NCAA will allow any entering or returning
football student athletes to transfer
and immediately compete at the transfer university...
JORDAN: NCAA makes $500 million a year.
The BCS makes hundreds of million dollars a year
because of the reverence of football.
The NCAA vacates all wins of the Penn State football team
from 1998 to 2011...
JORDAN: So to act as if this was something abhorrent
does nothing for the problem.
In fact, I think in many ways, this will only exacerbate
the reverence for football here.
EMMERT: An erosion of academic values
that are replaced by the value of hero worship
and winning at all costs.
JORDAN: In a way, this is how we deal with things in America.
We find the very sensational story,
and then we try to create a kind of shaming spectacle
to allow culture to move on.
It's a way to avoid doing something about it.
( lawn mower humming )
MALE TV REPORTER 1: After reviewing the Louie Freeh Report, NCAA officials
determined Penn State put football first,
and that ultimately enabled
Jerry Sandusky to molest innocent children...
MALE TV REPORTER 2: I guess the biggest take-away is that a lot has
to change here at Penn State,
a lot of very profound cultural things
that would allow something like this to happen...
MALE TV REPORTER 3: ...that there was a culture of reverence
for the football program.
Look, the finger is essentially pointed at everyone.
LOU PRATO: Penn State's never going to regain their reputation
in my lifetime. I mean, it-it's done.
They can call it Happy Valley, but it's--
the Happy Valley we knew no longer exists.
We're all smeared.
Okay? Smeared.
You wear your Penn State shirt, they look at you different now.
The culture of football.
That's really stupid.
It's like me making a judgment that New York City is made up
of all-- a bunch of crooks and hoods and rapists
that just go into Central Park
and rape people all the time? Come on!
FEMALE TV REPORTER: The players met with Coach Bill O'Brien
after learning there won't be any bowl games
for the next four years.
Coach O'Brien now faces the daunting task
of keeping current players
from transferring to other schools.
FEMALE REPORTER: Guys, do you plan to stay with the Penn State program?
Any talks about the transfers?
Guys, any talk about the transfers?
Plans to stay with Penn State?
PRATO: We haven't been given our day in court!
Isn't this interesting?
The only person's had his day in court is Sandusky.
Joe's never going to get his day in court.
We don't know whether he's a liar or not.
Sally Jenkins in The Washington Post thinks he's the most--
He lied about '98. Do we know for sure?
Nobody knows for sure.
Is he a liar?
Nobody watching this interview that isn't a frickin' liar.
Nobody.
There are a lot of people that don't like Penn State
because we thumbed our nose at people
thinking we were better for years, and we were better.
Okay, we were better in a lot of ways.
Joe ran a clean program. He graduated students.
I don't feel like cheering that much.
I mean, how can you cheer something like this?
My school's ruined.
I'm going to go, I'm going to enjoy it,
but the festive atmosphere like we used to?
Not going to happen.
That's gotta get depressing.
Starting with the first game.
ESTRIGHT: All of a sudden, we don't care
about anything but football,
and they lay all this stuff as this huge culture problem
to try to fix this horrible culture,
which is just bogus to me.
But the thing that made me the maddest
was taking away Joe's wins.
The 409 wins are gone.
And it was such a sad, sad time for everyone.
Luckily, we had that "Rise and Rally" thing,
which I thought was great.
CROWD: We are Penn State!
( all vocalizing )
When everyone attacked Joe Paterno and Penn State,
it wasn't an attack on just the administration.
It was an attack on the community.
You know, it was like, no, I want to defend myself here.
I didn't know Jerry was doing that.
Nobody in this community knew.
So I think the rally was a huge turning point.
BILL O'BRIEN: So I'm going to do my very best to start this off.
You've all seen Sports Illustrated this week.
( crowd jeering )
I want you all to answer one question.
Here's what it says.
"Is this the end for Penn State?"
CROWD: No!
I'm not sure where Alexander Wolf is out of,
but let's assume he's in New York.
Let's make sure he hears us in New York.
Is this the end for Penn State?
CROWD ( louder ): No!
BILL: Damn right.
( scattered cheering )
MAN: Bill O'Brien!
CROWD ( chanting ): Bill O'Brien!
WOMAN: Today we're going to support the football players.
We're going to support Coach O'Brien.
We're here to let him know that, hey,
we're not going to stand for what's been going down,
right, guys? Huh?
We know the truth hasn't been told, right? Yeah!
Ask LSU and Alabama how many of their players graduate.
Yeah, right!
Stick up for us!
You guys are the TV guys! Stick up for us!
Stop putting all the bad stuff on TV, huh.
- ( crowd cheering ) - Stick up for us!
You stick up for us! Come on!
