(traffic rumbling)
(mid-tempo music)
(people chatting)
You know, it's a tough life.
And to be able to get away and go some place
where you 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.
And, you know, just get it all together.
(crowd cheering)
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)
(crowd cheering)
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.
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♫ 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
[Woman] 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...
[Man] Sandusky, as you know,
pleaded not guilty to those charges.
The scandals led to the removal
of Penn State's President, the Head Football Coach,
Joe Paterno who died last month.
Two other administrators who are awaiting trial...
[Man] 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...
[Woman] After more 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?
[Woman] 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.
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, and some of the stories
that 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.
[Woman] Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.
[Woman] Guilty.
Guilty on all four.
[Woman] Yay!
(crowd cheering and applauding)
[Reporter] You think that's 45?
45 counts, yes.
40, 45 counts.
45 counts.
Only two not guilty.
Okay, Jerry Sandusky was found guilty on 45 counts.
(crowd cheering)
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Essentially, the sentence that Jerry will receive
will be a life sentence just due to the level...
(crowd cheering)
The question is, does that prove to me
that my client is guilty?
And the answer is no.
You know, folks.
(crowd booing)
What this tells me is this...
[Crowd Member] Do you think he's innocent?
This jury...
(crowd member yelling)
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...
(mid-tempo music)
And that the justice system has punished
the person responsible and that's enough.
[Man] You suck, Sandusky!
And 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 think
it's just the beginning of the story.
[Woman] Rot in hell!
[Man] 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.
In this town if you're religious
and you think of God as being the almighty,
the all-encompassing,
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] Penn State's Jerry Sandusky
is one of the best in the country.
(crowd cheering)
Boy, oh, boy, oh boy.
Goodbye Charlie there.
[Bob] He's developed seven
first team All-America linebackers.
Let's go.
You got to hustle.
Let's go.
[Bob] So why doesn't a guy like that
have a team of his own?
Bart.
[Bob] In a way he does.
In the summer, Sandusky runs a free camp for 400 children.
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 stereotypes.
You know, they're not supposed to succeed.
Well, they succeed here.
Good job, you.
I was 10 years old and I went
to the Second Mile summer camp.
That's where I first saw him and met him.
(Jerry laughing)
Jerry was what a father would be like.
[Bob] Jerry Sandusky told him
he was part of a larger family.
And family can make him stronger than he is.
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,
when 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.
[Man] 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.
(slow music)
[Bob] Jerry Sandusky seems happiest
when he is mixing it up with his special kids.
He may never have his own football team.
But he already has something more.
[Jerry] I've lost control of this game.
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 of 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, like that's not what family,
like, you know, friendship and all of that.
It's just kind of like fend for yourself.
[Announcer] Jerry Sandusky enjoying the ride
and trying to fight back the tears.
But after 32 years...
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.
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 Center 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 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.
(slow dramatic music)
[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.
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.
[Reporter] The graduate assistant had seen Jerry Sandusky
fondling or doing something
of a sexual nature to a young boy.
[Reporter] Paterno said, "Because Sandusky
"was already retired at that point,
"I referred the matter to university administrators."
[Reporter] Curley and Shultz told Sandusky
not to bring any Second Mile children
to the football building.
[Reporter] But no Penn State official went to the police.
We'll take questions.
Yes.
[Woman] 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?
We believe that under the statute he had an obligation
to report it to the school administrators.
And he did that.
[Man] At that point, the Attorney General's office
said Joe Paterno had acted properly.
Uh, he's been cooperative.
[Man] But we have all of this media in State College.
Now there's a lot more pressure on Joe Paterno.
Yes, ma'am.
[Woman] Anybody who maybe had a moral obligation
or an ethical obligation to report something.
Uh, 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.
[Man] 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.
[Man] There's a moral question here with Joe Paterno.
That starts really gaining momentum.
[Man] Joe Paterno did nothing
other than tell his superiors.
[Man] Take Paterno at his word.
There was something of a sexual nature going on.
[Reporter] After that incident, Jerry Sandusky
went on to sexually abuse at least four more boys.
[Reporter] 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.
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.
I've always hoped that I can work in an 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.
[Man] The idea of Joe Paterno being a symbol
of something greater than goes back years.
Think of what Joe Paterno did.
(slow music)
When he first became a head coach he basically said
I'm going to do this the right way.
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 can 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've got a lot to be thankful for...
[Man] 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.
(crowd cheering)
[Announcer] 30 games without a loss
for this team who hails from Pennsylvania.
