Balloon Boy’s Father Gets Emotional, Denies Hoax To Larry King

Empathy, sorrow and compassion are emotions one typically feels after watching a guest tear up on television. But every rule has an exception, and the appearance of Richard Henne (a.k.a. father to Balloon Boy) on Larry King is one such exception. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer aired clips of tonight’s coming interview with Larry King in which Henne gets remarkably emotional telling his side of the story, most notably, that there was no hoax. Video below.

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