- WOMAN: Eighty-five percent! - MAN: Come on!
Eighty-five percent!
Eighty-five percent.
CROWD ( chanting ): Eighty-five percent!
Eighty-five percent!
MAN: Take that, buddy!
( crowd cheering )
PENN STATE RADIO HOST: It's all about this team right now.
We're all proud Penn Staters, no doubt about that.
And we owe everything we have now and in our future
to this team sticking together.
So let's cheer 'em on
when they go to practice today, guys.
- Yeah. - ( cheers and applause )
PENN STATE RADIO HOST: Here come the players, guys! Let's give it up!
Here come the boys!
SHUBIN: There's a loyalty to this university,
a real, you know, authentic, genuine,
deep love in this town.
But there is also sort of a uniformity
in thought that wouldn't exist in, I think,
a place where football was not valued the way it is here.
When I think about the analogy,
I think about nationalism, almost.
You know, the way people may feel about a country.
Jerry Sandusky got every benefit of the doubt.
And I think in another place,
in another city or in another area
where football didn't get the pass that it got here,
I don't think that would have been done.
I have to believe that people would have been
much more discriminating
and much more suspicious.
JAY PATERNO: What kind of human beings do you think we are?
These things happen within plain sight of us
every day in every town in this country.
And you can't hold the people that didn't commit
the crimes accountable for not knowing.
My theory at the time was, you know, I wasn't--
that somebody had to have seen something.
How could this possibly happen?
Same reaction everybody else had.
Until you actually start peeling it back and say,
"Why did it happen? How did we not see it?"
And so my mother has embraced this idea that,
okay, we're going to make something good of this.
We are going to be part of the solution.
The truth will come out.
FEMALE TV REPORTER 1: Today, seven months after
the Freeh Report was released to the public,
the Paterno family releasing their own report...
FEMALE TV REPORTER 2: The Paterno family hired who they call
independent experts to conduct their own investigation
in the Penn State sex abuse scandal.
SUE PATERNO: I don't think Joe and I really ever talked about pedophiles...
because my feeling is people don't do that to each other.
It's not something that's easy to wrap your head around.
I had such a guilt trip.
How did we never see any signs?
- I hope this helps today. - I think it will.
SUE: We need experts like Jim Clemente to tell us.
Hey, how ya doing? Jim Clemente.
JAY: Good to see you, Jim. Nice to meet you finally.
- How are you? Yeah. - I've been reading your work.
Monday I spent eight hours going through it,
and made a lot of notes and learned a hell of a lot.
If you'd asked me 15 months ago
what a child predator looked like, I would say,
it's a guy with a beard
and a trench coat, you know, white van.
CLEMENTE: There's maybe 160 to 200
of those a year in the United States,
there's a couple hundred thousand,
like, acquaintance child sex offenders.
- ( applause ) - JAY: Nice. Onto the report.
Hi, everyone, and welcome.
Our show today focuses on a story that shocked the nation
and turned the world of Penn State
and the Paterno family upside down.
I guess the big question people have is, why didn't Joe do more?
Why didn't he follow up to protect these young men?
We didn't have that mindset
that he was doing anything more than teaching them,
working out with them, and getting a shower.
JAY PATERNO: Guys like Jerry make it their business
to make sure no one does know.
...suspecting he's a pedophile.
You'd be amazed how many people in this community
thanked us for the Clemente Report
because they read that report and said,
"God, now I know how I missed it."
Jim, I know you were a part of the team
that was commissioned by the Paterno family
to investigate what happened at Penn State.
And you call him one of the most dangerous child offenders
you've ever studied. Why?
Well, because the type of offender that Jerry Sandusky is,
is very insidious.
In other words, it's hidden behavior,
but it happens right in front of your face...
SUE: The media should have concentrated
on the perpetrator.
It's not about everybody else at the university
or everybody else on the coaching staff
or everybody else in town.
When you have somebody like Sandusky
who comes out and he starts a foundation to help children.
So people, when they're looking for the monster predators,
they look right past the guy that's right in front of them
because they think he's helping children.
SUE PATERNO: If anyone wants to know anything
about child sexual abuse,
you got to read Jim Clemente's report.
It's the best way you can find out anything.
It has been-- his report has given us all...
( clears throat )
sort of absolution that we never knew anything.
MALE TV REPORTER: The Paterno Report is out. Do we care?
Does it change any of our thoughts about Joe Pa?
MIKE GOLIC: A lot of the Paterno Report is
Sandusky pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.
You know, there's a lot of that in there.
MALE TV REPORTER: This report, to me, is not going to change anybody's minds
about Joe Paterno, what he did or did not know.
What he did know, he did not do enough about.