[Man] And the numbers bear it out.
I mean 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.
Now a lot of you people are gonna...
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 the guy coming to you
with the briefcase full of money and saying,
you know, "Do you want it or don't you?"
(mid-tempo music)
When he stayed, he was a hero.
(crowd cheering)
Joe Paterno, I think, you're one (mumbles)
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 laughing)
[Man] That begins this the St. Joe stuff.
[Man] Teacher of character
and coach of champions, Joe Paterno.
(audience applauding and cheering)
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 were winning
but that they were serving something higher.
And of course it made Penn State fans
despised everywhere else.
I want to ask 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.
[Man] He was St. Joe.
That's how people viewed him.
And it was something much larger
than I think he was ever 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.
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 today's press conference
cannot be held and will not be rescheduled.
[Reporter] Who made that decision?
We will not have any further comments.
[Reporter] Jeff, you called this press conference.
Why did you call it?
[Reporter] Can we get a statement?
When the university canceled 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.
[Reporter] Scott, can you confirm
that the coach is leaving at the end of the season?
Get off the driveway, get off the driveway.
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 it will move on,
and they'll get off our porch
and that'll be the end of it.
(crowd chanting)
(crowd cheering)
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 I 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, ah, you know, or whatever.
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, you know, "I got get ready for Nebraska Game."
[Crowd] Joe Paterno.
He had not read the presentment when he said that.
I said, "You have to read what they're reading."
There'll be no questions at this time.
"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)
[Crowd] Joe Paterno.
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 the support for the victims first.
Gentlemen, thank you very much.
I have got nothing more to say.
This was for them.
Thank you very much, guys.
[Man] Scott Paterno!
(crowd clapping)
[Crowd] Scott Paterno!
Scott 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.
I mean, 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 eight and one.
We're two games up in the Big Ten.
We beat Nebraska and Ohio State.
We won a Big Ten Championship game.
A 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, effective immediately.
(crowd gasping)
(crowd yelling)
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."
(crowd clapping)
[Man] Thank you, Joe.
Thank you, Joe.
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 believe that's how you,
they can take your heart away that quickly.
[Reporter] Why did you guys come out?
What do you want to say?
(crowd yelling)
[Man] You guys, back up!
[Crowd] 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] We love you, Joe.
We love you, Joe.
[Man] I love you, Joe.
I love you, Joe.
Thank you for everything.
We are Penn State.
(crowd yelling)
[Woman] We love you, Joe.
[Man] You guys have no decency at all.
[Man] No, you guys are fucking assholes.
[Woman] I hope you media are happy.
[Man] I will beat the fucking shit
out of all you motherfuckers.
[Man] He should.
Everybody should (mumbles) their asses.
[Man] People 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] Have you made any contingency plans?
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] Campus is gonna burn.
[Crowd] We want Joe!
We want Joe!
(crowd yelling)
We want Joe Pa.
I was just so angry.
So 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.
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] One more game!
One more game!
I would call it a protest.
That's definitely a better word for it.
[Crowd] We want Joe!
We want Joe!
[Man] 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 a legend.
[Man] Hell yeah.
(crowd cheering)
(crowd chanting)
That's the first time I've ever been really scared
at 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] Fuck the media.
Fuck the media.
Break the camera.
[Man] Holy shit.
(crowd yelling)
[Man] 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 poking lighters down to the gas.
Happy Valley, to me, is more a feeling than a place.
It felt safe here.
But that was the night that I feel
like State College lost its innocence.
[Crowd] We want Joe.
We want Joe.
(crowd cheering)
Hey, guys, guys, a quick question?
[Man] Yeah.
So give me a sense on why you're out here tonight.
What are you trying to say?
'Cause we want Joe Pa.
(crowd yelling)
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 billed that way.
[Crowd] We want Joe Pa.
[Man] It was the same father figure for 40 years
who kept Happy Valley happy.
[Crowd] We want Joe Pa.
Fuck Sandusky!
[Crowd] We want Joe Pa!
[Man] Fuck Sandusky!
[Crowd] We want Joe Pa!
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.
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, right now at this stage it's just a dream, it's a hope.
And...
[Man] 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.
They've gone astray somewhere...
[Man] But the powerful mythos
surrounding the football program
and its capacity to transform people from bad backgrounds.
To take these youngsters and put them...
[Man] Provided cover in a way
to Sandusky's predatory behavior.
(slow music)
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.
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 really 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.
[Reporter] You've anything to say?
You've anything to say?
Do you got anything to say?
