David Mason, Jr. - On what happened after the sit-in (clip)

Matthew Miller: Were you arrested, were you taken away? Or did they just take your name?

David Mason, Jr.: They just took our names, okay. But he said, if you—

MM: If you do—

DM: Well, we weren’t arrested at that time, I should say.

MM: Okay.

DM: What happened—I didn’t tell my father, and, the next night, I was at my girlfriend’s house—who is now my wife—and Daddy said, Dave, police up here. I said, what they want? [Laughs]. You know what they want! You know what you’ve done! So, I said okay, so we called Reverend Jones, and Reverend Jones said y’all come down to the police station and y’all just sign it, the bonds, and y’all can be released. And that, that, turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me. And the reason for that is because we were all tried and found guilty.