MIKE GREENBERG: Paterno testified that a graduate assistant
reported having seen Jerry Sandusky
in the Lasch building showers fondling
or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy.
- Done. End of story. - GOLIC: End of story.
MALE RADIO CALLER: He's a great man in many, many regards,
but I don't know how they conquer--
MALE RADIO HOST 1: Not any more. Not anymore, he's not.
My answer would be, "We're sorry for the victims.
We're going to go away now."
MALE RADIO HOST 2: Jay Paterno should be ashamed
of his father.
JAY: You know, a lot of Penn State people I know
listen to the radio in their office.
And, you know, you get mad
because I can't believe they said this and they said that.
And, you know, I used to tell my wife all the time,
"If I don't hear it, I don't know it exists."
And if I don't know it exists, it can't bother me.
And, uh, you know, I joke around with friends of mine
that have psychology degrees or whatever and I say,
"Yeah, I know that's denial, but so what?
It's healthy for me."
POSNANSKI: By the time I came back to State College,
there was a shellshock nature,
there was anger, there was a sense that
the entire community had been so utterly, um...
misidentified.
I went to the stadium,
and I was trying to find where the statue was,
and I had passed that statue hundreds of times.
And I kept looking.
And you give them a lot of credit.
They did an amazing job of covering it up.
I mean, it's-- you know, you look there,
you would never know anything was there.
And I remember just looking at that
for a while when I finally figured out where it was.
You know, Paterno had been
the NCAA Division One all time wins leader.
After they took the wins away, he was now something like 12th.
And I just thought,
when you start trying to play with history
and cover up history,
what does it say about all of us?
Do we ever look back at anybody who tried to erase history
and think, "Oh, yeah, they did the right thing"?
I mean, history is what it is.
History is what happened.
Come on! Take off now, let's go!
( crowd cheering )
The thing that struck me was
there was no benefit of the doubt for Joe Paterno.
After such a life, you know,
after that kind of life
throughout 61 years.
Now look, you guys gotta put a drive together.
Let's see if you got a little class
and you put a good drive together.
- Doesn't mean anything. - Two downs to make a first!
Never happened.
SHUBIN: From my perspective,
the focus on Paterno as victim
and Penn State Football as victim
is really a lost opportunity for the community.
You know, I do feel that the further I get
from State College, the more empathy there is
toward the victims, and the more sobriety there is
in terms of discussing what happened and who's at fault.
These victims were just kids.
And Joe Paterno and the others should have protected them.
You know, the lack of curiosity,
the lack of follow-up, it's horrific.
For most of my clients,
they're going to be processing this for forever.
So it's hard to figure out,
you know, the positive spin on it for them.
In Matt's case, he lost
both his biological and adopted family
as a result of Sandusky's behavior and crimes.
MATT SANDUSKY: There was some relief knowing
that I would never have to see Jerry again.
You know, that I knew that he would be going to prison.
So in my mind, I thought maybe Dottie,
maybe the rest of the Sandusky kids
would see the truth, would admit the truth,
and we could still be a family, be part of their lives.
But that's not, you know-- that's not what happened.
I have not heard one single word
from any of them at all.
( thunder rumbling )
JAY PATERNO: You're so used to always looking
at the horizon and seeing a mountain.
And it's very comforting.
It's almost like a security blanket.
And it's almost like for years, you felt that that would hold
the world at bay.
Obviously, a lot of things have changed.
I mean, the name Paterno,
it used to mean one thing.
Now it means something else.
It's tough.
I've tried to explain to my kids
that their grandfather did the right thing,
and that's the most important thing.
Because you can look at yourself in the mirror
and you know your conscience is clear.
I hope they get that lesson out of this.
MATT: My children, they know, you know?
I explained it to them.
The people you knew as your grandparents
are not good people.
They're people that
you shouldn't want to be around.
It's hard.
I mean, I believe in family.
I believe in being able
to lean on one another when you need to, you know.
At the end of the day, I want my children
to have someone who,
no matter what, they can count on,
someone that they always knew,
no matter what happened,
no matter what they did,
I would always be here.
So if I can accomplish that goal,
then I've done my job.
( people chattering )
( man speaking indistinctly on P.A. in distance )
WOMAN: Go home, ESPN!
Go home!
We don't want you!
Take your story elsewhere!
Where is our-- where is our personal security?
- CAMERAMAN: Get our security. - You're not welcome here!
- Your security's over there. - MAN 1: When I say team...
- ...you say fight! Team! - CROWD: Fight!
- Team! - CROWD: Fight!
MAN 1: When I say "Joe Pa" you say "Terno"!
- Joe Pa! - CROWD: Terno!
- Joe Pa! - Terno!
- MAN 1: Yeah! - ( light cheering )
MAN 2: Ya-aay! Beautiful!
