RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
NORTHAM: "There are three photos. I think there are three photos. One of me standing in front of a car I restored. One kneeling like on a farm setting and one a more formal picture. I did submit those. Where this other picture came from, I don't know. And I'm not going to sit here hypothesize or speculate how it happened. I can imagine if there are a number of photos laid out on a table and someone is pasting those on page after page, that one could get mistakenly put on the wrong page. And as I said earlier, this has happened numerous times in this particular and I suspect that's what happened in this case."
REPORTER: "Yesterday you were accepting responsibility and less than 24 hours why --"
NORTHAM: "Excuse me, I'm accepting responsibility that this photograph was on my page in the yearbook, regret that, it's horrific. It made me sick when I saw it but I will tell you that my word I will stand and live by my word, I was the president of the vmi honor court, our code is a cadet should not lie, steal, that's the most meaningful thing to me. I tell the truth, I'm telling the truth today that was not my picture."
REPORTER: "Is it possible that --"
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NORTHAM: "You know, I have had a drink over the years, several distinction over the years but I have never been to the point where I'm not in touch with my surrounding and the whole point and this is what really baffled me of the situation, I looked at that photograph. Once I started thinking, if I had dressed up like that, had put whatever was on that person's face and stood beside a costume of the KKK I would remember that and I have no no recollection at all. There's other things, if one looks at the picture it's not my picture. I remember the dance contest in San Antonio just like it was yesterday and so my conclusion from that is I certainly take responsibility for what happened in San Antonio, I have learned from that but this was not my picture. I was not in that costume either as black face or KKK and it's not me."