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CNN 20: Anita Hill Testifies, October 11, 1991

Aired October 11, 2000 - 10:26 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: First though, a check of history here from "CNN 20," looking back at the case of Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Professor, do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god?

PROF. ANITA HILL, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: I do.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Anita Hill had accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of highly inappropriate behavior when she had worked for him at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Suddenly, there we were on live television being treated to these incredibly graphic descriptions of what Clarence Thomas had allegedly done to Anita Hill.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HILL: After a brief discussion of work, he would turn the conversation to a discussion of sexual matters. His conversations were very vivid.

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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: The one thing that sort of troubled me and what was never really examined at the time was that these charges were stale. It happened a long time before, making it virtually impossible to verify. And I always wondered if we were fair when we allowed stale charges to be presented against Clarence Thomas. Now, on the flip side, this is not a criminal case. And this is not a simple run-of-the-mill exercise. We're talking about a justice for the United States Supreme Court.

FRANKEN: Clarence Thomas, of course, ultimately became a justice but he will always be remembered as the justice who went through this process, what he called the high-tech lynching.

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