Beautiful!
I'm glad you had some guts!
MAN 2: He did the Joe Paterno cheer, and the guy over there,
the Penn State guy, told him not to do it.
They're trying to wipe Joe's name from the records,
completely, like he didn't exist at all.
And that's wrong, I'm sorry.
Here they are! Let's go!
( crowd cheering )
( marching band playing, crowd cheering )
( marching band stops, crowd cheering )
MAN ( over P.A. ): We ask at this time
that we all pause
and together and take part in a moment of reflection.
And to especially consider all victims
of childhood sexual abuse
and those who have endured suffering and loss.
You are in our hearts today.
MAN: Joe Paterno!
- ( man boos ) - ( scattered cheering )
MAN ( over P.A. ): Thank you.
( crowd cheering )
MALE TV ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the official start
of a new era in Penn State Football.
After the unspeakable acts of a former assistant coach,
the first head coaching change in a half century,
and NCAA sanctions that seem insurmountable,
there will never be another day like today in State College.
( crowd builds to a roar for the kickoff )
MALE TV ANNOUNCER: And so it begins!
JORDAN: In the time since we last spoke,
the football team has started to do well.
And that's put a new dynamic in the whole story.
Spirits are on the up instead of on the down.
Whatever cloud was hanging over apparently is being lifted.
Finally felt like energy was coming back
to the area, which was great.
From a terrible day last November,
I'm so happy to see all these Joe Paterno supporters.
You know, the last time we were together,
I believe it was a couple days after the Freeh Report.
Um, and it was when I had removed the halo
off of Joe Paterno.
But at the time, you know, I was a little upset,
like a lot of people.
I think I was, in a way, at a point,
a victim of sensationalism.
But since then, a lot of healing happening.
So I painted the white rose onto Joe Paterno.
- Joe Pa! - CROWD: Terno!
- Joe Pa! - Terno!
ESTRIGHT: This 2012 season was really hard for me.
I just was so disgusted with everything.
To see those guys come out of the tunnel
with those names on the back of their jerseys,
that just made me, like, cringe.
That's like messing with, like, some religious thing.
That'd be like if the Catholic Church decided
to take the cross and make it into a triangle or something.
Like, you can't do that.
You can't put names on the back of Penn State's uniform.
That takes away everything we stand for.
That was just one thing in a long list of things
that really angered me
about the whole Penn State Football experience
after Joe Paterno.
Happy Valley was always a place
I came to to be happy.
But it became such a sad place for me.
And I was just like, "I gotta get out of here."
JORDAN: They have wanted to quickly replace
a powerful symbol with another powerful symbol.
You know, "Long live the king"
after the old king is dead.
They're effectively trying
to re-establish faith in something.
( all screaming )
For a year and a half,
people didn't know what to do around here.
The screaming crowd,
what does it do with all that energy?
It's looking for its next symbol
to attach all that energy to.
( screaming )
Yeah!
( crowd cheering )
And now that there is one available,
it's like a magnet.
Vvt! It's going to go there.
You would think that they would be less ready
to anoint a new king after all that happened.
We all want to think that we live
in a better world than we do.
So people avoid taking a deep look
at something that's troubling.
And it's pretty easy to do
when there's a big, shiny, loud spectacle.
Spectacles draw the attention of people.
It's like a conjurer's trick.
When you create one that is so powerful that it brings
everybody out of the woodwork once a week,
what happens then is people aren't looking around them.
The rest of life is going on,
and they're not paying attention.
( "Working on a Building" performed by Old & In The Way )
¶ Well, if I was a preacher ¶
¶ I tell you what I would do ¶
¶ I'd quit my preaching ¶
¶ And I'd work on the building too ¶
¶ I'm working on a building ¶
¶ I'm working on a building for my Lord, for my Lord ¶
¶ It's a Holy Ghost building ¶
¶ It's a Holy Ghost building for my Lord, for my Lord ¶
¶ Well, if I was a drunkard ¶
¶ I tell you what I would do ¶
¶ I'd quit my drinking ¶
¶ And I'd work on the building too ¶
¶ I'm working on a building ¶
¶ I'm working on a building for my Lord, for my Lord ¶
¶ It's a Holy Ghost building ¶
¶ It's a Holy Ghost building for my Lord, for my Lord ¶
¶ If I was a dealer, I tell you what I would do ¶
¶ I'd quit my dealing ¶
¶ And I'd work on the building too ¶
¶ I'm working on a building ¶
¶ I'm working on a building for my Lord, for my Lord ¶
¶ It's a Holy Ghost building ¶
¶ It's a Holy Ghost building for my Lord, for my Lord. ¶
( applause )
( instrumental theme playing )