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Friday Nite Videos -- August 16, 2013

Kentucky town with openly gay mayor. Court clerk fired for helping free wrongly convicted man. Frisky business in New York City. Obama -- I was going to do that. Documentary: The Act of Killing. Country Joe at Woodstock: Vietnam Song.

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People Who Are Destroying America
 
Openly gay Mayor Johnny Cummings helps Vicco, KY, become the smallest U.S. town to pass an LGBT fairness ordinance. 
 

Court Clerk Fired for Helping Free Wrongfully Convicted Man
 
There is a man in Kansas City who was imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. He has been exonerated based on DNA evidence, and the woman who helped him get his freedom got fired for doing so.
 

 

Frisky Business
 
Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks New York's stop-and-frisk program is being unfairly stopped and scrutinized even though it's done nothing wrong.
 

Obama: I Was Going to Do That
 
The president insists he would have implemented NSA oversight even without Edward Snowden’ sleaks. (Ann Telnaes / The Washington Post)
 

The Act of Killing -- Movie Trailer
 
Documentary film director Joshua Oppenheimer challenges some of the death squad leaders of the Indonesian massacres of 1965 to reenact the real life mass killings in the style of the American movies they love. In theaters now.
 

Country Joe: Vietnam Song
 
Country Joe McDonald performing at Woodstock in 1969. This song was originally released as the title track of the 1967 album of Country Joe & the Fish, I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die. It was written by Country Joe.

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