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But there's something else that happens in the press conference that makes the whole thing, I mean, so much more personal.

And it actually was the very reason that Oliver called the press conference in the first place.

Oliver would later say that when he was talking on the phone with his mother, she said to him, I don't want to speak to you ever again.

Did you call him Uncle Oliver?

Yes, I called him Uncle Oliver.

This is George Sipple Jr., Oliver's nephew.

He told me that most of Oliver's family stayed in Detroit.

Oliver's two brothers and his dad worked together at an auto plant there.

They all worked for General Motors.

And the stories that I've heard is that... The day after Oliver saved the life of President Ford... They walked in and everyone wanted to, like, buy them a beer.

You know, everybody on the factory floor was congratulating them, patting them on the back.

You know, your brother's a hero, your son's a hero.

You know, when they would take their shift break, this is the old days, right?

They'd take a shift break and they'd go to the bar and...

Everybody wanted to buy them a round of drinks.

So then the news comes out a couple of days later that he's this gay Marine and there's teasing on the factory floor.

Teasing?

Mean teasing or teasing?

Yeah.

Yeah.