How are you holding up?
How are you, what do you have to say
about more victims coming?
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've been advised by my attorney,
I am following orders,
and I am not privy to making any statements.
[Reporter] 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.
[Reporter] What about Second Mile, sir?
Will that organization continue?
[Matt] Jerry was Jerry.
He was just steadfast.
You're not listening.
Okay.
He believed that these kids
were going to be proven to be lying,
and it would all just go away.
(mid-tempo dramatic music)
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.
[Matt] Just being in that house with him alone,
and 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 him.
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."
(bells tolling)
[Man] 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] Nothing can atone
for the crimes that happened here.
A lot of people were really emotional about it,
but I was just like, this seems so fake to me.
(crowd singing)
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.
(crowd cheering)
[Announcer] Nebraska and Penn State players
gathering in prayer.
[Man] 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.
[Man] 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 they're trying to figure out
what the definition of manhood is all about.
Father, this is it right here.
[Man] 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 this guy is ignorant.
And may we be reminded Lord
as it says in your word in John 1:14...
[Man] And then from pockets in the stadium
you hear kind of people cheering.
May the truth be known and justice be known
that you protect the victims...
(crowd cheering)
They kind of had the idea that I had.
Kind of like, all right, you know, this is great and all.
But stop praying 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.
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 down, 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 some, 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 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.
(crowd cheering)
That was the beginning of me
feeling strange at Beaver Stadium.
[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.
[Announcer] 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.
[Announcer] 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,
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 on Saturday he was coughing up blood.
And that's when I took him to the hospital.
And to go meet the doctor
at the hospital at eight o'clock 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.
(slow music)
It was one of those things that it happened so fast
that nobody could believe it.
The presentment comes down on 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 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.
And I think 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 kind of nodded and he said,
"You know, I wish I had done more."
[Man] Thank you, Joe.
[Man] Love you, Joe.
(crowd applauding)
[Man] Love you.
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.
(crowd chanting)
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.
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.
[Reporter] 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.
[Reporter] And again, there are more witnesses after him.
This is just the start.
At the trial I was sitting with Dottie
and the family in the courtroom and really just spinning.
Just trying to figure out what was happening,
what was going on.
[Reporter] 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...
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 and to go play racket ball.
I played racket ball with him.
We did things together, you know?
[Reporter] He told the jurors Sandusky
would sexually assault and rape him
in the basement of Sandusky's home.
[Matt] That testimony was very hard to hear
and to have to listen to.
[Reporter] Now, despite that grueling testimony,
Sandusky seemed unfazed, smiling,
and even laughing with supporters
in the courtroom at the end of yesterday's session.
[Reporter] Victim number four
had gut wrenching testimonies.
Spoke for about four hours...
[Matt] In the evenings I would just come home
and just 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.
[Reporter] Victim four testified Sandusky lavished him
with gifts, cash, sports gear,
a sideline spot at home football games...
I mean, 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 my story.
But he was in my place.
(dramatic music)
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,
"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?"
[Reporter] A major development
has occurred in the Jerry Sandusky case.
[Reporter] 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.
In the end, I did go back
to testify against him if needed.
About an hour ago the Matt Sandusky bombshell
was all the buzz here on Press Row.
That is a bombshell jurors will not hear.
[Reporter] News broke after final arguments
and deliberations began.
[Man] 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.
[Reporter] Former Penn State coach, Jerry Sandusky,
has been sentenced to at least 30 years behind bars.
The price...
It's really complicated
why I was part of that family's life
and around him for so long after I had been abused.
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.
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.
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.
(slow music)
(children laughing)
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 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 hands
[Carol] 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.
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 eight-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.
There's definitely a major cloud
on this beautiful day in Happy Valley, you know what I mean?
It's, 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 to do on the mural.
In November, right after we all heard the news,
I came up 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?
[Andrew] So we need, do you guys each have a link
to the web page where this Freeh report is coming out?
[Woman] If not I get it to you right now.
All right, download it.
Save it as a PDF file 'cause it could go away.
[Woman] It's crashing.
Website cannot display this page.
[Woman] Can you print the press release
from the Freeh site and bring it in?
267 pages.
[Woman] Report coming your way, guys.
[Woman] There you go.
All right.
[Man] Our most saddening and sobering finding...
[Woman] Okay, folks, here we go.
The total disregard...
[Woman] The press conference.
[Woman] 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.
(mid-tempo music)
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.
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 was sort of the critical email 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 email 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 email 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 email, is astonishing.
Absolutely astonishing.
