The Family Secret

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a traumatic secret tears a family apart after 27 years. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on April 2, 2010.

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0:00.0	It was the little girl who learned it first, the 12-year-old, she who was there at the beginning
0:11.2	when the family's secret was born.
0:15.0	This is not something we like to talk about.
0:20.2	Why did it get started?
0:21.7	I honestly get it now.
0:23.1	What else did you?
0:24.3	Why did she keep it so long?
0:26.9	She was all I had.
0:28.2	While it did, it's evil work.
0:30.7	To think that he had walked away.
0:32.7	We couldn't even stand it.
0:34.7	What would that secret do?
0:36.9	Everybody has a secret or two, but this?
0:40.9	I'm Lester Holt, and this is Dateline. Here's Keith Morrison with The Family Secret.
0:53.3	Ah, yes, families.
0:57.8	I suppose you could say this one, the family, if not the secret, got started in the
1:02.8	middle of nowhere, which is what they like to call it here in Ainsworth, Nebraska.
1:08.6	It wasn't so surprising, perhaps, that when young Lloyd Ford was done
1:12.5	with school, he got out, joined the Navy, sailed off to see the wide world from an aircraft carrier,
1:19.5	this man at the center of the secret. Sandy Burke is his eldest daughter.
1:26.5	My dad was just a fun guy.
1:28.1	He was very fun-loving.
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