Amanpour: Keith Bush, Nina Morrison, Sergio Jaramillo, Yousef Bashir
Amanpour
CNN
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:07.0 | That's how I got into the prison system and I never got out until I was 49 years old. |
| 0:17.0 | 33 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. |
| 0:21.0 | What the case of Keith Bush says about the miscarriage of justice for American minorities. |
| 0:27.0 | The stability in Colombia should be a number one priority of the US. |
| 0:32.0 | It was the longest war in the Western Hemisphere |
| 0:35.3 | and now a fragile peace between the state of Colombia and its FARC rebels is under |
| 0:40.5 | threat. What this means for the region and for the United States. |
| 0:44.6 | Then today I'm glad to tell you that he was the best human being I have ever known. |
| 0:50.3 | The words of my father, Palestinian-American Youssef Bashir looks back at growing up in |
| 0:56.1 | Gaza and at his own father's struggle for peace. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London. It's a |
| 1:17.4 | miscarriage of justice so heinous that it's hard to believe. Imagine spending |
| 1:22.2 | not one, not two, but three decades locked up for a |
| 1:26.4 | murder that you did not commit. That is the unfortunate real life story of |
| 1:30.8 | Keith Bush. At 17 years old Bush was arrested for the murder of a teenage |
| 1:35.9 | girl on Long Island in New York. Bush says police beat him and coerced a sign |
| 1:41.3 | confession but the jury found him guilty anyway. |
| 1:45.0 | 33 years later in 2007, Keith Bush walked out of prison, |
| 1:50.0 | but it was only last month that he was fully exonerated. |
| 1:54.0 | After it came to light that prosecutors actually had another suspect and never told the defense. |
| 2:00.0 | That witness testimony was recanted and that DNA evidence under the victim's |
| 2:05.4 | fingernails showed no link to Bush. There's a huge focus right now on |
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