Jad Abumrad

But then right here in this interview, this thing happens where Daryl says, I'll make one more try on the gay thing.

I'll make one more try on the gay thing.

You don't want to change your mind on it.

You don't want to change your mind on that.

No, I just don't want to change my mind on that.

And eventually... Okay.

Interview ends and Daryl says that when he left that interview, he felt like when it came to Oliver's sexuality... He didn't want to be quoted.

That was it.

Like, just don't quote me on it.

This Air Force sergeant named Leonard Matlovich, who had the purple heart, had the bronze star, he comes out that he's gay and he's kicked out of the Air Force.

In conversations here, people say that

My conscience just wouldn't let me do it anymore.

I had to come forward and say, no more America.

And now you've got this former Marine, saved the president's life, and it's two days later, he still hasn't heard from the president.

So for Daryl, even though Oliver had said, don't make this about my sexuality.

So that night, after the interview, Daryl calls in his story to the LA Times office, and he uses this phrase.

He says that Oliver is a former Marine who was, quote, a prominent figure in the gay community.

And so three days after the assassination attempt, the L.A.

Times runs a story with the headline, no call from president, hero in Ford shooting active among SF gays.

And so Daryl's story, it goes, I mean, it goes everywhere.