Lee Strobel

My, my friend Mark Middleburg and I, we have no secrets from each other.

We were best buddies since 1987.

And, um, that I learned more from him than anybody else.

Yeah, I took a 60% pay cut and joined the staff of a church, never intending to write any books.

I'd written one book as an atheist.

Do you remember, of course you're much younger than I am, but do you remember the Ford Pinto controversy?

Of course.

I broke a lot of the news in that case.

Stop.

I don't think I saw that.

But what I did, I got a hold of secret Ford documents that showed that they knew

that the Pinto would blow up when hit from behind in a low to moderate impact collision.

But they didn't want to spend the money, which would have been, what, five bucks a car, according to millions of cars, to upgrade it, to protect it, and so forth.

So I actually broke a lot of those.

I got a tip.

Ford was indicted for charges of reckless homicide because three innocent girls

were burned to death in a Ford Pinto.

Their car was rear-ended by a Chevy van, and they burned to death.

And so Ford was charged with homicide for designing a car that was unreasonably dangerous.

So I'm legal editor of the Tribune.