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The Ballad of Billy Balls

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

1979 is the year that Ex-Green Beret Doctor Jeffrey MacDonald is convicted of the murders of his pregnant wife and two young daughters. It’s also the year he meets a new friend in famous journalist Joe McGinniss. Joe agrees to write a book about Jeff’s case. That book becomes a smash bestseller and a TV limited series watched by over 65 million people, but the story it tells isn’t quite the story Jeff expected and that sets off a series of events that ruin both men’s lives…Who’s the real bad guy here, the journalist or the murderer?

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0:00.0	This is a story about friendship.
0:05.0	It was this bond that was occurring and it was unmistakable and we were best friends.
0:11.0	A friendship that bloomed during the hot summer of 1979.
0:14.0	When a famous doctor named Jeffrey McDonald,
0:17.0	and we'll need lab here for barble level and a TVC.
0:20.0	Metaphamous journalist.
0:21.0	Ladies and gentlemen will you welcome please Joe McGinnis.
0:23.0	Joe McGinnis.
0:24.0	Joe McGinnis.
0:25.0	Name Joe McGinnis.
0:26.0	I like Joe.
0:27.0	We talked about the same things in the New York mix, the Aggies and the Met's football.
0:31.0	Two friends who would go jogging together.
0:34.0	And this is the beginning of the running room and you sort of get this camaraderie after a while.
0:39.0	That summer they did just about everything together.
0:42.0	We drank together.
0:44.0	I mean we did the classic buddy routine of all times.
0:48.0	And with all this time together, Jeff and Joe hatched a plan.
0:51.0	You see Jeff have been accused of a horrible crime.
0:54.0	Reporter Joe McGinnis spent three years investigating Jeff McDonald,
0:57.0	who granted him total access.
0:59.0	And Joe was going to prove a miniscence.
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