We don't know what Joe Paterno said in that conversation.
We don't know what it meant.
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,
you know, the e-mails, you know,
thunderously demonstrate that, a lack of concern
for what happened to these kids.
[Reporter] The 267 page report also states
the men knew about a 1998 investigation
into Sandusky but still failed to...
[Reporter] Freeh says that Paterno knew about a report
that Jerry Sandusky abused a boy on campus in 1998
and followed that case closely...
[Reporter] Curley wrote in one email
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."
[Man] One thing that seems to be very certain
is that in 2001 Spanier, Curley, and Schultz
had much more knowledge than they 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.
Joe Paterno was consulted.
There was a collaborative effort
not to go to the authorities.
[Man] 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.
[Reporter] Paterno loyalists insist he...
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.
(gentle mid-tempo music)
Yep.
[Woman] One, two.
[Man] Keep your hands off me.
That's called assault.
Bite me.
Go to hell.
[Woman] 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? - Yeah.
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?
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, 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 10 years.
That's called a cover up.
That's a fact.
He reported it at eight o'clock 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.
Yeah, he report...
You said he didn't do anything.
He reported the next day.
Uh-huh.
He reported it and that was it.
[Man] We all have an opinion, okay?
[Man] We do.
[Man] Yours isn't special.
[Man] I'm allowed to present mine too.
[Man] I know you are.
But I'm allowed to stand here...
[Man] 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 lots of room on that side.
You can stand over there.
See you later, pedophile enabler.
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?
[Man] '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.
[Man] You don't like free speech.
Goodbye.
Go to Russia, they don't like it either.
In the name of the Father, the Son...
[Man] Get out of here with your silly religion.
God bless America.
You're going to rot in hell.
I drove two hours to get here
and not to see you, jackass.
No, I'm not moving.
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.
[Man] She's the sick one, she's pushing me.
I don't think so.
Thank you.
I'm trying to take a picture.
[Man] Why?
[Woman] He touched my (mumbles).
(gentle mid-tempo music)
[Man] Thank you.
[Man] They took his halo.
He had a halo over his head.
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 at 12 o'clock I painted the halo off of Joe Paterno.
(slow music)
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.
[Reporter] 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.
[Reporter] The Big Ten Conference announced
that Paterno's name will be removed
from the league's championship trophy.
[Reporter] Pennsylvannia's two senators
are rescinding their nomination of Joe Paterno
for the Presedential Medal of Freedom.
[Reporter] Nike has announced it will take
Joe Paterno's name off its childcare center.
[Reporter] The president believes
removing the Paterno statue was the right thing to do.
[Barack] I think it's a good time
for us to do some soul searching.
Every institution, not just Penn State.
[Man] This is why you don't build statues
for people who are alive.
[Reporter] There's a library at Penn State
and there are calls to take his name off of that.
[Reporter] 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.
Mary Kay called me and said,
"Mom, they're taking the statue down."
They didn't give me a two 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.
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 gasping)
[Man] For me as a faculty,
in terms of the way that the program was run,
I thought it was a nice blend of academics with athletics.
An athletic culture that went horribly awry.
I didn't see this as a problem.
I had many examples over the years of teaching students
where 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.
[Mark] Penn State football will be banned from bowl games
and any other postseason play for four years.
(crowd groaning)
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.
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 the 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...
[Man] 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.
[Man] 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.
[Mark] An erosion of academic values that are replaced
by the value of hero worship and winning at all costs.
(slow music)
[Man] 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.
(slow music)
[Reporter] After reviewing the Louis Freeh Report,
NCAA officials determined Penn State put football first
and that ultimately enabled Jerry Sandusky
to molest innocent children.
[Man] 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.
[Man] That there was a culture of reverence
for the football program.
Look, the fingers essentially pointed at everyone.
Penn State's never going to
regain their reputation in my lifetime.
I mean, it's done.
They can call it Happy Valley, but it's,
the Happy Valley we knew, it 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.
Right, it's like me making a judgment
that New York City is made up of all a bunch
of crooks and hoods and just, and rapists
that just go into Central Park and rape people all the time.
Come on.
[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.
[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?
Who's been given their 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.
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.
All of a sudden we don't care anything about 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.
(crowd chanting)
[Man] 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.
(crowd cheering)
I'm going to do my very best to start this off.
You've all seen Sports Illustrated this week.
(crowd booing)
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] No!
[Man] Damn right.
[Crowd] Bill O'Brien.
Bill O'Brien.
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?
[Crowd] Yeah.
