Day 248 - 13 May 96 - Page 41
1 please. Can you just play it for a second? You said that
2 you did not actually -- you were not actually present at
3 the opening; you saw it on a video screen, or something?
4 A. Well, this piece -----
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6 Q. Is that where you were, this place, and then you saw it?
7 A. I cannot tell for sure where that is, but I think it
8 was in an auditorium. I was in an auditorium, not at the
9 restaurant in Dale City, Virginia, when the event
10 I described took place. I watched what happened on -- from
11 the restaurant on a large screen; whether it was here or
12 not, I cannot recall; but I did watch it on a big screen.
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14 Q. So, you watched it on a screen. Was it intermingled with
15 bits like this with dancing, and what have you?
16 A. I do not think so.
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18 Q. OK. It does not matter too much anyway. If we carry on.
19 If you could fast forward it, please, to about 11.26,
20 I think it was.
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22 MR. MORRIS: This is the restaurant, yes, the 10,000th
23 restaurant?
24 A. I think so, yes.
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26 (Video film fast forwarded)
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28 MS. STEEL: If you could play it from there.
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30 (Video film continued to be played)
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32 MS. STEEL: This is what is referred to in your statement: Mike
33 Quinlan coming up to speak; yes?
34 A. Yes.
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36 MR. MORRIS: Can we turn the sound up a little bit?
37
38 (Video film continued to be played)
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40 MS. STEEL: If you could stop it, please.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are you going to show any more of the video?
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44 MS. STEEL: No, I was not going to.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. Yes?
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48 MS. STEEL: The video said that it was live by satellite in the
49 top left-hand corner from time to time, so that would have
50 been the one that you saw, would it not?
51 A. I was in the audience where what I saw was coming via
52 some kind of satellite, yes.
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54 Q. Right. You said in your statement that, "An earlier
55 example of worldwide distribution was in 1987 on the
56 occasion of the opening of the 10,000th restaurant in Dale
57 City, Virginia. Mike Quinlan, the Company's then
58 President, rose to make an address to the audience and as
59 he started to speak a man jumped onto the stage
60 interrupting the address, throwing many copies of the