We know the truth hasn't been told, right?
Yeah.
Ask LSU and Alabama how many of their players graduate.
Yeah right.
Huh?
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.
85%.
[Crowd] 85%.
85%.
(crowd cheering)
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 them on when they go to practice today, guys.
Yeah.
(crowd cheering)
[Man] Here come the boys, guys.
Let's give it up.
Here come the boys.
(slow music)
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, you know,
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.
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,
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.
(slow music)
[Reporter] Today, seven months after the Freeh Report
was released to the public,
the Paterno family releasing their own report.
[Reporter] The Paterno family hired
who they call independent experts
to conduct their own investigation
in the Penn State sex abuse scandal.
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?
We need experts like Jim Clemente to tell us.
Jay, how ya doing?
Jim Clemente.
[Jay] Good to see you, Jim.
Nice to meet you finally.
Oh yeah.
Been reading your work.
Oh yeah.
Monday I spent eight hours going through it
and made a lot of notes and learned a hell of a lot.
Oh, okay.
If you'd had 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.
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.
(audience applauding)
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?
He didn't have that mindset that he was doing
anything more than teaching them,
working out with them and getting a shower.
He worked out with them.
Guys like Jerry make it their business
to make sure no one does know.
You'd be amazed the 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 called 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.
And grooming can also...
If anyone wants to know anything
about child sexual abuse,
they 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 sort of absolution that we never knew anything.
[Radio DJ] The Paterno report is out, do we care?
Does it change any of our thoughts about Joe Pa?
[Radio DJ] 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.
[Radio DJ] 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.
(slow dramatic music)
[Radio DJ] 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.
[Radio DJ] End of story.
[Radio Caller] He's a great man in many, many regards.
But I don't know how they conquer...
[Radio DJ] Not anymore.
Not anymore, he's not.
[Radio DJ] My answer would be,
we're sorry for the victims,
we're going to go away now.
[Radio DJ] Jay Paterno should be ashamed of his father.
You know, a lot of Penn State people I know
listen to 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, you know, I joke around with friends of mine
that have psychology degrees or whatever and I say,
"Yeah, I know it's denial, but so what?
"It's healthy for me."
(slow music)
By the time I came back to State College,
there was a shell shock nature, there was anger,
there was a sense that the entire community
had been so utterly mis-identified.
I went to the stadium and I was trying to find
where the statue was and I passed
that statue hundreds of times.
And I kept looking, and you give them a lot 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 1
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 anyone who tried to erase history
and think, "Oh yeah, he did the right thing."
I mean, history is what it is.
History is what happened.
Come on, shake it off now, let's go.
(crowd cheering)
[Man] 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.
Now get a little class and put a drive together.
[Man] Doesn't mean anything.
Never happened.
(crowd cheering)
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.
(slow music)
For most of my clients, they're going
to be processing this for forever.
So it's hard to figure out
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.
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 crashing)
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
like 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.
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 could 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.
(slow music)
(people chatting)
(people shouting)
Go home ESPN.
Go home.
We don't want you.
Take your story elsewhere.
Where is our, where is our personal security?
You're not welcome here
(crowd chanting)
Yay!
Beautiful.
I'm glad you had some guts.
He did the Joe Paterno cheer and the guy yelled at the,
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.
Lets go, lets go.
(crowd applauding)
(marching band music)
(crowd cheering)
(crowd chanting)
(audience applauding)
[Announcer] We ask at this time that we all pause
and together 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.
(crowd yelling)
(crowd cheering)
Thank you.
(crowd cheering)
(marching band music)
[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.
And so it begins.
(slow music)
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.
(crowd cheering)
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.
And it was when I had removed the halo off of Joe Paterno.
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.
And so I painted the white rose onto Joe Paterno.
[Crowd] Joe Paterno.
Joe Paterno.
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."
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 are effectively trying
to re-establish faith in something.
(crowd cheering)
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.
(crowd cheering)
And now that there is one available, it's like a magnet.
Vtttt, it's going to go there.
(intense mid-tempo music)
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.
(bright music)
♫ 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
♫ I'm working on a building for my Lord, for my Lord
♫ It's a Holy Ghost building, 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
♫ I'm working on a building for my Lord, for my Lord
♫ It's a Holy Ghost building, 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
♫ I'm working on a building for my Lord, for my Lord
♫ It's a Holy Ghost building, it's a Holy Ghost building
♫ It's a Holy Ghost building for my Lord, for my Lord
(applauding)
(mid-tempo dramatic music)